Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The newspapers at Constantinople were not permitted to publish any account of the assassination of President Carnot, hut were aflowedto state-that he had died suddenly. Granier. who is alleged to have been an accomplice of Santo the anarchist who killed Carnot, killed himself at Montpelier, department of Herault. France,. Wednesday, while the police were surrounding his house. The remains of the late President Carnot lay in state in the chapel of the Ely- . see at Paris, Friday. The general public was admitted, arid the line of people reached from the palace to the Place de la Concorde. The number of floral wreaths sent to the Elysee is almost beyond computation, and some of them are of great value. One wreath alone sent by a society of French women cost 5,00 i) francs. The florists of Paris, according to estimate, have already received orders for 1.509,000 francs worth of floral emblems to bo used in different ways during the funeral.