LOVER'S DESPAIR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 November 1907, Page 4

LOVER'S DESPAIR.

. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT A ! BETROTHAL. Paris, September 13. M. and Mine. Barthet, of l'Avenuo du J Maine, in Paris, had invited a few friends and relatives to supper Inst night, in honor of their daughter's eni gagcmcnt to M. Momber. \ 'IIIO uai.'fy was in full swing when suddenly the youn<i lady's cousin, Henri j Maze, startled everyone by exclaiming: '•[ fove my cousin, but she is going to , mmtv nnotlicr, so farewell!'' j He then raised his glass of wine, and r drank off the contents, which he had ~ mixed witli poison. He was at oneo j) (i-.ken to the hospital, and there arc f) line's that lie may recover, ■t - - - 150,000 MORMON CONVERTS. ■t THIRTY-THREE MISSIONARIES AT ■r WORK IN LONDON. 0 Without attracting much general atlentiou tlie Church of tlio Mormons is e making considerable- headway in Rri■J tain. The Latter-Day Paints, as they is prefer to be called, claim a membership ■ f . in l.omlou alone of between (100 and •h 'OO. Elder Shorten, a youth from Suit Lake ir City, who has Ix'cn trying to convert lo Stoke Nawington to Movmonism for the r- past eighteen months, described 011 [ls Tuesday the method adopted by the a church in its propaganda, which extends ■is to evcrv civilised country. "There are thirtv-tlireo of us in London alone," lie -aid. "During the seventy-six years Hint we have been established in this Id- country It is estimated that 130.01)0 of 11- our converts have gone to Utah."