Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-15

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III c,nt R"Gic!ss." term which, howcvf
Cxp'ossiVe, is sclIc lg accurate, inasmucA IS r.
c'nplIAIion Includes attempts on the lives {
magistrates and satcnen, as well ns on IT,
lives otlr.rc?s aud po,cntatcs.
The first crimo recorded 10 lhi, resistor
tho attempt made in May, 1850, by tho Wtst
phaau Saiclsrc. to shoot The KiDg Of Pms
sa. TO the cry Of Liberty for ALL" Ol Jun
IS, OF tho sama year, Robert Patio, a re,iro
i?uttnlot OF llassers. struck tho Queen O
Il l9laud with canc-au assault. Certainty, bu
nnt 40 assault with lutcLt to kill. In O,ob.
isa2. q conspiracy TO blow up Louis N.pjloo,
Win 40 lateroel machine contaiuiog 800 pro
IecIles. was frustrated ty the scliviy of th
police. "a February H., 1858, tic Enpcro
"f Au7tna was stabbed 10 tho back by Hun
Gh'inn shoenaS,r of the Eamo OF Libeuy. 0:
the oh OF July fo'lbui7g stcood attempt wa
made on The hie OF Louis Naroeoo,ec ,ecn h!s way
10 tho Opera Com'q1c.
| % March %, 1854, F.rdiuspd Charcs III
Duke OF Parme, was stabbed by 40 utk1owr
ha6d. Part OF tho dagger remained ia thl
wound which it iLfl,c'ed. nnd tie Duke dice
atter % hours Of terrible suffering. The mur-
| deicr ts,aped. In 1855 the Italian. Pisuo,i
SHOT twlca at tho Ec-cl Emperor 10 tho TuiI
cries garden. lu Me,ch, 1856, q Spanard c,
the name Of RaimoRd Fucmes was arcs ed ius
as he was 10 the act of 6rirg q pistol ct Ii
| sovereign. aud tha execution uf his murderou
| design rrevented Oa ID, cembor S, 10 the
same year, Ford nand H., Kiog OF the Two
Sl!lIcs, was attOckcd at review By opo Of hi.
| oSn sdldlcrs. who wounded him with his bar-
opet.
| In 1881 Tho Italian conspir1tors 1ibaldi
BartoIctu and Grelli. arrived 10 Paris, with the
llten'ion Of murdericg the emperor, but fell
| INTO the hsnjs o. tho police f.rao before their
| design cnll be carried into execution. O,
| Jaru1ry II "f the following year Orsini, Comes.
f'lcrl and Ku ilo mahr their famous attempt to
ooT II? tho emperor and empress nth bomb
'hfl'. on ih"if way 70 tic opera. Their males
| Ties escaped with scmc slight cnrtusious. but
| more than ono hundred pcrsous Of their scort
were killed a1d wounded Is December, 1868,
| ano, her attempt cn the iife OF Napocon wss
| ma3e hv haod Ct Iiaiaa assassios. Tho at
| tempt 1.'e1 AID Ih> you'd be murdcrers were
C cipturod.
The same year the then Queen of Greece
WAS wounded by pistol shot lred by the STU
d-nt. Doslos. GA the 14th Of April, 1865,
Ptesdeot L,ncoln was murdered 10 Ford 9
| Theatre at Washington by the actor Booth, and
1 u.
year later almost to day the Emperor Of Rus
tis was shot at by man Of good position Of the
| name nt Petrouik, 10 the gardens OF bis palace
at st. Petersburg. A peasant who struck up
Petronlk's pistol, aud SO turued The shot aside,
| and 10 all probability saved the Emperor's life,
! vas rewarded with title OF nobility aud the
commission OF csptAin in the army. The
month aiterWard, or, to DO precise 10 Nav,
! 1866, Eugene Cohen fired five shots at Bismarck
| while the latter was wslkiog Uutsr den Linden,
| in Berlin, one of which struck and slightly
| wounded the great minister.
10 June 10, 1868. Prince Michel. Of SeIyia,
and LADY OF his family were brutaIly murdered
in the park of Topeidcr. 10 1872 Bismarck 8
| lilo VS. again ai:eE Ptst, this tin" hy @ man Of
| tho name Of Westcrwelc, ard in 1874 yet again,
this limo By KalImaun. at Krsseugen. On
| Augusc5 5 1876. the President or the Repub-
lie of Ecuador. Gabriel Garcia MoreDc,
was murdered 10 tie Govsrnmebt
] House at Quito, abd in April. 1878, SIMILAR
fate beiell the President Of tho Ktpublc oil
Paraguay. Ga May II, 1877. the Germau
| Emperor vas shot ut by Hoedr!; aud on June
p less Than month later. by Nobi inp, rsceiv-
ing On the later Geo sion wcuods By which biz
hto was seriously cndsngtrsd. Nobing killed
himself 10 prison, while llvedtl pniihed Oh the
scsffod.
| Ga Octobcr 2j:h Of The same year 90 attempt
to"a; Sis innate he King Of Sp.in was nadc by
the Socialist hoocas, who, taken red hauded
paid with bis life the poraiiy of bis crina.-
Less than mouth thereafter. November l7th
the life 'f Kiog Humber, of Italy, was ct
tempted ty Passa1antc, whose sentelca of deaf
WAS oOmmuted, at his M iesty's OVID instance
to one of perpetual Imprisonment. Last year
as wi | be fresh 10 the memory Of all, the Elm
porcr Of Russia had TWO barrow escapes from
death at the hands Of bis Nitilist subjects, ant
aud the closing day Of the old year Wl;ucsse!
tho latest cssav at regicide at present on record
tho attempt tf Otero to shoot the kiog aut
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