Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-25
OF PRESID'T CARNOT.


Lyons, France, shortly after 9 o'clock
last night, by Cesare Giovanni Santo,
an Italian, and died in few hours.
The President was visiting Lyons in
connection with the international En-
hibition. Upon his arrival there he
was rendered q reception at the Pre-
lecture, after which he visited the cX-
hibition. After spending some time
there he proceeded to the Palais de
Commerce to attend q banquet.
At 9:25 o'clock the President started
for the theater to attend ii performance
to be given in his honor. Several car
riages were in the procession. Nj. Car
not's carriage was driven slowly, and
when half way down the street, which
was lined with enthusiastic crowds of
D .ople, a man rushed ont of the crowd
and sprang upon the step of the Presi-
dents landau. Just at this moment
NJ. Carnot was waving his right hand,
and Saluting with his hat in his left
hand in response to the ovation. The
people close to the carriage saw that
the man standing on the step had a
knife in his hand. They saw the bright
blade CLEAN as the assassin's arm de-
scended, and then President Carnot
was seen to fall back in his seat, his
face deathly pale One of his hands
was pressed over his heart where the
steel had entered the body.
NJ. Rivaud, project of Lyons, who
was seated beside NJ. Carnot, immedi-
ately struck the assassin blow in the
face and knocked him from the step
Instantly cries of Lynch the assas-
sin y were hear on every side, and the
crowd in the vicinity of the carriage
swelled to enormous proportions. The
man was grasped by dozen hands, and
his life would have then and there paid
the forfeit Of his crime had it not been
for the police who seized him and at
tempted to draw him away. Blows
were aimed at his face and head over
the shoulders OF the police, and many
of the blows landed fairly. at last'the
police succeeded in driving the crowd
from their prisoner, but to get the cap.
tive through the crowd was physical
impossibility. The news OF the at
tempted murder had spread with light
ning-like rapidity, and mounted guards
were sent to the aid of the policemen.
With drawn sabers they rode into the
crowd, needless of whom their horses
tramped upon. The crowd gave way
before the horses, and at last Gordon
was formed around the ten almost eX-
hausted policemen and their captive
and marched to the police station. In
the meantime the President had been
conveyed TO the Prefecture. A care
full examination was made OF the wound
and the doctors declared that the con-
dition of N. Carnot was hopeless.
Shortly after midnight the Arch
bishop of Lyons was summoned to the
bedside of the dying President, to adj
minister to him the last rites of the
church.
NJ. Garnet remained conscious to the
last He realized that his life was
rapidly ebbing. Dr. Ponent leaned over
the bed on which the President was
lying, and said to him "Your friends
are here, Monsieur lie President"
N. Garnet replied 81 am grateful
for their presence" and, in less than a
minute, he gasped for breath, there was
convulsive shuddering Of his body,
and the President of France was dead.
The wound received by NJ. Carnot was
in the upper liver. which was pierced
through and through. He died at forty
three minutes past midnight.
When it became generally known
that the assassin was an Italian, the
feeling Of indignation among the crowd
found tent in the form OF attacks upon
cafes kept by inofiensive natives OF
Italy Three such places were totally
wrecked by the iniuriated mob. The
crowd, with cries Of Down with the
foreigners - "Out with them =; march
ed TO the Italian consulate, which
would no doubt have been sacked had
it not been for the prompt action OF the
police.
Santo, the assassin, is a beardless young
man, twenty or twenty-five years old. He
said he had lived at Gette for the past six
months. and hau only come to Lyons yester-
day. He refused to answer any questions re-
gaiding his motive for stabb;ng the president
declaring that on this subject he would speak
only before tribunal. When he was search
ed by the police book was found i'll one of
his pockets in which was written that he
had been born in village in the province Of
Milan, Italy.
An official note was issued this morning
calling upon the Senate aud the Chamber of
Deputies to assemble in Congress at Versailles
at O'Clock, Wednesday afternoon, for the
purpose of clccting a new President.
NJ. Sadi-Carnots private as well as public
life has been useful honorable and blamelesS.
As President he has performed his functions
with dignity and conscientious regard for the
welfare of France. His services 10 France
have been many and various. Born August
II 1887, he was Il comparatively young man
when. III ISL. he organized the national de-
tense in Normandy in the war with Germany
During the same year he was elected to the
national assembly and resolutely voted for all
measures looking to the establishment of the
republic After the date named he was con.
tinuously in the public service, first becoming
a minister in the Ferry cabinet of 1850. On
the retirement of President Grcvy, i'll 1887,
he was elected President. His death pre-
cipitates the election under conditions of great
excitement and before the politicians have
completed their arrangements for the choice
of his successor
THE G.. 4. r. AND THE G. Y.-Lee
camp, Confederate Veterans, Of Rich
mond, had a meeting Friday night that
is said to have afforded some excite
ment to those veterans who were pre-
sent. A letter from G.. a. r. post in
Chicago, inquiring whether or not the
camp endorsed the sentiments uttered
by Rev. r. c.. Cave in his address at
the unwilling in Richmond on May 30,
was the subject of a debate that became
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