Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-12
DEATH
COMES
GOebel SuCCumbs at Last
To the Assassin's
Bullet.
And BeCkf1am In1medi=
ately Takes Oath as
Governor.

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exactly at GAS o'clock. Arthur Goe-
bel of Cincinnati and Mrs. Braunaker
of Ohio, a married sister, both of
whom had been constant attendants at
the dying mans bedside, were alone
with him when the end came. They
had previously requested DR.. Hume to
leave them alone withthei unconscious
brother The doctor withdrew shortly
after, and while kneeling by the bed
side of their brother, he gave gasp
and was gone. Stricken with sorrow,
the anguished brother and sister did
not move from their position. They
remained in the same room with the
door closed upon everybody until 1920
o'clock when their brother, Justus Goe-
bel, who had been hurrying from Ari-
IONA, arrived. ETe entered the room
and the door was closed for a few
minutes. Soon after DR.. Hume was
summoned and to him Arthur Goebel
announced that Mr.. Goebel had died at
6:44 o'clock At 1877 notices of Goe-
bells death were passed through the
hotel corridors.
Among the bitter partisanS OF both
parties deep grief is manifested and
already a movement has been started
to erect a fitting monument to Goe-
bells memory, on the spot in the state
house ground where he was shot. No
arrangements have as yet been made
for the funeral. During the afternoon
Goebel made this statement to his
chaplain: Il wish to announce to
the world that do not hold myself in
open violence to the word Of Cod
Beckham as Governor.
Frankfort. Feb, 4.-Exactly one hour
after the death of Goebel j. G. W.
Beckham was sworn in as governor,
the oath being administered by S. j..
Shackelford clerk of the court OF ap-
peals. It had been determined to
keep secret the news of the death I'M
til Beckham should have been formally
indicted into office, and the delay was
made greater by the inability OF Dr.
Mccormack to leave the bedroom OF
Goebel and make the proper certificate
of death. Until this had been done
the democratic attorneys were unW1lt-
ing that the oath should be admins
tered. The ceremony took place in a
small room on the same floor as that
in which Goebel died A few doors to
the west of it, in a room at the time OF
the administration of the oath, were
Senator elect Blackburn, Col. B. H.
Young, Col. Philip Thompson, Eph.
Lillard, J. H. Lillis, Lieut.. L. e. Nc
Kay, S. J. Shackelford, DR.. P. w.
Wells, Col. Harry MacKay, Col. Jack
Chinn, Kit Chinn, DR.. Mccormack,
Joseph Blackburn, Jr., and representa-
tives of the press. The first official
action of Beckham was the appoint
ment of a new adjutant general and his
last act before assuming the oath was
the order removing Adjutant General
Collier and Assistant Adjutant GEN
eral Dixon.
Beckham last night issued a procla-
nation announcing the death of Mr..
Goebel and saying he had qualified and
assumed the duties Of chief executive.
He commands all violent characters
and the militia of the state now in
possession of this city and public
buildings to lay down their arms and
return to their homes and occupations
and invokes the aid and support of
all law-abiding and law-respecting
Christian people of the commonwealth.