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AMERICAN BOYS' LIFE
September 4. Arrived at Buffalo and reviewed troops there.
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September 5. Delivered his last address, on the Triumphal Bridge, at the Pan-American Exposition grounds.
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September 6. Visited Niagara Falls in the morning. Returned to Buffalo in the afternoon to receive the people at the Temple of Music, Exposition grounds. Was shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, a Polish-American anarchist.
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September 14. Died at the Milburn house, Buffalo, New York, at 2.15 a.m.
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September 19. Last services over the body held at Canton, Ohio. Business throughout the entire United States suspended. Body placed in the receiving vault, Westlawn Cemetery.
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Shortly after President McKinley's death and burial, his assassin was tried in the Erie County Court, at Buffalo, New York, found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be electrocuted, according to the law of the state in which the dastardly crime was committed.
