The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-20
GLADSTONE IS NO MORE.
:.
The Grand Old Man Has
Passed Away.
ALL EUROPE M0URNS.

Him Recognized Shortly Before HIS
neutrality-suspicious. Of Sorrow from
Mant Quarters To be Buried AT
Hawarden-Parliam TO Ask for a
Public Fvneral.
Hawaden, May 19.-Mr Gladstone
died at o'clock this morning. He had
been unconscious practically all day,
though a times he seemed to recog-
nize for moment some of the watch
ers about him. Certainly he did re-
cognize his wife who was beside him
all day, except when the physician
prevailed upon her to rest. She ten
derby clasped her husbands hand as
she watched him. Apparently he slept a
good deal. Occasionally he uttered a few
words, in dreamy way, words which
those who We're watching were unable
to catch. Their only consolation was
that he was not suffering pain. No
narcotics were administered.
Though a national funeral will prob
ably be accepted by the family, there
is little doubt that the remains of Mr..
peaceful graveyard at --lwarde4I ad-
joining the church where he was mar
ried more than half a century ago. AT
Hawarden the happiest portion of his
life was passed, and it is truly a re-
treat sweet enough for any laborer.
London, fay 19.-Every other topic
in Great Britain yesterday dropped out
OF sight before the passing away OF
Mr.. Gladstone. I'm two places, per-
haps, was the tension most keen and
most heartfelt-the house of commons
and HaWarden.
Just before the house rose yesterday
a telegram from Mr.. Herbert Glad
stone reached Lord Stanley announc-
ing that his father was sinking. AL
ready before his death the hush of
grief seemed to fall over the scene of
his triumph.
LAwas generally felt at ST. Stevens
that his dying was but the sequel to
that treat scene witnessed four years
agowH1en his last speech spoken, he
quilted the house without one word of
spoken adieu.
Anticipating the inevitable the men,
ibeTS of the government discussed the
appropriate procedure to be observed
and resloved that no effort on their
part should he wanting to mark a
suitable sense of their loss.
decided that the programme in parlia
ment should be the same as that adopt
ed in the case of the Earl of Chatham
and of the younger Pitt, namely an
address to her majesty, praying for a
funeral at the public charge and a
monument erected in Westminster
abbey.
Throughout the whole kingdom every
public gathering added it's words of
deep grief to the volume of national
mourning clearly versed in telegram
from the prince of Wales ITO Mr..
Henry Gladstone:
'Mv thoughts are with you, your
mother and your family at this trying
time you are experiencing. God grant
that your father do not suffer.
(Signed) ALBERT EDWARD"
A broad the evidences of sympathy
were almost as universal. M. Faure,
president of the French republic, daily
inquired and has regularly received
every bulletin. The press of Belgium,
France, Italy and Greece, in a spontan-
eous outburst, recalled how many op-
pressed peoples during Mr.. Gladstone's
life have offered hymns Of praise for
his intervention in their behalf; while
in Madrid even the prospect OF his
death has caused a twenty-four hours
suspension of war animosity against
Not the least point into this tribute
to Mr.. Gladstone was it's profound un-
animity.
The late Right honorable William
Ewart Gladstone, NJ. p, p. c., is the
fourth son Of the late Sir John Glad
stone, Bart, of F'asque, county Kin
cardino, N. B., a well-known merchant
of Liverpool, and was born there, De-
ceniber %, 1909. He was educated at
Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, of
which he was nominated a student in
1929, and graduated, taking a double
first class in Michaelmas term, 1881.
He was returned at the general cleo
ton i'm December 1882, in the conserva-
tive interest, for Newark, and entered
parliament just as the struggle Of par
ties was at it's height.
On the resignation of Mr.. Disraelis
ministry in December. 1858. mt. Chad
stone succeeded that statesman, as
First Lord Of the Treasury.