The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-09-13
The Danger From Two Sources
Pronounced by the Physicians
to be Practically Over.
THE WOUND NOW CONSIDERED HEALED
A Count of the Blood Showed That
There is Not the Slightest Indi-
cation Of Blood Poisoning.
The Distinguished Patient Has Been
Removed to Another Bed and
His Allowance of Beef Tea
Was Increased.

Milburn House. Buffalo n. Y, Sept. TO-
"GOds contribution to the American peo-
pie will be the Sparing of the presidents
life. AS the evening shadows were fall
ing Monday night John @. Milburn, preSi-
dent of the Pan-American exposition, rev.
erently uttered these words as he stood
before the house in which the nations
patient was lighting so braVely with
death. And all who had been at the Mil
burn residence Monday reflect the view
that the battle will be won and the pray
ers of the world will be answered. Since
Sunday night not an unfavorable symp-
tom has appeared. Every hour has been
a victory.
Faith in the outcome grows stronger
and stronger and hope mounts higher
until in the minds of some the danger of
all future complications is brushed aside
and hope has been conviction. Indeed
many of the presidents friends seem pos
sessed with a sort of superstitious con-
fidence in the presidents recovery which
nothing but an absolute change for the
worse can shake. And the basis for the
confidence that is expressed is solid.
All they will say is that with every
hour the danger of complication from
peritonitis or blood poisoning decreases.
DR.. McBurney, the most eminent of the
physicians in attendance, expresses the
opinion that If the improvement cOntin-
ues 1t will be a week yet before the presi-
dent can be pronounced out Of danger and
convalescent.
And some of his colleagues, like DR..
Mann, place the limit of danger still fur
ther away. The fear of peritonitis it can
be said positively has well nigh disap-
peared. At the expiration of the Y hour
period at o'clock Monday afternoon dam
ger from that source was almost gone.
The president himself has been cheerful
all day and has expressed confidence in
his recovery. Monday he asked for a
morning paper, but this, of course, had
to be denied him. 1t is with some diff
Guilty that he can be restrained from
talking, and Col. MyrOn T. Herrick, of
Cleveland, is quoted as authority for the
statement that he has spoken at inter-
walls of several things he proposes to do
in the future
Monday morning he asked to be allowed
to move his position and when permits
sion was given, before the attendants
could move him he changed to the posi-
ton he desired to assume without diff
Guilty or pain. This speaks much for his
general strength and spirits.
Mrs. Mckinley saw him again Monday
for brief visit and Secretary Cortel-
you was admitted for the first time.
The extreme optimism OF the vice presi-
dent and the members of the cabinet
would be difficult to overstate.
Il am absolutely confident everything
will turn out all right" declared the vice
president, and he said he based his con-
fidence on information behind the public
expressions of the physicians. So re-
lieved are Secretary Gage and Attorney
General Knox at the steady Improvement
that they returned to Washington Mon
day night feeling strongly that their
chief would recover, but with the assur-
ance of the physicians that if a change
for the worse should come it would be
gradual and that they would have ample
time to return. In the case of Secretary
Gage there was also a public reason why
he should be at his post. New York finan-
ciers have appealed to him to relieve the
situation in the money market by in
creasin1g deposits in natiop2l, banks and
he feels that ne can hardly act at this
distance from the scene if he finds that
action desirable
Secretary Of State Hay arrived Monday
night, and will remain with the other
members of the cabinet at least for day
or two.
Milburn House, Buffalo. Sept. 1.-At
Bis O'Clock everything was quiet around
to be stirring within and no one had
left the house since the issuance of the
midnight bulletin.
Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 1.-THE corps of
eminent surgeons and physicians in at
tendance upon the wounded president
Tuesday committed themselves without
reservation to the opinion that their
patient was out of danger and that only
the possibility of complications threat
ened his life They did not give assur-
ance of his recovery collectively over
their signature in an official bulletin,
but they went a long way toward it in
dividually and separately during the
day. Each of them, with the exception
of DR.. Rixey, who did not leave the Mil
burn residence, placed himself sQuarely
on record, not privately TO the friends
OF the president, but publicly through
the agency Of the press, that the danger
point had passed and that the president
would survive the attempt upon his life.
a week has passed" said DIR. McBurney.
the dean of the corps. I'VE would like
to see every door locked and double
locked, but the danger from possible COM
plications is now very remote"
AS an evidence of the supreme faith
he holds, DR.. McBurney, after the morn
Falls ard Tuesday evening returned
10 New York He could reach here again
in ten hours if the unexpected should
happen and there should be a change
for the worse.
The little piece of lead in the muscles
of the back is giving the physicians no
prove troublesome to the president later
on he Will probably carry this. grim
souvenir of the anarchist with him TO
The end OF his days. The doctors say
that once encysted, it can do no harm.
The X-ray machine is ready for in
slant use however, and If there is the
slightest Inflammation or pain in the
vicinity of the bullet an operation Will
be performed.
The vice president, members of the
cabinet, Senator Hanna, and the other
distinguished friends of the president
who have remained here to await the
issue, accepted the verdict of the ply
sicians Tuesday as practically conclu-
sive, and there was an exodus of those
who considered their presence no longer
necessary. Vice President Roosevelt left
Tuesday evening for his home at Oyster
Bay, Senator Hanna returned to Cleve-
land on business, to be gone two days,
and Controller Dawes went back to
Washington Tuesday night. Abner Nc
Kinley, the presidents brother, will re-
main few days longer. but his family
have returned home, and Mrs. Duncan
and several other relatives of the pres
idenr have gone. Judge Day, long and
closely connected with the president,
returned to Canton Tuesday afternoon.
The FIVE members of the cabinet still
here will remain a few days rather as
friends who have been intimately as
ISOLATED with the president for several
years than as officials
The presidents physicians have been
impressed with his remarkable recupera-
tive powers and the rapidity of his inn
prOvement. Ordinarily an incisiOn for
such an operation as was performed upon
the chief executive should heal within
three weeks, but in the presidents case
he may be strong enough to be moved
a little sooner. The president will be
taken direct to Washington as soon as
it is safe to move him.
Within the sick room many evidences
of the presidents Improvement were ap-
parent. The president himself began to
show confidence in his ability TO care for
himself, and from time to time he would
carefully turn himself to get a more rest
caution to ask If he might be permitted
to move, but Tuesday he changed his
position on his own volitiOn, without
difficulty. The nurses naturally observed
with care these evidences of growing
strength and courage and were ready
10 see that there was no undue tax On