The Mena weekly star., 1908-12-10
PRESIDENT OPPOSED.
RULES OF HAiTEN REPUBLIC FORCED TO SEEK REFUGE
 ON FRENCH VESSEL.
MOB ATTACKS ALEXIS HE FALLEN RULER
French Flag Draped About Figure oi Aged Man All That Saved His Life From lnfuriated People--Men anc Women Beside Themselves Try te Assault the Deposed Leader.

Port Au Prince. Dec 4.-President Nord Alexis has been deposed and is now safe on board the French train. ing ship Duguay Trouin, and Port au Prince is in the hands of the revolu- tionists Gen. Antoine Simon, the leader of the insurgents. is marching LID the peninsula with an army of 5000 and new president. Gen. Legitime has been proclaimed.
 At the last moment President Alexis yielded to the urging of those about him and decided to take refuge aboard the French warship. At precisely five o'clock salute of q guns announced his departure from the palace. Thou. sands had gathered there early in the day and had surged round the en- frances. threatening to tear down the walls to drive out the president and his loyal followers As the hours passed the great crowd became in. furiated shouting for him to leave the country. The mob was armed, and men and women, beside themselves with rage, heaped curses on the head of the aged man who had fiercely ex pressed his determination to fight to the last.
 So serious was the situation that the French minister, NJ Carteron, and other foreign representatives, together with members of special commit tee, forced themselves upon the pres ident. who finally consented to with draw. Shouts greeted him as he stepped from the precincts of the pal ace and into carriage. MT. Car teron, carrying the French tri-color. sat beside him and the minister threw the folds of the flag over the shoul- ders of the deposed president to pro tect him.
 An immense crowd of men and wom- en had assembled at the wharf and the arrival of the presidential car fantry and squadron of cavalry un. der command of Gen. Hippolyte, was the signal for tumult and riot.
 All along the route the people who lined the streets shouted jeered and cursed at the fallen president, but when the landing stage was reached, the mob lost all restraint. The scene was tragic and shameful. Infuriated women broke through the cordon of troops and shrieked the coarsest in- suits in the very face of the president, who stroye bravely to appear undis- mayed.
 They tried to hurl themselves upon Alexis and fought with hands and feet against the soldiers, who found difficulty in forcing them back. In or der to disengage him the troops dis charged their guns. During this time space was cleared and Nord Alexis with the French colors still draped about him, was hurried aboard a skiff in tow of steam launch, his suite tumbling Into the skiff after him. As the launch dew away three Haytien gunboats and the French and Amer ican warships in the harbor fired a salute to the fallen president.
 Just as Nord Alexis was embarking, woman succeeded in reaching his
 
 side and, drawing murderous knife, made sweep at his body The blow fell short, however. and before the woman could follow it up with an other. she was seized by soldier A man succeeded in striking the presi. dent with his fist, but the blow was a glancing one on the neck
 saf. tnF the precipitate departure of the pres. ident and his party from the wharf was seized upon by the rioters and broken open. It was found 10 contain some sl0.000 in gold and 10000 Hay. lien gourdes. The specis was scat. tered about and promptly appropri. ated.