The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25
CONSIDER A|RSH|PS AS WAR INSTRUMENTS French Battleships May Garry
 Aeroplanes WOMAN FOULLY KILLED Procession of Working Girls Marches Through the Streets of Paris
 and Hoot Manager of
 Large Shop
WOMAN FOULLY KILLED
By PAUL vILLIERs

airship men in hurling imitation bombs within the lines of imaginary battleships has aroused the interest and anxiety of every navy officer in Europe, especially the naval officers of France, who are among the most practical men in the world and who are thinking and experi- menting when most other naval men are strutting around their capitals. French navy men realize that 1t is possibility that the aeroplane may place the modern battleship on a par with the old time wooden vessel of war.
 The memory of the late King Edward of England is to be perpetuated by a street which will be known as Rue Edward VII" And Parisians believe that London will reciprocate by naming street in that city after the great Napoleon or some more useful man-some one who used his genius In the art of peace. Four of the oldest houses in the curious side alley of the Bouievarde des Capu- cines-still called the Rue Basse du Rom part, because 1t was on a level several feet below that of what was once a real boulevard with a rampart-will soon have disappeared. and by the breach made the new Rue Edouard VII. will abut on the Boulevard des Capucines. It certainly is a we'll chosen site for street to be named after the ''most Parisian of kings" The original proposal was to call ] after him an avenue near the Hotel de Vile.
 | The four houses which are coming down never were picturesque and will be no great loss. But memories cling to one | of them, at least. It was successively | the abode of four famous Parisian beau | ties at time before the boulevards exist. ed. The latest of them was Madame Ro- camier. platonically beloved for a quar- ter of a century by Chateaubriand. Even her time long preceded that when the neighborhood of the Madeleine became fashionable. When the first of her pre- decessors lived in the house the quarter
 was a distant suburb. Some mysterious attraction drew our four famous beauties | in succession to an undistinguished house.
 The first was Rosalie Duthe. described in memoirs of the 18th century as having | a face of rare shapeliness and adorable
 smile. hair of gold, and eyes of heavenly innocence. The next beauty was an ac- complished actress. Mile. Raucourt She was already living there when, in 1772,
 
 Of being allowed to visit and compliment her upon her triumphs at the Francais. Later another beauty and tragic actress l Mile. Georges, went to live in the same house. in memory of La Raucourt, who had first noticed and encouraged her to act.
 The new Rue Edouard VII will certain ly be one of the most fashionable streets in this city. Paris follows even faster than any other capital in Europe the mysterious impulse which carries cities westwards
 News concerning a mysterious double tragedy comes from Vallauris. With 30 stab wounds on her body, Madame Cor radini. beautiful woman. was found dead in front of the residence of a farmer named Gotta, in Vallauris. Mystery sur rounded Sonora Corradini's life as well as her death. She was found on the steps of founding asylum at Oneglia, Italy when only a few months old Notes to the value of s30 were pinned to her dress. and a card bearing the words For Nina" She was known only as Nina" at the asylum. where she lived until 1s months ago, when she mar ried a man named Corradini. The couple settled at vallauris. where Gotta a wtdower fell in love with the woman
 
 garding his attentions Nothing Is known concerning Sonora Corradini's move ments on the night of her death. She left her home without her husbands knowledge, and when her body was found she had been dead several hours. Gotta was found lying on bed in his residence, shot through the chest. He says he heard shrieks for help and when he rushed to the window some one shot him. n ,of %ha uyb ha shot.
 Madame was supposed to be the daugh- ter of some very high parsonage, and for this reason she was usually de- scribed as the Little Duchess" She en- joyed special privileges at the founding hospital, and at the age of r was placed with family living at Turin in easy c'r- cumstances. While there she made the acquaintance of a handsome young Ital- ian, whom she married. A man who was in love with the woman and had proposed marriage is suspected of killing her and shooting the farmer, jealousy being the motive in the latter case
 The Midinettes were again on the war path to day with as much ardor as ever, and greatly annoyed at the idea that the police should take any notice of them or insist that order should be observed in the SIroetS Dy WOIIieH 6S Woli ab Uy iuei At 10 o'clock large procesison of the girls, usually known as 'petites maids and 'confeotionneuses.' with scarlet rib bons in their hair, started out from the Labor Exchange and crossed the Place de la Republique. The crowds at once stopped to look on, and people exclaimed, Here they are again. See, the Midin- cites are on strlkel'' The public seemed to enjoy 1t, and buses were unable to pass. By the time they had marched half a mile their numbers had swollen to BOO and about an equal number of strect urchins followed as far as the Boulevard Sebastopol
 It was apparent that the object of the girls was to storm a big shop on the other side in the Rue Reamur, but the difficulty was to cross the boulevard. The police stood on the opposite side to pre- vent the procession from passing. They were less severe towards the girls than recently, and simply marshalled them in small troups on the pavement. If they promised, to keep the peace they would be allowed to pass. They walked down to the shop which excited their, wrath and stood on the pavement opposite, "con- snning' the owners and managers "Ehut up the shop!' they shouted. Down with the manager' The employees of the shop crowded to the windows and seemed to enjoy the demonstration.
 When the girls were tired shouting they scattred of their own accord. Later on there were 'incidents' at the Place de la Republique, when policeman went so far sa to draw his sword. but it was not against the Midinettes, who, instead of