The Attempt Upon President McKinley’s Life

World-wide consternation has been caused by the news that on Sept. 6, in the Temple of Music at the Buffalo Exposition, a dastardly attempt had been made to assassinate President McKinley. The President had just attended an organ recital, and was, according to the custom of the highest official of the American Union, holding one of his informal receptions to which all comers are welcome. Mr. McKinley had just shaken hands with a little child, and the next to press forward was a man with his left hand bandaged. The President turned towards him with an air of interest and shook hands. At that moment the miscreant, who held a revolver beneath the supposed bandage, fired twice at Mr. McKinley. A scene of the wildest commotion ensued. The secret police and attendants hurled themselves upon the assailant and bore him to the ground, where he was roughly handled by the populace. The President walked to a chair, and though evidently suffering, gave directions that Mrs. McKinley should not be alarmed, and that the would-be assassin should not be harmed by the mob. Mr. McKinley was then conveyed to the hospital, where one of the bullets was extracted. The other shot could not be reached, so the surgeons cleansed and closed the wound, and the patient rallied so satisfactorily that good hopes are entertained of his recovery. The assassin, who was conveyed to prison with the utmost difficulty, as the populace endeavoured to lynch him, proved to be of Polish extraction, and gave the name of Czolgosz. He called himself an Anarchist, but that fraternity denies all knowledge of him.