TRAGEDY IN AUSTRALIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 29, 4 October 1913, Page 6

TRAGEDY IN AUSTRALIA.

MOTHER’S DEMENTED ACT.

{By Electric Telegraph—Copyright J ,1 United Press Assoouf-:on. )

(Received 9.40 a.m.) Sydney, October 4

A tragedy occurerd at Ballina. John Rankin, on returning home from a meeting discovered his house locked, and on forcing an entrance found his wife and a thirteen months child on the floor with their throats cut, dead. The child had also apparently been struck on the, head with a hammer foutid' lying near.

‘LOST IN THE BUSH.

.y. Perth; October 4

The,., skeletons of two men, with a revolver;’ andrifle alongside each and the skull pierced with a bullet hole, were f«jnd4n the Gastrpyne district. They had apparently been, dead far a year.

It is supposed that they were prospectors who got bushed and who ended a fruitless struggle by placing the weapons in their nfcuths and discharging them. THREE BOYS DROWNED. ’ ■ t : - - ■ •- October; 4. Three boys named Lee, Betts and Fawkrier, were boating in the river, and as they were being carried seawards they attempted to,swim ashore but werebdrowned. V- ■ ■ -• THE U.S.A. TARIFF.

PRESIDENT WILL SIGN THE BILL

{St Electric Telegraph—Copyrighi [United Press Association.} Washington, October 3. The Senate adopted the Conference report on the tariff. It is probable that President Wilson’s signature will be attached within a few days. Cotton figures are a feature that is omitted.