St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-01

The affair has caused great excite
ment in this city and among the gen
erals followers in Paris. The police
and the dead mans friends here have
taken possession of his lodgings, but
they have not yet announced if he left
any ste!ement.
- t1en. BoHlangGT cams 10 this city froia
London few months ago. Recently
he has not occupied his former gorgeous
residence on the Avenue Louise, but,
owing to reduced means. has been
compelled to live in a small hotel, where
his apartments were very different from
those he had beeh accustomed to as
general in the French army, as minister
of war, or as friend of Nine. de Bonnie
main. The generals friends say that
He Has Been InconsOIable
since the death of Nine. de Bonnemain,
and that he has aged perceptibly. He
was much thinner than during his more
prosperous days. His position, financial
and political, has, it is generally adj
mitted, been getting blacker and blacker
of recent months. He had no hopes for
the future, and his remaining friends
were few and becoming colder as the
once famous Gen. Boulanger dropped
more and more out of public not
Ice. There is no doubt that the
general was conscious of these facts,
and that they preyed upon his mind
Coupled with this was the morbid love-
or infatuation. which he had for his
dead mistress, to whom he was undoubt-
eddy greatly attached, as is evidenced
by his renouncing what might have
been an important political career, in
order to fly with her from France.
1t is an open question as to what
mould hou In, hol
the general chosen to face imprlSo
ment and possible political upheaval,
instead of preferring the safer sunshine
of Nine. de Bonn emain'S favor. Reve-
lations made by NJ. Laguerre. the well
known Boulangist member of the cham
Der of DEP uties, subsequently to Gen.
BOulanger's flight, show that he had
held relations with the Comte de Paris
and Prince Jerome Napoleon, and that
the DucheSSe Dues. one of the most
ambition and active members of the
Royalist party, had spent 100000
francs in advancing the cause of the
man who has just taken his own life
over the tomb ofhls mistress.
Life Had Lost Its Charms.
This evening those who formed the
dead mans encourage admit that re-
GENTLY he has frequently openly avowed
desire for death, and it is even added
that the general has several times of
late even made attempts to take his own
life. The consequence has been that
he has been watched as closely as posi-
BILE by the friends who still remained
loyal to him at the low water of his
fortunes. Even the latter, however. APP
pear to have finally grown tired of their
task and to have determined to resign
their positions as guardians of the
fallen leaders, life.
With this object in mind, his friends
In this city recently warned the gen.
erals niece and the latter's husband
that the eX-minister of war, who at one
time $ looked upon as the man to
lead "La kevanche' enthusiasts on to
Berlin, was so Respondent as to be ap-
parently determined to commit suicide.
This niece and her husband arrived
some q. IS ago at the generals hotel in
the Rue MOntover, and so impressed
were tn with his demeanor that one
of the I things they did was to cause
all they Dons found III his apartments
to be ia /, away and hidden where he
could not get at them.
BOulanger must have noticed the pre-
cautions which were being taken to save
his life and unknown to his niece and
her h. band he must have managed to
., md hide from them the pistol
with .dch he eventually shot himself
Even The generals valet, who had been
Instructed to use his utmost endeavors
TO find and obtain possession of any
weapon the general might have about
him, seems TO have been cleVerly de-
ceived in this fatal instance.
MOurned for Marguerite.
Gen. Boulanger, according to the
stories told this evening, made no secret
of his WEAKNESS of life since the col
lapse If his party, and particularly so
since e death of Nine. de Bonnemain.
His i.iends now recall the fact that
when the coffin lid was finally closed
over the remains of his mistress he kept
OH repeating aloud in heart broken
tones, "An revoir ct bientot."
Ev ,ry day, about 4 in the afternoon
it b; ) now become known, Gen. Bou
langer, since Nine. de Bonnemain's
death. has gone to the cemetery at
lxelles and has deposited some hand