The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-07
(By Associated Press.)

(Bv Associated PresS.)
London, Sept. THE lord mayor has
addressed to Ambassador Choate the fol-
lowing communications:
"The people of London have received
with profound regret and great indiE-
nation the intelligence of the dastardly
attack on the life of the distinguished
president of the United States. and they
desire to convey through your excel
lency their sincere sympathy with your
country in this melancholy event, and
they trust that so valuable a life as
President Mckinleys may be spared for
the welfare of the American people,
The United States embassy also has
received many kilograms and telephone
messages from distinguished persons in
Quiring for news and expressing anxiety
and regret at the attempt of the would
be assassin.
Sympathy and Anxiety.
Lord Pauncefote. British ambassador
to the United States. accompanied by his
daughter. was one of the earliest callers
at the United States embassy this morn
ing.
He expressed the greatest sympathy
and anxiety regarding President McKin-
ley's condition
Other callers at the embassy included
Judge Gray of Delaware; Prof. Saunders
OF Harvard and practically all the lead
ing Americans in London.
The kilograms of sympathy and in
quiry received al the embassy from all
parts OF Great Britain include mes
sages from the mayor of Liverpool, Bir-
mingham and Portsmouth.
England prays for Mckinley" is
printed in great black type across the
front page of the Evening Star, and all
the journals express the hope of the En-
elish people that the president win recov-
er.
The sun says: The abhorrent crime
was committed for mere wantonness."
The Evening News says: That he
may be spared is the prayer of every En-
glshman throughout the empire" and
the paper mentions the. curious resemb-
lance in the circums tances surrounding
the crime in Buffalo and those of the
murder of President Carnot, whose as
sassin Climbed to his victims carriage for
the ostensible purpose of shaking hands.
Eulogy Of Mckinley.
The Echo eulogizes the personal traits
of President Mckinley as those on whom
Enalishmen can dwell with unaffected
In the absence of Lord Salisbury and
the Marquis Of Lansdowne from London,
Schomberg Mcdonnell, principal private
secretary to the prime minister, said:
You cannot use terms too strong in
expressing our indignation at the out
rage and sympathy with the president. 1t
is terrible.
"lf Mr. Mckinley dies, (which we sim
ce.aly hope he Will not the whole world
will lose a man of greater integrity and
statesmanship than it even at present
realizes.
The latest attempt may prove an inter-
national arran2 ement by which anarch-
lists NAV be dealt With according to their
deserts and this canker OF civilization be
suppressed.
Certainly england would favor such
plan We and America are blamed on the
continent for harboring anarchists.
We are deeply relieved to hear. the
encoura ging reports about the president
condition. but remembering keenly how
President Garfield fingered, we dread the
HOSTILITY OF comlli, atoms until the Sec
ond bullet is found.
The Ecunenical Methodist church con-
ference gave up the first hour OF It's SEES
sion today to prayers for eulosles ana
resolutions respecting President Mckln-
ley.