The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-11
EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA
STRUCK DOWN BY AN
ASSASS|N'S DAGGER
An Italian Anarchist Punges the Knife Into the Queens
Heart-Part of Plot to Kill All of the
Crowned Heads of Europe.

Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 1o.-Th
empress of Austria was assassinatec
at the Hotel Beaurivage this even
ing by an anarchist, who was ar.
rested. He stabbed her majesty with a
stiletto.
1t appears that her majesty was
walking from her hotel to the LANDING
place of the steamer at about 1 o'clock
when an Italian anarchist suddenly
appeared and stabbed her to the
heart. The empress fell and was car
ried to the Hotel Beaurivage, where
she expired. The murderer is named
Luechoni. He was born in Paris of
Italian parents.
The empress was born Dec. "a. 1887.
She was the daughter of Duke Maxi
millian of Bavaria. and was married
| to Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria
and king of Hungary, April "a, 1874
They had three children, Archduchess
Gissola. who is married to Prince Luit-
pold of Bavaria; Archduke Rudolph.
who married Princess Stephanie of
Belgium, and who was seemingly as
sassinated in 1889. and the Archducn-
ess Maria Valeria, who married Arch
duke Franz Salvato of Austria -Tus-
cany.
The empress of Austria had been
stopping at the Hotel Beaurivage sew
eral days. 1t was at first thought the
wound was not serious, but she dic.i in
a few minutes.
The president of Switzerland and
other members of the government were
stunned with horror and grief when
the news reached the palace that the
empress, so beloved by all Europeans,
had fallen victim to an assassin with
in the borders of their country. They
Immediately arranged to hold an ex-
traordinary federal council on Sunday
morning in order to consider the meas
ures to take against the assassin The
latter must be tried according to the |
statutes of the canton in which the /
crime was committed, which forbids |
capital punishment and makes life i'm
prisonment the most severe penalty
which can be imposed. When the Aus
trian minister, Count Kuerfstein, was
informed of the tragedy. he hurried to
the palace and was met with express
sions of deepest sympathy.
So soon as a special train could be
Geneva, accompanied by the deputy
prosecutor general, who took up the
'ase at once. his chief being on a vaca-
ion. He will hold a preliminary in
Iuiry at Geneva tonight, or as soon
s possible, and return tomorrow in or
er TO report to the federal council.
The federal authorities had been in
ormed of the visit of the empress and
hey notified the governors of the can
on of the empress expected visit, ex-
Getting them to take police measures
or her comfort and safety, if 1t ap- I
cared necessary.
They were not notified of her majes-
rs intention to visit Geneva. nor were
ne local officials there aware of her
as she was travelling incog-
ito. The police are not blamed,
lough the circumstances responsible q
II the lack of precautions are widely &
GREETED. All Switzerland is pro- a
undly stirred with sorrow and in L
gnation. The papers of all the cities oi
I've printed extra editions expressing Y
'rror of the crime. fC
the anarchist assassin, is p'
om Parma Italy. The stretcher upon b
nich the empress was carried to the
tel was hastily improvised with oars sa
d sail cloth. Doctors and priests le
re Immediately summoned and a tel la
ram was sent TO Emperor Francis III
seph. All efforts to revive her mai st
" were unavailing. and she expired a
O'Clock. The medical examination ce
'ws that the assassin must have used mi
small triangular file. After striking ne
blow he ran along the Rue de AIpes. sa
h the evident intention of entering CO,
square Les Alpes, but before reach sin
it he was seized by two cabmen, .