The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-15
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Repeated Attempts on the Life of
King Humbert.
Ex-Attache, In New York Tribune
Precisely in the same manner that the
thunderbolt seems TO be attracted by
lofty trees and tall buildings, and to
strike with greatest violence In noun
famous regions, so too do trugedy and
misfortune Of one kind and another ap
pear TO select by preference the palaces
of royalty and the great ones of the earth
for their visitations. That this is the
case has been brought home to the public
mind with more than ordinrry force by
the assassination of M Sadi-Carnot, the
third president of great republic to sue
cumb to a violent death, the other two
being Abraham Lincoln and James A, Gar
field. The power Of q chief magistrate
| of nation such as the United
States or France, the prestige, the dignity
and the eminence of his office are so great
that they resemble. and sometimes sur
pass even those of crowned monarchs,
and hence it is not unnatural that the
elected of the people should be called upon
| to share the perils that encompass the
anointed of the Lord, and that not only
the thrones of sovereigns, but the chairs
Of presidents should constitute par excel
| lence the post of danger, the point of all
others against which every attack by the
enemies of society is directed.
! 1t is indeed a sinister spectacle that the
! palaces of the rulers Of the earth present,
and they may well be said TO be peren-
nially darkened by what is tiguratively
! known as the shadow of death" Take,
/ for instance France alone. -Four of its
! rulers since the beginning of the present
century have died in exile, namely, the
first and third Napoleon, King Charles
| X. and King Louis Philippe. The fate of
| their heirs has been even more sad, be-
| ginning with the young King Of Rome
! and ending with the prince imperial and
the Comte de Chambord. OF these two,
the former was killed by the Zulus in
| South Africa and the Comte de Cham
bord, known to his followers as liking
! Henri W. succumbed to poison. Louis
| philippes son, the Duo d'Orleans, had
! his neck broken by carriage accident in
the Rue de la Revolte at Paris, while
King Charles son the Due de Berri, was
poniarded at the opera,
The Empress Josephine is also known
to have succumbed to poison, believed to
have been administered by those inter
ested in preventing her from communi-
eating to Car Alexander !. the proofs
which she possessed of the evasion Of the
Dauphin, Louis XVII, from the Temple
prison and OF his being still alive. This
is guaranteed by Sir James Wylie, the
celebrated Scotch physician Of Emperor
| Alexander.
IN neighboring Spain revolution has
followed revolution in rapid succession
since the beginning of the century. Old
Queen Christina, deprived of her regency,
was driven into exile, and her daughter,
Queen Isabella, forced twenty years later
to follow her into Punishment after being
deposed. King Amadeus was forced to
abdicate and leave the country in mid
winter, the Journey resulting in the death
Of his delicate queen. Prince Henry of
Bourbon was killed in duel at Madrid
Queen Mercedes is popularity believed to
have been poisoned, and King Alfonso was
carried or so suddenly and mysteriously,
after only few hours illness, that there
has always been suspicion Of foul play.
These by no means exhaust the number
of tragedies that have been visited upon
the royal house of Spain Juring the last
| .sfty years the shocking suicide of the
husband of the Infanta Isabella in her
presence being one Of the most terrible of
them all. In the neighborinR kingdom Of
Portugal we find no less than six mem
bers of the reigning family carried of in
poison in the latter part OF the sos. and
the beginning of the COS, poison which
was administered TO the late king and to
his younger brother, and which rendered
them inYalids as long as they lived.
True the official statements Of their de-
mise attributed the latter TO other causes,
| but nobody at Lisbon believes them, and
the popular accounts which are familiar
20 nearly every Portuguese Of mature
years are credited in the Official circles Of
every court In Europe.
Pots to assassinate the present car
have followed one another so rapidly since
his accession to the throne that / doubt
if any one save TIE members Of his imme-
date family and circle has kept any rec
ord Of the number. His predecessor was
blown TO shreds by nitro glycerine after
repeated attempts TO murder him, while
| Cars Alexander ]. and Nicholas are gener-
| ally believed TO have succumbed TO poison.
Indeed, there is no monarch who has
reigned over Russia who is known to have
died a natural death, the great-grand-
father OF the present car, the semi
demented Paul having been stran-
gled by Count Orlon and others
OF his courtiers. Moreover, we
see one grand duke Of the imperial house
| of Romanon degraded for sacrileZe and
theft and exiled TO Siberia, and two 9TH
ers, both uncles of Alexander Ill. lying
I demented. Nor Is Austria much better
Of Besides Crown Prince Rudolph,
whose violent end at Meyerling still re-
mains shrouded in mystery, there are
Archduke Macmillan, who was shot In
Mexico, Archduchess Charlotte and Arch
/ duke Leopold, both under restraint as in
durable luuatics Archduchess Mathilda
burned 10 death, and Archduke John, who
has vanished from human ken, sailing on
his black-painted bark into the great I'M
known. There have been several at
temps, too, to assassinate the emperor,
the most notable being that which is now
commemorated by that exquisite piece of
ecclesiastical architecture at Vienna
known as the VoJive church. Francis
Joseph was severely wounded and had a
hand-to-hand struggle with his woud-be
assassin, the latter being finally disarmed
and secured by the lrish-born equerry of
mis- majesty, Maj. O'Donnell, who sub
sequently sucked the blood from the
wound, fearing lest the knife had been
poisoned
OF Bavaria, il is scarcely necessary 10
speak here, the tragical death Of King
Louis and the disgusting insanity of King
Otto being too familiar 70 most readers TO
need more than passing reference. The
rulers of Baden are likewise heavily OPP
pressed by the hand of misfortune, the
grand duchess being almost totally blind,
and her daughter. the crown princess of
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