The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
DEPARTS FOR RUSSIA.
Explosion Takes Place 10 Min
utes After He Had Passed.
Intense Excitement Prevailed
Throughout Paris.
NO HARM WAS DONE.
The Internal Machine was
Poorly Constructed.

Paris Aug 1S.-The departure oI
President Faure on his visit to the czar
at st. Petersburg today was markeo
by a scene of greatest excitement ac-
companied by the circulation OF tne
widest kind of rumors.
After his departure a bomb exploo-
ed along the route the president hao
followed. and although no damage was
done and in spite of the fact that no
bodv was hurt the most intense excite
ment prevailed for a long time aItef-
wards and the sensational reports hao
it that those who exploded the pomD
had intended an outrage of a more ser
ious nature.
The president received an ovation
from the public when he started on his
Tourney to Russia Large crowds of
people lined the route from Elysee Pal-
ace to the railway station and greet
ed the president with enthusiastic cries
of Vive la RepubHque! NlVe Ia RuSSldi
Vive la Faure.
Ten minutes after the presidents de-
parture, while the crowds were return
ing 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.
The report caused a panic in the
neighborhood and all sorts of wild skor-
les were circulated, based on the state
ments attributed to anarchists, that
their next effort would be an attempt
on Investigation 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 a black
substance. possibly coarse gun powder
mixed with large headed nails similar
to those usually found in thoroughly
constructed internal machines used by
the less intelligent class of anarchists
fragments of the bomb We're taken to
the prefecture of police, where they
were submitted to thorough examln-
alton upon the part of experts who
pronounced the bomb to have been a
comparatively harmless affair.
The coincidence of the explosion of
the bomb along the route so recently
followed by the president, was the sub
ject of considerable comment, and an
official investigation into the affair is
in progress.
President Faure was accompanied on
his way to Russia by M. Hanotaux, the
minister for foreign affairs, and by Ad
miral Bosnard, the minister of ma
rine-
The presidential party, according to
the official programme, will leave Dun
kirk this afternoon on board the French
warShip POthauau. The latter will be
escorted to Russia by the French war
ships BruiX and Surcouf, and will ar
rive at Cronstadt on Monday next,
August %. The French president will
be received by the czar in the Cron-
stadt roads.
The first day of M Faure's visit to
Russia will be devoted to his reception
at Cronstadt and at Peterhoff to the
exchange of official visits. a banquet a
the Peterhoff Palace and a gala per
formance at the Imperial theater
On Thursday, August "a, the czar and
his guest will start to St. Petersburg
There the French president will be
welcomed by the municipality of ST.
Petersburg and will receive in audience
delega tfons from the municipalities of
the principal cities of the Russian en-
pire. The president will also on Tues
day lay the corner stone of the new
French hospital anu in the evening NJ
Faure will preside at banquet which
he will give at the French embassy in
honor of the czar.
On Wednesday,, August 25, President
Faure will be present at a grand review
on the parade ground of the Krasnoe-
Selo camp. The review will be followed
by grand military breakfast and the
days entertainments will wind up with
a brilliant fete in the gardens of the
Peterhoff Palace.
On Thursday there will be a grand
review in Cronstadt roads of the com
bined French and Russian squadrons
at the termination of which President
Faure will bid farewell to the car and
czarina and will return on board the
Pothuaua, which will Immediately af-
terward sail for France. The president
should reach Dunkirk on his return
journey on Tuesday, August 81.