The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-14
HiAlRBREADTH ESCAPES.
TER HAVE DIED NATURAL
DEATHS.

The Present Car Is Said Like His
Father to Be n Believer in AstrOl-
Ogy-NarrOw Margins by which
Some MOnarchs Have Been Saved
From Sudden Death-A New story
of the Late Queen of England and
Her Fidelity and Courage in a Mo-
ment of Danger.
Washington, April 12.-Recent attempts
upon the life of Russia's ruler recall how
heavily the penalty of greatness hes upon
royal heads. the hand of the mailman or
would-be assassin having been raised
against nearly every ruler in the world.
In spite of many royal victims of the
bullet or the bomb-only two rulers of
Russia since Peter the Great have died
natural deaths-there have also been
many hairbreadth and thrilling escapes.
The Cars hate illness is reported to be
due to poison which had been admins
tered to him; at any rate. a Russian
prince has just ben arrested al Nice, on a
charge of plotting TO kill the Gar. com
promising documents having been discov-
cred in his lodgings. Two attempts were
made on the life of the late Gar Alex
ander III. Alexander II was attacked
four times before he was finally killed in
1881.
The present Gar, by the way, is be-
lever in astrology, although not quite 10
such an extent as his father, who was
slave to the views of his soothsayers;
upon the occasion when his train was
wrecked by Nihidsts, he sent his chief
court star-reader a Tartar, to Siberia, for
the man had declared that the day in
question was the best in the whole calen-
dar for travelling.
Young Queen Wihelmina shortly be-
fore her coronation was the subject of
an attack by d fanatic, although the
matter was hushed up and statements
issued to the contrary. the Queen or
dering the affair kept a strict secret. ow-
ing to the approaching enforcement.
Three shots were fired, while the Queen
and her attendants were driving near her
residence, Soest-Dyk. Two shots went
Wild but the third lodged in tho arm of
one of the ladies in attendance, Countess
Limburg -Stirum. The Queen preserved
her presence of mind and ordered that
the affair he kept quiet. The assassin,
in intention, If not in fact, was arrested,
and confessed himself an anarchist.
of an attack recently in Toxic by a lun-
attic. At least seven or eight attempts TO
assassinate the Queen OF England have
been made at different times. but with
the exception of a slight wound on her
cheek, she has escaped scathless from
all these attacks, some OF which were
made by cranks who said that they were
madly infatuated with her charms. or
even that they were secretly married TO
the Queen.
Until recently. the hand OF the mad
man spared the present occupant OF the
British throne but last summer came The
then Prince OF Wales turn. A young
tinmaker Of Sophisticated thu
Prince. hut his bullet was poorly aimed
ana the Prince had providential escape.
a. well us the Princess, who was accom-
panying him
In November last woman tried 10 kin
the Emperor OF Germany with that I'M
heroic implement. an ak. She IA an an
archst. and when arrested kept repeating.
He ordered me 10 DO g." William n
has just recovered from o second muir
derous attack.
That Light u the Universe. che Shah
Of Persia. had two haiTbreadth escapes
Last summer 81 The hands ~ anarchists.
while Wishing the Paris Exposition On
attempt was made on bis ne by q man.
who WAS finally landed in . lunauc asy.
luni aEain 81 0Hiend On attack was
Diede. while visiting the sultan N Tlr.