The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-09-15
EMPRESS DEAD.
Elizabeth, Of Austria, Stabbed to the
Heart by an Anarchist In Geneva.
She Staggered to Her Feet and Started
for the Boat, Believing Herself Us-
hurt-On Rssching the Vessel
She Painted and Expired,

GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. l2.-Eu
|, press Elizabeth OF Austria had bee
here a few days and was leaving Gen
eva for Montreaux, where she in
tended 10 stay for some time.
She left her hotel for the steamboa
at l2:S5 p. m. On her way from tn,
hotel to the pier she was assault
ed by man, who rushed up to her ant
struck her. The empress fell, bu
staggered to her feet and started or
again for the boat, believing herseli
unhurt She reached the steamer
which the captain, after some hesita.
ton, ordered to proceed, only doing so,
however, at the command of her ma J.
esty.
Shortly after the boat put off the
empress tainted and the steamer re-
turned to the pier Her majesty was
taken ashore at once and carried to
her hotel, where she expired little
later without regaining conscious
ness. 1t was then found she had
been stabbed and that the assassin's
stiletto had reached her heart The
assassin was arrested, and proved to
be an Italian anarchist named Luc-
cheni, who said that he was born in
Paris.
The news of the murder of the en-
press spread rapidly through the city,
almost stupefying the people with
horror.
LONDON, Sept 12.-The story of the
assassination of the empress of Aus
tria reached here through the Paris Of
hce OF the Havas news agency. The
French foreign Office confirms the re.
port of the assassination of the en-
press of Austria
VIENNA, Sept 12.-The plans for the
funeral of the late Empress Eliza beth,
who was assassinated by an anarchist
Saturday at Geneva, contemplate
bringing the remains to Vienna next
Thursday, a lying-in.state on Friday
ind the obsequies of interment on Sat-
irday.
Every flag In the city was at half
mast Sunday, and the theaters, races
and other amusements are SUSPENDED
All the archdukes and the Arch
luches Marie Valerie have arrived at
;choen brunn.
BERNE, Switzerland, Sept l2.-The
ederal council met Monday morning
nd sent the following telegram to
Emperor Francis Joseph:
"The Swiss federal council has the
onor to express to your majesty It's
rofoundest grief and deepest indig-
alton at the horrible crime to which
Ier Majesty Empress Eliza beth has
lllen victim. Our pain and indigna-
on are still the greater owing to the
'ul crime having been committed on
wiss territory, where the departed,
she had often done before, was {
eking recovery from bodily suffer
gs. which recovery, as on previous /
she had every hope of fnd-
g. {
'The council hastens to assure your {
aJesty, at the same time of it's own
armest sympathy and that of the o
hole Swiss people in the irreparable
IS your majesty, the imperial house v
d the peoples of Austria and Hun
ry have suffered through your ex- !,
led lady's death"
The flag on the federal building Is b
half.mast The council reassem-
ID Sunday afternoon to receive re- "
rts regarding the crime and to con- X
er the steps te be taken 1t Is ex.
,ted that the judicial authorities of ci
, Canton of Vaud will conduct the VI
luiry and the trial
;ENEvA, Sept 1.-The autopsy /
'wed that the lung rs we'll as the
Irt was pierced. Nj
10 strangers are allowed to approach
coffin of the murdered Empress
zabeth. The body is embalmed and
ressed in white.
he doctors photographed the u"
md, but the plate will be destroyed. an
is understood that Emperor Fran H'
Joseph will not leave Austria, but 'o'
send high court officials to take pcs
body to Vienna Flowers are ar 'n'
ng in profusion. 'n'
he assassin maintains his cynical '"e
ieanor and frankly congratulates NJ :
self on the success of his crime.
says: ere
am an anarchist, but belong to coy "a,
l acted on my own in S''
i've. Let them do as they like 'eA
me. That is my strength" r'''
INEvA. Sept IA file found late No'
day evening in the passage of a gar
e on the Rue des Alpes has been u,
tilted by the assassin as the weapon 'n
sed. COL
S name, though heretofore vari- ,en
! given and published here as Lac "eo &
!, Lucchesi and Luccessi, is now
TO be Luigini. Era
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