The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-23
Table Of Sayings and Attempts
Of Last Century Shows vuI-
neTabiIity Of Modern Safe
guards Against Death.
REEks WITH DEATH.

New Orleans. shot by members of the I
Malta, Oct Is, 1890. !
Carter Harrison. mayor of Chicago, :
Oct. g. 1888
Marie Francois Carnot. president of Z
France. June "a 1894. j
Nasr-ed-Din. shah of Persia, May /, =
1886. :
stanislaus stambuloff. premier of :
Bulgaria, July Is, 1885.
Canovas del Castillo, prime minister <
Of Spain, Aug. 8. 1897. !,
Juan Idiarte Borda. president of Uru- !.
quay. Aug. Is, 1897.
Jose Maria Reyna Barrios, president q
of Guatemala, Feb. Is, 1888. 8.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Sept :.
10. 1885, !.
Governor William E. Goebel of Ken !
lucky, shot Jan. 81, 1900
Edward VII. Of England attempt &
April 4, 1900 !.
Humbert, king of Italy. July 20, 1900 !
William Mckinley, president United !.
States, Sept. 6. 1901.
Alexander. king of Servia. June H. (
1908
Draga, queen of Servia June L. 1908 !
Governor General Bobrikoff of Fin =
land, June 16. 1904.
Won Plehve minister of the interior. =
Russia. July %, 1904 :
Ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg of :
Idaho. blown up by dynamite. Dec. 81. !:
1906
Alfonso Kill, king of Spain, at !.
tempt. May 81. 1906. :
Carlos, king of Portugal, Feb /. 1908. I
Louis. crown prince of Portugal. Feb <
1, 1908.
Ex-senator Edward W. Carmack, I
Tennessee, shot by Robin Cooper, Nov &
8, 1908
Prince Ito of Japan, killed by Ko :
rean in Manchuria Oct 26 1909
William ]. Gaynor. mayor Of New
York. attempt, Aug. 9. 1910.
$3.50 81. ~. : s..ssss ]. ~ .
the life of Mayor Gaynor and for the
killing of Mayor Carter q. Harrison
of Chicago. Gallagher. the man who
attempted murder aboard the German
steamship al Hoboken. did SO because
he had been ousted from his place in
a city department after being found
guilty of unfitness and because Mayor
Gaynor had refused to act in his be-
half Prendergast, the man who kill
ed Mayor Harrison. explained that the
mayor had failed to keep a promise
to make him a corporation counsel.
Charles Jules Guiteau. who fired the
fatal shot at President Garfield as the
latter was about to leave Washington
on July 2. 1881. was disappointed of,
fee seeker
Belgrade Leads In Brutality.
In modern times no assassinatiohs
have. been SO brutal and at the same
time so thorough as those at Belgrade
in the summer of 1903. when the en-
tire royal family of Seryia was wiped
out and a dynasty ended with swords
pistols and an ak.
King Alexander. his queen. Draga
the queens two sisters and brother.
the premier, two ministers. several
and all of the royal guard
were massacred in the palace between
midnight and 2 O'clock in the morning.
The country and the army were in
revolt. and an entire regiment of in
fantry. led by Colonel Machin. a broth
er-in-law of the doomed queen. par
icipated in the slaughter. The queen
vas slain with an ak In the hands Of
he lieutenant colonel
When King C;srlos of Portugal and
he crown prince were Killed they
we're riding in the royal carriage with
queen Amelie and the infant Manuel
rom the railroad station at Lisbon 70
he palace. The streets were filed |
With cheering people A big escort
t soldiers was before and behind the
arriage. But the soldiers had no rea-
on to suspect q group of men stand
ng at one of The corners and cheering
With the crowd until those men who |
ad waited un:. lie carriage was in
ront Of them tlsf, " aside their cioaks.
aised their earbines and began to FIRE
y voIleys.
Three shots hit the king. killing him
lstantly Three hit the crown prince,
nd he died before the drivers could
each the palace.
Iumbert's Death Affected America.
None of the other foreign assassfna
ons has touched this country so close
] as did that of King Hnmbert Of
ally on July %. 1900. His slayer.
reset. was silk worker in Paterson.
. ]. 1t is not probable that he was
elected By his fellow an
rchists IN The New Jersey town to
'oss the Atlantic TO kill the king. but
lat was the impression at the time.
i'd the Paterson anarchists were so
roud of II that they did what they
'nld to hive it believed
General Bobrikoff. the governor gen
al Of Finland. was shot and killed al
Il entrance 70 the senate chamber at
elsingfofs by 1 young lawyer named
sharmann. Finnish patriot. who
'fnmitted suicide after succeeding ais
j ASSASSIN I
II de Plehve. the Russian minister !
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