MISCELLANEOUS FACTS

PARIS
Street accidents
-As he was leaving his home, rue du Cherche-Midi, 108, an octogenarian, Mr. Boyenvale, was knocked down by a car whose driver fled the scene. But the number of the vehicle was noted by a witness to the accident and it will be easily found.
-Boulevard de l'Hôpital, near rue Jeanne-d'Arc, Mrs. Sidonie Bedoune, thirty-six years old, seamstress, was knocked down by a car and injured quite seriously
-As a result of a jolt, Mr. Paul Durand, twenty-nine years old, truck driver, residing at 12, rue des Prouvaires, fell from the seat of his car, rue Berger. Serious condition.
-While trying to get on a moving tram, a bank employee, Mr. Léon Cassain, 32, rue Saint-Maur, slipped on the pavement and fractured his right leg.
-Rue Lagrange, in front of number 15, Mrs. Marthe Negro, thirty-three years old. rue de Poissy, knocked down by a taxi, is taken to the Hôtel-Dieu with bruises

The fire
A chimney fire broke out in a dwelling, 47, rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, and spread to a neighboring apartment. Two households of five people had to be evacuated.
-A concierge killed by an elevator
Mrs. widow Dupeus, fifty-nine years old, was busy yesterday morning cleaning the elevator of the building where she is a concierge, 136, boulevard Saint-Germain, when she accidentally started the device. The unfortunate woman had her head caught between the elevator and the cage. Death was instantaneous.
-A taxi in a storefront
A taxi driven by the chauffeur Georges Kiselgevski and traveling at high speed collided, boulevard Voltaire, with a truck driven by the chauffeur Joseph Billard. Under the impact, the taxi swerved terribly, mounted the sidewalk, throwing a passerby, Mr. Aimé Compagnon, twenty-four years old, traveling salesman, 7, boulevard de Belleville, into a crate of eggs and smashing the front of the Langlois grocery store. Mr. Compagnon was badly bruised.
-Deaths of congestion
70, rue des Prairies, the concierge found yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, on the landing of the first floor, a tenant, Mr. Charles Galet, thirty-six years old, cabinetmaker, lying unconscious. Mr. Galet succumbed to the effects of congestion while he was being transported to Tenon.
-Getting off the train, yesterday morning, at the Bastille station, Mr. Édouard Schmitt, sixty-two years old, packer in Champigny. was struck by congestion. Death Instantaneous.
-A worker of about fifty-five years old fell from the qual de l'Oise into the canal de l'Ourcq. Removed immediately, He died of congestion on the platform, The body, for the purposes of identification, was transported to the forensic institute.

The Desperate
-In the telephone booth of a restaurant on Avenue d'Orléans, Mr. Lucien Cailloux, twenty-three years old, residing at 124, Avenue Jean-Jaurès, shot himself in the head. The motives for this act of despair are unknown.
-A polisher, Mr. Antoine Chêne, thirty-seven years old, Cité Dupont, hanged himself in his room. In a letter, he declared that he would bequeath his body to the Faculty of Medicine.
The aftermath of an involuntary dive
-Mr. Edouard Dauvet, eighteen years old, 5, Passage du Puits-Bertin, in Clichy was yesterday at the swimming pool on Rue Oberkampf. Having climbed onto the diving board in order to dive, he lost his balance and fell onto a swimmer. Mr. Pierre Gaugey, 15, Rue Aumaire. Seriously injured in the head, Mr. Dauvet was taken to the Saint-Louis hospital where he died a few hours later

Fourteenth arrondissement. Crowd of curious onlookers yesterday morning in front of No. 22 rue de l'Aube: a tenant of the building, who had come down to the street, in a summary outfit, was making incoherent remarks. Through the care of Mr. Ceccaldi, the district commissioner, the poor demented woman, Mrs. Marie Edlinger, aged fifty, was directed to the special infirmary of the depot.
Sixteenth arrondissement. A painter, Mr. Jean Lemerie, fell from a scaffolding erected in front of the town hall of the 16th arrondissement. He was taken, in a serious condition, to Boucicaut.
Twentieth arrondissement. Mrs. Botals, rue du Surmelin, found her four-month-old son Pierre dead yesterday morning in his cradle, whom she had breastfed during the night. Mr. Compagnon, Commissioner of Saint-Fargeau, sent the body to the forensic institute.

SEINE

-Alfortville. -This evening, at 8:30 p.m., at the church, blessing of a monument erected in memory of the children of the commune who fell on the field of honor.
Boulogne. -While he was installing shutters on the first floor of a building, 3, rue Nationale, a painter worker of Chinese origin, Koin, twenty-six years old, 17, rue de Billancourt, fell and fractured his skull. At the hospital of Vaugirard.

-La Plaine-Saint-Denis. -A train, serving an industrialist, ran over, avenue du Président-Wilson. Mr. Alphonse Billon, forty-six years old, residing rue Muriel. The driver, Mr. Désiré Manneulle, was asked to be at the disposal of the courts.
Levallois-Perret. During his work in a perfume factory, 21 rue Valentin, an Algerian, All Ferral, fifty-one years old, 147 bis, rue Chevallier, fell from a height of five meters and was killed.