The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-26
READY FOR BURIAL.
TheRemains Of PresfdentCarnot
Taken to Paris.
The Funeral Will Take Place
There Sunday.
LOSE THEIR HEADS
French Wreak Vengeance on
Italians in Lyons.

LYONS. June 26.-The streets Of this
city were yesterday thronged with
crowds Of excited people. A large
number Of stores are closed Serious
rioting has already occurred and
more trouble is anticipated Were it
not for the presence of the over
whelming force of troops stationed in
and about the city there is little
doubt that the mob would attack the
palace of justice and vvreak vengeance
upon the murderer. Mourning en-
blems are worn by nearly every man,
woman and child in the city, and no
dwelling seems too poor to display
the emblem of grief from it's windows
and about its doors.
The majority of the inhabitants are
wearing small mourning badges of
immortelles in their buttonholes, in
addition to crepe around their arms
All the flags are draped with crepe,
and a countless number of portraits
and engravings of the late president
surrounded by crepe are to be seen
displayed in the windows everywhere
Last evening the remains of the
dead president were removed from
the apartments in the prefecture and
the procession through the streets
was reverently witnessed No sooner
had the cOrtege gone by, however,
before a great change appeared in
the crowd. The people who had here
tofore stood reverently and mute be-
fore the nations martyr, now gave
vent co their pent-up excitement and
rage. Everywhere could be heard
cries of Long live Carnot and death
so his murderer"
The sudden transition in the feel
ings of the crowd BODIED ill for the
resident Italians, and when some of
the more hot headed men in the
crowd proposed that an attack be
made upon the Italian quarter. the
PROPOSITION was received with wild
shouts of approval In almost less
time than it takes to tell it an enor-
nous mob, at the head of which was
carried a French flag, was en- route
TO that part of the city given over to
the Italians, and before the police
could intervene to prevent the trouble
the mob had attacked all the shops
belonging to the foreigners and
sacked them. The proprietors and
their families were forced to fee for
their lives
In the meantime another large
band marched through other streets
and by threats compelled every
Italian who kept a cafe. to close his
place of business.
As the night advanced the rioting in
the city became more widespread, and
AL one time IL looked as bhOQRn the
mobs would take full possession of
the town. In the Guillotierie quar-
tiers the disturbances were particu-
larry violent Thousands of men and
boys paraded the streets, and attacked
and sacked every Italian store they
came across Much of the loot OBJ
tanned by the rioters consisted of
liquors, part of which was drank by
the rioters, while what was not so
disposed of was either poured into the
streets and set on fire or burned in
the casks and barrels which were
rolled into the middle of the thor
oughfares- Many acts of violence
were committed and threats of death
TO Italians were freely banded about.
A number of arrests were made
when the trouble was at its height,
but the prisoners were subsequently
liberated by the gen d'armes. who
were vocifero1sly applnuded by the
mob. Many of the ringleaders, who
had fallen into the hands of the po-
lice, only later to be set at liberty,
were carried in triumph to similar
riotous scenes being enacted in other
quarters.