The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17
Sensation mt Berlin, Where News OF
the Attempted Assassination
Weakened the Markets.
CONDITION OF CAR NICHOLAS
HIS TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY
WAS 1906 AND PULSE GS-
Bulletin Issued by Physicians Indf-
eating that His Majesty Is Not
AIarmingly III.

BRESLAU. Nov. 16.-Emperor William
was the object of an attempted outrage
to-day, which, however. failed. He was
driving in an open carriage to the Cuiras-
sier barracks, accompanied by the heredi-
tary Prince of saxe-Meiningen. when an
insane woman in the crowd hurled
hatchet at the carriage. The rapidity with
which the vehicle was passing saved its
occupants. The Ratchet struck the car
riage. The woman was Immediately ar
rested. Her name is Selma Schnapke- She
occupied a place in the front rank OF the
spectators on the side farthest from the
Emperor.
A crowd of people who witnessed the
outrage threw themselves on his Majestys
assaiIant, but the prompt Intervention OK
the police saved the woman from injury
The assailant is a tradeswoman of Bres-
lau. A provisional medical examination
of the prisoner has been made and she has
been pronounced TO be insane.
While Emperor William was returning
from the barracks to the railroad station
he was cheered by immense crowds OF peo-
pie who were gathered along the route.
A dispatch from Berlin says: According TO
most reports Emperor William did not no.
tice the incident, but the Rreslau Schles-
ische Morgen Zeitung says he saw what
had happened and turned very pale, but
continued to greet the bystanders pleas
antly.
According to a special to the Lokai An
zeiger, his Majesty was apparently I'm
serious mood after the incident" The en-
tire Breslau garrison was Immediately
alarmed and drawn up in line on both sides
OF the route which the Emperor took I'm re-
turning from the barracks 10 the depot
after lucheon.
The news of the attempt on the Kaiser
made a great sensation in Berlin. 1t was
first reported on the boerse, where the
market weakened. The evening papers
printed the details I'm double-,eaded type.
All accounts agreed that the woman is de-
mented. 1t seems that she appeared this
morning in the Breslau court I'm lunacy
proceedings against herself, carrying a
Ratchet, which did not attract special at
tention. The case being postponed. she
went directly to see the procession. carry
ing the Ratchet under her cloak.
There is considerable conflict in the va
rious reports Of the incident. Private dis
patches differ from the official kilograms.
The former say that the Ratchet, or small
ak, which was sharply ground. struck
spoke in the hind wheel and then fell. An
other report says the woman stopped 10
try to get the Ratchet again. When ar
rested and on the way 10 the police station
she repeatedly exclaimed: "He ordered me
to do it; he ordered me TO do it,"
The following version OF the attack ap-
peared in an extra edition of the Lokal
Anzeiger this afternoon:
"As the Kaiser, at 12:l5 p. m. shortly
after arriving at Breslau. drove with the
hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen In
his carriage from the depot to the castle.
a poorly-clad woman, in the Darten-
strasse. threw hatchet, which. until then.
she had kept hidden under a shawl. at HIS
Majesty's carriage. The Ratchet hit the
carriage and fell TO the ground The Kaiser
quietly continued the drive. while the
woman was seized by bystanders and the
police, who FASTENED TO the scene and
arrested her."
While the attack on the Kaiser may not
have formed any part of an international
plot there Is no doubt that unusual An
archist activity is developing In various
countries of Europe. and that the police
are taking exceptional precautions against
IT, The entire line OF railway from Buda-
Pesth TO Goeboclloo, where Is situated the
palace of Emperor Francis Joseph. 70
guarded by special police, n thing which
was never done before.
Otto AIbrecht. editor OF Neues Lenien. an
Anarchist paper published I'm Berlin. was
arrested to-day In the suburbs Of Adlershof