Niece Pawns the Gift of McKinley

     New York, N. Y., Feb. 4.—A storm of unfavorable criticism has been aroused as a result of the discovery of one of the most treasured possessions of the late president McKinley, a solid gold plate bearing an invitation to a Knights Templars assembly in San Francisco, resting in the window of a Broadway pawnshop. The plate recently was the property of Miss Mabel McKinley, a favorite niece of the martyred president, who, at his death, received the plate and other relics and $130,000. She is a vaudeville actress and the wife of Dr. Hermanus Baer, who explained that the plate was sold for $700 because of the fear that it would be stolen.