ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT CARNOT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1041, 6 July 1894, Page 6

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT CARNOT.

The Empress Eugenic sent a message of condolence to Madame Oarnot. . Thousands of Italians are leaving France. Santo will be tried on July 23 for tho assassination of President Carnot. Santo states that he had long watched for a chance to assassinate the President. It is believed he belongs to a gang of international assassins.It is alleged that President Oarnot's assassination was planned in London on February 5, the day on which the Anarchist Vaillant, the perpetrator of the bomb outrage in the Chamber of Deputies, on December 9, was executed. Le Temps announces that it has in its possession a copy of a secret manifesto indicating the assassination of Carnot. Carnot intended to retire from public life at the end of his term. The coffin proved to be too narrow and burst, to the dismay of the watchers, who for a moment feared a further outrage would be committed. Forty thousand pounds' worth of wreaths have been purchased by the public. The Queen of England sends a wreath. Two men named Grainer and Laboriehave been arrested at Montpellier on suspicion of being accomplices of Santo to murder President Carnot. Grainer disembowelled himself, and is reported to be dying. The Prince of Wales, Duke, of Connaught, Duke of Ooburg, Lord Rosebery, and Lord Salisbury will be present at the funeral service in London in connection with President Carnot's death. Acting on the advice of their respective ambassadors no member representing reigning families will be present at the funeral of the.late President Carnofc in Paris.

The Queen has sent a most touching autograph letter to Madame Carnot. The Chamber of Deputips voted LSOOO for the expenses of the funeral, The Queen, addressing Madame Carnot, says that she is unable to refrain from writing, though personally unknown to her. Words, cannot express how her widow's heart bleeds with dismay, a.nd horror at the news of the President's death. Crowds began to assemble on Saturday night along the route which M. Carnot's funeral procession was expected to take. All the roads leading to the Elysee and Notre Dame were packed by 3 o'clock on Sunday morning. At the funeral hundreds fainted from the heat and crush. The requiem services in memory of the deceased have been world-wide. The crow.d to witness the funeral was prodjgious, and the spectacle unparalleled in the history of France. Among those present were M. Oasmir-Perier, diplomatists and special delegates of royalties, members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, officers of the army and navy, civil servants, and all classes of the community. The anguish of deceased's childten affected the crowd to tears. Madame Carnot was absent. In the Rue Rivoli there was some sensation when the front of the crowd suddenly recoiled, owing to the fractiousnpss of some horses. Those who were not acquainted with the sudden stoppage at once raised cries of bomb?, and a panic ensued. Stands were overturned and ladies trampled on. The cortege having halted appeared to confirm the report of an outrage, and increased the terror of the immense crowd. The Archbishop met the body at Notre Dame, and the air resounded with the noise of trumpets and the beating of drums. On arrival at the Panthfion the remains of President Carnot were buried between those of Victor Hugo and Pvousseau. The wreaths filled four rooms, and that forwarded by the. Czar required 10 | men to carry. During the procession several specta tors fell from the roofs on to the heads of the crowd below. • \ In order to commemorate the memory of Prpsident Carnot the Emperor of Germany has pardoned the two French officers arrested in Kiel and sentenced as spies. Nearly two million people witnessed the funeral procession, which was an hour and a quarter in passing the Rue Rivoli. The Figaro says that the entire nation will lie touched' at the graceful and generous action of the German Kaiser in releasing the two French i officers as an. evidence of his sympathy with the French nation under the present sorrow. M. Casmir-Perjer has forwarded a message of thanks to the German Emperor for releasing the two French officers.