Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-19
TO KILL FRANCIS JOSEPH.
A Scheme to Dump His Train Into the
Ditch and Kill Him and His Suite.

A Scheme to Dump His Train Into the
Ditch and Kill Him and His Suite.
VIENNA, September ISL reports
are to be believed. plans have been dis
covered of an attempt upon the life OF
Emperor Francis Joseph.
Full details of the affair have been
carefully hushed up by the police, but
enough is known to justify people in
believing that there is no doubt that an
attempt was to be made to kill the EN-
peror.
This story obtains publicity to-day
through the MigyGr Hirtdp, a newspa-
per published in Buda Pesth, the capt.
tai of Hungary, and is about as follows:
A Roumanian boy overheard strange
conversation between two men, which
led him to believe chat an attempt was
being made upon the life OF the EN-
peror. The boy was too far away from
the conspiIators to gather exactly what
was said, and the words he did hear so
alarmed him that he ran away and in
formed his parents Of what he had over
heard. After much elaboration and
consultation with their neiRhborS, the
parents CT the Roumauian lad went to
the nearest police depot and informed
the official in charge of what the boy
had overheard. The reluctancy OF the
boys parents TO communicate with the
police was due to the fact that they
dreaded being arrested aud in some
manner held as prisoners, II not on the
charge OF being concerned in the plot,
at least as witnesses until the conspira-
tors we're arrested.
This turned out to be the case, for the
boy and his parents were promptly
placed undsr arrest pending an inyesti-
cation into the lads strange tale The
latter's story was then Investigated by
the police and found to be founded on
fact.
The conversation which the boy had
overheard was to the effect that the
Emperor would be killed together with
his suite, at certain point along the
line OF the railroad, near the spot
where the boy and his parents resided.
The Emperor, it appears, was TO travel
along that portion of the road on his
way to the army manouevres, and this
was the time selected to make an at
tempt upon his life. According to the
boy the rails were to be removed at a
certain place and the imperial train was
to be ditched and its occupants killed.
The authorities went TO the spot in
dictated with the signal man Of that sec
ton OF the road, and sure enough found
that the rivets OF the rails had been re-
Gently loosened. From that time the
road was carefully guarded day and
night, and the Emperor and his suite
passed over it In safety. Now every
foot Of railroad the Emperor travels
over is carefully inspected and an en-
CINE, In addition, is sent in advance OF
the imperial train.
1t Is suggested that the outrage was
due to the anti-Austrian preaching Of
the local Pope Of the village, in Tran
sylvania, inhabited by the boy and his
parents, where the majority Of the in
habitants are Roumanians. The latter,
it is claimed, are oppressed by the Mag
vars. This has especially been the case
recently.
Then again, it is claimed that the
outrage was the result Of the recent ag-
itation OF the young Czechs, due to va
rious causes and which has led to a
strong anti-German feeling and to the
spread Of revolutionary ideas.
1t is probable that the exact sacts in
wilh the plot against the
life will never be known, as
it is the policy of the authorities to
make as little as possible out OF the az
fair; but tie main facts just given are |
said by the Magyar Hirlap to be cor