MISCELLANEOUS

A drunkard shoots his wife and then brainburns herself
SAINT-ETIENNE, August 23. A domestic quarrel arose yesterday evening between Louis Chelle, forty-seven years old, a metallurgist, and his wife, Victorine Genestat, fifty years old, residing at 4, rue Claude-Della-Roa, in Saint-Etienne. The husband, who was given to drinking, had come home that evening drunker than usual, on the occasion of his son's departure for Tonkin. A violent argument broke out between the two spouses, and suddenly. Louis Chelle, arming himself with a revolver, fired four shots at his wife who was hit by a bullet in the right side and three in the head. After which, he blew his brains out.

A young man kills his mother-in-law with two stab wounds
BORDEAUX, August 23. This morning, in Cenon, a suburb of Bordeaux, the woman Vigneau was killed during an argument, with two stab wounds, by the young Gaston Vigneau, aged twenty, born from her husband's first marriage.
For several months, quarrels had been occurring in the family. The victim had a bad reputation. The murderer gave himself up.

CAR ACCIDENTS

Yesterday, at 11:30 a.m., Cours de Vincennes, a young man of fourteen, Jean Varincel, living with his mother in Bry-sur-Marne, was knocked down by a car driven by Mr. Gabriel Jilardino, an industrialist in Saint-Mandé,

Cyclist crushed by a truck
Accidentally falling off her bicycle, yesterday morning at 10:15 a.m., rue du Départ, a woman whose identity is unknown was crushed by a truck from the City of Paris, driven by the driver Etienne Clavier. Taken to Necker Hospital, she died almost immediately.

Truck versus car: two injured
A car, driven by Mr. Fernand Robert, mechanic, 2, place Diderot, in Vincennes, violently hit a truck loaded with rails. The driver of the car was only slightly injured. On the other hand, Mr. and Mrs. Tison, aged sixty and fifty-seven respectively, living in Brévannes, who were in Mr. Robert's car, received very serious head injuries. They were admitted to Saint-Antoine Hospital.

A motorcyclist collided and killed
MONTMEDY, August 23. Yesterday evening, at six o'clock, Lieutenant Laurent, of the 41st battalion of colonial hunters on leave, was going to Stenay by motorcycle. Arriving at the intersection of the roads to Montmédy and Sedan at the entrance to Stenay, he was collided by a beige car. He was taken to the hospital in Stenay where a fractured skull was found. The injured person was trepanned, but he died shortly afterwards. The motorists were injured.

A young Parisian cyclist decapitated by a train,
CAEN, August 23. - Young Roger Bornemann, aged twelve, whose parents live in Paris, currently on holiday in Hermanville, fell from his bicycle under the wheels of a Calvados railway train, which runs along the road from Lion to Luc. He was decapitated by the convoy.

A child falls from a train into the arms of a road worker
NANTES, August 23. A road worker of the P.-O., working between Anetz and Varades, was surprised to suddenly receive in his arms a child aged three and a half who had fallen from a train. The little boy was playing near his mother when a jolt from the train had thrown him onto the track through the ice that had remained open.