Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-05-23 | Page 1 | Mrs. M' Kinley, Widow of Nation's Martyr, Stricken

MRS WIDOW Of I NATIONS NATION'S MARTYR N Ohio Woman Once first Ld Lady of the theLand Land Hs Hils Stroke of prom from Which She annot Recover Doctors Sav CANTON O 0 MAY 23 MRS MRS HAS SUFFERED A STROKE OF PARALYSIS AND HER ATTENDING PHYSICIAN DR O. O E E. SAID THIS TillS AFTERNOON AFTERNOON AFTERNOON AFTER AFTER- NOON THAT THAT SHE IS UNCONSCIOUS AND THERE IS NO HOPE OF HER RECOVERY A MESSAGE WAS SENT TO SURGEON SUR SUR- GEON GENERAL GEON-GENERAL GENERAL RIXEY AT WASHINGTON WASH WASH- INGTON THIS AFTERNOON ASKING ASK ASK- ING THAT HE COME HERE IF POS POS- SIBLE Admiral Rixey was physician to the late lato President McKinley and attended Mrs McKinley during her last serious serious illness after the te trip of President and Mrs McKinley to California A conference of local physicians ph is is called for this afternoon to determine what treatment is is to be resorted to in ina ina in ina a hope of saving her life Mrs McKinley was Miss Ida Saxton of Canton before her marriage marriage When she married William McKinley he was wasa a a. a struggling young lawyer in in Canton and she she saw him rise rise gradually and ands surely s rely to fame and glory and saw a nation weep when he lie was was stricken stucken visiting b by bythe bythe the bullet of f an assassin assassin while visiting e ethe the Buffalo exposition Mrs McKinley was not a strong woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man an and d when the President was shot hot I September 6 1901 at Buffalo it was was thought the shock would kill Mrs Me Mc- Kinley Through the lingering days of tb he mart martyred redi Presidents President's suffering MC-j MC the thep p physicians ii ians t thought o the Ration Nation must mut t surely lose the first JAn J lady o of the J a avell S Well ell as as as' as the is leader 1 ead t An And when when death stopped stopped- the ag agony ny of the Pi President September 14 lira Mrs tr McKinley could hardly y 15 bear r u up under under her great sorrow I She She had been peen living in in quiet at h her r ranton Canton anton home since the death death of her herh h husband None bone of her children lived 4 Ic IcI k 4 r i i I 1 r 1 s 7 i f L Iii 1 l 4 u J. J i f. f 1 oI st I I I CHARLES e 8 I- I H Hi i F FEES PRES WESTER ml f 1 FEDERATION Ji TION I f i 1