The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-10-24
ROOSEVELT GOES
TO HOME IN EAST
Condition of Wounded Colonel
Rapidly Improves.
WANTS CAMPAIGN TO GO ON
Feeling Danger Past, Former Presi-
den. Expresses Desire to Resume
HIS Speaking Tour-Buliet Remains
lmbedoed 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.
The coloneis slight setback from
having overexerted himself in receiv-
ing friends in the hospital here did
not prevent his departure for Oyster
Bay Monday morning. His physicians
admitted on Sunday that the noted
patient had suffered from his energy
and they appealed to the public to
aid in obtaining perfect rest for him.
Their bulletin reads as follows:
"Bulletin-Pulse and temperature
normal. The patient continues to i'm
prove. Col. Roosevelt suffered some
what from overtaXing himself. There
is somewhat more discharge from the
wound, but conditions of the injury
are satisfactory. We have issued
strict orders for absolute quiet. Ar
rangements have been made to send
him home, believing his condition
warrants 1t at this time, although 1t
will be necessary for him to be under
surgical care for the next te.. Lays.
1t would be a kindness If his friends
and the public would assist in allow
ing him absolute rest and quiet for
the H. yt week or ten days"
Although Col. Roosevelts condi-
ton was described as normal
throughout the day, it was learned
that his wound had bed consider
ably and that he WAS suffering from
nervous exhaustion. Col. Roosevelt's
physicians insisted that both of these
developments were to be expected
and that there was In them no cause
for alarm. All danger OF lockiaw is
now regarded as past.
The would-be assassins bullet still
remains in Col. Ro0sevelt's body
flattened out against a rib. which
was slightly fractured by the impact
The physicians state that an encrust
ed bullet in a man with the coloneps
physique would probably not cause
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probably be deemed advisable, how
ever, to remove the bullet as soon as
the colonels 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 IL 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 NAV
feel for his physical condition. He
specifically invited Woodrow Wilson
10 return to the stump. He asked
that he be treated precisely az II he
never had been shot.
80 far as my opponents are CON
cerned," he asserted, "wbotever
could with truth and propriety have
been said against me and nv couse
before was shot can with canal
truth and propriety be said against
me now. and 1t should be so said -,
The burning issue in the colopel's
mind Is when he is going to he abIo
to begin active work again. He viii
do 50 Just as soon as he can ner-
suade the doctors to give him n clear
bill Of health.
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Boss"
Mrs. Roosevelt has been I'm cbnrgo
of the sick room ever since her ar
rival and insisted that her husband
shall not be disturbed by unnecessary
visitors, The colonel submitted IN
her ministrations with a reluctance
he tried not to make obvious. Uor
DEGREES were accepted without oues.
ton. but the colonel smilinply com
planned that she did not give him an
opportunity for any voice la the maxi