Connecticut western news., 1898-09-15
MOURNING IN EUROPE.
Murder of Austrian Empress
 Causes Profound Sorrow.
ASSASSIN EXPRESSES NO REGRET.

Maintains . Cynical Bearing and Is
 Ready to Pay the Penalty-Emperor
 Bears Up BrayeIy-Body to Lie In
 State In Vienna.
 Vienna, Sept. 12-The plans for the funeral of the late Empress Elizabeth. who was assassinated by an anarchist Saturday at Geneva, contemplate bring ing the remains to Vienna next Thurs day, a lying in state on Friday and the obsequies of interment on Saturday.
 Every flag in the city is at half mast today, and the theaters, races and other amusements are suspended indefinitely.
 All the archdukes and the Arch duchess Marie Valerie have arrived at Schoenbrunn. It was reported Satur- day evening that Emperor Francis Jo- seph had gone to Geneva by a special train, but this was an error. At noon yesterday he had not yet left Schoen- brunn. The Crown Princess Stephanie. who has been staying at Darmstadt. has been summoned.
 The emperor's fortitude Is the topic of universal admiration. He is bearing up manfully despite the terrible shock, which, in view of his age, had inspired the gravest apprehension. Although at first stunned and then slightly hysteri- cal, he soon regained his self control and displayed remarkable calmness. Oc- casionally, however. completely over powered by his grief, he moaned pite- ously. repeatedly sobbing the name of the empress.
 Addressing Prince von Liechtenstein, chief marshal of the imperial house. hold, he exclaimed last evening:
 Tt Is -inconceivable how a man could lift his hand against one who never in her life injured anybody. one who did nothing but good"
 Then he moaned. Nothing Is spared to me in this world" He managed to sleep several hours last night and said this morning he felt comparatively well, discouraging the attempts of his att tendants to display solicitude for his health.
 The shock of the news crazed one of the court servants. who rushed from the palace to Bury platz, shrieking. Where Is the murderer of our em- press?"
 The court will go into mourning for six months.
 PrOud or Ills Foul Deed.
 Geneva. Sept. 13.-On the order of . magistrate the assassin of the Empress Elizabeth was taken yesterday after noon from St. Anthony prison to the Anthropometrical institute, where he was measured and photographed. Por- traits were given to the press and will be distributed to the police in the cities where he has lived.
 In prison he has boasted of his crime, and he has addressed a letter to a Milan newspaper expressing a fear lest he be mistaken by Professor Cesar Lombroso for degenerate. Dilating in this com munication upon the objects of militant anarchism, he wrote:
 Above all. 1t Is the great who must be struck. Not only sovereigns and their ministers will be reached by the com raGes, but all who make them miserable on earth"
 He says he was not impelled by mis- cry to kill the empress, as such a course would have been idiotic, but he com mitted the deed 'in order that such crimes, following one upon the other. might cause all who impoverish the populace to tremble and shiver." The document concludes with this declara- tfon:
 T am an anarchist by conviction"