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VL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1908 THI The Nebraskan Wins by a Large Majority on First Ballot. THE NOMINATION MADE UNANIMOUS (I:EAT GATHERING OF DEMO (RATS COMES TO AN END AFTER ENTHUSIASTIC AND INSPIRING SES SION OF CON VENTION. Conventian Hall. Denver, July 10. =0 a. m.-William Jennings Bryan was-this morning nominated forpres irient of the United States by the Democratic convention. The nomina tion was made at 3.40 a. m. amid scenes of tumultuous enthusiasm. the vast assemblage breaking en mass into a frenzied demonstration of intensely dramatic tribute to the chosen leader. The first and only ballot gave Bry an the commanding and decisive to tal of 892 votes, or 221 more than enough to nominate; Gray 59%; was greeted with a pandemonium et sound and motion. floor and gal leries joining in deafening, long continuing tumult. The decision was followed after the lull with motions from the Gray ;.d Johnson leaders to make the no mination unanimous and by accla r-arion, which was carried with an ec'hoing chorus of approval in which every State joined its voice with but ("'C dissenting vote from the State of Georgia. Convention Hall, Denver. July 9. -The Democratic national conven tion proceeded tonight to the nomi ating of a candidate for president of the United States, the nominating pceches and seconding speeches be ini made amid scenes of tumultu ens enthusiasm. The names of George Gray of De !aware and Gov. Johnson of Minne !ta were also Placed in nomination v ith demonstrations of approval from their limited followings. The tide or sentiment was unmistakably and overwhelmingly in favor of the Ne braskan and foreshadowed his nomi antion before the session closed. The platform committee was not ready to report when the evening se'ssionl began, and after listening to n;olitical oratory the rules of pro cedure were suspended and the con v"ention proceeded with the speeches placing the candidates for president i', nomination with the understand in that the actual -vote would be eferred until the platform had been a dopted. The speeches placing Wmn. 3. Bry an in nomination was made by Igna tins 3. Dunn of Nebraska, a youth ful orator of fire and eloquence, whose closing phrase stirred the vast a ssembl age into wild demonstration. "I nominate.'' he exclaimed. "as the standard boarer of our party. the man who ini the thrilling days of '96 and 1901) bore the battle scar red banner of Democracy with fame as untarnished as the Crusaders of odAmserica's great commoner. ebraska's gifted son. -William J. Bryan'"., immrneirlately a ipandemonium oi tumind and motion was unloosed, as le'Pgates and spectators rose en asse andI join''d in the reverberat ng chorus of tribute to the Ne roaska candidate. The standards of he States were wrenched from their acties and ~borne through the hall o the platforml. while banners bear oa the portrait of the commoner wre waved aloft and the multitude jnined in long continued tribute. At times the intensity of the demonstra tion threatened a panic. One woman was borne out fainting. Denver. July 10.-The De'mocratic national convention concluded its 1a hors this afternoon b~y the nomina tion of John Worth Kern of Indiane for vice presidenlt. completing the icket on which William Jennings ryan was m:ade the nominee for resdent during the early hours of his morning. The nomination of Krn was5 made by acclamation amid the resoundinlg cheers of delegate5 ,nd spectators. No ballot was neces' sras he' tide of sentimnent had set resistibhily toward the Indiana tatesman. State after State register ng their votes in his favor and all ter candidates avth-drawing be fre the' universal demand for hi nomionatntionl. after addjouirninf at davlight with the nomination o: -r PUrvanl. resumted its session at1 p.m. with a piowerf ul udercurren ale n motion toward the nomi ato of Kern for the second plac0 naOn h ao f States Indiana present On the cal of Kern: Colorado trigh Frmr Governor ha -af New York, Connectica rfe~d Archibtald 31cNeil and Georgi ark( Iowell. Th'o nam.l,' of .Titdge George Gra of - a~t~~ d if John MIitche1 o htis wer liot presCTttd. O' iu o'e oxi'licit requests of thes neil'fti not to hav.e their namla For a timte it looked as though bllot wenid he' require'd. But tb syline of States which Joined secondinlg Kern's nomiation aoO mae it appatrenlt that the chanlc of al1 other candidates had been e KERN NOMINEES. tinguished. Mr. Towne in person waa the first candidate to recognize the decesive nature of t h e Kern movement and in a ringing [picech witlidrew his name aid nidclged his ': cart to the ticket .) Br-yan and Kern. Withdrawals quick ly followed from the supporters of w..well of Georgia and McNeil of Connecticut. leaving the Indiana candidate alone in the field. The withdrawal of the Connecti cut candidate was accompanied by a motion that the nomination of Kern be made by acclamation. The motion was carried with a deafening shout and the great assemblage broke into clamoring demonstration on the accomplishment of its work and the completion of the Democratic na tional ticket. The nomination was made at 4.23 o'clock and the convention adjourn ed without delay. The Democratic national committee will assemble tomorrow to complete its new or ganization and to select the chair man who will be the commander in-chief of the Democratic forces in the campaign. Thousands of delega tes and spectators are scattering to night their homes and every train is bearing away thousands from the eventful scenes of the Denver con vention. * SLAIN BY HER DAUGHTER Aged Peasant Woman Killed Because of Her Life Pension. Emile Zola. in "La Terre." has told no grimmer story of squalid and savage peasant crime than came out in the assize court of Rodez, in Auvergne last Wednesday. A widow of sixty was shot dead in an orchard by some one hidden behind an apple tree not fifteen feet away. Suspi- 1 cion pointed to the woman's daugh- I ter. Germanie Jammes, and her hus- 1 band. They had been sued by the deceased over a money transaction, and had lost their case. being order ed to pay her a life pension of $11.87 a year. Afterward both daughter and son in-law had constantly threatened to put the widow out of the world, be cause of the money she would cost them for the rest of her days. At the trial it .was proven that the b daughter and her husband, the form- d er carying a gun, had gone out at s nightfall to shoot the widow. The woman fired while the man looked d on, and havng brought down her C mother wth the first shot, they went b home wthout troub'Ing to find out b whether she was dead or not. Germane Jammes made only inco e. ent remarks at the trial, and b wrangled with her brothers and sir-i ters in court. The jury found miti-t gating circumstances for the daugh ers crime, and she was sentenced nly to ten years' penal servitude, her husband getting five. WILL CAUST HIM- HIS LIFE. Gulped Typhoid Fever Through GlassI Tube. Gulped Death Germs Through Tube. Edgar T. Chatham, a medical stu dent at the Western University of Pennsylvania. is dying of typhoid fever, at the Allegheny General hos ~ital, which malady he contracted in a most remarkable manner. Young Chatham, since the closing of col lege. has been taking a special course in pathology at the hospital. About two weeks ago Chatham was engag ed at mixing typhoid fever germs with pure blood. He had a glass tube, which he inserted into a bot te cotaining the fever germs. and stuck the other end in his mouth, to draw some of the germs up in the tube. Chatham took too long a )reath. and a big lot of the fever germs. instead of stopping in the :ube slipped down into his throat. and now he is suffering from the uost malignant form of the fever with no hope for his recovery. MASQERAD)EI FOR YEARS Woman Caught When Taken to Hfos pitl by Police For Treatment. Charged with disor'derly conduct u masqueiadinlg for nine years as a man. Mrs. August Sieb, thirty-six *ears old, of No. 641 Sixth avenue. ew York has been sentenced to the workhouse for five days. Two policemen came across the .;colsious form of what appeared o he a man at Sixty-second street .nd Broadway on Saturday night. They called an ambulance and the .'man' apparently overcome by the teat was taken to the Roosevelt hospital. There it develop~ed that he patient was a woman who gave her name as Mrs. Sieb. Mrs. Sieb told the police that she ad been in this country about ten years. and that after seperating from her husband she started out to earn er living. Dressed as a man she eadily obtaine~d emnploymenlt, men ioning hotels in Broadway where ne worked as a "lunchmlan. SEVE F ERi'.ltH IN FLOOD1. ui ..lrad service~ Impin~~Vfg in NW braka, But* Not Norum l Y. A dispatch from Lincoln. Neb.. he boies of all the know'n victims f the~ flood an Mon'day have been erecoveed. The list numubers seven. a s foow~s: 'Hermanid .\mond. 1 4 months old: ohn Amend. 9 years of age: Mag w ae Amend. 12 years of age: Wili 1 Amend. 5 years of age: Georg( 0 Dam. 12 years of age: John Nelson 20years of age; Albert Nicholas i ears of age. LYNCHING FEARED IN AIKEN. Much Feeling Grows Out of Killing C' White Man by Negro. A dispatch from Aiken tc The News and Courier says on Iast Mon day night Sheriff Raborn received a message from Wagener asking that he come at once to that point, as trouble was brewing. The sheriff went to Wagener in an automobile as soon as possible, and found. that the cause of the trouble was the shooting of Policeman Henry Salley, of Salley. by George Moore, a negro. It has been learned that posses are after the negro, armed if he is cap tured a lynching may result. Up to this time he has not been captured. but it is said that he is being dili gently searched for by friends of Sal ley and the officers. From the stories told by parti ? in the city from that section it appears tha Salley and a man named Poole had been in Wagener Saurday, and when they were on their way home near Wagener they whipped a negro. and further on they struck up with a brother of Moore, whom they alleg ed owed one of them a nickle. It is stated that they struck him and after ward fired their pistols at him. 'He ran home and the men came on to ward Perry. Moore's house is on the road. When they reached it they got out of the buggy and threatened the negro. When they were advancing toward the house George Moore step ped out with a shotgun and fired at them, most of the load striking S:l ey in the thigh and hip, and one or wo shots striking Poole. Salley fell C utd the negro struck him twice with f ;e gun. Salley then got up and the egro .pct out of the way. Poo'o it ; said, went away, leaving Saliey -hen the shot was fired. t Salley's wounds were dressed, and I t is not thought that he is seriously r curt. It appears that here is a great C lifference in opinion upon the affair, nany being in sympathy with the n egro, alleging that the two men t rere under the influence of liquor. c t the same time others appear to h infurated about the matter and ave a great deal of feeling against s he man. The sheriff was unable to i cate the negro. He returned to c be city late that afternoon. Talk a f lynching is still being indulged in. d HAIR DRESSER SLAIN. h Body of Frenchman Found in Rear it of His Shop in New Orleans. e After lying for nearly twenty-four !I ours in the rear of a little hair a ressing shop at No. 219 Bourbon ;a treet, New Orleans. the body of Al- rj honse Durel was found late Thurs- b~ ay afternoon in a badly mutilated l ondition. Near by lay a bloody t) atchet. evidently the weapon used d y the murderer. n Investiation showed that Durel's e hop apparently had been robbed o d the police began a search for a gro woman cook, who works in e neighborhood, but who has dis- -x pared. Durel was for many years e e p~irintor of a fashionabble hn~ e [ressing establishment lin the lold ~rench quarter.t Various circumstances combined a reduce his extensive trade to as ery modest patronage and he finally ame to occupy the little shop where n is body was found. Neighbors who a nissed him started an investigation, d ~hich resulted in the discovery of e body..* CCUSED OF POISONING WIFE- a V. T. Jones, of Union CTounty, Charg ed With Murder. W. T. Jones, of Santuc. whose wife E ied suddenly last Sunday night, was Lrrestedl Thursday and lodged in i under a warant charging him ith administering or causing to be r Ldministered strychnine poison to C Iarion Jones. thereby causing her ~ leath. The warrant was sworn out Thursday morning by J. Roy Fant. C cousin of the deceased. and was .ssued by Magistrate Vinson. It will be recalled that the jury I f inquest returned a verdict that 'Irs. Jones came to her death from the effect of strychine administered by parties unknown to the jury. Jones is a large land owner and al progressive farmer. but it is alleged that he has mistreated his wife for I years. and this together with the ci r-j Cumstanes surrounding her death.1 caused suspicion to be directed against him and led to his arrest. * HEAT KILLS TR ENTY-ONE. New York ii Grasp of Tropical Spell. Scores Prost rated. A smart southerly breeze that fol lowed in the trail of a mild summer storm on Thursday filtrated through New York's sun-lbaked streets and brought some relief from the tropical spell that has killed nearly two-score of persons, prostrated hundreds and held the city's population helplessly in its burning folds for over a week. Twenty-one personis succumbed to the heat, a to'al of :31 deaths from that cause within the last thirty-six hours. Scores were prostrated. The thermometer reached 92 de grees at noon at the weather bureau. which is located in a down-town sky scraner'. but many thermometers on the strcets found the mercury hug ging the 100 mark. Pimary to select a Wife. It has b. en suggested that the peo ple of Florida select a wife for Gen. Albert Gilchrist. who has been nanm ed for governor of the state on the Democratic ticket. The general says be has no objection but desires that the lady be as anxious to be his wvife as he is to be governor of the state.* Embezzled From Fraternal Order. An indeterminate sentence. not to be more than five years. was givenW. L. Wilson at Port Huron. Mich.. for embezligS 75.000 from fraternal order. DEMOCRATS AT WORK WHAT THE CONVENTION DID THE FIRST THREE DAYS. Mention of Bryan's Name Sets the Convention Wild, and the Applau se Lasted Eighty-Seven Minutes. Denver, Convention Hall, July 7 The Democratic national conven ion b,-gan its sessions at noon amid sceTes o stirring animation. The vast amphitheatre of the auditorium was packed with 12,000 people, an ever-moving, intense and expectant throng, moved by patriotic airs and str red into tumultuous demonstra ton as a silken portrait of Bryan was borne within the hall. It was just 12.20 when Chairninn raggart, of the national committee. -led the coa t. ntion to order. ish p J. J -.-aue, o- Cheyenne, Wy. " ng, pronounced the opening invoca tion, an impressive plea for Divine race on the conventtion's delibera ;ions. The convention promptly effected he preliminary organization, elect ng Theodore A. Bell, of California, Ls temporary chairman. The keynote speech of the tempor ry presiding officer started the echo 's l inging and brought forth enthu lastic demonstration for Bryan and he other party idols. The appoint ent of the convention committees nd the presentation of resolutions f respect to the memory of the late rover Cleveland completed the for ial work of the day. Piublic interest was centered in he opening session of the conven ion and aside trom this the early art of the day t-rought few develop tents of importance as to candidates r platform. The overwhelming drift of senti lent continues toward Bryan and de enthusiasm of the opening session nly emphasized his commanding old of the convention. A strong cordon of police was retched about the Denver auditor im when the delegates to the Demo ratic national convention began to1 rrive at the scene of the next four ays' activities. The sidewalks were )ped off to assist the officers in andling the curious throngs that egan to gather about the hall early L the day. M- unled police kept the streets ear as a passageway for those hold- t ig tickets. In two of its streets fronting the I ditorium great banks of snow gave cool greeting to the visitors. From ie mountain heights the snow had 1 aen brought down to this mile-high I vel on a special train and hauled f trough the streets in carts of various scriptions. The day was by no jeans warm, however, and the only t Tect of the snow was the novelty - an icy street scene in July. t Denver. Convention Hall, July 8.- t he convention is now marking me so far as the nomination of indidates and the adoption of a latform is concerned and is passing irough the stages of organization ad the throes of frenzied demon :ration. Today has been marked by turbu mt demonstrations and the bitter1 rief of party leaders, the essential t evelopments of the day being these: Two sessi 's of the convention 'ere held, the. first, at noon, produc ig a Bryan demonstration breakingi 1 records in duration, and the se >nd, at 8 o'clock tonight, being the I lmination of the struggle over the redentials of the Pennsylvaniia dele ation and the supremacy of the ennsylvania leader, Col. Guffy, who as been denounced by Mr. Bryan. Outside of the convention the com iittees have proceeded with the se ous work of preparing the way for onvention action. The credentials omnittee unseated eight of Col. ~uffey's anti-Bryan Pennsylvania elegates. thus reversing the com lexon of the Pennsylvania delega on from anti-Bryan to Bryan and recipitatinig the intense controver e which is being fought out be ore the night session of the con -ntion. The platform is still in an incom lete condition and will not be pre ented until tomiorrow", but its essen lal features are agreed upon, and ittle remains but the details of >hraseology. The early meeting of the conven ion today was productive of little ractical progress as the special com nittees were not ready to report. ut it had the effect of explosion of onent up Bryan enthusiasm,which look the signal from Senator Gore s 'l->qu(nt iefereice to the Nebr-nka leader and b)urst into a whirlwind f enthusiastic applause, lasting one hour and 19 minutes, with seven minutes more of the expiring echoes, of clamor, establishing the conven ion record of an hour and 26 minu tes or full 39 minutes in excess of the Roosevelt demonstration at Chicago, which held the record un til today. It was a decisive exhibi tion of the overmiastering strength of the Bryan c-oumn. and o:.ae of the most dramatic convention pictures ever presented as the staudards of the States were torn from their moorings and Iorne through the t-all, until ii-ey stood together on the plMt frm. like an arrmy of banners, ]1 claimogi their united allegiar.ce mo Bryan: Amid this storm of' Bryan demonstration the six standards of Nwv York. New JIersey, 19elaware. Georgia. Minnesota and Connecticut stood rooted on their p~aces, the r --points of little groups un moveu the frenzed scenes about them, wLi' the deafening roar con mond. chhing and flowing intensely. women joining with the men in bear ing the Bryan standards while the whole assemblage of t2.000 people joined in the tumultuous demonstra tion. Denver, Convention Hall, July 9 With the e-rerthrow of Col.James F nnfey of Pennsylvania, and thC SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN UNION. Mrs. W. T. Jones, of Saluda, Dies From Effects of Strychine. Coroner Hames, of Union county, was called upon on last Monday to investigate the sudden death of Mrs. W. T. Jones, who died at her home in Santuc soon after 12 o'clock Sunday night, and the jury returned a verdict that she came to her death f;'n strychnine administered by parties unknown to the jury. D. J T. Jeter testified that he was called upon Sunday night about 12 o'clock to go to see Mrs. Jones, who was said to be in convulsions. Be fore reaching the Jones dwelling the doctor heard screams, and on reach ing the room where the dying woman lay she was in convulsions, her body rigid, head thrown back, pupils wide ly dilated, lower jaw fixed and her hands folded so tightly across her breast that t hey could not he moved. The doctor gave her an injection of morphine and states that her mind was clear, but her shriekswere brok en by convulsions. There was a bot tle of strychine on the blireau in the room, :nd Mr. Jones, the dead wo man's husband, stated to the doctor that she had gotten up two or three times after retiring, going to the bureau. Death occurred a few minu tes after the doctor arrived and he gave it as his opinion that she died from strychnine poison. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Jones were the only persons in the house unday night, their fourteen-year-old on being absent on a visit to rela tives. Evidence by several witness ss, which is too revolting for publi ation, tends to show that Jones's treatment of his wife for a number )f years has been brutal beyond be ief. z Mrs. Jones was a woman of less han middle age, and her character nd gentle disposition made her nany friends. Her sad death arous ;s great sympathy and no little in lignation and suspicion. EXPLOSION KLLS TWO. Terrible Accident Occurred in Boston Tenement House. A dispatch from Boston. says as he result of a gas explosion and fire 1 n a three-story tenement house, 295 t Lnd 297 Cambridge street, West nd, early Thursday, two are dead. wo hopelessly burned and 11 suffer ag from more or less serious injur The dead: Mary Jane Brown, rife of James Brown, suffocated; ody found by firemen in bedroom. ustice McNeal, 3 years old, body ound in ruins. The seriously injured included Irs. Mazie McNeal and Miss Floret e Austin, for whose recovery no Lope is given by the hospital doc ors. Mrs. McNeal was overcome while I rying to save her two children. fter throwing one from a window, he became unconscious but was rey ued, although her little son perish Mrs. Austin was overcome by moke and badly burned about the ~ody. William Austin and James Brown ere burned while trying to save ieir wives. Ar est of Suspect Caused Death. Less than an hour after Fred1 ingleton, of Cincinnati, C., was ask-1 d to sign an affidavit charging the an Evans. or West. arrested in1 oston, Mass.. with the murder of is father, Scuire Fred Singleton, of Jewport, Ky., the young man was ~eized with convulsions and soon tfterwards died. Caused Sudden Death. While eating peanuts, shelled by is father, William Ford. of Wset ~chuylkill, Pa., his five-year-old son ~hoked to death. The nut lodged in the lad's windpipe.* ~ompletion of the work of temporary rganization last night, the Demo zratic national convention has a l-.ar field today for the real work of the convention, and today will in all hman probailty see the candidate or president named, the platform dopted and the candidate selected. nd the convention ready to finish p its work and bid Denver good Whatever hope there might be in the minds of the allies of a p)ossibil ity of defeating Bryan's nomination, was shatteredby the great spontan eous outburst of enthusiasm which followered Senator Gore's mention of Bryan's name yesterday afternoon and the vote on the majority report of the credentials committee favora ble to the Guffey delegates las;t night. An analysis of that vote is interest ig. It is to be presumed that every vote which could be mustered against Bryan was cast for the minority re iort and yet it is certain that a great many of the votes it did re ceive will be cast for the Lincoln lead er, while it is altogether probable that Gray and Johnson's combined vote will fall far short of half the votes recorded for the Guffey men. Of the aye votes con the minority report, these are certain for Bryan: California G: Colorado 9: Georgia 3: Idaho 2; Illinois 54: Missouri 5: North Carolina 2: Pennsylvania 10: South Caroliinla 4: Tennessee 12; Virginia 22: West Virginia 3--a to ril of 134 votes. In addition to these, it is prob~able Bryan will re e~ive the 18 votes of Louisiana. the 8 of New York. the 6 of the Dis trict of Columbia and possibly New Jersey and some of the New England votes. With the doubtful votcs out. there fore it wvould appear that Bryan's miinl~fumum vote will b~e 749 with a strong probabhility that it will reach 851 or even more. It is evident that Murphy's de and that he be shown enough votes to give him at least a gambler s chance before leading a forlorn hope .gans Bryan could not be let. SPEAKS TO FRIENDS IIMR. BRYAN'S FIRST ADDRESS AFTER HIS NOMINATION. Makes Non-Partizan Speech to Many of His Neighbors and Friends Who Went to Fairview. A dispatch from Fairview, Lin coln, Neb., says Friday was home day at Fairview. From Lincoln and the outlying districts those who know the Bryan family came to congratu late them on the honor that has fal len to the master of Fairview. Next door neighbors, farmers from Nor mal, and all parts of Lancaster coun ty came to pay their respects to both Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and wish them success. They came by street car as early as S o'clock and later there I were all kinds of vehicles, from the oldfashioned lumber wagon to the I automobile, carrying friends and ne ighbors, anxious to give their evi dences of good will. By 10.30 the 3 lawn in front of thfe house was crowd ed by about 2.000 persons. From 1 the city of Lincoln came a large a delegation preceded by a brass band c and a large American flag, carried I by James Kern. From the time I they came in sight until they drew e up in front of the Bryan residence they shouted and yelled and cheered and when the nominee spok to them they punctured every sentence with I :heers and applause. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan received the crowd in front ,f the house and spoke from the ;teps. The great demonstration paid :hem by their neighbors visibly af 'ected them and several times the v ;peaker was obliged to stop because a )f his emotions. During his talk n 1rs. Bryan was frequently in tears, s: aused by the homage paid by those h who had been their friends for two a lecades. L In his speech Mr. Bryan avoided il olitics and begged his Republican h teighbors to overlook in his future ti y language concerning politics s ssues which would differ:from theirs o were they in his place. Mr. Bryan's Remarks. b Mr. Bryan spoke as follows: e "I won't make any political speech n sere at home (applause) because I ti late to say anything that could cause Y he least bit of antagonism in this si ommunity. but it may be necessary t< .fter a while (laughter) to say just ti . few words that would indicate my olitical leanings (Laughter and .pplause). It is made necessary for ne to endorse platform utterances \ .nd to discuss principles and I want o ask the forbearance of Republi an friends if I do not always ex ress myself in the language that a hey would use if they were speak ng on the same subject. (Applause h .nd cries 'You can do it all right.') :t I want to asure you now before he campaign opens and before I ave to make a political speech, I 11 rant to assure you, whatever I may ay on the subjects that divide usg thatever arguments I may advancea n support of those policies which toC ne seem best for the country, I rant you always to know, and to ever forget, that I believe that the 1 hings that bind us together as citi-~ ens are more important and more tumerous than our political views. Applause). I want you to know hat, however earnest I may be in he presentation of my political ideas i recognize at all times the equal d ights of every other citizen to hold f pinions and as I respect you no ess for candidly stating your views. p hope you will think none the less 0 f me if I candidly state my views c hen occasion calls for a statement. t Applause). "I like to believe that every Ameri- V an citizen places his love of coun- a ry above his love of party. I like - o believe that cvery American citi en prefers the triumph os that which 2 s right to the triumph of that which te may believe to be right if in 'act he is mistaken. And, my friends, milding on this basis we can be r ioth earnest and charitable, for if t ve love our country we love our par v: we desire the triumph of justice more than the triumph of erroneous >inions: we are prepared for either ietory or defeat for if we win, we know that the victory can only be ermanent if it is a deserved vic- 1 tory and if it results in the ad- I vancement of the common wealth and we k-now that if defeat :omes It enn only be temporary if we are in fact right and those who rin are wrong. The Omnipotence of Truth. 1 "And those believing in the om-1 pipotence of truth, we are preparPd to meet each other upon an honesi footing and discuss our differences honestly, how submissively to the o ill of the people and pray' that whichever party wins, the conutre a good will be preserve'd. (Grer, ap pause and ch'oring '4 "My7 father was a devout man. He di not leave mec mouch in the nya f mone:", and I am not sure but it was better for me that he did not. for I believe that great wealth is mere often a curse than a blessing : the young man who inherits it. iut while my father did not leave 'te a fortune. he left me something tat has been worth more to me than all the money of any millionaire could have been. He taught me to believe that every righteous cause would t riu mph. (A\pplause.) He told me' when a hoy that T could afford to lbe in the minority. but that I could not afford to lie wrong on any question: that if T wa-. in the manority. (Ap plause and cheers and cries of -You .llnowv.' And that if I was in te manority and rwong Iwould some t'he in the minority. I say to you, my friends, that that advice giv n to me by my father has been worth em to me than any amount of money could haveo been. and I believe thu it is a principle that we ould imbibe in the minde and in cthe hearts of all, confidence of the triumph of every rigt-eous cause. If evils come, let us have confidence in the t+4mellgnce and the~ integrity and SWALLOWS POISON IN COURT. Young Frenchman Declares He Pre fers Death to Dishonor. A young Frenchman of Paris de termined that his family name should not be dishonored, M. Hureau, a man of good position and education, handed to his son in the dock of a Paris court an envelope containing poison, which the young man was to swallow if he were convicted. The prisoner was found guilty with others of complicity in an insurance swin- I dle. c As his counsel was absent to plead t extenuating circumstances, the young man stood up in the dock and desires the barrister to be silent. At the e ;ame moment he put the envelope to n iis lips and swallowed the contents. v A few seconds later he fell heavily, b roaming at the mouth. A doctor who was in court attend- c d to him instantly with a stomach t ,ump, while one of his fellow prison- g ors, Dr. Lacombe, did his best to s ielp by inducing artificial respira ion. Ultimately, after two hours, the roung man, who had taken a large lose of digitalis, recovered and was rought into court and sentenced to c . year's imprisonment, while Dr. La- a :ombe was condemned to two years' ard labor. The prisoner had told is father that he preferred death to ishonor. A THROTTLE HERO. t ti engineer, Enveloped in Flames, Shuts off Steam. w i The coolness and bravery of En- ti ineer Martin, of a speeding Pennsyl ania railroad passenger train, saved a probable fatal accident near Rich- t 2ond, Ind. While the train. was p peeding eastward at fifty miles an w our, a flew of the boiler blew out, ad when Arndt, the fireman, opened s he furnace door flames were forced ti :t the cab by escaping steam and 0 e was completely enveloped. He sI rew himself from the cab -to the at ide of the track as the only means l. f escape. Martin realized his own danger, s ut he closed the throttle and crawl- t d throught the window to the run ing board alongside the boiler. The ain ran a distance of two miles with p [artin badly burned, clinging to the ide of the engine before it came w a stop. Arndt was found by the H .ack five miles away unconscious. * t _________________to PUT POISON IN COFFEE. w hi iWoman Charged With Trying to Kill ja Husband and Two Sons. ul Mrs. Alexander T. Clark, wife of v well known farmer, residing near sh igrams, Danville county Va., was eld for the grand jury at a preli- A< inary hearing Thursday at Chat- fro am, on a charge of thrice attempt- to ig to poison her husband and her on vo grown stepsons by placing Paris reen in their coffee. It was only .i ter the third attempt that the use of sudden illness of the three W~ uen was discovered. A physician, 'ho analyzed the coffee, found that contained poison. The only rea n assigned for the deed is the un leasant relations with her husband.* r Feather Dusters Must Go. e On the theory that tuberculosis is in Lrgely traceable to dust, the War be epartment has issued orders placing w rather dusters on the retired list.. ereafter other means will be em loyed in the big building to get rid a f the dust on chairs, desks, etc. Thc lling in of the feather dusters int 1e War department is merely a de-t onstration of the strict precaution ol hich the Government will take in IC iding the tuberculosis crusade. * a be patrio-.i;s.n 01 the people. t anm n optimist. I believe the world is rowing better; I believe that the Teat movements for the uplifting f society are going forward with a: esistless fo-ce. We can not stop th a riumph of the truth. We may ac elerate it; we may retard it; we 0 an not stop it. h "But if I were to talk to you longh . principles like these I might be t empted to apply them to conditions a laughter and applause) and to theb ssues, and that is not my intention his morning. No Coercive Power. "A great honor has fallen to us. ['he voters of a great party have nade me their standard bearer. I ieed not tell you that I did not buy his nomination. I need not tell you b hat I had no way of coercing people. b, Why, my friends: I have no way of :oercing the people who live about me of Normal or of Lincoln or of i Nebraska or of the United States. C [t is not for me to say whether they have acted wisely at Denver or not: C [am glad that the responsibility is C theirs. not mine. (Laughter.) This I I know: I appreciate it because it has I; been a free-will offering presented he some 6.000) 000 of my counitry- I nen. We are going to do the rnesr 1 we can to present to the public the I issues of this campaign. We are go- I ig to meet you as we can and then 1 we are to believe that whatever the result is on election day, it is going 4 to be good, and if it is for us, we will feel that we are going to be permitted to put into practice the principles which will be presented; and if it is against us we wlli know that we can learn b)y the manuer in which our opponents apply their prin ciples whether they were right in advocating them or we were right in opposing them. "Yo have comie out at the be ginning of the campaign. Come out just as often as you will. And there is one thing about it: the pleasure of success will be moderated by the fact that it will take us from you and the sorroy of defeat will be softened. y the fact that it will leave us witii ou." (Great cheering.) After the address was concluded and the handshaking over, the visi tors were shown about the farm and BATTLE FLEET SAILS. PASSES THROUGH GOLDEN GATE ON ITS LONG VOYAGE. rhe Nebraska Left Behind on Ac count of Scarlet Feevr Epidemic, Will Join Fleet at Honolulu. Fifteen battleships of the Atlantic teet sailed Thursday from San Fran isco, on the voyage that is to take hem aroind the world and end at ampton Roads, whence they start d last December. The sixteenth ember of the fleet, the ..ebraska, ras left behind because of an out reak of scarlet fever among the rew. She will be placed in quaran ine three days and thoroughly fumi ated, after which she will join her ster ships at Honolulu. Without ceremony or celebration f any sort, the fifteen big fighting aps got under way promptly at 2 'clock, on signal from the Connect - t, Rear Admiral Sperry's flagship, ad, steaming in single column, slow. wended their way out of the bay, here they had . found anchorage om time to time since their arrival ere two months' ago. A few small aft followed in the wake of the vet as far as Golden Gate anc lave te white ships a parting salute with eir sirens, while on the hills were attered groups of people silently atching the departure, which was striking contrast to the enthuslas c welcome on its arrival. The vessels presented a beautiful pearance as they steamed thtrough te harbor. As the Connecticut ssed forth the flag ship signalled 'r more speed, and the bows of the ar ships were seen. throwing up a a of white foam as they ploughed rough the water. It was 3.10 clock when the Kentucky, the last up in line, passed the light house the entrance to the Golden Gate, Ld half an hour later the fleet was st to view in a dense cloud of black coke from the copse of funnels and e thick water which was rolling in om the sea. The afternoon was one of busy pre ration on the ships, at 11 o'clock cretary of the Interior Garfield. ao arrived Monday night from anolulu on the St. Louis, boarded e Connecticut to pay his respects Admiral Sperry. He was saluted th seventeen guns when he took s leave. On the water front patrols of blue ckets with stout "billies" rounded ia few belated stragglers from the ,rious ship. At 12.50 o'clock the last boat left ore with mail orderhes. Just before the fleet sailed Rear Imiral Sperry received. a telegram )m President Roosevelt: conveying the fleet his heartiest good wishes the eve of its departure. iMPED THROUGH CAB WINDOW. onderful Feat of Beautiful Black Mare at Bock Hill An almost incredible thing occur d at Rock Hill Thursday. A Fried im & Bro delivered to the South n Railway a fine black mare, weigh g about one thousand -pounds, to shipped to Camden. The animal is put into a regular car for ship ng cattle and the car was run on side track to await shipping, and e wonderful part of the matter is at the mare succeeded in jumping rough the high window In the end the car and to the ground. To ok at it one would suppose that yearling calf would have a hard me squeezing through the aperture enf if it were near the floor -of the .It is not near the floor, thouga, fact, is quite high up. The mare t through it some way, though, and - >parently is little the worse for the Iventure. There are a few scratch and little cuts around one eye and the lower part of the legs,. and ie hoof ragged, as though the shoe ad been torn off. Outside of that Lere is apparently no injury. The aimal is a very valuable one, a autiful black mare.* OIL FIELDS BURNING. he Blaze Is Visible For One Hun dred Miles At Sea. The immense Mexican oil fields etween Tampico and Tuxpan are urning. The fire is visible 100 iiles away on the Gulf. The light intermittent and therefore danger us to prisoners. A dispatch to this effect was re eived at the state department Tues .ay morning from United States Con ul General Emerill Grifth, at Tam No further details of the fire are :nown there and the cause cannot e ascertained. It is believed that he entire fields, probably the largest n the world, are on fire and will be )rned dry. It will entail a loss of nillions upon millions of gallons of Son of "America's Writer Jailed. F. Smith, former mayor of Daven >ort, Ia., and son of S. F. Smith, vho wrote "My Country 'Tis of Ehee," went before the Iowa State, B~oard of Pardons, this week, and asked that he be released from the stte penitentiary at Anamosi, where he is serving a term of four years for the embezzlement of a large sum of money. Flies a Mile a Minute. Glenn H. Curtiss made a flight in his "June Bug" near Hammondsport, N. Y., and has won the Scientific American silver cup prize for the longest flight made by any "heavier than-air" flying machine. Mr. Cur tiss covere~d over a mile ini a min ute and a fraction. No trouble was mexprnced in lauding.