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Show I By W. U. ToloEraph. (IUEDEC ELECTION. MURDER. Quebeo, 4. Yesterday a thousand soldiers wore placed at the polling places. The roughs demolished three booths and were thereupon oharged on by the soldiers who dispersed them. The city was under martial law all day. A. frightful murder was perpetrated at St. Jopperin on Sunday. One Benoit, recently married, strangled bis young wifo to death, being angry because be-cause sho bowed to a former lover whom she mot when returning from mass on Sunday. Bonoit went to church in tho afternoon and when asked where his wife was replied she is dead. He told the story of her death and was arrested by the officers who with difficulty saved him from being be-ing lynched. |