Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1901 — How the News Reached Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

How the News Reached Rensselaer.

Pregident McKinley was [shot soon after four o’clock, Buffalo time, or three o’clock Rensselaer time. It was an hour later, or a little after four o’clook here, when the news first reached Rensselaer. It came to the telephone central from Logansport, and stated that the President was then dying. The news was at once communicated to The Republican just as The Evening Republican was going to press. The next news, a few minutes later, was obtained over the Western Union telegraph, from Chicago, at the instance of The Republican It was then generally thought he was dead. At 4:30 we had telephone communication with Lafayette, and the news just received there, by associated press, was that he had just died. With that news, The Evening Republican went to press at 5 o’clock. And to most Rensselaer people it conveyed the first intimation of the great crime. About 8 o’clock The Republican received an extended press dispatch, giving details of the shooting, and stating thai the President was still living and that the doctors said he would recover. That report soon spread over town, and gave great satisfaction. It was much too favorable, however, for later reports showed that the best the physicians were then willing to say was that his condition justified hope of recovery.