The Russellville Democrat., 1880-07-01
KING-KILLERS.
Regicides of the Past Thirty Years-Long
 and Bloody Record.

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 Regicides of the Past Thirty Years-Lonr
 and Bloody Record.
 Manchester Examiner
 A paper published at Berne has com- piled list of all the known attempts at assassination that have been m ade since 1850, under the heading of Recent Reg icides," term which, however express sive, is scarcely 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 cry of Liberty for all" On June 2S of the same year, Robert Pate, a retired lieu tenant, of Hussars, struck the queen of England with a cane-an assault, cer- tainly, but not an assault with intent to kill. In October, a conspiracy to blow up Louis Napoleon with an internal ma chine containing 1,500 projectiles was frustrated by the activity of the police. On February 17, 1853, the emperor of Austria was stabbed in the back by Hungarian shoemaker of the name of Libeny. On the 9th of July following second attempt was made on the life of Louis Napoleon on his way to the Opera Comique. On March 20, 1854, Ferdinand Charles III, duke of Parma, was stab- bed by an unknown hand. Part of the dagger remained in the wound which it inflicted, and the duke died after twen- ty-three hours of terrible suffering. The murderer escaped. In 1855 the Italian. Pianori, shot twice at the French em- peror in the Tuileries garden. In March, 1856, Spaniard of the name of Raimond Fuemes, was arrested just as he was in the act of firing pistol at his sovereign, and the execution of the mur- derous design prevented. On Decem- Der 8, in the same year, Ferdinand IT., king of the Two Sicilies, was attacked at review'by one of his own soldiers, who wounded him with bis bayonet. In 1857, the Italian conspirators, Tibaldi, Bartoleti and Grelli, arrived in Paris with the intention of murdering the emperor, but fell into the hands of the police before their design could be car red into execution. On January 14th of thelfollowing year Orsini, Comes, Pieri and Rudio, made their famous at tempt to blow up the emperor and em- press with bombshells on their way to the opera. Their majesties escaped with some slight contusions, but more than 100 persons of their escort were killed and wounded. In December, 1862, another attempt on the life of Ma poleon was made by band of Italian assassins. The attempt failed and the would-be murderers were captured. The same year the then queen of Greece was wounded by pistol shot fired by the exk.x n..& -E 1865. President Lincoln was murdered in Ford's Theater at Washington by the actor Booth; and Secretary Seward dan- gerously wounded by an accomplice. A year later, almost to day, the emperor of Russia was shot at by a man in 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 lite, was rewarded with title of nobility and the commission of captain in the army. The month afterward, or to be precise, in May, lS66, Eugene Cohen fired five shots at Bismarck while the latter was walking Inter den Linden in Berlin, one of which hit and slightly wounded the great minister. On June 10, 1868. Prince Michael of Servia, and a lady of his family were brutally mur- dered in the park of Topeider. In 1872 Bismarck's life was again attempted, this time by man of the name of Vest erwelle, and in 1874. yet again, this time by Kallmann, at Kissengen. On August 6, 1875, the president of the republic of Ecuador, Gabriel Garcia Moreno, was murdered in the government house at Quito, and in April, 1877, a similar fate Defell the president of the republic of Paraguay. On May II, 1878, the Ger man emperor was shot at by Hoedel; and on June 2, less than month later, by Nobiling, receiving on the latter oceas- ion wounds by which his life was se- riousiy endangered. Nobilin9 killed himself in prison, while Hoedel perished on the scaffold. On October 25th 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 18th, the life of King Humbert of Italy was attempted by Passanante, whose sentence of death was commuted at his Majesty s own instance, to one of perpetual limprisonment. Last year, as will be fresh in the memory of all, the meperor of Russia had two narrow es- capes from death at the hands of his Nihilist subjects and the closing day of the old year witnessed the latest essay at regicide at present on record--the at- tempt of Otero to shoot the king and queen of Spain.