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McKIJVLEV SHOT By AsSMffin Tries to KJll President. Terrible Act at Tinif alo Done While XShousand-t Were Greeting Chief JDjrccutixJe. Whllo shaking hands' with tlio public from a platform in tho Tomplo of Mu hIc at tho Buffalo exposition nt 4 p. in. Friday afternoon President McKinloy was Btrlckon down in tho act of ox tondlnK his hand in kind and friendly greeting to loon Czolgosz, his mur dorouB nsBallant. Receiving tho warm hand-clasp of tho head of tho nation tho man who sought his llfo fired two fihotii with tho other find stood back to view tho terrible work of tho PRESIDENT WILLIAM M'KINLEY. assassin. Tho first shot struck tbo prosldont in tho breast, tho 32-callbor bullot flattening on tho bono. Tho sec ond and sorlous wound wao n bullot li'olo in tho nbdomon, about flvo Inches below tho loft nlpplo nnd an inch and a half to tho loft or tho mqdlan lino. Tho bullot which caused that wound pone tratod both tho Interior and postorlor walls of tho stomach, going complete ly through that organ. It was found thai as a coiiBoquenco of tho perfora tion tho stomach fluid had ctrculutod about tho abdominal cavity. HTOHY UV T1IH HHOOTINM. Authentic Account nf Attack Mmlu by . Osolgnis, Many hundred pooplo hod shaken hands with the president, ono of tho last being n burly colored man. Ho murmured hit acknowledgements of tho honor and moved on to inako way fora heavily built young follow about 28 .years old, who was slowly following him in tho long line. Curried n Hiiiidkerchlef. There was nothing to mark him from tho thousands around him, ox cent that ho carried u handkerchief In his hand and oven that, perhaps, was scarce worthy of note, for tho bulld iug was small and crowded, tho weath er was sultry nnd thousands of hnnd korcklofs woro In constant requisition. Tho young man moved rapidly to n position immediately In front of tho prosldont, so closo that ho could havo shaken his baud. As ho had dono so many hundreds of times In tho pro codliig half hour, Mr. McKinloy bowed, omilod genially and extended his hand, .But tho young man did not graBn It. Ho quickly that tho watchful oyo3 of tho president's bodyguard had no hint of tho menace In his movomont, ho rals6d tho hand In which tho hundkor chief wub hold and (lied two Bhots at tho prosldont. Tho haudkorchlot had covered a revolver, which ho hud car rlod thus oponly through tho crowd, Giolgoax Quickly Holscd. At tho sound of the shots Dotectlvo Ireland of tho secret service force loapod upon tho man llko n tiger ami closo behind him came tho colorod man who had Juat shaken hands with tho president, Whllo they struggled with hlra on tho floor Prosldont McKinloy took a stop backward and was tuatant 1 clapsod In tho arms of Dotectlvo Gerry, another member of his body guard. Tho president did not fnll, nor did ha reol, although both bullets had truck him. Halt turning his hoad to the officer, ho naked: "Am I ahot?" Evidently ho had boon o stunned with surprise that ho had not felt tho impact of .tho bullet While, ho was speaking tho ofllcor and Secretary Cortolyou had boon leading AjV AFATRCH1ST him backward to a chair and had torn open his vest. Mood was on his shirt front and Detcctlvo Gerry, answering his question, said: "I fear you aro, Mr. President," Secretary Cortolyou sank on ono knee beside tho president's chair and gazed anxiously Into his fnce. Toll I'rlnniU Not tu rear. "Do not bo alarmed," said tho presi dent, "It is nothing." Ills head sank forward Into his hands n moment and then ho raised It briskly, whllo the stream of crimson welled from the wound in his breast and spread In nn over-wldcnlng circlo on his whlto shirt front. "But you aro wounded," exclaimed Mr. Cortelyou, "lot mo examine." "No, no," insisted tho president, "I nm not badly Injurod, I aesuro you." With a bullet In his breast, and an- othor through his stomach, he did not loso consciousness. Ho sat almost as itanch and straight In his chair ns though his assailant's shot had missed, and ho seemed tho calmest and least perturbed of tho lmmonio gather ing. Presldont Mllburn and Secretary Cortolyou woro almost frantic with alarm, but tho wound-.d mnn continued to nssuro thorn that his Injuries woro trllllnc. This dramatic scene unon tho little plntform was enacted in tho midst of a tcrrlflc tumult, which continued un interruptedly for many minutes. Secret Hcrvleo Men Active. When tho secret ccrvlco men nnd the colorod man first throw thomsolvcs upon Czolgosz, tho nssallant of tho president, luid pinned him to tho floor leHt ho should try to uso tho revolver again, twonty morn mou hurled thom- boIvoh upon tho scrambling quartet and burled Czolgosz from sight. Every mnn In that struggling, crazy throng was striving to tret hold of Czolcosz to strike him, to rend him, to wreak upon him in any way tho mad fury which po88cssod them Instantly when thoy realized what ho had done. Tho greater part of tho crowd was stunned for an Instant by tho enormity of tho crlmu they witnessed, but when tho reaction camo they surgod forward like wild boasts, tho strongest tearing tho weukest back out of tho way and forcing thomselvos forward to whero tho prisonor whs hold by his captors. All tho time n tumult of sound filled tho placo, n hollow roar at flrat, punc tuated by tho shrieks or women, swell ing Into medloy of yells and curBcs. Men said unlntelllglblo things ob thoy puthed and crowded toward tho center of tho swaying mob. Thoy wanted to lynch Czolgosz, whoever ho was. Thoy wanted to see him and thoy Bhouted vnlnly at tho pollco ofllcors In front to drag him out, Mud HfTort to Kill CioIrow. Tho llttlo force of exposition guards, ponnod In by tho clamoring mob, fought desporately to hold their pris oner from tho bloodthirsty crowd. Thoy had Czolgosz safe and fast. Ills rovolver had been wrenched from his hand In tho Instant that Detective Iro Innd fell upon htm, nnd ho was help losB, bruised and bleeding. His faco was cut when ho waB thrown to tho floor and a dozen oauor. vicious hands had Btruck at him and roachod him over tho shoulders of tho ofllcora. SlOWly. YOrV slowlv. thn llttln tnrm of pollco mndo way through tho crowd, dragging tho Prisoner botwoon thnm Thoy woro determined there should bo no lynching. Things woro bad enough as. it was, nnd a lynching would have beon tho crownlnir horror of tho iinv From outside tho building, whero tho news sproau- from Up to lip, more thousands pushed and Jostled and shouted In their caKornesn in nntnr thn building. Thoso ingldo woro struggling m two directions tno moro timorous to escape from tho n aco hpfnrn n ilnm pedo should crush out thnlr tho hot-headed to reach Czolgosz only to roach Czolgosz was their ono idea. President's Self Control. And thus tho contest prosldont sat, palo but calm, In tho miosi or tno oxciicd llttlo group on tho platform. It was Impossible to tcko mm nway at tho moment. Every door way was Jammed with a crazy, shout ing mob moving In two directions, try ing to escnpo nnd trying to enter. To ward tho ninin door tho pollco were lighting their way with flRtu nnil liliiina to get Czolgosz out of tho crowd and piaco mm oohind tho bars. Upon tho minutes which woro snendlm? mleht dopend tho president's life, for no med ical old could reach him In that mael strom, nnd It was evident that ho was soroly wounded. More pollco camo plunging Into tho crowd from headquarters, whoro tho diroful now had Bpod. They hurled themselves upon tho Bwaylng mob, thoy stuck and pushed nnd shouted commands, and It slowly gnvo way Just enough bo thoy could reach tho llttlo band struggling to savo Czolgosz from a sudden and frightful death. Thoy dragged him out, hustled him away through tho beautlrul exposition grounds and throw him behind barred doors, whoro ho was saved for tho law to deal with him. Itemovnl to tho Hospital. Massing their raon whoro thoy could best hnndlo tho oxclted crowd, tho po llco cleared a passageway to ono of tho doors for tho bearing nway of tho pres ident, and on tho stretcher of an nm bulanco which had como clanging to tho door ho was tenderly cnrrlcd from tho building and homo In tho ambu lance to tho emergency hospital, near tho servlco building, within tho expo sition grounds. Though this takes long In tho tolling, probably it waB not moro than llvo minutes from tho tlmo tho shots wero fired until tho president was In tho hospital, and a hasty examination was begun by tho surgeons. They discov ered that ono bullet had entered tho breast nlmost directly In tho contor or on tho modlan lino, but whether or not it had passed into tho lungs could not bo determined except by probing; Tho other had struck In tho abdomen five Inches below tho left nlpplo and ono nnd a half Inches ..o the loft of tho median lino. Immediately' under that spot Is tho stomach, nnd tho gravest fears wero cntortnlnod regarding tho consequences of that shot. Tho president was subsequently ro moved to tho house of President Mil burn, whero tho best medical aid was at hand. It Is from tho residence of Mr. Mll burn that tho bulletins aro so eagerly awaited by tho sorrowing American people. CONFKH.SKS HIS GUILT. I.coii ChiIrosx, AVItlmut. Itemomo Tells of Attuck on President. Leon Czolgosz, tho uccusod and solf confessod assassin, has signed a con- toBsion covering six puges of foolscap, in which ho says that h a In nn nn. archlst. and that ho decided on tho act throo days boforo and bought In nun-mo tno rovolvor with which It was committed. Ho Is unmnrrled. Ho claims to bo n mombor of tho Golden Eagles. Czolgosz has seven lirothors and sisters In f!lnvpi,.mi and tho dlroctory of that city has tho names of about that number of porBona of his namo living on Hos mor street and Acklnnd avenue, a Pol ish settlement In tho far southwestern pari or tno city. Some of them aro butchers and others hnvn rllffnrnnt trades. Czolgosz's father lives on a farm about eight miles from Cleveland. Tho assassin is dntnlnni! nt nniln,. hoadqunrtcrs pending tho result of tho rrcsiuont's lnjurlos. Czolgosz docs not appear In tho least uneasy or psnltent for his notion. Czolgosz shows no sign of Insanity, but Is very rotlcont about much of his enrcor. Whllo acknowl edging himself nn nnarchlst, ho doea not siaio to wiiat branch of tho or ganization ha bnlontrn Ao .. . . CT- ItVUI UO UUll bo learned tho facts contnlncd In tho conicsaion aro as follows: Tho man's namo is Leon Czolgosz. Ho is of Polish-Gorman extraction. His homo Is In Cleveland, whoro ho has sovon brothors and sisters. Ho Is nn avowed anarchist nnd nn nrdent dlBclplo of Emma Goldman, wIiobo teachings, lie alleges, aro responsible for his attack on tho Prosldont. Ho denies stond faBtly that ho 1b tho Instrument of any body of anarchists or tho tool of uny U fUUJ iJ ( iijn Vw twr y j Tl I I JUiCASM Pw?r?!n ?fL0 KXP03TON. SHOWING TEMPLE OF MUSIO 55?? 1RBS,DBNT WAS HOLDING RECEPTION WHEN SHOT BY ANARCHIST CZOLGOSZ. k coterlo of plotters. Ho declares that ho did not have a confederate His only reason for tho deed, ho declares, is that no uoiioved tho present form of government in tho United States Is unjust, and ho concluded that tho most offcctlvo way to remedy It was to kill xztho President. These conclusions, ho declares, ho roachod through the teach insrn of Emma Goldman. Flvn nllntrcrl anarchists wero arrested In Cleveland and taken to pollco headquarters After a rigid examination- thoy wero released. rotVDKItl.Y 18 ANARCHY'S FOB. Immigration Commissioner Urge Ex clusion From United States. Washington telogram: Commissioner of Immigration Powdorly Is bitter to ward anarchists and In an lntervlow said: "Tho immigration laws can bo amended so as to exclude from land Ing In this country porsons known to bo anarchists abroad by requiring of ovcry Immigrant to present a certlfl cato from the municipality In which ho resided at homo to tho effect that ho was a re3pectablo, -law-abiding man; that ho was not In. any way Iden tified with any.nnarchlst organization, and that ho was of good character. In order to make such a law effective rep rcscntatlves of tho Immigration bu reau should bo stationed In foreign countries whoso duty It should bo to carefully cxamino into tho character of the Immigration tending toward tho United States. "I recommended in my annual report for tho fiscal year 1900 that all persons landing in this country bo llablo to de portation during tho term they rcsldo hero before becoming naturalized or for tho period of flvo years. It is all very well to talk of tho United States as tho asylum of tho oppressed. That did very well yearn ago, but that was boforo Immigration began to flow bo rapidly to our shores. Tho need of an nsylum Is not so great now ns It was and tho danger of making this coun try a prison and nn asylum for vaga bonds Is increasing ovory year. SOIIIIOW IN FORKIGN LANDS. Depurtmout of Htnto Receives Mnn; Condolences. Tho department of Btnto at Wash ington has mudo public somo of tho messages that havo been received, abandoning tho idea of. holding them in hand until tho list was complete. Thcso messages camo from crowned heads, from foreign ministers, from DIAGRAM SHOWING WHERE THE SHOTS TOOK EFFECT, resident ministers of foreign countries In tho United States and from Indi viduals of distinction. Somo of them follow: KnUer nnd TVIfo Join. From tho Gorman emperor and em press to Mrs. McKinloy: "Koonlgsborg. Tho emporor and I, horrified at tho nttempt planned against your husband, oxpress our doop-folt sympathy, hoping that God may restoro to health Mr. McKlnley. "WILLIAM, I. R. "VICTORIA. I. R." Kstrada Wires .Mrs, .MnKlnloy. From tho presldont of Guatemala to Mrs. McKinloy: "Guatemala. My government and I most heartfully lament tho unhappy event. Bo plcasod to rccolvo our pro found Borrow. "M. ESTRADA." C." Franco's Ruler Is Cordliil, Tho president of Franco to President McKinloy: "Rnmboullot With keen affliction I loam tho nows of tho holnous uttorapt of which your excellency has Just been n victim. I tako It to heart to Join with tho pcoplo of tho United States In wishing tho enrly recovery of your excollcncy, and I earnestly dcslro In this sorrowful Juncturo to renew to you tho nssuranco of my sentiments of con stunt and cordial friendship. "EMILE LOUBET." Hncnks for South Will oh. From tho lieutenant govornor of Now South Wnlos: "Sydney. Tho govornmont nnd peo plo of Now South Wales Join with -me In expressing our dcop sympathy with, you In your sufferings and our sorrow at tho crlmo which has boon commit ted. Wo pray that tho Almighty In his lnflnlto goodness may sparo you to your people. "FREDERICK M. DARLEY." OPPOSED TO KEVISION SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN EX PRESS THEIR OPINIONS. The Delusions of "Tariff Reformers' nnd Ill-informed I'nlltlclans Ably Dlsteoied nnd the Truth Clearly Net Forth Fco lle Opposed to Tarlrf Itovlslon. Ono of the most comprehensive nnd conclusive arguments supplied in re sponso to tho American Economist's requests for expressions on tho subject of tariff rovlslon is that contained in tho subjoined letter of Congressman Burkett of Nebraska. There Is, for example, a world of sound sense in this stntement: "Tho Dlngloy bill may not bo per feet In Its workings In every partlcu lar, but would tho little that wo could hope to better it warrant tho risk of tho undertaking, especially when wo tako into consideration tho fact that thn machinery of commerce and IndU try aro all adjusted to it?" Congressman Durkett's letter In full follows: In response to your letter of recent date asking my opinion of a general revision of tho tariff law in tho fifty toventh congress, pormlt mo to say I do not find uny demand In tho Middle West for tariff revision. In fact, i should say it Is not desired. Tho pco pie aro prosperous, and In my Judg ment they do not forget with what promptness their prosperity followed tho enactment of tho Dlngley bill. In thin, I would differ with tho eminent statesman from Ohio, General Gros venor, in his lettor of Juno 1, a copy of which is before mo, and wherein ho said: "The great danger to tho futuro wel fare of tho American pcoplo lies in tho shortness of tholr memory." Tho "peoplo" havo not forgotten, nor will they ovor forget, tho disasters in business during tho unfortunate porlod of freo trndo In this country. The agitation for revision of tho tar iff laws is neither tho volco nor tho mind of "tho people." It does not Bound llko "tho people"; it docs not look llko "tho pcoplo"; It does not como through proper channels to be recognized as of "tho people." I havo failed to find any expression of "tho peoplo" whatsoever, cither in election returns or elsewhere, indicating their dissatisfaction with tho preaent condi tions. Agitators may always bo found. Thoso who bolievo in freo trade would no doubt llko to see tho advocates of tho "Amorican System" In a clash among themselves ns to detail. Per sons interested In certain ways no doubt may pretend to bellevo a revi sion of tho tariff desirable; but neither tho votco of tho agitator, nor of tho freo trader, nor tho interested ono, should bo mistaken for tho volco of "tho people." Somo may attempt to namo particu lar faults in our present tariff laws, but tho chances aro that they aro not In sympathy with, tho goneral policy of protection. It enn bo said without doubt that no legislation could bo enacted that would suit everybody nnd nvery Individual's Interest Tho welfaro of tho whole Amorican peoplo Is tho criterion by which tho American congress should bo guided. Tho farmer in the West, tho planter in tho South, tho manufac turer In tho East and the wool grower n tho Northwest arid tho laboring man all ovor tho country aro prosperous at present and In my Judgment nsk no change. Tho Dlngley bill muy not be porfect In Its workings in ovory particular, but would tho llttlo that wo could hopo to better It warrant tho risk of tho un dertaking, especially when wo tako In to consideration tho fact that tho ma chlnory of commerce nnd Industry are all adjusted to it? Besides, reciprocity Is a wisely devised and constructed safety valve to guard against any pos sible danger of too high tension of tho tariff law Itsolf in any particular. A tariff law is tho commercial policy of tho nation. It is tho governor, so to apenk, on tho commercial and indus trial machinery of the nation, and ir wo would toko it off to mend It tho machinery would olther run away with Itself or stop on a dead center, Any threat of tinkering with tho law would create Biich fear In business centers nnd among tho peoplo inter ested as to do much harm, oven if tho only excuse therefor should provo to bo tho familiar philosophy that the bark is often wprso than tho bito. Yours truly, E. J. BURKETT, M. C, First DIst. of Nebraska. Lincoln, Nob., July 24, 1901. WILL NOT SUOOEED. 1 Tho freo trado agitators who aro Anxious to proclpltato n tariff contest at tho next Besslon of congress aro trying to make It appear that tho wool manufacturers will urge a reduction In tho tariff on wool, rogardles3 of tho ef fect of such action upon tho wool srowors of this country. That, howovor, Is denied by an east ern commercial newspaper, which Malms to know tho sentiment of tho wool manufacturers. It snys that tho -ntltiula of tho manufacturers toward tho wool growers is tho same today that it has been during the past sov-anty-flve years. Whllo it 1b true that tho tariff on wool has operated against tho manufacturers of woolens, becauso It has shut them out. of tho world's market to n certain extent nnd de prived them of tho chanco to mako greater profits by purchasing cheaper raw materials, yet tho manufacturers havo always beon willing that the sheep Industry should bo protected, be causo thoy know that without tho com petition afforded by American wool thoy would bo at tho morcy of the for lgn wool growers and would havo to pay whatovor prlco might bo demand ed. It has been proved by frequent trials that sheep raising Is not profltji ablo In this country without the helw of a protective tariff, nnd for that real son tho manufacturers havo refrained from serving their own Immediate in terests by advocating a roductlon In tho tariff on tho raw material. Tho freo traders aro exerting every effort to array tho protected Industries ngalnst ono another, but thoy will not succeed In their attempt to Induce tho wool manufacturers to antagonize tho sheep raisers. Cleveland Lcador. HOW IT WOULD WORK. Tho Ohio Democrats havo declared for tariff reform and for placing all trust products on tho freo list. Right on tho heels of this declaration comes a sweeping reduction by tho American woolen trust of prices of woolon cloths, and tfio largo number of woolen man ufacturers outstdo tho trust aro con siderably agitated at this procedure. It thus appears that a trust may reduco prices as well as advance prices. But it Btill romnlns n trust for all that, and. according to tho Babcock plan and the Ohio Democratic plan and tho plan of tho tariff revislonnrics gener ally, tho tariff must bo repealed on all. Imports competing with domestic trusts products. An application of this won- dorful theory In tho caso of tho Woolen trust would doubtlos3 work somo hard ship on that corporation, for tho tariff on wool would still stand, ns nobody claims that wool growing Is monopq llzed by a trust, and tho cloth makew of England who uso low priced freo wool would tako Immediate possosslon of tho big Amorican market Such would bo tho result unless, as might easily happen, tho domestic Woolen trust, finding that tho repeal of tho tariff had Bwopt every non-trust woolen mill out of oxlstonce, and find ing tho domestic field thus cleared of all troublosomo competition, should do as tho salt companies of tho United States and Europe aro doing form an international trust that would control production, prices and waces. Of course, we should see half a million' peoplo now working In nontrust woolon muis thrown out of employment and half a billion of canital lnvestnd In buildings and machinery rendered Val ueless, uut tho domestic' freo trader and trust smasher "wouldn't let that worry him. What ho wants Is to kill the tariff, no matter who or what elso Is killed. HOW THEY ENVY HIM. TARIFF AND THE STEEL TRUST. Discussion of Hon. J. W. Babcock'a idea of removing the tariff from all products of tho steel trust has brought out somo Interesting facts about tho Btcol trade. It has been shown that big as the big trust Is, It by no means controls tho steel trado In this coun try, there being many establishments, somo of them employing a largo num-n ber of men, which havo no connection with tho trust. It seems to be gener ally admitted that tho removal of the tariff on steel products would not In jure the big trust to any marked ex tent, but it Is claimed that it would necessitate an Immediate reduction of wages in all steel establishments not In tho trust. This claim, which Is be ing mado by thoso who ought to know whereof they speak, Is causing many who woro at first Inclined to favor Mr. Bnbcock's idea to ontertain doubts of its wisdom, and if it bo substantiated by unprejudiced Investigation, which a number of members of tho houso are quietly ranking, tho bill for tho repeal of tho tariff on steol products will not bo supported by a corporal's guard of Republicans In cither branch of con gress at tho coming session. Dealrablo as many consider it to curb tho power of the big trusts, tho Republican ma jority In congress Is not going to bo stampeded Into tho support of any thing of that sort without carefully considering It from every point 'HT vlow, nnd they will certainly not allow any legislation to get through that will reduco tho wages of Amorican worklngmon. Bnraboo (Wis.) Repub lic. i i v Turin Reform llosli. "Tariff reform was never moro ur gently needed than now, when tho pro duction of tho country so far exceeds its power of consumption that foreign markets are a prime condition of its continued prosperity." This Is the lan guage of tho Ohio Democratic plat form, and It Is calculated to mako ono Bmllo. Wo have Just closed tho books of a fiscal year, ami they show that wo havo sold more of our commodities In foreign markets than In any oilier year In our whole national existence. Then, whoro Is tho suggestion based upon wisdom, that we should reform tho tariff In order to Increase our for eign trndo? It Is mbro satisfactory than It ever has been; therefore, what Is wrong? Knoxvllle (Tonn.) Tribune. Not at All. Certainly the nrgument that tho re moval of tho tariff la tho wav in nun. ' press tho trust Is decidedly nntnnnhio and a greater inenaco to the United States than any trust can be. Now Castlo (i'a.) Mows,