The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-16
Attempted Political Assassinations
Since 1850.

The Onitd Cdtt0IscG gives the following Gu
rious list of all the attempts at political assas-
sination that have been made since 1850:
Queen Victoria can count four attempts on
her life. On June %, 1850, she received vio-
lent blow with stick from one Robert Pate, q
retired Lieutenant of the Tenth Hussars.
In May. 1850, the late King of Prussia re-
ceived, ashe was mounting railway carriage,
ashot from holster pistol of large bore, in the
forearm; the assassin, sefelage, of Wetzlow,
cried out as he fred, =" Liberty for ever"
The life of the present King of Prussia was
In danger at Baden, on the morning of july IA.
1861. Two pistol shots were fred at him by
Oscar Becker law student of Leipsic. The
regicide declared that he wished to kill the
Klng, because he was not-eapable of effecting
the unity OF Germany.
On February Is, 1858, at Vienna, Francis
Joseph l. was struck with q knife in the nape
OF the neck. The murderer's name was Libe-
ny, OF Albe, In Hungary, aged twenty, resident
at Vienna, and tailor BY trade
On March 20, 1854, Ferdinant Charles Ill,
Duke OF Parma, returning home from an ex.
cursion, was hustled by an individual who at
the same time stabbed him in the abdomen,
LETT the pOignard in the wound, and subse-
quently escaped. The Duke expired in cruel
torture at the end of twenty-three hours.
On May 2S, 1856, as Queen Isabella was pass
ing IN her carriage along the Rue de PArsenal
~ o youuS ualUcQ RAYMOND
Fuentes, drew Q pistol from his pocket, and
would have discharged it at her head had not
his arm been caught and his weapon taken
from him by an agent of the police.
On December 8, 1856, while Ferdinand II.
was reviewing his troops at Naples, soldier.
named Agesiras Milan0, struck him with his
bayonet, and, at later period, Garibaldi hon.
nored the memory of the regicide.
In October, 1852, when Napoleon Ill, who
was on the eve of becoming Emperor, was at
Marseilles, there had been prepared an Internal
machlne, formed by two hundred and fiftv
gun-barrels charged with fifteen hundred balls.
intended to go off all at once against the
Prince and his cortege. But the attempt was
not carried out. July g. 1858, fresh attempt
was made to assassinate him as he was
going to the Opera Comique. Twlve French
men we're arrested as concerned in the conspir-
acy. On April %, 1855 Jean Liverani fired two
SHOTS at the Emperor in the Grand avenue of
the Champs Elysees. In 1857, Thibaldi, Bar
tolotti and Grill came from England to Paris
to assassinate the Emperor, but were discov-
ereo, arrested. tried and punished. On Janu-
ary IA, 1858, Orsini, Comes, Pieri and Rudio,
threw their murderous shells at the Emperor
OF the French and shed the blood of q great
number OF honest citizens in Paris. On Dee
"A, 1868, Greco, Trabucco, Imperatore and
Scaglioni, who had come over from London
with the intention of killing the French EN-
peror, were arrested In Paris.
On September 1S, 1862, the Queen of Greece,
directing public affairs during the kings abb
sence, was returning from ride on horseback,
when she was fired at without effect, near the
palace by Aristide Donsios, student, aged
nineteen years.
In 1859 an attempt was made on the life of
Victor Emanuel H., and Count Cavour gave
an account Of 1t in the sitting of April ID
April IA, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Wash.
ington, Abraham Lincoln. President of the
United States of America, was assassinated BY
Booth,