Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-05-20

A paper published at Berne has COM
piled q Isst oil 81 the known attempts at
assassination that have been made since
1850. under the heading Recent Regi-
rides, I" term which, however express
sive, u scarcely accurate, inasmuch as
the compilation includes attempts on
the lives OF magistrates and statesmen,
a. well a. the lives Of princes and po-
tenistes. The FIRST crime recorded in
this register il the attempt made IN May.
1850. by the Westphalian, Safelsge, 10
shoot the king Of Prussia, 70 the cry OF
"Liberty for all" On June %, OF the
s,ne year, Robert Pate, retired lieu.
tenant of Hussars, struck the queen Of
England with Q cane-an assault GER
family, bot not an assault with intent to
kill. Ia October, 1852, conspiracy 70
blow up LOUIS Napoleon with an inter-
nal machine containing 1900 projec-
tiles, was frustrated By the activity 81
The police. On Feb. II. 1853. the em-
pevor of Austria was stabbed in the
hack BY . Hungarian shoemaker BY The
name ofLibeny. On the the 9Th Of July
following second attempt vas made on
che life OF Louis Napoleon, on his way
10 the opera eomique. On March ~,
1854. Ferdinsnd Charles Ill, duke ol
Parma, was stabbed By IN unknown
hand. Part Of the dagger remained IN
the wound which II inflicted, and the
duke died after twenty-three hours oil
terrible suffering. The murderer es-
caped. In f855sthe Italian. Pianori,
shot twice at The French emperor in The
TaiIeries garden. In March, 1886, .
Spaniard cfthe name OF Rainond Fuems
was arrested Just as he was in the act Of
firing pistol ID his sovereign, and The
execution Of his murderous design pre-
vented. On Dec. 9, IN the same year,
Ferdinand H.. king OF the two SiciIies,
was attacked ai review By one Of his
own soldiers, who wounded him with
his bayonet. In 1857 the Italian con.
spiratoTs, Tibaldi, Bartoletti, and Grel-
II. arrived in Paris with the intention Of
numbering the emperor. but fell into
the hands of The police before their de-
sign could be carried into execution
On Jan. l4th of the following year, Or
sin, Cones, Pieri and Rudio, made their
famous attempt to blow up the emperor
and empress with bombshells on their
way to theopera. Their majesties escap-
ed with some slight contusions, but more
than 100 persons OF their escort were
killed and wounded. In December,
1863, another attempt on the life OF
Napoleon was made by band of Ital-
ian assassins. The attempt failed, and
the would be murderers were captured.
The same year the then queen OF Greece
was wounded by a pistol-shot fred
by the student Dosios. On the 14th
OF April, 1865, President Lincoln was
murdered in Ford's theatre, at WASH
ington, and Secretary Seward danger
ously wounded. A year later al
most to day The emperor Of Russia
was shot at by man Of good position of
the name of Petrouik in the garden Of
his palace at ST. Petersburg. A peas
ant who struck up Petrouik's pistol. and
so turned the shot aside, and in all pro-
liability saved The emperor's life, was
rewarded with title Of nobility and
the commission of "a captain in the
army. The month afterward, or, to be
precise, in May, Eugene Cohen fired
1--WE shots at Bismarck while the latter
was walking Inter den Linden, in Ber
lin, one OF which struck and slightly
wounded the great minister. On June
10, 1863, Prince Michel, Of Servia and
a lady Of his family were brutality MUIR
dered in the park OF Topeider. In 1872
Bismarck's life was again attempted.
this time by q man ofthe name OF Wes-
terwelle, and in 1874, yet again. this
time by Kallman, al Kissengen. On
August 9th, 1875, the president Of the
republic OF Ecuador, Gabriel Garcia
Moreno, was murdered IN the govern
ment house Of Quito, and in April 1877,
q similar fate beiell the president Of the
republic Of Paraguay. On May IL.
1878, the German emperor was shot at
bv Hedel; and on June Q, less than q
month later, by Nobiling, receiving on
the latter occasion wounds by which
his life was seriously endangered. Mo-
billing killed himself in prison, while
hWoet PeHsueu On tuG sSen"u' III
Oct. 25sh. OF the same year an attempt
10 assassinate the king Of Spain was
made by the Socialist, Moneas, who,
taken red.handed. paid with bis life the
Of has crime. Less than Q
month thereafter, Nov. IL, the lie Of
King Humbert. Of Italy. was attempted
by Passannale, whose sentence Of death
was committed, ut his Majesty's own in
stance, toone Of perpetual imprisonment.
Last wear, 40 viii be fresh IN the nem-
ory OF all, the emperor Of Russia bad
two narrow escapes IRON death at the
hands OF his Nihilist subjects, and the
closing day Of the old year Witnessed
the latest essay at regieide at present
on record. the attempt of Otero 70 shoot
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