Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-10-24
COLONIES WOUND
HEALING RAPIDLY
Roosevelt Recovering from Ef-
feet of MurderOus Attack.
WANTS CAMPAIGN TO GO ON
Feeling Danger Past, Forme Presi-
dent Expresses Desire to Resume
His Speaking Tour-Buhet Remains
Embedded in Fractured Rib.

Chicago Steady improvement is
shown in the condition of Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, who was shot in the
right breast by John c. Schrank, a
supposed insane crank, at Milwaukee
on the night of October IA. With
practically all danger of lockjaw
from infection past, the eX-president
chafes at the restraint imposed by
remaining at Mercy hospital, where
he was brought Immediately after he
had delivered an hour and a half
speech in the Wisconsin city follow
ing the shooting.
At a conference of physicians at
tending Col Roosevelt it was decided
that, barring complications, their pa
tient would be able to leave the hos
pitaI for his home at Oyster Bay, N.
Y, within a few days. He will not
be allowed to make any political
speeches or take any active part III
the campaign for ten or twelve days
afterward
The would-be assassin's bullet still
remains in Col. Roosevelt's body,
fattened out against a rib, which
was slightly fractured by the impact.
The physicians state that an encrust-
ed bullet in man with the colonel s
physique would probably not cause
any discomfort through life 1t will
probably be deemed advisable, how
ever, to remove the bullet as soon as
the coIoneIs condition is restored to
normal. In case it is removed, Col.
Roosevelt says he will have the mis-
sile gilded and made into a pocket
piece.
Directs Campaign from Hospital
Confident that he is past all dan
ger. Col. Roosevelt from his bed in
Mercy hospital issued a statement an
nouncing the reopening of his presi-
Dental campaign and serving notice
on his political opponents that they
need not suspend their activities he
cause Of any consideration they may
feel for his physical condition. He
specifically invited Woodrow Wilson
to return TO the stump. He asked
that he be treated precisely as if he
never had been shot.
$50 far as my opponents are con
/ cerned," he asserted, whatever
could with truth and propriety have
been said against me and my cause
/ before I was shot can with euua-
truth and propriety be said against
me now, and it should be so said"
The burning issue in the coIonePs
I mind is when he is going to be able
4 to begin active work again. He vii
do so just as soon as he can per
suade the doctors to give him a cIea1
! bill of health.
Mrs. Roosevelt Is BOSS"
/ Mrs. Roosevelt has been in charge
OF the sick room ever since her ar
rival and insisted that her husband
shall not be disturbed by unnecessary
visitors. The colonel submitted t.
her ministrattons with a reIuctanc,
he tried not to make obvious. He,
DEGREES were accepted without ques
ton, but the colonel smilingly com
planned that she did not give him al
opportunity for any voice in the max
ing of them. Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, the coloneTs daughter, and al
other members of the family are alst
at the bedside
Twins Visit Colonel.
A pretty incident was the arriva
in the cOloneFs room of a pair o
boy twins who were born in the hos
pital on the day Roosevelt wa
brought there, Mrs. D. F. WaIshe
their mother. sent them to Inter
view the colonel. Their method wa
to cry Justify as each was taken o,
his left arm. They are good Bul
+ Moose timber" remarked the colo
mel The first born Of the twins ha
been named Theodore in honor Q
the former president and the secon
Dominick, Tor its father.