Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-28

Paris, June 26.-PreSident Carnot
was assassinated Sunday evening at
Lyons by an Italian giving the name
J OF Cesare Giovanni Santo. President
/ Carnot, who was in Lyons to attend
! the exposition, was on his way to the
/ theater in a carriage.
Santo Sprang upon the step of the
carriage and plunged a knife into
! President Carnot's breast. The knife
penetrated the upper region of the
liver and the president died soon after
the wound was received.
The assassin was seized by the po-
lice, but mounted guards with drawn
saberS had to be called out before the
police could get the assassin to the
station. He was badly beaten by the
crowd, and would have been lynohed
but for the desperate efforts OF officers
to save him.
The people Of Lyons were so enraged
that an anti-Italian riot was started,
and several Italian cafes were sacked.
The mob attacked the Italian consul
ate, but it was too strongly guarded.
The assassin refuses to state the mo-
tive for his crime. He is presumably
:. an anarchist. The fact that the assas-
sination was committed on the ami
versary of the battle of Solferino is
very much commented on.
The political situa ton is simple.
Until the meeting of congress, which
is composed of the senate and chamber
OF deputies, the president of the sen
ate, Challemel LacOur, is president OF
the republic ad interim. The two can
dIdates are NJ. CaSimir-Perier and NJ.
Charles Dupuy. The election of the
former is probable.
At cabinet council held yesterday
Premier Dupuy formally announced to
!, the ministers the murder of President
CarnOt, and an official message CON
tanning the same intelligence was
: sent to Senator Callemel-LacOur, pres
ldent Of the senate, and to NJ. CaSimir-
: Perler, president of the chamber of
= deputies.
The government will propose to the
chambers that the remains Of the late
President Carnot be accorded a Ma
tiOnal funeral.
The inquiries of the police this after
noon resulted in showing that Santo
was born at Motta Visconti, north
west Of Paw, in December 1878 The
prisoner is a baker by trade, and was
tried in Milan in 1892 for breach of
the peace, but he was acquitted owing
to lack of sufficient evidence against
him.
Twenty detectives have gone to Get
tie, department of Herault, where San
!. to was recently domiciled, in order to
track down his supposed accOmplices.
Crowds of people during the morn
ing and afternoon have surrounded
the Elysee palace, where all the for
eign ambassadors and the ministers,
senators and deputies called during the
day.
The senate and chamber of deputies
will assemble in the electoral congress
at Versailles at 1 p. IN. tomorrow for
the purpose of electing a new pres-
dent.
SantO was known as a dangerous an
archist and delivered lectures of the
widest character before going to
Switzerland last year.
There no longer seems to be much
doubt that the presidents assassina.
ton was the result of an anarchist con-
Spiracy to ayenge the deaths of Vail
liant and Emil Henri, two recently ex-
ecuted anarchists.
The weapon used by the murderer
was long, triangular blade of tie
stiletto pattern. Upon the blade are
! engraved the words Record of To
ledO," The sheath of the weapon is
! of velvet, with red and black stripes.
President Carnots last words were:
THANK you, my friends; thank you"
The police inquiries late yesterday
resulted in obtaining the following
facts in regard to the assassin's move
| ments previous to the crime:
SantO missed the train running di-
rect to Lyons from Cette on Saturday. .
and had to so to Montpelier and .
| from thence to Vienna. From the lat |
! ter place he was unable to pay his
fare on the train to Lyons, having .
only SO centmes in his pocket and .
was obliged to walk thirty miles. He
| arrived at Lyons the same afternoon.
| When the police rescued the prisoner
from the mob, after he had stabbed
the president, his clothes were torn to
shreds
CARNOT'S CAREER.
Francois Sadi CarnOt was elected to
! the presidency Dec. 3, 1887. His COM
petitors were Gen. Saussier, NJ. Ferry
and NJ. de Freycinet. Practically he
was the candidate of the radicals and
he was often accused of sympathizing
with the communists and reds.
His history is simple and unevent-
full. By profession he was an engi-
neer and by taste political economist
He planned public works and edited
John Stuart Mill. He took part in the
national defense during the Franco
Prussian war and consistently voted
with the radicals. He spent the best
part of his life in remembering that he
was Carnot's grandson and in pre- +.
serving the family tradition of integ-
rlty and courage. CarnOtS GRANDPA
Their, the celebrity of the house, was a
typical revOlutiOniSt. He voted with
out the least compunction for the
death Of Louis XVI.
Francois Sadi CarnOt was born in
Limoges, Aug. IL, 1887. He entered
the polytechnic school in 1857, and af-
forwards the government school Of
bridges and highways. He graduated
first Of his class in 1868, and after hav-
ing been for some time secretary to