The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1900, Page 1

\ OLI 15IF LXXXVIII-NO, 60. KING OF 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS. Bullet From an Anarchist’s Revolver Pierces Humbert’'s Heart and He Expires Almost Instantly. ONZA, Italy, July 30.—King Humbert has been assassinated. He was shot here last evening by a man named Angelo Bressi and died in a few minutes. The King had been attending a distribution of prizes in connection with a gymnastic competition. with his aid-de-camp, amid the cheers of the crowd, when he was struck by three bullets fired from a revolver in quick succession. pierced the heart of his Majesty, who fell back and expired in a few minutes. The assassin was immediately arrested and was with some difficulty saved from the fury of the populace. Angelo Bressi, descnbmg himself as of Prato, in Tuscany o Premier Saracco Summons a Cabinet Meeting and Starts at Once for the Scene of Assassination. news of | pared with 40 returned on the former election), yet they are at heart loyal to e King, and his assissination will raise in them as bitter a feeling against the anare who are no doubt responsible for this, by the Royalist party. aceo, as that felt The Prime Minister. Senator Sar- is an ardent Royalist, and he has QUEEN MARGHERITA. he Princess Margherita Mar! and of Genoa, b 863, at Turin to the P father. She was t e of Naples was t erese Jeanne of Savoy, daughter ot the ing Victor Emmanuel II, was , who became King of Italy one of the most beautiful wom the marriage. the Parliament about 400 | el el e sole issue of % rincess of Naples are | yachting in the Le- Yy are far fewer in number than £ land, naticism. yet their daring | and when they | assassin of King st. for they exercise | . ert was shot at 10:45 o'clock | ETeat ingenuity to execute their designs. | e the B Ve g Humbert Yearless. Although | - his life e attempted he took r owed his guiit of > ] o S5 no partic ns. He has pald - the price. » it “The young®Prince Is a negative sort of | a man. He is about 3) years old, and neither very bad or very good. Colorless, I should call him. Still, this outrage will | WILL STRENGTHEN ROYALIST PARTY By so shock the people of Italy that it is| certain they will declare for him en| Editor of L'ltalia Says the masse.” Crime Will React Upon Anarchists, ————e VICE CONSUL FEDELI GREATLY SHOCKED 1 strengthen | sald Editor | p\neas CTTY, July 2 night. “KIng | realian Viee-Consul in beloved by his people | greatly shocked when and there will be | a tnation of King | of those who know | ing Humbert was greatly beloved 1 ftions existant | his people.” said Mr. Fedeli. “and I cau- | - o ot conceive why any one but a crank | 2 : r anarchist should wish to take his life. | almost immediately | p1. was good and kind and charitable. [ | While the Republican | knew him well. He will be nucceeded | parties are growing daily in all probability, by his eldest son, | at the last general election they | Prince of Naples, who is a young man no members to Parliament, as com. | yet thirty years of age.” l o Seromin Fedell, l Kansas City, was he learned of the | Humbert of Ttaiy. | - 4 [ n. in he | sincerely by the nation th | carrying out of his pledges | King runs some of the hated Austrian | T M:—x—a HUHBERT THE IDOL OFE ITALY'S PEOPLE He Courageous, Honest and Upright, Ruled the Nation With Kindly Firm- ness and Fostered Its Welfare. ol el el oefo ool He had just entered his carriage One The murder took place shortly after 10 o’clock. He gave his name as S Y] ‘ltahan Natlon ‘Bereft by the Assassin’s Bullet of One Who Planned to Benefit the Tlasses. Sp h to The Ca OME, July —King Humbert's death leaves this country bereft of one man to whom many It fans looked for national salvs “Vogliamo Re Umberto lute” was an expression not infr heard in the country, arising out cial Dispat was '€ a new t % 3 I ) e VICTOR EMMANUEL IIL way to the throne for of Naples and Duke The assassination of King Humbert clears Victor Emmanuel Fer nd Mar @ fofuflefeledebbefelfbeleeedeiedobeh o e o e B T o S R O B R O B R B © of Savc mr namesake of his g nanuel 1L This % Prince \m»m ver 11 ‘Was married Rome, 3. Octobe: Helene of Monte There is no of this ‘ ~:. marriage. i ettt . oot ‘ ..‘J—l—[.o "t‘fl""- fefonte cffe o] T * dutles. great iring the second eral disgust with the barren discussions of the frequ wrangling Parliament. It was only t month that something prog o Ralf of tho cont FEW days after ascending the and an excellent wife and mother, who | try's cause. They had early been inspired | throne, on January 10, 1578, King | watched with tender care over the edu- | by their father with enthusiasm for | Humbert issued a proclamation to | cation of her children. In educating them | Italy’s liberation, and as lads he had in his new subjects, in which he told | she followed the principles of the house | tiated them into military and political | them he should be mindful of the | of Savoy, which requires its sons to be | life. grand example his father had set him of | robust courageous. Ancestry wor-| In 1850, while still but a boy, Humbert | devotion to Italy, love of prt|gr9\~ 'mdmhlp! faith in liberal institutions. My =ole am- bition,” he concluded, “‘will be to deserve mily characteristic of the Sa- , and its children have always shed upon the traditions of its | was also sent later on p the love of my peopl ancestral heroes and taught that they | of the greatest consequence. And Ht % . ought to endeavor to resemble them to | who took part in the reorganization of And Humbert, dead, v‘:“él“‘;:ng:e‘:;?s:‘!(ha best of their ability. Their family | the two Sicilies, and July, 152, saw him | { motto runs, “Fear and Savoy have never |in Naples and Palermo, wh X | met.* were celebrating with fetes and joy their | Humbert 1, King of . was born at | garly in 1955, when Humbert was but 11 | reconquered liberty. Turin March 14, 1844, on the anniversar: s old, he and his brothers and sisters | Shortly before the outbreak of the war of the day that had given birth to his | \were deprived of their mother's guiding | With Austria the Prince of Pledmont went father, Victor Emmanuel. Maria Adelaide, daughte Ranieri, then Viceroy Venice. Thus in the His mother of Archdu of Lombardy a veins of Ita S | hand. Queen Adelaide | an early death. | Youthful Ambitions. | Prussia. While Humbert and his brother Amedeo | tations. their literary and scientifie | was carried off by its sentiments concerning On the Battlefield. blood—the blood of that cruel oppres: of Italian soil of whom, happily, all ves tige has vanished from the fair peninsula. The Princess was a very sweet woman IR R WA ) THE HOUSE OF SAVOY ———— T | prosecuted Continued on Third Png.. —when they could consecrate their youth- “ = ful fire and love of country to their coun- oot tntet The young King whom the tragic death of his father places on the throne of Italy comes on both sides from the an- clent house of Savoy, one of the oldest cf the relgning houses of Europe, his father and his mother having been first cousins and grandchildren on the male side of Charles Albert, King of Sardinia. The house is descended from Humbert, the whitehanded Count of favoy, who died in 1048, In 1416 Amadeus VIII, who became Count of Savoy in 1391, took the title of Duke of Savoy and Prince of Pledmont. He abdicated in 1434 and was elected Pope in 1439, and reigned as Felix V (1440-49). In 1720 Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, by treaty with Austria exchanged Sicily, which he had acquired from Spain in 1713, for Sardinia, with the title of King, which title, with the lesser ones, has since remained with the house. Victor Emmanuel 11 of Sardinia, the grandfather of the new King, succeeded to the throne by the abdication of his father, Charles Albert, on the evening of the disastrous battle of Novara, March 23, 1849. He took part with France and Great Britain in the Crimean war, and with France against Austria in 1839, in which year he annexed Lombardy and the following year Tuscany, Parma, Modena, Romagna and the kingdom of Naples. In the same year he ceded Savoy and Nice to France, and in 1861 assumed the title of “King of Italy.” studies they longed for the hour to strike | The moment came in 186, when, on one was beside his father on those mnm;el«xsl e the people | to Paris to sound the Government as to the alliance then actually concluded between Italy and Action soon followed upon nego- | i@ : L e i i e e i e el S e B e e R e R e | like order was evolved out of what may her free inptitu- be described as chaos. At the beginning of April, as the result ought to hold am | ot an obstruecti; t the tactics of nations | the Irish members in the House of Com- Parliament, the King added, mons in the shade, the Italian Gove its attent f the working of ma imm th ment after tlons enforc calling the military force into play. | On May 15 the Chamber rea and a scere which baffled des prorogued the Chamber of Deputi first securing the passage of n:ula- which would enable the president to aple expedient of to axes within ve order by the A ad but in view the Immediate outcome. At the objection- nd Soctalist | able word “‘regulations” the extreme Left politics ex- e hopes find- nine of them, Signor Pram- some sixt | arose in a body. e Srulition arz and under the leadership of S e remodeling of the cqnetitntion | polini sang with all their might such | gqouane atcorbic ts a necessity of the songs as “Garibaldi's Hymn,” “Carmag- | situation. The fact that the constituent | nole” ana “Marseillaise,” at the same assembly would be & new feature might bring some 70 per t of the electors to me using their desks as big drums and h i 2 of th S T " ; Gay . the polls, instead of the inadequate per- their fists as drumsticks. Nay, more than . r e e which no' cords its vote for that, secure in their parliamentary immu- | Gomiageg " on . they also sang the Socialist “Inne Dei Lavoratori,” a song forbidden by law. General Pelloeux, the Premier, hesitated | to apply the regulations for which he had made such a bard fight, and again pro- rogued the Chamber. Dissolution was the | inevitable copsequence, and King Hum- bert issued a_decree dissolving the twen- tieth Italian Legislature on May 1. | June 3 was the date fixed for the general | election, which resulted in the return. of the ministerial majority. At the same | time, however, the Socialist and Republi- { can group. far from being crushed. was| puch distressed af receiving the news, but increased from sixty deputies to ninety. | gaid that he could not give out any state- General Polloeux resigned shortly after the | ment until he had been officially notified results of the elections became known, | by bis Governmient. | mity, BARON DE FAVA WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT YORK. Jul NEW —Owing to the which the news of the ing Humberj was received in this city it impbssible to see either Consul General Branchi or Vice Consals Albertl and Burdese. Baron de Fava, the Italian Embassador, was_at Seabright, N. J. He was very