NEWS OF THE WEEK
• THE Anarchists have struck another blow,—this time with lamentable success. They have for some time been threatening President Carnot with death, for refusing to com- mute the sentences on Valliant and Henry, and have at last found an agent willing to make their menaces good. On Sunday, M. Carnot, who was visiting Lyons, was proceeding in his carriage to the theatre, and was warmly welcomed by the population. Pleased with the reception, the President ordered his guard to ride on and leave the crowd free to ad- dress him, and was, of course, obeyed. The horses had scarcely passed the carriage when a young Italian named Cesario Santo, by trade a baker, jumped on the step with a bouquet in his hand concealing a stiletto, which he had just bought for five shillings. With this weapon he struck down- wards at the President's right side, inflicting a wound on the liver three inches deep. The President fell back fainting, and was driven at the gallop to the Prefecture, where the doctors, after examination, gave up hope. He hardly spoke, failed in an attempt to write, and shortly before 1 a.m. expired, the immediate cause of death being internal hemorrhage. The assassin was arrested, makes no attempt to deny his crime, declares himself an Anarchist, but re- fuses to explain his motives until he is before a jury, when he will doubtless indulge himself in a burst of rodomon- tade. M. Sadi Carnot was born in 1837, was an engineer by profession, and had been President of the Republic since December 3rd, 1887, when he was elected as a dark horse known to all France as grandson of L. Carnot, the "organiser of victory." He made an excellent, though quiet and reserved, President, but he suffered latterly from diseased liver, and it 'is believed had resolved to decline the second term which the moderate Republicans had arranged to offer him. He had been served by nine successive Ministries. He will receive a .national funeral in Paris to-morrow.
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