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Show PRESIDENT ALEXIS OF HAYTI DEPOSEB .. i. The Long Expected Crisis Comes, a t i Tentative Provisional Govern- ; ment Established. Mob Attacks Former Popular Executive Execu-tive as He Leaves His Palace to . Seek Refuge on Board a French ( Ship. Bloodshed May Follow. - ) Port Au Prlnco. President Nordl Alexis has been deposed, nnd Is now Bafo on board tho French training; i ship Duguay Trouln, and Vori lAu ' Prince Is In tho hands of tho revolutionists. revo-lutionists. General Antolno Simon, tho , i leader of the Insurgents, Is marching: ' I up tho peninsula with an nrmy of 1 . G.OOO men, nnd a new president, General Gen-eral Legitime, has been proclaimed. At the last moment President Alexis yielded to thn urging of thoso about him nnd decided to tako rcfugo aboard tho French warship. At precisely pre-cisely C o'clock In tho afternoon of December 1, n saluto of twenty-ono- . guns announced his departuro from, flio palace. Thousands had gathered thero early. In tho day ond had surged around tho cntranco, threatening to- t tear down tho walls to drive out tho' president nnd his loynl followers. As. tho hours passed tho great crowd became be-came Infuriated, -shouting for him to-lenvo to-lenvo tho country. Tho mob was?, armed, nnd men nnd women, bcsldo themselves with rage, heaped curses-on curses-on tho head of tho aged man who had fiercely expressed Ills determination to fight to tho last So serious was tho situation that i tho Fronch minister, M. Carteron, and: ' '. other foreign representatives, together i with members of a special committee, i forced themselves unon tho nrcsldcnt. i i who finally consented to withdraw, Shouts greeted him as ho stepped from tho precincts of tho pUaco and Into a carriage. M. Cnrtoron, carrying; tho French trl-color, sat besldo him, and tho minister throw tho folds oC i' tho ling ovor tho shoulders of tho deposed de-posed president to protect him. An Immcnso crowd of men nndl women had assembled nt tho wharf ond tho arrival of tho presidential carriage, escorted by a battalion of Infantry and a squadron of cavalry, under command of Gen. Hlpolyto, was; I ' tho Blgnul for tumult nnd riot. Tho sceno was tragic and shame'fur.. Infuriated women broko through, tho- ' cordon of troops and shrlokcd tho-coarsest tho-coarsest Insults In tho very fnco ol tho president, who strovo bravely to-appear to-appear undismayed. They tried to hurl themselves upon Aloxls, nnd fought with hands and feet ngalnst tho soldiers, who found difficulty In forcing them back. In order to dls-engngo dls-engngo him, tho troops discharged their guns. A trunk, which wns left behind on Iho precipltnto doparturo of tho president pres-ident nnd his party from tho wharf, was seized upon by tho rioters nnd broken open. It was found to contain somo $10,000 In gold nnd 20,000 Hny-tlon Hny-tlon gourdes. Tho speclo was scat- , tcred about and promptly appropriated. |