Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-04-17
CROWNED HEADS HARD TO HIT.

CROWNED HEADS HARD TO HIT.
Attempts ,c Assassinate Them Have
Failed.
(Pall Mall GaZette.)
The list Of missed monarchs is talk
ing 1t no further back than the last
halI dozen decades or so, an interest,"
ing subject OF consideration Al the
head Of it We find the most missed
monarch Of his own, or, indeed. of any
age, Louis Philippe. For a matter Of
fourteen years, this monarch was con
stantiy having lead pumped at him.
his experience began on Nov. 49,. 1892
Soihebody-t VAS never properly as
cef.aihea who-opened fire upon him
on the Pont Neuf. This was but a fore
| taste. Ficschi followed with his infer
nal machine, July 2S 1885. Nineteen
barrels. with four balls in each. ar
ranged !" cover Il space of twenty-five
feet wide and ten feet high, accounted
Tor Marshal Mortier, three other mill
tary officers and five civilians on the
spot, The King rode home without a
scratch. Aibaud followed, June 25
le.h Meurini"r in December of the
sumo year BARNES drew his bead in
| 1910 LccoiiIte had pot shots at his SOW
erelgn from behind a wall in 1886. and
! before that year was out Henri had
| done his best to ''snpe" him from the
garden OF the Tuieries. And all these
operators had provided themselves
,.,.,iod =, 1',;,' "pl 80 ~ tnes sue
lodge a iii ~ ,y.,adin,. ~ So ".ta ~
ambroSial whiskers.
Meantime. oxford in $780, John Fran
the sam. yn,r .,nd ,,:;,,;.,,s, 49, ~
in 1919 hnd ali srnred ,,'is.,t .r,,;.,!
the Sovereign r,adv nf thsss, ,.,"Ir,,s.
who was to have yet Il further expe-
rience at Windsor station in 1882 when
his attemnt, 'O''''''o' i''t'ue
But for, what bopnono, ., e. y
burg at . o.clock in The aft,rn,o ,e' ~
March rs. 1881. thu snronI Alaxania, ~
Hussia n,;,rh, 49, 49,, t>ieAa.iueI OF
ai nc ~. ni,i. 1871, oeeti ~ li'uctl mss
rakozow had missed him ,t St peters-
/ burg i'm 1886 Rnrnzn,xs,,i "a ,,,;,.s.a
him again in Paris on thnr histori 9, h
. of June in 1S61 So,oriarr f,;lnd ~ ,s1o
They laid a mine for him lust outside
Moscow. ana the i,,,,n,;,, ,,,,,.,, s.s.
/; train happeued 10 be ,nnnin,, ti,si y p :,
day. Thnn thev tilled :, ,.e,ni, h.i,,v
: the dining room, Mt the Winner pai.
ace. But that E.br,,;.ry evening II So
: ten out that the Imperial dinner part !
, was a little later thar, ,ls,nl The ca,
{ mad ,-on, Il, me-, ~. prinr. az u saS'.
{ rho ,ni,, -,,.,s t;rd ,fnrs -, 49,,
had entered the room. i,.fur, IN. Ro,:.
: XII accident" the SON Of Alexander IT
, had had II couple of experiences. on,
i officer An but hn, rim -, C:,ts,.hin, =,
: 1SST. ,nnth,, ,,iS.,1 ,in ''. :. =.
. narrowly the next wear
(, Thrice missed was her most Cotho,i,
i Majesty. Isabella-by In Riyo in 1SlI
{ by Merino. the priest in 1S5o thnurh !;
. saved her; ana by RAYMOND E,,enta
:, in 1856 Alfonso MI w,s ,,,issad -,
, Mnncasi in 1873 and by FRA ncps,.,, On =
:, 70 Gonzales subsequently. When tn
n Due d'Aosta was King Amadeus ;
II party of tiy. Went fnr him - Mnd,.id
in the calle Aren:u, but it was one o
the party who was killed Even tn
popular Francis Joseph has been miss
! ed twice. Libenyi Erazed his Maiest t,,.'
e neck with a knife in 1859. overdanl
= The third Napoleon was very had1,
- missed. l'ianori gave him both bar
!. rcls at the corner Of the Rue de Balza
= in the last DAYS of May !S55 RalJaa
:, mares pistol threw too high ON Sent
10 $, that year. when the European va
y Just cn1urina, the Theatre Italinn an
= Orsinj ana comnanv.s fni,nra an I f.,1
IA, 1858. Just outside the old Onera i
the Rue I.opelleticr is the nost histor
80 ~ - ti1S mus iiiSeot