The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-09-18

Alexander ii, Of Russia, in the
streets Of St. Petersburg on March IL,
188l-the same year as th~ assassna-
tion Of Gar6eld-is &c sufficiently re-
cent date to be still wildly remem-
bered. The event was unexpected
and startling. It had been more than
year since the last and most desper-
ate attempt on his life-the explosion
ct the Winter Palace chad occurred.
Before the explosion and before the
Moscow Railway plot the Nihilists
announced that the Gear had been
doomed to death by their secret tribu.
mai, but Immediately before the MUIR
der none of the customary threats and
proclamations had been issced.
The Emperor had driven in car
riagc to view the parade Of the marine
corps. He was attended as Usual by
his military staff, his adjutans riding
with him, and the rest following the
carriage. The numerous bodyguard
of mounted Cossacks preceded and
surrounded tho carriage. Suddenly,
as the cortegc reached the Catherine
Canal, where some laborcrs were at
"o-k removing snow near the bridge,
the Anarchist Ryssakoff, who had
pressed to the front among the work
ing mujiks, threw the frs. bomb.
1t fell behind the carriage. wound
ing two Cossacks. The Emperor
stepped down from the carriage and at
that moment second bomb was
thrown, which exploded at his feet,
the fragments breaking both his legs
and penetrating the abdomen. The
Gear breathed his last two hours after
ward. Grcnevitsky, the man who
threw the fatal bomb, perished him
self from the explosion. There have
been many other attempts at the life
of the Russian Gear, both before
and since the assassination Of Alex
andcr II.
In Germany there have been several
attempts to assassinate the head Of
the nation. During 1873 two attempts
were made on the life Of Emperor
William II. The first took place on
the afternoon Of May II, while he was
returning from drive. The would-be
assassin, youth named Heinrich Max
Hodel, fred two shots at the Emperor
and two more at the bystanders. None
took effect. Hodel confessed to being
a member of an Anarchist society.
The second attempt was made on
June 2 and was attended by more
serious results. AS the Emperor was
passing through the street Unter den
Linden two shots were fred from a
house, wounding the Emperor in sew
eral places. The assailant was Karl
Edouard Modelling, a doctor of phil
ology. He refused to tell the motive
Of his act. Hodel was executed and
Modelling 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 feints,
to assassinato her. The first and most
determined one was made by man
named Edward Oxford, in 1910. In
1912 one John Francis fired pistol at
her, and later in the same year man
named Bean took aim at her with
pistol, but did not succeed in dis
charging the weapon. In 1s49 an
Irish bricklayer named Hamilton fred
pistol at her, but it was charged with
powder only.
In 1850 an ex-lieutenant of Hussars
struck the Queen with cane, aud in
1872 boy thrust before her, with one
hand, petition for the release of
Fenian prisoners, and with the other
hand presented an unloaded pistol.
The last attempt on the Queen was
made in 1882, when as she was pass
ing from railway train to her car
riage, at Windsor, demented person
named Roderick NIaclean made an
attack upon her. Maclean was pro-
nenneed iasauo by the jury before
whom no was tried.