8M t-A OENT.
The army worm Im ~ssentlally s
grass-eating insect~ though it often
feeds upon other plants, and is said to
prefer oats to corn.
The British war office is said to be
eorLsiderlng the training of dogs to
carry water and provisions to sick and
wounded in time of war.
Atmospheric sharp~ say that even
at the equator the average temperature
of the sea at the depth of a mile is but
four degrees above freezing point.
Dispatches from Siberia say that
the crops, owing to the two months'
drouth, are almost a total loss. Meas-
ures have been taken to avert famine.
The dandelion produces 12,000 seeds
l~er plant, shepherds pulse 37,000,
thistle 65,000, chamomile 16,000, bur-
dock 43,000, and the common plantain
44,000.
The British war office has increased
*she rates of pensions and allowances
lo the widows and orphans of sol-
diers killed in action or dying oi
wounds in South Africa.
In a London case Just tried a mes-
senger boy was sent to the office of s
leading paper with an order for s
large advertisement. He did not ar-
rive with it till the next day, when it
was too late. The paper sued the com-
pany for lack of quickness In their
agent and got nominal damages.
The majority of ladies would be sur-
prised if they were informed that s
bottle of lavender water contains but
about a thimbleful of pure oil, for s
larger proportion would not only ren-
der the water too strong for use, hut
would burn holes through the hand-
kerchief wherever the scent roached it
A novel way of administering Justice
and bestowing impartial punishmenl
on juvenile offenders was shown in s
Chicago court the other day. Two
boys were on trial for fighting, accom-
panied by their respective mothers
The justice simply had the mothers
swap sons and then administer spank-
ings. The punishment the urchins re-
ceived was vigorous.
The population of Norway Is aboul
2,200,000 souls. It was 2,110,000 in
1891, with a probability that 15,00G
tmamen and fishermen were absenl
from home on the day that the censut
was taken, and that there has been s
net increase of 75,000 since. This i~
an average of 16.80 inhabitants to the
square mile, showing Norway to be
the most thinly settled of all Europea~
countries.
Fiber pipes and conduits, made from
wood pulp and treated with a preserva-I
tlve, are now being put in use. Aftez
the usual grinding the pulp is washed,
screened, passed through a beating en-
gine, then screened again. These
operations completed, a thin sheet el
the pulp is wound on a core until the
desired thickness is secured. Aftex
drying the tube is aerated with a pre-
servative. Its ends are then finished
in a lathe to any desired form.
The United States has not yet ceased
to pay stamp duties to Great Britain,
and that "without representation" in
her parliament. Revenue stamps tc
the value of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars were required to make legal the
ton-million-d~lar deed of gift by
which Mr. Carnegie endows th0 Scot.
tish universities. So large a stamp
~luty was never before paid into the
Brltlsh treasury. Yet the Patrick
Henrys and Sam Adamses of today
merely smile.
*'If there is an idle man in" the
Northwest, he is so from choice," said
the superintendent of one of the great
railroads, at the beginning of the har-
vest season. He needed two hundred
men for construction work, and had
~ought them all the way from Chicago
to Vancouver. About that time pres~
dispatches told how tramps who cus-
tomarily wander over the we~t wer~
making a frantic exodus eastward,
This fact proves that the demand fo~
labor was urgent. Perhaps it proves
also that the west has begun to act
upon St. Paul's wise command that If
any will not work, neither shall he eat.
Tlm chief of the Good-Roads train,
which made a spring tour through the
South, declares that people will flock
to see the actual cons{rnctton and op-
eration of a model road who would
never go to a convention to hear the
subject discussed by the highest au-
thorities. Acting on this principle
that a dozen of observation is worth
a gross of hearsay, a firm of Scotch
publishers has sent twelve representa-
tive British workmen to the Buffalo
Exposition to inspect American ma-
chinery and industrial methods, and
to form in themselves a nucleus of fu-
ture progression in their various
trades.
One-fourth of the sea-carrylng po~-
er Is in the hands of thirty large com-
panies of various nationalities. Only
one of these is American, and it con-
trols only 81,000 tons out of the total
of 5,616,000 tons cont~)lled by the
thirty companies. In the last decade
England has built 4,638 steel steam-
ers, with a capacity of 9,793,000 tons.
In the same time America has built
only 465 steel steamers, with a ca-
pacity of 743,000 tons, and 198 of these
steamers, representing 450,000 tons,
were for the inland commerce of the
Strsat lakes.
Plc K.IJVL F_, JJ ,,FH O T
AT :BUFFALO
Anarchi.ti¢ A**a**in Shoot.
Chief Pia$i.trate.
In the presence of thousands of peo-
ple PresideDt McKinley was shot down
by an assassin a few minutes after 4
o'clock Friday a~ternoon in the Tem-
ple of Music at the Pan-American ex-
position grounds, Buffalo, N. Y. One
bullet struck the breastbone, glanced
aside into the flesh and was easily
removed by surgeons. The other en-
tered the abdomen, pierced the front
and rear walls of the stomach and
buried itself in some spot in the presi-
dent's body not reached at the time
of this writing by the probes of the
surgeons. This more serious wound
was dressed and closed with several
qtitehes and the physicians are now
briskly, while the stream of crimson
welled from the wound in his breast
and spread in an ever-widening circle
on his white shirt front.
"But you are wounded," exclaimed
Mr. Cortelyou, "let me examine."
"No, no," insisted the president, "I
am not badly injured, I assure you."
With a bullet in his breast and an-
other through his stomach, he did not
lose consciousness. He sat almost as
stanch and straight in his chair a~
though his assailant's shots had
missed and he seemed the calmest and
least perturbed of the immense gath-
ering, President Milburn and Secre-
tary Cortelyou were almost frantic
FBESIDENT WILLIAM M'KINLEY,
awaiting results, declaring the presi-
dent has a fair chance of recovery.
Assassin IS Arrested,
The assailant, who says he is Leon
Czolgosz, was arrested immediately
and the police of the entire country
at once begun the search to establish
his identity. It was soon learned he
came from Cleveland and subsequently
he confessed he was an anarchist and
a disciple of Emma Goldman. The
startling attack on the president took
place while the president was ex-
changing pleasant greetings with visit-
ors to the exposition. Many hundred
people had shaken hands with the
president, one of the last being a burly
colored man. He murmured his ac-
knowledgments of the honor and
moved on to make way for a heavily
built young fellow about 28 years old
who was slowly following him in the
long line. There was nothing to mark
him from the thousands around him,
except that he carried a handkerchief
in his hand and even that, perhaps,
was scarce worthy of n~te, for the
builuing was small and crowded, the
weather was sultry and thousands of
handkerchiefs were in constant requi-
sition. The young man moved rapidly
to a position immediately in front of
the president, so close that he could
have shaken his hand. As he had
done so many hundreds of times in the
preceding half hour, Mr. McKinley
bowed, smiled genially and extended
his hand. But the young man did not
grasp it. So quickly that the watch*
ful eyes of the president's bodyguard
had no hint of the menace in his
movement, he" raised the hand in
which the handkerchief was held and
fired two shots at the president. The
handkerchief had covered a revolver,
which he l~ad carried thus openly
through the crowd.
Assailant ~ulekly Seized.
At the sound of the shots Detective
Ireland of the secret service force
leaped upon the man like a tiger and
Close behind him came the colored
man who had Just shaken hands with
the president. While they struggled
with him on the floor President Mc-
Kinley took a step backward and was
instantly clasped in the arms of De-
tective Gerry, another member of his
bodyguard. The president did not fall,
nor did he reel, although both bullets
had struck him. Half turning his head
to the officer, he asked:
"Am I shot?" Evidently he had
been so stunned with surprise that he
h~d not felt the impact of the bullets.
While he was speaking the officer and
Secretary Cortelyou had been leading
him backward to a chair and had torn
open hls vest. Blood was on his shirt
front and Detective Gerry, answering
his question, said:
"I fear you are, Mr. President."
Secretary Cortelyou sank on one
knee beside the president's chair and
gazed anxiously into his face.
Tells ]Friends Not to Fear.
"'Do not be alarmed," said the presi-
dent, "it is nothing."
His head sank forward into his
hands a moment and then he raised it
with alarm, but the wounded man con-
tinued to assure them that his injuries
were trifling. This dramatic scene
upon the little platform was enacted in
the midst of a terrible tumult, which"
continued uninterruptedlF for many
minutes.
When the secret service men and the
colored man first threw themselves
upon Czolgosz, the assailant of the
president, and pinned him to the floor
lest he should try to use the revolver
again, twenty more men hurled them-
selves upon the scrambling quartet and
buried Czolgosz from sight, Every
man In that struggling, crazy throng
was striving to get hold of Czolgosz,
to strike him, to rend him, to wreak
upon him in any way the mad fury
which possessed them instantly they
realized what he had done.
The greater part of the crowd was
stunned for an instant by the enormity
of the crime they witnessed, but when
the reaction came they surged forward
llke wild beasts, the strongest tearing
the weakest back out of the way and
forcing themselves forward to where
the prisoner was held by his captors.
All the time a tumult of sound filled
the place, a hollow roar at first, punc-
tuated by the shrieks of women, swell-
ing into a medley of yells and curses.
Men said unintelligible things as they
pushed and crowded toward the center
of the swaying mob. They wanted to
lynch Czolgosz, whoever he was. They
wanted to see him and they shouted
vainly at the police officers in .front to
drag hlm out.
Mad Effort to Get Revenge.
A little force of exposition guards,
penned In by the clamoring mob,
fought desperately to hold their pris-
oner from the bloodthirsty crowd.
They had Czolgosz safe and fast. His
revolver had been wrenched from his
hand in the Instant that Detective Ire-
land fell upon him and he was helpless,
bruised and bleeding. His face was
cut when he was thrown to the floor
and a dozen eager, vicious hands had
struck at him and reached him eve|
the shoulders of the officers. Slowly,
very slowly, the little force of police
made their way through the crowd,
dragging the prisoner between them.
They were determined there should be
no lynching. Things were bad enough
as it was and a lynching would have
been the crowning horror of the day.
From outside the building, where the
news had spread from lip to lip, more
thousands pushed and Jostled and
shouted in their eagerness to enter the
building. Those inside were strug-
gling in two directions--the more
timorous to escape from the place be-
fore a stampede should crush out their
lives and the hot-headed to reach Czol-
gosz--only to reach Czolgosz was their
one idea.
On the stretcher of an ambulance
which had come clanging to the door
the president was tenderly carried
from the building and borne in the
ambulance to the emergency hospltal,
near the service building, within the
exposition grounds Though this takes
long in the telling, probably It was not
more than five minutes from the time
the shots were fired until the president
was in the hospital and a hasty exami-
nation was begun by the surgeons.
In a Critical Condition.
The first official bulletin regarding
the condition of President McKinley
was issued by Private Secretary Cor-
telyou at 7 o'clock in the evening. He
prefaced it with the statement that it
had been prepared by the doctors. It
reads thus:
"The President was shot about 4
o'clock. One bullet struck him on the
upper portion of the breastbone, glanc-
ing and not penetrating. The second
bullet penetrated the abdomen five
inches below the left nipple and one
and one-half inches to the left of the
median llne,
"The abdomen was opened through
the line of the bullet wound. It was
found that the bullet had penetrated
the stomach. The opening in the front
wall of the stomach was carefully
closed with silk stitches, after which
a search was made for a hole in the
back wall of the stomach. This was
found and also closed in the same way.
"The further course of the bullet
could not be discovered, although care-
ful search was made. The abdominal
wound was closed without drainage.
No injury to the intestines or other
abdominal organ was discovered.
"The patient stood the operation
well. Pulse of good quality, rate of
130. Condition at the conclusion of
tl~e operation was gratifying. The re-
sult cannot be foretold. His condition
at present Justifies hope of recovery.
"GEORGE B. CORTELYOU,
"Secretary to the President."
Grief of Distinguished Persons.
Among distinguished persons who
telegraphed expressions of their grief
at the national calamity were Vice-
President Roosevelt, who started at
once from Burlington, Vt., for Buffalo;
Senator M. A. Hanna of Cleveland,
who was greatly shocked; Sir Thomas
Lipton, on board the yacht Erin at
New York; Grovar Cleveland, who
was fishing at Tyringham, Mass.; Car-
dinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Mrs. Bar-
ber of Canton, O., sister of the Presi-
dent; William J. Bryan of Lincoln,
Nob.; the lord mayor of London; King
Edward, who was traveling from
Frankfort to Hamburg; Attorney-Gen-
eral Knox, at Plttsburg; Secretary
Gage, at Chicago; Secretary Hitchcock,
at Dublin, N. H.; former Attorney-
General Griggs, at Paterson, N. J.;
Secretary of War Root, at Southhamp-
ton, L. L; Postmaster-General Smith,
at Philadelphia; Secretary Long, at
Buckfleld, Me.; Senator Fairbanks, at
Indianapolis; R. A. Alger, at Detroit;
Senator Platt, of New York, and the
governors of New York, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas,
South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and
Louisiana; also Abner McKinley, of
Colorado, brother of the President.
President McKinley's Life.
~Wllllam McKinley, twenty-fifth
President of the United States, was
born at Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio,
Jan, 29, 1843. His ancestors were of
Scotch-Irish descent, and came to this"
country about a century and a half
ago. William McKinley, father of the
President, married, in 1829, Nancy
Campbell Allison, who was of English
and Scotch-German descent. The
President is the seventh of their nine
children. Iron manufacturing and
molding was the trade of the elder
McKinley and of his father. They
were men of strong character and abil-
ity, devout members of the Methodist
Church, and in politics ardent Whig
and Republican. The father of the
President lived to see his son Governor
of Ohio, and his mother saw him
President. She died Dec. 12, 1897, at
the age of 88. Wllliam's education was
begun in the pub!Ic schools of NiI~,,
but whgn he was 9 years old the family
moved to Portland, Mahoning County,
Ohio, where his schooling was contin-
ued in Union Seminary. He remained
here until he entered Allegheny Col-
lege, Meadville, Pa.i in 1860. Soon after
this, although he was fond of athletic
sports, his health failed on account of
overstudy. Upon recovery he became
a clerk in the Poland postoffice, and
held this position when the civil war
broke out in 186]. June 11 of that
year he enlisted as a private in Com-
pany E of the Twenty-third Ohio Vol-
unteer Infantry.
This organization became a famou~
regiment, and numbered among its of-
ricers and men General W. S. Rose-
crans, General R. B. Hayes (who be-
came President of the United States in
1877), General E. P. Scammon, General
James M. Comley and many other well-
known men. The regiment saw active
service throughout almost the entlre
war. McKinley served on the staffs of
l~ayes, Crook and Hancock.
The four years of army life proved
beneficial to the young soldier, who
was much stronger physically at the
close of the war than at its beginning.
Of his military record it has been stat-
ed that McKinley, both as private and
officer, in "~he commissary department,
was ~courageous, clear-headed and self-
possessed. For services rendered lu the
winter camp at Fayettevllle he re-
ceived his first promotion, becoming
a commissary sergeant, April 15, 1862.
On the Field of Battle.
Feb. 7, 1863, while at Camp Piatt, he
was promoted to first lieutenant, and
July 25 of the following year, when
he was 21 years of age, he was made
captaln. Previous to this his regiment
had taken part in engagements at
Cloyd's Mountain, New River Bridge,
Lexington, Buffalo Gap, Buchanan, Ot-
ter Creek, Lynchburg and Bufford's
Gap. At Berryville, Sept. 3, 1864, his
horse was shot under him. On March
14, 1865. he received his commission
as major by brevet "for gallant and
meritorious services at the battles of
Opequan, Cedar Creek and Fisher's
Hill.
Elected Governor in lS91.
In 1891 he was elected Governor of
Ohio by a majority of a~out 21,000,
over ex-Governor James E. Campbell,
Democrat.
Election to the Presidency.
In the November election following
the total popular vote was 11,930,942,
of which the McKinley electors re-
7,104,779, being a plurality of]
celved
601,854 over those cast for Wllllam l
Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, and a
majority over all candidature of 311,742. ]
The vote in the electoral college was
271 for McKinley and 176 for Bryan.
The issUes on which the campaign was
fought were chiefly on the free coin-
age of silver and the restoration of a
protective tariff.
He was nominated for President a
second time at St. Louis in 1900, there
being no other candidate, and he was
re-elected in the following November.
CONFESSES HIS GUILT.
Leon Czolgoaz, Without Remorse, Te, lls
of Attack on President.
Leon Czolgosz, the accused and self-
confessed assassin, has signed a con-
fession covering six pages of foolscap,
in which he says that he is an an-
archist, and that he dacided on the
act three days ago and bought in
Buffalo the revolver with which it
was committed. He is unmarried.
He claims to be a member of the
Golden Eagles. Czolgosz has seven
brothers and sisters in Cleveland,
and the directory of that city has
the names of about that number of
persons of his name living on Hos-
mer street and Ackland avenue, a Pol-
ish settlement in the far southwestern
part of the city.
-- w
In Rlble Times.
"Your daughter is very ill." "But
you must save her, doctor; she is the
baby of the family, and we can't los
her; she is only 97 years old."--Smart
Set.
MRS. WILLIIM McKINLEY,
SHE IS B1i}ARING UP HEROICALLY UNDER THE TERRIBLE STRAIN.
COLORADO NOTES.
i
The Democratic convention for
Anlmas county will be held in
dad September 30th.
General W. J. Palmer of
Springs has given $500 to
ant Snyman for the Boer relief
The Colorado Springs Y. M. C.
building directors have received a
of $2,500 from a donor who
not to have his name published.
A .severe hailstorm at Berthoud,
tember 6th, did considerable damage
fruit, knocking it from the trees,
also injured sugar beets.
On Saturday night, September
the Hallack block ,~t the corner
Eighteenth and M:lrket streets in
er was destroyed by fire. LOSs, nearly
$10o,0o0.
The Fire and Police Board of
ver have decided to prohibit
fighting and have given the chief
police instructions to prevent the
ing of nny prize-fight in the city.
Jdhn Ltmberg, a mine
was instantly killed September
while at work on the Park lode of
Denton Mining Company at
by the caving in of a heavy body
earth.
W. F. Miller just finished drilling
well for the town waterworks plant
Eaton. An abundance of pure
has been secured. The work
the mains will be carried forward
fast as possible.
Many Denver dogs have recently
of a disease which has been reco
by local veterinarians as poliomyelitis.
If the disease is anything like the
name it must be doggoned hard on the
canines. No wonder they die.
The general merchandise store of C.
H. Cross at Minturn was entered by
thieves on the night of September 5th
and about $1(~5 worth of goods
On the Sunday night previous the reS-
taurant belonging to Mr. Henry
robbed of something over $300 in cash.:
At the rock drilling contest in
rills on Labor Day, Itupps and Lind-
quist of Ouray broke the world's rec-
ord by driving the drill 41~
which beats the former record held by
Chamberlain and Andregg nearly two
inches.
The directors of the state fair to be
held at Pueblo September 23d to 27th
have received a letter from Gunnisoa
county asking that arrangements be
made to allow the county to have a
building made from bales of hay ia
which to place its exhibits.
In addition to his former donations
of the surface rigiits of his ,~ustiI~
Bluffs land to the city of Colorado:
Springs for a park, General William J,
Palmer will also give a right of way
over all the ground owned by the Cole-
erode Springs company for a boule-
vard.
C. H. Holly, an old resident of Colo-
rado, died suddenly at his home in
Beulah, Pueblo county, a few days ago.
The deceased formerly lived in Pueblo
and his wife, Mrs. Clara Clyde Holly,
who survives him, was a member of
the state Legislature in 1896, and the:
author of the age of consent law.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell will make a
careful inspection of the public schooltt
in the North park, a part of the state.
that has not always received the at*
tention it deserves on account ofthe
time required ¢o reach it from Denver,
John Erickson proposes to build a
$30,000 opera house at Florence.
The grand stand for the Festival of
Mountain and Plain will be 'erected on
the site of former festival arenas a~
Colfax avenue and Broadway. The
seating capacity will be upwards of
10,000. All special events will take
place In the arena. All parades will
pass in review before the,grand stand,
F. L. Dana and Charles Zobrist an,
nounced their intentions to build a
street car llne to Prospect Lake from
Colorado Springs. The lake Is about
a mile and a half from the center of
the city and the parties intend to make
it a big resort. The building of this
car line will be the first step, It will
cost $25,000.
During the storm nt Loveland Sep-
tember 3d, two men, William Clarl~
and Charles Wells, were hurt by a
lightning stroke while under their wa,
gon, about a mile west of town. Their
dog was killed. Lightning struc~
some hay. stacks on the farm of A,
Rlst, four miles west of town, and
about fifty tons were burned.
The first annual fair of the Prower$
County Fair Association will be held
at-Lamar on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, September 18th, 19th and
20th. A race track has been
On Frontier Day, the 19th, there will
be broncho "busting" and roping con-
tests for valuable prizes,
races, baseball, foot racing, in additio~
to the regular speed program.
Earl Bishop, the eighteen-year-old::
son of a ranchman living near Agate,
in Elbert county, was attacked on
porch of his home by a mad wolf
coyote a short time since. There were
fifteen lacerations on h.is left hand and
two gashes in his right ffnigh. It wa~
feared that hydrophobia might resul~
and the boy was hurried to Chicago
undergo the Pasteur treatment.
At a meeting of the Cripple Creeg
board of aldermen the gTanting of an
electric light franchise to E. E. Wade
of Colorado Springs was carried by a
vote of 5 to 2. The franchise asked bY
the Pike's Peak company and People'S
Electric Light Company were voted o~
by the same vote. The action of MaY"
or Crane in closing gambling in that
city was also indorsed by a majority
vote.
On the evening of September 3d a
fire at Engle, a mining camp a few
miles south of Trinidad, totally
stroyed the mercantile store of Pine
Co. The stock was entirely
The los~ was about $3,000, witl~
insurance. The building belonged to
A. Raskower of Trinidad and wa.#
worth about $3,000. Mrs. Welch's res"
taurant and boarding house was also
destroyed.
Secretary McClurg of the Colorado
Springs Chamber of Commerce has rv-
ceived a number of communications
from railroad officials relative to the
project to boom Colorado Springs as
winter resort, and favorable assur"
ances have been received. The RoCg
Island railway has requested Mr. Me/
Clurg to prepare a pamphlet descrip"
tive of the local climate and scenerY,
and will advertise the place indepen~
dent of what the others do.
