News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-06-28
ASSASSINATED.
CARNoT, PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH
REPUBLIC, SLAIN BY AN ANARCHIST.

HEflbLiAs SLAIN bf An ANAhthln L.
NJ. Marie Francois Sadi-Carnot.
who was elected President of the
French Republic in December, 1887,
was assassinated Sunday evening in
Lyons by AN Italian Anarchist, Ce-
sare Giovanni Santo. President Car
not arrived in Lyons Saturday to
visit the exhibition of arts. sciences
and industries. and intended to re-
main over Tuesday.
He was accompanied by Gen. Bor-
Jus, chief of his military household,
most of his other household officials,
Premier Dupuy, NJ. Burdeau and
other members of the cabinet.
He was received enthusiastically at
the station by the mayor. Cheering
crowds filed the street, and gave the
President such a welcome as he had
seldom received. There was a lunch
con at the hotel, and in the evening
a dinner at the prefecture. From the
balcony of the prefecture the Presi-
dent reviewed a large thorcllight
procession, which was followed by
fireworks and illumination.
Sunday the President and his party
paid a state visit to the exhibition
Aiterward the President held a recep-
ton at the prefecture. He planned
to go to the Grand Theatre, on the
place de la Coincide, in the evening"
President Carnot had already en-
tered his carriage when the attack
was made upon him by Santo. He
had partaken of refreshments at the
Chamber of Commerce, and the pro-
cession which had escorted him from
the exhibition had been reformed in
the Place Des Crodeliers and had
started for the Grand Theater, where
a gala performance had been arrang-
ed in his honor.
The carriage had hardl y more than
started along the Rue de la Repub-
lique amid the acclamations of the
thousands of spectators and Presi-
dent Carnot was acknowledging the
enthusiastic greetings of the people.
In front of the Credit LyOnnaisa man
suddenly ran forward to thecarriage,
jumped to the step and stabbed the
President to the heart with dagger,
which he had concealed under his
coat. An eyewitness who was walk
ing abreast of the Presidents car.
rage with Adrien Dupuy, the Prem,
ier's brother, says that as the Presi.
dents carriage approached the Credit
Lyonnais his own attention was at.
tracted by a great disturbance in the
front line of the crowd. He then saw
the carriage stop. The President had
fallen back against the cushion anC
his face had become livid. An cutlery
was raised at once, Hundreds shout
ed that an attempt upon the Presi
dents life had been made and the
crowd seemed suddenly to go mac
with excitement. Meanwhile the as
sassin had been felled to the ground
with blow by M. Rivaud, project o
the Rhone. He was surrounded by
an angry crowd and cries of "lyncf
him" were heard on all sides. 1t was
only with the greatest difficulty thai
the police were able to protect hiH
from the fury of the people. In fact
had not a number of mounted guards
surrounded and protected the police
on their way to the station, the pris
oner would have been taken from
them and beaten to death.
At 11:3O Sunday evening the sur
geons at the prefecture issued thi'
bulletin: "Tho Presidents condition
is alarming, but not hopeless. Thu
wound is in the region of the liver
The hemorrhage, which at first wa
very copious, has now ceased"
A little more than an hourlater TIN
President was dead.
President Carnot is the first rule
of France who has fallen by the as
sassin's hand for nearly three centu
ries. The murder of King Charles II
by Francois Ravaillac in 1910 wa
the last instance of regicide in tina
country. Curiously enough, the cir
cumstances OF this earlier case yer,
closely resemble those of the murde
of President Carnot. In both crime
the weapon used was knife, Ravail
lac, like Santo, jumping on the ste
of the carriage to strike a deadl.
blow at his victim.
THE PRESIDENTS CAREER.
Marie Francois Sadi- Carnot, fourt
President of the French republic wa
born at Limoges, France, August II
1887. He was the eldest son of e1
Minister Hippolyte Sadi-Carnot, {
1917, who died in 1888, and was tn
grandson of Lazare Carnot, know
as the organizer of victory.
The late President was an enginee
| by profession and entered the Eco
Polytechnique in 1857. In 1871 b