The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-02-14
WOUNDED YOUTH NOW KING.


are closed, the streets are almost de.
serted and the electric ears are moving
without passengers. In short, the city
has shut itself up in its houses. The
minds of all the faithful monarchists
turned at once to the thought that the
wounded youth, Manuel, was now King
of Portugal. With this thought came
the other that all must be done to safe
guard the boys life, and couriers went
through the streets summoning to the
bedside of the wounded youth all the
skilled physicians that could be had in
Lisbon.
The latest bulletin from the bedside
of Prince Manuel stated that at present
there is no danger of complications
from the wounds. The greatest fear is
of the probability of blood poisoning
later.
PREMIER FRANCO DICTATOR.
Among the first to be called into the
critical situation created by the as
sassination was Premier Franco, the
dictator of the kingdom. Franco was
protected by squadron of cavalry
men as he FASTENED to the palace and
there he conferred with the Queen and
high officials of state on what imme-
date action should be taken.
1t is understood that Queen Amelie
will be Regent during the minority of
Prince Manuel, who is now in his nine
teenth year.
If the assassins were inspired in any.
way by the Republicans, there was no
evidence after the King and son were
slain that the Republicans intended inn
mediately to follow up the advantage
their cause found in the death of the
two highest personages in the State.
The only striking sequence to the
tragedy was the complete and bewilder-
ing silence in which Lisbon is en-
wrapped.
MURDERS WELL PLANNED.
The details of the murders show that
they were cunningly arranged The
fact that the royal family were return
ing from Villa Vieosa had been made
public in advance, and the authorities
had arranged what they considered an
effective guard along the route which
the royal carriage was to take. The
trip from Villa Vicosa was without
The King and his family re-
turned at the end of day of the great |
est excitement in the city on account of |
the wholesale arrests and the continual
discovery of new depots of arms and !
bombs. A great throng were grouped
about the Barreiro railroad station and |
the neighboring streets when the mem
bers of the royal family disembarked
for the purpose of driving across the
Tagus in the limits of Lisbon. The
carriages awaited them before the land
ing stage, and the King and Queen
md the two princes entered the leading
which started Immediately, |
into the Praca do Commercial
Suddenly the sharp crack of a carbine
startled the assemblage. Then the air
was filed withsa succession of sharp
'eports and the King was seen to jump
up and reach for his throat, then to
lrop back on the cushions. The Crown
Prince almost simultaneously was seen
% collapse and fall toward the side of
he carriage, while the Queen, driven
20 frenzy, was seeking to save the
Crown Prince and the young Manuel
by shielding them with her body.
FULL POWER FOR CABINET.
A decree was gazetted today givNg
he Cabinet unlimited power to repress
evolutionary agitation in Portugal.
This decree is framed on the lines of
he bill recently introduced in the
Spanish Cortez, but it is more sweeping
md arbitrary. 1t empowers the Cabi-
let to expel from the kingdom or exile
o the colonies members of all associa-
ions that are deemed inimical to the
tate or that are conducting a campaign
against public security; it suspends
parliamentary immunity and it COM
,ares all persons sentenced for political
agitation to criminals Al deprives
hem of civil rights, titles, decora-
ions, etc. The decree is retroactive to
21st.
The decree provides that suspects
hall be tried within two days of their
rrest. No appeal from the first SEN
ence passed viii be entertained.
OTHER ACCOUNTS.
LONDON, Feb. 2.-Lisbon special
ispatches to the Times give various
ersions of the tragedy. An eye wit
ess writes as follows:
THE first shot pierced his majesty's
hroat. After the king fell Prince LUZ,
no had already been MORALLY wound
d, fell into the arms OF his younger
rother, who himself had been struck