St. Landry democrat., 1880-05-22
Thirty Years Regicides.
ATTEMPTS TO ASSAsSINATE SOVEREIGNS
SINCE 1854 BLOODY RECORD.
From the Manchester Examiner.

FROM tIc IauCueSJeF EAamllCf.
A paper published at Berne has COM
piled list Of all the known attempts at
assassination that have been made since
1850, under the heading" Recent Regi-
cides.' a term which, however expressive
is generally accurate, inasmuch as the
compilation includes attempts on the
lives of magistrates and statesmen, as
well as on the lives of princes and po-
tentates. The first crime recorded in
this register is the attempt made in
May, 1850, by the Westphalian, Safelage,
to shoot the King of Prussia, to the
the same year Robert Pate, a retired
Of England with cane-an insult,
certainly, but not an assault with intent
to kill. In October, 1859, a conspiracy
to blow up Louis Napoleon with an
Internal machine containing 1900 pro-
jectiles was frustrated by the activity
of the police. On February II, 1853,
the Emperor of Austria was stabbed in
the back by a Hungarian shoemaker of
the name of Libeny. On the fifth of
July following a second attempt was
made on the life of Louis Napoleon on
his way to the Opera Comique. On
March 30, 1854, Ferdinand Charles III,
Duke OF Parma, was stabbed by an
unknown hand. Part of the dagger
remained in the wound which it in
f1ictcd, and the Duke died after twenty
three hours of terrible suffering. The
murderer escaped. In 1866, the Italian
Pianori shot twice at the French En-
peror in the Tuileries garden. In
March, 1856, a Spaniard Of the name
Of RAYMOND Fuemes was arrested just
as he was in the act of firing pistol at
his sovereign, and the execution of his
murderous design prevented. On De-
cember s, in the same year, Ferdinand
II, King Of the Two Sicilles, was at
tackled at a review by one of his own
soldiers, who wounded him with his
bayonet. In 1857, the Italian conspira-
tors, Tibaldi, Bartoletti and Grelli,
arrived in Paris with the intention of
numbering the Emperor, but fell into
the hands Of the police before their
design could be carried into execution.
On January "A, OF the following year,
Orsini, Comes, Pieri and Rudio made
their famous attempt to blow up the
on their way to the Opera. Their Ma
siOns, 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
| Italian assassins. The attempt failed
and the would-be murderers were cap
tured. The same year the then Queen
of Greece was wounded by u pistol shot
| fired by the student Dosios. On the
fourteenth of April, 1865, President
Lincoln was murdered in Ford's theatre
at. Washington, and Secretary Seward
dangerously wounded, by the actor
Booth. A year later almost to day the
Emperor of Russia was shot at by a
man of good position of the name of
Petrouik in the garden of his palace at
st. Petersburg. A peasant who struck
up Petrouik's pistol, and so turned the
shot aside, and in all probability saved
the Emperor's life, was rewarded with
title of nobility and the commission of
captain in tile army. The month
afteIward, or, to be precise, in Nav,
1866, 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 10, 1868, Prince
Michael OF Servia and a lady of his
family were brutally murdered IN the
park Of Topeider. In 1872 Bismarck's
life was again attempted, this time by
a man OF the name OF Westerwelle, and
in 1874, yet again, this time by Kullman,
at Kissingen. On August 6, 1876, the
President Of the republic of Ecuador,
Gabriel Garcia Moreno, was murdered
in the government house at Quito, and
in April, 1877, similar fate befell the
president of the Republic Of Paraguay.
On May II, 1878, the German Emperor
was shot at by Hoedel, and on June 3,
less than month later, by Nobiling,
receiving on the latter occasion wounds
by which his life was seriously endan-
gered. Nobiling killed himself in pri-
son, while Hoedel persisted on the
scaf1old. On October Is of the same
year an attempt to assassinate the King
Of Spain was made by the Socialist
Moncas, who, taken red-handed, paid
with his life the penalty of his crime.
Less than a month thereafter, Novem-
Der II, the life of King Humbert of Italy
was attempted by Passanante, whose
sentence of death was committed, at
his Majesty's own instance, to one of
perpetual Imprisonment. Last year,
as will be fresh in the memory Of all,
the Emperor of Russia had two narrow
escapes from death at the hands of his
Nihilist subjects, and the closing day of
the old year witnessed that latest essay
at regicide at present on record, the
attempt Of Otero to shoot the King and