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Show -miinriinn iiiuiiiiMai .- "mm prince ASSASSINATED Don Carlos of Portugal and Crown Prince Lniz Phillippe Murdered by Band of Anarchists. Second Son of King Also Badly Injured, In-jured, While Queen Amelle Has Narrow Escape From Death Lisbon In State of Uproar. Lisbon, King Carlos of Portugal and tho Crown Prlnco Lulz Phllllppo wero assassinated on Saturday nnd tho city is In a stato of uproar. Tha king's second son, Manuel, was slightly wounded, but Queen Amollo, who strovo to savo tho crown prince's ltfo by throwing herself upon him, was unhurt. A band of men waiting at tho corner cor-ner of tho Prnco do Commcrclo nnd the Itua do A'rsennl suddenly sprang toward tho open cnrrlago In which tho royal family were driving to thO palace, and, leveling carbines which they had conccalrd upon them, flrcd. Tho king nnd crown prince, upon whom tho attack was directed, wero each shot threo times and they lived only long enough to bo carried to the mnrino arscunl near by, whoro they expired. Almost nt tho first shot tho king fell back on tho cushions dying, nnd at tho snmo moment tho crown prlnco wan seen to half rlso nnd then sink back on tho soaL Queen Amollo Jumped up and throw herself toward tho crown prince, In nn effort to save his llfo at th-o cost of her own, but tho prlnco already had received his death wound. Tho tragedy occurred at about G;S0 In tho afternoon, ns the royal family was returning from, tho Villa Vlcosa, whero Uioy had been sojourning, A strong guard was In attendance, but as tho party camo Into tho Praco do Commerclo, a public spare, tho assassins as-sassins leaped to the carriage and began be-gan shooting. In a moment all was :errtblo confusion, tho king nnd crown prlnco being shot down without with-out tho slightest chnnca to savo themselves. them-selves. Pollco guards sprang upon tho regicides, tho number of whom Is Bomowhnt uncertain, and killed threo of them and captured threo others. Ono of theso committed suicide sui-cide nftor being placed In prison. It Is charged that ono of tbo murderers was a Spaniard. Tho cold-blooded murder haB Bent n thrill of horror throughout tho country, coun-try, oven among thoso who havo boon working politically for tho establishment establish-ment of n republic, and florrow Is expressed ex-pressed on every hand at tho dreadful dread-ful end of tho king and tho crown prlnco. At tho first blush It would seem as though the nssasslnatlon was tho work of nnarchlstB and not of republican repub-lican sympathizers. Nevertheless, tho stirring events of tho last few weeks huvo prepared tho people for some startling culmination. Tho discovery of plot after plot, as woll as tho discovery dis-covery ft many secrot stores or weapons weap-ons and ammunition, had demonstrated demon-strated beyond poradvonturo tho existence ex-istence of n determination on tho part of a largo body of tho Portuguese Portu-guese to overthrow tho present conditions condi-tions nnd proclaim a republic. Among the first to bo called Into tho critical situation created by tho assassination was Promlcr Franco, tho dlctntor of tho kingdom. Franco was protectod by n squadron of cavalrymen cav-alrymen as ho hastened to tho pal-aco, pal-aco, and thero ho conferred with the queen nnd high officials of stato on 'what immedlato action should be taken. It Is understood that Queen Amollo will bo regent during tho minority mi-nority of Prlnco Manuel, who. is now In hlB nineteenth year. |