President McKinley.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 100, 10 September 1901, Page 3

President McKinley.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HIM. Washington, September, 7. At Buffalo yesterday an attempt was made to aßsas4nate President MoKinley. President McKinley was standing at the edge ef the dais in the beet of spirits, owing to the hearty publio greetings* Czoigoez and a dense throDc; approached. President McKinley smiled and extended his hand to Czolgosa, who brushed the President's hand aside and tired. For a moment there was complete silence, the President looking bewildered and turning deadly pal*.

Then th«.re was a, tremendous commotion, the crowd surging forward to lyeeh 'ha ateailmt ;nsen shoaling, women and childrsn shrieking and trying to escape to the doors, fearing a stampede. The soldiers and police made draper ate effortß to rescue Cz .lgosz, whom the secret police and a negro waiter bad felled to ihs ground. President McKinley walked to a chair and sat down, trying to reaisure enquirers, and deotaring that he was not badly hurt. He expressed regret that the incident might possibly result In injury to the Exhibition, and begged them not to alarm Mrs McKinley, Seeing Gzolgosz straggling, President MeKinle/ &aid, " Let no one hurt him."

The physicians report that one bullet glaneed off the upper breastbone without penetrating, and thac the other bulle; penetrated the abdomen five inches below the left nipple and one and a half inches to the left of the median line. The openings in the walls of the stomach were closed by silk sutures without damage to the intestines. The other abdominal organs were uninjured. The President's addition justifies hope of recovery. He passed a good night, and his temperature at 6 o'clock this morning was 102, pulre, 110, and respiration 24.

The orime has created the utmost horror and deep gloom' in the United States, and evoked in Canada earnest sympathy for the American President and people. Thousands of messages of sympathy from Royalties to the" humblest citizens of all nations have baen received.

The police helisve that its was a deliberate plot, the accomplices accompanying the would-be atsas-in to Buffalo. Two dynamite bombs have been discovered buried at Chicago.