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VOL. XXIV MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, AY 2 0 SAMEOLD WAYS The State Dmcralic Cesavlis Sfi&C b the OM Rules. DEFEATS ALL aMN Suggested in Them, After Considera ble DlIscusion-Fight on Wille Jones Fal ThrougL-Attorney Genel Wickerham Condemned and Senator Smith is Endorsed. After a fght of two hours in com mittees and nearly taree hours on the floor of the house the State Dem ocratic Convention Wednesday night kiled two important changes sug gested in the constitution and rules of the party. These changes were: 1. Requiring that the same quali fcations obtain in the primary as in the general election. 2. That the convention hereaf'er elect the chairman of the State Dem acratic executive committee, instead of the committee. as at present. There were other matters brought up and discussed, says the State. bat it was around these two proposi tions that members worked for or against and discussed In lobbies an3 on the streets. On the Arst propow ed change there was a roH call. Or the second the vote was viva voci. Then there was a resolution con demning the United States Attorne SGeneral for his recent action in Pro secuting certain cotton dealers an-' also commending United States Sen ar Smith for his stand in the mat ter. everytahing else was routine and harmonious. In fact it could. not have been called anything but har ionous. With the exceptihn of some remarks made the night before on the Stevenson resolution there was no feeling. When the report of the commitc .tee on constitution and rules cam, up an unfavorable report was read on resolutions affecting the qua= ,catons of voters in the Democratic priwal. These were dffered by Samuel McCrary, Richiand delega tion. Sumter and Alken delegations -Ee committee defeated the proposi :,thInls by a vote of 27 to 9 after a igorous defense by Mr. McMahan TMe committee reported unfavor ably the resolution offered by -Mr. Stevenson proposing to amend the constitution relating to the election of the State chairman The resolutien read as folowst -Resolved. That the party consti be amended in article 8 as foflows: Insert in line 4 after the word 'offce.* the words 'except the State chairman. whio shall be elected by the State convention.* "Add at end. of th article the 1lowng: Provided. if the State - harmanship' shalt becomne vacant. Ethe lutee shall elect a chairman bact til the next State convention Tghe comunittee reported favorably *'the .resolution by the Lexington ~-ean, 4inig the rules more expicIt and allowing the county ex ecutives cmminttee to fix the dates for countyampaigns ,-Te committee also suggested that heword "president" apply to thC besiding offier of tae convention I losuggested that a candidate I.the primary must oe a Democrat Sefore being allewed to run. B y a vote ofIto16. the m m-itte decided, the rules should- be changed. so that should a voter --n the previous primady and his name had been acidentally left off th books. the voter be allowed to cas' abollot. The question of qualification of oters upon which majority anW Zminori.ty reports were mata by the .elegations started the ~it. The Lminority report by Inr. -McMaha1 re commended the amending of the con stitution so that only registered eec tors- be allowed to vote. The names 'ulened to the miornt: report are: B. B. Caldwenl. for Ches -er Jno. J. cahan. Richlan-I: JDO H iClifton, Sumter. J. C!. Elliott Lacse:Thos. J. Kirktand!. Ke? sham: W. F. Stevenson. Chesters- Id H. F. Smith, Pickens; 3 tG. -M:y Fairfield. 4After some discussion, the miaint ty report df the co'nm'C-' whirl avred the alifiestions --rvoe .the primary remaining what It - to79 Followinig the disposition or t1 primary matter, the unfavorable re port of the committee on the propos ed change in the constitution re specting the election of the state chairman was taken up. SAfter some dIscussion, the prev Ions question was ordered and by 1' larg, majority the resolution wam voted down and the unfavorable re port adopte'i. There w::s some discussion on the proposed change in the rules allow ng a voter to prove that his nam& was on the club roll. The favorable - eprt was tabled. The following resolution was then adopted on motion or Mr. Steven son by a rising vote: " Resolved, by the Democratic con ventioni of South Carolina that the sympathy of this conventionl be and is hereby extendied to our senior sen ator, the Hon. Benjamin R. Tlfman. In his relent illness and that this convent'on wishes him speedy and cmplete rsoration to health and strength, trusting that he may soon *be able to resume .his duties in that oly wher' he has so ably repre sented the Democrats of South Caro -~lin'for 15 years." -Other reports were adopted, and -after the usual resolutions of thanks e. corvention adjourned. TOOK HER OWN LIFE ARRANGES HER OWN FUNERAL PYRE BEFOR HUSBAND. Restoring to Three Different Methods to Take Her Life Young Mother Finally Succeeds With Fire. Resorting to three different meth ods to kill .herself. wnile her family was asleep around her, Mrs. J. H. Deal. who lives a little over a mile from Maiden. N. C.. committed sui cide Thursday morning beforeday by saturating herself with kerosene oil and setting herself on fire. Her husband was awakened by the fames from her dress and ran to her rescue. but too late to save her. A razor and an axe were lying near. She tried first to cut her throat and then to cut her head with the axe. Ill health was the cause. She was 27 years of age and two chil dren survive her. She suffered a great deal from the awful mcede she adopted to put an end to her exist ence. A MYSTERY SOLVED. Wite of Dead Ashevie Bogus Lord Is Now Known. The body of Sidney Lascelle. alias Lord Beresford. alias Charles J. As quith. convicted forger and said to have been a bigamist sixteen times wver. was Thursday shipped to Wash ngton. D. C.. after laying in an un ertaker's establishment at Asheville. N. C.. for eight years. to be cremated mnd the ashes to be sent to wife No. 1. whose idertity is kept a profound secret. The undertakers, attorneys. 'ad agents are sworn not to divulge er name. That she belonged to a promszent -nd wealthy New York family is ad mitted by those who have handled the case. She ran away from her mother. escaping w;ile her mother's %ttention was occupied at a book tore. and with Lascelle hurried to the "Little Brick Church Around the Corner" in New York. and was mar ried twenty years ago. The name of Mrs. T. J. Summer leld. Passaic. N. J.. is given as the roman. a sister-in-law of wife No. . who, becoming horrified upon find g that her brother-in-law's remains :ave been unburied for eight years und were being viewed by thousands f people yearly. took steps to se nre its cremation. BITE OF WORTHLESS CUR. iases a Brigbt Little Boy to Die in Great Agony. Raymond Livingston. th" six-year )Id son of James K. Livingston. of !arleston. who was bitten a few reeka ago by a mad dog. died Thure lay morning in frightrul agony. The uttending physicans unable to aid the: itte sufferer. wh~o, is said, barked a dog and had to be confined to dal bed with great force. The child was dying about two lays. Given prompt treatment at the Pasteur institute at Atlanta with ndications of recovery upon his re ent return home, the little fellow tdds another victim to the policy hich prevails in Charleston of giv ng the dogs the rights of taxpayers s far as the run of the streets is toncerned. A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES. abb's Mother DeadGrve Digger soou Follows. At Columbia while digging the rave of the mother of John Rabb. ihe negro. who is .held for the mur 'er of Hilton Smith. the city jailer. t Potters field late Thursday. Hen y Barber. the aged neirro grave dig er. dropped dead. The cause or the death is supposed to be heart rouble. The inquest over the b-dy i be held by Coroner Walker. The -ed mother of Jiohn Rabb died while the ofmcers were searching the ouse for the negro on Wedinesday. tight. She did not know that her on was being sought as a murderer. They Got Scared. Boys sent up a number of fire bal ons with skyrockets attachedi dur -ig Wednesday night at Talladeta. \la., and many negroes seeing then' -d thinking the comet was goinr a do damage, fled in terror. The aports reaching .bere say that prac ically all the inhabitants of certain -.arters rushed away and. ggthered t another place and brgan at onc-~ 'o pray. Stupid Decision. Whiskey can not be legally lent or the use of a sick friend is a -line handed down Thursday by the \labama supreme court in t.he case Presley Clarke against t'ne State. Sarke was convicted of exchanging 'rohibited liquors and entered the 'lea that a quart which he trans erred was given to a neighb'r. mem *rs of whbose family were ill. Shot Herself Before Children. Calling about 50 children from 'e street and neighboring hous--s n the west end section of Pittsburg. o.. Mrs. Clementine D-erenzo, nged 16 years. Thursday night. .shot and cilled herself in the paesence of her luvenile guests. Trainmen Cremated. Two trainmen were cremated by 3.000 volts of electricity when a leeper on the Illinois Traction sys tem collided with an electric train near Lovelace. Mo.. Friday. Starts" Fire. A large meteor which fell naa Monterey. Mex., set Ur to a pine~ forest and much damage was t~he re A TRICKY COET It Seems to Have Feoled All the Astron omers by Its yovements. MUST HAVE GONE WRONG At Any Rate It Did Not Do What It Was Scheduled to Do, and Now the' Scientific Sages ~iagree As to Wheri It Is or What It Will Presently Do. The comet seems to have fooled the scientists for once. as it failed to keep its engagements on Wed nesday. Prof. Asahp Hall of the naval ob servatory at Washington said at 4 o'clock Thursday morning that the earth would not pass through the tail of Halley's comet until sometime that day. 'From three o'clock on Thursday morning until dawn. said Prof. Hall. rhere was visibl. in the east. ex tending from the nortlieast in a southerly direction, the dim beam of a light of the comet's tail. As the moon descended westward the shaft athwart the heavens grew plainer and was easily visible to the naked eye. According to Dr. Campbell of the Lick observatory at San Jose. Cal., there Is a possibility that the earth may not pass through the comet's tal after all. In a statement Issued early Thursday he said: "The tail was visible as soon as the moon seL It is probable that we shall miss passing through the tail because it is lagging by several mil lion miles. The comet's orbit is In- I lined to an angle with the earth's I rbit and it Is probable we shall not 4 pass through the tail at all." Calculators Confounded. 4 Setting at variance all scientific gures and predictions and dumb- t foundling the astronomers at Yerkes c bservatory at Williams Bay, Wis., he tail of Halley's comet was plain- v ly visible just before daybreak on t Trsday. The astronomers have no 1 explanation to proffer for the action I A the comeL 2 Prof. S. A. Mitchell. of Columbia I niversity. Prof. Edwin B. Frost. ? ead of the Yerkes observatory staff. . ind Prof. Edward Barnard. of the university of Chicago. say that any r ne of the following three explana ons may be right: 1. The curvature of the comet's il first discovered and noticed by Prof. Barnard on Tuesday night may ave developed to a wholly expect -d degree, wulle the head of the omet has passed the earth on sched ale. t 2. LIke Borellis' comet of 1903. e faley's comet may .have ceased its all making activity, cutting off the I lowing fan that is pnow puzzling the cienists. 3. It is possible that all calcula- l ions are wrong and that the comet as not yet passed the earth. As ntearly as could be computed he period of the appearance of the t omet's tail in the east extended from 0.3S o'clock Wednesday night to .20 o'clock Thursday morning. It t as still plainly viible~ at a time hen the astronomers were confi lent the earth would have passed 4 ompletely through the tail. D~aybreak Statemuenat. After leaving his telescope at day reak Thursday, Prof. Frost issiued he foilowing statement: ''Greater .than all the theories and all the computations are the acta. And the fact is that the al of the comet has be-u appear ing in the east in practically the ame position as it appeared Wednes say. There Is no question about hat. The tail which glowed fronm the h'orizon c!-sz to the milky wa.1 from before midnight until dawL hursday has not yet passed across the earth. That is a certainty. In ddition, it is also certain .that there is no material diminution in the size of this tail as compared with the al of the day before. -'We are confident that the calcu ations for the passage of the head f the comet betwe-n the sun and 'he earth are correct. U.nquestion ably astronomical experts working indepenently of each other In all aarts of the wcrld arrived at these :alculat ions, which have been cor ected In detail ever since the comet passed Venus on May 2. --We are also confident that the head of the comet made its transit . per schedule. But- the mystery of 'he appearance of the tail in the east Thursday mornIng is the great uzzle. It can nct be explained sat isfactorily at this time.'' ('urve'd its Tail. The ear?.h did not plunge t~rough the tail of Halley's comet at the time scheduled by astronomers. ac ording to Prof. Henry Norris Rus sell. of Princeton, N. J., and Zacch eus Daniel. the discoverer of three omets &ail because it was curved in making the journey. Thtis failure of the comet to be on ime, they said. was due to the fact that the tail had developed a pr> nounced curve and it was long afte suup in this section of the coun try before the passage of the earth .hrogh the comet's eappendage. Prof. Russeli at :ti5 a. m. noticed i distinct streak of light in the east that res-.:ied the milky way. He then came to the conclusion that the earth had not passed through the comet's because the tail was curved away fromt us, and that the sun would e wei! above the horizonl when the passage was made. At that time he said the head of the comet had pass ed the distance of the sun and was well on the other side of the sun, Shortly afterward 3 a. m. T.hursday the light in the east disappeared and Po. uelln said it wa possible COSTS MORE MONEY TO RI~N FOR OFFICE IN SO'TH CAROLINA THAN IT DID. The Party Needs More Funds Than it Did Formerly and the Candi date% Must Make it Up. The State Democratic executive committee decided Tuesday to in crease the assessments on candidates entering the race for various State offices. The raise was made because there Is very little money now in the treasury. The matter was left with a special subcommitte- and af ter going into the matter thoroughly their report was adopted, although there was some opposition to it at first by Robert Lide. of Orangeburg. who thought that t-he expenses of the committee should be cut down. The old assessments provided that candidates for governor should pay an entrance fee, of $50. other State officers $37.50. solicitors $25 and congressmen $50. The new assess ments provide for $125 each for congressional candidates, $50 each for other State officers, $50 for lieut enant governor and $75 for governor. Other suggestions of the subcom mittee were adopted. Chairman Jones appointed as members of tht subcommittee to arrange the itin rary A. W. Jones and D. J. Grif Ith.. The following Is the report of the ormittee: "Your committee appointed to mggest assessments and the date of >pening of the campaign and the tinery. respectfully reports: "That, after mature deliberation nd investigation, we And that the ost of the campaign of 1908 was 2.956. and would therefore suggest bat the assessment on congressmen e $125, for governor $75. and oth r State offices, $50. which from In ormation received would yield $, 75. "Your committee would suggest hat the date for the opening of the ampaign be fixed for June 22. "We would further suggest that committee of three, consisting aNf he State chairman and two mem ers of the executivo committee to e appointed by the chairman, be ppointed to make the arrangements or the itinerary and revising of ules of any change or in the con titution. ''All of which is respectfully sub aitted. "D. L. Sinkler. Chairman." LYNCHED THE FIEND. trute Who Attempted to Assault a Child Swung. Because he was c6harged with at empting to criminally assaut the ight-year-old daughter of Harry Ti on. residing In the western part of taker County. Ga.. Charlie Wilson. ,negro boy, about 18 years old, was ynched at a late hour Friday night 'y a mob of citizens, who took the egro by force from a bailiff before te could be landed at the jail at Jewton. Wilson. It is alleged. at empted to assault the Tison child 'hursday afternoon, but her screams rere heard by her father, who caught he negro and turned him over to he officers. Wilson was hanged from tree standing near a much tray led road and his body was riddled vith bullets.* TOWNS TORNADO TORN. storm Deals Death and Destruction in Oklahoma. Maysville, a small town 15 miles orthwest of Paul Valley. Okla.. was 'iped off th'e map early Friday eve ing, and several persons were kill d. according to meagre reports re :eived. The town of McCarthy. near Vaysville. was nearly all swept aw-ty, ad three persons there were ktcI d. All 'te wires are down. 1te lef trains prnbably will be sent outL. Te of the hardest hail storms ir. he history of the region swept over m stretch of country neal Paul Val ley Friday evening. In places de stroying all signs of vegetation.* Horse Explodes. A dose of soda given to a horse belonging to James Elmerson. of Canisteo. N. Y.. caused the animal to explode. It is thought the soda com bined with gases in the stomach forming carbolic acid gas and the tank, not being copper lined, could not stand the strain.* Kills Peary's Dogs. Twelve out of the 14 EsNum dogs which Commander Robt. E. Peary brought back from hIs trip to the North pole. are dead. They were placed in comfortable quarters at Flag Island. Me.. but the mild weath er caused distemper and death.* for the Inhabitants of Hawaii and possibly the astronomers at the Lick osrvatiory in California to detect in the darkness the passage of the earth through the tarn. Prof. Russell added that the reas on why most astronomers had not been able to tell that the tail was curved was because they had been i,oking at the tail ed;;ewise. Mr. Daniel said that he atso noticed the light in the east shortly before 3 a. mn. Thursday and also suggested that the earth had not passed through the tail of the comet because of the curvature ot the appendage. Me ex pressed the belief that the~ passing of the earth through the tail would make the curve more pronounced. The time at which the earth made th'e pmage, he said. could not he ascrtained at Princeton because th arch of the curve was not known there. Mr. Daniel explained that It was not unusual for comets' tails to be curved. ONE HUNDRED DEAD AND AS MANY MORE WOUNDED BY TWO EXPLOSIONS. A Ton and a Half of Giant Powder in Cuban Guard Barracks Goes Off. Two almost simultaneous explo sions of stores of dynamite. supposed to consist of 3.000 pounds. complete ly demolished the rural guard bar racks in the city of Pinar Del Rio. Cuba. Thursday afternoon. Fully 100 persons were killed and nearly as many were wounded. Most of the dead were rural guards, but the entire families of several of the officers of the rural guard. it is reported, were killed also, as well as several employes of the public works department and res idents of the city. on which fell a de luge of masonry and debris from the blown-up building. It is not known yet w.hether the exprosion was the result of an accident or was due to an act of conspirators. but the form er is considered the most probable Several relief trains carrying sur geons. officers and nen of the rural guards and government started that afternoon from Habana to the scene of the catastrophe. The names of the dead have not yet been reported with the exception of Capt. Ravena and Capt. Bel ancour of the garrison and their fam ilies, who are a1lieved to be buried in the ruins of the officers' quarters adjacent to the barracks. The barracks was a massive build Ing of Spanish construction and oc cepied a site on the outskirts of t-he ety to the north. During the late Intervention it was the head quarters of Col. Parker's regiment, the Eleventh cavalry. Adjacept to the barracks was a long row of oMi :ers quarters. The barracks was oc cupied by the public works depart ment and four troops of rural cav alry. In consequence of the alarm over race disturbances the government or dered all deposits of dynamite in the city in the posession of contractors for road construction and other pub lic works to be removed to- the bar racks for safekeeping. Thursday af ternoon the work of removing the dynamite from the barracks for ship ment to the government magazine vas begun by employes of the pub ic works department. assisted br ru ral guards. According to reports received the mangled remains of victims were found in the street of the city a mile from the scene of the explosion. There is great anxiety in Habana. >wing to the fact that a large num ber of the rural guards at Piar Del Rio recently were sent from the city. where their families reside. The explosions occurred at five >'clock.. a few second before the men would have quit work. It is general y believed that the first resulted from the accidental fall of a box of ynamite. whic~h was being lifted'on awaron. It is impossible, however. o determine absolutely the cause. for the reason that all in the im ediate vicinity were blown to -fr. ents. It is believed the majoriy f the wounded are residents of theI own, as practically all within the barracks were Instantly killed or bur ed in the ruins. The work of exhuming the dead and searching for those who may be alive la going on but is greatly retarded by the destruction of the electric wires and the fear that a quantity of unexploded dynamite re mains In the ruins. REWARD FOR AYANT. He Sends' Letters From Atlanta That He Is Running Away. A dispatch from Georgetown says D. W. Avant, uncle of W. B. Avant. who is wanted at the Penitentiary to serve a sentence of three and a half years for the murder of Mrs. Ruth Crisp Bingham. received a let ter from the missing man dated May 17, and postmarked- Atlanta. Ga.. reading as follows: "Am In Atlanta. running away." -There was also a letter from Avant to his wife, which was at coce taken to her, three miles off from the post office, at Harper's the contents of which have not yet been ascertained. Avant's bondsmen are his uncle. D. W. Avant, and L. A. Parsons. his brother-in-law. The amount of the bond is $3,000. These men are good. thrifty farmers. They .zave' offered a reward of $100 for the apprehension of the fugitive. Eaten by Sharks. The boat In which William Olsen. William Peterson, Albert T.'o.i's and R. Zeboski started from Fort Gaines on Tuesday night and went to their death was found Wednes day morning by a searching party aboard the tug Texas. It is feared the bodies have been carried away by man eating sharks. (Crack of Doom. Hundreds of negroes in Savannah spent Wednesday night fasting and praying, fearing every moment to hear the 'crack o' doom." Not much ahor was gotten from them during the day, so great is their fear of the comet. The evident concern in the negro quarters of the city was very great. UGed Them at Last. :Mrs. Eva Simon. 5'5 years old. was buried in her home" town of Wa hash, Ill., last week, in a shroud and burial outfit which she prepared 6S years a~o for .her funeral. All the years since that time she has kept RING RULE Wil Not Be Submitted to by the Tenes see Democrats Who DENOUNCE PATTERSON And the Other Ringsters for At tempting to Coerce the Supreme Court.-Eulogies on the Late Sen ator Carmack Elicted Prolonged Applause. Clovernor M. R. Patterson and the State Democratic executive commit tee were bitterly denounced Wednes day at Nashville in speeches and res olutions. by the largest mass meet ing of voters ever held in the State of Tennessee. called ror the purpose of protesting against the action of the Governor anI ex^cative commit tee in attempting to force all jud Iclary candidates to submit their candidacy in the general primary of June 4. This action of the commit tee was contrary to precedent and resulted in several of the candidates for the Supreme Court and Court of Civil Appeals announcing themselves as independent candtdates. The convention, at which more than five thousand Democrats of the State were present, nominated a full judiciary ticket an-i appealed to the voters of the State to refuse to par ticipate In the primary on June 4. Governor Patterson and the exec utive committee were "unqualifiedly denounced and condemned," for their efforts "to overcome and coerce the Supreme Court of the State in the de cision of a case penaing before it.' this reference being to the Cooper case. !Eulogistic references to the :ate Senator Carmack elicited prolonge-' pplause, while every denunciary re ference to Governor Patterson was greeted with great enthusiasm. The Judiciary tickets encorsed were as follows: Supreme Court: W. D. Beard, Memphis; M. M. Neal. Trenton; J. K. Shields. Chattanooga; D. L. Lane den. Carthage, and Grafton Green, Nashville. Court of Civil Appeals: S. F. Wil son, Nashville; J. C. Higgins, Shel byville; J. 5L Taylor. Lexingtpn; F. P. Hall Dresden, and H. Y. Hughes. '.. iwell. The following sy:opsis of the dec laration of principles was adopted by the Convention: That the people have the inaleni able right to alter, reform or abol ish any agencies of their own crea tion when those agences seek t6 thwart the soverign will. That the doctrine of non-resi-st ance against arbitrary power Is ab surd and slavish. That the Independence of the three coordinate branches of the Govern ment is essentadl to the stabilIty of ~he commonwealth and the freedom of the people. !rhat any attempts to coerce the Courts In the exercise of their prop er functions is destructive of peacc and safety and should be resisted by all lawful means knows t'o fret men. That the paramout issue before the people of Tennessee is the Independ ence and integrity of their Courts. That half a century ago an amend ment to itie Constitution was adcpt. ed. proving that a day should be ap nointed for the election of Judges and Attorney General. -seperate and apart from the day for eleetion for political offices, so that merit and efficiency should not be obscured by heat and strife of a political canm paign, and has always since been recognized by both political parties of the State as wise nd patriotic and as prompting the independenet of the judiciary. That the so-called State executivr commrittee, not one of whose n'em hers was elected by the people, and a majority of whom were appointed by the Governor, has attempted t( repudiate the well settled and saft method of selecting candidates fo: the judiciary and has attempted te deprive the Democrats of the State 'M the right to hold their own elec tions, to make the'ir own platforna and to appoint the committees. anC being completely under the contro' of the Governor .has adopted a plar designed to aid their master In hi: attempt to coerce the Supreme Court to to perpetuate their own power That by these acts of usurpation the committee and the Governor .hav( disrupted the Democratic party an' have given sufficient grounds for re pudlatinr the committee. That the committee be repudIated and the Governor denunced an/ condemned for his effort to coerc. the Supreme Court In a case pending before it, and that endorsement b< given Justices Bearc. Sheilds anc Neil. of the Supreme Court, In re !using to submit to the un-Demo eratic plan. and that condemnatlor be given Judges Landsden. Hall Higgins. Wilson anri Taylor for thei' claims direct to the people. That overy Democrat who believe in the integrity of the judiciary and the right of the people to contro! their own affairs. be called on to re fuse to participate in the prim-I) ordered for June 4. and any othet Convention or primary ordered by .<aid committee. That the candidacy of the above named aspirants for pudicial honor, be formally endorsed Burns at Sea. The staamer J. Marhoffer, which left San Francisco for Portland. Ore.. on May 14. has been burnedi at sea, 2&I miles north of Newport. Ore. Capt. Wellander of th~e United States life saving station reports that 19 persons from the burned steamer have landed safely in their own boats WHERE WE STAND PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE STATE DEMOCRACY. It Mashes the Toes of Some of Our Congressmen and Newspapers Who Favor Protection. The following is the platform adopted by the State Democratic Con vention on Wednesday. "The Democrats of South Caro lina, in convention assembled, ex press their gratification that the signs of the times point to general dissat isfaction with the administration c,r the government by the Republicau party, and congratulate the reprem-. tatives of our party in z-ngress on the approval given their course in the recent elections in Massachusszts and New York. at which Rep.aolicans were defeated and Democrats sent to the congress in their place The people of all sections are com'ng to realize that the Republican party stands for special privileges at the cost of the multitude, and that through the favoritism shown to the trusts by tariff legislation the coun try is now suffering from conditions which make the cost of living w high that even t!- Republica= cn gress is compelled to insdtute an investigation. "The only substantial and lasting relief is to be found In the adoptiou >f the historic Democratic doctrine demanding a system of tariff duties suficleat to raise revenues adequate to the ecomonical administration of the government. Material reduc :ions should be made ill the tariff upon the necessities of life. "The protective tariff makes poa ble the combinations which are call ed trusts and only by revision of tar 1ff duties downward can the growth >f the trusts be chected. The fail re of the Republican administra ion to enforce the civil and criminal [aws against the trusts demonstrates new the obligations of that party to the trusts which render It impos ble for the country to secure relief rom that source. Favoring public ity of all campaign contributions, the Democratic party throughout the ountry enters upon the coming cam paign for congress this fall as the )ly agency to which the people can urn with the expectation of genule ariff reform and genuine trust reg lation. "The Democratic party has long ravored the imposition of a tax on ncomei as a just method of taxa on, when fairly levied and collected. d we favor such a tax. "BeliEving with Jefferson In the ;upport of the State governments in L11 their rights as the most compP ent administration for our domestic oncerns and surest bulwark against inti-republican tendencies, and in the preseration of the general govern vent in its whbole constitutional vig r a.s the sheet anchor of our peacc t home and safety anroad,' we arc pposed to the centralization poli les of the present national adminis ~ration. We insist tnat federal rem sies for the regulation of Interstate ommerce and the preventation of arivate monopoly shall be added to. riot substatuted for Slate remedies The sub-committee on platform onsisted of Jas. A. o~yt, Geo. S ower. Richard I. MannIng, 3. H esesne and S. McG. Simkins. BI'~s"'n ORDAINED. 5olenn Service by the Methodist Geu eral Conference. The ordination of the new bishop' lected by the General Conference f the Methodist Episcopal Church ook place at Ashville on Thursday. The services were very impressive id were largely attended. The new bishops. Revs Colline Denny. John C. Kilgo. William B \urrah. R. K. Waterhouse, Edwir: D. Mouzon and James McCoy, each rcompanied by two of his closesl rends, entered the church amid pro ound silence. The opening hymra as announced by Bishop A. W. Wil o, the collect was read by Bishor . E. Hoss. prayer was offered by Rev. C. H. Briggs. and epistle war ead by Bishop H. C. Morrison. Bish p W. A. Chandler. concluding with t~hA reading of the gospel. Bishor A. W. Wilson delivered the ordina ion sermon. Examination of the bishops-elect was conducted by Bishop Hendrix. while Bishop Key recited "Veni Crea or Spiritus." Each bishop placed his .hands on the heads of the bish pselt. each of whom was pre iented with a Bible. Bishop ChandlleI -resenting each parchment whil< testifying to the ordination. The -nediction was pronounced by Bish >p Wilson. WVives of the bishops lect were given seats of honor. Two Are Killed. As a result of a boiler explosion at .he saw mill of J. R. Brown. in Jones County. Ga.. Thursday after ioon. L. J. A. Brown, a prominen' lantr, and son of the owner of th< mill, and William tiutchins, a ne ro. is dead, and the mill is wreck ed. Brown was .kill d out right and the negro died in a few minutes. Old Man Killed. Stepping from the elevator in hk hotel while the cage was in mo don. Joseph Griffin. a millionaire o: St. Thomas. Ont., was crushed te death at San Francisco. Griffin was 70 years of age. eH was a brothez o J. Y. Griffin. of the meat packing company of that name, of Vancouv er, B. C. ' I Died from Wound. Hilton Smith. the Columbia city iailr. who was shot by the negro John Rabb, died Wednesday night a a local hospital. The negro was ar rested that afternoon at Blaneys A WRD STORY Bd of a Ras Held in Aheiie. F Eiht Years is Gained BY AN UNKNOWN WOMAN The Body, Which Has Been in an UndertakePs Establishment. Was That of a Noted Forger and Gen. eral Confidence Man, Who Was Credited With Sixteen WAves. The remains of Charles J. As quith. alias "Lord Beresford," alias, have at last been claimed. The body of Asquith or Lascelle, the man who died at Asheville. N. C.. in Oct ober. 1902. and which has remained in a local undertaking establishment ever since, was last week shipped to Baltimore on affidavit of wife No.'I that the body was of her husband and the remains will be cremated in that city. The name of wife No. 1 is with held. Negotiations. for the body were conducted through a friend, Mrs. T. J. Summerfield of New Jer sey. who made afmdavit on behalf of wife No. 1 that the body was that of her husband. The undertakers being satisapd as to the affidavit turned over the body upon payment of certain costs incident to embalm ing, etc., and the body went to Bal timore for cremation. fI'hat Asquith or Lascelie or Lord Beresford was a thief, a forger and a bigamist is certain. It is alleged that he had been married fifteen times. He was known in Georgia, Colorada, Texas and other states, and bore an unsavory reputation. The man went to Asheville In Sep. tember or early October in the year 1902. He was very sick at the time and, although supposedly wen oIC when his death occurred two or three weeks after hkis arrival, it was found that he had no funds and ap parently no friends or relatives. The body was embalmed' by an under taking firm and in the absence of pay, and in the absence of informa-' tion and advice. from friends or rel- - atives 4he body has during these eight years remained unclimed at the undertaking place until last week when wife No. -1, through her rep resentative. made claim to the body; made afmdavit that the body was that of her husband and paying all ex penses claimed and secured the body for shipment to Baltimore. The shipment of the body of As -luith or Lascelle ends a most inter esting and mysterious story. Dur ing the years that the body has re iained unclaimed In Asheville, many hundreds of people as a result of 'he notoriety that the incident at tracted have visited the undertak -ng rooms and sought- to Identify the body. Several times It was' thought 'hat the body had been Identified '>y one or more wives, but always the Identification proved a false alarm. It Is said that the man Asquitis, whose body was claimed by a wo iian who alleges that she was .his >riginal wife and married to the 'oman some twenty years ago In he "Little Brick Church Around the torner," In New York; that they vent to Europe and lived happily for i time and that then tfle man dis appeared. That was the last that was seen of him by his wife. It s said that he was in jail in Eu 'ope; that he was finally liberated. tad later appeared in Italy where te sold somebody's yacht .and again 'got in bad." I~s caree: was checkered and iust how he found his way to Ashe rille was never explained. It is known, however, that when his death Iccurred In Asheville he wore a tie 'hat was purchased in Texas and tiso other clothing purchased In the tone Star State, which indicated hat he had come from Texas~ to Ashevlle. It was stated that the -eal name of the woman who claim 'd the body of her husband is not .amed; that, in fact, all .persons having anything to do with the takc lng of the body away will not di vulge their names and the undertak ers and others interested are pledg ed to secrecy. It is understood that although the local undnrtaker who has held the. ody of Lascelle for eight years turn ?d it over to wife No. 1 upo.n the nayment of actual cost. $110. that the undertakers were recently offer w1 $5.000 for the body which they refused in an effort to comply with the North Carolina law.* SAW HER SON DIE. Y7oung Man Accidentally Shoots and Kills Hinself. Frank Richard, a young w.bite 'nan. accidentally shot and killed 'iimself at his home, about cne mile south of Edmund's. Lexington coun y. late Friday afternoon. From in -ormation gathered it seems that -oung Ricard had flnished-his wor.c 'or the day and had gone to the >ond, which Is located a few hundred 'ards from the house, to spend the '>alance of the afternoon fishing. car -ying .his shotgun with him. He had not been gone long before his moth 'r was attracted by the sound of a ;un. She and a young son wvan . t ->nce to the scene. Upon arrival 2.t the pond, they found the young man :ying fiat in the boat. gasping for brea.th. The entire load of shot had taken effect in the stomach, making a ghastly wound. He lived but a few moments, dying without making a statement.* Tidal Wave Feared. Many of the inhabitan's of S..v atinah moved further into the city for temporary abode. fearing a tida! wwae a reslt of Ralley's comet.