Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1905 — BOMB FOR ALFONSO [ARTICLE]

BOMB FOR ALFONSO

ARHACHIBT AT PARIS AT WORK Mteatl* Dot* No Harm to It* Intended Victim, and Seriously Barts No Other Person. Paris, June I.—-An attempt to assassinate King Alfonso was made here at midnight. As his majesty drove with President Loubet from a gala performance at the Grand Opera House a bomb was thrown by an anarchist and exploded near the royal carriage. As if by a miracle both the king and president escaped uninjured, but fragments of the missile seriously injured five persons, killed or maimed a number of cavalry horses forming the escort, and knocked out a child’s eye. Intense excitement followed the Incident. The king and president retained their presence of mind, his majesty sending back a member of his suite to make inquiries as to the condition of the wounded. Immediately following the explosion an individual was seen to dHsh into the crowd, hut men seized him before he could escape and turned him over to the poliee. He is l>elleved to have been the author of the outrage. Many other arrests were effected 1 .