Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — M’KINLEY ARRIVES IN TIME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

M’KINLEY ARRIVES IN TIME.

His Presence Renders Family Circle at Canton Complete. President McKinley reached‘Canton in special train at 8:55 Tuesday morning. When the President entered the room, accompanied by his wife and his niece, Miss Mabel McKinley, the sister of the President, Miss. Helen, said: “Mother, here are Willinm and Ida.” The President kneeled by his mother’s bedside and kissed her tenderly. As he did so she put her arm about his neck and signified that she knew him. She also recognized the President’s wife, and reached her hand toward her. It seemed to friends that she had somehow or other been waiting for the arrival of her son. Soon after she lapsed into an unconscious state, and the strength that had been husbanded for the last meeting of son and mother seemed to leave her. The scene was a pathetic one that beggars description.- In the midst of it all there was a joy unspeakable in the breast

of the President. He had again been permitted to see his mother alive. He had left her bedside to go to Washington in answer to the obligations of his country. He had witnessed the assembling of Congress and had now returned before the death angel made his visit and took with him the spirit of the aged mother. With the arrival of the President the children of Nancy Allison McKinley gathered about her couch, made sacred by her tenacious struggle against death. The reunion was complete. While a recent performance of wild beasts and their tamer was in progress at a village near Kovno, Poland, the lißh tamer was killed by a lion and a tigress. A fearful panic ensued among the spectators, and eight persons were crushed to death, many others being seriously injured. ? For the first time in six years the Mitchell & Tranter Rolling Mills in Covington, Ky., are running a double force of over 400 men. The Overman Sc Schrader Cordage Works have pal mb a doable force ot 800 men.

“MOTHER” M’KINLEY.