Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-12
lsrILLo IS DEAD
20 PRIME MINISTER MURDERED
BY AN ANARCHIST.
were Fired mt Hfm-He
.s. Hours After Recciv-
-. Fatal Wound-Hts Last
were: "Long Live spain"
49,. effect ON spain's Politt-
.rs,rs secretary sherman's
opinion.

,-a Auc. 9.-Senor Canovas del
',,a tho prime minister of Spain,
nssossinated at Santa Agueda by
sasrehlst. The murderer fired three
two OF which struck the premier
I, hoad and the other in the chest.
Wounded man fingered uncon-
far two hours. His wife was
short distance away when he
- murderer declares that he killed
~ Canoyas lin accomplishment of
~, ~yengeance," and that the deed
|sho outcome of a vast anarchistic
P,n;raey. He is believed to have
srel at Santa Agueda the same day
|,he nTam;e-. and he was frequently
! hIrkjny in the passages of the
Ming establishment in a suspicious
inner,
Ivad greatly of late. He had been
[dinr a very quiet life, although he
arded 10 the business Of state. At
1 mcmeIt of the assassination he
! waiting in the gallery OF the bath
establishment for his wife. who
! 10 join him for lunch. Suddenly
assassin, who had the appearance
,n ordinary visitor, approached and
N at him point blank, one bullet
ksipg through the body and coming
behind the left shoulder, and the
Ier two lodging in the head. He fell
tantly and OILY recovered cor
BUSINESS long enough to speak a few
rds.
Washington. Aug. 9. - This govern
INT probably has already received
formal notification of Premier Can
IS assassination. but If so il is
kked up with other dispatches in the
he department and will not be
own until Secretary Sherman
kehes the department.. The secre-
h received the first news of the af-
4 through the Associated Press bull
II. He expressed deep interest in
details. He said: This deplora-
event will have some effect, of
brse, on the political affairs of
bin, but 10 what extent l cannot say.
X death Of one man Is not necesstri-
going TO change the sentiment of the
0e country. Spain is a very tena-
BIS country. Her money is gone.
n resources have been exhausted.
she means. evidently. tG hold on
Cuba. Just how she can do ii, un-
these circumstances, / cannot see.
she Is opposed 10 yielding a point.
Pmier Canovas was a strong parti-
He was the chief exponent of
element which was determined TO
the islands at all hazards. Seem
" Spain Is almost a unit ON this.
royas was a strong factor in the
Eernment OF Spain. but il is not inn
Fsible that another will be found 10
pace him in that important office,
ping similar views and the same pro-
rnced ideas. How il may be in this
am not able to say, but the ef-
fs politically. of such an event are
essentially far-reaching and have
always produced radical develop
nS. lis to the consequences of the
met In Cuba, do not care to talk.
pave no official information of the
asslnation ard must refrain from
lluflng gnesses as to what il may
81 in the future"
lXed as to how long he now
PagEt the Cuban i~nsurrection might
! he replied that that was prob
Patlcal, and he did not care to dis
vi. He added that he had heard
lous names of prominent leaders in
in mentioned, but he was not well
prhed as TO them, and there was
Laing on which he could base n pre-
Won as to Canovas' probable sue
major Morgan, a member of the
agh affairs committee Of the sem
and the champion Of Cuba in that
predicted that the assassination
~ De the forerunner of a complete
ny OF government, a republic re-
uls the monarchy. This, he
uen', was the present tendency and
event he regarded as an evidence
Eas Immigration of the Spanish