MRS M'KINLEY'S ILLNESS.
The visit of President M'Kinley to the Pacific Coast prc\ eel to be an occasion of anxiety and distress, though many of the original plans were carried out, and there were some enjoyable function*. Mrs M'Kinley's illness was most alarming, and for some days people of the city watched from hour to hour for the flags which moved so gaily over tfte city to be placed at half-mast. Before the day set for the launching of the battleship Ohio, the puffering lady was much better, so that it was possible for the President to carry out the programme for the occasion, in which he was to play an important part. Mrs M'Kinley has been an invalid for many years, and the fatigue of the journey julminated in an attack of dysentery, which wai expected to terminate fatally. The President was mo-t attentive to Mis M'Kinley, and for many hour? could not be induced to leave her bedside, even to take needed rest. The party remained at San Franeifeo ncaily two week?, and from there returned to Washington by the most direct route. Two days after the President had visited the Union Works, and had there delivered an address to the workmen, which was most enthusiastically received.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2467, 26 June 1901, Page 13
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209MRS M'KINLEY'S ILLNESS. Otago Witness, Issue 2467, 26 June 1901, Page 13
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