OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 13 June 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

«• : THE "SALOON SMASHER" DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright New York, June 11. Mrs. Carrie Nation, the well-known temperance reformer, died at Leavenworth. The late Mrs. Carrie Nation was a militant temperance advocate with methods of her own, which earned her the nicknamo of "The American Saloon Smasher." She went about in America at one time .armed with a hatchet, with which she smashed the windows of liquor saloons. In December, 1908, ill's. Nation paid a visit to England. The following paragraph from a London newspaper of that time gives a fair indication of the high pressure at which this extraordinary woman lived: "While travelling on the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway yesterday, Mrs. Carrie Nation caused delay to a train between Trafalgar Squaro and the Embankment Station. She appears to have become exasperated on reading a cigarette advertisement, and, borrowing her friend's silver-mounted umbrella, aimed a blow at it. The handle of the umbrella went through tho carriage window, and the train was delayed. After the officials of the line had taken Mrs. Nation's name and address she was allowed to proceed. Speaking at a meeting of women in Hawkeston Hall, 'Westminster, later in the afternoon, Mrs. Nation said that, looking at the cigarette advertisement and another for whisky close to it. her fury boiled over, and so she picked lip an umbrella and smashed the tiling. She had been in gaol a great many times, and had been beaten and whipped and kicked, but she intended to oppose the great evils of drink and smoking. Earlier in the day Mrs. Nation took advantage of many opportunities of rebuking cigarette smokers in the streets." LORD DYNEVOR, London, June 11. The death is announced of Lord Dynevor. The late Lord Dynevor was the sixth baron of the line, the barony having been created in 1780. He was born in IS3O, and had been Deputy-Lieutenant for Carmarthenshire. His heir is his son, Mr. W. F. Rice, M.P. for Brighton.