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PUBLISHED THREE TL! IN F?LLBIAST Slate Campaip Opened !a Snmter on ' Wednesdby. BOYD AND BROCK QUIT Two New Entries Only on the Last Bay.?Candidates Spoke at BLsh opville on Thursday.?Charges I Made by Opponent of Attorney General.?Lyon Replies. The State campaign opened up in S?mter last Wednesday. The last day for filing pledges was Tuesday and up to noon ?f that day the only {surprises were the entry of Barney B. Evafcs for Attorney General ? against Lyon and P. K. McCully, Jr., of Andersen. Another feature . was the- withdrawal of both Gen. Boyd and his Assistant Col. Brock from the race for Adjutant General. At the meeting at Bisliopville on Thursday the feature was the severe attack upen the public-record of At torney-General Lyon by Barnard* B. Evans,'an aspirant for that office, . and the clear-cut, forciful reply of that officer. Other features were the rousing reception accorded to Thos. G. McLoed, candidate for Governor, ? by his home people; a mild attack upon C. C .Featherstone by the oth er candidates, who are advocating State wide prohibition and a general "warming-up" all along the line. Aside from these points, the meet ing was in effect ' practically the same at that at Sumter the day be fore. The following is a correct list of tt ose aspiring for State ' offices and for Congressional jobs: For Governor?Cole L. Blease, John T. Duncan, C. C. Featherstone, F. H. Hyatt, Thos. G. McLeod and John G. Richards. Tor Lieutenant Governor?E. Walker Duvall and Chas. A. Smith. For Secretary of State?R. M. McCown. For Comptroller General?A. W. Jones. For State Treasurer?R. H. Jen nings. (For Adjutant General?Charles Newnham, W. W. Moore, J. M. Rich ardson. /For State Superintendent of Ed ucation?J. E. Swearingen. For Attorney General?B. B. Ev ans, J. Fr?ser Lyon. For Railroad Commissioner?Jas Cansler, G. McDuffie Hampton, G. H. Mahon, O. Q. Scarborough. The following candidates filed the pledges for the different Congres sional Districts of the State: XFirst District?George S. Legare, J. H. Lessene. Second District?L. P Boyleston, Jas. F. Byrnes, C. W. Garris, J. 0. Patterson. Third District?Wyatt Aiken, Jul ius E. Boggs, Coke D. Mann. Fourth District?Jos. T. Johnson. 'Fifth District?Thos. B. Butler, D. E. Finley, J. K. Henry. Sixth District?George W. Brown, J. E. Ellerbe, P. A. Hodges, B. B. Sellers. Seventh District?A. F. Lever, W. W. Ray. . DOUBLE HANGING. Third Convict Gets Respite From the. Governor. Nick Marenge and Frank Chickar en were hanged Thursday at Norris town, Pa., on the same gallows for the murder in August, 1909, of Geo A. Johnson, an aged cobbler, whom they attacked for money he was sup posed to have hidden in his shop. John Billin, who also was to have been hanged also for participation in the crime, was granted a respite by Gov. Stuart until October, in order that his case might be passed upon by the State Supreme Court. Mes sengers carrying the reprieve arrived at tho county jail at one o'clock. Fell Sixty Feet to Death. Charles Beasley, of Greensboro, N. C, a lineman for the Southern Pow er Company, was killed Tuesday morning while working on the com pany's lines about five miles from Greenville. In some way Beasley got mixed up in the wires and fell 60 feet. The man's body was badly burned, his right arm being torn from the socket and his left shoe torn from his foot by the heavy vol tage. ?eaijacd aq; neaMiaq pnaj pjo uu jo Jinsaa aq} uaaq a.veq 0} pa.\a][aq sj am.no.u oqj, -}oqs c*aq ptfii jojjjbj oeraun uara o.*} pus sioqa}^ uaqoy put: pon'Ji naaq psq saujuo t;zuc[v ieq;i pnnoj rem }t Sutjooqs aqi jaijy ?pepuno.tt aojqi pue peap si nt?ra auo 'uooojaiic XupuoK '"nuaj. 'Ajnnoo nooBK ut 'qoanqo puB[q2tH 5U 2u] -jooqs icuotiBsuas ^ jo iinsaa c s?Y ?qojnq.-) -jn 8af|ooi|g inuoiinsuas Workmen Found Jars of Gold. fThe discovery of ten earthen jars by workmen while excavating on the site of the old Carmne Convent, near Puebla, Mex., has created quite a stir in the republic. It is claimed the jars contained $500,000 which the law requires should be paid in to the treasury, but the workmen have disappeared with their gold. ?ES A WEEK. PROMINENT VICTIMS REPORTS OF DEATH PACK STIR BIRMINGHAM. L??A -?- 9 Tv ought Vp Over Trag-j txlv ?fc- ''ing and G. R. Johnson. 0 Birmingham v...s.deeply stirred Thursday over the news of the sui cide Wednesday night of Mrs. W. P. Harding and the death of G. R. Johnson, who shot and fatally wound ed himself the same day, half .an hour after the suicide of Mrs. Hard ing. Friends of the Johnson and Hard ing families, who include practical ly all of the most influential people! in the city are indignant over the publication of stories hinting at a suicide pack between the two. The following at the accounts of the death of each, as first reported: Woman a Suicide. Mrs. W. P. G. Harding, wife of] the president of the First National Bank of Birmingham, Ala., shot and killed herself at her home Wednes day afternoon. Nothing definite is known about the cause of Mrs. Hard ing's act as her home life has seem ed to be v?ry happy. She was alone in her room when she fired a pistol ball through here heart. A negro servant was on the prem ises and ran screaming to inform the neighbors. Mr. Harding sailed from New York at threeo'clock Wednes day afternoon for Savannah, it is I said, nearly three hours before his | wife's act Banker Takes His Life. Guy R. Jchnsou, former president of the Alabama Consolidated Coal &. Iron Company, shot and fatally in jured himself at Birmingham at o'clock Wednesday evening at his I home. The shot was fired with sui-1 cidal intent and it is impossible fo: him to recover. After having shot himself, Mr. Johnson, in a statement, attributed ?his act to business reverses. He was alone when the deed was committed, and was found by his wife, who | returned home from downtown shortly after six o'clock. The bullet passed below the .heart j and lodged in the spine and there is very slight hope for his recovery. His brother states that he had be^n very depressed for teveral days, and the recent developments in the Ala bama Consolidated had preyod upon his mind to such an extent as to make him irresponsible. FEUDIST SHOOTS WOMEN. Landlord Implicated in Murder Slays | a Tenant. Asbury Spicer is under arrest in Jaskson, Ky.,. on charge of murder ing Asbury Fusgate, a tenant on his j farm, and wounding Jennie Johnson, a member of the household and Mrs. Fugate, who attempted to shield her| son. The killing occurred in the country and the first the authorities knew of the crime was when Mr. Spicer telephoned what he had done and started he was on the way to Jackson to surrender. The slayer is one of those accused of the murder of Dr. Cox in Breathitt county and was a prominent party in the Hargis feud. The reason for his deed is not known. CANTON PEOPLE FAST. One Ohio Woman Has Not Eaten for Twenty-seven Days. The Starvation cult of Canton. 0., is attracting much attention and gathering in scores of converts. One of the most enthusiastic members, Mrs. George Fulkerson, was compell ed the break her fast last week byj eating a piece of toast. She had not j tasted food for 27 days. In that time she has done her own washing, ironing and housework besides cook-| ing for her husband. P. D. Hardy, president of the Canton Pressed Brick company, also a member of the :ult, is continuing his fast. He de- j clares he has no desire for food. Child Shoots Down Fl nine. Five-year-old Thomas Gardiner, of I Thatcher, Ariz., fell into a lumber flume in the Graham mountains and was carried seven miles at the speed of an express train. The flume is considered dangerous, but the child came out at the bottom with only a few scratches and minor bruises. Human Pincushion May Die. Cornelius Snoep, who for many years traveled with side shows as a human pincushion, may die in Grand Rapids, Mich., as the result of blood poison. His stunt was to take pins from people in the crowds ut the shows and run them in the flesh to the head. He evidenced no pain and no blood flowed after the pin was withdrawn. Impure Ice Cream Made 95 111. Ptomaine poisoning caused by the eating of impure ice cream made 95 people ill in Houston, Tex. Several of the victims had narrow escapes from death. Old Man Has Owned Two Coats. 'M. V. Osborn, aged 73 years, of near Little Rock, Ark., has owned only two coats in his entire life. One he wore before his marriage, the other was his wedding coat 46 years ago. He declares coats are useless.' ORANGEBC RAPS BALLINGER SENATE WILL FIGHT? SCHEME TO WREAK VENGEANCE. Progressives and Democrats Hold Up Bill Putting Army in Charge of Reclamation Service. A combination of insurgen . Re publicans and Democrats took anoth er slap at Balliugerisni in the Sen ate this week. The attack came when the combination announced its opposition to t.!ie bill increasing the engineer corps of the army. This bill, which adds about 60 to the number of engineer officers, also au thorizes the President to place the army engineers in full charge of all public works. But the far-seeing insurgents im mediately detected an effort to pro vide an easy way for Ballinger to get rid of Director Newell and Chief Engineer Davis, of the Reclamation service, as it had been quietly hinted that one of the first uses that would be made of the law would be to place army engineers in charge of the Reclamation service, and there by permit Ballinger to wreack per sonal vengeance upon Newell and Davis for daring to publicly proclaim that his conduct was antagonistic to the public interest. Senator Bailey of Texas is the leader in the fight against the bill, although he is actuated by personal motives. He has even admitted that he was animated by no higher pur pose than a desire to get even with the army engineers for refusing to recomment an harbor improvement in Texas which he had advocated. The Texas Senator also announced that he would not allow the pas sage of the bill, even if it was nec essary to resort to a filibuster. But the Senate developed other opposi tion equally as determined, and so strong has the feeling again?t the bill become that it is expected the effort to pass it will be abandoned. MURDER DUTCH TRADERS. ? Gunboat Pursue: Moro Slayers But Make No Capture. Mindanao Moros have murdered Dutch traders on an island off North Borneo under conditions which may develop into an outbreak so serious that a demonstration by troops from the miliatary station at Camp Jolo may be required, according to a re port brough by the steamer Tarn ha Mam. When the Tamb'a Maru sailed, re ports had reached Hong Kong that a party of eight Moros from the Tawi Tawi group of Islands, being driven by storms to an island of the Cel ebes group, had murdered three trad ers and made away with 40.000 pesos worth of loot. A Dutch gunboat gave pursuit and chased the murder ers to Manusmanca, an island of the Phillippines, where they are still hid ing. TIE UP RAILROADS. Slippery Bugs Grease the Rails Un til Trains Cannot Move. The valley in the neighborhood of Scranton, Pa., containing the little villiage of PeckvilK-, was paid a vis it last week by millions, of locusts. From early morning until sundown the noise made by the whirring of the locus can be heard above every thing else, while the valley is rapid ly being devastated of vegetation by the pests. The insects .have covered, one of the little coal branches of the Ontario and Western railroad, swarming around the rails, which gather, and retain heat during the day. until it is impossible to operate the road. Tons and tons of coal are standing on the sidings because the locomotives can make no headway against the slippery bugs. TAKE LAMBS AND PIGS. Missouri Farmers Attribute Losses to tile Bird of Freedom. 'Farmers in Missouri and other Western States are blaming eagles for thefts of spring lambs and pigs from their Hocks. Recently C. N. Drexler, of near Washburn, Mo., captured one of the big birds. It measured more than six feet from tip to tip and stands nearly three feH high. The bird was kept alive as a decoy to capture its mate, but the mate never appeared. Mr. Drex ler had been missing lambs and pigs and blamed men for the theft, but no trace for the missing animals could be found. On the day he cap tured the bird his dog was engaged with it in fierce combat and was getting the worst of the fray. No Clue to Murders. Wit a bullet hole through the head, the body of a well-dressed man was found late Thursday night at Chic kasha, Okla., partially submerged in a ditch. A rope tied around one an kle, the police say, shows that the body was dragged some distance to where it was discovered. .There is no clue to the murderers of the man. Farmer Slain in Duel. Quincy Everett, a young farmer, was shot and instantly killed, and A. B. Macklin. his father-in-law, was stabbed and fatally wounded, the re sult of a duel between the men at Mineola, Texas, Thursday. JKG, S. C, SATURDAY, J KILLED WIFE Arrested as He Came Off German Liner at New York. HE CONFESSES CRIME Used Mallei to Slay Woman After They Had a Violmt Quarrel, Then Stuck the Body ?n a Trunk, Car ried it Down to Lake, and Threw it in the Water. Porter Charlton, husband of Mary Scott Castle Charlton, whose body was found in a trunk in Lake Como, Italy, reached New York on a Ger man Liner Thursday. A man re sembling Charlton was arrested as he stepped from the steamer at Ik* pier in Hoboken. He gave the names of Charles W. Coleman, but a report from Hoboken said that at the po lice station he broke down and ad mitted that he was Charlton^ Charlton said in his confession he and his wife had been having sup per togeiher at the villa on Lake Como' and that they had engaged in a violent quarrel. Charlton said his wife, who was one of the best women in the world, but had an ungovernable temper, called him some vile names and that finally who he could not stand her abuse any longer, he attacked her with a wooden mallet. The young man said that .he struck her over the head three times, knocking her un sconscious and killing her, as far as he knew.. Charlton told the police that he then stuck the body of his wife in a trunk and carried it down to the lake, where he threw the trunk into the water. The body of Mrs. Charlton was found packed in a trunk which was taken from Lake Como near the vil lage of Moltrasio by fishermen June 10th. The woman with her husband had occupied a villa on the lake front, leased by them some time before. At the time the woman's body was founa Porter Charlton could not be found. The Italian police have insisted that Charlton was alive and have di rected their energies to locating the young man. American Consul Caug -her, on the other hand, held to the theory that a double murder had been committed, and it was through his representations that the Italian au thorities engaged divers to make the search of the lake bottom.. Meantime detectives followed up their own theory and their recent conclusion was that Charlton' was a passenger upon some steamer which had sailed, from Genoa or other Ital ian port for New York. The police were watching for the arrival of the steamer Deutschland, as it had been reported that Charlton sailed on that steamer. The officers had a description of Charlton, arid when they saw a 'man resembling ?him leave the ship they pounced up on him arid placed him under ar rest. He protested vigorously and seemed inclined forcibly to offer re sistance, but he soon subsided. Capt. Scott, brother of Mrs. Charlton, took one look at the prisoner and said the man was Charlton. Later Charl ton made a signed statement to the police. While he was being sweated un der the "third degree," Charlton be came infuriated, and drawing a re volver, tried to shoot Chief of Police Hayes. He was quickly disarmed, and a few minutes later confesseu the crime. Within half an hour after his ar rest Charlton had signed the follow ing statement: "My wife and I lived happily to gether. She was the best woman in the world to me, but she had an ungovernable temper. So had We frequentl) quarreled over the most trival matters and her lang uage to me was frequently 30 foul that 1 know she did not know the meaning of it. "The night I struck .her she had been quarreling with me. She was in the worst temper I had ever seen her in. I told her if she did not cease I would leave her and put a stop to it. She stopped for a little while and started again. "1 took a mallet which I had used to do household repairs and struck her three times. 1 thought she was d< ad. I put the body in a trunk 111 which 1 also threw the mallet. "About twelve that uight 1 brought the trunk to my house and dragged it down to a small pier and threw it overboard. 1 left the fol lowing night and went to Camo. and from there to Genoa, where I took the steamer Irene three days later. "The room where I killed her was an outdoor sleping apartment. ' Prisoner Makes Confession. While confined in his cell In San Quentin, Cal., on conviction of rob bery, John Avery, declared he was .haunt' d by the face of a man he had killed in Spokane, Wash. He related his experiences to a guard and the facts have been corroborated. , Dwellings Wrecked. More than a dozen small dwellings were wrecked Wednesday night in and around Decatur, Miss. Crops were badly damaged, telegraph ser vice impaired and many trees blown down. UNE 25. 1910. MAKES GREAT FLIGHT ZEPPELIN'S DEUTSCHLAND MAK ING REGULAR FLIGHTS. Immense Airship Covers Three Hun dred Mile Journey in Nine Hours. Carries Twenty Passengers. The first regular air ship service was inaugurated at D?sseldorf, Ger many, Wednesday, when Count Zep pelin's great craft, the Deutchiand, carrying twenty passengers, success fully made the first scheduled trip from Friedrichshafen to D?sseldorf, a distance of 300 miles, in nine hours. The weather was perfect and the motors worked faultlessly. The aver age timo maintained for the complete course was approximately thirty-three miles an hour, but between Fried richshafen and Stuttgart the 120 miles were covered at an average rate of speed of forty-one miles an hour. The best speed for a single hour was forty-three and a halt' miles. Count Zeppelin was at the helm when the Deutschland arose at Fried richshafen at three o'clock in the morning and sailed away on the trip that was to mark an epoch in avia tion. The passengers were directors of Hamburg-American Steamship Com pany and the German Stock Company, joint owners of the dirigible, and their guests. They occupied the ma hogany walled and carpeted cabin, situated between the gondolas and from the windows of which they view ed the scenery as the aerial car swept along. Count Zeppelin steered for the greater part of the distance. The route was via Stuttgart, Manheim and Cologne to D?sseldorf. It had .been carefully marked out in advance for the guidance of the pilot and was followed exactly. There was no air stiring, and the Deutschland made her initial trip through a flow of bright sunshine. The hour and minute of the prob able passing of the various points had been bulletined ahead, so that not only the people of the cities of the line, who filed the streets, but the inhabitants of all the intermediale villages turned out and cheered en thusiastically as the immense torpedo like structure, with its whistling screws drove over their heads at a hei?ht of between 200 and 300 feet. The Deutschland swung gently in to her landing at noon, and the mul titude surrounding the landing yards s'jouted a welcome. The city had been decorated in honor of the event. Regular trips will be made, and many tickets already have been 30id for the first few days at from $2;j to $50 each. The airship :s equipped with a rt-staurant, which will supply the passengers with a buffet service such as is afforded on parlor car rail road trains. ?The dimensions of the Deutchiand are: Length, 4S5 feel. Its gas capac ity is 24,852 cubit yards, and it car ries three motors, having a total of 330-horsepower. It uas designed to maintain a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. Its lifting capacity it 4 4, 000 pounds, of which 11,000 pounds cover the crew, passengers and ex press. It is expected to be able to accomplish a continued trip of 700 miles. PECULIAR ACCIDENT." Unfamiliar With Dummy Elevators Servant Is Badly Hurt. A white woman, who name could not be learned, was seriously injured WedMeslay afternoon at Hi.lt more house, the home of George Vander bilt, a few miles from Asheville, N. C. It seem that she had only been at the house for a week or so and was unfamiliar with the excentri ties of dummy elevators. Some one yelled "look out" ard she is said to have thrust her head into the ele vator shaft and was caught, her face being badly bruised. It ;j said that for the fact that the motor, which ran the dummy elevator was one of small strength, her head would have been crushed to a jelly. Diamonds Tossed in Pipe. Baroness Von Schroeder, daughter of the late pioneer Peter Donahue, of San Francisco, who left her a fortune of millions, is tearing out the plumb ing of her country home. Eagles Nest, in a search for jewels valued at $3 0, 000. The jewels were carelessly tossed into a wash basin by a maid and were swept into the pipes. The plumbing of the entire house has been d ismantled without success. Black!>errios Make Hens Drunk. iSpoiled blackberries thrown in her back yard by Mrs. James Burnet, of Holiday's Cove, W. Va.. made a feast for her hens and put them on a jag. While they were drunk she thought they were dead and thriftily plucked their feathers. Now the birds are wearing blankets. Three Firemen Injured. Throe firemen were injured dur ing a fire Wednesday which complete ly destroyed a five-story building at I St. Paul, Minn. The loss was over I $100,000. Crazed by Wife's Death. Perry Noblett shot and killed hira | self a few hours after the death of his wife near Hamburg, Iowa. He i was crazed by grief. CARS JUMPED TRACK FOUR FATALLY HURT OX SCENIC RAILWAY. Merry-Making Crowd at Coney Island Hurled from the Cars a Distance of Sixty Feet. At last four persons were fatally injured and a dozen others seriously hurt early Wednesday when two crowded cars on a scenic railway on the Bowery at Coney Island, N. V., running at a terrific speed, jumped the track aud dropped a sheer 6? feet to the ground. Two cars of the big switchback had been filled and hauled up the incline and the party laughing and shout ing, plungtd down the first steep, lip the next incline the cars shot to the level of the scenic road and began the dive down at a mile a minute pace.. Something went wrong with the mechanism and as the cars were dasa ed around the first turn the rear car jumped the track, dragging,the for ward car with it. Ten of the occu pants were hurled from the cars and went crashing down among the scen ery, falling to thie ground where they lay unconscious. Six went down with the first car aud were pinned fast beneath the wreckage. These last were the one most ser iously injured. Five of them were residents of Brooklyn. T.he sixth was from Los Angeles. As the cars took their frightful plunge, spectators screamed in terror and the panic was increased when some one switched off the electric lights. The man in charge of tnu driving cars escaped in jumping. He could not explain the accident, but declares it was unavoidable. CONFESSES TO KILLING. Webb Says He Killed Johnson And Put Body in Trunk. Jesse B. Webb Tuesday night at Portland, Ore., confessed to the kill ing of W. A. Johnson, whose body' was found in a trunk at Union sta tion Monday night. Webb, in a sign ed statement to the police, said ne killed Johnson in self-defense after a brawl betwec" the two men in Johnson's' room at the hotel. Mr3. D. W. Kersch, who was arrested with Webb, is exonerated from complicity in the crime by the confessed slayer who charges, however, that she con spired v';th him in the packing of the body in the trunk and sending it to the station. Mrs. Kersch is sup posed to be the wife of Johnson, but she admitted that she was the wife of Bert Kersch, a city employe of Seattle, and that she ran away with Webb a year ago. Webb says lie is a printer and is 45 years old. MAKES i-JAGHT AT NIGHT. Hamilton Startles 10,000 People by His Daring Flight. Charles K. Hamilton, made a sen sational flight at Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday night, taking .his bi-plane into the air after darkness had fal len. He flew for eighteen minutes through inky space while 10,000 peo ple at the fair grounds stood aghast at his daring. The attempt was unannounced and the spectators hardly knew what was happening until th? great-bird like figure had shown itself far above the myriads of electric lights and disappeared into blackness. . Sud denly it reappeared, and three times Hamilton thrilled the spectators by dipping in front of the grand stani until he almost touched the row of lights stretched across the track. He even dipped under the wires and finally came to earth on the track dn'rectly in front of ' the cheering thousands. MOTHER KILLED HERSELF. Worry Over Illness of One of Her Daughters the Motive. Soon after her 19 year old son had left her, Mrs. Ellen C. Eagie committed suicide in a sensational manner Wednesday on a sidewalk in Media, Pa. Accompanied by her son. Louis, Mrs. hJagle came from her home in Lansdowne, Pa., on a trol ley car. Alighting from the car, Mrs. Eagle told the boy to go into a drug store and drink a soda water as the day was hot. As he turned Iiis back Mrs. Eagle took a bottle containing poison from her pocket and drank the contenis. The son turned to say something to his mother and witnessed her act. She collapsed in his arms and died soon afterward in a hospital. Mrs. Eagle's worry over the illness of one of her daughtes is believed to have been her motive for suicide. Two Little Boys Burned to Death. Playing with matches resulted in the death of two little sons of J. O. Taylor, aged two and four years, respectively, at Iredell, Texas, Tues day. T.he little boys were starting a fire when their clothes became ig nited and they were burned to death. First Texas Bal<\ Among the telegrams put forward by the bears in the New Orleans cot ton market Wednesday was one from Houston, Texas, announcing that the first Texas bale of cotton this season would arrive there the next day. rWO CENTS PER COPY NAMES HARM Ohio Democrats Reoommate Him For Governor of Ohio. STATE TICKET ANNOUNCED He Is Endorsed for the Presidency by the State Convention at Day ton.?Will Resign Governorship to . ? ? ? '. ? ?? i Moke the Race.?Bryan's Sugges tion to Endorse Senator Defeated. The Democratic party of Ohio goes i?to the State campaign this fall with Judson Harmon as its candidate for governor and President. The Dem ocratic state convention, which com pleted its labors Wednesday at Day ton, endorsed him in the strongest terms for the Presidency of the United State after it had renominat ed him for governor by acclamation. The belief held by many delegate.* that the governor will resign short ly after the beginning of his new term in order to become a candidate for President before the next Demo cratic national convention was voic ed ,by former Governor James A. Campbell. The ex-governor was in troducing Altee Pomerene, of Canton, the nominee for lieutenant governor. "Here is the man," he said, "who will be lieutenant governor, for six months and the governor for a year and six months. Both of these fabu lous promotions, however, were ac complished against the earnest pro test of their beneficiaries." The following resolution was pre sented by the committee on resolu tions by the convention endorsing Governor Harmon for the Presidency in 1912: "We invite the attention of "the nation to Judson Harmon and the work he is doing for Ohio. Two years hense it will have been completed, then we can spare him for larger duties. He believes that guilt is per sonal?is acting on that belief at home, and would act upon it in large fields. A high sense of duty provid es his only motives for official ac tions and .his sense of justice alone completes judgment. Firmness and strength mark hira the man to sup plant vacillation and weakness. The nation needs a Veal man and- the Ohio Democracy presents and endor ses for the Presidency of 1912 Jud son Harmon." Governor Harmon made a futile re quest' of 'the resolutions committee that they omit the .Presidential. en dorsement resolutions, saying t.hat he is making his present fight on state issues and did not want national is sues injected into the coming cam paign. He was told that it cculd not be prevented. Atlee Pomerene, who was him self a candidate against Harmon for the nomination in the state conven tion two years, ago, almost angrily demanded that .he be not compel.ed to make the sacrifice, as he termed it, ot acepting the nomination for' second place. Although his name was not placed in nomination, he re ceived nearly enough votes on th-i first ballot to nominate. He form ally withdrew, but on the second ballot, before the roll call was com pli ted, the nomination was made unanimous. He asked time to con sider the matter and after an hour s. conference with his frienls announc ed .he would accept. . .. , I The proposition to endorse a can-j didate for United States senator that was suggested by William J. Bryan, was defeated, receiving but 2i54 out of the 1,099 votes in the convention. A move of great' importance in? Ohio was made by the conve.nti >n/ when it endorsed the proposal, for a constitutional convention, a .ques tion that will be voted upon by the people this fall. ? . The following is the ticket that was nominated to make the. cam paigu with Governor Harmon. . Lieutenant Go vernor?Atlee Pom erene, Canton. Attorney General?Timoth S. Ho gan, Wellstou. , ... Secretary of State?Charles ,11. Graves, Oak Harbor.. Treasurer of State ?D. S.' Cream er, St. Clairsville. At the conclusion of the nomina tions the convention adjourned sine die. Fourth Destroyer Launched.' The torpedo boat destroyer .War rington, built for the U. S. rioveru ment by the Cramps of Philadelphia, was launched last week. It was nam ed by Mrs. Richard Hattan, of New York city, grand-daughter of .Commo dore Warrington. The boat is <ho fourth of five that are-beln;*- builr ia Philadelphia. * ?' Aeroplane Dived Into IU\er.' In an attempt to mal e a glide across the Ohio river at Louisville, Ky., J. C. Mars was surprised for the motor of bis aeroplane stopped-' and the machine dived into the riv er. He was not - injured trod- the machine not damaged. . ? ? Ilainlww Appeared at Night. C. L. Royer and members of hia family saw a rainbow between 12 and one o'clock while ret'irning to their home near Prosser, Wash. Tha moon was shinning brightly. ..The sight was witnessed during -a light shower.