TRAGIC END TO A WEDDING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 255, 18 March 1913, Page 6

TRAGIC END TO A WEDDING

WOMAX KILLED, TWO INJURED.

There was a very tragic ending to j wedding festivities at Albion this after- j noon (says' a Brisbane telegram, of Feb- j ruary-,26). The ceremony had been per- | formed, and the clergyman was con- j yeyed to his home at Albion by motor car. the occupants of which were Thomas ;. Geddes (32), a clerk, his wife (38) and' Harriet Melntyre (03). The clergyman j alighted, and the car was proceeding ) down the incline in Alice street, when the driver, in attempting to avoid two children in the middle of the road, dashed into-a cart, with the result'that the car capsized and rolled down the embankment, and the occupants were hurled out with great force. Mrs. Harriet McTntyre suffered such serious injury that she died, on ,the way to the hospital. Thomas Geddes. brother of the •bride, severe lacerations on the face, head and left ear, and his right ear was nearly torn off. He also suffered injury to the right shoulder, and , concussion -of; the brain. Mrs. Geddes suffered severely from shock. Both were conyeyed. to the hospital..

'. END OF A PRINCE'S ROMANCE : The Budapestli newspaper "A Nap" states that Bavon Ernst Wall burg, son of the Archduke Ernst and his wife, Fran Skublits, has returned to Budapestli after a long absence. The Archduke Ernst, without the Imperial sanction, married the daughter of a Hungarian farmer, and Baron Ernst Wallburg is the eldest of their'four children. He himself resigned a commission in the army in order to marry a woman of the people, and some time afterwards i charge of forging documents relating to lii.s connection witli the Imperial House was preferred again him, though it was dropped after he had remained for some time in prison. When he came out of prison Baron Wallhurg found himself and his family faced with destitution, and fbr six months he earned a precarious livelihood ;i"s"'a waiter in a cafe, after which lie was lost sight of. He and his wife and children, nine, persons in all, are now stated by the newspaper quoted i|i he living in a single room in abject poverty. The children are almost without clothing, and their mother is seriously ill. There seems to be a likelihood of the family being compelled to enter the workhouse.

NOTES The fir.-t woman in America to occupy tile position of probate Judge, Mrs. Mary 11. Cooper, of Beloit, Kansas, is now a'candidate for re-election to her place on the Bench of Mitchell County, and as both Republicans and Democrats have agiv/il to support her candidacy she is to be re-elected without opposition. In the same State, which granted women the \ote at the last election by a large majority, women jurors are now being drawn for the first time for service in the district courts. The number of women who have pleaded the customary formula of release is considerably lower so.far than among the men.

The latest returns of the world's women voters, counting in the women who are now practically assured of the vote in' Denmark, estimate the total number of enfranchised women (the parliamentary vote, of course, being the standard) at' just under 4,500.000. Of these, 2.isf!7.'i"H are American, or more than one-sixth of the women of voting age in the United States, and two and a-lialf times as many as the enfranchised women voters of Australia. The first of the Ada Lewis homes in the South of London was opened last month. Tt accommodates 240 women, ami is the fruit of a well-known Jewish money-lender, who had more money than she knew what to do with. The inmates have to pay (id per night or 3s per week, with an extra, penny for a hot hath. Their privileges include separate articles, with clean linen, laundries, a large reading room, a sewing room, and a common dining room where all foodstuffs are obtainable at cost price. Who has not heard of Paquin, the famous Parisian dressmaker? This lady -has just, received at the hands of the French Government the Legion of Honor —not on account of her skill in fashionable female dress, hut because of her patriotism and conspicuous philanthropy. Of great wealth, she has subscribed huge I sums to charitable institutions, especially | to the Society of Modern Education, and has done much to improve the lot of shop assistants in Paris. She has also been a liberal patron of French exhibi- I tions. J