56TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (Doc. No. 356, 2d Session. Part 9. Monthly Bulletin OF THE Bureau OF THE American Republics. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. SEPTEMBER, 1901. WASHINGTON, D. C.. U. S. A.: 1901. DEATH OF WILLIAM MCKINLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, President of the United States of America, died at 2.15 a. m., September 14, 1901, at Buffalo, New York, from the effects of bullet wounds received at the hands of an anarchist assassin on September 6. On the date named the President was visiting the Pan-American Exposition, and, while holding a public reception in the Temple of Music, was shot twice by a young man, a confessed anarchist, who is supposed to have been selected for that purpose by an anarchistic society. After rallying from the first effects of the wounds and the surgical operation which followed, it was believed for a few days that the President would recover. These hopes, however, were shattered on September 12 and 13, when the distinguished patient. suffered several relapses, and gradually grew weaker until death relieved him of his sufferings. The feelings of horror, indignation, and sorrow which overspread the entire country at the time of the commission of the crime was followed by a few days of buoyancy and hope, as the symptoms indicated that the President might recover, only to be followed by despair and death, and a wave of intense grief which has enveloped the whole Republic. These feelings were not confined to the United States, however, but to a great extent embraced the sentiments of the whole civilized world. Nowhere, perhaps, outside of his native country, was there more sincere manifestations of grief at Mr. MCKINLEY'S untimely death than in the Latin American countries with whom he desired to have the closest fraternal and commercial relations, as his address delivered at Buffalo, part of which is published in the present issue of the MONTHLY BULLETIN, indicates. |