Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-24

the life Of Mayor Gaynor and for the
killing Of Mayor Carter 81. Harrison
Of Chicago Gallagher. the man who
attempted murder aboard the German
steamship at 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 fred the
fatal shot at President Garfield as the
latter was about to leave Washington
on July 2. 1881. was disappointed Of.
dee seeker.
Belgrade Leads In Brutality.
In modern times no assassinattons
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 Servia was wiped
out and a dynasty ended with swords.
pistols and an az.
King Alexander. his queen, Draga;
the queens two sisters and brother,
the premier, two ministers. several
generals and all Of the royal guard
were massacred in the palace between
midnight and o'clock In the morning.
The country and the army were In
revolt, and an entire regiment Of in
fantry, led by Colonel Machin. broth
er-in-Iaw Of the doomed queen, par
ticipated in the slaughter. The queen
was slain with an az in the hands Of
the lieutenant colonel.
When King Carlos of Portugal and
the crown prince were killed they
were riding in the royal carriage with
Queen Amelie and the infant Manuel
from the railroad station at Lisbon to
the palace. The streets were filed
with cheering people. A big escort
of soldiers was before and behind the
carriage. But the soldiers had no rea-
son to suspect group Of men stand
ing at one Of the corners and cheering
with the crowd until those men who
had waited until the carriage was In
front of them threw aside their cloaks,
raised their carbines and began to fire
by volleys.
Three shots hit the king, killing him
instantly. Three hit the crown prince,
and be died before the drivers could
reach the palace.
Humberts Death Affected America.
None Of the other foreign assassina-
tons has touched this country 80 close
~ rs did that Of King Humbert Of
Italy on July 20. 1900. His slayer,
Bresci. was a silk worker in Paterson,
N. ]. 1t is not probable that he was
deliberately elected by his fellow an
archists In the New Jersey town to
cross the Atlantic to kill the king, but
that was the impression at the time,
and the Paterson anarchists were so
proud Of it that they did what they
could to have 1t believed.
General Bobrikofr. the governor gen.
eral Of Finland. was shot and killed at
the entrance to the senate chamber at
Helsingfors by a young lawyer named
Schaumann, Finnish patriot, who
committed suicide after succeeding as
an assassin.
NJ. de Plehve, the Russian minister
Of the interior, was assassinated on
July %. 1904. A bomb was thrown
with deadly accuracy, and the assassin
was favored by the fact that traffic
where the tragedy occurred was heavy
owing to the crossing Of lines of sur
face cars and the continuous stream
Of trucks NJ. de Plehve was always
apprehensIve Of attempts upon his life
and used to drive as rapidly as posi-
bic. His coachman. however, was
nomnollod m IN slowly at this point,