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PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.
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MILBURN HOUSE, BUFFALO, Sept. 14. - President Roosevelt to-night issued the following proclamation :
"By the President of the United States, a Proclamation :
"A terrible bereavement has befallen our people. The President of the United States has been struck down; a crime has been committed not only against the chief magistrate, but against every law abiding and liberty-loving citizen.
"President McKinley crowned a life of largest love for his fellow men, of most earnest endeavor for their welfare, by a death of Christian fortitude, and both the way in which he lived his life and the way in which, in supreme hour of trial, he met his death will remain forever a precious heritage of our people.
"It is meet that we as a nation express our abiding love and reverence for his life, our deep sorrow for his untimely death
"Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America do appoint Thursday next, Sept. 19, the day on which the body of the dead President will be laid in its last earthly resting place, as a day of mourning and prayer throughout the United States. I earnestly recommend all the people to assemble on that day in their respective places of divine worship, there to bow down in submission to the will of Almighty God, and to pay out of full hearts their homage of love and reverence to the great and good President whose death has smitten the nation with bitter grief.
"In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the City of Buffalo, the 14th day of September, A. D. One Thousand Nine Hundred and One, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth.
[SEAL]
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
"By the President: John Hay, Secretary of State."
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MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1901
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[Left Column]
SOLEMN SERVICE
IS HELD AT THE
HOUSE OF DEATH
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Mournful Gathering at Mil-
burn Residence Attends
Rites in Memory of
McKinley.
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FRIENDS VIEW REMAINS
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Members of Cabinet and Others
Public Associates Take Leave
of Late President.
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[Center Column]
WIDOW'S TOUCHING FAREWELL
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Simple Ceremonies Mark First of Fu-
neral Observances - Favorite
Hymns of Deceased Sung and
Earnest Prayer Offered.
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BUFFALO WEEPS
AT THE BIER OF
NATION'S CHIEF
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Thousands Upon Thousands in
Sorrowing Ranks View
the Stricken Presi-
dent's Body.
[Right Column]
RESTS IN THE CITY HALL
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Deep Grief for the Deed of the
Assassin Is Proved by Re-
markable Outpour.
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WORKINGMEN ARE IN THE VAN
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Women and Children Shed Tears as
They Pass the Coffin, While
Men Stoop to Press Their
Lips to the Cover.
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[SPECIAL TO THE RECORD-HERALD]
BUFFALO, Sept. 15. - President McKinley's public funeral is crowning William McKinley's public life. Through its first stage to-day the relations between him and the people he searved were expressed as they never could be while he lived.