The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-10

Atlanta, Ga. September 6.-When in
formed of the attempted assassination
of the president, Governor Gambler was
deeply affected. He said: II served
with the president in ngres six
years. He was one Of Gods noble
man. He is a clean man, an honest
man and a great man. A federal SOL
der, all confederate soldiers respected
and IGNORED him. His assassination IS
appalling and his death would be a
world wide calamity. He is a brave
man, of rare courage. He has always
been brave enough to speak what he
believed to ne the truth. He has, too,
had that rare courage to abandon err
rOr when he has discovered that he had
fallen into Il. He has done more to
bridge the bloody chasm between the
sections than any man since Lee and
his veterans surrendered.
God. grant hat he may be spared
for the sake Of our countr and for the
sake OF republican institutions and hui
man liberty throughout the world"
New York, September 6.-This city
was stunned when the news came that
President Mckinley had been shot AS
a rule the people on the streets We're
palpably feeling more deeply than they
had the w to express. AS a conse-
quence there was a dearth of the de-
monstrations which accompanied the
receipt of the news that President Gar
field had been shot or the wonderful
outbreak of wrath and deep sorrow
which was a feature of the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln.
At the big hotels. the possible effect
on the financial situation was discussed
and all sorts of rumors were abroad.
1t vas said that j. P. Morgan had sum-
moned the chief bankers and capitalists
on board his yacht and was holding a
ways and means conference and it vas
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of the big banks were in session in
metropolitan clubs. The truth is that
Mr.. Morgan after a short conference
with James r. Keene boarded his yacht
and went to Great Neck. L.. 1.
In the Fifth venue Hotel Senator
Plat said that it was such cases as
these that justified lynching and added
that he regretted that the penalty in
this state for the crime. should the pres
ident not die, was only ten years in the
pe%nftent!ary.
At the democratic club and in the
Holman house politics were forgotten
in the sorrow which was evident on
purely personal grounds.
The first resolutions of sorrow passed
In this city We're by a joint meeting of
a district democratic organization and
district Tammany committee.
Captain Titus, chief Of the detective
bureau, after comforting by telephone
with Sergeant Valley, in charge of the
police bureau at the exposition in Buff
10, examined the records Of anarchists
and dangerous characters contained in
his office and said he failed to find that
Neiman is known in New York by the
police.
Buffalo, ". Y, September 7.-Presi-
dent McKinley's condition is extremely
grave. The crisis viii probably come
within tWenty-four hours.
While his physicians hold out hope
and the developments Of the day have
been somewhat encouraging. in that
none of the symptoms Of p~eritonitis or
blood poisoning, which they so much
dread. has appeared. still medical ex-
perience with similar wounds causes
much anxiety, and the physicians shake
their heads gloOmily when they speak
of the uture Although their distin-
guished patients condition has been
favorable throughout the day, they 10
not desire to buoy the country up with
false hopes. inflammation is what they
fear and at the first sign in ne direc-
ton the country must steel itself for the
blow.
For the time being the bullet of the
assassin, which is still in the body, is
a secondary consideration. While it has
not been absolutely located they all
agree thaE after passing through the abb
dominal cavity n perforating both
walls of the stomach. ernap it lodged
in the f1eshy muscles Of the back, and,
if necessity required, it could be easily
located with the ROeptsen ray and eX-
tracted. They agree that IL is now of
more importance that the president
should recover from the Shock of the
first operation, than that the bullet
should be removed.
THE CRISIS WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT
HOURS.
P~eritonitis is what they dread most,
and, after that, septic poisoning n
suppuration of the wound. The crucial
point will come within forty-eight hours
possibly sooner Indeed. one of the at
tending physicians aid today that if
no signs of inflammation appeared before
tomorrow night he would consider the
chances of ultimate Gov exceed
ingly good. Several of lis colleagues,
however, are not so sanguine.
HIS PRESENT CONDITION.
The president has been dosing drowsi-
ly throughout the major portion of the
day. Two physicians and two trained
has not yet fully recovered from the
effects of the ether which was adj
ministered to him. He was under the
influence of the powerful aneSthetic
over an o The result IS that, al
though perfectly rational when on
SciOuS, he doses much Oh the time.
PERFECT QUIET INFORCED.
Absolute quiet n freedom from ex-
element, the physicians regard as the
great essential now, ana visitors are
rigidly excluded. Not a cabinet officer,
not even Secretary Cortelyou. was al
lowed in the chamber today.
MRS. M'KINLEY FORTIIUDE.
With the exception Of the physicians
and attendants Mrs MHEintpy was the
only person who crossed the threshold.
The president asked to see her and his
physicians did not have the heart to
refuse his request. She was there but
a few minutes seated at his bedside as
he in his devotion to her in her illness
has so often been at hers. Mrs. Nc
Kinley had been warned not TO talk. and
the president and his wife exchanged
only a few words.
1t was only when he asked her to be