The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-19
A HARMLESS BOMB
ExpIodes on Route Followed
by President Faure.
HIS VISIT TO THE CAR
AfPO4csUMHNTs AND PROGRAM
OF GREAT POMP.
THERE WAS INTENSE EXCITEMENT

Elaborate and Brilliant Preparations at
ST. Petersburg--The President
Carries 300 Medals.
PARIS, Aus. 1S.-The departure Of
President Faure on his visit to the Gar
at st. Petersburg to-day was marked
by a scene of greatest excitement, ac-
eompanied by the circulation of the
widest kind of rumOrs.
After his departure a bomb exploded
along the route the President had follow
ed, and although no damage was done,
and in spite of the fact that nobody was
hurt, the most intense excitement pre-
vailed for long time afterward, and
the sensational reports had 1T that those
who exploded the bomb had intended
an outrage of more serious nature.
The President received an ovation from
the public when he started on his journey
TO Russia, large crowds of people lining
the route from the Elysee palace to the
railway station, and greeted the Presl-
dent with enthusiastic cries OF viva La
Repubiique, Viva La Russie, FiVe
Faure," etc.
Ten minutes after the Presidents de-
parture, while the crowds were returning
along the route traversed by M. Faure,
a bomb exploded at the corner of the
boulevard Magenta and the Rue La
Fayette, IN front of the restaurant
Duval.
INe report eansed a panic in the
neighborhood and all sorts of wild sto-
ries were circulated, based ON the state
nents attributed to anarchists that their
next effort would be an attempt upon
the life Of President Faure. Upon in
vestigation by the police, however, it
developed that the explosion caused but
little damage, and that nobody was hurt.
The bomb was of cylindrical form, was
covered with yellow paper and appears
to have contained black substance, pos
sibly coarse gun powder, mixed with
largeheaded nails, similar to those us
ually found in the roughly constructed
Internal machines used by the less in
telligent class of anarchists. Fragments
of the bomb were taken to the prefecture
Of police, where they were submitted
to a thorough examination upon the part
of experts, who pronounced the bomb
TO have been a comparatively harmless
thirty centimeters long and five centime--
tiers in diameter. 1t was placed in an
empty store close to the corner of the
boulevard Magenta and the Rue La Fay
cite. Some of the nails contained in it
were thrown out on the sidewalk. Scraps
Of paper were found about the scene of
the explosion. inscribed "Vive La Lib
erte!!' and "Vive La Pologne!w appar-
emily indicating that the author of the
explosion to-day was the same individual
who caused the recent explosions in the
BOis De BouIogne and on the Place De
La Ooncorde.
President Faure was accompanied on
his way TO Russia by M. Hanotaux, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and by
Admiral Bosnard, the Minister of Ma
rine.
The presidential party, according to
the official program, left Dunkirk this
afternoon ON board the French war shin
Pothuau. The latter will be escorted to
Russia by the French war ships Bruix
and Surc0uf, and will arrive at Cron-
stadt ON Monday morning next, August
2S The French President will be re-
seived by the Czar in the Constadt roads.
The first day of N. Faure's visit to
Russia will be devoted to his reception at
Oonstadt and at Peterhof, TO the ex-
change of official visits, banquet al
the Peterhof palace and a gala perform
ance at the imperial theatre.
On Tuesday, August "a. the Gar and
his guest will start to St Petersburg
There the French President will be wei
coined by the municipality of st. Peters
burg and will receive in audience dele
cations from the municipalities of the
principal cities of the Russian Empire.
The President will also on Tuesday lay
the corner stone of the new French hos
pital, and in the evening NJ. Faure will
preside at banquet, which he will give
at the French embassy in honor of the
0zar.
On Wednesday, August 25, he will be
present at a grand review on the parade
ground of the Krasnoe-Selo camp. The
review will be followed by grand mill
tary breakfast and the days entertain
ments will wind up with brilliant fete
in the gardens of the Peterhof palace.
On Thursday there will be a grand re-
view in Cronstadt roads Of the combined
French and Russian squadrons, at the
termination of which President Faure
will bid farewell to the Czar and Czarina
and will return on board The Pothuau
which will Immediately afterward sail
for France. The President should reach
Dunkirk ON his return journey ON Tues
day, August 81.
Among the magnificent decorations
prepared for the occasion of the visit
Of NJ. Faure to st. Petersburg 10 very
handsome fountain, to be known as the
Faure fountain, constructed in the mid