Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-06-25

hAhlh-fhAhNOlS bADl-OAHNOT.
On every side the deepest sympathy Is
expressed for Nine. Carnot, who did 80
much socially to make her husbands ad-
ministration popular Nine Carnot was
atehe palace OF the Elysee when the news
Of the assassination was conveyed to her
by an officsl OF the presidents household.
sbe at hfst refused 20 believe It, asking
why anyone could desire TO kill her hus-
band. When the truth Of the dispatch
was i'm mprsssed upon her, she became al
most prostrated with grief
She demanded to bs at once taken to
Lyons. aud arrangements were soon per
fected with the railway company, and IN
. short time, In com psny with two OF her
daughters. who were weeping bitterly,
she was speeding to Lyons In the hope
that they would arrive there to find the
reports OF the presidents condition ex-
aggsrated.
The Journey Is about 315 miles by rail,
and before the train had proceeded more
than dozen miles a dispatch was handed
aboard Of II from one Of the stations,
which had been signalled to stop an
nouncing that NJ Carnot was dead.
Sketch Of His Career.
Marie Francois Sadi- Carnot, fourth
president Of the French republic, was
born at Limoges. France, Aug IL. 1887
He was the eldest son Of the ex-Minister
Hippolyts SadtCarnot of ls4s who died
In 1888, and was the grandson of Sazare
Carnot, known as the "Organizer Of VIC
tory" The late president was an engi-
nesr by profession, and entered the Ecole
Polytechniquo In 1861.
After the revolu ton OF Sept 4, Sadi
Csrnot was charged as eommissiary
extraordinary OF the provisional govern
ment, to organize the national defense in
the three departments Of the Seine-In.
ferieure, the Eure and of Calvados, and
was appointed Jan. 10. 1871. prefect Of the
department Of the Seine- Inferieure.
He was elected representative from the
Cote-d'Or TO the national assembly on Feb.
3 following, and took his seat with the
Left and had himself inscribed as men,
Der OF the party known as the Republi-
can Left, OF which section he became SEQ
retary. aud voted for all the measures
which tended toward the definite estab-
lishment OF the republic
SadtCarnot presented himself at the
general elections OF Feb. 10, 1870, as a
candidate for the cham ber of deputies In
the Second division, or Circonscriptiou OF
the ACCOMPLISHMENT of the Beaune, aud
was elected by an overwhelming ma
jority. He followed the same political
course In the new chamber, OF which he
was elected secretary.
In the election Of Oct IL, 1877, Sadi-
Carnot was reelected. A decree of Aug.
~. 1878. appointed Sadi- Carnot as uud.r
secretary of state Of the ministry of pub.
lio works In the Duffaure ministry. He
retained this position uuder Premier
waddington when the latter formed bis
cabiuet on Feb. 8, 1870, after Marshal Mo
Mahon had been succeeded as president
OF the French republic by NJ. Jules
Grevy.
He was reelected deputy from the Sec
ond Circonscription OF the Beaune on
Aug. 2l, 1881. and left the ministry, with
the other members Of the Ferry cabinet
on Nov TO- 1881 NJ. Sadi-Carnot was
elected one OF four vice presidents Of the
Democratic Left chamber, and again re.
esivsd tbs aottfoliO Of ppblis rerkA and