The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-04
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC IS
DISTURBED OVER A NUMBER
SENSATIONAL CRIMES IN RE
CENT MONTHS

| terror. as well as President OF the
Council. on behalf of the Individual
who are at the present moment await
ing in the Sante prison their trial oil
charges Of anti-militarist propaganda
on their behalf permission for their
wives to visit them whenever they
pleased was asked. every we'll" ri.
leave to those who are married" As
some OF the couples had not been
through the wedding ceremony the fact
was mentioned to NJ. Clemenceau, who
after rejecting q moment, answered
Let them be admitted, only see that
1t is always the same woman for TIL
same man." The warders now scruti-
nize these female visitors very care.
fully. and II Is added that they now
and then detect new face, and say
to its owner. "No. madame. Is 1t not
You who called the other day7" And
off she has to GO.
M Emile Faguet. though q member
of the French Academy. knows a good
joke as well as anybody. He is a
stauch advocate OF spelling reform
and has written q number OF articles
advocatins It. The members OF the
ACADEMY. who were to give their
opinion In answer to a Ministerial
question on the subject, asked M.
racquet to draw up the report. They
were almost unanimously against the
proposed reform, and It seemed to
them good Opportunity to punish M.
racquet. The academician. far from
declining the task, accepted II, and has
Drawn up such a virulent denunciation
OF spelling reform that the weakness
OF the Academy's position is transpar-
ent In every line. 1t is easy to see,
now that the tables are turned in
FAVOR OF M. Faguet. who has had a
Hood joke on his colleagues of the
Academy. The only pity 10 that, in
spite OF this. the French spelling will
remain about as puzziing as that Of
English for long time to come
Worse than the crimes OF Jack the
supper were those Of which q certain
Vacher was accused some years ago
He made 1t point to assault and XIII
all the shepherd girls in the country.
and now a similar crime Is reported
from the parish of Saint Peary, near
Valence. where young woman aged
~, was found strangled in a vineya I'd
She was the wife OF day laborer At
saint Peary. and seems to have been
lured out to the vineyard, which In a
snort distance from the village by
the same criminal monomaniac. After
strangling her to death the murderer
cut up all her clothes with a knife.
making bits Of everything, and scatter
ing them about. The corpse was found
In the morning by the proprietor OF
the vineyard, who at once Informed the
authorities, but the only clue left by
the criminal Is white handkerchief
and packet OF cigarette paper The
Inhabitants of the district, which IL
! near the one where the notorious
Vacher accomplished his exploits. are
now wondering whether they are TO
De terrorized by q similar maniac.
Vacher. who was executed, was con-
victei OF some seven murders, and was
| said to have committed twenty three In
all.
Madame Curio. one of the discoveries
or radium, who was, soon after her
husbands death. appointed a Profess
Sor at the Sorbonne. has been selected
to preside over the Electro Chemistry
Section at.& International Congress-
Of Chemists. etc, 70 be held in Lon
don. this being the first time such an
nonor has been conferred on a woman.
M. Armand Gautier, member of the In
| stitute of France, is to be President of
all the united sections.