The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-20
M KINLEY is DEAD


sense OF security whlch MADE Jhe ShOck
terrible when the news that the Buffalo
tragedy would have fatal ending
came to them.
All day long the bulletin boards
we're surrounded by crowds waiting in
suppressed excitement for the latest
word from the Milburn home, and
numerous newspaper extras were
eagerly snapped up. Little work was
ments, as at the slightest excuse he
clerks dropped their pens and turned
to talk in small awe-stricken groups
of the chances that their chief magIs
trate had against death in the gal
struggle he was making in the farawal
city on the lake
The three cabinet officers in the CAPE
tai today we're pictures of Distress
Two days ago Secretary Hay had left
his chief apparently ON the road to
recovery, and today Postmaster Cen
eral Smith, who had left Buffalo even
later and reached here this morning,
said that when he came from the Mil
burn home yesterday the president
was, accordingto his best infor NATION,
surely on the mend. The postm ster
general returned to Buffalo on the 7;15
p. m. train tonight. Secretary Hay had
engaged accommodations on to-night's
New England train, intending to re-
turn to his New Hampshire summer
home for much needed rest, but can
celed the order early in the day, as on
him devolved important functions at
once on the presidents demise. He
divided his time between the state de-
partment and his home, waiting for the
end in patient resignation, prepared
for his sorrowful duty of conveying to
the notions of the world in official
form the news of the demise of the
third American president through the
agency of an assassin's bullet within
the short space of one human life. AS
the senior member in rank of the cab
met, upon Mr.. Hays shoulders also
will rest the burden of government of
the great republic in the short but i'm
portant interval that must elapse be-
fore the vice president, under the
terms of the constitution, assumes the
cares and responsibilities of the great
presidential office.
REACHED THE CAPITOL
Washington, Sept. 1.-THE remains
of President Mckinley last night lay
in the east room of the White House,
where for more than four years he had |
made his home as chief magistrate of |
the Great American republic. Up |
stairs his widowmourned for her dead |
in the family apartments that now
bring back but the saddest of men, |
cries.
IL was with simple ceremony and a |
silence that fitted perfectly the sadness |
of the occasion that the late president |
was borne up Pennsylvania avenue to |
the White House and laid upon the |
bier in the great East room, where he |
had stood so often in the pride of his |
manhood to receive the greetings of |
the common people he loved better
than himself.
1t was fitting that such ceremony as
there was should be severely military |
in character. in recognition of the fact !
that the president was the commander
in-chief of the United States army and /
navy. Nowhere has there been II show
of civilian participation.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS EVERYWHERE. |
The streets about the station were
filled with mounted troops and the
station itself was occupied by stalwart
soldiers and sailors in uniform. The
bluecoated policemen and the railroad
employees were nearly all that stood
for civil life.
1t was not so on the broad stretch of
avenue that led to the White House.
There the people strained and crowded
in vast multitude against the stiff
wire ropes which restrained them from
the space marked out for the line OF
procession.
The silence that marked the pro-
gress of the funeral party through the
national capital was profound. The
people, as a whole, did not talk even
in whispers, and the only sign of
agitation in the great crowd was the
silentpressing and striving againstthe
ropes to see the mournful cortege
which swept slowly along.
The afternoon was cloudy, and with
the close of the day began the dull
depressing boom of great gun at
intervals of five munites. 1t was the
signal which gave notice of the APP
proach of the funeral train. At the
Pennsylvania railroad station men in
bright uniforms gathered, II mixture
of soldiers and sailors, and with
lowered voices talked in groups while
waiting to take up their parts in the