NEWS' OF THE WEEK.
-ENGLISHMEN were horrified on Saturday last by news 1U of an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. Mr. McKinley was on Friday week holding a reception in the "Temple of Music," a large hall in the Exhibition at Buffalo, which he had gone to visit, and, according to the wearisome custom established in America, shook hands with every one who passed. A man at length approached with his hand bound up in a hand- kerchief, and the President, fancying him crippled, stepped slightly forward. The man, however, had a revolver concealed, and fired twice at Mr. McKinley, one bullet hitting him in the breast, but scarcely penetrating, and the other passing through both walls of the stomach, to remain embedded in the muscles of the back. The President, who was surrounded by detectives, fell apparently mortally wounded, the assassin was knocked down by a negro, and but for the determined exertions of the police he would have been lynched. It has been ascertained that he is a young Pole of- twenty-three, that his name is Czolgosz, though he is known as Mr. Nieman (Mr. Nobody), that he has indulged in Anarchist clubs and Anarchist litera- ture, and that he avows himself an Anarchist. Though poor, he has no personal grievance against Mr. McKinley, except that he is the elected chief of the Republic. He exults in his crime, declares that he has done his duty, and, though quite sane, expresses surprise that. the people• should have fallen on him. He was, in fact, quite shocked at their ferocity.
