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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
General News.
President Mckinley is Dead.
BE BREATHED HIS LAST SATURDAY
MORNING AT 2:15.

His Recovery Expected Until Friday, When
a Relapse Oocurred-sank steadily-His
Death-'God's Will, Not Ours, be Done"-
Sketch of His Life.
Buffalo, Sept. William Nc
KtnIey, President of the United
States, died at 2:15 this morning of
aoomnds inflicted by The anarchist
CzOIgOSz at the Pan-AmericGn Er-
position, September 9th.
The most eminent surgeons in the
United States have attended the
President at the residence of Mr..
Milburn, the Exposition President,
where the end came. At first it was
feared that the wounds would prove
fatal, but Mr.. McKinley's improve
ment was so marked that the physi-
clans gave out the most encouraging
news. From Monday till Friday
morning the country felt safe that
he would recover. Early yesterday
there was a slight change for the
worse, and the distressing new of
to day is a terrible shook to a grief
stricken people the nation over.
His last conscious hour was spent
with the wife to whor1 he devoted a
life time of care. He was reconciled
TO the cruel fate to which an assas-
sins bullet had condemned him and
faced death in the same spirit of
calmness and poise which has marked
his long and honorable career. His
last conscious words reduced to
writing by DR.. Mann who stood at
his bedside when they we're uttered,
we're as follows:
"Good bye. All good bye. It's
Gods way. His will be done"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17
MR.. MOK1RLEY's CAREER.

Since the late sixties, when Will
lam Mckinley as a budding country
lawyer became a successful candidate
for the place of prosecuting attorney
in Stark county, Ohio, he has been
constantly in the public eye. The
circle of his influence widened and
widened until it grew from the con-
fines of a rural Ohio county beyond
the limits of the greatest Republic
on earth until, as Chief Magistrate
of the United States the former
Canton lawyer welded a power over
the destinies of the human race as
great as that of any ruler in the
world.
William Mckinley was born at
Niles, Ohio, January %, 1843.
EARLY LIFE IN PEACE AND WAR.
The President was the seventh
child in a family of nine. Soon after
his birth his parents moved from
Niles TO Poland, Ohio. Like other
American lads of his day in his cir
cumstances, he attended public
schools and became a member of the
village debating society. He at
tended the Poland Academy and
afterward Allegheny College. When
the Civil War broke out Mr.. Nc
Kinley was still in school. At the
age of 10 he enlisted in the Twenty
third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in
which he served under General
Rosecrans. Mr.. Mckinley was made
commissary sergeant, and at the
battle of Antietam he proved 80 eff
cient that he was promoted to lieu
tenant. He afterward rose to the
rank of captain and brevet major
and served on the stats of Generals
Hayes, Crook and Hancock at differ
emit periods. In 1865 he was mus
tered out of service.
After teaching school for a term
he turned his attention TO the law.
A course at Albany, N. Y, finished
his preliminary legal education and
he settled in Canton, Ohio, as a
lawyer in 1857. Two years after
ward he made his first political fight.
Nominated to a forlorn hope as Re-
publican candidate for prosecuting
attorney in a Democratic county, he
surprised his friends by winning out.
AS A TARIFF CHAMPION.
It was at this time, according to a
Canton tradition, shat Mr.. Mckinley
took up in earnest the question which
was destined to make him promi-
nent. AS the story goes, the young
lawyer engaged in d debate on the
tariff question with Il Democratic
opponent who advocated free trade.
The future President then resolved
that he would fathom protection to
the bottom. He became an authority
on protection doctrine.
In 1875 Mckinley first entered Con-
gress. He was reelected often. In
the Democratic landslide of 1882 he
went to Congress with a very mar
row margin, and his opponent,
Jonathan Wallace, was seated after
a contest. In 1884 Mr.. Mckinley re-
turned to Congress and in 1890 be-
came prominent as the author of the
Mckinley Tariff bill. His district
had been changed in the meantime,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

halelgh Post: One million dollars
will be spent for the Improvement of
the road-bed of the Seaboard Air
Line. This information was given a
representative of The Post yesterday
by a Seaboard official, who has had
a talk with Vice-President Barr of
the Seaboard. Mr.. Barr stated that
the road bed of the Seaboard was to
be ballasted with crushed stone from
one end to the other. This has been
decided upon and the work will soon
begin. The fact that the Seaboard's
passenger trains make fast time and
the increased heavy traffic makes
this necessary. The road will be
ballasted with stone, so that it will
compare with the best in the
country.
Charlotte Observer: AS an evil
dence of the poor fruitage of the
cotton crop this season Gin Mecklen-
burg county, Mr.. Gilbert Helms, of
Crab Orchard township, yesterday
brought to the Observer office a
number or cotton plants of a tall and
luxuriant growth. 1t is apparently
fine cotton, but a close inspection
shows a remarkable absence of
squares and bolls. On one large
plant there are less than half a dozen
bolls. Mr.. Helms says that this
deficiency is characteristic of a good
deal of cotton in this section of the
county. Mr.. Bryum, of Steele Creek,
who is noted as a cotton grower,
says that in his fields the bolls are
cracking open and the staple is found
TO be rotten.
Goldsboro Cor. Observer: Dave
Mitchell, a colored porter on the A.
& N. G. train, was seriously shot at
Kinston last night by an unknown
white man. 1t was found that the
intestines had been punotured in six
places and two blood vessels YER
severed. The west bound passenger
train had but a moment before ar
rived and when the report of the
gun was heard, the large crowd at
the depot was startled. There are
several versions of the affair. One
says that Mitchell, in passing several
white men, asked them to get out of
his way. This brought on words
and Mitchell raised his lantern to
signal the train ahead when the man
caught him by the shoulder, pulled
a gun and shot him. He may die.
Hickory correspondent Charlotte
Observer: From statistics of this
years wheat crop, Catawba can
boast of producing the largest yield
of any county in the State. From
the threshers' tallies and from the
wheat in the sheave under shelter,
which will be threshed within the
next fortnight, this county will
make between four hundred and
four hundred and fifty thousand
bushels, making about one-twelfth
Of all the wheat produced in the
State-the average per acre being
greatly in excess of that of any
other county, some of our farmers
producing forty-fve to fifty bushels
per acre. Many of the farmers IRE
equipped with the mostmodern seed
ing and harvesting machines, the
planters sparing no expense for
equipping their farms for the Guilt
walton of small grains.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-17

and after a hot fight he was defeated
at the next election.
Soon afterward Mr.. Mckinley be-
came a candidate for the Governor
ship of Ohio, TO which position he
was elected in 1891 and again in 1898.
During the Gubernatorial campaign
he first made his great record at
speech making, a record rivaled by
his later opponent in the races for
the Presidency. The President, when
a candidate for Governor, in a single
campaign spoke in Sc of the SO coun.
ties of Ohio. AS the campaign grew
hot he some times made as many as
10 speeches in a single day and
travelled 200 miles. He made a West.
tern tour, keeping up this hot race.
To the astonishment of his close as
sociates, he seemed to scarcely feel
the strain. It was all training for
the fight to come.
NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT.
Although he had figured in three
Presidential conventions Mr.. Nc
Kinley was a minor figure in
the opening campaign for the
nomination Of a Republican
candidate in 1896. Thomas B
Reed, who had Presidential am
billions, filed the party horizon as
no other man. Before the cOnven-
ton met, however, Mr.. Mckinley
had the situation we'll in hand, and
in the St. Louis convention he got
661 out of the 9O5 votes cast. The
preliminary campaign was managed
by Marcus A. Hanna, who showed
for the first time his wonderful abil-
ity as a political manipulation.
In his first campaign against Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. Mckinley did not follow
his older traditions. Although it
was the most stirring campaign for
years, Mr.. Mckinley remained at
home much of the time, and special
trains furnished by railways the
country over brought crowds of pill
grims to Canton. Mr.. Mckinley got
271 votes in the Electoral College,
against III for Mr.. Bryan. The
popular plurality for Mckinley was
about 600, 900 in a vote of nearly A.
O0O, 900, far the largest ever cast.
A PERIOD OF BIG EVENTS.
The years of Mr.. McKinley's ad-
ministration have been the most
eventful for America since the Civil
War. Spain was driven from the
Western Hemisphere after a short
armed struggle with the United
States. The war left the United
States with the ownership of Porto
Rico, a protectorate over Cuba and
the Philippines acquired. Far
reaching financial legislation has
also marked the administration of
Mr.. Mckinley.
The story of the last Presidential
campaign, in which Nh. Mckinley
vas re- elected, is still fresh in the
public mind. He received at the
election of November 6, 1900, a plu-
rality of 861,52 votes, and in the
Electoral College a majority of 1877
votes.
Personally President Mckinley
was pleasant to meet. He was are
full not to give offence, even in heated
campaign speeches. Mr.. Mckinley
spoke in we'll turned, impressive
phrases and with a deliberateness
and solemnity which gave the i'm
preston of profound thought.
President MoKinley's home life
has been in a measure ideal. His wife
formerly Miss Ida Saxton, daughter
of a newspaper publisher of Canton
has been for years an invalid. The
President 8 devotion to her was of the
tenderest and most touching sort.
His mother, too, who lived to see
him President, looked upon William
as a favOrite son.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19

The work on the foundation for the
handsome new Central High school
for the city of Benwood is progressing
rapidly and contractor Winchell has
assured the Board of Education. of that
city, that he will have the work so far
completed that if necessary the corner
stone could be laid in two weeks. The
Board. however, made allowances for
delays oceasioned by inclement weather
and have set the day for tie laying
of the stone as November 7th. Ella
borate arrangements are being made
for the affair and 1t promises to be one
of the great days in the history OF
the town.
The Grand Master of the Masonic or
der of West Virginia, has notified Prof.
c. Z. Carrigan, the principal. that the
Masons would gladly take charge of the
exercises. and from the present indica-
tons there will be a large outpouring
of that society at the affair from var
ious portions of the State. 4 formal
invitation will be extended by the Board
to the Wheeling lodges of Masons, and
through them the other State bodies
will be invited.
The matter will not be confined to the
Masons, however. as an invitation will
be extended to all the secret societies
of Union district to participate in the
exercises and the parade that will
precede the laying of the stone
The corner stone will be ordered
from Cleveland and viii be fine grade
sandstone and appropriately inscribed
In it will be placed large number of
articles of more or less value as relics
The carpenters have been at work for
the past several weeks and have the
larger portion of their floor timbers
cut ready for placing on the founda-
ton, which will be completed before the
date of the laying of the stone.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
FUNERAL OF MRS. HAzLETT.
The Last sad Rites Over the Mortal
Remains Yesterdny-Interm at
Greenwood,

The last tribute of love and respect
to the remains of Mrs Mary E. Hazlett
was paid yesterday afternoon at the
family residence, No. 921 Main street.
The services at the house were of a
very impressive character, and were
participated in by a large number OF
mournens. The Rev. Dr. David A. Gun
bingham, pastor of the First Presbyte-
rian church. oAieiated. assisted by Rev.
DR.. S. T. Westhafer, pastor of the
Fourth Street NJ e. church.
The services were very brief, opening
with a prayer by DR.. Cunningham, after
which a quartette. consisting of Mrs.
Flora Williams, Miss Nugent Harvey,
Mr.. David Crawford and Mr.. Allen Rob-
inson. sang Jesus. Lover of My Soul.
DR.. Cunningham then read the usual
Scriptural passages, Dr.. Westhafer Of
fered UP a prayer and the quartette
sang "Ihy Will Be Done" Benediction,
pronounced by DR.. Westhafer, cohclud-
ed the services.
The remains We're conveyed to Green
wood cemetery. where the interment
took place. The pallbearers were
Messrs. Howard, Samuel, Edward and
Robert Hazlett, sons of the deceased;
Mr.. Clark Hazlett, a grandson and Mr..
James CWmmins.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
MALONEY OBSEQUIES

To Occur Sunday Afternoon From
the Family Home ON south Mnin
Street.-The Interment TO BE at
Mt. Cavalry.
Tomorrow afternoon, from his late
residence No. 2154 South Main street,
will occur the funeral of the late James
c. Maloney, Sr., whose death occurred
last Wednesday. The deceased, who
was in the sixty-third year of his age,
was one of the best known men on
the. South Side. He came to this coun-
try when but twelve years of age and
at once secured work on the B. & O..
as water boy. He continued in the
employ of that road until 1882, he then
being yardmaster of the South Side
yards. From 1882 TO 1890 he was sup
erintendent of the city prison. Later
he went into the mills and worked
there several years. but of late he has
been living a retired life. He was the
father of thirteen children, eleven of
whom survive him.
AT 4 O'Clock Sunday afternoon SER
vices will be held in the chapel at the
Mt. Calvary cemetery, at which place
the interment will occur.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19

wick, Germany. in 1921. and came to
Wheeling February IS. 1s49. His liv-
ing children are: Mary, wife Of John
Minkemyer: Emma, wife of Frank Nc
Mullen; Maggie, wife of John Ellis;
Henry Fischer, of Moundsviile; and
William Fischer, Of Moundsville, the
lumber manufacturer. The late Mrs.
Albert Schan, of the East End, was a
daughter also. The funeral will be
conducted by the Rev. Herman Haas,
and the n.erment will be at Mt. Zion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
KILLED AT NINETY-THREE.
Special 70 the Register

Special 20 The Reeister.
KEYSER, w. Va, October 1S-
Stephen Burke, native OF Ireland, VINO
for 80 years was Baltimore & Ohio
Waterman on the Cranberry grade, was
struck by ballast engine in the yard
here at 3 o'clock this afternoon and
sustained a fractured skull, from which
he will die Mr.. Burke was SO years
old Patrick, his son. is a conductor in
the yards. Mr. Burke has lived re-
tired life for several years with his
daughter, Mrs. John MeNab. He has
had excellent health despite his age,
and was out for a walk along the tracks
this afternoon when struck.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
Store Derfroyed.

Yesterday word was received in this
city to the effect that the general store
conducted at Weston by John King had
been destroyed by fire Thursday night.
The cause of the fire is not known. The
loss will be heavy, but the exact fig
ures are not known. Mr.. King is we'll
known in this city
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19

Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. John Minkemyer, in the Eighth
ward. will occur the funeral of the late
William Fischer, whose death occurred
Thursday morning. The deceased, who
was in his eightieth year, had been ill
for some time, and although his death
was not unexpected it is greatly re-
GREETED by wide circle of friends.
William Fischer was born at Bruins
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
THE MODERN WAY

Commends itself to the well-informed
to do pleasantly and effectua,ly what
was formerly done in the crudest man
ner and disagreeably as we'll To
cleanse the system and break up colds.
headaches and fevers without unpleas-
ant after effects, use the deligb tful
liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs
Made by California Fig Syrup Co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
| THE CORNER STONE OF
| NEW BENN0OD SCHOOL
TO DE LAID on THE SEVENTH OF
NOVEMBER WITH ELABoR-
ATE EXERCISES.
TO BE PRECEDED BY A PARADE

The Masons VIII Have Charge of
the Observation-Disclosures TO he
Issued to All secret Societies to
Participate-Thc Programme Not
Yet CompIete--work on the Build
ing Progressing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19

FOR SALE-Small melting pot: win hold
ten gallons or 200 pounds. Apply at WEST
VA PRINTING co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
October 31st Ends 1t.

The Pan-American Exposition closes
October 31st. Do not miss it. Special
low rates Tuesdays Thursdays and
Saturdays. Get tickets and partieu-
lars at City Ticket Office, corner
Twelfth and Market streets.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
Fined Ten and Costs.

Last evening Squire M. ]. Fitzpatrick
gave Frank Meyers a hearing an a
charge Of running a fiim-fam game pre-
ferred by O. II. MARBLE. Meyers was
found guilty and fined $40 and costs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19

Fish lunch tonight at Finnegan Bros.
2207 Main street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-19
S5.25 Is Now the Round Trip Rate
TO Buffalo. Via Ii. & o. II. IL.

Tickets on sale Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays during continuance of
Pan-American Exposition, good only
in coaches, and good returning six
days, including date of sale.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
DEAF, pUMD AND BLIND
SCHOOLS OPEN TODAY
One Very Sad Case Among the Large Number
of Pupils Who Have Arrived.

Today the institutions for the deaf
dumb and blind opened here and pupils
have been arriving>all during the week
Yesterday there were very large num-
bers coming in on all trains, separate
coaches being provided and teachers be.
ing in charge of each party of pupils.
Seven passenger coaches arrived yester
day containing children for the white
and colored schools.
There was a pitable scene yesterday on
the arrival of a coach with negro stu
dents aboard. Wade Henry, of Madison
county, partly blind, deaf and dumb, a
negro boy about seventeen years of age
when taken from the train acted as if
crazed. He pulled out knife and
swung around with it. This being taken
from him it took two men to get him
from the platform to the waiting room,
force being used The lad looked like
wild boy with his heavy head of hair
and his blurred eyes. Every effort will
be made to help him, but if nothing can
be done he will be sent back to Madison
county.
Principal John E. Ray expects a very
large attendance this session, much lar
ger than ever before as efforts have been
made to reach all the unfortunates of
both races in the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
GOVERNOR AYcOCK RETURNS
FROM FRESH ENT's FUNERAL
Nearly Hundred North Carolinians Were
Present at the Services.

Governor Aycock and number of his
staff and the committee who went with
him to Washington returned to the city
yesterday. Among those who returned
tc Raleigh were Gen. Toon, Adjutant
General Register, Mr.. J. A. Thomas, of
Louisburg, and Mr.. A. G. Zollicoffer, of
Henderson.
Governor Aycock spoke yesterday of
the impressiyeness of the services at the
funeral. He and his party arrived just
as the cortege was preparing to leave
the White House for the capitol and a
good view was had of the solemn pro-
cession.
About a hundred North Carolinians
were present and Governor Aycock was
gratified at the, large attendance. He
spoke most pleasantly of the trip. over
the Seaboard Air Line which took him
and his party to Washington on special
train.
Senators Simmons and Pritchard,
Congressman w. w. Kitchin. Postmas-
ter c. T. Bailey, United States Mar
shall Dockery District Attorney Ber-
nard and Clerk of the Federal Court II.
l.. Grant have gone to Canton to attend
the funeral of the late President today.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
Coachman Draws Censure on Olney.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Falmouth, Mass, Sept. 1S-According
to the affidavit of citizen of this vii
lage, Michael Conway, coachman for
Hon. Richard Olney, former Secretary of
State, in commenting upon the shooting
of President Mckinley, said:
1T is good thing President Mckinley
was shot; he should have been killed long
ago."
Mr.. Olney was advised of the matter
and it was reported that the man had
been discharged. Not being able to YER
ify a report of such action, one hun
dred citizens, representing about one
third of the voting population of this
village determined to give Conway a coat
OF tar and feathers last night. Not
finding Conway the men marched to Mr..
Olney's home to see whether the coach
man was still there. The former Secretary
of State refused to appear at their de-
mand
At length the citizens started for the
town hall, where a resolutions was
unanimously adopted saying that 1.-The
course pursued by Hon. Richard Olney
at time when the nation is in mourn
ing, is an insult to American citizen
ship"