The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12

stately and magnificent as was the pa
eeant OF his funeral. it nevertheless ere
ated immense difficulties for those whose
duty II was 10 regulate It according to the
laws or etiquette, as ordained in the case
OF the demise of the head of the state.
since Louis XIV, with the exception of
OF LOUIS xviii, not one ruler of France
mas died IN the exercise Of power. Louis
NJ was deJhroled and guillotined; the
Dlrectolre was Overthrown by Bonaparte;
Napoleon was twice banished and
oreathed his last away from the land he
had made so great; Charles Y.
Phlhppe were eXiled Napoleon Ill never
re-entered France after Sedan NJ Theirs
resigned; Marshal MacMahon and NJ.
Grevy were compelled-although for diff
sIerent reasons-to vacate the presidential
'chalr before their term of ONCE expired,
ana finally NJ. Carnot was murdered
nearly al the close of his septennate.
strangely enough, at an epoch when
monarchy is supposed to be the object of
universal hatred; when supreme author
lty vested in hereditary dynasties excites
the loudest curse of the radicals, an
archlStS, and socialists, kings and princes
have been more spared than the presi-
dents OF republics, against whom the wea-
pons OF assasslns have taken more deadly
ann. We have seen Booth and Guiteau
killing Lincoln and Garfield; Garcia
Moreno, president of Ecuador, murdered
IN front OF the Cathedral OF Quito in 1919
Menendez Salvador, Gill in Paraguay,
balta and Gutierrez in Peru, and several
others have met violent deaths.
This century has been fertile in more or
less successful attempts against the lives
OF rulers of states. As early as 1900
Damerville and twenty-four of his accom-
phces were arrested the day before the
execution OF their well-planned plot to
Kill the first consul; and in the same year
a bomb burst in the hue Nicaise fifty sec
onds before Bonaparte was expected to
pass the spot. Moreau, Pichegru and
George Cadoudal were arrested for con-
spring against the life of Napoleon /. in
1904, and in 1909, at Schoenbrunu, Fred
erlck Slaoy, Protestant clergyman,
walked up to the emperor, dagger in
hand, and was only prevented from plIng-
ing 1t into his heart by the rapid interpo-
sltlon of a soldier of the guard. Ma
poleon offered the man his pardon, which
he refused, saying that he would never
rest till his purpose was accomplished
Under the restoration the most odious
crime Of the century was perpetrated;
the young Duke de Berry fell, an limo
cent victim, under the knife of Louvel as
he was leaving his carriage to enter the
opera house. 1t may be mentioned here
that so many murders have been at
tempted from the steps of carriages, the
state coaches are made without outer
steps and retain the old-fashioned system
of steps that are folded and placed inside
the door.
Under the monarchy of July the king
escaped seven attempts at assassination.
In November, 1882, Bergeron fired at
Louis Philippe and missed him narrowly
In 1928, followed by his sons and a bril-
liant STAFF, the king was reviewing the
troops on the boulevard du Temple, when
loud report shook the houses, and i'm
mediately the ground around him was
strewn with dead and wounded, among
them Marshal Motier, Due de Trevise
The king and his sons were unhurt.
t1eschi, the perpetrator of the outrage,
YVES arrested III the fittfey yard Of a house
where he fired a succession of rifle shots
through the blinds of the third story; he
was taken, tried, sentenced and executed
with his accomplices. In June. 1886, Ali
baud a friend OF NJ Grevy, fired gun at
Louis Philippe, the bullet passing over
the kings hat; few months later Meu-
nier discharged his pistol point blank at
his ma esty; the shots proved harmless.
In 1881 an engineering workman was ar
rested twenty-tour hours before he sue
ceeded in placing and exploding on the
kings path an Internal machine he had
constructed; his name was Champion,
and, like Pichegru, he hung himself in
his cell.
Under Napoleon III, murderous at
tempts we're not wanting; the emperor
escaped almost miraculously from the
knife of Greppo, the revolver of Dianeri,
and the BOMBS of Orsini, which wounded
or killed $50 people. Orsini, Pieri,
Greppo, Fieschi, Pianeri, and many
other criminals of the same stamp were
ltalians it would seem as if the thirst for
vengeance and reckless disregard of life
OF their race specially predisposed them
for such assaults.
Out of France they are less frequent.
with the exception, however, of Russia,
where the record is long from 1901, when
Paul |. was murdered in his palace, till
1881, when , lexander II. was exposed to
a series of attempts terminating uy the
fatal explosion of the Nihilistic bonn bs
on the quay of the Neva. In 1879 the
train on which the car was supposed TO
travel between Livadla and Moscow was
wrecked, justifying the precaution which
always SENDS off two trains almost stimuli
taneously, without its being known in
which the emperor and imperial family
have taken their seats at the last moment.
Another time the dining salon of the
Winter palace at ST. Petersburg was
blown up few minutes before the car
entered it with his guests. IL has never
been clearly proved whether Alexander
IL. was saved from an accident or a pre-
meditaJed crime on the railway train at
Borki
Queen Victoria was shot at twice with
out any effect once in l840 by youth of
lS, Edward Oxford, and not many years
ago by semi-lunatic in London.
In Spain Queen Isabella was wounded
in the arm by the knife of the priest
Meriuo, who aimed at her heart as she
was going in state to return thanks at
the sanctuary of Atecha for the birth of
her son. In 1872, in the Gale Alcala in
Madrid, ruffian. whose name was never
ascertained and whose chief was killed on
the spot by detective, fired into the car
riage containing King Amadeus and the
queen.
In Portugal, Prince Ferdinand, consort
of the Queen Maria da Gloria, was shot
at twice in 1887, and his son, who sue
ceeded the queen on the throne, died a
mysterious death, attributed 10 poison.
In Austria, the Emperor Franz Josef
miraculously escaped the dagger of an
assassin in 1850, and votive chapel was
erected in Vienna on the same spot in
commemorate on Of his safety. Less for
tuuate, his brother Macmillan fell in
Mexico under the bullets Of the soldiers
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