The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-15
HARRISON
IS DEAD
The Distinguished Soldier
Citizen and Statesman
Passes Away late Wednesday
Afternoon, no Medicine
Awaiting to Save Him
THE NATION WILL MOURN
The Departure of one who
has Served it Well
In War and Peace and Who
Leaves the Record of a
Well Spent Life

indianapolis, Ind, March b
General Benjamin Harrison died at
4:45 O'Clock this afternoon without re-
gaining consciousness. His death
was quiet and painless, there being
gradual sinking until the end came,
which was marked by Il single gasp
for breath as life departed from The
body of the great statesman.
The relatives, with a few exceptions,
and several of the former presidents
old and tried friends were at the bed
side when he passed away.
The generals condition was so bad
this morning after a restless night
that the attending physicians under
stood that the end could not be far
Off, and all the bulletins sent out
from the sick room were to this effect,
so that the family and friends were
prepared when the final blow came.
The gradual failing of the remark
able strength shown by the patient be-
came more noticeable in the after
noon, and few moments before the
end there was an apparent breakdown
on the part of the sufferer as he sur
rendered to the disease against which
he had been so bravely battling for
so many hours. The change was
noticed by the physicians and the
relatives and friends who had retired
from the sick room to the library be-
low were quickly summoned and
reached the bedside OF the general be-
fore he passed away.
News of the death spread quickly
through the city and several of the
more intimate friends at once hurried
to the residence to offer services
which, however, were not needed. The
word was flashed from the bulletins
of all the newspapers and thus com
municated to the people on their way
home in the evening. The announce
ment produced the greatest sorrow,
nearly every one having nurtured the
hope that General Harrison would re-
cover. Within a few moments the
flags of all the public buildings and
most of the downtown business blocks
were hoisted at half-mast and other
outward manifestations of mourning
were made.
The funeral will take place next
Sunday afternoon at , O'Clock. The
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Presbyterian church, of which General
Harrison was member for nearly
fifty years. The Rev. M. L. Haines,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, will have charge of the
services.
This afternoon it was decided at a
meeting of Governor Durbin with a
number of the other state officers, that
the body of General Harrison should
lie in state in the rotunda of the CAPT.
toll all day next Saturday.
The highest honors which it is in
the power of the state of Indiana to
pay will be rendered to the remains
of General Harrison.
General Harrison was in perfect
health on Wednesday of lastweek, and
contrary to common report, was not suf'
feringtrom cold from illness of any
sort. He was in full possession of the
vitality and vigor which has character
lied these latter years of his life to 9
remarkable extent. Thursday morn
ing he was awakened with a pain il
his chest which DR.. Jameson pro-
nounced simply a cold and Sunday
for the first time the doctor began tC
have fears for his patient. Monday
his condition became serious and sine,
then he gradually grew worse till The
end came.
Benjamin Harrison was born il
North Bend, o.. August 30, 1888 liz
was the third son of John Scott Har
rison and was directly descended from
the Virginia Harrisons who were distin
guished in the early history of tina
colony. His great grandfather, Ben
iamin Harrison was one of the sever
, Virginia delegates to the congress
which made the Declaration of indie
pendence. Benjamin, as boy as
sisted N the work of his fathers farm
which contained about four hundret
acres.
r His first studies were prosecuted il
the log school house. At the age o
4 10 he went to Farmers (now Belmont
a college, at College Hill, suburb O
t Cincinnati. After two years sta
Z there, he became a student at Milan
university, Oxford, where an acquaini