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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 3

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(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT M'KINLEY PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, September 9. Countless public bodies, Lord Salisbury, Bishop Temple, Lord Rob.its, Lord L»nsdowne, and Mr. Chamber lain have sent hesrtfelt messages to Buffalo. Washington, September 9. Other advices show that Czolgosz admitted ditcws'ng beforehand wi.h a friend the shooting of the President. The day wa? warm and many visitor* at the reception were wiping their brows wilh their handkerchiefs. Thus the fact of the assassin carrying one in his hand passed unnoticed. Dr. McGurney thoroughly examined the patient on Sunday and reported that there was Dot a single unfavourably mptom and not the slightest indication of peritonitis. The bulle'ins rmso a geteral manifestation of joy throughout America. The promptness of dealing with the wound in the stomach on Friday was due to a fear that postponement might be fatal. , * The examination of two friends of Czolgosz did not indicate the existence of a plot. According to the Herald Mr. McKinley, when uncoDscions or semi-UDcon-scioue, moans, when conscious he bravely conceals bis suffering. He had not enjiyed complete health since having influenza in 1899, showing at one period (■ymptcms of Bright's disease. He lemtrked to his wife on her 6rst visit:—"This is not our first battle. We have won more desperate ores, and though the conditions are critical I hope to wio now." The police are trying to trace Miss Goldman. He - last whereabouts were at To'edo, Ohio. The Anarchists of New Jersey are raising funds to defend Czolgosz. Later. Mr. McKinley had a somewhat restlees night, though he slept fail Iy well. His g neral condition is unchanged. A later bulletin states that bis condition is mere satisfactory and untoward incidents are less probable. Hit temperature is 100. The Becret police have traced a plot to Oinrinatti, where two arrests have been made. It wag originally planned to kfll Mr. McKinley at Cleveland en mmpment, but Czolgc*z refused owing to tbeneame sof h : s home. " Miss Goldman was seen at Bußalo on September 2nd. She was living near Czolgosz. She will probably be arrested. New York, September 9. Two hundred Italian Anarchist* at Guinfey Hillow, Pennsylvania, celebrated the attempted a c sassination, and 8000 Socialists at Chicago rejected a resolution of sympathy with Mr. McKinley.

3ocialißts&tMassachusetts denounced the crime. The Commissioner for Immigration recommend** a regulation demanding the production of a municipal eer'ificate as to place of origin of immigrant?, showing that they have been law-abid-ing citizens and not associated with Anarchists, , THE PRBSIDK*T PROGRESSING FAVOURABLY. THB CRIME TO BB TREATED AS A LOCAL HATTER. Received 10, 10.52 p.m. Washingtok, September 10. President McKinley this morning •banged bis position in bed un«<ded, and without difficulty or pain. He is taking eggs and milk nourishment, adjled to water injections. T he cooler weather which has tet in favours his chances. An official bulletin issued at 3 o'clock this afternoon siys Mr. McKinley is steadily improving, end is comforts In and without pnn. There are no unfavoucab'e symptoms. Pulse 113, temperature 101, respiration 26. Cabinet has unanimously decidpd that the prr-s-cution of Czi'gosz shall be trea'ei as a purely local sffair. Thie couw<? will prevtnt the wou'd-be assassin bninz male a hero by exploitation. Any accomplices will be p'inished, b it the adop'ion of a wholesale m a'ure •gainst Anarchists is not in'ended. Kinjr Edward's message expressed warmest prod wishes, most e«rnes' hopes for the Presidf nt's recovery. Europem repres°nta'ices and Filip inos have sent sympathetic message*. MISS GOLDMAN ARRESTED. THB PRESIDENT'S CONDITION UNOER-1 TAIN FOR A FEW DATS. J Received 10. 10 B6 p.m. S-pteml-er 10. Mis* Goldman was arrested at Ohin»go. Two of her ma'e Anarchist fri'nd* were arrrs'ed at PittaVurp. | For s-fe'y, iscorfined in an nndprpronnd dunpern. Dr. McGornpy crnside-s complications possible for a week vrf, and only then wi'l he be able to s*y Mr McKinley i» out of dancer. PREVIOUS ASSA.SSINAIIONB. Two former Presidents of »he great Am'' io»n Republic have been victims of tl o f>s a«f in's work. Tk w»s on the night ff April 14tb, 1865, that Abraham was shot. He was attendee * p'lfnrrrancoof " Our Ameroan Oo">sirs" at Ford's Theatre. Wa«lii>r ton. wVipn an nc'or, John Wilkes B"oth, worked his way through the crowd, in the rear of thn dress circle, and reaching thn dror of thn where th* President was seated, piegented a pistol within a few inches of bis head, and fired a bullet into his brain. The assvwin. brandishing <• dagger, leaped upon the stage, rushed across it in thn terrible confusion which ensued, mounted a fleet horse at the door, and escaped. It a wide reread con a piracv for the Heath of the leading officers of thn Government and the Army. When Booth was creeping around the dreFS circle of the theatre with bis pisto', another of the assa=sins, Powell, entnred the siek chamber of Secretary SewarH, and three times plunged his dagger into the throat and neck of Mr. Seward. Powell aVo es- j caped, after stabbing five persons who attempted to arrpst him. ! On the morning of Julv 2nd, 1881, j President James A. Garfield, whilst at Baltimore railway station, was accosted by one Charlrs J. Gnitem, a disap pointed office-*eeker, who fired two shots into the President's back in rapid succession, snd amid the alarm and confusion, he escaped to the door, but whilst he was trying to secure a hack to hurry away he was seized by two by-standers. After 80 days of suffering Garfield succumbed to his injuries Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, it is worthy of note, lived to hear of tb,e assassination of two Presidents of the United States, and on both occasions

•despatched messages of condolence. 'Htr mes«Rge to Mrs. Garfield nn—- " Words ennnot express the dtep sympathy I fetil for May God support ar d comfnrfc you hh He alone can." I PREVIOUS ASSASSINATIONS BY AN 1 ARCHIBTS. President Lincoln (United Sfca'es) 1865 I Alexander 11. (Czar of Russia) 1881 President Garfield (United States) 1881 President Carnot (France) .. 1894 Erapnss of Austria .. .. 1898 King Humbert (Italy) .. 1900 It is a rematkab'e fact that nearly all the attempts on the Jives of rulers and s'a'esraen during the hst halfdozen years have bean the wo - k of Italian anarchists. Caserio Santo, who killed President Carnot nt Lyons ; Angiolillo, who shot dead Canovas del Castillo, Premier of Spain, at San Sebastian, August Btb, 1897; Luccheni, who murdered th+ Empress of Aus'ria at Geneva—all were Italian Anarchists, a 9 was Bresci, the assassin of King Humbert. Italian Anarchists also attempted the lives of Signor Crispi in 1894, and of President Diaz, of Mexico, in 1897, in both cases unsuccessfully.