Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1891 — AN ASSASSIN’S ATTEMPT. [ARTICLE]

AN ASSASSIN’S ATTEMPT.

The Young Czarewitch of Russia Assaulted in Japan. A Fanatlc Attempts to Kill Him With a Sword and Makes a Serious Wound. A dispatch received at Berlin on the 12th from Tokio, the capital of Japan, announces that an attempt has been made upon the life of the Cz&rwitch, but that the imperial traveler, though seriously wounded, is considered to be in no danger of dying. The particulars as to the attempt at assassination received here are most meager. The only details given are that the Czarwitch was suddenly attacked by a Japenese who was 1 armed with a sharp sword. The Japanese, before ho could be overpowered, succeeded in inflicting severe wounds upon the Czarwitch who defended himself gallantly. The motive of the attempt is not given in the dispatch received here. The Japanese legation at Washington has received a dispatch in relation to the attempt on the life of the Czarwitch, which states that the Prince was wounded in the head by a fanatic. The attack was made at Otsu, a’placo upon the Lake Biwa, about twelve miles from Kioto.