The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-09-11

Pan-American ExpOsiti0n-The As
sailant Arrested--The President Will
Recover.
BUFFALO, September 8.-Just brief
twenty-four hours ago the newspapers
OF the city blazoned forth in all tho
pomp of headline type: "The Proudest
Day in Buffalo's History"
Tonight in sombre type, surrounded
! by greweome borders OF black, the
same newspapers are telling in funeral
tones to Mortified populace the de.
plorable details of "The Blacklist Day
in tue History of Buffalo" President
Mckinley. the idol of the American
people, the nations Chicf Executives.
and the city's hOnored guest, lies pros
trate; suffering the pangs inflicted by
the bullets OF cOwardly assassin,
while his life hangs in the balance.
Oqt on Delaware avenue, at the homo
Pan. American Exposition, with tear %
ful face and heart torn by conflicting
hopes and tears, sits the faithful wife.
whose devotion is known to all the
nation.
twas few moments after 4p. m..
while PRESIDENT Mckinley was holding
a public reception in the great Temple
OF Music on the Ann- American grounds,
that the cowafaly attack was made,
with what success time alone can tell.
Standing in the midst OF crowds
numbering thousands. surrounded by
every evidence of good will, pressed
by Q molly throng Of people, showered
with expressions of love and LOYALTY,
besieged by multitudes all eager to
clasp his hand, amid these surround
ings and with the ever recurring plau-
seers ringing in his ears. the blow of
the assassin fell, and in an instant
pleasure gave way to pain, admiration
| to agony, folly turned to fury and
pandemonium followed.
Tonight Q surging.. swaying, eager
| multitude throngs the city's main
thoroughfares, choking the streets in
scanning the bulletins with anxious
eyes and groaning or cheering IN turn
each succeeding announcement as the
nature Of the message sinks or buOys
their hopes.
Down at police headquarters, sur
rounded by stern faced inquisitors of
the law, sits medium sized man, OF
commonplace appearance, with his
lips firmly together and listens with an
| mir of assumed Indifference to the per-
slstent stream of questions, arguments,
ObjurgatiOns and admOnitions with
which his captOrs seek to induce or
compel him to talk.
The daily organ recital in the splefl-
did Temple of Music witnessed the
dastardIy attempt.
Planned with the diabolical ingenuity
and tinesse of which anarchy or Nihii-
ism is capable, the wOuld-be assassin
carried out the work without n hitch,
and should his designs fail and the
President survive only to Divine
Providence can be attributed that
beneficent result.
he President, though we'll guarded
tives. was fully. exposed to such an
attack as occurred. He stood Mt the
edge of the raised dais, upon which
stands the greet piro. organ, at the
east side of the magnificent structure.
ThrOngs of people crowded in, to gaze
upon their Executive, perchance to
clasp his hand, and then fight their
way out in tho gOod-natured mob that
every minute swelled and multiplied
the building. The President was ia
cheerful mood and was enjoying to the
full the hearty evidences of good will
which everywhere met his gaze. Upon
his right stood John G. Milburn, of
Buffalo, president of the Pan -Ameri-
can Exposition, chatting with the
President and Introducing to hin:
especially persons of note who ..J,-
proached. Upon the Presidents Eft
stood Mr.. Cortelyou.
1t was shortly after 4 p. III. when one
OF the thrOng which surrounded the
Presidential party, n medium sized
man, OF ordinary appearance and plain
ly dressed in black, approached as il
to greet the President; Both Secretary
ticed that the mans hand was swatheti
in bandage or handkerchief. Reports
of bystaDders differ as to his hand.
He worked his way amid the stream of
people up to the edge of the dais until
he was within two feet of the Presi
dent.
MI. Mckinley smiled, bowed and
geniality the Americans 80 we'll know.
when suddenly the sharp crack of q
revolver rang out loud and clear above
the hum Of voices, the shuffline Of
myriad feet and vibrating waves of
applause that ever end anon swept
here and there over the assemblage.
There was an instant of almost COM
plete silence; The President stood
stock still, look of hesitancy. almost
of bewilderment, on his face Then ha
retreated st-p, while q pallor began
to steal over his features. The multi
tude, only partially aware that some
thing. serious had happened, paused in
surprise. while necks were craned and
all eyes turned lis one toward the rOs-
trum, where great tragedy was being
enacted.
Then came cOmmotion. With the
leap of tiger three men threw them
selves forward as with one impulse
and sprang toward the would be assas-
sin. Two of them were United States
secret service men. who were on the
outlook and whose dutyit was to guard
ageinsG jrst such calamity as had
mere befellen the President and the
nation. The third was q bystander, a
negro, who had only an instant pre-
hand Of the. President, As one man
the trio hurled themselves upon the
Preeident's assailant. In q twinkling