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HUMBERT OF ITALY.
Facts in the Life of the Asassinated
Monarch.

Monarch.
A few months after his accession to the
throne King Humbert had a narrow es-
cape from assassination. He succeeded
to the throne on the death of his father,
on Jan. g. 1878. AS he was making his
formal entry into Naples on Nov. II of
the same year a man named Giovanni
Passanante approached the royal car
riage and struck at the King with a
poignard. The King received a slight
scratch only, but Signor Carroll, the Prime
Minister, who sat beside him in the car
rage was wounded rather badly in the
thigh. The would-be assassin was arrest
ed before he could do any more mischief;
was tried, convicted and condemned to
death, but the punishment was commuteI
by the King to penal servftude for life,
and the culprit was transported to the ISL
and of EHba to undergo this sentence.
Passanante had formed a deliberate plan
for the ASA ssina ton. and had fully made
up his mind as 10 the consequences to
himself. When asked If he really in
tended to kill the King or merely to
wound him, he frankly replied: 'My in
tention was to finish him" He disclaim-
ed all connection with Socialism or tho
Internal ional Association, but it was
socialistic movements.
man named Olivieri was arrested in
Rome in March, 1894, because he had
been heard 10 threaten the life of the
King. After his arrest the police learned
that he was the person who, during EN-
peror Williams visit TO Rome in 1890
threw into the imperial carriage a letter
denouncing Germany and the House of
Hohenzollern as responsible for Italy's
| q n LIT al
On the afternoon of April q, 1897, while
King Humbert was on his way to the
races, q man named Pietro Acciarito, an
ron-Worker out of employment, attempt
ell to stab His Majesty with a dagger.
The man was seized before he could
carry out his purpose, and the King pro-
| ceeded TO the Campanelle race course,
seemingly unmoved
Mixed in Many Scandals.
He was an accomplished hunter and
fisherman, and nothing gave him greater
pleasure than a day in the woods with
rod or gun. His summers nearly always
were spent in Monza, where he was as
sassinated. He was fond of a cigar, liked
his tea. was a good billiard player and
was considered an accomplished man in
more ways than one.
The great scandal with which the King
was connected was that of his brothers
divorce case. wherein he was named as CO.
respondent by the brother the Duke Of
I,itta, who filed the suit for divorce
against the Duchess in France, and al
legged that the King, his brother, was the
father of the son of his wife.
The child died before the filing of the
suit.
A Human Animal.
The Duchess of Litta. with whom the
lfVaIEn FaV
was n child at the court of the royal SOL
der of fortune Victor Emanuel, when he
was king of Sardinia and Piedmont, the
natrimonv of his ancestors. Victor Eman-
mel was fine example of the human ami
NAL. brave, brutal, and without the least
vestiee of morality. AT the head of his
hardy countrymen he fought Austrian
and Italian opponents, often without sue
cess. but always with obstinacy, until at
last he became King Of United Italy.
Among his most notorious faVorites was
the beautiful Countess Bolognini, by birth
a Princess Ponia. Her career fitted her
"a he a companion of the shameless King.
She was not only worldly. but hard
drlnker and thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS. She
was big, block-hared, red-cheeked, luxu-
riantly handsome.
Among her children was daughter.
who inherited her mothers beauty In an
increased degree, and all her bad qualities.
She was reared like savage. In her
youth she was the intimate friend of the
novelist Balzac. Then she ran away with
the Prince Pacra.
After a brief relapse into respectable
itv she married the Duke of Liza.
They separated ard the Duchess went
10 live with her mother at Milan. Such
a woman could not long keep out of mis-
chief. The court Of Victor Emanuel was
then situated at Milan. His son, King
Inlmbert who inherited his father
bodily vigor and courage, was then