The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
h1ng OF Portugal and the Crown
5 Prince Shot Dead
BY Assassins While Driving
Through Streets of Lisbon.
SECOND son WOUNDED
queen Was in the Party, But
Escaped Unhurt.
Surviving Boy Is Immediately
Proclaimed the Ruler.

Lisbon. Feb. skiing Carlos and the
crown price, Luiz Philippe, were assas-
slnated here at 5 o'clock Saturday af-
ternoon
The king with the other members of
the royal family had just arrived from
the kings country home.
just at the moment when an open
carriage left the Place du Comrlercs
for Arsenal street a group of men
armed with carbines. fired on King Car
los and the crown prince.
The queen and Prince Manuel rere
also in the carriage. The queen arose
and endeavored to cover the King and
her eldest son.
The king and crown prince recs.yed
three bullets each
Prince Manuel escaped with slight
wounds.
The queen was not harmed by the as
sassins' bullets.
When the first shot was fred the
queen arose in the carriage and tried
to shield the crown prince with her
body, but the heroic act was too late
A volley from the carbines of the
conspirators had been fred with fatal
effect. and when the smoke cleared it
was seen that both the king and the
crown prince had been killed almost
Instantly
The soldiers guarding the royal
eQuipage at once surrounded the as
sassins and killed two of them. 1t is
understood that the one man arrested
committed suicide.
That which everyone has been ex-
pecting for months, which the govern
ment vainly tried to prevent by re-
pressive measures. has come to pass
Premier Franco had defied the graft
ers and corruption;sts. His reform pro-
gramme had been frustrated by a par
Lament that was at least partly venal.
Then he attempted to dispense with
the chambers and carry out his reform
measures through a dictatorship
This forced combination of Repub-
licans and INSCRIPTIONS politicians
There was rioting against the govern
ment. It's response was the series of
repressive measures that apparently
hastened the tragedy. =
The shooting occurred in large
square. Before any of the guard were
aware of what was happening the as
sassins ieaped to the carriage and at
once a fusiliade of shots rang out In
a moment all was terrible confusion,
the king and crown prince being, shot
down without the slightest chance to
save themselves.
Police guards sprang upon the reei-
cides, the number of whom is some
what uncertain.
The bodies of the king and crown
prince were removed from the marine
arsenal in two closed carriages to the
royal palace. the Paco das Necessidades,
the late residence of the king and es-
corted by municipal guards mounted.
Senate Takes Action.
Washington, Feb 3.-The senate
adopted today without debate a reso-
luton offered by Senator Cullom
chairman of the committee on for
eign relations as follows:
Resolved that the death by unlaw-
full and inhuman violence of the king
and crown prince of Portugal is sin
cerely deplored by the senate of the
United States Of America.
Resolved that a copy of these res
olutions be delivered to the president
of the United States with the request
that he communicate the same to the
government of Portugal"
Spain Sends Cruiser.
Madrid, Feb. 3.-The government
has ordered the cruiser Princesa De
Asturias to proceed to Lisbon. The
dispatch of the cruiser to Lisbon. it is
explained by the newspapers. is to put
the warship at the disposition OF the
Spanish minister
The Lisbon correspondent of the
Imparcial says that when the Dowager
Queen Marie Pfa arrived at the arsenal
the doctors were bathing the faces of