Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1919 — FIVE YEARS AGO SATURDAY FIRST WAR SHOT WAS FIRED. [ARTICLE]

FIVE YEARS AGO SATURDAY FIRST WAR SHOT WAS FIRED.

Five years ago Saturday, Francis Ferdinand, Austrian archduke, was assassinated at Sarajevo. His death furnished the excuse for the world war, Which ended Saturday with the signing of the treaty of peace. 4 The shots which led to the war were fired by Gaviro Prinsip, a student. He leaped out from a crowd watching the archduke and his wife as they drove by in a carriage on June 28, 1914, and poured a stream of bullets at them from an automatic pistol. . . Shortly afterward Austria made deinands on Serbia for a hand in Prinsip’s trial. These deinands resulted in international complications —and the war. Prinsip died in jail.