PRESIDENT CARNOT'S FUNERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4764, 4 July 1894, Page 2

PRESIDENT CARNOT'S FUNERAL.

lUnpmlleled Speetaok Pahis, July 2, • b funeral of the late President Carissed off without incident. ) crowd was prodigious, and the idc unparalleled in the history of s anguish of the deceased's children cd the crowd to tears. -' Madamoi t was absent, the line do llivoli some sensation r .aused when the front of the crowd foiled owing to the factiousness of me horses. Those who were not ac[aihtcd.ivilh the sudden stoppago at i'tj raised erics of tabs, and a panic sued. Stands were overturned and lies'trampled on, The fact of the Kei/c having halted appeared to conin the report of un outrage, and in'.iscd the terror of the immense crowd. (The Archbishop met tho body, at jitre Dame, and the air resounded |/.h the noise of trumpets 'and the bent- ; of drums, President Caraofc was buried between i remains of Victor Hugo and General usscau. The wreaths filled four rooms, and it I'orwardcd by the Czar required tcu ut to carry it. During the procession several specors fell from roofs on to the heads of crowd below. limdreds fainted from the heat aiid sli, L'hc requiem services in regard to the ■eascdhave been world-wide.. Nearly two million people witnessed .'funeral procession which was an ur and a quarter passing the Kuc voli. Figaro says Iho entire nation will he ichcd at tho graceful and generous lion of the Kaiser in releasing (he two 'cnch officers. Buiuix, July 2. • In order lo commemorate the'lat resident Carnot, Ihc Emperor has partied two French officers arrested in el and sentenced as spies. The Kaiser has instructed tho Chanllor to _ open up negotiations with I'cat Britain and other Europcnu [lions with a view lo forming a union suppress the Anarchists. liojiK, July 2. The editor of a newspaper inLeghorn, iscany, has been mortally slabbed by iiirchisls, of whom he hud been a Iter denouncer.