Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-06-29
CARNOT Is KILLED.
President OF the French Assassi-
mated at Lyons by an Ital-
ians's Knife.
Attacked in His Carriage Before a
Great Crowds Conscious
Until Death.

President CarnOt was stabbed Sunday
evening in Lyons and died forty minutes
past midnight. As the President was
leaving the banquet Of the exposition at
Lyons at $3.50 o'clock Sunday evening
in order TO go 10 the theater he was
stabbed with knife in the stomach in
the region OF the liver. The assassin
was arrested and was recognized as an
Italian who had arrived in Lyons Satur-
day afternoon. He has refused 70 an
swer any questions until he is brought
before the Judges. The mans name is
Cesare Giovanni SantO.
The crowd that assembled as soon as
the assassination of the President became
known attacked and demolished three
Italian cafes in Lyons II was impOssi-
bic, in spite OF the intervention Of the
troops, to keep the crowd in check The
condition OF the President was very
alarming. The physicians succeeded in
checking the hemOrrhage. but at IL
o'clock il broke out again and the case
became hopeless.
Nine. Carnot aud her children left for
Lyons on a special train at / o'clock
Monday morning. NJ. Dupuy. the Pre-
mier and President Of the Council Of
Ministers. returned TO Paris alone.
The death OF President Carnot caused a
profound sensation throughout the en- tire
country. Carnot was the type of an hon
est bourgeois, and in his unmerited and
stupid death he will toe profoundly sa-
luted by all his adversaries. He did not
merit such an end. He may nave COM
mtted faults against parliamentary dis
M "a init cd
against political honesty. During his
Presidency he had to struggle against
serious difficulties, and he always knew
how 10 act with moral dignity.
The fact that this assassination had
been committed on the anniversary OF
the battle of Solferino has been much
commented on
The political situation is very simple.
Until the meeting Of the Congress. which
Is composed Of the Senate and Chamber
OF Deputies the President Of the senate,
Challemel Lacour. is President Of the
Republic ad interim. The congress will
probably meet Wednesday. Two can
didates remain NJ. Casimir Perier and
M. Charles Dupuy. The election of the
former is probab bic.
The body OF NJ. Carnot was taken from
the prefecture at Lyons Monday evening
and placed on the train TO convey II TO
Paris. After prayers for the dead had
been offered the casket containing the
remains was carried out and placed on a
gun carriage. While this was being done
salutes Of artillery were fired. trumpets
were sounded. and drums were beaten.
Every civil and military honor was
shown the dead. The square in front OF
the prefecture was densely thronged as
were all the streets leading TO the rail-
way station.
The funeral has been fixed for Sunday.
The remains will be laid in the Pam
theon, where Victor Hugo is buried. be-
side those Of Lazare Carnot, the Presi-
dents grandfather.
The exports Of gold from New York
and Boston last week were s7,750.OOO.
Chicago bankers suggest the sale OF 8
per cent bonds TO relieve the growing
treasury deficit.
Fifty men were imprisoned in burn
Ing mine at Lewisburg, Ala, and four
OF them were suffocated.
Six members OF the Peary relief expe-
dition have sailed from New York They
hope TO find him in a month.
Morris NJ Estee, of Napa, was noml-
mated for governor by the republicans of
California on the first ballot
Great damage has been done by an
overflow Of the Arkansas River. Wichita,
Kan, Is almost under water.
In all probability a separate and dis
tinct coal miners strike will be ordered
throughout northern Illinois.
Joe Turner, convict in the Iowa peni-