The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-05
INNOCENT
MEN Died
In PRISON
Children of the Victims
Demand. a Heavy
Indemnity.
PARIS POLICE RAID
BOOKSELLERS.
A Sudden SpaSm of Virtue
Causes a Seizure of
Photographs.
FRANCE The GAMER BY A
CATASTROPHE.
Vast Am unit of Succession Duty
Paid on the Estates OF Those
Who PeriShed.
A Sudden Spasm of Virtue
Causes a Seizure of
Photographs.
FRANCE The GAMER BY A
CATASTROPHE.
Vast Am unit of Succession Duty
Paid on the Estates OF Those
Who PeriShed.
Copyright 1897. by James Gordon Bennett.

PARIS, Dec 4-By singular coinci-
dence, while it is being claimed that
Dreyfus may possibly be the victim OF a
miscarriage of justice the Court of Cassa-
tion yesterday began revision of the
case of Prene Vaux and Jean Petit, who
died in penal servitude while undergoing
sentence of twenty-five years deporta-
ton In Guiana for incendiarism, alleged
to have been perpetrated as far back as
i84S. The crime has been since traced TO
ano her party, and the children of the
condemned men, one of whom is a deputy,
now demand an indemnity OF 10000
francs from the Government.
Mime. RICO, ex-Princess de Chimay, has
brought the Paris police down upon book
sellers and other traGesmen who nave
carried on a thriving trade in indecent
photographs. 1t appears that last wear
Clara Ward contracted with Reutlinger,
the famous photographer, for the sale of
her portrait in poses, plus on moins
plastiques.
BY an agreement which was read in
court the artist undertook to paw her a
royalty of % pei cent on every photo
graph sold. The photographs sold by
thousands but the authorities interviewed.
seized all the copies found in shops, and
also made a strict search among photo
graphs kept for sale. The result was sur
prising. The portraits OF Mime. Riso
were pronounced not indecent, as they
were all taken in tights, but the search
brought 10 light quantity of photo
graphs of a scandalous character. Con
sequently it was dec. ded 10 prosecute al
tradesmen possessing photographs in
puris naturaIibus.
The teri. be catastrophy at the Bazaar
de la Charlie has indirectly contrib cd
largely to the French treasury. The num-
Der of wealthy people who persisted in the
disaster was, as everyone remem bers,
very large, and the amount of succession
duty pal on their estates during the
past IL ontl amounted 10 no less than
1000, 600 francs.
Inc annual valuation OF the wine crop
OF 1897 has just been issued in France.
The crop is estimated at 1881. 600 hecto-
litres. or a decrease of IL, 305, 600 hectolitre.
compared with the crop OF 1896. and 1876
600 hectolitres below the average of the
last ten years.
Sculptor Fremiet IS working on a CO.
lOSsaI statue OF terdlnand de Lessee DIS,
which will be exhibited in 1900 The
statue, which will be six times larger than
life, is intended for erection at the entrance
of the Suez canal.
At last we seem likely to be supplied
with matches that poison neither the peo-
pie who make them nor the people who
use them. A new kind, which is called
the triumph match" will shortly be
placed on the market. Ii is maue without
phosphorus, and alth ough the inventor is
a German. he is likely 10 receive trial, SC
disgust ted is the pubic with those in pres
ent use.
a marriage somewhat out of the ord.-
nary was celebrated by Paris Mayor thi.
week. The contracting parties were two
cOnvicts. The groom Is destined for Gale
donia, where he is sentenced to pass a
term of five years imprisonment The
bride is bound for Central Prison, at CIer.
mont, wnere she will remain three wears.
The couple had lived together several
years before their capture in connection
with bur 5lary. The prison chaplain had
induced them to get m arrie d.
There are sims tina: cycle racing in
France is losing popularity in and around
Paris and a number of velodromes are
suffering from severe financial a. pression
Nearly all the owners of velodromes are
anxious to sell.
Mrs. J. w. Mackay has gone to Biar.
ritz, where she proposes to remain some