The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-19
WORLD IS SAD.
William EWart Gladstone Died
This Morning.
End of a Brilliant Career and
Useful Life
ME PEACEFULLY.
Rich and Poor Alike Honor His
Memory.
England's Greatest Statesman
is No More.

Hawarden, May 19.-William Ewart
Gladstone died at o'clock this morn
ing.
The end was as calm and peaceful as
the close of a summer day. The life
of the great statesman slowly and al
most imperceptibly ebbed away. So
quiet was his passing to the great be-
yond that the exact moment of dissolu-
tion can scarcely be determined. The
faithful wife of his youth, with all the
members of the family and the physi-
clans, were at the bedside when the
final summons came. The aged wife
had kept almost constant vigil at the
had been said some hours before, and it
only remained for the loved ones who
surrounded the bed to watch and wait
for the inevitable coming of the mes
senger of DEATH
The scenes in the castle and through
out the village during the last hours
were fnexpressibly sad. The faithful
townspeople kept constant watch for
news from the sick room, and when the
final bulletin was posted at o'clock
this morning there were hundreds wait
ing without the gates.
The news was quickly carried to the
village homes and every household was
in mourning.
Mr.. Gladstone had been unconscious
practically all day, though at times he
seemed to recognize for a moment some
of the watchers about him Certainly
he did recognize his wife, who was be-
side him all day except when the ply
sician prevailed upon her to rest, She
tenderly clasped her husbands hand as
she watched him. Apparently he slept
a great deal; occasionally he uttered a
few words in an incoherent, dreamy
way, words which those who were
watching were unable to catch, Their
only consolation was that he was not
suffering pain. No narcotics were ad-
ministered.
Though a national funeral will be ac-
cepted by the family, there is little
doubt that the remains of Mr.. Gladstone
will be laid to rest in the peaceful
graveyard at Hawarden, adjoining the
church where he was married more
than half a century ago.
Throughout the whole kingdom every
public gathering added it's words of
grief to the volume of national mourn
ing clearly voiced in the telegram from
the Prince of Wales to Mr.. Henry Glad
stone:
My thoughts are with you. your
mother and your family at this trying
time you are experiencing. God grant
that your father does not suffer-
(Signed:) ALBERT EDWARD"
At the banquet of the Liberal Fed
Grafton last evening, Sir William Yer
non Harcourt liberal leader in the
house of commons, instead of delivering
an important party attack, only uttered
a few words of grief and left the room
The Duke of Devonshire, Lord Presi-
dent of the Council of Ministers, speak
ing before the British Empire league,
referred tOuchingly to the mournf1i
scenes at Hawarden, where 1.-The great
est of Englishmen was slowly passing
away"
In other places, Lord Mayor Horatfo
Davies, Lord George Hamilton, the sec
retary of state for India, Henry
Campbell Bannerman and many others
in London well as in Birmingham
Swansea, Cardiff, Liverpool Edinburg
and elsewhere, at all sorts of gather
ings, politicians, divines, agitators, re-
formers and women Joined in the ex-
preston of national and Individual
grief, while the press, without excep-
ton, published columns of detail and
columns of editorial comments