The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-09-11
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Attempts ~ .is.i>>inAtr NOycrimgS
Since 1850 Long and l'iONdy
Record.

! A paper published at Bcrne has
coNpilci 4 list OF all the known at.
tempts ut assassination that have
been made since 1850. under the head.
ING "facent Rngioiacs." Il term
which, however expressive. is scarce.
" accurate. inasmurh as the com.
pila'ion includes attempts on tho
lives Of magistrates and statesmen,
az we'll as on the lives OF princes and
! potentates. The first crime recorded
in this register is tho attempt made
in May. 1850. by tho Wcstphallan,
Safelage, to shoot the King OF Prus.
sid to the cry OF Liberty for all. :"
o. June 2s Of the same year, Robert
Pate. q retired Lieutenant of Hussara
struck the Queen Of England with a
cane--an assault, certainly, but not
an assault with intent to kill. In
October, 1852, 4 conspiracy to blow
up Louis Napoleon with an Internal
machine containing 1900 projectiles
was frustrated by tho activity Of the
police. On Feb. II. 1852, tho I'm.
peror OF Austria was stabbed in the
back by a Hungarian shoemaker Of
tho name Of libeny. On tho 9th Of
July following. q second attempt
was made on the lilo Of Louis Napo.
leon. on his way to tho Opera Conf
que. On March 20. 1854, Ferdinand
Charles III. Duke Of Parma, was
stabbed by an unknown hand. Part
OF tho dagger remained In tho wound
which it inflicted. and the Duke died
after twcnty,threc hours OF terrible
suffering. Tho murderer escaped.
, In 1855 tho italian Pianori, shot
twice at the French Emperor in tho
Tuilleries garden. In March. 1886, a
Spaniard Of tho namo OF Kaimond
Euemca was arrested just as he was
in the act Of firing a pistol at hia
sovereign. and the execution Of his
murderous design prevented. On
Dec. $. In tho Same year. Ferdinand
IT,, King OF tho Two Sicilics, was ut.
tackled at a review by one OF his own
soldiers. who wounded him with his
bayonet. In 1857 tho italian con.
spirators. 1'ibaidi Rarthlctti and
Grelli. arrived in Paris with the in.
tention Of numbering the Emperor,
hut foil into the hands Of the police
before their design could he carried
into execution. On Jan. II, OF the
following year. Orslni. Comes, Plcrl
and Rudio. made their famous at
tempt to blow up tho Emperor and
Empresa with bomhshells on their
way to tho opera. Their Majestics
escaped with some slight commissions,
but more than lGO persons OF their
escort wore killed and wounded. In
December. 1862. another attempt on
tho life Of Napoleon was made by q
band Of Italian asssassins. Tho at,
tempt failed. and tho would. be muir
dcrers were captured. Tho same
year the then Queen Of Greece was
wounded by q pistol-shot fired by
tho student, Dosios. On tho 18th OF
April. 1865. President Lincoln was
murdered in Ford's Theatre, at
Washington by tho actor. Booth
and Secretary Seward dangerously
wounded by nm accompiice. A year
later, almost toa day. tho Emperor
Of Russia was shot at bya man of
good position, Of the name of Pc
tronlk, in the garden OF his palace;at
st. Petersburg. A peasant who
struck up Pctroulli's pistol. and 80
turned tho shot aside, and In all
probability saved the Emperor lifc,
was rewarded with q title of nobility
and the commission OF q captain In
tho army.
The month afterward, or, to bo
precise. in May. 1866. Eugene Cohen
fired five shots at Bismarck, while
tho lattor was walking Inter den
Linden, in Berlin. ono Of which
struck and slightly wounded the
great Minister. On Juno 10, 1868,
Prince Michael Of Scrvia and a lady
Of his family were brutality murdered
in tho Park Of Topeider. In 1872
Eismarck's lifo was again attempted,
this time by u man by tho name Of
Westerwelic, and in 1874, yet again,
this time by Kallman. ut Kissengen.
On August 6, 1876. tho President Of
tho Republic OF Ecuador, Gabriel
Garcia Moreno, was murdered in the
Government House Mt Quito. and In
April, 1877, a similar fato bofell the
President Of tho Republic OF Para
quay. On May IL, 1873. the German
Emperor was shot ut HGdel: and or
June I'd. less than q month later, BY
MODELLING. receiving on the latter oc
cssion wounds by which his lifo vas
seriously endangered. Nobling kill
ed himself In prison, while HBde
perished on the scaffold. On Oct. q
VI tho same year an attempt to as
sassinato the King OF Spain wal
made by the Socialist Moncas, who
taken red. handed. paid with his LIE
tho penalty Of bis crime. Less thar
q month thereafter, Nov. II, tho liz
Of King Humbcrt. OF Italy, was at
tempted by passanante, whose sen
tenco OF death was committed, at BIZ
Majesty'g own instance. to ono o.
perpetual imprisonment. Last year
as will be fresh in tho memory Of all
tho Emperor Of Russia had two mar
row escapes from death at tho llandl
Of his Nihilist subjects. and tn
closing day Of the old year witnessed
tho latest essay ut rcgicldc at pres
ent on rocorl-tho attempt OF Otert
to shoot the King and Queen o
Spain.
WashingtOn's Last Illness.
Tho following account OF Genera
Washington's illness AMI death, con
corning the manner Q! which 81
much has been recently said ant
written, POSSESSES u peculiar value
1t is taken from an old book. "Ewell'
Medical Companion" published II
1867, and dedicated by the author
James Ewcll," to Mr.. Jefferson :"
On the Afternoon OF tho thirteenth
Of December. 1899. riding out to on
OF his farms he was caught In a drl
Wing rain. which. soon turning Into
snow.storm. deposited q considera
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