Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-18
MELANCHOLY QUEEN.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE
LATE EMPRESS or AUSTRIA.
DEATH WAS WELCOME TO HER.
A surmise ms 10 the Real Reason of
Her ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Italians De-
Domestic TroubIes-Tbeir Cause.
For the Dlspatch.)

Since the cable flashed the news of the
brutal assassination Of Elizabeth. EN-
press of Austria, by the dagger of an
Italian Anarchist, and thought that has
arisen in every ones mind, and the query
that has been on every tongue. is What
was the motive?" Efforts have been made
TO answer the query by the broad state
ment that anarchys red hand was lifted
to strike the royal circles Of Europe, and
chance has made the unfortunate En-
press the first victim. Granting that
this horrible theory is the correct one,
there still remains to be explained the
deadly enmity of the Italian assassin to-
wards this queenly Austrian. and the joy
h. has shown since at having killed her.
Such brutal gloating over a Victims
death must have a more specific meaning
than mere anarchical hatred of royalty
as a whole.
HATED BY ITALIANS.
In explaining the reason for this, it is
as well 10 90 back ten years, at which
tins the Empress of Austria was making
a tour Of the Italian lakes. One day the
Italian populace recognized her as she
StrOllcd around. They surrounded her
in the most threatening manner, howl
ing. cursing. and splitting at the royal
group. and crownng this abuse by
making the Empress the target for vol
leys OF mud and stones The Empress
on this occasion narrowly escaped with
her life.
The motive for the outrage was the
same that led the Italian assassin ten
"a. ha Of us
trla as his first victim-the fact that the
natives Of Northern italy look upon the
Austrian royal line as the cruelest ty
rants under the sun. Their hatred dates
back 90 the beginning of the century.
when the natives Of Northern Italy died
Dr. hundreds i'm the vile prisons OF Aus
u.a, where they were confined after the
failure of the conspiracy 10 free the
country from Austria and attach IL to
Italy. The legacy Of detestation that |
Was handed down from these sufferers
iu Austria prisons is responsible for the |
brutal murder that has just Mortified the !
world
bLEP-ROOTED AND FANATICAD.
The Unborn hatred of these northern |
Italians for the Austrians is almost as
oeep-rooted and fanatical as the religion |
o. a Deryish The anniversary of the |
Death OF the chief consprator. who was
hanged by the Austrans. IS made a great
uaf 900 this part OF Italy, and the old |
hatred is kept alive By speeches. in which
lhe Austrians are held up 10 the dersion
OF the audience. and the old wounds are
Ieopened, IN orded to inflame the people
against their former prosecutors. While
'here has been bitter grief in Austria,
ana Indignant sorrow elsewhere, there
mas been grim satisfaction among the
people OF Northern Italy over the driving
nome of the assassn's sharpened file TO
ue heart Of the Empress.
FULL OF SORROWS
mad the enemies OF the Empress wish
81 10 De Kind 10 her. they could not have
zone better than detail an ASSASSIN TO
sominster a painless death 10 that UNI
sstppy woman. Her life was full OF the
Sttefest sorrOws. and she often said that
e'alh would be "A welcome release. She
o'came wife when schoolgirl OF l6
eNa The royal family into which she
m'Ifled regarded her from the outset as
.'ue better than interloper. From
sle time OF her marriage TO the date of
~, n,f death the Empress has had the
''st stories circulated about her
% distressing 10 the Empress did this
Se'e OF things become that In 1859 she
'''l NE royal court, and went TO Corfu,