One Man Pleased

Said He Was Glad McKinley Was Shot and Received a Severe Choking.

     MARIETTA, O., Sept. 6.—(Special.)—When the news of the shooting of President McKinley was received here Charles Richardson, ex mayor of Marietta, and a leading Democratic politician, remarked with an oath: “I am glad he has been shot. He ought to have been killed long ago.”
     Serine Seiple, who was a candidate for the office of county commissioner, asked Richardson if he meant it, and the latter reiterated his statements. Seiple grabbed him by the throat and choked him until his tongue hung out. Richardson in the meantime beat Seiple in the face with his fists.
     The men were separated or Seiple would have killed Richardson. The latter’s words caused great excitement and he is severely condemned on every hand.