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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-07
ASSASSINATION PREDICTED.
Cornet Player Said Last March thai
Anarchists Had Marked Mckinley.

WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 6.-Fritz Huffman,
a reporter for the Eagle of this city, while
singing with the Andrews Opera Company
last March. says he was confdentially told
by Antonio Maggie, a cornet player with
the same company, that President McKin-
ley would be assassinated before October.
Maggie intimated that orders to that effect
had been received from an Anarchist So
ciety in Rome. Italy.
Huffman was a tenor singer with the
Andrews Opera Company, and is a son of
the late Colonel Huffman, internal revenue
collector in this city under President Cleve-
land. In his statement tonight he said:
while travelling in February or March,
between Abilene, Tex, and Ell Paso, Tex,
Antonio Maggie, a cornet player for the
company, told me that he belonged to an
anarchistic circle with headquarters in
Rome Italy. He told me that President
Mckinley and Emperor William were
doomed to assassination, and that men had
already been selected TO kill them.
1.-The time is not yet for the assassina-
ton Of the Emperor he said, but Presi-
dent Mckinley will be killed before Oct. l.
WHY 1 asked.
Because he sent soldiers into the Phil
ippines as King Humbert sent soldiers to
kill the natives of Africa. All who seek to
Cypress must die
81 thought he was merely romancing at
the time, but now l believe that he was not.
He also told me that the circle had assas-
sins in the household Of the Emperor of
Germany. Maggie also told me that he
tyrant, and that when he is it will be the
proudest moment of his life"
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LONDON, Sept. 6.-The vast ambitions
of the United States, as deduced from what
the st. James Gazette calls President Nc
Kinley's sensational speech at Buffalo, con-
tinue TO be the theme OF the London edi-
torial writer's.
"As military power and commercial en-
terprise must go hand in hand says the
st. James Gazette, "the Importance of the
statements upon the world of politics as
revealing the new epoch upon which Amer
lea is entering must be immense"
The Evening STANDARD asks if the refer
ence to the sthmian canal SIS a hint to
England that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
will have to go. 1t looks like it," The pa
per considers that the determination of
The United States TO be uppermost in Cen
trail and South America, both commercially
and politically, is one of the hardest facts
of our times.
The Globe thinks President Mckinley's
programme forecasts the severe rivalry
which Great Britain must expect from the
United States, amounting, as the paper
believes, 10 a definite abandonment of ex-
IRENE protection
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Views of Secret-Service Officers, Who
Think There Was a Plot.


WASHINGTON, Sept. e.-It is the opin-
ion of the secret-service officials in this
city that the shooting of the President is
an outcropping, in some obscure way, Of
the Haymsrket riets. and that it will be
found eventually that Nieman, the would
be assassin, has some connection with the
group of persons associated in the Chi
cage Anarchists riots. The secret-service
officials are of this opinion because of the
name of the man and the fact that he is
probably from the general section of the
country as some of the Haymarket partici-
pants. The Secret-service Bureau had the
Paterson IN. j. group of Anarchists very
thoroughly under surveillance, and are
confident that Nieman has no association
with these people. Three secret-service op-
e~ratives were in Buffalo about the Presi-
dent at the time of the shooting. and an
other was on the way to Cleveland. While
the theory of the secret service here is as
stated. at the same time no facts concern
ing the matter are at this time known to
the Secret-service Bureau, so it is conceded
to be but a surmise at present that they
belong to the Haymarket gang.
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CHASTITY outrage. by which a brave IN
a.snt governor of men perishes as Lincoln
hhHnnu Garfield persisted. In the execution of
- - u1ties, comes home TO the hearts of
sIanu with inexpressible poignancy. We
~ proud or America; and an act like this,
~aISh pIunges the Republic into bitter
t1hsi' reminds us as nothing else can do
10 we are member of the same house,
rDpone OF their bone, flesh of their flesh.
ne oeath OF No public man outside OF this
tboly could a1ect US like the death of
the American President"
me DAILY Mail thinks the motive under
sSnns such crimes is nOtoriety, and that if
su criminals could be dealt with on the
a 9p OF sucn attempts would be removed.
Inc MAI suggests that all rulers should
&c dccompanled by armed men instructed
70 Shoot assassins on the spot.
me Mornin Post refers to the contest
LOT the Americas cup and says: "Sir
nnomas Upton VIII know exactly what the
british nation will expect of him should the
worst befaU"
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ALMOST MOBBED.
C~hicagoan Who Shouted for JOY over
ttempte Ass~assfnation.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-Shouting his joy
over the tempt assassination of Presi-
dent Mckinley. Fred Gardner precipitated
a riot i'm front of the newspaper windows
in Washington street tonight. Gardner,
who narrowly escaped being killed by the
infuriated mob of sorrow-stricken citizens.
owes his preservation to Policeman
Michael MUlcahy. Mulcahy rescued him
after he had been knocked down, kicked
and beaten, and chased into a basement
saloon, where he fought like a maniac Il
score of men who were enraged sufficiently
to want his life. After the officer arrived
Gardner was led down the street to the
central police station, still followed by an
angry crowd, who begged and pleaded
with the policeman to allow them 10 vent
their vengeance on the prisoner.
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Held by ArtfIIerisf..

WASHINGTON, Sept. s.-The War De-
partment tonight received the following
telegram from Capt. John B. Wiser. COM
handing the Seventy-third Company of
Coast Artillery at Buffalo:
President shot at reception in Temple
OF Music about 4 p. N. Corporal Bertschey
and detail of men of my company caught
the assassin at once and held him dow
till the secret-service men oyerpowered him
and took the prisoner out OF their hands,
my men being unarmed. Condition of
President not known. Revolver in my pos
session. WISER, Commanding"
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GLORIES IN DEED.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE


protested that he never even thought of
perpetrating the crime until this morning.
After long and persistent questioning it
was announced at police headquarters that
the prisoner had made a partial confession
which he had signed. As near as can be
learned tonight the facts contained in the
confession are as given at the opening of
this article.
The would-be assassin is twenty-eight
years old, stands five feet nine inches
high, weighs leo pounds, has dark brown
hair. blue eyes. smooth face. regular fea-
lures and prominent nose. He speaks very
good English.
CzoIgosz has a father living on a farm
about eight miles from Cleveland. He is
unmarried himself. lie wears the button
and claims to be a member of the Golden
Eagles"
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travelling from Frankfort to Hamburg
"hen the news of the attempt ON the life
OF president Mckinley was received and
a telegram was at once dispatched to meet
him. acquainting him with the deed. The
Altona-Kiel Railway was strongly guarded
by a large force of police, and it cannot
be doubted that this latest anarchistic at
tempt will result in the redoubling of po-
lice precautions upon the continent in view
of the various imperial meetings now hap
penings. If there had ever been any ikeli-
hood that the Gar would go to Paris. it
may now be regarded as a certainty that
he will. not go. He had already decided
yesterday TO return direct to Russia.
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ALMOST 4
Young Man First Beaten and Then
Chased by n Mob.

TACOMA. Wash. Sept "a stranger,
reading the bulletins of the Presidents
condition tonight, remarked defiantly to
the crowd about him:
That's good. lie ought to have been
shot long ago
An old man wearing a G.. A. r.. button
leaped out of the crowd and struck the
Young man. He fell to the ground like a
log aud the veteran bounced upon him.. He
pounded the man numerically. while the
crowd shouted approval. Finally he arose
and the young man got away. Immediately
the crowd took up the cry of Lynch
him." aud started in pursuit. The man
ran across the Ele~venth-street bridge and
into the country, with a rapidly diminishing
crowd in pursuit. He finally escaped.
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NO REGRET AT PATERSON.
Anarchists Toast the WOuId-Be Assas-
sin of the President.

NEW YORK. Sept. 6.-As a whole, the
Anarchist group of Paterson, n. j., express
no regret at the shooting of President Nc
KinIey. on the contrary. there was a great
gathering OF the members tonight at Bar
tholdi Hall in that city. and Neiman. who
shot the President, was toasted in beer time
and time again.
All of the talkative members of the group
say Neiman is unknown to them. One Of
them said: I'VE do not know him, but he
is one of us. He did what it was his duty
to do, and we honor him. while personally
thinking his effort might better have been
employed across the ocean upon some
crowned head
They all deny there is any truth to the
report that at any time President Mckinley
was included in the plots to assassinate
heads of nations. They claim that Presi-
dent McKinley's life was never declared
forfeited by them, and that the work of
to-day is that of another branch of their
organization.
Petro Esteve, who in the past has gloried
in each killing of a head of a nation or in
any attempt. was very loud tonight in
his denials of any participation by the
Paterson group in the affair at Buffalo this
afternoon. Esteve even goes so far as to
deny that Nieman is an Anarchist. Il
never heard of him" Esteve said. HE is
probably some German lunatic and fool"
The first question asked in Paterson
when news of the shooting of the President
was received was whether or not the as
sailant was from that city. The feeling
among the citizens outside Of Anarchist
circles is one of the deepest indignation.
4l.. I~;,~ IofrI4onod nv tho foot fhot tho
plot TO Stay King Humbert was Matched
there. There is much talk there tonight
of attempting to devise means TO drive
the Anarchists ont of that civ.
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omment of the Former Are Less Bit
ter Than Those of the Latter, Who
Are Very Pessimistic.
THE PORTE ACTS PROMPTLY
RELATIVE TO ABDUCTION OF MISS
STONE BY BRIGANDs.
Important British Success in south
Africa-king Edwards illness
Gold Medal for Marconi.

BERLIN, Sept. 6.-President McKinleys
speech at Buffalo attracts general attention
here. though few of the evening papers
comment upon it. The Post says: 1T is
striking that President Mckinley expresses
himself decisively for the extension OF
American markets and correspondingly will
no longer exclude the products of other
nations to the United States with a high
tariff wall. The Dingley tariff period APP
pears Herewith to be approaching its end,
particularly since the people of the United
States are gradually reaching the conclu-
sion that it is by no means advantageous
for commercial development if a country
insists upon producing everything at home.
Mr.. Mckinley knows very well why the
United States has hitherto been behind in
the competition with other countries. He
also knows the means for preventing the
same conditions in the future and insists
upon applying the remedy"
The Vossische Zeitung sees in the speech
evidence that the United States is ready
to adopt the commercial treaty policy,
which Germany followed so successfully
under Chancellor Won Caprivi. The paper
admits the extraordinary economic prog
ress of the United States and concludes.
1T will be singular If Germany adopted a
high tariff system at the very moment
when the traditional country of that sys-
tenn is preparing a freer policy and COM
mercial treaties
The DeutSche Tages Zeitung says: There
is absolutely no occasion to suppose that
President Mckinley is about abandoning
the prOhibitive system"
The speech is much commented on on the
bourse, where Mr.. McKinley's advocacy OF
a subsidiary bill is interpreted as meaning
competition for German lines. Thereupon
the transportation shares weakened. The
Lokal Anzeiger's Borse report says: The
great republics rapidly growing productive
power compels the radical prOtectionist Nc
Kinley TO break with the old love and
in is "a new proof Of Yankee common sense
ard adantabilitV'
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Small Riot i'm Columbus.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept. There was a
small riot on High street. tonight, result
ing from the rabid talk of a Socialist agita-
tor named Adams. He was in "A crowd
which had collected in front of a window
where bulletins were being displayed and
attempted TO defend the culprit who shot
the President, saying the country had been
oppressed long enough. He was ordered
away and as he started to go the crowd
followed, kicking and striking him. The
chase was a hot one for several blocks
when a policeman rescued Adams and es-
corted him to a place of safety.
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AS VIEWED IN CANADA.
Sorrow and Horror Expressed and
High Regard for the President.

OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. 6.-There was deep
sorrow throughout the country when the
news of the attempted assassination of
President Mckinley reached here. Sir Will
frid Laurier was holding a conference with
Governor Ross, of Yukon Territory, when
the bulletin was placed in his hands. He
was greatly shocked and expressed his sor-
row.
Mr.. Sifton, DIR. Borden and Mr.. Blair
were also in their offices when the news
was brought to them, and they, who had
recently visited the Buffalo exposition, also
shared the feelings which were voiced by
the premier.
David Mills, being interviewed. said:
9Th people of Canada will feel profound
sorrow at the almost assassination of Mr..
Mckinley. and the sorrow will be increased
if the attempt prove fatal"
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BUFFALO, Sept. Give alleged Anarch-
lists were arrested here this evening and
locked up at police headquarters. They
were later released.
At police headquarters no information
Anarchists in Chicago. Neither the chief
of police nor the assistant could be seen.
and the sergeants in charge declined to
to1E
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WILL SAIL TODAY.
Croker Coming Back to Distracted
.Tammany-Dr. NagIe's Illness.

LONDON, Sept. 6.-Richard Croker ex-
poets TO sail for New York on the Cunard
line steamer Lucania, from Liverpool to-
morrow. He is anxious attendant at the
bedside OF his friend, DR.. David Maggie.
who tonight is seriously i'll in his fat.
which has been Mr.. Cookers London home
during his residence in town. Mr.. Croker.
who was at Kempton Park to-day. said:
Il hope TO be on the water tomorrow"
DR.. Nagle is delirious from pneumonia.
but Messrs. Friedman and Croker left
KemDton Park to-day expecting to start
for Liverpool at noon tomorrow.
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Russell street up to two weeks ago, when
he left for Buffalo. The description of
Fred Neiman was read to Alfred Nieman's
former lsndlady and she declared it fitted
excepting that Alfreds hair was not
dark, but medium brown. wavy and thick.
He wore it brushed back off his forehead.
Nieman was a wagon worker.
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OMAHA. Neb. Sept. 6-The police to-
night dispersed a meeting OF Socialists az
Jefferson square because Of public utter
ances OF two public speakers. who de-
nOunced the administration in unmeaSured
terms. The two men. George Baird and
{. Mccartney. were arrested n hustled
on to the police station on "A charge OF OBJ
structing a street. Several hundred per
sons gathered IN the crowd. and Il was
lencc TO the two speakers. 1t required q
squad OF ten policemen " d1perss the
crowd
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Kitchener's OmciaI Report.

LONDON, Sept. 6.-Lord kitchener's re-
port from Pretoria to the War Office COW
ering the capture of Letters commando
gives the figures as nineteen killed, fifty
two wounded and sixty-two captured I'M
wounded. The prisoners include m
dants Lotter and Breedt. Field Comets
Kruger and w. Kruger. and Lieutenant
Schoeman. Among the killed were the two
MASTERS. two notable rebels. The British
Wounded
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BERLIN, Sept. 6.-The Society of Mer-
chants and Industrials Of Berlin has ad-
dressed a circular 10 exporters. advising
them. when protesting against United
States customs decisions, to give the fullest
possible information regarding each ease.
thereby rendering n thorough Investigation
by the United States authorities possible.
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NOT KNOWN AT DETROIT.
Man Answering the Anarchists De-
s~cription Once boarded There.

clew has been run down by the local police
without any information being obtained
with regard TO Fred Nieman. Every man
I'm the city by the name of Nieman, or any
thing resembling it. has been looked up by
the officers. and late tonight Lieutenant
sadler. of the detective department, said
he was convinced Nieman does not live in
this city. All the haunts Of the local An
archists have been visited. and no one can
he found who has ever heard of Nieman.
Late tonight it was discovered that a man
named Alfred Nieman had boarded at 11s
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King Edward No Better.

LONDON, Sept. 6.-Though King Edward
is conscientiously submitting to the light,
water and massage cure at Homburg, the
Candid Friend, a weekly paper. says his
heart trouble, from which he has suffered
Improvement.
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Created n Painful Impression.

COPENHAGEN, Sept. 6.-The news of the
attempt upon President Mckinley created a
painful impression at F~redensbOrg. En-
peror Nicholas, King Christian of Dem
patched Geographic messages of sympathy
for Mrs. Mckinley.
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Probably Plotted in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, o.. Sept 6.-Two men
we're put in the sweat box by the local
police tonight i'm connection with the Buff
falo Anarchists. One OF the men is
Michael Goldsmith. a local labor agitator,
and the others name is not known. The
latter has promised the local police to find
several accomplices Of the assailant Of the
President, and they are of the opinion that
the plot against the President was Matched
IN this city.
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ALL KILLED OR CAPTURED.
Large Boer Commando ObIiterated as
a Military Entity.

MIDDLEBURGH. Cape Colony. Sept. g.
Letters entire commando has been taken
by Major Scobell south of Petersburg. One
hundred and three prisoners were cap
tured. twelve Beers were killed and forty
six wounded. Two hundred horses also
were captured.
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The Porte open. a New Deal.

CONsTANTINoPLE, Sept. s.-The Porte.
it is said, is endeavoring to come to a d-
rect understanding with the French claim
ants against the Ottoman government. hop
ing thus to deprive the French government
of its grounds for action.
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geons Of Tennessee. and the mover In the
establishment of Erlanger Hospital, OF this
city, died at the family residence here to-
day of Bright's disease She was a lead
ing member Of the Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution and the Colonial Danes.
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PITTSBURG, Kan. Sept. 6.-When the
Italian Anarchists from Chicago. near here.
heard of the attempted assassination of
President Mckinley they held a big jublia-
ton tonight. a mob went out from Pitts
burg and drove the Anarchists out Of town.
: almber OF shots were fired.
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Gold Medal for Marconi.

LONDON, Sept. 6.-The Marquis De Lo-
reto, in behalf of the Italian Foreign Office,
has presented TO Signor Marconi the gold
medal of the Italian Science Society.
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LONDON, Sept. 6.-The American line
steamer st. Paul, which is TO sail from
Southampton tomorrow for New York.
will have among her passengers. u. 3.
Henderson, speaker of the United States
House of Representatives and Mrs. Hen
derson, J. w. Mackay and Clyde Fitch.
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Obituary.

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. Sept. 6-Mrs.
Ellen Douglass Baxter. wife of Dr. q. A
Baxter. one Of the most nroriasHt sur
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Morning Press Comment.


LONDON, Sept. All the p
is morning publish long accounts from
(Ihalo describing the attempt upon Pres
kent McKinley's life. dispatches from
broad regarding the reception of the news,
lich excites renewed and anxious discus
on Of means 10 prevent Anarchist out
! ges. references TO previous attempts, and
e urgent need OF the adoption Of greater
sice precautions than ever in republics
d the freest countries.
The Daily Telegraph says editorially: ut
with the p~rofoundest regret hat the
orld learns that another distinguished
an Is added to the shamefully long list
rulers who nave fallen victims to the
sensate wickedness of the assassin. The
oSt unfeigned and heartfelt sympathy will
! forth from every family in Christendom
Mrs. Mckinley in his hour of deepest
rrow- Americans will acquit us OF all
E|Spici0n of insincerity when we claim that
G blow viii be felt with almost equal Sc
rlty in Great Britain as in the United
(tates'
he newspapers without exception extend
President McKinley's family and the
merlcan nation the deepest sympathy and
rFent prayers for the Presidents recov-
y. while heartfelt gratitude is expressed
iat the latest reports give ground for hope.
ne Times says editorially: 1T will be a
! lief TO the feeling Of the American people
:, know that the criminal or lunatic was
sot one Of themselves. We Will not con-
|; mpiate the possibility OF a fatal result,
klt IN any case the government of the
u+led States viii not be disturbed. Vice
resident Roosevelt is a man of ability
&C distinction. in whose hands there is
doubt the eountry's interest would be
slIe' but President Mckinley has gained
u almost unique position and it would be
I cruel stroke OF fortune If he was cut off
I the pienitude of his popularity and
hen his policy has been apparently vindi-
Eeeea with success at all points"
me Daily News. in a leading article. re-
aFks upon the popularity Of the pro-
s'on OF the United States Constitution
~ the murder Of the President places the
resident in the presidential chair,
go thlhAs a case conceivable where an
@rShlst might attempt to murder the
Siaent with this very motive and that
I obvious reform OF the law suggests it
~ The Daily News continues: This
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VIEWED ABROAD
,uuENT OF LONDON AND PARIS PA
PERs ON THE CRIME.

!. of the Anarchist at Buffalo Con-
pressed for Mckinley.