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SATURDAY EVI rNGK SEPTEMBEK 7, 1901. MAD FOR ASSASSIN'S BLOOD Assailant of the President Narrowly Escapes Dismemberment at the Hands of the People. He Is Kicked and Beaten and Finally Removed to a Police Station, Pursued by a Frenzied, Fighting Crowd. Buffalo. N. V.. Sept. 7.—The two shots had hardly been flred at President Mc- Kinley when Detectives Poster and Ireland were on top of the as •assin. Ireland knocked the weapon from the man's hand, and. with his companion and a dozen exposition po licemen and artillerymen, was upon the wretch. He literally was crushed to th« floor. While the president was being led away the artillerymen and guards cleared the building of those who had come to greet the executive. To do this it was necessary to draw their bayonets and use force. Foster Teached under the crowd, and by almost superhuman strength pulled the intended murderer from under the crowd. Forcing a youth to open the way, Foster clutched him by the throat with his left hand, saying, "You murderer!" and struck him a vicious blow with his fist squarely in the face. The blow was so powerful that the man waa sent headlong through the guards and sprawling upon the floor. He hardly had touched the floor when he again was set up, this time by the guards and soldiers. Kicked and Beaten. He was kicked repeatedly until Captain Darner rushed in and drew back the guards. Foster made another attempt to get at the assassin, but was held back, although he protested that he knew what he wa3 doing. One who stood very near the detective declared that the would-be murdered cried: "I am an anarchist, I did my duty." The murderer was not given time to cay another word, and it is doubtful if he would have had power. He was as white as his victim, and was shaking from head to foot. He had not the power to beg to be saved from the lynchers. Weak with excitement, he was unable to stand on his feet and fell to the floor like a weak coward. Half a dozen guards and as many sol diers and secret service men grabbed him as they would an offensive corpse. Genuine Bedlam. It was bedlam, curses from the people, fighting closer, waving. their fists, and a revolver gleaming as its owner threw it up in the sunlight above his head for safety of those around him. The roar of that mob was a sound never to be for gotten by those who heard it. It had an intense growl, a bloodthirsty shriek and a savage note that is heard only in the voices of a frenzied mob. As the carriage moved away Captain Vallely swung himself free from the crowd of policemen and leaped with one bound to the seat beside the coachman. As the carriage forced its way beyond the ropes men and women sprang forward. They caught the fenders, they snatched at the horses' harness. . Scores of them were struck by the horses' shoulders, as the crowd behind re fused to let them fall back sufficiently to make a passage way. The driver had a long, keen whip, and he- played it alter nately on the horses and in the faces and heads of the crowd. Once, as the carriage neared the Tri umphal Causeway, the crush became so dense that it seemed impossible for them to force a passage. It looked as if the carriage was going to be stopped in front, but the coachman smiled and standing up, seized his long lash and struck out in front over the horses* heads and they increased their speed to a gallop and the crowd opened before them. Crowd Relinquishes Purslut. Once on the causeway, all was well, for the outer limits of the crowd had been reached and the narrowness of the way beyond, as well as the slope down hill, facilitated speed. The crowd gave up the pursuit as the carriage reached Lincoln park gateway, which swune open for the carriage to pass through. From this point straight down Delaware avenue the Journey was uninteresting. Three or four bicyclists followed the carriage to spread the news. From the moment the prisoner touched the cushions of the carriage, he had cow ered in tho rear, left hand corner, now and then raising his head to look out of the windows. When the carriage was fighting through the crowd, and he could hear their imprecations as they struggled to take vengeance on him, convulsive shivers ran through his slender body, and his eyes rolled with terror. -His lips parched and he wetted them constantly with his tongue. Just south of Utic* street the carriage met a wagon, containing Police Superin tendent Bull, who wheeled and followed the carriage down to headquarters at the station, at the junction of Erie and Seneca streets. The carriage drew up sharply and the prisoner was taken in, while a score of idlers looked on with little inter est. A moment later the bicyclists who followed told them that the president was shot and the man who had done it was the prisoner just taken into the station. Then their excitement grew to such an extent the police were forced to push back the crowd from the station house. The prisoner was hurried into a little room jUBt off the west stage of the Tem ple of Music, being dragged through the crowd by Patrolmen James Macauley. His lip was bleeding, and his face swelling from James' blow. Around him was a group of officers. Once inside, the door 1 closed with a bang, and the mob surging against that part of the building with the blind impulse to get near him, fairly made the walls creak. The Bcene in the room was for a mo ment one of confusion. Officials were go ing in and out at the doors. Some were trying to conceal the fact that the pris oner" wai there; others were betraying the fact by talking in a loud voice as soon as they left the room. One excited ex position official invited the public to go in and meet the man as he hurried out on some mission. The Prisoner's Demeanor. In the room with the prisoner were Colonel Byrne, commandant of the expo sition police; Captain Vallely, chief of the detective bureau; Detective Ziegler, Police Detectives Solomon, Geary, Sam Ireland and Fostor, secret service men; Captain Darner and Major Robertson of the exposition police; John N. Scatcherd and a few other's. Czolgosz was put down at the table in the room. He sat there, now and then putting his sleeve to his lip and other times looking at the floor and rubbing his shoe soles together nervous ly. He would now and then breathe deep ly in his agitation. He remained silent. Outside the building could be seen a great throng of people. From all quarters of the grounds they gathered toward one center. Now and then a woman's face, red with heat, could be seen peering over the heads of those in front and, raising her hand, would wipe away the tears from her 1 eyes. On a lofty perch on one of the great staff flower jardinieres an old man with long, white beard, a broad brimmed vet erans' hat and a Grand Army badge on his lapel, was shaking his head in sor row. Now and then some man's voice would call out: "Don't let him get away," and there would be a score of answering shouts, "Kill him," "Hang him," "Take him up on the arch and burn him." "Kill the ." A mail wagon, only the top of which was visible above the crowd, appeared coming from the direction of the govern ment building. The angry crowd thought it was a conveyance coming to get the man. "Guard the door," "Stop that wagon," yelled a big man, who is a Midway char acter, and who stood on one of the pillar bases clinging on to have a better point of view. The wagon stopped, but a mo ment after proceeded, taking a circuitous route. Police and Marines. Around the main doors was a squad of fifteen police and a detachment of United States marines. They had just arrived at that station and were in command of Captain Leonard. They formed in line, then came the order, in a loud, clear voice, "Load rifles." Breeches clicked and the men held up their guns in plain view as they filled them wirh cartridges. The moral effect was obvious. Women started, then drew back, and the wave of vengeance seemed broken. Men and women who had been dry eyed began to cry. Lips of soldiers and policemen were twitching, but the heads on the, broad shoulders were mo tionless. The little room where the prisoner was contained a quantity of rope used for shutting off the esplanade at times of drill and special fetes. "Rope off the south approaches to the building so that we can get a wagon in here," said Colonel Byrne. "You will never get that wagon with him in it forty feet away," said Ireland. "We must have a carriage and horses. The crowd can stop an automobile better i than they can horses." Some distance away was the carriage in which a part of the committtee had come to the Temple of Music "Get that carriage over there—or here never mind, I will," said Scrateherd the police sergeant. On the ? ox of the carriage was a stock ily built little Irishman. As he received word that his carriage was to take the would-be assassin from the blood-thirsty i mob, he smiled with pleasure and broke into a delighted grin. "All right," he said, curtly, and spoke not another word until the prisoner was safe behind the bars. • , "Colonel Byrne, send for another platoon of police. Would you not better get them from the second precinct? Gentlemen, every minute of this de lay is making the task dangerous. The crowd is getting more and more worked up, and it is getting bigger. It reaches away out over the esplanade now. Give this man to me, and I give you my word I will get him to Buflalo. Here are two officers who will go with him." The beet plan is to jump him right into S^e^SdiSSL^ get Hght out i Taken to Police Station. Captain Darner and Colonel Byrne quiet ly acquiesced in the movement The police informed the military guards who ropea off a space sufficient to admit the carriage. Colonel Byrne gave the signal Guard James and Macaulay were on either side. Captain Vallely led the way ' detec tives Solomon and Geary just behind. me Irish coachman whipped up his team and dashed up to the door. The marines ! and artillerymen dropped their guns till i the bayonets were at charge. The car ; riage drew up and a policeman swung open j the door. The door leading into the little room opened , and out came the prisoner and his guards. He was hurled into the carnage by a burly patrolman. A se cret service man slammed the door of the carriage and it was off at a mad dash for : the Triumphal Causeway and Lincoln Park I gateway beyond. At the minute the carriage draw up a wild, mad surge of people came from all the other doors for the yell had gone up- Here he comes at this door; this door." "Kill him," arose the frenzied shout The lines of soldiers and policemen swayed but held firm. "There he is, there he Is, kill him kill him. Don't let that carriage get away , you cowards. Stop it, hang the bastard' i kill the bloody anarchist." His Conflicting Stories. While acknowledging himself an anarchist, Czolgosz does not state to what branch of the organization he belongs. He arrived last Saturday, saying he had come to see the Pan-American and thet his home was in Toledo. He had been alone all the time at Nowak's place and had had no visitors. In his room was found a small traveling bag of cheep make. It contained an empty cartridge box and a few clothes. With these facts in hand the police went at the prisoner with renewed vigor in the effort to obtain either a full confession or a straight ac count of his identity and movements prior to his arrival in Buffalo. He at flret ad mitted that he wae an anarchist in sym pathy at least, but denied strenuously that the attempt on the life of the president was a result erf a preconcerted plot on the part of any anarchist society. At times he was defiant and again Indifferent. But at no time did he betray the remotest sign of remorse. He declared the deed was not premedi tated, but in the same breath refused to say why he perpetrated it. When charged by District Attorney Penny with being the instrument of an organized band of conspirators he protested vehemently that he never even thought of perpetrating the crime until this morning. After long and persistent questioning it was announced at police headquarters that the prisoner had made a partial confession which he had signed. Two men were put in thesweat box by the Cleveland, Ohio, police last night in connection with the Buffalo an archists. One of the men is Michael Gold smith, a local labor agitator, and the other's name is not known. The latter has promised the local police to find sev eral accomplices of the assailant of the president and they are of the opinion that the plot against the president was hatched in Cleveland. ARRESTS IN CHICAGO Six Saspecta Said to Be Concerned in the Plot. Chicago, Sept. 7.—Six men were placed under arrest in this city last night on the charge of being implicated in the plot to assassinate President McKinley. The men were all found in one house at the corner of St. John's place and Carroll ave nue on the West Side of the city. The arrests were made on information THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. from the police officials of Buffalo, who said the men were members of a society to which the assailant of the president belonged and that they had knowledge of the plot. Their names were not made public, but one of tbe men is known to be Abraham Isekk, president of an organization which bears the name of the Free society. He was formerly editor of a paper of anarch istic principles which bore the name of the "Fire Brand." The information received by the local police from Buffalo is to the effect that the plot to kill the president was origi nated among fhe members of the "free society," and that the Buffalo prisoner was chosen by lot to commit the crime. There were five men and three and three women in the place where the women in the place where the arrests wore made. The men were con gregated tn a meeting hall on the second floor and appeared to be discussing a serious matter. They were so completely surprised by the invasion of the polico that they had no time to make any re sistance. Isekk is supposed by the police to have been the leader of the men as sembled, but when he was questioned at the house he refused to make any state ment. On the way from the house to the pa trol wagon one of the prisoners cursed the officers and declared that he was an an archist and was proud of it. The three women in the house, Isekk's wife and daughter and a woman visitor, were sub sequently arrested. The building in which the raid was made is a two-story and basement stone-front structure in the fac tory district. On the Hrst floor is situated Isekk's printing office in which,cuts of leading anarchists were found. The win dows were decorated with lithographs of leading anarchists and numerous publica tions denouncing the present form of government and the judges who had is sued injunctions against the strikers were found. All the men arrested with Isekk are em ployes of the paper. The arrests were made by Chief of Detectives Colleran, as sisted by three of his officers. Captain Colleran said, affecting the men at Central police station for examination, that he had arrested them upon informa tion from Buffalo, but what the nature of his information was he declined to say. He would not admit that he had received any intimation that the assailant of the president had made a confession implicat ing in any way the men arrested here. A quite general impression outside of the office of Captain Colleran is that there was no special reason for arresting the men, save for the general character of their writings, and their characters. Oscar Neebe, one of the anar chists convicted of complicity in Haymarket riot, said there was no plot of the anarchists to murder President McKinley. He declared that the assailant of the president was either a crank of an insane man. "No gocd could result from killing Pres ident McKinley," Neebe declared, "be cause he is a good man and, as far as a i man in his position can be, he is for the masses of the people." Mrs. Lucy Parsons, whose husband was executed for his part in the Haymarket riot, said, as did Neebe, that there was no plot of the anarchists to harm the president. If there was, she had no knowledge concerning it. HAYMARKET OUTCOME Police Theory That the Crime Re sulted Front Chicago Tragedy. Washington, Sept. 7.—lt is the opinion of the secret service officials in this city that the shooting of President McKinley is an outcropping, in some obscure way, of the Haymarket riots, and that it will be found eventually that Nieman, the would-be assassin, has some connection with the group of persons associated in the Chicago anarchists' riot. The secret service officials are of this opinion, because of the name of the man and the fact that he is probably from the same general section of the country as some of the Haymarket participants. The secret service bureau had the Paterson, N. J., group of anarchists very thoroughly under surveillance, and are confident that Nieman has no association with these people. Three secret service operatives were in Buffalo about the president at the time of the shooting, and another was on his way to Cleveland. While the theory of the secret service here is as stated, at the same time no facts concerning the latter are at this time known to the secret service bureau, so it is conceded to be but a surmise at present that they belong to the Haymarket gang. FORMER ASSASSINATIONS LINCOLN AND GARFIELD CASES Provision of the Luw Covering Death of Both President and Vice President. Washington, Sept. 7.—Three presidents of the United States have fallen at the hands of assassins within the last forty six years. President Lincoln was shot at 9 o'clock on the night of April 14, 1865, and died 7:22 on the morning of April 15, 1865. President Garfleld was shot on the morning of July 2, 1881, and after a lingering illness died on September 20, 1881. The shooting of President McKinley has occurred just six months and two days after his second accession to the presidency. When Mr. Lincoln received the bullet of Wilkes Booth there was no prospect of his recovery. His devoted wife and mem bers of his cabinet remained with him through that memorable night, when all Washington was in a fever of excitement over the attempts on the life of Lincoln and of Seward. President Garfield was shot at the Pennsylvania railroad depot in Washing ton as he and Secretary Blame were about to depart for Long Branch. As the two distinguished men wert passing through the ladies' waiting-room, two pistol shots rang out upon the air. Mr. Blame saw a man running and started toward him, but immediately saw the president lurch forward and fall. A moment afterward, the asassin, Charles J. Guiteau, was res cued with difficulty from the infuriated mob. WTien, in answer to his eager ques tions his physicians Informed him that he had one chance in a hundred of living, he said calmly and bravely, "then, doctor', we will take that chance." General Arthur was at New York when the news reached him late at night that the president had passed away. Among those who joined General Arthur at that solemn moment were Blihu Root, now a member 1 of the McKinley cabinet. Mr. Blame and his associates of the Garfield cabinet had telegraphed General Arthur to take the oath of office. At 2 o'clock on the morning of Sept. 21, General Arthur took the oath of office, which was ad ministered by a local official of the city of New York. The course pursued during the linger ing illness of President Garfield appears to to a precedent directly applicable to the present condition of affairs. President Garfield without doubt was utterly in capaciated to perform any executive duty, although he was himself in a certain sense. There was no acting president at this period, and in fact, the people did not desire one during such a critical emergency. The lessons of Garfield's death led to the enactment of a law of Jan. 19, 1886, providing a mode> of succession to the presidency. This established that in case of the death or disability of both the president and vice president the succes sion stould devolve upon members of the cabinet in the following order: Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, secre tary of the war, attorney general, post master general, secretary of the navy, secretary of the interior. The new law made no construction of "disability." An important proviso of this law is that whenever the powers and duties of the presidency 6hall devolve upon any of the persons named, that ie, the vice president or members of the cab inet, if congress shall not be then in session, or if it would not meet within twenty days, then it shall be the duty of the new president to issue a proclama tion convening congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days notice of the time of meeting. HOT ON THE TRAIL Cleveland Police Tracing the Assas sin's Career. HIS ANARCHIST ASSOCIATES A Suspect in the Sweatbox—Ckolkoss Han Been SalooniHt and Workman, Cleveland, Sept. 7.—lnformation was re ceived by the local police from Buffalo lasr night that perhaps the plot to kifi the president was hatched in this city. Chief Corner, Detectives Lohrer and Do ran and the plain clothes men held a sweat-box session which lasted until an early hour this morning. At the close the chief would make only the following statement: "I am positive that Czolgosz is a Cleve lander, that he 1b well known here and has a large circle of friends." The would-be assassin had on him a i letter of recommendation signed by a Cleveland man. The Buffalo police trans mitted this name and other information !to local officers last night by telegraph. ; This man was examined rigidly last night. i He was in the sweat-box for two hours, i The police will not tell his name. It is I known that at the close of the sweat-box | session he promised to help the police ■ find and arrest all of Czolgosz' friends in the city. Michael Goldsmith, a local labor agi tator and socialist, was also examined. He is supposed to know something about the would-be assassin and his friends. On Czologsz were also several names and adressesd of Cleveland parties. These were locked up by the plain clothes men last night. Some were found to be fictitious. One was No. 170 Super ! ior 1 street. This number has been the j meeting place of anarchistic societies. The Buffalo police openly claim that j the plot to kill the president was hatched j here. When asked about this the local | officials would say nothing. Czologsz' ! father lives on a farm eight miles from ! this city. He has brothers and sisters in Cleveland. Among the addresses telegraphed to the Cleveland police by those of Buffalo was one given as No. 170 Superior street or Ontario street. This number on Superior street is Memorial Post hall of the Grand Army organization, and the corresponding number on Ontario street is that of a store. The Memorial hall building is oc cupied by a number of tenants, and it was in this building that Emma Goldman cnce lectured. What the police regarded as of import ance at the time was the bringing to the central station of a six-foot-tall, foreign looking man who was kept in the sweat box from about midnight until early to day. He seemed .a workingman by his dress, but was apparently a man of some intelligence. Chief of Police Corner and Captain of Detectives Lohrer were alone with him in the chief's office during the examination and all police officials are under orders to answer no questions con cerning him. A dozen or more addresses found on the man under arrest by the Buffalo police were telegraphed to the Cleveland police, and each of these is being run down. None of them have yet led to anything that the police have given out, but it is thought the tall man In the sweatbox was brought in on such information. The police have not abandoned the search for the supposed anarchist organ ization and the search for the men indi cated in the information from Buffalo will continue, it Is stated, all day, and men who may be located, arrested or kept un der surveillance in the hope that they may betray other members of the sup posed band of anarchists. According to the Cleveland directory a person named John Czolgosz a butcher; resides at No. 50 Herschel street. An in vestigation, however, failed to bring forth any knowledge of the whereabouts of the man by that name. At least five fam ilies live in the building which occupies the lot at No. 50 Herschel, but all of these people denied ever having heard of such a man or 1 of having heard of any one by that name. Neither 1 were the police able to learn anything more than this about the person named in the directory. None of the resi dents or merchants in the vicinity could remember anyone of that name in this neighborhood. Once a Saloonkeeper. Leon F. Czolgosz is said to have former ly kept a saloon at the corner of Third avenue and Tod street, this city. Later he was employed in one of the mills of the American Steel and Wire company. Fore man Frank Halser of the galvanizing de partment of the Consolidated mill of the latter company, said to-day: I know Leon Czolgosz very well. His fa ther, I believe, lives in the vicinity of War rensville, Ohio, on a farm. There are five sons, I think, all residing in this city, two or three of them living on Hosmer street. Leon was employed as a blacksmith in the Consoli dated mill. Later, he kept a saloon at the corner of Third avenue and Tod street. Later, he sold out the saloon and lived on the farm with his father.' I know that Leon is, or wa3, an anarchist. He attended socialist and anarchist meetings very frequently. He is a man of rather small stature, about 26 years of age. The last time I saw him, he had a light brown mustache. Later information concerning the iden tity of Czolgosz develops that he is the son of Paul Czolgosz, who it is said, now lives at 306 Fleet street, this city. Other members of the family are John, who lives at home with his father, and step mother; Mike, a soldier, now serving in the Philippines; Vladiolan, who is on his father's farm, located on the Chagrin Falls suburban line, and Jacob, of Mar celline avenue. The family are Polish and evidently very poor, the father having left home Saturday morning looking for employ ment. The stepmother cannot speak English, but gave out the following interview through the medium of an interpreter: "Leon left home sixty days ago. We heard from him a few weeks ago. He was then in Indiana and wrote to us that he was going away stating that in all probability we would not see him again." His Stepmother's Statement. The step-mother failed to recollect the name of the city from which the letter was received, but states that it was from some place in Indiana. The family had not heard from him since. The step-mother denies that Leon was a disciple of Emma Goldman or in any way interested in her doctrines. She said he was not interested in such matters, and scarcely intelligent enough to understand them. They had always considered the boy partially de mented. Up to three years ago he had worked at the Cleveland rolling mill, but had to quit on account of poor health. Since tnat time he had been idle. While living on the farm, near Warrensville, his father had not asked Leon to work, having always considered him too weak for manual labor. Regarding the shoot ing of the president, Mrs. Czolgosz said: "I can't believe that Leon is the one. He was such a timid boy, so afraid of everything. Why, he was the biggest coward you ever saw in your life." She also emphatically disclaims that the boy ever displayed any anarchist tenden cies whatever. He was an admirer of his brother, the Philippine soldier, and liked his country, never showing the least sign of discontent. Mrs. Czolgosz is an intel ligent looking woman, but failed to show any decided emotion when confronted with the account of Leon's horrible crime. The home is neat and homely, but plain. Paul Czolgosz, the father, moved into Cleve land two weeks ago to secure employment. He has not yet heard of his son's crime. Two uncles also live in Cleveland. Several years ago Czolgosz was em ployed in a Newburg mill. Among his fellow workmen there he was known as Fred Neiman. He is a member of Forest City Castle lodge, No. 22, of the Golden Eagles. His former associates in the mill describe him as a German-Pole of about ! 26 years of age, five feet seven inches in ] height, with light complexion and brown hair. They say that he was a queer-1 acting man, but was known to have a most violent temper. It is said that the would-be assassin is a strong infidel and a red-hot socialist. He was last seen around Newburg last spring. At that time he was living with his father on a farm near Warrensville, Ohio. Jonh Glnder, an employe of the New burg wire mill, where Czolgosz formerly worked, and a member of Eagle lodge, received a letter from the would-be as sassin in July last, dated East Seneca, N. Y. He sent money for lodge dues and stated that he was working there and would probably remain in the place for some time. It is said this letter was written in red ink. The police will prob ably get possession of the communication to-day. INDIGNANT ABROAD Methodist Ecumenical Conference Takes Action. GRIEF AND REGRET IN EUROPE Universal Expressions of Sympathy, With Horror at the An archist's Deed. London, Sept. 7.—The Ecumenical Methodist conference gave up the first I hour of its session to-day to prayers for, eulogies of, and resolutions respecting President McKinley. It happened that the bishops and ministers of the colored Methodist branches were in cherge of the opening service, Bishop Arnett of Ohio, presiding. Rev. P. A. Hubbard, D. D., of Washington, offered a prayer for the president and his wife, and Bishop Arnett delivered an address in which he spoke of the high qualities of the presi dent as a statesman, Christian and gen tleman. The Rev. Dr. W. T. Davidson of the Briti^ Wesleyan Methodists, president of the conference, moved: That this conference express its intense in dignation at the dastardly attempt made upon the President of the United States and its profound sympathy with the nation in its deep anxiety over the deed, and directs that a mes sage of respectful sympathy be sent at once ! to Mrs. McKinlej-. This was amended to send one also to | President McKinley. Dr. Frank M. Bris- I tol of Washington, President McKinley's | pastor, whose emotion made speech diffi cult, alluded to his past relations with Mr. and Mrs. McKinley. Dr. Stewart of Manitoba, for the Cana dians, and others also spoke. After a special silent prayer for the re covery of the president, the resolution was adopted by a standing vote, many of those present weeping. Eager for Xews. Passengers booked to sail for New York on the steamer St. Paul to-day, gathered at Waterloo station en route for the steamer, were tremendously eager for further news of the president's condition, many dreading the week of suspense with which their passage will be marked. The 1 o'clock bulletin was hailed with the greatest delight. At Euston station, when the Lueania's train left, there was a scene similar to the one witnessed at Waterloo station. The passengers hung about the platform, inquiring for the latest information, and apparently reluctant to put themselves out of communication with the news of the president's condition even for an hour. Richard Croker, John Pox of the New York Democratic Club, and Andrew Preedman were among the travelers. Mr. Croker said he was very sorry about President McKinley and he anxiously in quired for the latest news of the presi dent's condition. The lord mayor has addressed to Am bassador Choate the following communica tion: The citizens of London have received with profound regret and great indignation intelli gence of the dastardly attack upon the life of the distinguished President of tfee United States, and they desire to convey through your excellency their sincere sympathy with your country in this melancholy event, and they trust that so valuable a life as President McKinley"a may be spared for the welfare of the American people. The attempt upon the life of President McKinley is the sole topic of conversa tion in London this morning. In the street th i :■'- Die are saying: "Isn't it awful?" vJ^ll- reference is quite suffi cient to m _ r _J^.y the subject that is up permost in the minds of all. Bulletins are eagerly awaited and great relief is expressed at the satisfactory [ progress so far maintained. Owing to the fact that the stock mar ket is closed to-day the financial world is not taking any action. Members of several leading houses said that they do not look for any panic or serious disturb ance in monetary circles. The effect an ticipated is that acceleratiqn of ship ments of gold to America which to the extent of several millions were due later this year. Telegrams at Hand, The United States embassy has received many telegrams and telephone messages from distinguished persons inquiring for news and expressing anxiety and regret at the assassination. Lord Pauncefote, the British ambassa dor to the United States, accompanied by his daughter, was one of the earliest callers at the United States embassy this morning. He expressed the greatest sym pathy and anxiety regarding President McKinley's condition. Other callers at the embassy included Judge Gary of Dela ware; Professor Saunders of Harvard and practically all the leading Americans in London. The telegrams of sympathy and Inquiry read at the embassy from all parts of Great Britain include messages from the mayor of Liverpool, Birmingham and Portsmouth. "England prays for McKinley," Is print ed in great black type across the front page of the Evening Star, and all the journals express the hope of the English people that the president will recover. The Sun says: "The abhorrent crime was committed for mere wantonness." The Evening News says: "That he may be spared Is the prayer of every English man throughout the empire," and the pa per mentions the curious resemblance to the circumstances surrounding the crime in Buffalo and those of the murder of President Carnot, whose assassin climbed to his victim's carriage for the ostensible purpose of shaking hands. The Echo eulogizes the personal traits of President McKinley as those on which Englishmen can dwell with unaffected ap preciation. It is understood that the American po lice are communicating with the polic of other European capitals for the purpose of learning whether Czc-lgoaz has had re lations with foreign anarchists recently. VIEWS OF LEADING MEJf What Is Said of the Attempt on the ? C President's Life. Senator T. C. Platt, in New York—lt is ap ■ palling. It does not seem possible that any man could do such a thing. That man was an anarchist. I advocate a drum-head court martial and that the man be taken off at once. This is one of the instances where I think lynch law justifiable. Former Attorney General Griggs in New I York—l warned him against this very thing ! time and again. He insisted that the Ameri can people were too intelligent and too loyal to their country to do any harm to their chief executive. He had supreme confidence in the people. . Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore—lt is sad indeed that an insane fanatic can have it in his power to endanger the life of the head of a great nation like this,; and a man pos sessing the many virtues of; President Mc- Kinley. The man who did it must be a mad man. The president ' has no personal ene mies. j *>*■": *>3 ■': "■ ■ I :'■:.'. i^' ": ,"" ',://- Former Vice-President Stevenson at Bloom ington, 111.— It is appalling. I served with Mr. McKinley in congress twenty-five years ago. He was a gentleman of the kindliest feeling and could have no personal enemy. SUMMER COLDS breed CATARRH Chief Zsller Protects Himself With 4>A^JV\ vfLVft Pe-ru-na Against Sum- V \ Ys^ 1 mtr Golds. I*uv\ \ W^^^ 1 Hon. Prank J. Zeller, former Chief of iJPxjte X,^*^ ~~^^ V Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, No. !y^/^y>^--llZZ^r^^^^S. ' / s^ 143, of Meadville, Pa., now Alderman iJMTt> J^~ ==~—^~ "lai Third ward, Tryonville, Pa., writes: Xl^J^ ... ' ' T ~~n4*-^^ "I Buffered a number of times with severe colds and was laid up repeat ediy. A Mead told me he had taken Peruna and it kept him weil. I have tried it and found that it not only cured me, but that taking Peruna occa sionally, especially in bad weather, koaps me from catching cold. It seems to throw all sickness out of the sys tem and I would not be without it." — R J. Zeller. Colds are considered one of the neces sary ills of life. One is liable to catch cold both summer and winter. Very often summer colds prove fatal. They are al ways dangerous. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. It may cause catarrh of any of the internal organs—the head, throat, lungs and stom ach especially. A remedy that will cure a cold, then, would cure all these direct effects of colds. Peruna is such a remedy. We have letters from all over the United States attesting to this fact. The poor and rich alike use and recommend it. A' book of testimonials in the exact words of the writer sent to any address free of charge by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Mr. James Utley, Camden, Benton county, Term., writes: "I am glad to have the pleasure of telling the world what Peruna has done for me. I was taken sick last April, and had three of the best doctors we have in our country, and they did me but little good, if any. When I began with your medicine I could not lie down at night, my cough was so bad. My friends all The assassin was probably a crank or a madman. Sir Thomas Llpton in New York—l was stunned on receiving the news. I could feel no worse if it had been King Edward him self who had been shot. I am sure that every Britisher extends the hand of sympa thy to all Americans in this sad affair. I should very deeply regret that any serious results should follow this sad calamity. Ex-Secretary Alger at Detroit—lt was a profound and awful shock to both Mrs. Al ger and myself. Words cannot express how deeply we feel lor the president and his de voted wife. m Henry C. Payne at Milwaukee —It fills me with unspeakable horror and grief. I have known the president for more than a quar ter of a century intimately, as one who had daily and hourly association with him. There never lived a man of more kindly disposi tion, with a more loving and affectionate heart, more tender and sweet in his sympa thies, and in his private life more devoted to his family and his friends. The attempt was not because he was William McKinley, but because he was president of the United States, and I believe is but the carrying out in one detail of a general plan on the part of the anarchists to kill the rulers of the lead ing nations of the earth. Senator Hanna at Cleveland—What is this great country coming to when such men as Eincoln, Garfleld and McKinley fall by the bullets of assassins? I shall hurry to the bedside of the president as rapidly as the train will take me. Nobody can be safe from the work of an insane man, it' seems. It i 3 terrible. As the senator boarded a car tears were streaming down his face. United States Senator Cullom at Chicago— He is a great man and a great president. He is nearer to the hearts of the great body of the people than any other ruler since Lincoln. No man is more generally liked than President McKinley. His heart beats in unison with the great body of the people of the country and of the world. His sole purpose Is to do his duty, to take care that the laws are faithfully executed and that the country goes on in its career of growth and prosperity. There can be no question that he has made one of the greatest presidents of the United States. His name will be linked closely with that of Washington and of Lin coln, and deservedly so. Ex-President Cleveland at Winstead, Conn. —With all American citizens, I am greatly shocked at this news. I cannot conceive a motive. It must have been the act of a crazy man. William J. Bryan at Lincoln, Neb.—The at tempted assassination is a shock to the entire country. He and his wife are the recipients of universal sympathy. The dispatches say that the shots were fired by an insane man, and it is hoped this la true. In a republic, were the people elect their officials and can remove them, there can be no excuse for re course to violence. If our president were In constant fear of conspiracies, we would soon sink to the level of those nations !n which force is the only weapon of the gov ernment, and the only "weapon of the govern ment's enemies. "THE IDEAL PRESIDENT" CoiiK. Marshall Blames the Yellow Paper* as Well as "Anarchs." Special to The Journal. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 7. — Congressman Marshall was extremely anxious and eager for the latest news of the president's con dition when he arrived in Fargo late last night. He had heard of the shooting of the president by means of rumors on the train. The congressman dictated the following: "The news of the shooting of President McKinley will be a shock to the civilized world. That the true-hearted Christie^ president of the most prosperous nation on earth should be the target of an assas sin, is more than a national calamity. The shooting is the result of too much leniency in dealing with a class of people who are so radical and irrational that they are far beyond knowing what is for their own good, and more than a little of ttys said that I had consumption and that I would not live long. "I commenced taking Peruna and before I had taken the first bottle I could see that my cough was better, and when I had taken six bottles I was a well man. When I began with Peruna I only weighed 120 pounds and now I weigh 156 pounds and cannot say too much for Peruna. "I shall be glad to answer any letters of inquiry to anyone at any time."— James Utley. Mr. S. C. Burgin, Bryant, Douglass county, Mo., writes: "I had catarrh of the head, throat and stomach. I suffered from the effects of it. It would start in my stomach and run up my spine into my head and neck, and my stomach would cramp and draw to gether, and my head would swim. I was sore over the pit of my stomach, and was a physical wreck. I was constantly spit ting mucus, as the mucus would rise in my throat and mouth all the time. "I got hold of one of Dr. S. B. Hart man's pamphlets and saw Peruna recom mended, and I purchased some and began to take it, and from the very start I com menced to improve. When I commenced to take Peruna I weighed 140 pounds. After taking five bottles I am as strong as ever and weigh 160, and can do as good a day's work as I ever could. I recom mend Peruna to all suffering humanity." —<S. C. Burgin. Do not accept any substitutes for Pe runa. Do not allow anyone to convince you that here is anything "just as good." There is only one systemic catarrh remedy and that is Peruna. awful calamity is chargable to the yel low newspapers whose flaming editorials and cartoons goad the enemies of good government to desperation. "In the light of subsequent events, President McKinley's Buffalo speech seems seems almost inspired and it will com mand for him the respect and admiration of our foreign competitors and make him more than ever the ideal president in the eyes of the American people." Tuwne's Tribute to McKinley. New York, Sept. 7.—Former t Congress man Charles A. Towne, In an Interview, said: I am shocked by the news of the attempt upon the president's life and with all Amteri cans, feel great grief. I know Mr. McKinley intimately, and appreciate his lovely charac ter. The event cornea as a great sorrow to the nation. I should regret exceedingly to hear of the death of Mr. McKinley, from the fact that I do not feel that the country would be- as safe under Colonel Roosevelt as under the president. ;.-. .:-.'. ('"l-''-:^^J.'5y,!i2 7 ■ : «A GREAT CALAMITY" Lieutenant General Miles Receives . the News at Helena. Livingston, Mont., Sept. T.—Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles arrived in Liv ingston last night, hurrying to Buffalo. He received the news of the attempted as sassination of President McKialey at Helena. . *. "It is a great calamity," said General Miles. "It is coming to a fearful pass when the president cannot meet the peo ple to extend to them his greetings with out being shot down in cold blood. There could exist no possible reason, for the assassination. No one should want to kill the president. I don't understand it. I am greatly pained at the news. The death of President McKinley at this time would mean more than can be realized by the nation and world at large." ■ ■ >:■ NEW CHAMPION Jake Gaudaur Beaten for the World's Championship by Towns. Special to The Journal. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 7.—George Town*, champion of England, won the world's cham pionship sculling race, at Rat Portage, by six lengths. He - led Gandaur at the turn buoy by six seconds. ■ - ■-••, .« ' NEW PATENTS. Special to The Journal. Washington, D. C, Sept. 7.—The follow ing patents . were issued this week to Minnesota and Dakota Inventors, as re ported by Williamson & Merchant, patent attorneys, 929-935 Guaranty buikling, Min neapolis, Minn.: J. P. H. Adams, St. Paul, Minn., key board for musical Instruments; J. p. H. Adams, ■ St. Paul, Minn., musical nota tion; ■ Andrew Trovotan, Sletten, Minn., spring support for vehicles; Andrew Tro vaton, Mclntosa, Minn., bolster spring; Frank B. Grimshaw, Clark, S. D., oil can. Perfect Mandolin* (or $4 At Metropolitan Music Co., 41-43 6th st 8. Farther Redaction Mlnnetonka Lin* Service via "The Milwaukee." . The C, M. &St. P. will run but one irain each direction daily except' Sunday between Minneapolis and ', Mlnnetonka (Ritel St. Louis) beginning Monday, Sept. 9th. . This r train" will leave Minne tonka ,7:45 a. m., arrive Minneapolis 8:30 a. :; m.; • and returning "will: leave Minne apolis E^p. m. and arrive ' Minnetonka 8:15 p. ,*••«■. • .■ _;. •;:; ■•;;. • ■ - ' ;;.:-;'' ='- 3