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Show LUNATIC ASSAULTS AUSTRIAN EMPEROR Han Calling: Himself Son of God Causes Excitement on Vienna Streets. VIENNA. June 13. While Emperor Francis Joseph was out driving here Friday a pedestrian, holding a stick in a threatening manner, rushed at the Emperor carriage. The coachman lashed the assailant and whipped up the horses, and the man was seized. The Incident caused some excitement. At the police station the prisoner was recognised as Jacob Reich, an unemployed unem-ployed commercial agent, who called at the Hofburg January 8th and Insisted on seeing Emperor Francl Joseph, declaring de-claring he was .the son of God and had brought hi Majesty an important communication com-munication from the Almighty. Reich, who Is pronounced insane, was then Incarcerated, In-carcerated, but he sine has been released. |