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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
DESTRUCTION SPREADS.
Buildings Collapsing And Part OF
City In Darkness.

Paris Especially A story of the
details of the greatest flood that has
swept Paris in years would simply
be repetition of what has gone
before. The city presents a wlerd
spectacle the soldiers, sailors, fire
men and police hastily constructing
temporary walls by the light OF
campfires and torches in an endeav-
or to keep out the invading floods.
while pickets patrol these sections
of the city which are plunged in
darkness by the bursting of the gas
mains and the stoppage of the cleo
trio lighting plants.
The situation in the Palace de
TOpera is grave. The entire terri
tory has been roped off as being I'M
safe. It is stated also that the new
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Building is in danger of collapse.
President Fallieres and Premier
BRAND drove in automobiles to the
flooded suburbs where distress is
greatest speaking words of comfort
to the homeless and encouraging the
soldiers and others engaged in sal
wage and rescue work. On their re-
turn they said that everything hui
manly possibly was being done to
aid the stricken and prevent further
ravages bv the flood.
Charitable organizations are CO.
operating with the authorities in
throwing open their buildings and
succoring refugees. Several con-
vents and a number of public build
ings have been equipped with mill
tary cots and bedding and transform
ed into hospitals. The Red Cross is
performing splendid service in dis
tributing food and clothing.
Nevertheless numerous pitiful in
stances are cited of women and chill
dren who had refused to leave their
homes in the submerged districts
shrieking from their windows for
bread.
The number of refugees arriving
here is enormous, Chareaton alone
sending in $4,000 who have come
there from Calais and other afflicted
points.
Many thrilling rescues are record
ed. The family of M. Barthou, for
mer minister of public works, whose
home in the Avenue d'Antin is sur
rounded. were taken out on the
backs of soldiers and rescued in
boats. A large number of schools
are closed because of the lack of heat
and the municipality is considering
the advisability of closing all Of
them.
Practically all of the flooded SUI.
burban towns above and below Paris
are without light and several of then
without water. Their inhabitants are
hastily leaving.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04

Des Moines, Iowa (SpecisD Be
cause of parental opposition to their
marriage on account of their youth
Vernon Barr, aged 16 years, and
Lima Ammer, aged IA years, killed
themselves. They were found near
Monroe, clasped in each others
arms, sitting upright in young Bars
buggy, in which they were riding
home from a dance. On the girls
lap rested a cup partly filled with
strychnine and water. Both had
drunk of this.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Women Organize.

Washington, D. c. Especially A
meat boycott was launched in the
District of Columbia when the Wom-
ems Anti-Food Trust League was or
gained at the home of Mrs. John
B. Henderson. wife of former Sena-
tor Henderson, of Missouri, who was
elected its president. All the wom-
en- clubs in the district. and wor'or
generally, will be asked to join in
the movement.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Descendants or Signcrs Bill.

washington, d. c. Especially -
Ihat there is objection to the Gre
alton by Congress of hereditary or
ders developed in the Senate when
Mr. Bulkeley attempted to have pass
ed a bill incorporating the descend
ants of signers," to which descend
ants of signers Of the Declaration of
tne Independence would be eligible.
Mr.. Lodge said undoubtedly the
raising of the hereditary principle
would lead to debate and therefore
II could not be taken up under the
unanimous consent rule.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
r Oreign

The River Seine continues to rise
and the city of Paris is filled with
water above and below the surface
Sewers are bursting and streets sink
ing. 1t is expected the river will
reach the maximum of the flood to-
day. Conditions in other parts of
France are slightly improved.
Baron Komura, Japanese minis
ter of foreign affairs, in an address
to the Diet declared that the rela-
lions between Japan and the United
States and Russia were constantly
being strengthened. and that Japan's
policy in Manchuria was directed to-
ward the maintenance of the open
door
President Bowling. of the North
ern Miners Federation of New South
Wales, was convicted at Sydney of
obstructing work at the mines dur
ing the strike and sentenced to one
year at hard labor in prison. Three
other strike leaders were given SEN
fences.
The Liberals are creeping up on
the Unionists in the latest parlia-
mentary elections in England, the
parties now standing: Unionists.
25S; Liberals. 25S; Laborites, 40;
Nationalist, rs.
The noninsistence of the United
States that Germany admit American
meats more freely is regarded in Ger
man official quarters as simplifying
pending tariff negotiations.
The elections to the Norwegian
Storthing. or Parliament. having
been adverse to the ministry, Premier
Knudson submitted to the King the
resignation of the cabinet
President Madriz, of Nicaragua.
has re-established the reign OF ter
ror Instituted by Zelaya. and mem
bers of many prominent families
have been imprisoned.
The municipality of Lima. Peru.
bestowed medals on Mr.. and Mrs.
William j. Bryan.
The United States Banking Com
pany, of Mexico City, Mexico, sus-
pended payment.
The flood situation in Paris has
,dbecome desrerate and the French
:. .eapital is like a city drowned The
Manage is estimated at $200,000.00
and the Seine is still rising. There
Tare indications of an epidemic likely
e TO follow the food
r The German government has de-
clined to accept the request of the
United States to POSTPONE until
March 81 the application of the gen
eral tariff rates to American imports.
The French Court of Appeals dis
missed the petition of Princess Louise
to require an inventory of the Cha
teau Balincourt given by King Leo
pold to Baroness Vaughn.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Kills Woman Instead OF Dog.

South Bend, Ind. Especially -
While attempting to kill a dog Ed
ward Hostetler, farmer, shot and
killed Mrs. Melford Price, 81 years
old. The bullet entered the wom-
ans temple, and she fell dead at her
husbands feet. Hostetler chased
the dog from his farm to the high
way, and there fired at the fleeing
animal. His aim was bad and the
bullet struck the woman, who was
walking in the road with her hus.
band.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
CHILDREN KILL THEMSELVES.
Boy 10 And Girl II Take Strychnine
Because They Couldn't Marry.

Des Moines, Iowa Especially Be
cause of parental opposition to their
marriage on account of their youth,
Vernon Barr, aged 16, and Lima
Ammer, aged IA. killed themselves.
They were found near Monroe,
clasped in each others arms, sitting
upright in young Barr's buggy in
which they were riding home from
a dance. On the girls lap rested a
cup partly filled with strychnine and
water. The horse proceeded on his
way and stopped at the gate of the
girls home.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
"Chauffeur's Arm" Now.

Albany, n. Y. Especially DIR. Will
liam S. Thomas, of New York. read
a paper on 1.-The Chauffeur's Frac-
ture" at the meeting of the State
Medical Society here. He declared it
an occupational disease caused by
the slipping of the crank handle of
an automobile. If the handle strikes
the chauffeurs arm it causes a frac-
ture which DR.. Thomas found to be
of a peculiar character. He told
of several cases where chauffeurs with
dangerous fractures from being
struck by a crank handle have driven
their machines for miles after the
accident without knowing that they
were badly hurt.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Ballain Explains His Offer.

Washington, d. c. (SpeciaD -John
A. Ballain, of Seattle, Wash, was in
troduced to the President by Senator
Jones. of Washington, and briefly ex-
planned the proposition made by him
few days ago to the Senate Com
mittee on Territories to pay royal
ty of so cents per ton for the coal to
be taken from the government lands
in Alaska. The President only COM
mented that he hoped that Congress
would some day make provision for
getting at the immense store of coal
in that faraway territory.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Former Pastor Steals Pens.

Cincinnati Especially. - George
Waverly Briggs. at one time Meth
odist chaplain to the Texas Legisla-
ture, was fined $50 and costs for
stealing a package of pens from a
drug store. Briggs ran down the
street with the pens, pursued by n
policeman. When he saw he could
not escape he endeavored to swat
low laudanum. but was prevented by
his captor. Briggs once held pas
torates in Galveston and Houston,
Texas. and at Owensboro, Ky. He
said drugs had undone him.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
AUTO WITH SIX DROPS 40 FEET.
Three Occupants Killed; Three En-
pected To Die.

Kansas City, Kan. Especially -
Three persons were killed and three
badly injured when a motorcar. own
ed and driven by John Mahoney, a
contractor, of Kansas City, Kan, be-
came unmanageable at Cliff Drive
and Agnes Avenue and plunged 40
feet over an embankment into what
is known as Cliff Drive Canyon. The
machine was demolished and the oc-
cupants were badly mutilated. 1t is
feared all of the injured will die.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
TRAIN WRECK KILLS -FOUR.
Three Others Injured When Freight
Engine Jumps Track.

Titusville. Pa. especially -Four
men were killed and three others
were seriously injured when a freight
train on the Chautauqua Branch of
the Pennsylvania Railroad jumped
the track about mile north of this
city.
Three southbound freight trains
had been coupled together, with one
engine ahead, one in the middle of
the train and the other near the
rear. The train was travelling very
fast, when the leading engine left
the rails and plunged across the
track. The cars behind piled upon
the engine. All the victims were
in the cab of the buried engine The
road was blocked for many hours.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
THE STRICKEN CITY.

The inundation covers about
nine square miles, or one-quarter
of the city.
Great chasms are opening in
some of the most important
boulevards. caused by the burst
ing sewers and rushing waters
underneath the city.
The Palace of the Legion of
Honor and other important pub
lie buildings evacuated.
Residents compelled to move
from streets along which houses
are in danger of collapsing.
Fifty girls rescued from sec
ond story of a flooded convent.
All railway traffic in city stop
ped. Owners of cabs and taxi
autos charging fabulous prices.
Thousands of homeless people
from flooded districts outside
Paris and prices of food rapidly
advancing,
All American students and
tourists in Paris are reported
safe.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
For A National Cotton Association.

Atlanta, Ga. Especially A meet
ing to organize the National Cotton
Products Association has been called
for Atlanta for February 10. The
call says the purpose of the new
association will be: ITO concentrate
the heretofore scattered efforts of
helping the government to improve
agriculture by means of states. press,
colleges, railroads, experiment sta
lions, industries and individuals into
one great cooperative movement
through which alone we can hope to
achieve the highest results and secure
enduring prosperity"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

Capt. Joseph F. Ship, former Ten
nessee sheriff and Deputies Luther
Williams and Nick Nolan, who have
been in the District Jail for con-
tempt of the Supreme Court were re-
leased.
Miss Rachel Flora Wheeler, daugh-
tiers, of Representative Wheeler, of
Pennsylvania. was married to Joseph
A. Farley, of Rochester
The Army Appropriation Bill as
completed by the Senate committee
carries S95,000,00O
The destroyer Lamson hes been
delivered to the government by her
contractors.
An amended organic act for Porto
Rico was submitted to the President
The gunboat Paduch reported to
the Navy Department that the schoon-
er George A. McFadden of Bath,
Me-, was wrecked off Cape Hatteras
Thursday.
President Taft has determined to
press to a conclusion the suit against
the merger of the Union and South
ern Pacific Railroad Companies.
The Brazilian battleship Minas
Geraes will escort the cruiser North
Val OIlHd. bSdili Tic UOQS VI tue
late Ambassador Nabuco, to Brazil.
If the ratio of immigration for the
first six months of the fiscal year
1910 is kept up the total for the year
will exceed that for 1909.
Representative Aiken, of South
Carolina, wants the capital of the
United States to be dry territory.
Congressman Boutell made a Wig
orous tariff speech in the House, in
which he showed that prices have
gone up on commodities on which
the tariff was lowered.
Rear Admiral Caps. chief con-
structor of the Navy, gave to the
House Committee on Naval Affairs
his views upon the subject of naval
construction.
Dr. Wiley gave the House sub
committee a demonstration to show
fresh eggs can be told from the cold
storage variety.
The Senate received the Postal
Savings Bill, which is an administra-
ton measure, and referred it to COM
mittee.
Plans for the new Washington
City Postoffice have been approved.
The structure is to cost about $3,500,-
900.
The year 1909 in gold mining was
marked by increased recovery from
| the depressed condition of the two
preceding years, according to data
presented in. report by the United
States Geological Survey.
Former Secretary of the Interior
| Garfield continued his statement be-
| fore the Senate Committe on Public
! Lands in reference to the several
bills introduced at the request of Sec
rotary Ballinger.
About 25 leading magazine pub
| fishers appeared before the House
| Committee on Postoffices and Post
Roads and protested against the pro-
posed increase in the rates for Sec
ond-class mail matter.
The American University has jusei
received a cash gift of $4,000 from
Miss Sarah M. Billings, of Wellsboro
Pa, for the opening fund.
BY a viva voce vote the Mann
White Slave" Bill was passed by
the House practically as introduced
by Mr.. Mann.
The New York Spanish-Americar
volunteers may lose their claim fol
pay unless Congress or the courts
intervene.
The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion warned railroads not to make
a false entry of a date on bills Of
lading.
Representatives Bennett and Masor
had bitter colloquy in the House
based ON the latter's charge agains
tho Immigration Commission
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
shoots Wife And Her Mother.

Chicago (SpeciaD. Charles
Barnes, an actor, shot his wife in
the mouth and through the wrist and
her mother Mrs. NJ. Servoss, in the
chest at hotel here. Neither is
thought to be fatally injured. The
shooting was the outcome of the
separation of Barnes and his wife,
who has been living with her mother.
1t is said Barnes concealed himself
in the womens room and opened fire
when they entered. He escaped aft
er the shooting
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Cuban Minister Resigns.

Havana Especially The State De-
2artment announced that the resig-
nation has been received of Gen.
Carlos Garcia Velez, Cuban Minister
to the United States, who will shortly
return to Havana. General Velez
will probably be succeeded by Car
rera Justiz, Minister at Madrid.
Velez will likely go to Argentina,
while Jose Garcia Velez, the former
Secretary of State, will assume the
post at Berlin, and Senior Quesada
the post at Madrid.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
PEOPLE OF PARIS IN
DESPAIR OVER RUIN
Nine Square Miles of the City
Under Water.
CHASMS IN THE MANY DOUlEVARDS.
Seine Has Stopped Rising and
Tributaries Going Down.
PUBLIC SERVICES BADLY CRIPPLED

Bursting Sewers Cause Streets To
Sink And Buildings To Collapse
Broken Gas Mains Plunge Parts
OF City Into Darkness-Convents
And Public Buildings Converted
Into Asylums And Hospitals For
The Sick And Homeless-Weird
Night Scenes In The French Cap
ital-Women Crying For Bread
From Windows.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Needle In Her Toe Is Years.

York, Pa. (SpeciaD Mrs. Charles
E. Carr, 563 West Princess Street,
had removed from her great toe on
her right foot half of a needle which
had entered the toe Is years ago.
The needle showed no rust spots
whatever Mrs. Carr says she swal-
lowed the needle, and about eight
years ago took piece of it out of
the left foot.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
lightning Brings Wealth

Dalhart, Texas Especially. = Mrs
Josie Pettis declared that bolt OF
lightning struck the ground on the
mountainside near her farmhouse re-
Gently and uncovered a spring of
crude oil, which is now producing
200 barrels daily. The land, before
the uncovering of the spring, had
barely Yielded enough to support her
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Zelaya Going To Belgium.

Mexico City Especially Jose San
tos Zelaya, formerly President of
Nicaragua, announced that he in
tended to leave Mexico City this week
for Vera Cruz, whence he will sail
for Belgium. Zelaya will call on
President Diaz before he takes his
departure.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04

Paris (Special) 1t was officially
stated that the River Seine here was
stationary and that its tributaries
continued to fall.
The situation greatly improved be-
tween l and 2 o'clock A. NJ. This,
in part. is attributable to the change
in the weather. which suddenly
cleared. The temperature also drop
ped and the wind veered to the east
ward
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
BATTLESHIPS POWERLESS.
Their Day Has Passed, Says c. B.
Harmon, Aeronaut.

Pasadena, Cal. (SpeciaD K Cliff
ford B. Harmon, New York aero
naut. said in lecture before the
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce that
the day of the battleship had passed.
No nation, he said, would dare to
send a fleet of these to our shores
on a hostile mission with so many
masters of the air ready to meet
it.
1t has already been demonstra-
ted" said Mr.. Harmon, that one
balloon or aeroplane can carry
enough explosives TO annihilate any
fleet in the world, while the warships
would be powerless to protect them
selves. The aeroplane has not yet
reached its full stage of efficiency,
but now it insures the safety of our
coast against hostile invasion"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Editor And Dramatist Dead.

Rochester. N. Y. (SpeciaD Al
bert R. Haven, editor of the Rochest-
err Union and Advertiser, died, aged
50 years He was a dramatist and
wrote several successful plays. In
1890 he was editor of the New York
Times
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Working For Morse,s Pardon

Washington, D. C. (SpeciaD Act
ing for some unknown person or
persons number of agents began a
house to house canvas in this city
seeking subscriptions to monster
petition to be presented to President
Taft for the pardon of Banker Morse.
who has just begun to serve a 15-
year sentence in the Atlanta peni-
Tertiary.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Three Hundred Farmers Protest.

Nevada, Mo. Especially. = Three
hundred farmers of Vernon County
at a meeting in country schoolhouse
near here adopted a resolution agree
ing not to sell any cattle, hogs.
poultry, eggs or butter for 60 days,
beginning February ].
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Hargis Must Serve Sentence.

Frankfort, Ky. (SpeciaD Beach
Hargis must serve his sentence of life
Imprisonment for the murder of his
father, Judge James Hargis, famous
feudisk. This ruling was handed
down by the Kentucky Court of APP
peals.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04

or Poured Two Jars OF Coal Oil
over Her-Burned To A Crisp As
Children Played Nearby.
Cincinnati. o. (SqeciaD.-Bound
and gagged. the body of Mrs. Alice
Van Zandt, burned to a crisp, was
found lying on top of the gas stove
in her kitchen. The woman had met
her death while her three young
children were playing, unconscious
of the tragedy. in the ADJOINING
room.
Jesse \. Van Zandt. the murder
ed womans husband, is being held
as a witness by the police. The man
admits that he Quarreled with his
wife all Friday night and up TO the
time he left the house next morn
ing, an hour, he claims, before the
discovery of the murder.
According to the coroner. Mrs Van
Zandt was first choked into uncon-
seriousness, then bound and gagged
with strips torn from lace curtain
and placed across the stove, with
her head in the flames OF the burn
er The horror of the crime is IN
creased by the coroner's statement
that the woman must have recovered
consciousness before death. when
found all the clothes had beer burn
ed off the bod and the flesh char
red to cinders.
The police discovered that van
Zandt had been paying marked at
tention 20 a young girl for sometime
The father of this girl had protest
ed strongly against his daughter
conduct. and had finally brought her
before a police magistrate, who or
dered her committed to the House OF
Refuge. On her fathers recon-
mendation, however, she was sent
instead to a convent.
Burned To A Crisp.
The crime was discovered when a
neighbor smelled smoke and sum
moned the fire department. The
body was burned almost TO crisp,
only remnants of the clothing stick
ing to it.
The police claim that the clothing
had been saturated with kerosene. y
proof of this was found in two empty
frult lars WHICH udu COltoihSu NSNA
oil and in an oil-stained fiat iron.
Because no outcry was heard, the
police believe that the woman was
taken unawares and choked into I'M
consciousness with the curtain.
Mrs. Clara Garner, the neighbor
who gave the alarm, told the police
that when the smoke had subsidized
sufficiently for her to enter the kitch-
en-, she found the rear door locked.
The front door, she said. was open.
When Van Zandt. who had been
summoned home by his eight-year-
old son, arrived, he was asked:
when did you see your wife
last?"
The question was repeated to him
several times before he answered;
Il saw her at 10 o'clock. When
| left she was going to prepare din
ner. What has happened?"
He refused to answer further ques-
tons and was locked up.
The Van Zandts came here from
the East. One neighbor to whom
Mrs. Van Zandt had confided her
troubles said that Mrs. Van Zandt
was preparing to leave her husband
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
Whitewashed BY Court.

Managua, Nicaragua (SpeciaD. -
The court at Mesaya acquitted Gener-
al Medina, Prosecuting Attorney
Solomon Selye and other members
of the court-martial of responsibility
for the illegal conviction and execu-
tion of the Americans. Groce and
cannon. The acquittal followed the
presentation by General Medina of
the original kilograms of instructions
signed by President Zelaya. The
conrt, however, does not indict or
accuse Zelaya.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
new YORK WORLD
WINS LIBEL SUIT
Action Started By Roosevelt Is
Thrown Out of Court.

Indictment Against Joseph Pulitzer
For Attacks On Former President
Roosevelt And President Taft
Quashed BY Judge House On The
Ground That Federal Statute APP.
piled Is Not Sufficient In Author.
ity And That The United States
Court Lacks Jurisdiction.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
THE 10th CENTURY
FLYER IS WRECKED
Train Was. Running a Mile
a Minute.

Former Fails To See Signal To Slow
Down And Dashes Onto A Cross
Over Between the Tracks At Full
Speed-Locomotive Topples Over
And Slides 800 Feet-The Train
"Smeared' Over Four Tracks
No Passengers Hurt.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04

A greatly increased consumption of
peanuts in Germany is reported.