The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-13

ANtIpADsSANi W ll1AslAh MOhlNlf1s
flashed from Buffalo that William
Mckinley, President of the United
States, has been shot by an anarchist
who sought to take his life.
1t was few moments after 4 p. m.
while President Mckinley was holding
public reception in the great Temple
of Music on the Pan American
grounds, that the cowardly attack was
made, with what success time alone
can tell.
Standing in the midst of crowds
numbering thousands, surrounded by
every evidence of good will, presse
by motley throng of people, show
cred with expressions of love and 10y
atty, besieged by multitudes, all eager
to clasp his hand, amid these sur
rouudings, and with the everrecurring
plaudits of an army of sightseers ring
ing in his ears, the blow of the as
sassian fell, and, in an instant, pleas
sure gave way to pain, admiration to
agony, folly turned to fury and pande-
monium followed.
The folio wing dispatches from the
daily papers tell the story ofthe crime
in detail.
Buffalo, New York, September, g.
Tonight a surging, swaying eager
multitude throngs the city's main
thoroughfares, choking the streets in
front of the principal newspapers,
scanning the bulletins with anxious
eyes and grooming or cheering at each
succeeding announcement. as the ma
ture of the message sinks or buoys
their hopes.
ASSASSIN Is INDIFFERENT.
Down at police headquarters, sur
rounded 10y stern faced inquisitors of
law, is Il medium sized man of com
monplace appearance, with his fixed
eyes directed on the floor, who presses
his lips firmly together and listens
with an air of supreme Indifference to
the persistent stream of questions,
arguments, objurgations and admoni-
tions with which his captors seek to
induce or compel him to talk.
1t was just after the daily organ re-
cital in the splendid Temple of Music
that the dastardly attempt was made.
Planned with all the diabolical in
genuity and finesse of which anarchy or
nihilism is capable, the would-be
assassin carried out his work with
out hitch, and should his designs
fail and the President survive, only to
Divine Providence can be attributed
that benefcent result.
PRESIDENT WELL GUARDED.
The President, though well guarded
by United States secret service de-
tectives, was fully exposed to such an
attack 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 entrances to gaze upon their
executive, perchance to clasp his hand,
and then file their way out in the good
natured mob that everyiminute swelled
and multiplied at the points of ingress
and egress to the building.
The President was in cheerful
mood and was enjoying to the full the
hearty evidence of good will which
everywhere met his gaze. Upon his
right stood John G. Millburu, of
Buffalo, president of the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition, chatting to the Presi-
dent and introducing to him especially
persons of note who approached. Up
on the Presidents left stood Mr.. Cor
telyou.
THE COW ARDLY SHOTS,
1t was shortly after p. m. when one
OF the throng which surrounded the
presidential party, a medium sized
man of ordinary appearance
plainly dressed in black, approached ,
as If to greet the president. Both Sec
rotary Cortelyou and President Mil
burn noticed that the mans hand was
swathed in bandaoe or handkerchief.
Reports OF bystanders diher as to
which hand. lie worked his way amid
the stream OF people up to the edge Of