Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1901 — President McKinley Dead. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

President McKinley Dead.

After a Week of Suffering He Succumbs to Assassin’s Bullets.

President McKinley died at 2:15 a. m. Saturday at the home of President Milburn, of the Pan American Exposition, „in Buffalo, N. Y. He sank into unconsiousness at 9:45 o’clock Friday evening) and remained thus until the end came. His las,t words to his wife were, “God’s will, toot ours be done.” And then surrounded by his physicians undta few intimate friends, he said, “Good bye, all, good bye. It is God’s way. Let His will, not ours be done.”

The Presidents condition took a sudden change for the worse at 2:30 o’clock last Friday morning and from that time there was no question of the outcome. The publio had largely recovered from the terrible shook of his being shot, by the buoyant prospects of his recovery, and it was unprepared for the sad news. Hope that the rumors of hie condition were overdrawn kept the crowds waiting until apparently conclusive evidence of death was received at about 9 o’clock Friday night The end did not come, however, until the time above stated, and the early editions of the Chicago papers that reached hero, did not contain the report of the death. The funeral service will be held in Washington, where the remains will lie in state, and interment will be made at Canton, Ohio. Vice-President Roosevelt, who had left the president’s side on Tuesday, then confident that the patient was on the road to speedy recovery, was summoned early Friday morning, but he was in the Adirondac mountains and could not be notified for several hours. He started early that morning for Buffalo, where the oath of office as the country’s chief executive will be administered to him.