The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-09-12

oO1y 1oNOl oO1C. oAANt POAoOAy
cannot anticipate anything but
recovery"
DR.. Eugene Wasdin, who was
with DR.. Mynter, said:
81 too, am averse to making.
predictions, but I agree that the
presidents condition is one that
strongly favors complete and
rapid recovery"
DR.. P. M. Rixey, one of the
presidents attendant physicians,
and also the private physician of
the President and Mrs. McKin-
ley, said regarding the distin-
guished patient:
'sI am not specialist in alb
dominal surgery, but from
general knowledge of gunshot
wounds I can say that the only
possibility of complication was
by blood poisoning or peritonitis.
and that | consider both now a
very remote probability. Perlt-
onitis might set in as a result Of
the two apertures in the stomach,
but up to this time beyond the
unusual standard record, not the
slightest symptom is manifest.
There is not the slightest evi-
dence of blood poisoning. AS
to the bullet not yet extracted l
do not believe we need worry
about that. The presumption is
that it is lodged somewhere in
the muscles of the back. Pur-
suing natural courses it would
now be encrusted and cut off
from possible harm. There will
be no attempt to extract the
bullet at present. Neither will
there be any operation for its re-
moval at present. 1 see no rea-
son why the president will not
recover rapidly"
After the 9:30 p. M, bulletin
had been issued from the Mil
burn residence announcing a
continuance of the favorable
conditions there were many in
dications that the bulletins were
but meager indications of the
real Improvement of the patient.
At 9:45 o'clock Miss Mckinley, a
sister of the president; DIR. and
Mrs. Herman Baer, the latter a
niece of the president, and the
Misses Barber, nieces of the
president, left the house, and,
taking carriages, announced
their intention of returning to
their homes. Abner Mckinley
accompanied them to the station,
and said:
''The nearest relatives of the
President are so confident of his
recovery that they have no hesi-
tatlon in leaving"
Postmaster Frease of Cane on,
warm personal friend of the
President, said;
'I.go back tonight because l
have the most positive assurance
that the President is going to
make rapid recovery"
In fact by 1896 o'clock the
entire temperof everybody about
the Milburn residence seemed to
have undergone radical change.
The police did not stop wagons
from going by the nearest corner
at high speed. The regular
army guard was not so particular
about those who passed up the
guarded street. The newspaper
men did not maintain the quiet
that has prevailed for the last
three days. Even those who
came from the mansion where
the wounded man lies stopped on
the corner to laugh and chat.
From somber foreboding, the
feeling suddenly turned to joyful
confidence that the nations ruler
was to be spared.
At 1920 the lights in the man
sion, except those dimly shining
in the sickroom, were extinguish-
ed, and by II o'clock peaceful
quiet reigned about the Milburn
home. On the dark corner op-
posite the house soldiers, police
man and newspaper men kept
vigil, however, sheltered be-
meath their tents.
The 9:30 bulletin, as, was
promised, was to be the last of