New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-18
TOPICS IN PARIS.
Russian Reuolution Impending =
Syreton Tragedy-Cancer Cure.

Especial 10 The New-York Tribune by French Cabe}
Copyright 1904 BY The Tribune AssociotionD
Paris. Dec 1.-THE informa ton from trust
has been entering Paris from Russia despite
the rigid Muscovite censorship concerning the
discomfort and agitation not only in Poland and
Finland but in Moscow and Odessa has at last
convinced the average Frenchman that public
opinion in Russia now, for the first time, has
come into existence. and the government is
obliged TO reckon With it. Significance is at
tached to the fact
This morning the ministerial newspaper lie
Matin calls attention to the revolutionary
condition Of Russia and in leading article
signed by NJ. HardoUin. predicts that Russia is
on the verge of tremendous changes and de-
c!ares that the verdict of extenuatng circum-
stances rendered by the jury In the case of the
assassin Of Won PIehve, who was the incarna-
ton OF past autocratic methods. shows that the
people Of Russia. hitherto against the liberals
are now with them and that the revolutionary
machine is now in action. Moreover. the pro-
posed Russian loan. strictly. the eight hun
dred million francs oF it to be raised in France
meets an unexpected hitch in of dissa-
isfaction that NJ. BOmpard, the French Minister
al ST. Petersburg, just TOW in Paris, unable
to secure the condition accorded by the Rus
sian FINANCE Minister TO Germany; namely tnaJ
one-half Of the sum advanced should be
pended in the country advancing the money
Russia has given vague promises that large
portion of the eight hundred millions shall be
allotted 10 French houses for materials and
construction, but yet express stipua ton
TO that effecT such has been obtained by
Germany. has been given to France.
Interest in French politics centres in the syve-
on Trao a61r y.-lfo Ctaly On
dimensions and which is already being worked
up by prominent dramatist for the stage In
which the role Of actor is TO be assumed by a
tragedian Ike Mounet-Sully Antoine clearly
indicates that the Syveton affair is the greatest
sensation that has darkened French home
politics. It is 4 terrible blow to the National
lists. who. through Francois Coppee. Jules Le-
raaitre and others. so recKlessly accused the
government Of procuring Free Masons 10 murder
the belligerent Deputy OF the Second Arrondsse-
nlent of Paris. According to the story now
sWorn to by witnesses and accepted by the
public the true version. not only did Syveton
commit suicide, which he accomplished by put
ting his mouth over the gas Jet. thus absorbing
IN a few minutes q sufficient quantity to produce
death. but the motive arose from a domestic
tragedy caused by his having attempted TO as
sault his wife's daughter by a first husband.
The facts revealed in Il most sensational
way by the daughter TO her husband NJ
Menard, whom she married only last May The
result was a terrible scene which took place
between NJ SyYeton Nine. Syveton her daUgh-
ter. Nine. Menard and NJ. Meuard. III which
Nine Syveton threatened action for divorce
the narrowing details Of which would wreck NJ.
Syveton socially and politically NJ. Syveton
exclaimed Il have nothing to do but to get out
Of the way" and shortly afterward did so
by committing suicide. Nine. SyVeton and her
daughter. Nine. Menard. who IS only 20 years
% age. are both exceedingly pretty and attrac-
tive women. They were great favorites in
society and their portraits appear in nearly all
the French papers and shop windows. Paris
ians are fairly hypnotized by this weird drama,
which monopolizes conversation at the salons,
clubs and cafes.
Cancer research at Dr. Doyen's cliniQue, con-
Quoted by NJ. Metchnkoff sub-director of the
Pasteur Institute. and four Of his scientific col
leagues. is a decisive victory for NJ Doyeu and
places him in the foremost rank Of French
Swans The official report concludes that the
micrococcus neoformans discovered by DR..
Doyer is undoubtedly the bacillus Of cancer
The commission delegated by the Academy Of
Medicine and the surgical faculty declare that
IN three cases of cancer treated by DR.. Doyen
cures have been clnically proved, for there has
himself, in conversation with the Tribune cor
respondent. declares that what he has accom-
plished so far IS merely beginning and warns
the profession that It is premature to consider
the cure Of cancer in all cases assured But he
is confident that such a grand humanitarian
result Will eventually he attained by expert
ments with his micrococcus neoformans. the
bacillus OF cancer which he was the first to
discover.
The sudden death at seventy-eight years Of
Nine. Knoedler, mother Of Roland and Charles
Knoedlor of Network. is deeply felt by her
many friends in Paris Nine. Knoedler en-
loved remarkably robust health, walked half a
mile TO a wedding Wednesday. and after
dining Al usual at Gao o'clock about TO
ye-ire at 9 O'Clock In the evening when death
resulted simultaneously, owing 10 the rupture
og a ,.aricose vein. The funeral will be at the
Madeleine on Monday. c. /. +.
SENTENCES FOR TUNNEL ACCIDENT.