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...York Stock Exchange, onetime defender of trusts (old Standard Oil, Union Pacific R.R.), president of Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition (1901), father of famed Poloist Devereux Milburn; three weeks after the death of his wife, Mary Stocking Milburn; in London. When President McKinley was shot by Assassin Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo on Sept. 6, 1901, it was to the Milburn home that he was carried, there that he died one week later...
...Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses of human society . . . the ugly crazy twist in the mind of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz . . . the ugly, crazy twists in the minds of gunmen from many a Midland city, for whom Canton has long been a safe rat-nest between shootings . . . the stunted, poisoned twists in the minds of Canton politicians who sell these gunmen protection...
...refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...
Died. William Christopher Patterson, 84, famed as "the world's oldest hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought...
...brother, Leon Czolgosz, 28, brown-Iiaired, smooth-shaven Polish anarchist, had heard Emma Goldman speak, had been fired by her doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz...