The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-25

'' "HO Hau dILuOSb Immediately been
conveyed to the prefecture A careful
examination was made of the wound, and
the doctors declared that the condition of
M. Carnot was hopeless.
The receipt of the news of the assassin
alton caused a great sensation at the
the theater, which was crowded to the
walls by the elite of Lyons.
All were waiting with impatience
the arrival of the president.
and were unable to understand the delay.
Suddenly man appeared, crying at the
top of his voice: "The president has been
assassinated =" The most intense excite
ment followed this abrupt announcement
This announcement was received with a
terrible explosion of fury, as the audience
when the first report of the assassination
was received had, though greatly ex-
cited, generally discredited it. The thea
ter resounded with shouts Of "a mort la
assassine," and cries for vengeance on
him
THE ADDRESS TO THE AUDIENCE.
When silence was restored M. Rivaud
said that in the Rue de Ia Republique a
miscreant, under the pretext of presenting
a petition, stabbed NJ. Carnot with a
dagger. NJ. Rivaud was interrupted with
shouts of death to the murderer"
Revenge" Waving his hand for silence,
M. Rivaud spoke again, saying, "Do not
give me mission more painful. The
president is in the hands of doctors. You
understand that under these conditions
our hearts are filled with sorrow, and no
demonstration in his honor can do good"
The audience left the building, many of
them proceeding at once to the prefecture,
where they stood in the streets waiting
for reports from the president
HELD A NEWSPAPER IN HIS HAND.
The assassin held newspaper in his
hand as he pressed through the crowd,
and sprang on the steps of the carriage in
which President Carnot sat. He snatched
a dagger from the folds of the paper and
plunged it into the Presidents abdomen
near the liver. President Carnot sank
back unconscious.
The news spread swiftly to every part
of the city. Infuriated crowds filed the
streets, Before l o'clock an Italian res
taurant had been sacked, and the police
were obliged to strain every nerve to pro.
tect the Italian consulate.
THE ASSASSIN YOUTHFUL.
Santo, the assassin, is beardless
young man, 20 or % years old. When
arrested he was attired in a brown suit
and wore peaked cap. He was marched
under guard from the scene of the
assassination TO the station. He held his
head down, but his eyes glanced furtively
around as though he were seeking an oppor-
tunity to escape from his captors. To have
made such an attempt would have been
the hight of foolhardiness, unless he
desired to commit suicide, for there is not
the slightest doubt that had he got away
from the police protection afforded him
he would have been torn limb from limb
by the crowd, whose every action showed
that they were most excited.
HIS STORY OF HIMSELF.
Santo, who speaks French badly, when
questioned by Prefect Lepine at the po-
lice station in Rue Moliere, said he had
lived at CeJte, department of Herault,
for the past six months, and had only
come TO Lyons to-day. He gave his age
as %. His address was given coolly,
without any sign of bravado. He re-
fused, however, to answer any of the
many questions put to him regarding
his motive for stabbing the president, de-
claring that, on this subject, he would
speak only before the 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.
FURIOUS AGAINST THE ITALIANS.
Immediately after the death of Presi-
dent Carnot Prime Minister Dupuy
started on his return to Paris to officially
announce the news to the Senate and
Chamber of Deputies.
After President Carnot had been taken
to the prefecture it became generally
known that his assassin was
an Italian, and the feeling Of deep
indignation among the crowd found
vent in the form of attacks
upon places kept by inoffensive natives of
Italy. Three cafes in the vicinity of the
Palaceof Commerce were totally wrecked
by the infuriated mob. French flags,
which were in abundance, were then pro-
cured by the crowd, and with cries of,
'Down with the foreigners !" "Out with
them" hundreds of men and
BOYS m.rched to the Rue la
Barre. in which street the Italian
consulate is situated. There is no doubt
that the consulate would have been
sacked had it not been promptly guarded
by the police.
The excitement continues at fever heat,
and it would take very little to precipitate
a bloody anti-Italian riot. All over the
city threats are made to take summary
vengeance upon the countrymen of Santo,
and the authorities, fearing that attempts
will be made to put these threats into
execution, ord cred bodies of cuirasseurs
to patrol the city to prevent an outbreak.
Everywhere the troops are greeted with
cries of Long live the army"
THE NEWS SLOW IN GETTING OUT.
London, June 24-The Daily Tele-
graph's Paris correspondent says:
Among the comparatively few here who
are acquainted with the terrible news the
utmost emotion prevails. 1t was never
thought that President Carnot ran any
risk in visiting Lyons. Through
out all the anarchist outrages
the Elysee had never been molested,