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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1894
Page
2
Telegrams of sympathy pour in from around the world as France mourns the assassination of President Sadi Carnot in Lyons. Cesare Santo, an Italian believed responsible, faces a rising anti Italian backlash while officials discuss post mortem plans and the need for a successor in Paris.
A man leapt from the crowd as President Carnot rode to a theatre gala in Lyons. The assassin struck with a knife on the landau step, Carnot faltered, guards and police restrained the mob, and the prisoner was escorted to the police station amid fevered crowd anger and vigil.
Reports describe mobs attacking Italian consulates and shops near the Palais of Commerce after news of M Carnot's assassin being Italian. Police and cuirassiers patrol the city as cries of Long live the army echo and threats of further violence loom.
Physicians hastily attend the president and declare the wound hopeless after his assassination. The Grand Theatre crowd swells with elite watchers who spill to the prefecture for updates as the city grapples with the shock and public disgrace. An internal hemorrhage is cited.
In Lyons the beardless youth Santo aged about 22 to 25 was arrested after stabbing the president. He wore a brown suit and peaked cap, spoke French poorly, and had a book noting a Milan province birth. He will speak only before a tribunal about his motive. The other report notes railway pooling as a main Congress topic next week.
Five detective officers exposed a gang of Italian counterfeiters on the city outskirts. Over three months victims reported fake coins from nickels to half eagles in Los Angeles and nearby towns. The four suspects are allied with the Albatti Viscounts gang, reputedly captured in Sacramento last year and now held.
Rev. G. L Phillips of Espanona Massachusetts Methodist church died after a gun fired by a jolt while he used a Winchester to shoot gophers on a cutting machine. The ball pierced his body.
In Washington on June 25 the tariff bill faces a stubborn senate clash led by Senators Hill and Smith against the income tax. The debate features amendments defeated in vote after vote as Harris seeks a quorum to report the bill from the committee of the whole, with the chamber at 90 degrees and the odds against Harris keeping his forces past midnight.
Washington June 25. During tariff bill discussion Senator Hill labeled Friday as Populist day and criticized income tax provisions. He opposed high exemptions arguing a $8,000 or higher exemption invites fraud and fails to fit the platform. Amendments to lower exemptions and adjust effective dates failed in votes ranging from 18 to 41.
Vice President Stevenson signs the certificates in the Havemeyer Searles and McCartney cases at 3 p.m. in Washington on June 25. The witnesses resisted compliance and were compelled to testify under the certificate process.
A terrible explosion at Albion colliery near Pont y Pridd Glamorgan traps about two hundred miners beneath debris. Fates of many are unknown and believed to be fatalities.
In Wahpeton North Carolina on June 25 police dealt with a feud between two circus crews. Lemen Bros posters denounced the Forepaugh crew as thieves fakirs and ruffians. Several fights left Lemen men injured and a large police force escorted them to the train.
The remains of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, who died June 14, were conveyed in an open hearse to Westminster Abbey for funeral services. After rites at the abbey the body was taken to Ottery St. Mary in Devon for burial.
Arthur Zimerman, the American rider, won the international bicycle race in Florence. It was his first professional race, with Harry Wheeler finishing second. Zimmerman initially planned to let Wheeler represent America but decided to compete.
Washington dispatch reports Commissioner Lamoreaux will extend the temporary clerk at the Aberdeen land office until December 1 and approve an allowance for office rent. Previously the register and receiver supplied their own offices, but increased land business at Aberdeen justifies the expenditure.
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