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PUBLISHED TM-WEEK?'? KILL YOUNG MAN Prominent Louisiana Woman Shots Student in Defence if Ber Honor SHOT IN WOMAN'S HOME Both the Families' Involved In the Unfortunate Affair Are Prominent Socially, Close Neighbors, and Have B<?en for Many Years Most Intimate Friends. Declaring that she had been in salted, Mrs. J. P. McCrea shot and instantly Mlled Allen Garland in the McCrea home at Opelousas, La., on Thursday morning. Both are prom inently ? socially. The McCreas ana Garlands are neighbors. Mrs. McCrea used a revolver and sent three bullets through Garland's back, any one of which it is thought would b^ve produced death. She is the wife of a division superintendent of the 'Frsco Ralroad. Garland's family Is one of the most influential in that section of the State. Although Mrs. McCrea alleges that she shot Garland to protect her hon or, it is stated that the young man was seated in a chair in her room and that all three bullets entered his body from the rear. They were alone at the tine, there being no eye-wit nesses to testify at the coroner's in quest. Mrs. McCre has been placed In jail. Her husband Is with her. Ac cording to the sheriff, a charge of murder will be entered against her. Mrs. McCrea will have nothing to say further than that she killed Garland to protect herself. Young Garland was a student and a graduate of Tulane University, New Orleans. It is said that he was a slave to iis books and cared for little else. Mrs. McCrea was fre quently left alone in her home be cause of business calling her hus band away. On these occasions Gar land was called upon to stay In the McCrea residence, as a protector to Mrs. McCrea and the children. Thursday about ten o'clock Mrs. McCrea telephoned to the Garland home and. asked to borrow a spool of thread, It was sent to her by young Garland. Garland lived with his grandnother, a widow of the late Henry L. Garland. WILL HELP SOME. Organization Formed in Macon, Ga., to Market Cotton Crop. The organization of a $4,000,000 concern known as the Southern Cot ton corpoiation with an eye to con trolling the marketing of the cotton of the South was announced at Mac on, Ga., Wednesday, by George Dole Wadley o:.' Bolinbrooke, one of the wealthiest men in Georgia and repre senting financial interests of great extent. Associated with Mr. Wadley, who will be president, are John E. Wadley of Wlaycross and John T. Moore, Leon S. Dure, Jesse H. Hall, John'Moccey and W. E. Dunwoody of Macon. The cor.cern will work in connec tion a string of banks operated by the Natloial Bank Audit Company, of which William Barret Ridgely.j former comptroller of the currency, is president. The Southern Cotton corporation will advance farmers money up to 75 per cent, of the nor mal price on cotton deposited in warehouses. This cotton will be held, and when the time arrives each year whei. a conrect estimate of the crop can :e made, a price will be fix ed and the cotton held until such price is paid. Organisation work, it was stated by Mr. Wadley, has started in 1,000 counties throughout the cotton belt. In each county will be an advisory board, all stockholders in the corpor ation, con posed of five business men and bankers and 20 farmers. This county b^ard will watch the crop and report to the main offices which will be in Macon. l\lr. Wadley an nounces that Eastern capital has al ready been secured to insure suc cess. Propaganda will start at once. Served Them Right. In the federal court Meridan, Miss. Dr. R. W. Shaw, of Sumter county, Ala., was fined $300, and Daisy Har per, of Meridan, $250. for violating the white slave law. The case grew out of th? alleged abduction of Lau ra Jones, a 15-year-old girl, to Ala bama, where it is said she was de tained several days by Dr. Shaw for! immoral purposes. Toadstools Prove Fatal. At Cle .-eland, Ohio, Thursday Mrs. Elizabeth Chormanu died Thursday from eating toadstools, mistaking them for mushrooms. Her husband, Charles Chormann, died a week ago from the same cause. A son, Henry, 3s convalescent in a hospital, while eight others have recovered after des perate illness. Would Make Good. A Chester dispatch says the friends of Circuit Judge George W. Gage are urgii.g him as a candidate for one of the positions on the supreme bench to be filled by the legislature at its nect session. Judge Gage is qualified in every way for the posi tion, and his friends would like to see him here. SENATOR TILLMAN CERTAIN TO ASK RE-ELECTION. I (He Is More Interested in His Farm Operations Than Politics Just Now Though. The Columbia Record says Senator Tillman spent Wednesday in Colum bia on personal business, passing most of the ime with his friend. Dr. Babcock. He returned to his home at Trenton on the afternoon train and carired with him two real pitch forks. The Senator bought the pitchforks uptown and had them sent down to the union station for him at train time. They were wrapped up in pa per until they were unrecognizable, and when he told Dr.. Babcock what they were the doctor insisted they ought to be unwrapped and carried openly by the senator, so the paper was taken off and Pitchfork Ben toted the two pitchforks home on the train without any concealment. Two of the Senator's friends, Con gressman Lever and Mr R. 1. Man ning, happened fo be present: and as sisted in the opening up of the char acteristic package. It was seen that the tines were tipped with gold and the senator wai? twitted about hoist ing the gold st^rdard, against which he used to proclaim eloquently in the days of "16 to 1 or bust." Eut the Senat.r is very much more. Interested in pitchforks agricultural than pitchforks political. The news that there will De at least one candi date to oppose him for reelection, Col. W. J. Talb'jrt, does not seem to have disturbed him at all. Senator Tillman expects to stand for re-elec tion to make at least a few speeches, if his health is no worse than it is now, and if h<? is better he may make a good_ many speeches. The Senator enjoys meeting the people and only the strict orders of his physician and of Mrs. Tillman, who has always been his chief advis er, have prevented him from gomg around more this summer. It is his determination to offer for a fourth term in the senate. That may be set down as certain. If Senator Tillman is relected or renominated in the 1912 primary, he will on the 4th of March, 1913, be gin his fourth term as senator from South Carolin-. Having served as governor from '.891 to 1895, he was first elected to the senate in 1894 to succeed Gen M. C. Butler and took his seat on the 4th of March, 1895. He was reelecud in 1900 and again in 1906, both times without opposi tion. Col. W. Jasper Talbert, formerly congressman, has announced he wili be a candidate for senator next year, no matter who else runs. Governor Blease has announced that he will b? a candidate for senator if Senator Tillman is not in the race; otherwise he will seek ret.lection as governor. FEEXD WILL SOON SWING Pays Penalty About One Month Af ter His Crime. At Warrenton, N. C, after ten minutes of deliberation a verdict of "guilty" was r -turned early Wednes day by the superior court jury in the case of NorvJ. Marshall, the negro who last Satu~day night attacked a white woman f'.nd shot and seriously wounded her lather and the sheriff of Warren county. Judge Justice promptly sentenced Marshall to be electrocuted a* Raleigh on October 20. The negro was taken to R?leigh at once and lodged in the penitentiary to await his execution. The victim was placed on '.he stand and told the circumstances of the attack. The de. fendant's only attempt at defense was a plea o: insanity. ACCUSE EACH OTHER. Two Men in Jisil Charged With Mur dering Ones Wife. Each accusing the other, two men are prisoners in the same tier of cells in the little Lee county jail, charged with the murder of Mrs. Etta Rich ardson Childers at Smithville, Ga., on August 5, last. One is the vic tim's husband of six months, the oth er her former sweetheart. R. C. Kennedy, Ch;lders and Kennedy were brought face to face with each other YYednescay as the former was being led to his cell following his ar rival from Amoricus where he was ar rested Tuesday. The erstwhile riv als giared at each other for a mom ent and Cbilders then passed on toj his cell to await formal arrignment.! Broke :i Man's Skull. Roy and B^n Ghent, white men.l were lodged in jail at Lancaster,, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, the alleged victim; being a young man named Steele.! The trouble occurred Saturday night in the north-eastern portion of Lan-j caster county. Steele is said to be: in a critical condition, his skull be ing fractured. Kept liquor in Church. Pleading guilty of running a "biind tiger" in a negro church at Lizelja, 12 miles from Macon, Ga., Walker Hawthorne, a negro farmer, Wednesday was held for the next federal grand jury. Hawthorne is said to have kept his stock of liquo;* concealed under the pulpit. T?is is the Qoeitioo Thal is Pizzliug the Deniz d:> of Nilr.% Mich. A VERY STRANGE CASE A Man Turns Up in a Little Michigan Town Claiming to be.Geo. A. Kim me!, Who Is Supposed to Have Wed Sometime Ago and Causes Much Discussion. A dispatch from Niles, (Mich., says George Alfred Kimrael, believed by relatives to have been dead for thir teen years, arrived at his old home there from the penitentiary at Au burn, N. P., late Tuesday and was identified by former friends and as sociates. Despite Kimmel's identification, however, his mother, Mrs. Stella Kimmel, refused to see him. The mother continued to denouce Kim mel as an imposter who was attempt ing to. deprive her of $25,000 insur ance which she had on her son's life. While dozens of persons positively identified him as the son for whose supposed death thirteen years ago Mrs. Estella Kimmel received $5,000 in life insurance, an equal number, was as positive that it was not the same. Then Mrs. Kimmel, 70 years old, who had asserted that the man was impersonating her son merely to de prive her of the money she had al ready received and to prevent the payment of $25,080 more in insur ance to other relatives, scrutinized the man who claims her as mother. BiTcugth face to face with the wo man, "Kimmel," just released from a five-year term in the Auburn (N. Y.) penitentiary, streched forth his arms and said: "Mother! Don't you know me your boy? Don't disown me any longer. You know I am your son." Mrs. Kimmel, withdrawing from the man as he attempted to embrace her, stood sternly scanning his face. "No," she said, "I don't see in you any positive resemblance to my son." The meeting took place at the home of Mrs. H. L. Fox, who had al ready accepted "Kimmel" as cousin and positively identiled him as the son of Mrs. Kimmel. It was made! known Mrs. Kimmel has no direct in terest in any money which the insur ance campanies refuse to pay on the ground that the son is still living, but that a $10,000 policy is held by a daughter. Mrs. Edna Kimmel Bons lett, and another $5,000 policy is held by a distant relative. "I would have no selfish motive in denying the identity of my son if hej were alive," said Mrs. Kimmel. "For < years I have felt sure he was dead, and I can not believe that this man is he. It seems that some motherly instlct ought to tell me the truth, yet when I look at him I do not rec ognize him. He only puzzles me. It has almost prostrated me to look upon this strange man and have peo ple Insist that he is my son." "Kimmel," on looking at the wo man, said he was positive she was his mother. "I wanted to take her In my arms," he said," for she looked the same as years ago. I love her with all my heart and can't understand why she should insist I am dead. Still, I will not worry her, and if she continues to disbelieve me I shall do as she wishes I know I am Kimmel, for I recognide every one." To test his acquaintance with Xiles "Kimmel" was escorted about the streets. He repeatedly pointed out landmarks and related instances which citi;.ens said were correct. He called persons by their fuil names, but many of them professed not to re cognize him as the real Kimmel. "Now to prove i am familiar with the town," said Kimmel, "I will tell you that behind that hill there is a big red brick house, on 'he south side cr which is a large elm tree, from which we used to swing ;vhen boys." Every one declared the statement was correct. There was evidence after Kimmel left suggesting that he had a.nd and the insurance money was asked for. The life insurance company is said to have expended hundreds of dollars in running down a theory that Kim mel did not die. He was traced to Arkansas City, Kan., where, so far as his family knew, he was last seen. Then a man answering the descrip tion of Kimmel was found in a dazed condition in St. Louis. He recover-1 ed in a hospital and later left for New York, where, under the name of An drew J. White, he was arrested on a larceny charge. After more warn ings he was found in an asylum in New York and afterward traced to Auburn penitentiary. Severs1 years after Kimmel's dis-J appearance his mother instituted suit in the St. Louis court? to secure in-' surance which she held on his life. I A jury returned a verdict in her fav or and declared Kimmel to legally | dead. Upon this verdict one com-1 pany paid Mrs. Kimmel on a $5,000 policy. Another company which car ried a $20.000 policy, however, fought the claim and carried the matter to higher courts. Three Girls Drown. Mary Henderson, Rose Ferten and Ellen Lumberg were drowned at Houghton, WHs., Thursday night. The girl's canoe capsized. j, S. C, SATURDAY, SEPTE? LAID/TO NO ONE MYSTERY OjF MYRTLE HAWKINS' DE.aTH UNSOLVED. Tom Fragments of Paper Are Now Authorities' Hope to Obtain Clue to Identity of Guilty Persons. A special dispatch to The State from Hendersonville says the testi mony of fifty witnesses has not solv ed the mystery of the death of Myr tle Hawkins, whose body was found in Osceola lake thirteen days ago, but who was not drowned. The coroner's jury Wednesday found "from the testimony introduc ed that she came to her death at the hands of some unknown person or persons in a manner, and by means unknown. This differs from the ver dict in the first inquest by making the case one of murder. Immediately after the verdict was rendered it was announced that the Hawkins family offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and-conviction of Miss Hawkins' slayers. Added to the other rewards offered or promised, this makes a total of $2,500. Dr. W. R. Kirk, coroner, said the investigation would be continued, and if any'addltlonal evidence Is discover ed a special grand jury will be em paneled to consider it. There remains three possibilities of new evidence. Torn fragments of paper bearing an unfamiliar hand writing were found in Mise Hawkins' room and have been sent to Washing tor, to be put together. On the shore of Osceola lake, near where the body was found, there has been discovered a piece of manila paper, blood-stain ed and bearing finger prints. The finger prints may be identified as those of Bomebody concerned in the crime. It is expected that Mrs. Bessie Clark Guice will be arrested as she is thought to know something about Miss Hawkins' death. A warrant has been issued for Mrs. Guice in another county, accusing her of having per formed *'.e same kind of criminal operation, as it is said was attempted on Miss Hawkins. One of the prin cipal efforts of the inquest was direct ed toward finding who was responsi ble for Miss Hawkins' condition. Testimony that she was seen with George Bradley, a recently married man, after she disappeared from home was contradicted, as was the testimony concerning other suspi cious circumstances. DOCTOR SOLI) COCAINE Well-Kiii wn Laurens Physician Con victed and Fined for It. A dispatch to The State from Laur gns says Dr. C. L. Poole, a weil known physician of that city was Tuesday af ternoon found guilty in the mayor's court on a charge of selling cocaine. Mayor Babb imposed a sentence of $100 fine or of 30 days in prison. Dr. Poole gave notice that he would pay. The mayor announced that the de fendant would be tried tomorrow on a like charge. The witnesses are ne gioes who are alleged to have bought the drug from the accused. The conviction of Dr. Poole caused a mild sensation. It comes as a climax to a long series of efforts on the part of the authorities to place responsibility for the sale of a large amount of the drug to negrjes in the city. A package of the dust which Dr. Poole is alleged to have sold to a ne gro who was arrested as he was leav ing the premises of the defendant a few nights ago, was analyazed by a Columbia chemist, who testified at the trial that the sample submitted was cocaine hydrochlorate. TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN Work of a Fiend to Destroy .Many In nocent People. A dispatch from Chester says das tardly attempt to wreck the north bound passenger train on the Caro lina & North-western railroad was made at Crowder's trestle just over the North Carolina line Tuesday morning. The trestle is 50 feet long and 50 feet high, and about the mid dle of the trestle the spikes had been pulled from the rails a distance of GO feet. A crowbar was stuck between the ends of the rails. The rail held its position, and the engineer brought his U'\\n to a stop just in time to a void a fearful wreck. Many people might h.'.ve been killed. T.'ie Deadly Gin. Earnest EldVedge died Wednesday' night of injuries received last week at St. Charles mear Sutnter. Mr. El dredge had beer sent by the Slimier .Machinery coin,.'any to erect a gin tliere, and in starting the operations he reached un\ler a gin saw to adjust something wltfl the result that his hand was caugLXt and his arm badly: lacerated. ^ Fell Intio Well Zaa Bradford, wttiite, was killed by falling into a well in the Armenia section of Chester Cjounty Wednesday morning. Bradford )pud been at work in the well and had signalled the men working the windlass to draw him up saying he felt sick. When within ten 'feet of the top he give way and fell; to the bottom of the well, breaking his neck. 1 IBER 23, 1911. CUT WITH AXE Six People Butch ired as They Slept io Their Beds in Two flenses. A MOST BRUTAL CRIME Bodies of the Unknown Assassin's Victims Discovered by Neighbors Three Days After the Crime Was Committed With Their Heads Crushed and Fearfully Mutilated. One of the most brutal crimes known to that section for many years has come to light at Colorado Springs Col. Butchered in their beds by some persons as yet unknown, who used an axe, the bodies of six per sons, three In each of two neighbor ing houses, were found there Wed nesday. The heads of all victims had been smashed in and the appearance of the bodies indicated that they had been dead several days and that death came while they slept. A re port says that the murder has been cuught and that he has confessed, but this is denied by the police of ficials, who, it is intimated, fear a lymhing might follow such an an nouncement. An axe which had been loaned to Mrs. Henry F. Wayne, one of the victims, by J. R. Evans, a neighbor, last week, was found, blood-stained by iM-rs. Evans on Monday near the back door of the Wayne h?me. No attention was paid to this fact, how ever, as it was thought the axe had been used in killing chickens. The dead are: Mrs. Alice May Biurnham, wife of A. J. Burnham, cook at the Modern Woodmen's Satltarium. Their two children, Alice, aged 6, and John, aged three years. Henry F. Wayne, a consumptive, until recently a patient at the Wood men's Sanitarium. Mrs. Wayn?> and their one-year-old baby girl. The Burnham house Is situated at Dale street and Harrison place, and the two houses next to it on Dale street are vacant. Directly in the i ear is the Wayne home and close to ? t is that of Evans. The discovery of the bodies was made by a neighbor, who called at the Burnham home. Not getting any response and notic ing a strong odor, she forced an en trance. The bodies of Mrs. Burnham and those of her two children were found in their hods, which were cov ered with blood, and the wall and celling were also spattered. The woman rushed to the street and gave the alarm. Immediately a dozen persons went to the Wayne house, where there had been no signs 3f life since Sunday, and the same ter rible scene was presented. In the beds were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne and her children horrffty mangled, as in the case of the bodies in the Burnham home. That such a crime had been com mitted in a thickly settled neighbor hood and left unrevealed for three days is regarded as incredible. Not even a footprint is to be found on the floor of either house and no one could be found who had seen any one about the premises since Sunday, when all the murdered persons at different times were in a neighboring grocery. Burnham, who lives at the sani tarium where he is employed, about ten miles from the iv.-.*, v as arrested s-on after die discovery of :V; crime, but there seems nothing to implicate him in the tragedy. His employers say he was at work when the crime must have been committed. He was last seen at his home Sunday after noon, and is said to have left there about ? o'clock. Little is known of the Wayne fami ly except that Wayne came to the .Modern Woodmen's sanitarium about ten months ago from Indiana as a patient. One month ago his term in the instituiton was up and he brought his wife and child here and rented the house in wheh they were murder ed. When brought into the morgue the bodes were almost unrecognizable. The heads of all the six victims were cither cut or smashed and in almost every case the number of wounds in dicated them urderer had cut and slashed until certain that life was cx-l tinct. Why Prices Tell. A dispatch from New Orleans says new low price levels were brought about in the cotton market Wednes day by heavy and general selling, part of which was for speculative short accounts, part from liquidat ing longs, and part from spot firms' and large receipts. WolTord Cuts Out Hazing. The Spartan burg Herald says the student body of Wofford college be wail the new school year Thursday; by adopting a resolution not to en-| gage in hazing of any character this| year. The meeting was presided ov er by Dr. Synder. Wofford has had a splendid opening. Tramp ('onict Seen A Chicago astronomer has sighted a tramp comet, the tail of which may be seen with opera glasses. The head of this comet is much larger than that of Halley's or others noted in re cent years. It is visible between S p. m. and daylight. STRUCK BY CR?1SIR THE LARGE STEAMER OLYMPIC HAD A CLOSE CALL. Despite Effects of Warship's Special ly Designed Rain, Great Ocean Lin er Survives the Shock. The great steamship Olympic of the White Star line which left Sout hampton, England, about 12 o'clock Wednesday with a large crowd of re turning tourists, lies off Calshot cas tle at the entrance to Southhampton waters with a gaping hole in her side as the result of a collision with the British protector cruiser Hawke. No lives were lost, and of the 2, 000 or more passengers and crews of the vessels, not one was even injur ed. There also was no panic. The accident took place a few miles from, where the American liner St. Paul and the British cruiser Gladiator col lided nearly four years ago. The Olympic left her dock at 11.25 o'clock Wednesday morning, steam ing at a moderate rate eastward on her way to Cherbourg to pick up the continental passengers. She already had on board nearly 1,700 persons, excluding the crew. The first cabin passengers were just answering the call to lunch when attention was at tracted to the Hawke which was un dergoing steam trials. The warship, moving at great speed, followed the liner, but appar ently was quite clear of her but sud denly she swerved and before the passengers could realize what was happening, struck the liner on the starboard quarter near the stern, tearing through a section about 40 feet in extent. The miracle is that the Olmypic was not sunk, as the Hawke is fitted with a ram especially designed to sink a vessel in spite of its water tight compartments. The liner's frame stood the shock well, and the watertight doors, which automatical ly closed, held the compartments her metically sealed. The Olympic listed slightly to starboard but not. to a suf ficient angle to cause any serious alarm. So far as can be learned the Hawke suffered no more severely. Curiously enough 12 feet of her upper deck was twisted out of all recognition. The stem appears to be completely gone. The engines of both ships were stop ped immediately, and as soon as the watertight doors were secured the en gines were set astern and the vessels drew apart. The Hawke sent wire less messages for tugs and remained alongside until they arrived to con vey her to Southhampton, where she dropped anchor. Many theories are advanced as to the cause of the collision, but gen erally the warship is blamed. It is suggested that the cruiser's steering gear failed to act. The naval officers and the officers ot the Olympic are withholding comment until the in quiry which the admiralty will insti tute Immediately. The cruiser pro ceeded to Portmouth under her own steam. AVIATOR ROSENBAUM KILLED Chicago Airman Falls Fifty Feet at DeWitt, Iowa. At DeWitt, la., John W. Rosen baum, of Chicago, was killed late Tuesday, when his aeroplane fell from a height of fifty feet. He had been in the air only twenty minutes when he lost control of the machine. Rosenbaum was making a trial flight when he met death. He was using a Curtiss biplane, which had been at the DeWitt Fair last week. At that time Ludwig, an aviator, failed to make a flight. Rosenbaum this af ternoon declared that he would prove that the machine would fly. He had just started a descent when he lost control. The aviator was to have giv en exhibition flights at Clinton, la., later in the week. HELD IT A NEGRO. A White Man and a Negro Attempt to Commit Bobbery. Near Allendale two men one white and the other a negro, mad-- a bold attempt at robbery about three o'clock Wednesday morning, when they drew revolvers on Richard IJry ant, a negro, who lives on W. F. Cooge's plantation, near the ceme tery, as be was going to town *o mar ket a bale of cotton. .lust, as Bryant was passing a thicket the two high waymen stepped out in front of him with revolvers and demanded that he halt. They then proceeded to search him. but found nothing, and ordered the negro to move on. The robbi-rs are still at large and there seems to in- no clue as to who they are. A Voting Convict. Willie .'ones, a negro girl. 13 years old, pleaded guilty to two charges of housebreaking and larceny in the general sessions court at Lexington Wednesday afternoon, and was sen tenced to serve one year in the State penitentiary, performing such work as shf might be able to do. Drugged and Bobbed. People should be careful about drinking with strangers. A young man in Atlanta a few days ago was given drugged whiskey and robbed by chance acquantianees. Later the young man died from the effects of the drug. TWO CENTS PER COPY. VOTE II DOWN la a General Election dtzfo R-jrcts R ciprnci'y Decisively SLAPS m IN THE FACE Political Lnndside in the Dominion Gives the Conservatives, Opponents of Trade Pact with th^ United States, More than Fifty Majority in Next Parliament. Canada slapped the United States, squarely in the face on Thursday and plainly said she wanted no closer relations with us, business or politi cal. In the elections over there .on Thursday reciprocity suffered an overwhelming defeat, along with the Liberal party which favored that trade pact with the United States. A dispatch from Montreal says by a veritable political landslide, the Liberal majority of 43 was swept away and the Conservative party se cured one of the heaviest majorities ?upward of 50?that any Canadian Parliament has ever had. Seven Cab inet ministers, who have served with Premier Laurier, were among the de feated candidates. The Liberals lost ground in prac tically every province of the Domin ion. Wihere they won. their majori ties were small. Where the Conser vatives won, their majorities were tremendous. Ontario, the leading* province of Canada, decla red almost ?unanimously against the Administra tion and reciprocity. Robert L. Borden, leader of the Conservative party, will shortly be come prime minister of Canada. He will be.supported in Parliament by a working majority of far more than ample for his purpose. The government defeat means that the Filding-Knox reciprocity treaty, ratified by tnc American Congress in extra session, will not be introduced when the 12th Parliament assembles next month and that a revised basis of trade with the United States, look ing to closer commercial relations will not be possible in the immediate future. The Conservatives are com mitted to a policy of trade expansion within the Empire and a closed door against the United States. Although re-elected in two consti tuencies in Quebec, the defeat of the Liberal party also means the retire ment from public life of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who, for nearly two decades, has directed the destines of the Do minion. Several times during the bitter campaign, which proceeded the election, the venerable premier said that defeat of his party at the polls meant the end Ol his career. A Liberal membership of 53 from Quebec was cut down to the suprem acy of the party, but it was in Ontar io that the Conservatives won their great victories. Spurred on by ap peals to patriotism and the cry that reciprocity was the entering wedge for annexation, the Conservatives swept nearly everything before them. That province, which in the last Parliament was represented by 35 Liberals and 51 Conservatives, will send a delegation to the next com posed of 13 Liberals and 75 Conser vatives. A notable feature of the de feat was the opposition's capture of two hitherto Liberal seats in Saskat chewan. The results at r.en o'clock Thurs day night, with a few of the distant constituencies estimated, were: Province. Lib. Con. Ontario. 13 7 0 Quebec. 3 6 11 Nova Scotia. 10 8 'New Urunswick .... 8 5 Prince Edward Island. 2 2 Manitobia. 1 9 Saskatchewan. 7 3 Alberta. 4 1 British Columbia.... 0 6 Totals. 81 131 Opposition majority, 50. HUSBAND AND WIFE STRICKEN. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Hall of Selma, Ala., Die Suddenly. I Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Hall of Selma, Ala., husband and wife, apparently j in good health Tuesday night, were ! both dead Wednesday, the husband having died at midnight and tho wife four hours later. The husband died suddenly and the wife ran to neighbors immediately afterwards re questing them to take her to the resi dence of her daughter, stating that she, too. felt death stealing upon her. She was carried to her daughter's home and died there at four o'clock Wednesday morning. IMt. and Mrs. Hall were among the most prominent people in Alabama. Their deaths are supposed to have been due to natural causes. All For Her Boy. The threats of a son to kill him self unless be were kept in money drove her to repeated forgeries in order to provide the funds was ad mitted in police court at Chicago by Mrs. E. K. Lyon, wife of a wealthy manufacturer Thursday. Struck by Train. Four members of the family of Frank Kleir, Rockfield, Wis., were killed, one is dying and another was injured when the Klein automobile was struck by a Soo line train at Germantown, Ws.,