The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-15

lieved TO have come to his death under
the same circumstances as did Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria. No one has
hitherto attempted to take the life Of
King Leopold, and he enjoys
much tho same immunity in
many. The latter's grandfather
old Emperor William, was shot at several
times by wOuld-be murderers and on the
last occasion was so badly wounded that
he he had TO abandon the cares of govern
ment TO his son, the lamented Emperor
Frederick, whose slow and horrible death
from cancer can only be described as
tragical in the extreme. The late EN-
per Williams elder brother died lunatia
after several years Of restraint. At Dres-
den, too, insanity marked for its own the
late King Of SaXony, who died a raving
maniac after having inflicted terrible
injury upon member of household;
while number Of the members of tIfs
house of Hesse, as well as the last King
of Hanover and the present Grand-duke
of Mecklenburg-Streli are incurably
blind.
King Humbert has several times been
in danger Of losing his life by assassina-
tiOn, the most serious attack being that of
the Neapoitan cook Passanante, who,
jumping on the wheel of the royal car
riage aimed just the same sort of blow at
His Italian Majesty as that with which
the Swiss Anarchist Santo killed Presi-
dent Carnot at Lyons the other day. For
tunately, the king had with him in the
carriage, besides Queen Marguerite, his
Prime Minister Carroll, man of remark
able courage and presence OF mind, who,
interposing himself between his sovereign
and the assassin, succeeded in shielding
the former, receiving the knife in his own
body. Again, n couple of years ago, the
kings life was attempted in the gardens
of the Villa Borghese by man named
Berardi
In mentioning Italy, should not omit
to state that within the last half-century
the reigning dukes of Lucca and Parma
were assassinated, and the rulers of Me-
dina and Tuscany driven into exile, while
the stepfather Of Queen Marguerite COM
mitted suicide. No less than eight or
nine attempts have been made to kill
Queen Victoria the present King of Wur.
temberg was shot at while driving with
his wife shortly before he assembled the
throne, and young King Carlos was fired
at by n would-be murderer last year.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, during the
few years of his reign at Sofia, has mar
rowly escaped from the execution of seve-
raj plots TO assassinate or kidnap him
King Charles of Roumania has been shot
at, and young King ''Sacha" of SerVia,
has twice been the object Of
murderous designs, on one occasion mar
rowly escaping from the effects of the exc
plosion of dynamite bomb as he was
leaving the riding school at Belgrade to-
ward dusk The life of his father, King
Milan, was in constant peril throughout
his reign, and his predecessor, Milosch,
was stabbed to death by Karageorgevitch
while walking in the gardens of his pal.
ace Although cannot at this moment
remember any deliberate attempt TO as
sassinate King Christian of Denmark, yet
he, his wife and his daughters were SUBJ
jected to a considerable amount of vio-
lence by Copenhagen mob shortly after
his accession to the throne. Princess
Dagmar, who has since become Empress
of Russia, received a severe cut on the
side of her head from a stone
Princess Alexandra, now Princess Of
Wales, was spat upon, and the windows
of the carriage were shattered and the
vehicles otherwise badly injured. AT
Constantinople one sultan was deposed
and done to death, no one knows by whom
or in what manner save that n pair OF
long, sharp scissors were used In infiicting
the many wounds with which his body
was covered and his successor, the older
brother of the present sultan, is detained
| a close prisoner in one of his palaces, on
| the ground of his alleged insanity.
From this II will be seen that the exist
| ence of the heads of nations is not with
| out considerable peril; that the precau-
| tions adopted for their safety are not so
| superfucus as one might be tempted TO
| believe and that the insurance companies
are on the whole justified in considering
them in the light quite the reverse Of
| stqood risks -