The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-28
PRESIDENT CARNOT.
He Is Aseassinated by An Italian
 Anarchist.
THE EXCITEMENT AT FEVER HEAT.
The Murderer Springs on the Steps of M. Carrots Carriage and Drives n Knife Into the Presidents Body Near
 His Heart.

an Italian anarcnlSt named ScSdre | Giovanni Santo, who, under the pretext of presenting a petition, sprang upon the steps of the presidents landau, while he was being driven to the | theater, and stabbed him near the heart, infiictipg wound from which he died at l2:45 o'clock this, Monday, III orning.
 The president was visiting Lyons in | connection with the international eX- bibition. His carriage was being driven slowly along in front of the Palais de | Commerce, and then turned into the Rue de la Republique, still following the facade of the palace.
 When halfway down the street, which was lined with enthusiastic crowds of people who were loudly cheering, man rushed out of the crowd and sprang upon the step of the presidents | landau. Just at this moment M. Carnot was waiving his right hand and salut- | ing with his hat in his left hand in re- | sponse to the ovatio. that was | given him by the crowd. The peo- pie close to the carriage saw the nan standing on the step had knife in hand. By the glare of the electric lights they saw the bright blade glcam in the air, as the assassin'S arm descended, and then President Car not was seen to fall back in his seat, deathly pale. One of his hands was pressed to his heart, where the steel had entered his body.
 NJ. Rivaud, prefect of Lyons, who was seated by President Carnot, immedi- 1 ately struck the assassin blow full in | the face and knocked him from the step, thus preventing the man from again stabbing the president, which it was his evident intention to do. Instantly cries of 'Le President est assassiner," Mort le assassin" were heard on every side, and the crowd in the vicinity of the carriage swelled to enormous propor- tions, every member of it seemingly intent upon killing the assassin. He was grasped by dozen hands and his ! life would then and there paid the for | felt of his crime had it not been for several sergeants de vile, who seized him and attempted to draw him away from his captors.
 This was found to be impossible, as the infuriated populace was determined to lynch the man. All efforts of the sergeants availed nothing beyond sav- ing the man from instant death. Blows were aimed at his face and head over the shoulders of the police, who had by this time received endorsements, | n,,l ,,f 4y.n l,1,,,-e InI f,;x xl At last the police succeeded in driv- ing the bowling mob back foot or so from their prisoner, but to get the captive through the crowd was physical impossibility.
 In the meantime the news of the at tempted murder spread with light ning-like rapidity, and mounted guards were sent to the aid of the police, who were struggling to preserve the life of l the assassin. With drawn sabres in their hands the guards rode down into 1 the crowd needless of whom their horses trampled upon. The crowd gave way before the horses, and at last the center of the mob was reached. Then | a cordon was formed around the almost exhausted policemen and their captive, and the march to the police station be- gan.
 Physicians were hastily summoned to attend the president, who had i'm mediately been conveyed to the pre- lecture. A careful examination was made of the wound and the doctors de clared the condition of M. Carnot hope | less.
 Shortly after midnight the arch bishop of Lyons was summoned to the bedside of the dying president to ad- minister to him the last rites of the church. He was in the room but a short time when he retired to an ad- | joining room. Here he remained until l2:3O o'clock, when he was again sum moned to the presidents room, where he administered to him the sacrament. M. Carnot remained conscious to the last.
 Santo, who speaks French badly, when questioned by Prefect Lepin at the police station in Rue Moliere, said he had lived at Cette, department of Perault, for the past six months and had only come to Lyons yesterday. He gave his age at 9. His replies were given coolly, but without any sign of bravado. He refused, however, to an swer any of the many questions put to him regarding his motive for stabbing the president, declaring that on this subject he would speak only before a tribunal. When he was searched by the police, a book was found in one of his pockets, in which it was written that he had been born in village in the province of Milan, Italy.
 The excitement continues at fever heat and it would take very little to precipitate bloody anti-Italian riots. All over the city threats are made to take summary vengeance upon the countrymen of Santo, and the author ities, fearing that attempts would be made to put these threats into effect, ordered bodies of cuirassers to patrol the city to prevent any outbreak. | -
 Great Portrait Painter Dead.
 CHICAGO, June 25.-George P. Healy, | recOpnized in two continents as one nf