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and end nds, not J Ne LE w Wealthy Southerner Takes His Life in Chicago Bank in Sweetheart‘s Presâ€" enceâ€"She Said, "It Was Too Terâ€" rible," Chicago, May 21.â€"The climax in the love stofy of Alvah T. Portlock occurâ€" red in the Northern Trust Company PDank yesterday, when the young man UJrew a revolver and shot himself while standing a few feet away from the woman he loved. Thke bullet struck within an inch of his heart and as he fell to the floor mortally wounded he called to his sweetheart, but she refused to go to his side. He was then carried into a private office of the bank. It was during the busiest banking hour of the day that the tragody ocâ€" curred, and several men and women were standing near the man when he fired the shot. It was several minutes before order was restored and persons in the bank realized what bad hapâ€" "Run, he is going to shoot!" cried the woman, excitedly, waring her arms toward several wome. in the other end of the bank. Portlock walked into the trust deâ€" partment shortly after 10.30 a. m., ard asked a guard to tell Miss Margaret May, who is employed as a cashier, that he wished to see her. He was standing but a few feet from the railâ€" ing behind which she was working at the time. "Tell him I don‘t care to talk to him just nowâ€"or say that 1 am 100 wsur," said the young woman, when she saw who her caller was. "Doesn‘t she care to see me?" asked Portlock, in a loud voice, as the guard gave him the message. "Well, i; justâ€" well, let it go." It appeared that be wished to write the woman a note; then he turned about and walked a few feet away. Portlock was standing beside Mrs. May O‘Brien, 2481 Thirtyâ€"third street, when he took a revolver from his pocket and examined it. LOYVER SH0O0OTS HIMSELT Ix CoNâ€" e s SEQUENCE. Simpltaneously the announcement is made that the Salt Lake & Los Angeles Railroad, another church property, has been sold to a lmcal syndicate for $500,â€" "ITM TCO BUSY," 10 00L 2000 °C 70 g°tlg OUC Of Dusiness, acâ€" ecording to a local morning paper. Its principal holding in Salt Lake, the Utah Light and Railway Company, is to be taken over by a $25,000,000 corporation, eomposed of English and American capiâ€" talists. The new company will also acâ€" quire the Ogien Street Railway and build an electric line from Juab County, Eu}., to Oned» cownty, Idaho, lt will be known as the Interâ€"mountain Consolâ€" ilated Railroad Co., and will be incorporâ€" ated both in Utah and Idaho. The Board of Directors will include Alex. McKenzie, Ottawa, Canada. Salt Lake, Utah, May 21.â€"The Morâ€" mon Church is going out of business, acâ€" Selling Out its MORMON CHURCH OUT OF BUSINESS. Then, before the guard, who was SHC SAID. Railroad and Other Stockâ€"Will Make Big Changes. Miss May became hysterical aftef the wounded man had beeg taken from the bank. She refussd to talk of the affair. "I can‘t talk of it mow. It‘s too terâ€" ribe," was all she said. Portlock came to Chicago from KnoxvJ)*%, Tenn., about eight months 2a30, His parents are wealthy and he came here, he told his friends, as much to see the city as to go into business. Dr. C. P. Springfield was called into the bank, and he dressed the man‘s wounds temporarily before he was taken to the Chicago Emergency Hospital. Evon then Portlock talked of the woman who had rejected him. Intends to Exhibit Herself as a Living Statue at Budapest. Vienna, May 21.â€"Princess Chimay, formerly Clara Ward, who has been estranged from â€" Janezi _ Rigo, the gypsy musician with whom she elopâ€" ed, recently took her latest husband, who is an Italian, to visit Rigo‘s moâ€" ther in the Village of Rakzod, Hungary. She brought with her from Paris a tomb stone for the grave of Rigo‘s father. statue. SUIT AGAINST C. P. R. FOR $10,000 DAMAGES. A Toronto special despatch: _ Frank Coffee has entered suit against Theresa Coffee and Catherine Kehoe, executrix of the will of the late Dennis Coffee, of Guelph, to have the will set aside on the grourd of fraud and undue influence. Sarah Creagh, of Moville, Alabama, has issued a writ against the C. P. R. for $10,000 damages for personal injurâ€" ies, claimed to have been sustained. "I was engaged to her," he said feebly. "But all I wanted now was to say a few wordsâ€"to talk to her for the last time. She broke our engagement,"*} said she had *Felegraphed a large sum to help Rigo, but it had been refused. After scattering money in the village, she went to Budapest, where, it is said, she intends to exhibit herself as a living She conficded to her former motherâ€" inâ€"law that she was not happy, and said that she hopedpto get Rigo back. She Mrg, Q‘PBrien first started to thg fal len mun‘s assistancé, ten attempted to run away, but fafnted before she had vone many feet. standing a short distance eway, could intorfere, Portlock shot himself. If this policy is completely carried out the sale of the traction interests will be followed by the sale of stocks in banks, sugar factories, the great Z. Z. M. I. departmental store and many smaller enterprises. It will work a commercial revolution, which will profoundly affect the social life of the State. canich tirely. 600. This road is thirteen miles in ;exln‘gth, and runs from the city to the ake, Presiden Joseph F. Smith, of the Morâ€" mon Church, is quoted as saying that the divoree of religion from business is made on account of the fact that the Mormons whom the church sought to protect years ago no longer need the protection of the church in business affairs. The church entered business to assist converts and strangers belonging to the church, but as they are now on a firm footing, the Q;:_'_y_-h withdraws from the business enâ€" PRiNCESS CHIMAY AGAIN. COFFEE WILL. 1t on Dr. Maxime, who was once President of the shortâ€"lived republic made up of the Baltic provinces, was awaited here by Ivan Narodny, a former secretary of state of the eame republic, who is now residing temporarily at the Saratoga Hoâ€" tel. When he failed to appear, Mr. Narâ€" odny got into communication with the revolutionary bund in New York, and learned last night that a man answering Maxime‘s description had been seen at a New York dock booked with three other men giving Russian names, for European passage. Despatches received by Mr. Narodny also indicate that efforts are being made to have the State Department at Washâ€" ington take the matter up, with a view to demanding that Maxime be returned to this country. Driven from his own country as a fugiitve because of his anâ€" tagonism to the Russian Government, while he was editor of the Russ at St. Petersburg, he had decided, so it is deâ€" clared, to spend the remainder of his davs in America. An Exiled Russian Editor Believed to be on His Way Back. Chicago, May 21.â€"Dr. Gregory Maxâ€" ime, political fugitive from Russia, who was due to arrive at Chicago last Sunâ€" day morning to address local advocates of a republican form of government in the Empire, is believed by his followers to be on his way back to St. Petersburg, a prisoner in the hands of Russian secret service men. The Political Situation, St. Petersburg, May 21.1â€"Public opinâ€" ion is greatly excited as to how the Emâ€" peror and Government will meet the deâ€" WAS HE KIDNAPPED? New Premier of Russia. M. GOREMYKIN, fiant attitude of the B&W@r House of Parliament. Many constitutional Demoâ€" crats are not yet convinced that the Govâ€" ernment will seek a compromise. They see indications that the bureaucracy is preparing for a desperate fight. As a matter of fact the constitutional Democrats are unable to any longer hold the extreme Radicals in Parliament, who are breaking away and forming about the social Democratic workmen group, estab‘ishing a distinct party of extreme left, which wants no parliamentarism, but a revolution. ‘The scheme most favored by the bureaucracy is to allow Parliament to formulate its demand and ventilate its grievances for two months, and then disâ€" solve Parliament. The debate on the reply to the speech from the throne was resumed when Parâ€" liament met this morning. Paragraphs demanding the removal of martial and other exceptional laws and the abolition of the Council of the Empire were passed IF HOUSE OF LORDS REJECTS EDUâ€" CATION BILL. London, May 21.â€"L@rd Portsmouth, a member of the GovePnment, speaking last night at Andover intimated that if the House of Lords rejected the Educaâ€" tion Bill the Government would appeal to the country. His lordship said the result of such an appeal would certainly be to strengthen the cause of disestab lishment. without amendment. APPEAL TO COUNTRY, ONTARIO ARCHIVES ' TORONTO In toasting Emperor William, Mr. Bryce deprecated the mistrust of him shown by the newspapers both in Engâ€" land and Germany, and said he was conâ€" vinced that at heart the gentiments of the two countriese were friendly and Mr. James Bryce Deprecates Mistrust of Emperor. k London, May 21.1â€"At a luncheon yesâ€" terday in honor of the German Burgoâ€" masters and Town Councillors of the principal cities of Germany, who are visiting England to study the muniâ€" cipal institutions of this country. Mr. James Bryce, Chief Secretary for Ireâ€" land, was the principal speaker. ~ _ ing with grief, reascended the pulpit and offered a prayer, the entire congregation kneeling. The girl‘s death was due to heart disease. The Rev. Dr. Cross arose and began "to describe the earthquake and the fire. He dwelt upon the unexpectedness with which death had come in San Francisco. Thomas Alexander, the fiancee of the organist, saw the color gradually leave her cheeks as the minister proceeded. When the sermon ended Miss Gerson slowly turned to the organ for a farewell hymn. Fainter and fainter grew the music from the loft, and the congregatâ€" tion, turning mystified, saw Miss Gerâ€" son fall forward. _ Mr. Alexander rushâ€" ed to her aid, crying "Get help, quick," but when he saw that she was dead he eollapsed. Philadelphia, May 21.â€"During a â€"memâ€" orial service for the victims of the San Francisco earthquake, held in the influâ€" ential Fifteenth Baptist Church last evenâ€" ing, Miss Bertha Gerson, the organist, fell forward, dead, with her face resting on the organ keys. ts Fainter and Fainter Grew the Notes of the Music From the Loft, ard Then the Organist Fell Forward Deadâ€" Congregation Krelt in Prayer,. AFTER PREACHER HAD â€" TOLD STORY OF DISASTER. A St. Thomas, Ont., despatch says: â€"A sad accident oecurred at 8.30 o‘clock last night, half a mile east of Kingsmill, Daniel Ecker losing his life. He was emâ€" ployel by W. C. McCready at Lyons, and started for Kingsmill oa his wheel, riding on the devil strip between the Michigan Central Railway tracks. Ae noticed a train approaching him from the east, and stepped off on to the other track, and a train going west struck him, instantly killing him. His body was mangled beyond recognition, Deceased was 35 years of age, and he was married gix months ago. He was a hard working man, and awas formerly employed by Peter Richardson, coal dealer, Aylmer. Mrs. Davis, who is advanced in years, has been failing recently, and about two weeks ago experienced an attack of the grip, which for a time greatly alarmed Stepped From One Track Only to be Killed on Ancother. New York, May 21.â€"Mrs, Jefferson Davis, wife of the President of the Souâ€" thern Confederacy, who is ill at the Hotel Gerard, has suffered a relapse and toâ€"day hbr condition was said to be serious. During the morning hours reâ€" sort was had to the use of oxygen. MET HIS DEATH WHILE WHEELING. Has Had a Relapse and Fears are Entertained for * Her Life. MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS SERIOUSLY ILL. The Rev. Mr. Cross, his voice quiver BRITISH TRIEUTE TO KAISER. DIFD AT THE QORGAN. Royal Household Flour out of the wrong kind of wheat any more than you can make the right kind of bread or pastry out of the wrong kind of flour. _ _ _ f #g : Ogilvie‘s Royal Household Flour is made from hard spring wheatâ€"a wheat that is rich in nutriment, that grinds fine and white, and produces bread and Fastry that are wholesome and nourishing as well as ight and crispâ€"it‘s a flour that begins to be good in the wheat fields, not in the mills. & 104 ard, commenting on compulsory voting in Dominion elections, says: "This is a new depszture indeed, showing that the Canadians have a much keener sense of the responsibilitics andâ€"dutiecs of citiâ€" zenship than th«ir elder brothers. Even if Canada adopts the system we chall teke some tige to Jop on thee," Could Not Ride Like Others, so Tried to Wreck Train. Montreal, May 21.â€"When a Russiar named Antome Commena, who was charged in the Recorder‘s Court toâ€" day with placing obstructions on the C,. P. R. and G. T. R, tracks near Boaâ€" consfield, was asked what he had to say, he declared that he was guilty, and said his reason for doing as he had done was that he did not think other Ecoglle should be allowed to ride when e hads «0 walk. . The court reserved London Evening Standard Commerts om Canadian Compulsory Voting. sentcnce. You may be an excellent cook, but you cannot proâ€" duce light, wholesome baking unless the flour you use be the kind that permits such results. So in the milling; machinâ€" ery alone cannot produce Your grocer prefers to sell you Oglvic's Royal Household Flour because he knows the value of a pleased customer. Ogilvic Flour Mills Co., Ltd. ‘ai“()gil;(')ie'l Book{for o:l lCook." con» ns 130 pages of excellent recipes, some never lpublished before. _ Your grocer can tell you how to get it FREK, IMPROVED machinery 1 will not, of itself, proâ€" duce good flour. n Detroit, Mich., May 21.â€"Charles Bedâ€" ford, a Toronto bricklayer, fell thirty feet head first on a pile of bricks this morning as the result of the separation of the two sections of a ladder on which he was working at Second and Bagley streets. Bedford, who was about 30 years old, was taken to the Emergâ€" eney Hospital, where it was found that his injuries, consisting of a fractured skull and face and head lacerated, were fatal. Hemorrhages set in and Bedford died on the operating table. He had a family in Toronto. _ _ He Fell Thirty Feet From Ladder at Detroit. Dr. G. R. Parkin said it was difficult for Canada to assume her share of the burdens while developing postal _ and other facilities, taking charge of the thousands of immigrants now entering the country and assuming charge of the fortifications, which was a stql) in the right direction, _ It was difficult to see how the colonies could vote large sums of money for Imperial purpos® without a voice in Imperial affairs. When that was attained they would give as freely as any. London ,May 21.â€"At the eleventh anâ€" nual meeting of the Navy League this afternoon H. F. Wyatt said a tour of the empire had convinced him that the appreciation of sea power had widened and deepened in Canada. Among Britâ€" ishâ€"Canadians he found the feeling very strong, though among the Frenchâ€"Canaâ€" dians the feeling was naturally less powâ€" erful, due probably to the _ absence of knowledge of the situation. _ The reaâ€" son Canada was slow to contribute to the navy was probably found in the exâ€" istence side by side of British and French Canadians. London, May 21.â€"The Evening Standâ€" CANADA‘S OBiIGATIONS ANNUAL _ MEETING OF NAVY LEAGUE IN LONDON. her friends. Later, however, she showed marked improvement and recently was declared to be out of danger. Last night there was a decided change for the worse, and Dr. Wyley, who wae hastily summoned, remained, for several houre with the patient. At his direction the patient‘s respiration was aided by artiâ€" ficial motions. Difficuit for Canada to Contribute to Navy While Developing National Facilities, Caring for Immigrants and Assuming Fortifications. Mrs. Davis celebrated her 80th birthâ€" day on Monday two weeks ago, On that day she went for a drive and contractâ€" ed a cold. AN EXAMPLE TO BRITAIN. A TOROXTO MAN EILLECD. ST &A GROUCH. | Kew York, May 2 ; ing a trip to Coney | | this afternoon, * | aeronaut, and Tracy | panion, were _ throw ‘ palisades on the K ; and dumped into t ; They were rescued : lhad witnessed ‘the ‘ ascent _ was madeâ€" ‘ and Locust a . Stevens followed tha loon in an 1t usefuln« NECESSARY IN TIME OF PEACE 4s IN WAR. Washington, May _ â€"*"The Ean Franâ€" gisco disaster. the Jananeso famino +ha eruption of phoon in t] Plea of Ertenustion for Toronto Man Arrostod in Detroit. 21 to to witness the death ctwgsl:‘ Bouâ€" chard was the first to go wn. _ A minute later a gust of wind put the sea in motion, and Thompson toppled from the canoe and sank . The bodjes have not been recovered. Kome _ weeks and Bouchard became l‘g:dmu"d over a girl, and "bad blood" between the two ever since h;.:tuted lbn Nipegon last Monday mpson pubâ€" ]ic{;‘ threatened Bouchard. _ Notwith« standing that on the day following they left for the north with a party of surveyors. _ They had poaJ:d five miles, when Thompson and Bouchard left their companions and returned to Nipegon, where they called on the woâ€" man both admired. _ Early Tuesday morning they put off in a canoe ostenâ€" sibly to rejoin the mmgou. and it was soon afterwards that they were seen astride their upturned canoe fighting with all the strength they possessed A fisherman and his daughter, standâ€" ing on the shore, were the only ones capsizing the craft. Undaunted, they climbed to the top of the upturned canoe and engaged in a handâ€"toâ€"hand struggle, lasting nearly thirty minutes, when their strength spent, they slipped into the water and sank. red Desvperate Struggle on Upturned Canceâ€" Botk Are Drowned. I Vessels Removed From Fighting Efâ€" fective and 19 Reclassed. London, May, 21.â€"The rapidity with hich Grcoat Britain is removing from e navy all but hor seally efficient arships was ecvidenced by a stateâ€" in‘ presented to Parliament, showâ€" & that no Icss than 40 battleships and risers have been practically removed om the list since 1902. ACCID CENERAL RISTNG FEAPEDN continued. _ "Six months ap nly 300 members in the Stat he membership is 864. Ma howing much enthusiasm, an« etts and Rhode Island are de vod State organizations." THE RFED CROSS. IMPROVING BRITISH NAvYy rC PE FALS FROM GRACE, by Fiskermen. 4) York, May 21.â€"While attemptâ€" ip to Coney‘lshnd_fl-n bailloon RIVALS FIGHT TO DEATH mat tos Cpenly Sympathize With t Rebellions Zulus, rnoon, _ Leo St;v;n;:"";; and T:;cy‘ Tindell, his comâ€" ere _ thrown . against on the New . Jersey fi& von, may _ _~~ 4ne han 1 ter, the Japanese famine. f Vesuvins and the ressn he Philippines have giver an opportunty to show and have demonstrated t« t a relief organization is yonrm Im {1 m ‘as just trip thir ldressed f the R« ient the tx |Ill] he f1 S TO AERONSAUTS UuC6n 0 red( leaded with the judge Ross, saying his nosiâ€" greatly to unavoidable fore goi to Toronto «int#s inngvinnipo;z. e land sveculation in the aures are eight battleâ€" red cruisers, and three is removed from . the e, while three battleâ€" protected eruisers were x them on the dist of mallest fighting value. period the construction shpie, 18 armored eruiâ€" protected cruisers was the woman to w ed him becatise as a wesult Ro ext atainst the rebe « uct speedily su wle is almost in _one of the most who show an in side with Bamba: Od ime wiln Lambcata, aleo restléss, and are tings nichtly. the Hudson River, by fishermen who â€"Alexander R n, who was a eeks ago, . ch mplover, Mr, s merchant, orth of dry Judgze â€"Phela T ver and Rossued ty and was » onday fop #er r Mi rebellious M eg) VA war t®