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

On March II, 1899, Henry Null
Ter, who had served as private
in New York regiment during
the civil war, was arrested at
Montreal, Canada, because OF
threats which ne had made to
kill the President. Muller de-
clared that Mr.. Mckinley was an
enemy of the Germans and said
he intended to go to Washington
and assassinate him. Muller, it
appeared, had been wounded III
the head during the wal, and
since that time had been subject
to periodical fits OF insanity. His
threats against the President
were not taken seriously.
On July II, 1900, there was
published a report Of an alleged
plot which had been discovered
among Spanish and Cuban con-
spirators to assassinate President
Mckinley. According to the
story, the conspirators had their
in cigar store IN
lower Broadway. An investiga-
ton by the authorities was said
to have established the ground
lessness of the rumors.
In monarchical countries at
tempts on the life Of the ruler
have been equally but no more
frequent. The assassination Of
Emperor Alexander l, of Russia,
of the Empress Elizabeth Of
Austria, and of King Humbert,
of Italy, and the attempt on the
life of King Edward at Brussels,
when he was yet Prince of Wales,
are the most conspicuous of re-
cent instances.
The assassination of President
Carnot, of France, occurred on
June "a, 1894. Like the attempt
ed killing of President Mckinley,
il occurred at an exposition. The
assassin was a young baker, who
Lad been working in Cette, an
Italian not very familiar with
the French language. The trag-
edy occurred as M. Carnot was
driving in State through the
streets of Lyons as the guest of
the city, which was holding an
exhibition of arts, sciences and
industries.
The President had ordered
away the special guard provided
by the prefect Of police for his
safety, and the assassin had no
in leaping,from the front
rank of the spectators to the
step of the landau in which Pres
ident Carnot sat. With aponiard,
held concealed in newspaper,
the assassin struck the Chief
a vicious blow that
drove theponiard's point through
the Presidents liver. The latter
died that night.
The assassin shouted, ''Vive
l'Anarchie!w and started to flee:
but was struck and seized by
some persons standing by and
taken to prison under a strong
escort of police, which had a
to save the prisoner
from being lynched. He was
guillotined at Lyons on Aug. 10.
KILLING KING HUMBERT.
Of assassinations of rulers in
monarchical countries the most
recent was that of King Hum
bert, of Italy, which occurred on
July 30, 1900. The King was
shot at Monza, where he was in
upon q distribution of
prizes in connection with a gym
nastic competition. His murderer
was the Anarchist Bresci, who
at one time was a resident of Pat
N. J.
King Humbert had just enter
ed his carriage with his aide-de-.
camp when he was struck by
three revolver shots, fred in
quick succession. One pierced
the Kings heart. He fell back
and expired in a few minutes.
The assassin was Immediately
arrested and with some difficulty
was saved from the fury of the
populace. Capital punishment
having been abolished in Italy,
Bresci, was sentenced to solitary
for life. Some
time ago he was reported to have
committed suicide in the dungeon
IN which he was confined. Other
reports were that he was killed
oy the guards in whose custody
he was.
Empress Elizabeth: Of Austria,
was assassinated by an Italian
Anarchist on a quay at Geneva,
Switzerland, on the afternoon of
September 10, 1898.
The Empress, who had been at
he Hotel Beaurivage for several
LAYS, left a few ladies of her
suite, and was walking from the
1otel to the pier of the lake
steamers. She had almost reach
I'd the pier when a man ran up
behind her and plunged a sharp
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