PRESIDENT CARNOT'S ASSASSINATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4759, 28 June 1894, Page 3

PRESIDENT CARNOT'S ASSASSINATION.

<■• Tlie dpotow tried an operation f hopes of' saving Plesident Carno MifejbutfiiiledY \,-::y>\f : r, I ■' "The face of ie a peaceful expression;" r I | _ Santo, , the '...assassin, /.declines d givo any explanation of his motiv ic until tho time for his trial amves; iS Tho Lyons mob,.-with', one? f " vengeance, attacked the Italian Co: , snlate, 1 :' ;,,'.:''/''' ; ;: A; ' ;;7 0,C " -' Th'oirihab'itantaai'oaisbrii-ingtl \ Italian; quarter v pf:the city,, ni i. shouting "We'iivehgo'Cavnot!!' o Tlie Premier, in a letter to tl o Chamber ■of Deputies, say's Fraa 0 laments./tho loss of,a loyal seryai II and an upHglitloitizo'ii, and cherishi his memory,-- ' !; ■ „ It is believed that M.-' Diipiiy h . tliq bo?t eliniicp ; at present ofjsuc :i cep'ding to the Presidency, ';, : ; r ~ President Cleveland and his Hoi: b ness the Pope 'have sent messages ( condolence. The Emperor of i'Gei [ many, in his message,'says thatSvit alibis heart lie shares the nation 1 . grief- ' • " ' ',.".'.'! ,;; _ An eye-witness of 'tho assdssinn E tiou says that President Carnol ha i just ordered an escort to fall to th ■ rear " and allow these good people t shake hands." j"'" J At tlie same instant that ijmiti ' advanced the President smiling]' stretched out his band, which Snhti gripped with his leffc.nud.drovei • Catalan dagger into tlie body iip ti tho hilt. ' J Tho President's body wi|l''hi brought;'tp Paris by liiglit inordei'.ti avoid 'inflaming the populace.. I"'"'" Tho streets of Lyons-wero sfrewi with goods taken from pillaged! resi dencesof Italians. The troops had t< be called out to repress tho outrage! of the mob.. -The police were'eonv polled to release some of those ar. rested to appease the mob and incendiary fires have been quenched, The Italian Consulate at Grenoble was sacked.. Tho mob failing to effect an entrance by the dqors, stormed the windows with the help of ladders. It appears that ..President (knot had dftily received threatening letters since the execution of .Vaillant. 1 -| r,\ Tlio body of President Carnot reached the-city.Sat three o'clock: this morning and is lying in the reception room at the Elysee Palace. The mob attacked the Italianjresidents in Marseilles, and the police were_oulqve(loiifcto_fjue]iihetlistiivb/^MM| Many French empJoycrsiHH missing Italian workmen.; ~^^| Santo, the assassin is a joufiiuymtinbakoi'i » ,; i