Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-19
Thirty Years, Reeicides.
ATTEMPTS TO ASsAssINAr8 SovKRKrGNs SINCE
lS50-A LONG AMP BLOODY RECORD.

ATTEMPTS TO AssAssINArs sovKRKrGNs SINCE
1S50-A LONG ANB BLOODY RECORD.
Manchester Examiner. April. 1880
paper published at Berne has compiled
| list of all the known attempts at assassination
| that have been made since 1885, under the head
ing RECENT Regicldes." term which how
ever expressive, Is scarcely accurate. inasmuch
as the compilation includes attempts on the
HVes OF magistrates and statesmen, as Well as
on tne lives or Princes and potentates. The
nrst crime recorded I'm this register is the at
Tempt made In May, 1850, by the WeStphalian,
SaIeiage TO shoot the King OF Prussia, to the
same year. Robert Pate. a retired lieutenant OF
nussars, struck the Queen of England with a
GaneIan assault eer5ainy. but not an assault
70 dow up Louis Napoleon with an Internal ma
chine containing 500 projecttles, was frustra-
1ed zee, oy the activity Of the police. On Feb. II.
oack oy Hungarian shoemaker of the name
or Lleeny on the 5th of July following a
sscoaa attempt was made on the life Of Louis
Napoieon on MS way to the Opera Comidue
on March 20. 1854, Ferdinand Charles III, Duke
OF Parma, was stabbed by an unknown hand
1 rn,o, OF u Inc Jaeger remained Ia the wound
Wncn II 1nnlcted, and the Duke died after %
hours OF terrible suffering. The murderer es-
caped. In 1855 the Italian, Plano1, shot twice
at the French Emperor In the Tallerles gar
den. In March, 1s56. Spaniard, of the name
OF Ra1mOnd Fuemes. Was arrested Just as he
was IN the act OF firing pistol at his sovereign
and the execution Of his numerous design pre-
vented. On Dec. Sth, In the same year, FSrdi-
nand H. King OF the Two sStcilies, was attacked
at review by one OF his own soldiers, VINO
wounded him with his bayonet. In 1851. the
Italian conspiralors, Tioaldl, Bartoletu and
GTelli, arrived In Paris with the Intention of
numbering the Emperor. but fell TITO the hands
OF the police before their design could be
carried into execution. On Jan. 14th of the
following year orsini, Comes, PIeri and Rudio
MADE their famous attempt TO blow up tae
emperor and Empress with bombshelis on
eaped WAY VAIN 70 she op psSt Their maese e
IMAM 100 persons OF their escort were killed and
wounded In December, 1868. another attempt
on the life OF Napoleon was made By a band OF
ltallan assasslns. 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
murdered In Ford's Theater, at Washington.
by the actor, Booth, and Secretary Seward dan
gerouSly wounded. A year later almost to q
day. the Emperor Of Russia was shot at by
St; Petersburg. A peasant, who struck
s up fe as9a sno pistol ana 80 turned the
the Emperor's life, was rewarded with a title of
NOBILITY and the commission OF a captain In the
army. the month afterward, Or, to be precise,
In May, 1866, Eugene Cohen fired five shots az
Bismarck while the latter was walking Inter
den Linden, In Berlin, one Of which struck and
slightly wounded the great minister. On June
70. lsGS. Prince Michel, of Servia. and a lady OF
his family were brutality murdered in the park
OF Topeider. In 1872 Bsmarck's life was again
attempted; this time by man OF the name of
WesterWelIe. and In 1874 yet again, this time
py hallmann, at KisseHgen. On August G,
1875, the president Of the republic Of Ecua-
cor, Gabriel Garcia Moreno, was murdered
In the Government House at Quito, and In
April, 1871, similar fate befeIl the prest-
dent OF the republic of Paraguay. on
May II, ISIS, the German Emperor was
shot at by Hoedei, and on june 2. less than
month later, by NobillDg, receiving on the lat
ter occasion wounds by which his life was
seriously endangered. NObilfng killed himself
In prison, while Hoedel persisted on the scafold.
On october rs OF the same year an attempt to
assassinate the King OF Spain was made by the
Socialists, Moneas, Who. taken red handed, paid
with bis life the penalty OF his crime. Less
tnan month thereafter, November Il, the life
OF King Humbert, OF Italy, was attempted by
Passanante. whose sentence o. death was COM
muted, 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 nihilst subjects, and the clos
ing 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
SpatQ,