BOMB OUTRAGE.
ATTEMPT ON SIGNOR GIOLITTI'S LIFE. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. (DT TELEGEApn—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOBT.) (Rec, September 10, 11.45 p.m.) Rome, September 15. An unknown miscreant attempted the lives of the Premier, "Signor Giolitti, ' and his family by placing a bomb against his residence, near Genoa. The explosion was terrific, and made a large breach in the wall, but nobody was injured.
Signor Giolitti, Premier of Italy, was under a cloud for some time after the fall of his former Ministry, wliich succeeded that of the Marquis Eudini in 1892. ' He was said to have been concerned in bank maladministration, and to have used his power to abstract documents from the proceedings brought against Senator Tanlongo. After his resignation he was impeached for abuse of power as a Minister, but the Supreme Court quashed tho impeachment by denying the competence of the ordinary tribunals to judge ministerial acts. Some years later he recovered his political mana, and ho has been Premier sinco May 6, 1906.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 7
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162BOMB OUTRAGE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 7
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