The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-20

rect that public monument be erected
at Westminster, with an inscription tx
pressive Of the public admiration, at
tachment and high sense entertained by
the House of Mr. Gladstone's splendid
gifts and devoted labor in Parliament
and the high offices of state.
Before actually moving the adjourn
ment, have to propose a formal reso-
luton that the House tomorrow resolve
itself into a committee TO draw up an
address. the contents of which l have
just indicated"
After a word of assent from Sir Will
lam Vernon Harcourt, the Liberal lea
der, resolution was adopted, and the
House adjourned.
AT GLADSTONE'S HOME.
HAWARDEN, May 19.-Though the
news OF Mr. Gladstone's death, which
occurred at ) o'clock this morning.
| spread rapidly, it was the tOlling of the
Hawarden Church bells which carried
the sad tidings to every sorrOwing home
in this vicinity. Slowly the details Of
the last moments of the great states
man are coming out of the castle, where
! the grief is too profound to be intruder
| upon.
| The family was summoned at a. m,
owing to the sinking noticed by the
medical watchers From that time I'M
til Mr.. Gladstone peacefully passed
| away, no one left the death chamber.
| The only absentee was little Dorothy
Drew, who had tearfully complained
| that her grandfather did not recognize
her
Even in that hour of agony kindly
thoughts for others were not wanting.
The old coachman, who had been I'M
able to be present when the servants
bid farewell to the dying man, was
summoned and remained to the end
with his master.
At $40 a. m. Dr. Noble took his leave
of Mrs. Gladstone. and returned to
| Chester, deeply affected. Indeed, al
most every one around the castle was
in tears. DR.. Dobie said he had been
assisting DR.. Bliss and Henry Glad
stone to draw up a statement of Mr..
Gladstone's last hours. which will
shortly be ready.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived at Hawarden from United States
! ambassador, Colonel John Hay:
The Right Hon. Herbert Gladstone;
/ beg to present to all your family my
| heartfelt expression of sympathy al
your personal loss. at the same time
to reverently congratulate you and the
English race everywhere upon the glori-
| Gus completion of a life filled with
! splendid achievements and consecrated
to the nOblest purposes.
JOHN HAY"
PREPARATIONS FOR FUNERAL.
LONDON, May 20.-The universal
expression of grief and sympathy gath
ers volume hourly. Memoirs and rem
| iniscences of Mr.. Gladstone are flooding
the press, which everywhere shows col
umn rules reversed Almost every
court in Europe has wired coincidence.
! Vice-President Hobart cables the
Daily Chronicle as follows: Not even
in his own country was Mr.. Gladstone
more highly esteemed and venerated
| than in the United States. His death
has been well night national calamity
and it occurs at a time when our people
! are closely drawn together by ties of
sympathy and mutual interests toward
the nation to which his long career of
public usefulness was so generously
dedicated"
The date of the funeral has not been
| fixed, but probably Tuesday will be
chosen. The preparations continue for
J a burial at Hawarden. Up to last even
| ing Thursday the family had received
no notice of the national funeral, which
will be voted in Parliament to-day. The
general opinion favoring an interment
| in Westminster Abbey, the family will
| probably give way to the national re-
quest Mr.. Gladstone did not leave any
wishes on the subject. Dean Bradley
! OF the abbey has selected as the most
suitable spot the nave.
MESSAGE FROM THE STATE De
PARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-The fol-
lowing telegram was sent by the Sec
rotary OF State to-day:
Hay, ambassador, London: Through
appropriate channel express to Mr..
! Gladstone's family the sympathy and
! sorrow of the American people at the
| passing away in the ripeness of years
| and fullness of honors of one of the
most notable figures of modern civil
! craftsmanship"