WHILE CAMPAIGNING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 509, 16 October 1912, Page 5

WHILE CAMPAIGNING.

VSy Telegraoh.—Press Association. —Cojiyrifrflf New York, Monday.

Ex-President Roosevelt, while carrying on his Presidential campaign in Milwaukee, was shot by a Socialist.

The wound is a serious one, and it ; is feared that Mr Roosevelt will not recover. Great excitement prevails at the outrage. THE LATEST. New York, Tuesday. Mr Roosevelt has been removed to a temporary hospital. The wound is pronounced not to be fatal. He declares that too much fuss has been made over a trifling matter. The announcement at the meeting of Progress that Roosevelt had been shot, threw the audience into a panic. The chairman begged them to remain calm.

Mr Roosevelt continued his speech, but became visibly weaker towards the close. The audience frantically cheered him when he refused to sit down.

The ex-president's assailant is a resident of N«w York named John Schrank.

The mob tried to lynch him which end the police prevented. When arrested he declared that any man seeking a third term as president ought to be shot. On being searched after arrest a document was found in his possession showing that he had had a dream wherein President McKinley'B spirit visited him. The spirit indicated Mr Roosevelt as McKinley's murderer and asked him to take vengeance. Mr Roosevelt states that Schrank is undoubtedly crazy.

BULLET EMBEDDED IN WALL OF CHEST. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MUST BE ABANDONED. Chicago, Tuesday. The surgeons have not yet extricated the bullet, which is deeply embedded in the wall of the chest, but fortunately the lungs were not penetrated. The patient's condition is normal and an operation is deferred pending further investigation. Letters found on the assailant indicate that he believed himself the instrument of the Almighty to remove Roosevelt. The political campaign will have to be abandoned as absolute rest has been prescribed. As Mr Roosevelt descended from the train snapshotters took him by flashlight. "Gosh! Shot again" was his jovial comment.