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President McKinley Shot at Pan American Exposition
President McKinley was shot in the Temple of Music as he shook hands with a man wearing a handkerchief. The assailant, Leon Czolgosz, was captured. doctors reported the president’s condition improved but peril from peritonitis remained. Czolgosz confessed being an anarchist influenced by Emma Goldman.
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Temple of Music
Buffalo
McKinley
M. Rixey
M. B. Mann
R. E. Parke
al. Minter
Eugene Wantlin
Sue Latest
Cortelyou
Tate
Ince
Fred Nieman
Leon Czolgosz
Detroit
Cleveland
Emma Goldman
Hosmer Street
Ackland Avenue
Czolgosz
John G. Milburn
Mr. Cortelyou
Milburn
Uzolgosz
Foster
Ireland
James B. Parker
United States Secret Service
Exposition Hospital
Rixey
Exposition Grounds
Whiliam McKinley
Niles
Trumbull County
Allegheny College
Meadville
Twenty-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Kerrietown
Albany
Warren, O
Stark County
Ohio
United States
Denmark
Katrine Nikolajsen
Vilstrup
Hadersley Hospital
Sorensen and
Horup
Interior
Jess Pedersen
Bec Olsen
Edward
Czar
Nicholas
Fredensborg
Jylland
Rigsdag
Sorensen
Copenhagen
Fingen
Light Institute
Rosenvanger
General Schnack
Krupp
Dannebrog
Reval
Finland