Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — FELIX FAURE DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FELIX FAURE DEAD.

President of France a Victim pf Apoplexy. M. Felix Faure, tanner, shipbuilder, soldier, deputy, cabinet minister, and finally president of the republic of France, died in the Palace Elysee, Paris, at 10 o’clock Thursday night of apoplexy. He was stricken down at the conclusion of a hard day’s work, and breathed his life out in the room where he was accustomed daily to do more work than any other member of the Government. Mme. Faure was with her husband at the end. The president was working with M. le Gall, chef de cabinet, when, about 5 o’clock, he complained that he felt ill. He did not attach much importance to it, and went out for an hour’s drive, hoping the indisposition would pass off. Instead, it became worse, and on his return to the Elysee M. le Gall noticed a marked and alarming change in his face. Mme. Faure was immediately informed. The president was taken to his room and messengers were hastily sent to fetch the nearest physician. One quickly returned

‘with a medical man, who at once applied blisters. In spite of this the patient grew rapidly worse, and it was not long until Dr. Lanncelongue and Dr. Potin arrived, but after a very brief examination declared that there was nothing to be done. There had been a rush of blood to the brain and the president was past human aid. Until a late hour the crowds remained in front of the Elysee. On the boulevards the greatest emotion was displayed. Parisians heard the news as they were leaving the places of amusement, but were utterly incredulous at first, so sudden and unexpected was the calamity. All the streets in the vicinity of the Elysee filled up with private carriages, whose occupants waited anxiously for further information. At 12:30 an order was issued that no one should be admitted to the palace. In the present disorderly condition of public affairs, with justice paralyzed and revolution menacing, it is not remarkable that the people of Paris at first took it for granted that Faure was poisoned, but there seems to be no doubt that he died a natural though sudden death. He was elected president Jan. 17, 1895. He had been minister of marine in the Dupuy cabinet, and was elected president following the resignation of M. Casimir-Perier, president ad interim and the successor of M. Carnot, who was killed by an anarchist assassin. As his term would not have expired until 1902, the French presidents being elected for seven years, it will be incumbent upon the two chambers to unite at ouce and elect his successor. The remains of the late Col. James A. Sexton, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., were laid to rest at Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago. After the forty posts of Cook County had viewed the remains as they lag in state in Memorial Hall, they were conveyed to the cemetery, where the religious ritual of the G. A. R. was recited and three volleys, the military salute to the dead, fired over the grave. In Boston, Edward T. Lennon refused to pay a $5 fine for expectorating in a street car, and was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail.

PRESIDENT FELIX FAURE.