Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-05-15
REGICIDE6,
Attempts To Assassinafe SOvereigns
since ISoO-A Long and Bloody
RecOYd.
I manchester Examiner.

Manchester Examiner
PaperfpubliShed at Berne has complied a
ust or all the known attempts at assassination
mat nave been made sinc9 1850 under the
meaning Recent RegicideS" a term which,
however expressive, Is scarcely accurate, mas
mucn as the compilation includes attempts on
Lne yves OF magistrates and statesmen as well
as on the lives of Princes aud potentateS. The
MS crime recorded In this register Is the at
tempt made In Nj ~. 1850. by the IVES phal an,
Saielage, 10 shoot the King OF Prussia TO the
CRY OF Liberty for all" On June - OF the
same year Robert Pate. retired Lieutenant or
HuSSars, struck the Queen Of England WITH a
caney-an assault, Certainly. but not an as
sauit with intent TO kill In October, 1S32 ia
conspiracy TO blow up Louis Napoleon Win an
Internal machine containing $50 proJectlle5
was frustrated by the activity OF the police
On F. b. II 1853; the Emperor OF Austria was
stabbed In the back by Hung ariah shoemaker
Ofthe name OF Lfbeny. ON the 5th OF July Io-
lowing second attempt vas MADE on the HE
CJmique on March 20, 1854, Ferdinand
Charles ILL.,, Duke OF Parma, was stabbed by
an unknown hand. Part OF the dagger re
manned In the wound which Ii inflicted, and
the Duke died after twenty-three hours OF ter
Iible suffering. The murderer escaped. la
1855 the Italian, PianOri, shot twice at the
French Emperor In the Tuiieries garden In
March 1856 a Spaniard of the name of Raj
mOnd FuemeS was arrested just As he was In
the act or hiring pistol at his sovereign and
the execution of his murderOuS design pre-
vented Ga Dec. ;. In the same year Ferdi-
nand H.. King Of The Two Siclles, was attacked
IT review by one Of his own soldiers, " no
Italian COnepratOrS, Tlbaldi. Birtoletn and
Grelll, arrived IN Paris with the intention o
numbering the Emperor but fell intO the
hands OF The police before their design could be
Carried into execution. On Jan. II, OF the TO-
lowing year Orsini, Comes, PERI, and Rudio
made their famous attempt to blow up the En-
peror and Empress with bOmbShells on their
way 10 the opera. Their MajeStie5 escaped
with some slight Commissions, but more than
100 persons o. their escort were killed and
Woundt d. In December 1862, another attempt
10 yvlE f1.. hr- hon. 1ff
Italian aSSaS>tnS- The attempt failed and the
would be mnIderers We're captured The same
year the then Queen OF Greece, was wounded
10y pistols!Ot fired by the student Dosios.
On the l4th OF April. 1865. President Lincoln
was murdered in FOrdS Theatre, at Washing
ton. by the actor. Booth; and Secretary Seward
dangerCu " wounded by an accomplish. A
year later, almost 10 day, the Emperor OF
Russia was shot al by man of good position
OF the name OF Petrouik in the garden OF his
pa ace at ST. Petersburg. A peasant who
STRUCK up PetrOuikS pistol and 50 turned the
shot aside, and in all probability saved the EN-
perOrs lie, was rewarded with title of no.
bility and the commission OF captain In the
army. The month afterward, Or TO be precise,
In May, 1S66. Eugene Cohen fired five shots at
Bismarck, while the latter was walking Inter
den Linden, In Berlin, one of which struck and
Slightly wounded the great Minister. On June
TO- 1865. Prince Mich iel OF Seryia and lady of
MS family were brutally murdered in the park
OF TOpe1der In 1872 BiSmark'S life was again
attempted. this time by man OF the name of
Westerwelie, and In 1874, yet again, this time
by hallmann, at kisSengen. On Aug. 6, 1915
the President or the Republic of Ecuador Ga
Driel Garcia Moreno was murdered In the
Government House at Quito, and In APRIL 1871
similar fate befell the President of the Re-
Republic or Paraguay. On May II. 1878 the
German Emperor was shot at by Hoedel; and
On june ., leSS than month later, by Nobiling
receiving on the latter occasion wounds by
which his HE was seriously endangered. No
bling killed himself In prison, while Hoadel
persisted on the ScafOld- On oct. 25 OF the
same year IN attempt to aSSaSinate the King of
taken red handed, paid with his lite the pen
atty OF his crime. Less than a month there
after Nov. l.. the life of King Humbert, OF
Italy, was attempted by PaSsanante whose
sentence of death was committed, at his Mai
eSty'S own Instance. to one of perpetual i'm
pr1Sonment. Last year, as Will be fresh in the
memory OF all, tie Emperor of Russia had two
narrow escapes from death at the hands OF his
NihiiiSt subjects, and the closing day OF the
old year witnessed the latest essay at regicide
at present on recOrd,-the attempt of Otero to
shoot the King and O ueeQ OF SPAIN