St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-09-11
VOL. LXV---NO. 334S
President Will Live.
Not Out of Danger, but All the Ply
siCians Hopeful.
Improvement Slow but Steady.

1t has been over four days since Presi-
dent Mckinley was shot in Buffalo and
it is our pleasant duty to inform the
public that every visitor at the Milburn
residence is confident of his recovery.
While the physicians will not say he will
recover, every day sees steady inn
provement over the day before and there
is little probability of an attack of per-
itonitis. No bad symptoms have ap-
peared and DR.. McBurney says it will be
a week before the President is GONZALES
cent. Even the President is cheerful and
has expressed confidence in his recovery.
Mrs. Mckinley has seen him twice and
Monday he was given nourishment in
the form of eggs beaten in milk, admins
tered through the rectum. If he con-
tinues to improve it will be gradually.
If he should grow worse the change in
that direction will also probably be
slow. This is the opinion of Or. Mann.
There will be no crisis.
If he arrives at convalesence Or. Park
expresses the opinion that it will be three
weeks before it will be safe to move him.
1t is expected that the interior wounds
will heal first. The sutures of the acer-
ated tissue were made so soon after the
bullet passed that they are probably heal
ing rapidly. With the exterior wound it
is a slower process.
The Operation.
An operation was performed Saturday
to locate the bullet, DR.. Matthew D.
Mann having numerous able assistants.
1t lasted nearly an hour. A cut about
five inches long was made. Itwas found
necessary to turn up the stomach of the
president in order to trace the course of
the bullet. The bullets opening in the
front wall of the stomach was small, and
it was carefully closed with sutures,
after which search was made for the
hole in the back wall of the stomach.
This hole, where the bullet went out OF
the stomach, was larger than the hole
where it entered, in fact, it was a wound
over an inch in diameter, Jagged ant
ragged. 1t was sewed up in three layers
In turning up the stomach, an act tha
was absolutely necessary, and whicl
was performed by DR.. Mann with rare
skill, the danger was that some of tht
contents of the stomach might go into
the abdominal cavity and as a result
cause pertonitis. Subsequent develop
ments tend to show that this feature o
the operation was successful.
Roosevelrs Position.
Vice President Roosevelt and nearly
all the cabinet officers have been in Buf
falo since the sad event, these officer,
, feeling it to be their duty to be there il
this crisis. They are holding no forma
meetings, though they daily discuss in
! formally some matters ofpublic business
a and the possible contingencies should tn
a President grow worse, are thoroughly
I canvassed. They do not believe tha
a there is the most remote possibility tha
4 Vice President Roosevelt will be cale
). upon to exercise the functions OF chic
II magistrate under the disability clause {
:. the constitution while the Presiden
t lives. He has occupied peculiarly del
d cate and trying position in the ever
} which threatened the Presidents life br
g he has borne himself throughout this o
re deal in such manner as to win the al
er miration and respect of all. Not for
$ moment has he permitted the idea to
il. entertained that there was need for co
r. sideriug the constitutional disability
to the President and the exercise of exec
al tive functions which this would impo
&c &c on him. On the contrary Mr.. Roosevt
de has been one of the most positive in t
IN conviction that the President would I
cover.
Actual COndiIiOns-DaiIy Bulletins.
The following was issued Sunday aft
h' neon by the presidents secretary:-
in The public will be kept fully advised
rs, the actual condition OF the Preside
of Each bulletin is carefully and conserv
- ~ lively prepared and is an authoritat
ay statement of the mostimportantf featu
OF OF the case at the hour it is issued.
| a people are entitled to the facts and ST
Sc have them.
i've GEORGE B. CoRTELYoU,
the Secretary to the Preside
ere Yor Can Pronounce 1t.
cry 1t isn't as unpronouncable as it loo
ate this name Czolgosz. 1t is pronounced
az though it were spelled Cholgosh. Ch
nle in Charles, o long as in note, morn
ltn g hard as in good, long, sh as in sh
a'ss Cholgosh.
,,zo He rs Indifferent.
the Leon Czolgosz was taken before Su
les. intendent Bull and District Attorney
at ney at Buffalo again to be further Y
but toned as to the crime. Superinten,
out Bull said that he had been advised o
die. arrests in Chicago and that he was +
the ing careful inquiry aimed at shoS
heir any connection that may exist betty
d of the men in custody and the prise
) be Czolgosz still continues to eat well
hibi- sleep we'll, and seems absolutely ind
t all ent to his fate. He makes no inqi
nine as to the condition OF the president
new apparently cares nothing at all as