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McKIJVLEy SHOT A AT B\JFFALO Anarchistic Assassin Shoots Chief Magistrate. In the presence of thousands of peo ple President McKinley was shot down by an assassin a few minutes after 4 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Tem ple of Music at the Pan-American ex position grounds, Buffalo, N. Y. One bullet struck the breastbone, glanced aside into the flesh and was easily removed by surgeons. The other en tered the abdomen, pierced the front and rear walls of the stomach and buried itself in some spot in the presi dent's body not reached at the time of this writing by the probes of the surgeons.' This more serious wound was dressed and closed with several stitches and the physicians are now : briskly, while the stream of crimson I welled from the wound in his breast and spread in an ever-widening circle on his white shirt front "But you are wounded,” exclaimed i Mr. Cortelyou, “let me examine." "No, no,” insisted the president, "I am not badly injured. I assure you.” With a bullet in his breast and an other through his stomach, he did not lose consciousness. He sat almost as : stanch and straight in his chair aS though his assailant's shots had missed and he seemed the calmest and least perturbed of the immense gath ering. President Milburn and Secre tary Cortelyou were almost frantic PRESIDENT WILLIAM M'KINLEY. Hr, awaiting results, declaring the presi dent has a fair chance of recovery. AasiiMMin Ih Arreftteil, The assaiiaut, who says he Is Leon Czolgosz, was arrested immediately and the police of the entire country at once begun the search to establish his identity. It was soon learned he came from Cleveland and subsequently he confessed he was an anarchist and a disciple of Emma Goldman. The startling attack on the president took place while the president was ex changing pleasant greetings with visit ors to the exposition. Many hundred people had shaken hands with the president, one of the last being a burly colored man. He murmured his ac- | know!edgments of the honor and moved on to make way for a heavily built young fellow about 28 years old who was slowly following him in the long lino. There was nothing to mark him from the thousands around him, except that he carried a handkerchief in his hand and even that, perhaps, was scarce worthy of note, for the building was small and crowded, the weather was sultry and thousands of handkerchiefs were in constant requi sition. The young man moved rapidly to a position immediately in front of the president, so close that he could have shaken his hand. As he had done so many hundreds of times in the preceding half hour, Mr. McKinley bowed, smiled genially and extended his hand. But the young man did not grasp it So quickly that the watch ful eyes of the president’s bodyguard had no hint of the menace in his movement, he raised the hand in which the handkerchief was held and fired two shots at the president. The handkerchief had covered a revolver, which he had carried thus openly through the crowd. As'Htlnnl Oulikly Hrlrnl. At the sound of the shots Detective Ireland of the secret service force leaped upon the man like a tiger and close behind him came the colored man who had just shaken hands with the president. While they struggled • with him on the floor President Mc Kinley took a step backward and was Instantly clasped in the arms of De fective Gerry, another member of his bodyguard. The president did not fall, , nor did he reel, although both bullets had struck him. Half turning his head to the officer, he asked: “Ain I shot?' Evidently he had been so stunned with surprise that he had not felt the impact of the bullets While he was speaking the officer and Secretary Cortelyou had been leading him backward to a chair and had torr open his vest. Blood was on his shin front and Detective Gerry, answering his question, said: “I fear you are, Mr. President." Secretary Cortelyou sank on one knee beside the president’s chair am gazed anxiously into his face. Tell* Friends Not to Four. “Do not be alarmed,” said the presi dent, “it Is nothing.” His head sank forward into his hands a moment and then he raised i with alarm, but the wounded man con- j tinned to assure them that his injuries were trifling. This dramatic scene upon the little platform was enacted in the midst of a terrible tumult, which’ continued uninterruptedly for many minutes. When the secret service men and the colored man first threw themselves upon Czolgosz, the assailant of the president, and pinned him to the floor lest he should try to use the revolver again, twenty more men hurled them selves upon the scrambling Quartet and buried Czolgosz from sight. Every man in that struggling, crazy throng was striving to get hold of Czolgosz, to strike him, to rend him. to wreak upon him in any way the mad fury which possessed them instantly they realized what he had done. The greater part of the crowd was i stunned for an instant by the enormity j of the crime they witnessed, but when the reaction came they surged forward like wild beasts, the strongest tearing 1 the weakest back out of the way and forcing themselves forward to where the prisoner was held by his captors. All the time a tumult of sound filled the place, a hollow roar at first, punc tuated by the shrieks of women, swell ing into a medley of yells-and curses. Men said unintelligible things as they pushed and crowded toward the center of the swaying mob. They wanted to lynch Czolgosz, whoever he was. They wanted to see him and they shouted vainly at the police officers in front to drag him out. Mail Effort to (let Revpnpe. A little force of exposition guards, penned in by the clamoring mob, : fought desperately to hold their pris oner from the bloodthirsty crowd. They had Ozolgosz safe and fast. His ! revolver had been wrenched from his | hand In the instant that Detective Ire | land fell upon him and he was helpless, bruised and bleeding. His face was I cut when he was thrown to the floor and a dozen eager, vicious hands had struck 't him and reached him ov< I the shoulders of the officers. Slowly, very slowly, the little force of police made their way through the crowd, , dragging the prisoner between them. They were determined there should be no lynching. Things were had enough as it was and a lynching would have been the crowning horror of the day. h rom outside the building, where the news had spread from lip to iip, more thousands pushed and jostled and shouted in their eagerness to enter the building. 1 hose inside were strug ! gling in two directions—the more I timorous to escape from the place be fore a stampede should crush out their lives and the hot-beaded to reach Czol gosz only to reach Czolgosz was tneir one idea. On the stretcher of an ambulance 1 which had come clanging to the door the president was tenderly carried from thn building and borne in the ambulance to the emergency hospital near the service building, within the exposition grounds. Though this takes long lu the telling, probably it was ndl more than five minutes from the time the shots were fired until the president was in the hospital and a hasty exami nation was begun by the surgeons. * In a Critical Condition. The first official bulletin regarding the condition of President McKinley was issued by Private Secretary Cor telyou at 7 o'clock in the evening. He prefaced it with the statement that It had been prepared by the doctors. It reads thus: “The President was shot about 4 o'clock. One bullet strurk him on the upper portion of the breastbone, glanc ing and not penetrating. The Beeond bullet penetrated the abdomen five inches below the left nipple and one and one-half inches to the left of the median line. “The abdomen was opened through the line of the bullet wound. It was found that the bullet had penetrated the stomach. The opening in the front wall of the stomach was carefully , closed with silk stitches, after which a search was made for a hole in the back wall of the stomach. This was found and also closed in the same way. “The further course of the bullet could not be discovered, although care ful search was made. The abdominal wound was closed without drainage. No injury to the intestines or other abdominal organ was discovered. “Tiie patient stood the operation well. Tulse of good quality, rate of i 130. Condition at the conclusion of the operation was gratifying. The re sult cannot be foretold. His condition j at present justifies hope of recovery. “GEORGE R. CORTEI.YOtr, "Secretary to the President.” Drlef of Distinguished Persons. Among distinguished persons who telegraphed expressions of their grief at the national calamity were Vice President Roosevelt, who started at once from Burlington, Vt., for Buffalo; Senator M. A. Hanna of Cleveland, who was greatly shocked; Sir Thomas Lipton, on board the yacht Erin at j New' York; Grover Cleveland, who wSs fishing at Tyringham, Mass.; Car dinal Gibbons of Baltimore. Mrs. Bar ber of Canton, O., sister of the Presi dent; William J. Bryan of Lincoln, Neb.: the lord mayor of London, King Edward, who was traveling from Frankfort to Hamburg; Attorney-Gen eral Knox, at Pittsburg; Secretary Gage, at Chicago; Secretary Hitchcock, at Dublin. N. H.; former Attorney General Griggs, at Paterson, N. J.; Secretary of War Root, at Southliamp- ! ton, L. I.; Postmaster-General Smith, j at Philadelphia; Secretary Long, at Buckfield, Me.; Senator Fairbanks, at Indianapolis; R. A. Alger, at Detroit; Senator Platt, of New York, and the j governors of New’ York, Wisconsin, | Michigan, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas, j South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and j Louisiana; also Abner McKinley, of Colorado, brother of the President. President McKinley'* Life. William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States, was born at Niles, Trumbull County. Ohio, Jan. 29, 1843. His ancestors were o’ Scotch-Irish descent, and came to this country about a century and a half ago. William McKinley, father of the President, married, in 1829, Nancy Campbell Allison, who was of English and Scotch-German descent. The President is the seventh of their nine children. Iron manufacturing and molding was the trade of the elder McKinley and of his father. They were men of strong character and abil ity, devout members of the Methodist Church, and in politics ardent Whig and Republican. The father or the President lived to see his son Governor of Ohio, and his mother saw him President. She died Dec. 12, 1897, at the age of 88. William's education was MRS. WILLIAM McXINLEY. / SHE IS BEARING UP HEROICALLY UNDER THE TERRIBLE STRAIN. begun In the public schools of Niles,, but when he was 9 years old the family moved to Portland. Mahoning County, Ohio, where his schooling was contin ued in Union Seminary. He remained here until he entered Allegheny Col lege, Meadvllle, Pa., in I860. Soon after this, although he was fond of athletic sports, his health failed on account of overstudy. Upon recovery he became a clerk In the Poland postoffice, and held this position when the civil war broke out in 1861. June 11 of that year he enlisted as a private in Com pany E of the Twenty-third Ohio Vol unteer Infantry. This organization became a famous regiment, and numbered among its of ficers und men General W. S. Rose erans, General R. B. Hayes (who be came President of the United States in 1877), General E. P. Srammon, General James M. Comley and many other well known men. The regiment saw active service throughout almost the entire war. McKinley served on t’l" stall's of Hayes, Crook and Hancock. The four years of army life proved beneficial to the young soldier, who was much stronger physically at the dose of the war than at Its beginning. Of his military record it lias been stat ed that McKinley, both as private and officer, in the commissary department, was courageous, clear-headed and self possessed. For services rendered in the winter camp at Fayetteville he re ceived Ills first promotion, becoming a commissary sergeant, April 15, 1862. the Field ot llaltle. Feb. 7. 1863. while at Camp Piatt, he was promoted to lirst lieutenant, and July 25 of the following year, when he was 21 years of age, he was made captain. Previous to this his regiment had taken part in engagements at Cloyd's Mountain, New River Bridge, l«exington, Buffalo Gap. Buchanan, Ut ter Creek, Lynchburg and Bufford's Gap. At Berryville, Sept. 3, 1864, his horse was shot under him. Un March 14, 1865, he received his commission as major by brevet "for gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Opequan, Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill. Klected faovernor In 1891. In 1891 he was elected Governor of Unto by a majority of a^out 21,000, over ex-Govcrnor James E. Campbell. Democrat. Klertlou to the Presidency. In the November election following the total popular vote was 11,9'JQ,942, of which the McKinley electors re ceived 7,104,779, being a plurality of 601,854 over those cast for William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, and a majority over all candidates of 311,742. The vote .n the electoral college was 271 for McKinley and 176 for Bryan. The issues on which the campaign was fought were chiefly on the free coin age of silver and the restoration of a protective tariff. He was nominated for President a second time at St. Louis in 1900, there being no other candidate, and he was re-eieeted in the following November. CONFESSES HIS Ul'lLT. Leon Cznlgoaz, W ithout Kemorse, Tells of Attack on President. Leon Czolgosz, the accused and self confessed assassin, has signed a con fession covering six pages of foolscap, in which he says that he is an an archist. and that he decided on the act three days ago and bought in Buffalo the revolver with which it was committed. He is unmarried. He claims to be a member of the Golden Eagles. Czolgosz has seven brothers and sisters in Cleveland, and the directory of that city has the names of about, that number of persons of his name living on Hos mer street and Aekland avenue, a Pol ish settlement in the far southwestern part of the city. Iu l.lldc Time*. “Your daughter is very ill.” “But you must save her, doctor; she Is the baby of the family, and we can't lose her; she is only 97 years old."—Smart Set. NEBRASKA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION Principal Addrca try Urn. L tlotfclcr, of Wimhlugton. O. I'. LINCOLN, Neb . Sept. 9.—The Ne braska Park and Forestry association met here. The principal address was made by George L. Clothier of the for estry bureau, Washington, D. C. He 1 spoke in high praise of Nebraska as a tree-growing state and complimented the people on their progress. He said they were noted for their interest in tree culture. Some of the pioneers commenced forty years ago and had lived to enjoy a rich reward for their labors. He said the idea that the sand Hills of the west ought to be covered with an extensive artificial forest orig inated in the brain of a Nebraska man. If a realization of this idea becomes possible its accomplishment will de pend on the push and energy of Ne braska people. The speaker told of the advantages of well planned tree culture and de clared the haste for returns had caused persons to plant where the trees ruined young orchards, drained wells and cis terns and caused the snow to drift over dwellings. 1 he first requisite In the growth or timber was room in the air for branches and room In the soil for roots. He deprecated the planting of short lived trees. In the hope of securing a quick growth people for a quarter of a century had taken trees from the river bottoms and placed them on the prairies where it was 100 feet to water. This accounted for the declining groves of cottonwoods, willows, soft maples and boxelder. Rapid growing trees are generally short lived, espe cially so on high, dry land. Hack berry, white elm, rock or bull pine, Platte red cedar, western red cedar, bur oak, green ash and red ash. In the south Platte region and east of the 100th meridian he would add the honey locust. With the possible exception of the oak he said all these trees could be profitably planted in every county in the state. For the strip along the Mis souri river he gave a larger list. He told how to plant hedges, windbrakes and groves. Hrokcn Bow Hunk Cloned. BROKEN BOW. Neb., Sept. 9—The Farmers’ bank of Custer county closed its doors on an order from E. Ro.vse, secretary of the state banking board. The closing of this bank will not af fect the other banks of the city. C. E. Ford, the president of the Broken Bow < State bank, says that instead of a run being made on his bank the deposits increased. Depositors will probably get their money. Great Crop of Hay. ■ MERR1MAN, Neb., Sept. 9.—More than one-fourth more hay lias been put up in western Cherry county this sea son than formerly. From oOO to 1,000 tons are not uncommon amounts put up by different ranchmen. One outfit has 3.000 tons now in stack. The dry, hot weather during the last six weeks has made it possible to have the best quality of hay. H»ng* Hltiiftelf to Kafter. BLAIR, Neb., Sept. 9.—Coroner E. C. Pierce was summoned to Admah, twen ty miles north of Blair, to view the body of Iatrs Jourgenson, aged 64 years, who had committed suicide by hanging himself to a rafter in the barn. Despondency over business matters led him to take his life. He was an old settled in this county. 8toriu Worse Than Reported. BENKELMAN, Neb., Sept. 9.—Re ports from the country show the recent tornado was worse than at first report ed. Farm houses were wrecked and crops damaged. At the J. B. Reynolds ranch a number of men who had been threshing took refuge in the stables. Every building on the place was torn to pieces and four men were injured. Sugar Meet Campaign. FREMONT, Neb., Sept. 9.—The su gar beet campaign will commence to day, and it is said that the crop is very satisfactory to both the growers and the factory. The tonnage will be rather low, but the sugar content is extraordinarily high, ranging from 15 to 19 per cent of sugar. Attorney Gen. Knox Dumb. PITTSBl'RG, Pa., Sept. 7—When informed of the shooting of President McKinley, Attorney General Knox said: "1 cannot imagine how any liv ing creature could harbor such a thought as to take the life of the president. I am so shocked at the awful news that I cannot talk fur ther.” Iletiiil Orocvrn Ur^anlzp. NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., Sept. 9.— The retail grocers of the city have formed an organizations and will go in a body to Omaha on the 19th to join the state organization, which will be formed there at that time. MiiHt Annwer for !\1 l»ilee<l«. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 9.—Governor Savage has authorized the return of Eldrege Gerry from Nebraska City to Leavenworth, Kan., where he is want ed to answer to the charge of bigamy. - ' GENERAUT RAIN IS NEEDED. Soma af the Western Cotiotla*, However Hava a Sufficiency. LINCOLN. Sept. 7.—CL A. Loveland. Nebraska section director of the gov ernment weather and crop service, makes the following report: The weather has been warm, with light showers in the eastern counties and heavy rains in western counties. The daily mean temperature has -I^Jraged 5 degrees above normal in eastern counties and 7 degrees in western. Only light showers occurred in the central and eastern counties, but heavy rain fell In the western coun ties. t The dry weather has been unfavor able for corn, and the late planted Is now in need of more rain: considera ble corn has been cut for fodder. Fall plowing has progressed but slowly in most counties, as the soil is too dry to work well; however, in some local ities considerable plowing has been done; in the southwestern counties the ground was placed in good condi tion for plowing by the rains at the end of the week. Reports indicate that the acreage sown to winter wheat will be large. MAY f ACt MUROtR OlARGf. Indian llrothcr* Mtvagely Attack One of Their Tribe. PENDER, Neb., Sept. 7.—John and William Walk, two Omaha Indians, brothers, who have the reputation of being very quarrelsome and ugly, made an assault on Little Deer, another Omaha Indian, at his home near the Omaha agency in this county, and with a long willow pole, having several nails in the end of it, beat their vic tim into insensibility. His bead, eyes and face were bruised and lacerated in a horrible manner and probably his skull is fractured. The doctor who is attending the injured man thinks it doubtful if he will recover and should he not the assailants will no doubt be tried for murder. They were intox icated, it is charged, on whisky ob tained at Whiting, Iowa, and it was while on their way home that they committed the crime. Sheriff Daley of this county arrested ami brought them to this place. PROHIBITIONISTS Of NfBRASKA. They Meet In State Con veil I Inn and Nom inate a Tick* t. LINCOLN, Sept. 7.—Prohibitionists of Nebraska met in state convention and nominated candidates for judge of the supreme court and regents of the University of Nebraska. Over 180 delegates attended, representing twen ty-two counties and an accredited membership of 375. All nominations were made by acclamation and were as follows: For judge of the supreme court— W. Bert Clark. Ashland. For regents—Mrs. S. M. Walker. Lincoln, and A. M. Dilworth, Johnson county. Mr. Clark is an attorney and an old resident of Saunders county. Mrs. Walker is president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Ne braska. Mr. Dilworth is prominent in southeastern Nebraska as a temperance worker and for many years as a lead ing spirit in the state prohibition or ganization. State Kays Otoe County ltoixU. LINCOLN, Sept. 7.—State Treasurer Stuefer bought $44,000 of Otoe county refunding bonds for the permanent school fund. They will produce a rev enue of 3V£ per cent. Treasurer Stue fer was offered these bonds two weeks ago, but delayed purchasing them un til he could get an opinion from the attorney general as to their legality. The issue was made under judgment of the United States circuit court. Fatal Limp Explosion. FAIRFIELD, Neb., Sept. 7.—Mrs. Henry Hall was killed and her daugh ter, Mrs. Rose Preston, and a 2-year old son of Jacob Morris were so badly burned by the explosion of a gasoline lamp in the Unique restaurant that their recovery is doubtful. Rxpcn,?* of liixtltatlnn*. LINCOLN, Sept. 7.—The state board of purchase and supplies met and ap proved the estimates of expenses of the various state institutions for the ensuing year. The total amount has not been determined. Ho*« Krlii* High Price,. WYMORE, Neb.. Sept. 7,-Charlie Lister, a tarmer residing six miles east of town, in Island Grove township, brought two bogs to market here that netted him $ti2.10. The hogs were one year old in July and the two weighed 1,035 pounds. Snake Sleep, l„ «j|rp, |,„p PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Sept. 7. Uelen, the 8-year-ohl daughter of Sam Garland, a fisherman who lives on -in Island south of this city, mysteriously disappeared from home. After several hours' search In the vicinity by the lather and neighbors, they finally found the little one asleep in’a hollow with 11 8nake curled up in her lap I tie log doubtless was the abode of ^ snakes, ns the men killed ten of the big reptiles while rescuing the child