Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — ASSASSIN KILLS PREMIER OF SPAIN [ARTICLE]

ASSASSIN KILLS PREMIER OF SPAIN

Prime Minister and Greatest Statesman Shot by Anarchist In Street of Madrid. Jose Canalejas y Mendes, premier of Spain, and considered the greatest statesmen of that country, was shot and killed Tuesday by an anarchist in Madrid. The assassin attempted suicide, firing a shot from a revolver into his breast but the wound did not prove immediately fatal.