President McKinley, after having delivered' yesterday forenoon at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition " speech about the trade and commerce policy of the United States, was shot in the afternoon the music hall in the exhibition ground. The President was seriously wounded. The man who committed the crime was at once arrested; his name is Niemann.
President McKinley is improving. The would-be murderer is an anarchist.
The '*Norddeutsche Allgem+ine Zeitung" reports, that as soon as H.M. the Emperor Jowrit of the attempt on President Mc-Kinley's life, he sent a message of condoletice. to "Washington on the heavy sorrow inflicted upon the American people.
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