The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-18

instead. The assassin's name
was Luigini.
"The assassination Of the En-
peror alexander II, Of Russia:
in the streets Of St Petersburg
on March Is, 1S9l-the same
year as the assassination of Gar
Ifeld-is of sufficiently recent
date 10 be still wildly remem-
bered. The event was unexpect-
ed and startling. 1t had been
more than a year since the last
and most desperate attempt on
his life-the explosion at the
Winter Palace had occurred.
Before the explosion and before
the Moscow Railway plot the
Nihilists had announced that the
Gar had been doomed to death
by their secret tribunal, but i'm
mediately before the murder
none Of the customary threats
and proclamations had been iss-
ued.
The Emperor had driven in a
carriage to view the parade of
the marine corps. He was at
tended as usual by his military
staff, his adjutant riding with
him, and the rest following the
carriage. The numerous body
guard of mounted Cossacks
preceded and surrounded the
carriage. Suddenly, as the cor
tege reached the Ca tn erine
Canal, where some laborers were
at work removing snow near the
bridge, the Anarchist Ryssakoff,
who had pressed to the front
among the working mujiks,
threw the first bomb.
It fell behind the carriage,
wounding two Cossacks. The
Emperor stepped down from the
carriage and at that moment a
second bomb was thrown, which
exploded at his feet, the frag-
ments breaking both his legs
and penetrating the abdomen.
The Gar breathed his last two
hours afterward. Grenevitsky,
the man who threw the fatal
bomb, perished himself from the
explosion. There have been
many other attempts at the life
of the Russian Czar, both before
and since the assassination Of
Alexander IL.
SOME OTHER ATTACKS.
In Germany there have been
several attempts to assassinate
the head of the nation. During
1878 two attempts were made on
the life of the Emperor William
II. The first. took place on the
afternoon of May II. while he
was returning from a drive.
The would-be assassin, youth
named Heinrich Max HCdel,
fred two shots at the Emperor
and two more at the bystanders.
None took effect. Hodel con-
fessed to being a member Of an
Anarchistsociety.
The second attempt was made
on June 2 and was attended by
more serious results. AS the
Emperor was passing through
the street Inter den Linden two
shots were fired fromI house,
wounding the Emperor in sever
al places. The assailant was
Karl Edouard Modelling, a doc
tor of philology. He refused to
tell the motive of his act. Hodel
was executed and Nobling died
by his own hand in a lunatic
asylum to which he had been
committed.
Queen Victoria was the object Of
no fewer than seven attempts,
or felnts, to assassinate her.
The first and most determined
one was made by a man named
Edward Oxford, in 1910. In 1912
one John Francis fired a pistol
at her, and later in the same
year a man named Bean took
aim at her with pistol, but did
not succeed in discharging the
weapon. In 1849 an Irish brick
layer named Hamilton fred a
pistol at her, but it was charged
with powder only.
In 1850 an eX-lieutenant of
Hussars struck the Queen with a
cane, and in 1872 a boy thrust
before her, with one hand, a
petition for the release of Fen
ian prisoners, and with the other
hand presented an unloaded
pistol. The last attempt on the
Queen was made in 1882, when
as she was passing from a rail
way train to her carriage, at
Windsor, a demented person
named Roderick Maclean made
an attack upon her. Maclean
was pronounced insane by the
Jury before whom he was tried.