Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-09-13
OUT OF DANGER.
Doctors Say President Mckinley
Will Recover Beyond Doubt.
Most of the Visiting Statesmen
Leave For Their Homes
Patient Able to Eat.

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eminent surgeons and physicians in
attendance upon the wounded Pres
ident yesterday committed them
selves without reservation to the
opinion that the patient was out OF
danger. They did not give assur-
ance of his recovery collectively
over their signatures in an official
bulletin, but Individually and sepa-
rately during the day, "Of course
we will all feel easier when a week
has passed, said DR.. Burney, the
dean of the corps. "We would like
TO see every door locked and double
locked, but the dangers from posi-
BILE complications are now very re-
mote. The little piece of lead in
the muscles of the back is giving
the physicians no concern what
ever. Unless it should prove
troublesome to the President later
on, he will probably carry this
grim souvenir of anarchism to the
end of his days"
The Vice-President, members of
the cabinet, Senator Hanna and
other distinguished friends of the
President accepted the verdict of
the physicians to-day as practical
ly conclusive and there was an
exodus of those who considered
their presence no longer necessary,
Vice-President Roosevelt left this
evening for his home at Oyster Bay,
Senator Hanna returned to Cleve.
lond and Comptroller Dawes tc
Washington tonight. Abner Nc.
Kinley, the Presidents brother
will remain a few days longer, bu
his family returned home and Mrs
Duncan and several other relatives
have gone. Five members of tn,
cabinet are still here and will re
main few days. The Presiden
will be taken direct to Washington
3 as soon as safe.
The President to-day showed
confidence in his ability to care 70
himself and several times careful
? turned himself TO get more restfu
D position. A most important devel
opment OF the day was the determi
Z nation of those in charged the cas-
D that food should be administered t
\ the patient tomorrow by the mouth
Not since the shooting has a morse
: OF food been given the President b
D natural means, but the drain Of
\ his system has been met by dissolv
ed foods administered by injection
: The Importance of this feeding b.
4 the mouth is that it vial restore tn
! normal action of the stomach for tn
first time since that organ had boil
! its walls pierced by bullet, TIL
\ doctors are satisfied that the tim
4 has come to renew these norma
= functions and are assured that tn,
3 wounds in the stomach are closed
Al The only persons admitted to Ia,
sick room to-day other than ia,
: doctors and attendants were Mrs
} Mckinley and Secretary Cortelyou
\ Although the President is pronounc
ed out OF danger, no member Of tn,
} cabinet has yet been within th'
D sick room, nor have the Vice Presi
! dent and Judge Day seen the Pres
Z ident.
, The dramatic phase of the situa
} ton here is rapidly disappearing
4 Plans sverthrown by the assassin
: bullet are being restored and mat
D tiers are rapidly. assuming norma
! conditions. The exposition hat
, suffered severely in attendance
since the tragedy and the manageri
D are now organizing for grea
! thanksgiving celebration, which
|, they expect to prove a great care
Z for the fair and hope will be made Z
} day of national rejoicing.
! They are arranging that on 2
Certain day the bells OF all the cities
, and towns in the United States b,
} set ringing, and that the rejoicing
. be heralded with the footing o
whistles and the booming OF can.
, non,