The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-15

Sunbeam the correspondent car
which has been run with Col. Roosc-
Velt's car, both were released by the
colonefs managers today.
The first person whom the colonel
asked to see after he had his bre-l
fast, was the Very Rev. Edward ].
Vattmann, n former army chaplain
who retired with the rank of major.
He and the colonel are old friends
and this morning they enjoyed a chat
OF 25 minutes. When Father Watt
mann left he said:
He'll get well. There is no danger
that he will die at this time"
DR.. Murphy Informed the Associated
Press that Colonel Roosevelt would
! be confined to the hospital for at least
ten days.
A staff physician at Mercy hospital
announced that the bullet was lodged
against the fourth rib on Colonel
Roosevelt's right side and that it did
Bad Night for Mrs. Roosevelt.
New York Oct. 15.-AIthough bear
ing up well under the shock, Mrs.
Roosevelt spent a restless night, and
this morning DR.. Alexander Lombard
called at the house.
rs Mrs. Roosevelt able to go to
Chicago2'' he was asked. "a woman
can do anything she makes up her
mind to do was the doctors reply.
1t Was an Ugly Gun.
Milwaukee, Oct. 15.-The revolver
which John Schrank used in his at
tempt on Colonel Roosevelts life is
deadly one of SO caliber. 1t is ugly,
large and shining in it's newness. 1t
is of a kind used extensively in the
army, and is made to ''sl1oot to kill"
To Pray for Roosevelt.
New York, Oct. 15.-Progressiv
State Chairman Hotchkiss today an
nOunced that he had requested all his
party county chairmen by telegraph
to open their meeting hereafter with
prayer for Colonel Roosevelt's recov-
cry. He added that he would seek to
make this a national movement.
Other Narrow Escapes.
Washington, Oct. 15.-The attempt
ed assassination at Milwaukee recall
ed today other narrow escapes Colonel
Roosevelt has had. Probably the most
serious accident in which he figured
was in 1902 when his carriage was
struck by a trolley car near Pittsfield,
Mass, and a secret service man was
killed. Mr.. Roosevelt was thrown
heavily to the ground, but escaped
with a severe shaking up and numer-
Gus contuSionS.
In October. 1906, the colonel was
journeying down the Mississippi river
on the light house tender Magnolia,
when the vessel was run down
by the steamer Esporta near
New Orleans and several great holes
cut in her hull. The Magnolia was
beached on a mud bank and his party
taken off.
Only last summer the train on which
Mr.. Roosevelt was going to Chicago
ran into a boulder that had rolled on
to the track The engine and cars,
running at a high speed swayed and
jolted but surmounted the obstruction
and did not leave the track. The To-
comotive was badly damaged and rail-
road men at the time expressed won
der that n wreck had not followed.
The White House was kept advised
until early in the dawn of the coloneIs
condition Intimate friends of the
former president here express no fear
that he will not recover rapidly in
view of the latest reports and his su-
perb physical condition
Isongworths Going to Chicago.
Cincinnati, Oct. 15.-Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, daughto' IF Col. Roosevelt,
left today for Chicago. Congressman
Nicholas Longworth. her husband, will
go to Chicago tonight. Neither would
make any statement.
Cochems Is an Athlete.
Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 15.-Henry +.
Cochems, who downed the assassin OF
Roosevelt in Milwaukee last night, is
remembered at Harvard as an athlete
and ex-footbalI star. He is a brother
of Eddie Cochems, the former Wis
consin football player. He came to the
Harvard law school after graduating
from the University of Wisconsin,
where he was known as Terrible
Cochems'' of the football team. he
maintained his reputation at Harvard
when he ran up 1,766 points in a
strength test which showed him to be
the strongest man ever tested by the
Harvard system.
Cochems was the first man who ever
completed the three year law course
at H. rvard in two years Two years
after he graduated he nominated Sena-
tor I.aFollette for governor at the Re
publican state convention. In 1904 he
was secretary Of the Republican state
central committee.