Show ATTEMPTED REGICIDE emperor WILLIAM of germany has been on a visit to ills his nephew emperor alexander alexandi er of russia and ju judging aging from the very meagre telegraphic accounts of his reception and andt treatment reat ment in the russian cap capital he has had a very good time and must have felt that it was good to be there for the czar and the nobles and people of st petersburg seem to have done their best to honor their royal guest but if an item in today to days day a dispatches be true the kalser kaiser had bad a more narrow escape and was in greater danger of losing his life during his ills pleasure trip to russia than at it any time while at the head of his triumphal legions when invading france the dispatch says sass that during a review of troops by the german E emperor m 96 a 96 priest fired at liim him the ball passing through brou h 1 his l i s helmet and severely beverely wounding g a an n officer the account comes from london one report saying the attempt attempted attempter ea regicide took place at st peters burgh another at Juster rustenburg Ju iburg pro bably meaning Juten bog a walled town gri orl the tile line of railroad from the eastern eastorn part of prussia to berlin subsequent dispatches may throw more inore light on the matter and perhaps s shew that the story is merely n tile production of sensation inong mong 0 em ers if true it is gratifying to know that this attempt on the tile life of emperor william has failed it is always pleasing to hear of the escape of any party from the ball hall of the assassin and neither more corless nor less so when the intended vic vie victim tim is a king or an emperor the adms assassin either in intent or 1 in n fact no matter whatever his station in life ia 14 worthy only of universal execration and of the highest pen penalty aty known to the law popular 0 opinion 1 in europe seems to be streng strengthening t lop iop C rapidly i adly in favor of republic republicanism 1 an and pd consequently against king craft but it is is a shortsighted short sighted policy on tile the part of those most opposed to kings and royal dynasties to attempt their overthrow by assassination suell such means instead of accomplishing I 1 shing the object sought will have the opposite enn eff effect lct let and it ought to for assassination under almost any circumstances is cowardly and unjustifiable and all good citizens whatever their political faith will denounce it and discard it and sanction the punishment of its perpetrators petra tors torb emperor willlim is perhaps as good a man as most others now riling no in europe this may be said W without saying much in his favor but buts one thing is certain that under his administration prussia has been placed at the head of the great powers dowers of europe and the voice of germany germany in european politics was perhaps nevar never so potential as now the emperor is an old man and in the ordinary course of nature can not last much longer oner on in er and right minded men everywhere wo we think would vote for him to die dio a natural death rather than by asnass assassination nation that is the means of the deRpera desperado do and brute not of the reasoning and intelligent portions of mankind if as reported the attempted assassin was a priest it ia la probably an attempt to repay the E emperor emperor ifor hor for the recent expulsion of the jesuits from prussia if I 1 political causes led to the attempt and the tile republicans of europe fean rean not devise deviso any better method of disposing of the royal houses which liow now curse and impoverish that continent they tiley had better give up the contest for such means will and ought to fail |