The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-03-09

Mary's voice and gestures. We do not care
ii her legs are like corrugated copper light
ming rods, and bowed like a rarenthesis.
her art is what touches us. Her soulful
ayes, and mouth full of gym, are enough to
make Il man strike his parent>
SHOTA vICTOnIA.
A British Iolnatlc Fires Shot ut the Queen
The Would be AS ,Ssin Nearly Rent by
the 'rowd ut Windsor Castle, and IL
Locked Up.
LONDON March 2-The queen arrived at
Windsor about 5:25. She had been in London
since Tuesday, where she gave drawing
Waldeck, who is to marry Prince Leopold. A
crowd assembled st Buckingham palace this
forenoon, hoping to see the Queen drive out
The demeanor OF the people was as cordial as
usual There was large crowd Of spectators
awaiting the queens arrival at Windsor. The
queen walked across he platform of the rail
way station to her carr sc, which was in wait
ing to take her to the castle. joan Brown had
already assembled to seat benin the carriage,
when man giving the name Of Roderick Mac
Lean. miserable liking object,
standing at the entrance Of the station
at the carriage snd fired. 70 judge,
from the report the pr tot was not heavily loaG
ed. The queen, who was not aware OF what
had happened, was Immediately drlveu by the
driver to the castle, Int before she passed by
the man had been soiz by the superintendent
by. He was also violently seized by the crowd
and only rescued when three or four policemen
came to the superintendent's assistance The
pistol was captured by one OF the crowd. Mao
Lean, who was n1iserab'y clad, was taken into
Hig! street and thence conveyed to the police
f0f N0h A = h1o txynl
at the castle, she ordered an equerry to the de-
pot to inquire II any one was hurt. The report
of the pistol was sharp, not loud. MacLean
apparently intended filing again, when his re-
volver, which seemed to TO q new ono, was
knocked from his hand by bystander and
a anuS We're promnent in tho a a'temp pG to
lynch MacLean. Pons ,nby, the queens secre-
tary, proceeded to the police station, and after
obtaliag al! the information possible, tele-
graphed to Gladstone the facts Of the assault
It is understood that the queen has not sus-
tanned any shock. MacLoau is said to be an in
habltant of Sou1hssa. The general opinion ia
that the act was the result OF !uuacy.
No bullet marks were found on the queens
carriage. Resolutions expressing horror at the
attempt to assassinate tie queen were passed at
various meetings to- night, both in Loguon and
provinces, including meeting of rishmen
The czar, the empress Of Austria and Emperor
William OF Germany telegraphed mes ages OF
sympathy Ths queol hal her dinuer party
last night as usual. No political significance Is
attached in any quarter to the outrage.
MacLean is twenty s. wen years old He
states that he is a grocer's assistant The doc
tors pronounce him sane. The revolver is
six chambered Colts American make. Two
chambers were found loaded. and two recently
discharged.
Fourteen ball cartridges we're found on the
prisoner. MacLean says hunger acsuated the
Ty,n hi t,ofS ~ ir1c
expressing qualification at the failure Of the at
tempt.
Ia the houee OF commons, Harcourt, reply
ing to the inquiry from n ,rthcote, stating that
the man MacLean, who shot a. the queen this
afternoon, was clerk and native Of London.
He sd ed that the queen was not alarmed at
the event.
MacLean's attempt is the fourth that has i'm
pelilstl the life of Victoria during the tortyfi
eveutful years Of her reign.
McLean was charged at tho police station
with shooting st the queen with intent to Go
grevious bodily arm. He asked whether any
one was hurt, but the police refused to give
hun any information. After searching the
yard at the railway station for an hour this
morning the police found small bullet imbed-
ded in the ground. It bore theJ marks of
having first struck some other object. Itw
hight il direction of the spot over which the
q oen's carriage was passing having probably
The queen and Prircess' Beatrice
walked On the castle terrace SIS usual this morn
ing An eye witness Of the shooting states
that Mclean was funblin3 in his pocket while
the queen was being helped into the carriage,
but the presence of the crowd prevented him
from raising his arm until the carriage was in
motion. The same cause made him very wide
Of his mark. A special thanksgiving sslvce
was held at Windsor to- day for the escape Of
the queen from the attempt upon her life.
Mclean is now under examination before a
Windsor magistrate. He was hooted at by the
crowd while on his way to the town hall.
At the examination of McLean, two letters
we're read. In the first, which was written be-
fore the shooting, he said he was compelled to
commit the crime against the bloated aristoc-
offered him. In the second letter, written af-
ter his arrest, he said his only object was to
cause public alarm and get his pecuniary
grievances redressed; that he did not mean to
hurt the queen, but only fired at the wheels Of
her carriage. The police evidence at the ex-
cross-examlnation, went to prove that he fred
straight at the carriage, and not at the wheel,
as he alleged.
The police have ascertainee that Mclean
was formerly in the Wells lunatic asylum. and
was only discharged in September last A
Windsor stating that he defende man
named Rode1ick Mclean at Meadstone in
1874, charged with attempting to upset q
train. Since his discharge from the Wells
asylum he has been confined in the Weston
Supmore asylum, London The police have
information That he was mcarcerated in an
other asylum many months. The archbishop
Of Canterbury has requested the clergy to Of
fer thanks for the deliverance Of the queen
in their churches on Sunday The queen
drove through Windsor to-day, and wvs well
coined with iudescribable enthusiasm. When
the prisoner left the town hall after his OK.
animation twenty men endeavored to overtnrn
the Carriage containing him.