Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — President McKinley [ARTICLE]

President McKinley

On the 29th of January, in 1843, William' McKinley, twenty-fifth preeM of the United States, was born at We*. <X It was during McKinley’s t ern3 as president, on Sepfemthat he was shot at the WnffAlo exposition by Leon Czolgosz, Monarchist. ’The president died £ht days later from a wound made bra bullet which penetrated Ms stomaJh and lodged in Mm muscles of bls

back. The chief events of McKinley’s administration were the SpanishAmerican war and the acquiring of the Philippines. Porto Rico, and Gnwm, the annexation of Hawaii, and the expedition under General Chaffee in the Boxer Insurrection.