Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-01
HAS IT IN BONDED WAREHOUSES
Disastrous Consequences of a Former
Corner Recalled.
RUIN AND SUICIDES FOLLOWED
Usual Weekly Mystery Provided by
Murdered Woman.
WAS A SERVANT FROM BAVARIA
Florence Nightingale of France IL to
Marry Colonel Mhrchnnd of
Fashodn Fame-HerO IN
Drowned.
BY PAUL VILLIERs.

u I RAUL iAfA4iAAi
PARIS. Dec 3l-CSpecial to The Bee)--
Another sugar corner is on and Il is likely
that number of wealthy Parsians will
suffer from IT, The man who is manipulat-
ing II is a Chilean, Mr.. de Santa Maria.
He has been busy accommodating enormous
stocks in the bonded warehouses here in
( London and Hamburg. and he appears now
to control the market With the system of
| margins" this Is not an impossible feat.
The price of sugar began to go up during
the spring of last year and by the end Of
] July it had reached famine price.
Many Frenchmen, the Prince de Broglie
among them have reason for remembering
the last corner of sugar which brought on
J a panic. This was six years ago. Nearly
everybody was buying margins in sugar.
Some of the stars of the Paris opera were
in it. Brokers secured the provinces, find
ing customers everywhere. Prices were
climbing and the leaders of the market
were unloading. They did not unload fast
enough. In a week sugar dropped from 10
| to Is francs. Jules Jaluzot the proprietor
of the Printemps stores, was ruined. NJ.
Crosnier, the director of the Egyptian re-
fineries. committed suicide Young NJ. Say,
one Of the wealthiest men, was absolutely
ruined. Princess de Broglie saw her income
reduced from f1lOOOO a year to f24,OOO
Again the public are beginning to protest.
Weekly Murder Mystery.
Paris has another mystery, the victim
being a woman, as was the case in the
Baroness b. mystery. The murderer had
apparently strangled the woman. Annie
Knoll who is said to be related to a mem
Der of the German Parliament. She came
from Bavaria.
Just at daybreak a few mornings ago
lob rnfn Do af Thniv
startled to find the partly burned corpse
of a woman A match box and a bottle
which had contained petroleum were found
! near her. AS her watch and purse bad not
been taken the police Thought that she had
committed suicide, but an examination re-
vealed that she had previously been
strangled. There was no difficulty in
tracing her identity. as in a pocketbook
was a paper with her name. and mention
| of the fact that she was born in Bavaria
and was a governess.
An officer in whose family she had been
employed, having heard of the affair, went
to the prefecture OF police and stated that
she had been looking after his children
until the previous week, when she left to
take another place. His soldier-servant
carried her trunk down to the street door
and she drove off in a cab.
Efforts are being made to discover the
cabman, as the woman was never seen at
the address which she had given on start
ing. Pending investigation it is thought
that the woman must have been slain in
the city and her corpse conveyed during
the night to me spot where it was found
and there burnt
Colonel MarchRnd to Marry.
A romance of the battlefield is a rarity,
but is likely to happen. Colonel Marchand
famous for his connection with Fashoda
and later with the campaign in Morocco,
is to be married. It is a soldiers romance
The bride-elect is Mile. Saint Roman,
called by many the Florence Nightingale
of France She has long identified herself
with the care of the sick and wounded.
and founded a Woman's Red Cross society
which rendered admirable service in the
Morocco campaign. When war does not
call her, she works among the unfortunate
here. Colonel Marchand met her in
Morocco during the war.
A Hero il Drowned.
notable French hero is dead. He lost
his life one day this week. The man. Jean
Gorges, was recovering floating timber
from the Garonne river at Bordeaux, when
he fell into the water and was drowned.
Georges was at one time employed as
keeper OF the Town Hall garden here,
and when the terrible fire ragged in that
building during the charity bazaar he res
cued nve persons, being himself badly
burned For his gallantry he was awarded
the Cross OF the Legion OF Honor.
LinEuists in Demand.
| The Central Telephone exchange will soon
possess more polyglot telephone girls; these
employees will have to pass an examina-
ton, and they will get about 10 cents
day, extra pay for each foreign language
they speak.
The poatoffice viii make a similar eK-
pertinent and is offering inducements 10
its employees to learn foreign languages.
In certain postofnces, here. as well as
those in the provinces frequented by for
eigners. poyglot clerks will be appointed.
The polyglot policemen who made their
appearance two years ago, are not an
unqualified success and only two mem
bers Of the corps now patrol the boule-
wards. 1T is dreary and monotonous 70
have to supply information TO foreigners
who have never before been TO Paris" said
one OF the force recently, and we decided
that we would move to have ourselves
abolished. Nearly every hotel nowadays
has an interpreter. and the need for our
existence struck us as more than doubt
full"
Castor Haron, cook, mas committed
suicide by throwing himself from the top
OF the north tower of Notre Dame. II Is
surmised that he took a running jump
from the platform, otherwise he could not
have avoided the gargoyles and parapets.
Freed from a Brute.
Nine. Parat, who claimed that her hus-
band forced her to wear padlocked belt
ana chained her 70 a wall In a dark room.
4 was granted a divorce. She was given the
custody Of their children whom the de-
PENDANT will be permitted 10 visit twice
a month in the presence OF a relative He
has to make an allowance Of about
$50 a week to the family. In its judgment
the civil court says the poor woman's life
| was a long martyrdOm