Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
HEIR TO AUSTRIAN
THRONE AND WIFE
ASSASS|NATED
Archduke Ferdinand and Duchess
Slain While Taking a
Drive.
TWO ASSAULTS ARE MADE
Royal Couple Shot After Escaping
Death From Bomb-Slayer
Is Student.
TWO ASSAULTS ARE MADE


Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Aus
tro-Hungarian throne and his NOR
ganatic wife, the Duchess of Hohen
berg were assassinated yesterda.
while driving through the streets O.
Serajevo, the Bosnian capital. A
youthful Servia student fired the
shots which added another to the
long list of tragedies that has dark
ened the reign of Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The archduke and his wife were
victims of the second attempt in the
same day against their lives. First
bomb was thrown at the automo-
bile in which they were driving to
the town hall. Forewarned, howev-
er, of possible attempt against his
life, the archduke was watchful and
struck the missile aside with his
arm. 1t fell under an automobile
which carried members of his suite,
wounding Count Won Boos Waldeck
and Colonel Merizzo.
On their return from the town
hall the archduke and duchess We're
driving to the hospital when the
Servian, CAIRO Prinzip, darted at
the car and fired volley at the &C.
cupants. His aim was true for the
archduke and his wife was mortally
wounded. With them at the time
was the governor of the city, who
escaped injury. The bodies of his
murdered companies collapsed across
MIN and protected him from stray
bullets.
The governor shouted to the
chauffeur to rush to the palace at
top speed. Physicians were in
prompt attendance, but their SER
vices were useless, as the archduke
and his wife were dead before the
palace was reached.
Until the emperor's wishes are
known, the bodies will lie in state
at the palace here They will doubt
less be inferred in the Hapsburg
vaults in the Capuchin church at vi
emma.
In Serajevo there is mourning ev-
erywhere, with black draped flags
and streamers on all public build
ings. The president has sent mes
sage to the emperor expressing the
grief and horror of the whole pop
ulation at the ruthless crime, and
assuring his majesty of the peoples
devotion to the ruling house.
Throughout the day weeping
women were to be seen in groups,
while great crowds surrounded the
spot where the bomb exploded and
where the fatal shots were fired.
The bomb was filled with nails and
lead filings, and the explosion was
violent. The iron shutters on many
shops were pierced by flying frag-
ments, and iron ratings were shat
tered. About a score of persons
were injured, several of them being
women and children.
This final tragedy which has come
to the house Of Hapsburg is the cul-
mination of the personal SORROWS
that have overshadowed the life of
the emperor. In 1853 the list of
tragic incidents began with an at
tempt upon his own life, when a
Hungarian wounded him with a
knife.
Fourteen years later his brother,
the Archduke Macmillan, emperor
of Mexico, was condemned to death
by court martial and executed. Then
followed the burning to death of a
niece in Vienna, a sister in Paris
and the death by suicide in Strahen-
berg lake of a cousin.
In 1898 the emperor's wife, who
was the daughter of Macmillan Jo-
seph, duke of Bavaria, was stabbed
to death at Geneva by a mad Italian
anarchist.
Less than ten years before the
emperor's only son, the Crown Prince
Rudolph, met death in mystery
81.
ed On Jan. so, 1889, his body was
found in hunting lodge at Meyer
ling not far from Vienna. Beside
his body lay that of the Baroness
Marie Vetsera.
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