Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-10-29
ROOSEVELT GOES
TO HOME IN EAST
Condition of Wounded Colonel
Rapidly Improves.
WANTS CAMPAIGN TO GO ON
Feeling Danger Past, Former Presi-
dent Expresses Desire to Resume
His Speaking Tour-Bullat 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.
The colonePs 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 it at this time, although it
will be necessary for him to be under
surgical care for the next ten days.
1t would be a kindness if his friends
and the public would assist in allow
ing him absolute rest and quiet for
the next week or ten days"
Although Col Roosevelt's condi-
ton was described Is normal
throu ghout the day, it was learned
that his wound had bled consider
ably and that he was suffering from
nervous exhaustion. Col ROOSEVELT
physicians insisted that both of these
developments were to be expected
and that there was in them no cause
for alarm. All danger of lockjaw is
now regarded as past
The would-be assassiQ's bullet still
remains in Col. Roosevelt's body,
fiattened 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
any discomfort through life. 1t will
probably be deemed advisable, how
ever, to remove the bullet as soon as
the colonel's condition is restored to
normal In case 1t 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 dam
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 be-
cause of an- 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 il he
never had been shot.
$50 far es my opponents are CON
cerned," he asserted, whatever
could with truth and propriety have
been said against me and my cause
before / was shot can with equal
truth and propriety be said against
me now, and it should be so said.
The burning issue in the colonel's
mind is when he is going to be able
to begin active work again. He will
do so just as soon as he can per
suade the doctors to give him a clear
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 to
her ministrations with a reluctance
ne tried not to make obvious. Her
DEGREES were accepted without CUES
ton. but the colonel smilingly com
planned that she did not give him an
/ opportunity for any voice in thu max.