a 12th Sept. Tare barbarous and wanton murder of a noble and gentle Lady who has never been the enemy of any man, by an Italian anarchist in the public street in Geneva, will strengthen the hands of those who demand that all the Governments should unite to crush anarchists wherever they may be found as the poisonous vermin that they are, Sixty-one years of age, married to the Emperor Francis-Joseph when she was only seventeen, the Empress Elizabeth was a woman" universally loved and respected, who had shared with her equally respected husband nearly all the misfortunes that can fall to the lot of agent Prince and Princess who yet retain their thrones, She us never interested herself in polities, and so can have made no personal enemies, even among. the anarchists; she has been cruelly murdered in the street simply because she has had, the misfortune to be an Empress, "Verily Tawear tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden—sorrow."
Her Into Majesty was well known and greatly liked both in England and Treland, where she was constantly seen in the hunting-field. Kind, gracious, and unpretentious, she walked about the streets as simply as any private lady, and this made the task of her murderer more easy. Her' death will be the Emperor's crowning sorrow, She leaves two, daughters, the Archduchess Gisela, the wife of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and the Archduchess Maria Valeria, the wife of the Archduke Franz Salvator of Austrin-'Puseany, and one grandchild, the Archduchess Elizabeth, the only child of her Iuckless son the Crown Prince Rudolf, who met his fate in 1889. Her husband's brother Maximilian was deserted by Louis Napoleon and shot in Mexico, and her own sister, the Duchess d'Alengon, was one of the victims of the Bazaar Fire iv Paris last yenr.
The assassination of the Empress of Austria will cast a gloom over all the Courts of Burope. It is something to know that the assassin has been arrested; it is a wonder that the Genevans did not tear him to pieces on the spot, if only for the shadow that he has thrown on their beautiful city.
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