Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-19

ATTEMPTS TO ASsAssINAr8 sovEREIaHs sINcl
1894 LONG ANB BLOODY RECORD.
Manchester Examiner April. 1880

ATTEMPTS TO AssAssINArR sovBREIaNs sINcK
| 1894 LONG ANB BLOODY RECORD.
| Manchester Examiner. April. $780,
paper published at Berne has compiled a
list OF all the known attempts at assassination
That have been made since 1850, under the head
| ing Recent Regicides." a term which, how
ever expressive, Is scarcely accurate, tnasmuch
as a.. tne compilation includes attempts on the
On the lives OF Princes and potentates. The
nrst crime recorded in this register is the at
Tempt made In May, 1850. by the Westphalian,
Safelage. to shoot the King of Prussia, to the
cry OF Liberty for ALL" On Jane 2S of the
same year, Robert Pate, retired lieutenant OF
n nusSars; struck the Queen OF England with a
oaIeIan assault eertainy, but not an assault
WIN intent TO Kill In october. 1852 conspiracy
10 pioW up Louis Napoleon with an Internal ma
cnIne containing 500 projecties, was frustra.
ted py the activity of the police. on FEB. II,
1888, the Emperor OF Austria was stabbed In the
PACK oy Hungarian shoemaker of the name
OF Saoa Ld9eny. on the 5th OF July following a
ssoon1u aoIempt was made on the life OF Louis
O Oap9ieon on ms way to the opera Comfque.
on March 90 1854, Ferdinand Charles III, Duke
OF o., iarma was stabbed by an unknown hand
Part OF the dagger remained In the wound
which IL inflicted, and the Duke died after q
hours or terrible suffering. The murderer es
| caped. In 1850 the Italian, PIanori. shot twice
az .he fiehCh emperor In the TuilerieS gar
| den: la March, 1855, Spaniard, OF the n3 me-
OF RaiRlond Fuenes. Was arrested just as he
was ID the act OF firing pistol at his sovereign
aud the execution Of his murderous design pre-
| vented. on Dec. Sth, In the same year, FGrii-
nand IL, King OF the Two Sicilies, was attacked
| at review by one OF his own soldiers, who
wounded him with his bayonet. In 1851, the
Italian conspiralors, Tibaldi. Bartoletti and
Greiii, arrived In Paris with the Intention OF
numbering the Emperor, but fell into the hands
OF the police before their design could be
!olioWing year, Orsini, Comes, Pleri ana Rldio
maze their famous attempt to blow up t1e
Emp hmPe TO- al ana Empress with bombshels on
onelr way 10 tke opera. Their ulajesttes es-
capped with some Slight contusions. but more
than 100 persons OF their escort were killed and
wounded. La December, 1868, another attempt
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 student, Dosio5. on
the l4th OF April, 1865, President Lincoln was
murdered In Fords Theater, at Washington,
by the actor, Booth, and Secretary seward dan
ge[ously wounded. A year later almost to
man OF good position by the name OF Pc
Iouik 81 In the garden OF his palace at
S9 PPeffepsGiaTg n,sto peasant who struck
shot aside, and In all probability saved
the Emperor,s life, was rewarded with a title of
mobility and the commission OF a captain IN the
army al N.Y. me me month afteIward or to be precise
bismarck While the latter was walking Inter
Qen Linden, In Berlin, one OF which struck and
slightly wounded the great minister. On June
10, lS6s. Prince Michel, of seryia. and lady OF
his family were brutality murdered In the park
OF Iopeider. In 1872 Bsmarck's lite was again
attempted, this time by man OF the name Of
Westerweiie, and In 1874 yet again, this time
Dy hallmann, at KisseHgen. On August 6,
1875, the president OF the republic OF Ecua-
cor, Gabriel Garcia Moreno, was murdered
In the Government House at Quito, and 10
April, 1871, similar fate befeIl the presi-
dent OF the republic of Paraguay. on
May II, 1873, the German Emperor was
shot at by Hoedei, and Old June 2, less than
month later, by Nobiling, receiving on the LAT.
yer occasion wounds by which bis life was
seriously endangered. NobIllng killed himself
In prison. while Hoedel persisted on the scaff0ld
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 his life the penalty OF his crime. Less
THAN month thereafter, November Il, the life
OF King humoert, OF Italy, was attempted by
Passanante, whose sentence OF death was COM
muted, at his majesty's own instance, to one OF
perpetual imprisonment. Last year. as Will be
fresh 10 the memory OF all, the Emperor OF
Russia had two narrow escapes from death at
the hands Of his nihiiist subjects, and the clos
Ing day CT the old year witnessed the latest
essay at regfcde at present on record-uhe at
tempt or Otero to shoot the King and Queen OF
SEatn.