The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1897-06-16
NAD. 4 NARROW ESCAPE.
An Attempt on the Life of Presi.
dent Faure, Of France.
BOMB THROwER ARRESTED.
To Be a Ruler Is Great, but to Be a
Target for Fanatics Bombs,
Is Rather Provoking.
PARIS ANARCHISTS SUSPECTED

PARIS, June 14.-An attempt was
made yesterday to assassinate Felix
Faure, president of the French republic,
while he was Ell route to Long Champs
to witness the grand prix. While M.
Faure's carriage was passing a thicket
near La Cascade restaurant in the Bots
de Bolougne, q bomb, which subse-
quently proved to be piece of tubing
about six inches long and two inches
in diameter, with thickness of half an
inch, charged with powder and swan
shot, exploded.
No one was injured by the explosion.
A man in the crowd, suspected as the
prime mover, was arrested. He gave
his name as Gallet, and made only the
briefest replies to questions put to him
by the police. Gallet said he had no
occupation but resided at Levallers-
Ferret. He is believed to be insane, for
he shouted as the carriage passed along
SO loudly as to attract general attention
in the crowd.
The police have also made another ar
rest, in this case a youth, but it is
thought probable that the actual culprit
escaped.
The news of the attempt spread like
wildfre through the city, and when M.
Faure returned to the Elysee, the streets
along the route where it was known he
would drive were crowded with people,
who cheered him vociferously.
The bomb was a clumsily made affair,
to which piece of fuse was attached,
and the fuse was probably lighted by a
paper fixed in the end of stick as soon
as tho head of the procession came into
view. The presumption is that at the
moment the fuse was lighted the culprit
fled, and, in any case, the bomb could
not have done much harm.
In the thicket where the police found
the remnants of the bomb, they found
also pistol upon which was engraved
the words Mort A Felix Faure" and
the names Alsace-Lorraine and Cologne.
Near the pistol was a small dagger
bearing similar threatening inscrip-
ton, and a few feet away the police
found a newspaper with cartoon
grossly insulting to the president. This
contained an offensive inscription hint
ing at the execution of NJ. Faure.
Several persons have stated to the
police that the moment the explosion
occurred a man was seen to run swiftly
into the thicket, but reports of this
character are likely to be mere conjec-
ture.
This attempt ON the life Of M. Faure
was made on the very spot where
Berezowsky tried to shoot the czar
while driving to the military raview at
Long Champs in 1867, and where
Francois, q lunatic, fired his revolver at
M. Faure ON July IA. last.
On his arrival at the race course, NJ.
Faure was warmly congratulated on his
escape by the Grand Duke Zergius, NJ.
Hanotaux and other member of the
cabinet.
Some of the papers assert that Rous-
teaux, the detective, accidentally saw
the man who threw the bomb and Crap
pied with him, but was unable to hold
him in the melee.
1t is rumored the project of police has
information connecting the Paris an
archists with the outrage, but it is gen.
orally believed that the act was the act
of a mad man rather than that Of a con-
spiratOr.