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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
H DANGEROUS WOUND.

The other took effect in the abdo-
men, about four inches below the left
nipple, four inches to he left of the
navel and about on a level with 1t.
Upon arrival at the Exposition hos
pital the second bullet wound was
probed for. The walls of the abdomen
were opened. but the ball was not To-
Gated. The incison was hastily closed
and after a hasty consultation 1t was
decided to remove the patient to the
home of President Milhurn. This was
done, the automobile ambulance being
used for the removal. Arrived at the
Mllburn residence. all persons outside
the medical attendants, nurses and the
officials Immediately concerned were ex-
cluded and the task Of probing for the
bullet. which had lodged in the abdo-
men. was begun by DIR. Roswell Parke.
At $50 the representative Of the AS
ISOLATED Press was admitted to the Mil
burn mansion. whore Secretary Cortel-
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THE STOMACH PIERCED.
-, p..s.a Through Both Walls-The Wounds
ton For Hope.

puu.. p..sed Through Bot Walls-Th
nn r HOP
pUFFAIo. ). ". September 6-secretary CorteiSo" ""S
mi m folio n statement
u.-,,1 buIIetip was issued by h physiGsns It 2 !. mi
r.. p...;a.r ya. shot about 4 o'clock. N bullet struck MIN
- nortion of h eas bone gtsncing N o pene-
...n n second bullet enetrate tn abdo"e " heh
e. ;n,Ie N N m a hnIf fnches to the lei OF the
"a. linz. Te abdomen was opened through h m OF IN e u
90" or W.. found hat h bullet had penetrate h stomach, "a
- IN tbe ron a # h stomach was carefuh crosse" wiz"
m. .tch after which a search was or a hole In TN
ali ~ n stomach. This was our N closed IN inc sam
""e t.-,h. course Of h bullet could n o b e discovered al
-. ..refuI search a made. The abdominal wo"nd wa eiosea
thu devinage. H.
~ in;ury to the intestines o r other abdomenai "a a. aus
y. r.tient stood h operation pulse OF o qoai-
-. -.t. Of 1870; condition n 4 IN conclusion of ~ graz"
RI. re.uIt h e foretold. His condition II preseht '"s
n u GEORGE B.. CORTELYOU,
Secretary o n President a
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HI ASsAILANT'S TRIP.

While the wounded President was
being borne from the exposition to the
Milburn residence between rows OF on
lockers with barred heads, a far differ
ent spectacle was being witnessed
along the route of his assailant's jour-
ney from the scene OF his crime to
police headquarters. The trip was
made SO quickly that the prisoner was
safely landed within the wide portals
OF the police station and the doors
closed before anyone was aware of his
presence.
The news of the attempted assassina-
ton had in the meanwhile been spread
broadcast by the newspapers. Like
wildire 1t spread from mouth to mouth.
Then bulletins began to appear on the
boards elong Newspaper Row. and
when the announcement was made that
the prisoner had beer taken to police
headquarters, only two blocks distant
from the newspaper section, the crowds
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
he Victim of a Pervert's Hate of Order
Amidst The Delights of The Western
Worlds Great Exposition of Progress.

tude only partially aware that some
thing serious had happened, paused in
surprise, while necks were craned and
all eyes turned as one toward the ros-
trum where a great tragedy was being
enacted.
Then came a commotion. With the
leap of a tiger, three men threw them
selves forward, as with one impulse
and sprang toward the would-be assas-
sin. Two of them we're Unitea States
secret service men who were on the
lookout and whose duty 1t was to guard
against just such calamity as had here
befallen the President and the nation.
The third was a hvstander, = negro
who had only an instant previously
grasped in his dusky palm, the hand of
TIE President. As one man, the trio
hurled themselves upon the Presidents
assailant. In a twinkling he was borne
to the ground. his weapon was wrested
from his grasp and strong arms pin
toned him down.
The multitude which ~thronged the
ediice began to come to a realizing
sense of the awfulness of the scene of
which they had been unwilling wit
nesses.
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you gave him the Official bulletin pre-
pared by the physicians.
Secretary Cortelyou said that a tele-
graph Office would be established at
once in the Milburn residence and bull
letins giving the public the fullest In
formation possible would be issued at
short intervals.
At the Milburn house were Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson. President Mil
burn, Director General Buchanan, OF
the Pan-American Exposition, DIR.
Rixey and Secretary Cortelyou. Tele-
grams poured in by the hundreds and
Secretary Cortelyou was kept busy re-
plying {; them. Two stenographers
with tho typewriters were placed In
the parlor, which was quickly trans
formed into q busting room.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07

With The Cunning of a Snake, The Vile
Assassin Sought The Nations Head,
And With The Smile of Judas on His
Lips, and the False Hand of Simulated
Friendship Extended, He Directed the
Missiles That Have Thrown the World
Into Mourning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
THE PRESIDENT RAHLYING
AND RESTING COMFORTABLY

BUFFALO. N, ". september ..
At Io,45 y. M, the following
bulletin was the only indicn-
ton of the Presidents wouadst
The President IL raltytng and
II resting comfortably. Al Iois0
y. M. temperature 1904 de-
grccs. pulse I2s, respiration "a.
~tsfgned.D
VI. p. RIxEY,
NJ. II. MAYN,
Il. PARkE,
II. MYNTER,
EUGENE WANBIN.
COuntersigned,
GEORGE u. CORTELYOu.
Secretary TO President.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
Two Shots Were Fired, One OF
Which Made a Serious and
Possibly Fatal Wound.
Reason to Hope The President
May Be Spared to The Ma.
ton That Loves Him.

BUFFALO,, N. Y, September g.
Just a brief "a hours ago the newspapers
# he city blazoned forth in all the
Iamp of headline type: The Proudest
Iay IN Buffalo's History
Tonight, in sackcloth and ashes, in
s7mBre type, surrounded by gruesome
orders of black, the same newspapers
arc telling in funeral tones to a horri-
ssl popu,ace. the deplorable details of
The Blacklist Day in the History OF
buffalo"
President Mckinley, the idol Of the
tmerican people, the nations Chief
Executive and the city's honored guest,
res PROSTATE, suffering the pangs in
ta-ed by the bullets of a cowardly as
sin, while his life hangs in the bal
.a0e
mt on Delaware avenue, at the home
John G. Mifburn, president Of the
American Exposition with fearful
are and heart torn by conflicting hopes
ai fears. sits the faithful wife, whose
eviction is known to all the nation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT.
A VILE PERVERT'S VICTIM.
A PARTIAL CONFESSION.
When charged by District Attorne

Penney with being the instrument of
an organized band of conspirators, he
protested vehmently that he never even
thought of pe~rpetrating the crime ua-
til this morning. After long and per-
sistent questioning 1t was announced
at police headquarters that the pris-
oner had made a partial confession,
which he had signed.
As near as a be learned tonight
the facts contained in the confession
are as follows:
The mans name Is Leon Czolgosz.
He is Of Polish-German extraction. His
home is in Cleveland, where he has
even brothers and sisters. He is an
avowed anarchist and an ardent dis
ciple of Emma Goldman, whose teach
ings, he alleges, are responsible for to-
days attack on the President. He de-
MES s~teadfastly that he IS the instru-
ment of any body Of anarchists or the
tool Of any coterie of plotters. He de-
clares ne did not wen have a confeder-
ate. His only reason for the deed, he
declares. is that he believed the present
form OF government in the United
States was unjust. and he concluded
the most effective way to remedy 1t was
to kill the President. These conclu-
sions, he declares, he reached through
the teachings OF Emma Goldman.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07

who were playing the principal roles
came out of it with blanched faces,
trembling limbs and beating hearts,
while their brains throbbed with a
tumult of conflicting emotions which
could not be clarified into a lucid mar
rative of the events as they really
transpired.
COOL THROUGH IT ALL.
But OF the multitude which witnessed
or bore a part in the scene Of turmoil
and turbulence there was but one mind
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
PRECAUTIONS HAD BEEN TAKEN

1t was learned tonight from an
authoritative source that the greatest
precautions had been taken to guard
against the possibility of any such oc-
currence as transpired to-day. Not
only were the services of the local po-
lice and detective forces employed to
the fullest extent, but specially ie-
tailed men have accompanied the
Presidential party inf all its travels
since Inauguration day and in addi-
ton to this the extra %precaution was
taken upon the occasion Of the Presi-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
TIME OF THE ATTACK.

1t was a few moments after 4 p. M,
While President Mckinley was holding a
ilhlic reception in the great Temple of
Music, on the Pan-American grounds,
Lat the cowardly attack was made,
N.tn what success time alone can tell.
Standing in the midst of crowds, mum
15cing thousands, surrounded by every
violence of good will, pressed by a
motley throng of people, showered with
eEpressions of love and loyalty, be-
s-eged by multitudes, all eager to clasp
lis hand, amid these surroundings, and
WIN the ever-recurring plaudits of an
aamlring army of sightseers ringing in
MS ears. the blow of the assassin fell,
7Aa in an instant pleasure gave way
D pain, admiration to agony, folly
'"ned to fury, and pandemonium fol-
owed.
tonight a surging. swaying, eager
multitude throngs the city's main thor
oughfares, choking the streets in front
PAAAS4Poi ACWSPdPSiS,
me bulletins with anxious eyes and
sfoaning or cheering in turn each sue
veeding announcement as the nature of
me message sinks or buoys their hopes.
THE WOULD-BE ASSASSIN.
Down at police headquarters, sur
rounded by stern faced inquisitors of
e'e law, sits a medium sized man of
~'ommonplace appearance, with his
N&ed gaze directed on the floor, who
presses his lips firmly together and
listens with an air of assumed indiffer-
e'ce to the persistent stream of ques-
IONS, arguments. objurgations and ad-
HIonltions with which his captors seek
~ induce or compel him to talk.
IL was just after the daily organ re-
oltal in the splendid Temple Of Music
mat the dastardly attempt was made.
tanned with all the diabolical inge-
huity and finesse OF which anarchy or
nihliism is capable, the would-be as
Sassin carried out the work without
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07

hitch. and should his designs fail and
the President survive only to Divine
Providence can be attributed that bene-
fieent result.
The President, though well guarded
by United States secret service detec-
tives, was fully exposed to such an at
tack as occurred. He stood at the edge
of the raised dais upon which stands
the great pipe organ at the east side of
the magnificent structure. Throngs of
people crowded in at the various en-
frances to gaze upon their executive,
%perehanee to clasp his hand, and then
fight their way out in the good natured
mob that every minute swelled and
multiplied at the points OF ingress and
egress to the building.
WAS IN CHEERFUL MOOD
The President was in a cheerful mood
and enjoying to the full the hearty evil
dences of good will which everywhere
iIet HIS gaze. upon MS TlBHJ SlOOu
John G. Milburn, of Buffalo, president
of the Pan-American Exposition, chat
ting with the President and introduce
ing to him especially persons of note
who approached. Upon the Presidents
left stood Mr.. Cortelyou.
1t was shortly after 4 p. m. when n
of the throng which surrounded the
presidential party, a medium sized
man of ordinary appearance, and plain
ly dress in black, approached as If to
greet the President. Both Secretary
| Cortelyou and President Milburn no.
ticed that one of the mans fands was
| swathed in a bandage or handkerchief.
Reports of bystanders differ as to
| which 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 President.
MET WITH A SMILE.
President Mckinley smiled, bowed
| and extended his hand in the spirit OF
geniality the American people SO well
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quite communicative: so much so, In
fact. that little dependence could be
placed on what he said.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
DEMANDED.

Like a flash the cry was taken up
and the whole crowd as II ignited by
the single match thus applied re-
echoed the cry: Lynch him" Hang
him. Closer the crowd surged for
ward. Denser the throng became as
new arrivals swelled each moment the
swaying multitude. The situation was
becoming critical when suddenly the
big doors were flung open and a squad
of reserves advanced with a solid
front, drove the crowd back from the
curb. then across the street and grad
ually succeeded in dispensing them
from about the entrance to the station.
BY this time there were probably 3d.
600 people assembled in the vicinity
of Pearl. Seneca and Erie streets and
the terrace. The crowd was so great
that it became necessary to rope on
the entire street in front of police
headquarters, and at a late hour to-
night the police were still patroliing
the streets in the ~neighborhood In
squads of three or four.
Inside the station house were assem-
bled District Attorney Penney. Super
intendent of Police Bull, Captain Rea-
gan. OF the First precinct. and other Of
fcials. The prisoner at FIRST proved
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which seemed to retain It's equilibrium,
n hand which remained steady, one
eye which gazed with unfinching calm
ness and one voice which retained its
ever tenor and faltered not at the most
critical iuncture. They we're the mind
and the hand and the eye and the
voice of President Mckinley.
After the first shock of the assassin's
shots he retreated a step, then as the
detectives leaped upon his assailant he
turned and walked steadily to a chair
and seated himself, at the same time
removing his hat and bowling his head
in his hands.
In an instant Secretary Cortelyou
and President Milburn were at his side.
His waistcoat was hurriedly opened,
the President meanwhile admonishing
those about him to remain calm and
telling them not to be alarmed.
But you are wounded" cried his
secretary. Let me examine"
mo, ] think not" answered the Pres
ident. Il am not badly hurt, assure
you"
Nevertheless his outer garments were
hastily ioosened and when a trickling
stream or crimson was seen TO wind
its way down his breast. spreading its
tell tale stain over the white surface OF
the linen, their worst fears were con-
firmed.
AN UNCOMFORTABLE THRONG.
A force of exposition guards were
at the scene by this time. and an eff
fort was made to clear the building.
BY this time the crush was terrific.
Spectators crowded down the stair
ways from the galleries, the crowd on
the floor surged forward toward the
rostrum. while despite the strenuous
efforts of police and guards the throng
without struggled madly to obtain ad-
mission.
The Presidents assailant in the
DIcdIlllsIt ldh bttn huoIith ~ ~ itoi
of the building by exposition guards,
where he was held while the building
was cleared, and later he was turned
over to Supt. Bull, of the Buffalo po-
lice department, who took the pris-
oner to No. 10 police station and after
ward to police headquarters. AS soon
as the crowd in the Temple OF Music
had been dispersed sufficiently, the
President was removed in the auto
mobile ambulance and taken to the
exposition hospital, where a examina-
ton was made. The best medical
skill was summoned and within a brief
period several of Buffalo's best known
practitioners were at the patients side.
The President retained the full exer-
else of his faculties until placed on the
operating table and subjected to an an
esthetic. Upon the first examination
it was ascertained that one bullet had
taken effect in the right breast, just
below the nipple, causing a compare
lively harmless wound.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07
MET WITH A SMILE.

President Mckinley smiled, bowed
and extended his hand in the spirit of
geniality the American people SO well
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-07

surged down toward the terrace eager
for a glimpse of the prisoner. At po-
lice headquarters they were met by a
strong Gordon Of police, which was
drawn up across the pavement on e
street and admittance was denied TO
any but officials authorized to take part
in the examination of the prisoner. In
a few minutes the crowd had grown
from tens to hundreds, and these In
turn quickly swelled to thousands un-
til the street was completely blocked
with a mass of humanity. 1t was at
this juncture that some n raised the
cry of "lyucb him.
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-12-06
EXPOSITION OPENED.
Imposing Ceremonies Held at
Charleston.
PRESIDENT PRESSED The BUTTON.
south Carolina Interstate and West
Indian Fair Formally Set In Mo-
tion-DcdicntOry Address
by Senator Depew.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. 3.-With
IMPOSING ceremonies, embracing n pa
rade of federal forces, state militia
md Confederate veterans. beautiful
women and cheering collceians, a pro-
gramme of exercises graced by distin-
guished speakers and with words of
greeting from the president of the
United States, the South Carolina In
terstate and West Indian exposition
was opened officially yesterday after
noon. The day was set aside as n holt
day, aud all places of business were
closed.
In the auditorium at the exposition
grounds, where the exercises were held,
an audience of 1000 people checred the
name of the president of the United
States, gave hearty applause to Hon.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, the orator of the
day, listened attcntivcly to the after
Moons exercises and then joined the
crowds inspecting the grounds and
marveled at the audacity of Charles
ton in undertaking an exposition of
such magnitude.
About 300 people, including the gov
ernor of South Carolina and staff, the
officers of the exposition, the board of
lady managers and the city council of
Charleston, were on the stage of the
beautifully decorated auditorium when
the exercises began.
Senator Depew on entering was Civ
EN- an ovation by the audience, the
cheering continuing for several min
utes. After welcoming addresses by
+. w. Wagner, president of the expo
sition company, and Governor NJ. e..
McSweeney Senator Depcw was intro
duccd by j. Adger Smyth, mayor Of
Charleston.
The exposition on signal from the
White House, where President RooSe-
welt touched key connecting with the
exposition, was declared open.
The fair. while not rs large as other
eXpoSitionS that nave been given. is
an exhibition of much merit and is al
ready an artistic success.
The exposition is not in the state of
preparedness, however. which its pro-
jcctors had hoped for. chiefly owing to
the scarcity of cars to transport cNhib-
its here. Between two and three hun
dred carloads of exhibits are on the
tracks at the park, but they are rapid
ly being unloaded and put in place by
an army of men working twenty-four
hours a day.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-12-06
AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.
InsuInr Test Cases Decided by the
Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Opinions
have been rendered in the United
States supreme court in the last two of
the insular test cases. One of them was
that known as the fourteen diamond
ring case, involving the relationship
of the United States to the Philippine
Islands from tariff point of view. and
the other what is known as the Dooley
case No. ., involving the constitutions
atty of the collection of duty on goods
shipped from New York to Porto Rico.
In the former case the court. through
Chief Justice Fuller. held that the dia-
mond rings brought in from the Phil
ippincs and over which the case arose
should have been exempt from duty
under the Paris treaty of peace. as that
treaty made the Philippines American
territory. The decision in tie PHI p
pine case followed closely that of the
first Porto Rican case OF last term. In
tn Doolcy case it was held that the
duty collected on goods carried from
New York to Porto Rioo was permiSsi-
bic. but that it was in reality tax for
the benefit of the Porto Rcans them
selves rather than an export duty. as
was claimed by the merchants who an
tagonizcd the government in the case.
In both cases there were dissenting
opinions concurred in by four of the
nine justices of the court.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-12-06
EIGHTY-FOUR DEAD.
This Is the Latest Estimated Loss of
Life In wabash Wreck.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov 30.-An in
terview with Thomas f.. Moran. dcpu-
ty customs collector at this port prac-
tically vcriiics the estimate that at
least eighty lives were lost in Wednes-
day nights collision and awful holo-
caust on the Wabash railroad near
Seneca.
The two immigrant cars in which the
greatest loss of life occurred and in
which so many of the wreck victims
were roasted to death We're part of
train No. Is. which crossed Detroit
river from Canada on the ferryboat
Great Western Wednesday afternoon,
aud Deputy Moran inspected the bag
gage of its passengers. He says there
were at the very least calculation Il
hundred Italians in the two cars. In
addition TO these there were ten more
in the smoking car, which was ahead
of the two immigrant cars.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-12-06
Northwest's Great Wheat Crop.

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 29-The
three states of Washington, Idaho and
Oregon produced this year 53.310,0OO
bushels of wheat and 1O,0O0000 BUSH
els of other cereals, chiefly oats, barley
and rye. Washington takes the lead
with 100000 bushels. 100000 600
more than We're ever raised in the state
before. Oregon produced G.5OO,OOO
bushels more than its previous record
yield. Idaho sent out 100000 bushels
from two counties. About S21 .2OO.OO
has been paid to the producing farmers
IN the three states for their crop.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-12-06

LEANENWORTI, Ram, Dec IA
letter received here says General Chat
fee has recommended that Aguinaldo
be brought to this country. 1t is stated
that he has been detected in carrying
on reasonable correspondence and try
ing to stir up strife. Aguinaldo is Il
close captive, but advices received here
say that Chaffee believes the leaders
presence in the islands is responsible
for the insurgents recent activity. 1t
is said that correspondence of Aguinal-
do of a reasonable nature has been
detected and that he will probably be
tried and brought over here under a
sentence ranging from two to three
years