The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-30
ASSASSINATION OK PRESIDENT
CARN0T

crime ever committed IN the historj
Of civilized nation took place a
! Lyons, France, on Sunday last
when Giovanni Santo, an Italian
fend, scarcely out Of his teens, but
an expert at the stiletto, plunged q
dagger in the sideo President Sadi-
Carnot, the chief magistrate of the
Republic of France.
Carnot had come from Paris to
Lyons to visit the international es-
position taking place there, and
Lyons was having great gala day.
The city Of palaces had put on her
best to honor the President of
France; a magnificent banquet had
been rendered Carnot, and in bril-
liant speech, he had just said "the
same heart beats in all French hearts,
and the same union of French
men forms guarantee of the
march of progress and justice
which it belongs to France to give
an example to the world" 1t was
9:25 D. m., and the President and
his suite got in carriages on tri-
umphal procession, intending to
wind their way to the theatre, where
a gala performance was to be given,
because of Carnot's presence in the
city. The streets were thronged
with people loudly cheering, and
Carnot, fearing no danger, knowing
that he was among his own, kept on
waving with his right hand and
saluting with his hat in his left III
response to the ovation that was
given him by the crowd.
Just then young man was seen
to approach Carnot's carriage, ap-
parently with the intention of pre-
senting petition, when instantly |
in the glare of the electric light, a |
bright blade was seen glimmering
in the air, aimed at Carnot's side, /
and he falling back In his seat, his
face deathly pale.
The scene that followed is beyond
he compass Of this article; suffices
t to say that the throng, wild,
'renzied with horror, would have
orn to pieces the fend that had
that internal deed, had
lot the mounted police gotten hold
# him and spirited him away. As
or the victim, he whom the French
PEOPLE loved, he who had spent him
elf for France, her aggrandizement
nd her glory, he died stricken to
he heart by the hand of foreign
ssassin, at half past twelve O'Clock
# that night.
Universal sympathy with France
n the loss Of her President has been
he theme of the week and the tele.
raph has transmitted to the French
PREMIER the expression of coincidence
f every nation in the world; even
'ermany, the sworn enemy of
rance, forgot her grievances, and
ant her sympathy to the bereaved
alton.
Santo is an anarchist, sworn
aemy of all government, law and s
rider, who, carrying his pernicions !
to the bitter end, muir .
cred Cannot simply to avenge the
eaths Of Valiant and Emile Henri, |
he two anarchists recently executed
/ Paris. Italy is his birth place,
ut 1T ould be wrong to impute to !.
ally that abominable crime. Assas-
MS are men of no country, they 2
e repudiated by all, and Italy was /,
e first to repudiate Giovanni Santo.
e is now in Jail expecting
ompt and speedy trial, as France !
one knows how to give to the :
sassins of her public men. 1t will :,
IT be Pendergast trial. =
In the death of Carnot, France :,
S suffered an irreparable loss. A 6
an of integrity and undoubted r,
llity, firm. resolute and above all
tty political quarrsls of parties.
lrnot was elected IN 1887 to the p'
of France to succeed
'evy, who had been obliged to re- S,
,n;and from the very first inception til
his public high trust, he set himself
lead France on to an era Of peace, b.
osperity and national prestige, pt