The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-04-06
THIRTY YEARS RRGICLDES.
ATTEMPTS TO AssAssINATE SOVEREIGNS
SINCE 1884 LONG AND BLOODY
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IHIn11 1hAICC hEULC1DEC.
ATTEMPTS TO AssAsSINATE sOVEREIGNs
SINCE 1904 LONG AND BLOODY
RECORD.
Manchester Examiner.I
A paper published at Berne has
compiled a list of all the known at
tempts at assassination that have
been made since 1850, under the
heading "Recent Regicides," a term
which, however expressive, is scarce
ly accurate, inasmuch as a compila-
ton includes attempts on lives OF
magistrates and statesmen, as well
as the lives of princes and potentates.
The first crime recorded in this reg
lister is the attempt made in May,
1850, by the Westphalian Safelage,
to shoot the king of Prussia, to the
cry of"Liberty to all. F." On June %
of the same year, Robert Pate, a
retired lieutenant of huzzars, struck
the queen of England with a cane
an assault certainly, bat not an as
sault with intent to kill. In OctO-
Der. 1852, a conspiracy to blow up
Louis Napoleon with an internal ma
chine containing 1900 prOjectiles,
was frustrated by the activity of the
police. On February II, 1858, the
emperor of Austria was stabbed in
the back by a Hungarian shoemaker
of the name of Kibeny. On the 9Th
of July following a second attempt
was made on the life of Louis Ma
poleon on his way to the Opera
Comique. On March 20, 1854, Fer
dinand Charles III, duke of Parma,
was stabbed by an unknown hand.
Part of the dagger remained in the
wound which it inflicted, and the duke
died after twenty three hours of ter
rible suffering. Themurderer escap-
ed In 1855 the Italian, Planora, shot
twice at the French emperor in the
Tuilleries garden. In March, 1865, a
Spaniard of the name of RAYMOND
FUemes was arrested just as he
was in the act of firing a pistol at his
sovereign, and the execution of his
murderous design prevented. On
December 8, in the same year, Fer
dinand H., King of the two Sicilies,
was attacked at review by one Of
his own soldiers, who wounded him
with his bayOnet. In 1857 the
Italian conspirators, Tibaldi, Barth-
lett and GreIli, arrived in Paris with
the intention of numbering the en-
peror, but fell into the hands of the
police before their design could be
carried into execution. On Jan, IA,
of the following year, Orsini, Comes,
Pieri and Rudio made their famous
attempt to blow up the emperor and
empress with bombshells on their
way to the opera. Their majesties
escaped with some slight contusions,
but more than one hundred persons
Of their escort were killed and
wounded Ia December, 1868, an
other attempt on the life of Ma
poleon was made by a 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 a
pistol shot fired by the student
Dosios. On the 14th of April, 1865,
President Lincoln was murdered in
Ford's theater at Washington, and
Secretary Seward dangerously
wounded by the actor, Booth. A
year later, almost to day, the en-
perOr of Russia was shot at by man
of good position by the name of Pc
trouik in the garden of his palace at |
st. Petersburg. A peasant, who |
struck up Petrouiks pistol, and so
turned the shot aside, and in all |
probability saved the emperor's life,
was rewarded with title ofnobility |
and the commission of captain in the |
army. The month afterward, or to |
be precise, in May, 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, IIand lady |
of his family were brutally murder
ed in the park of Togeider. In 1872 |
Bismarck's life was again attempted,
this time by man of the name of |
Westerwelle, and in 1874 yet again,
this time by Kallman, at Kissengen.
On August 6, 1875, the president of
the Ecvador, Gabriel Garcia Moreno,
was murdered in the government house
at Quito, and in April, 1877, a SINH
lar fate befell the president of the
republic of Paraguay. On May IL,
1873, the German emperor was shot
at by Hoedel, and on June 2, less
than month later, by Nobiling,
receiving on the latter occasion
wounds by which his life was Sc
endangered, Nobiling killed
in prison, while Hoddel per-
ished on the scaffold. On October
% of the same year an attempt to
assassinate the king of Spain was
made by the socialist Moncas, who
taken redhanded, paid with his life
he penalty of his crime. Less than
4 month thereafter, November II,
The life of King Humbert, of Italy,
was attempted by Passanante, whose
of death was committed, at
MS maiesty's own instance, to one of
perpetual Imprisonment. Last year,
Is will be fresh in the memory of all, |
he emperor of Russia had two mar
.ow escapes from death at the hands
f nihilist subjects, and the closing
lay of the old year witnessed the
atest essay at regieide at present on
ecord-t6e attempt of Otero to
boot the king and queen of Spain.
An exchange tells of a young lady
Who. six months after happy mar
iage, on being asked # she was