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VOL. XXIV MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 29 IN FULL BLAST Sta apg %pened ISinme sin 'Wedaesdh. B0YD AND BROCK QUIT Two New Entrica Only en the I.ast Day.-candidates Spuke at Bis op"ile on Thursday.-Chat 3Made by Opponent of Attorney GeneraL-LYon Replies. The State campaign opened up in Sumter a4t Wed.es-lay. The last day for filing p:edges was Tuesday snd up to noon of that day the only surprises were the entry of Barney B. Evana for Attorney General againa Lyon and P. K. McCu'ly. Jr.. of Anderson. Another feature was the withdrawal of both Gen. Boyd and his Assistant Col. Brocsi from the race for Adjutant General. At the meeting at Bishopville on I Thursday the feature was the severe attack upon the public record of At torney-General Lyon by Barnard 13. Evan, an aspirant for that office. and the clear-cut. forciful reply of that omcer. Other features were the ruasing reception accorded to Thcs. G. McLoed. candilate 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 generai 9 -warming-up" all along the line. v Aside from these points, the meet izg was in effect practically the stme at that at Sumter the day be- 0 fore. The following is a correct list of J those aspiring for State cMces ana 0 for' Congressional jobe: For Governor-Cole L. Blease. c John T. Duccan. C. C. Featherstone. F. H. Hyatt. Thos. G. Mc.Leod and John G. Richards. For IUeutenact Governor-E. I Walker Duvall and Chas. A. Smith. - For Secretary of State-R. . bicCown. For Comptroller General-A. W. s June. For State Treasurer-R. H. Jen- a For Adjutant General-Charles I Nenham. W. W. Moore. J. M. Rich ardson. - For State Superintendent of Ed- 11 uation-J. E. Swearingen. h For Attorney General-B. B. Ev- h asr, J. Fraser Lyon. For Railroad Commissioner-Jas Canaler, G. McDuMe H3~mpton. G. IL. Mahon. 0. C. Scarborough. L The following candidates tiled the peedges for the different Congres onal Districts of the State: ~irst District-George S. Lesare, i; 3. H. Lessene. Second Distrct-L. P Boyleston. f: las F. Byrnes. C. W. Garris. 3. 0. a Patterson. F Third Dstrict-Wyatd Aiken, Ju.- si lus . Boggs Coke D. Mann. jc Fourth District-Jos. T. Johnson.| k flftth District-Thos. B. Butler. jS D. E. Finley. J. K. Henry. . ja Sxth District-George W. Brown. jJ 3 .E. Ellerbe. P. A. Hodges. B. B. jn Sellers. o Seventh District-A. F. Lever. W.| w W. Ray. . f k DOtBLE HANGING Elated Convict Geta Respite From the Governor. Nick Marenge and Frank Chickar en were hanget i T'rsday at Nors t.wn. Pa.. on the same gailows for I th murder in August. 199, of Geo ~ A. Johnson. an aged cobbler. whow n they attacked for money he was sup pvased to have .hidden in his shop. John Billin. who also was to have been hanged also for participation in the c-ime. was granted a respite by GO. Stuart until October, in order that his case might be passed upon by the State Supreme Couirt. Mes sengers carrylrg the reprieve arrived at the county jail at one o'clock. SNOT BY HiGHA WYMAN. Salesman Fired on by Ner Who Attemapts to Hold Him Up. Wile en route from XWwbern. S'.. C to Jones county Monday morning. Mr. Ralph Lupton. a traveling sales man for the Carolina Grocery Cc. was held up by a negro man abou? ten miles from this city. who order him to han.a over all of his money. Mr. Lupton refused to do this anc attempted to secure his revolver. which was in th-> foot of the bug~y. but before he could do so the negro fired at him, the ball taking effect n his thigh. After shooting Mr. Lupton the ne gro took to the woods and has no? not been seen since. Plunges I)own the Mountain. L. .. ?.lier. of San Francisco. was killed, and Richard Combs, or Little River. Cal.. Guy Redwine'. of Ukiah. Cal.. and Mr. and Mrs. Rea. of W.'-st port. Cal.. injured Monday evening when the stage from Willetts to Muir Junction ran away. The i'rakes gave weay and the .heavy ve hie plunged g.air'st the horses. sending th- in a mad run down 'he mountain. The vehicle was overturned.Miler beirg pinned be neath and crushed to death. Workmen Found Jars of Gold. The duerrv.'y 'f ten 'earthen jars by workman whi-e excavatin: on th. itte of the nld farmnne Convent. near Puebla. Mex.. has created quite i stir in the republic. It is claime-i the jars contnitned $59.0 which the law requires r~hould be paid in to the treasurv. but? the workmen hav diapncared with their gold. PROMINENT ViCTIMS REPORTS OF DEATH P.CK STIR BuIRmINGHfAM. Town Much Wrought Up Over Trag edy of Mrs. Harding and G. R6. Johnn. -liirmingham was deeply stirred Thu:ls:y .evr the news of the sul -ije Wednesday night of Mrs. W. P. Harding and the death of G. R. lohnson. who shot and fatal'y wound d himself the same day. half an our after the suich-e of Mrs. Hard ng. Friends of the Johnson and Hard no families. who lucud, practicai y all of the most influential peolk e n the city are indignant over the >ublication of stories hintint at a unicide pack between the two. The eoiowing at the accounts -of the leath of each. as first reported: I Wouman a Suicide. Mrs. W. P. G. Harding. wife of.' he presd-nt of the First N.:tiota. lank of Birmingham. Ala.. shot andj. illed herself at her home Wednes-11 lay afternoon. Nothing definite is :nown about the cause of Mrs. Hard- b ng's act as her home life has seem d to be v- ry happy. She was alone ( n her room when she fired a pistol a a:l through here ho;tL A negro servant was c. the prem- 0 es and ran screaming to inform the b eighbors. Mr. Harding sailed from _ ew York at threeo'clock Wednes- g ay afternoon for Savannah, it is a aid. nearly three hours before his a rife's act n Ilanker Takes HiN Life. h Guy R. Johnson. former president s< f the Alabama Consolidated Coal & h .on Company. shot and fatally in ired himself at Birmingham at 7 El 'clock Wednesday evening at his t, ome. The shot was fired with sui- is Idal intent and it is impossible for ti im to recover. After having shot himself. Mr. f( hnson. in a statement, attributed ta is act to business reverses. He wss la lone when the deed was committed. 1, nd was found by his wife, who h, turned home from downtown le iortly after six o'clock. tI The bullet passed below the heart p ad lodged in the spine and there as ery slight hope for his recovery. 11 is brother states that he had be-n j !ry depressed for several days. a-id y te recent developments in the Ala- h ima Coasolidated had preyed upon :.s i mind to such an extent as to make im irresponsible. FEUDIST SHOOTS WOMEN. s lord Implicated In Murder Slay" t. a Tenant. Asbury Spicer is under arrest in . iskson. Ky.. on charge of murder- ia Lg Asbury Fusgate. a tenant on his rm. ard wounding Jennie Johnson. ai member of the household and Mrs. :1 ugate. who attempted to shi.-ld her sa >n. The killing occurred in .the ha untry and the first the authoriti.'s 'W new of the crime was when Mr. .b picer telephoned what he had do::e 0. ad started he was on the way to ri ikson to surrender. The slayer ts se se of those accused wif the murder si Dr. Cox in Breathitt county and S as a prominent party in the Hargis C bud. The reason for his deed is not nown. (ANTON PEOPLE FAST. , ._ d e Ohio Woman Has Not Eaten for e. .Twenty-seven Days. The Starvation cult of Canton. 0..a a attracting much attention and atherng in scores of converts. One f the most enthusiastic members.r [rs. Georyr Fulkerson. was compell I the break her fast last we-'k by ting a piece of toast. She hiad aot :st~d food for 27 days. In that ie she has done her own washini;. -oning and housework besides cook n for her husband. P. D. Hardy,. resient of the Canton Pressed iriek company. also a member of %- t lt is continuing his fast. He de 'lares' he has no desire for food. Senational Shooting at Church. As a result of a sensational shoot :ig at Highland Church. in Maeco: vunty. Ten::.. Monday afternoon. .n man is dead and three wounded \fter the shcoting it was found :-hat .1-rza Gaines had been ki~led and tob.-rt Nichols and two men name. arker had te n shot. The trouble s believ-ed to hare been the resu:: of n old feud between the oarties. Child Shoot.' Down Flume. Fie--ar-old Th~omas Gardiner. of hatcher. An:m.. fel: into a lumber it-e' in the Gra.'iam mountains and was carried seven miles at the speed f an express train. The flume is .-onsiered dangerous, but the child cam-- oa~t at the bottom with only a few scratches and mir~or bruises. Hum~an Pincushion May tDie. Crnlis Snoep. who for many years traveled with side shows as .* human pincushion. may die In Grand Rapids. Mich.. as the result of blool poison. His stunt was to take pin. from people in the crowds at the shows and run themi in the' flesh to he' head. He evidenced no pain and no b'nod flowed after the pin was w~thdraw n. Jnpure lee (Wrn Made 93 D1. Ptomaine poisoning caused by the eaing of impumr" ice cream miade 9.' pe'- ill in Hnnston. Ter. Spvera' v the victimrs had narrow escapes frm death. (Crazed by Wife' Death. Perry Nob!lett shot and killed him slf a f--w honrs after the d.-anh of .his wife near Hamburg. Iowa. He KLED WIFE Arrested as He Came Of German Liner at New Yok. HE CONFESSES CRIME LVCd Mallet t4 Siy Woman .After They Had a IjtVilent Quarrel. Then Stuck the Body In a Trunk. Car ried It Down to Lake. and Threw it in the Water. Porter Chariton. husbiand of M..ry ;cott Castle Chariton. whose body vas found in a trunk in Lake C>nio. taly. reached New York on a Ger uan Liner Thursday. A man re embling Charlton was arrested as e stepped from the steamer at he ier in Hoboken. He gave the names Charles W. Co-eman. tut a report .omu Holoen said that at tUe po ce station he broke down and ad itted that he was Chariton. CharAon said in his confession e and his wife had been havnig sup er together at the villa on Lake .,mo and that G.iey had engaged in violent quarrel. Charlton said his wife, who was ne of the best women in the world. ut had an ungovernable temper. Wled him some vile names and that nally who he could not stand her buse any longer, he attacked her -ith a wooden mallet. The young ran said that he struck her over the ead three times, knocking her un :onsc!ous and killing her. as far as e knew.. Charlton told the police that he ten stuck the body of his wife in a -auk and carried it down to the ke, where he threw the trunk into Le water. The body of Mrs. Charlton was >und packed in a trunk which was en from Lake Como near the vil ge of Moltrasio by fishermen June )th. The woman with her husband Ld occupied a villa on the lake front. ased by them some time before. At to time the woman's body was found orte- Charlton could not be found. ' he Italian police have insisted (at Charlton was alive and have di -etedi their energies to locating the mung ma:. American C;:nsul Caug r. on the other hand, held to the ory that a double murder had ieen mmitted. and it was through his preentations that the Italian au orities engaged divers to make the arch of the !ake bottum.. -Yeantime detectives follow.ed up eir own theory and their receut inclusion was that Charlton was a ssenger upon soine steamer which ad sailed from Genoa or other Ita. c port for New York. The police were watching for the rival of thie steamer D~eutschland, it had been reported that Chariton led on that steamer. The officers id a description of Charaton. and hen they saw a man resemibling m :eave the ship they pounced np Shim and placed him under ar 'St. He protested vigorously and -eed inclined forcibly to offer re stance, but he soon subsided. Capt. ott. brother of Mrs. Charltona. took ie look at the prisoner and saiu i man was Chariton. Later Charl in made a signed statemen.t to t >lice. While he was being sweated tu er the "third de;re-'." Charlton be rme infuriated. and drawing a re ylver. tried to shoot Chief of Police ayes. He was quickly disarmed. xd a few mninutes later contesseai L crinte. Wthin half an hour after his ar 'st Charlton had signed the toilow ig statement: "My wife and I lived happily to ether. She was the best woman i:: ie world to mue. but she had an tgovernabie temp'r. So had I. Je frequenty quarreed over the ost trival miatters and her lang age to me was frequently so font tat I know she dii : know the' reaning of it. "The night I struck .her she had een uarreling with mo. She v~a .the worst temper I hadi ever se.e-. 'r in. I told h.-r if sihe did ::ot ese I would leav .hr and put a top to it. She stopp.ed for a little hu and started again. "I took a mna~et which I had usedl o do household repairs and struck 'er three times. I thioug ht she was ead. I put the body in a trunk im hich I also threw the mallet. "About twelve that night I *rought the tru-k to may house and 'ragged it down to a small pier and rew it overbaard. I left the fol owing night and went tn C-mo. ?fnd rom there to Genoa. where I took he st-amier Irene three days later. "The room where I kiled her was r outdoor slo'pingt apartment.' Prisoner Find% a Fortune. Wiliam Hamiltn. who disatipear d from his home in Pit:shurg eight nonths ago and who later fell heir ro a fortune. was discover- d Thurs dJay at the house ..f correctio~n at (hicago. Th.e seIlemen of the .-s tat to which Hamnilie. is one of the heirs. has been delayed w'o& the search for the missing man3 win bo !ng proseented. The first trace was found in the records of the mniaci a! court which showed that he was seneced on M\ay 23 to se:rvo & days for disorderly conid':ct. May or Buse wili be asikedi to pardon the prisoner. whose healuth has been re tore4. and w.ho was to mumch eared at the no-r of his rood (arisine. Anm'n ' he ito:r~ mm ut fewa id by t.he bears in the~ New Orleans cot ton nrk.-t Wedn'-s ayi waq one fronm Houston. Texas. ar~nouncing that the frs* Texras hale of cotton this seasnn MAKES GREAT FlIGT ZEIE.IN'S DEUTSCiII..LND MAK ING ILEGULilt FLIGHTS. immense Airhip &orm'rs Three Hun- I dred Mlle Journey in Nine Hours. Carries Tw.%enty Pawnaer-. The fir-.t regular air ship servire %as inaugurate.1 at r'.dor . Ge- I many. Wedne--day. whea Count Zep peliu great craft. the Deutch.and. carry ing tw-nty passengers. succes' fully made the first scheduled trij: from Frie-drichshafen to Dus.-ldorf. a distance of :?o w.es. Ill t' hours. The weather was perfect and the more rs worked faultkessly. The aver agr time maintained for the complete course was approximately thirty-three miles an hour. but between Fried richshafen and Stuttgart the 120 miles we:-e covered at an average rate of speed of forty-ore miles an hour. The best speed for a sintle hour w-s forty-three and a haiP miles- t] Coutt Zeppelin was at the helm when the Deutschland arose at Fried richshafen at thr-e o'clock in the morning and sailed away on the trip that was to mark an epoch in avia ion. The passengers were directors of Hamburg-American Steamship Com any and the German Stock Company. oint owners of the dirigible, and their guests. They occupied the ma hogany walled ard carpeted cabin. situated between the gondolas and ti rom the windows of which they view ed the scenery as the aerial car swept along. T Count Zeppelin steered for the reater part of the distance. The ss route was via Stuttgart. Manheim e ind Cologne to Dusseldorf. It had tt een carefully marked out in advance or the guidance ot the p;l:t and %.;: !ollowed exactly. There was ;o air b iring. and the Deutschland made el er initial trip through a flow of )right sunshine. The hour and minute of the prob .ble passing of the various points had >een bulletined ahead, so that not G nly the people of the cities of the ine, who filed the streets, but the nhabitants of all the intermediate -illages turned out and cheered en- D .usiastically as the immense torpedo B< ike structure. with its whistling d4 icrews drove over their heads at a th eicht of between 200 and 3)0 feet. rii The Deutschland swung gently in- m o her landing at noon. and the mum- pc itude surrounding the landing yards .%f 6houted a welcome. The city had ,een decorated in honor of the event. pc Regular trips will be made, and pa any tickets already have been sJ.d T: or the first few days at from $24 b - $W0 each. The airship is equipped el -ith a r-staurant. which will supply er he passengers with a buffet servic-- w, uch as is afforded oiu parlor car rali- gi oad trains. er The dimnensions of the Deutchland P1 Lre: Length. 4S5 feet. Its gas capac- in ty is 24.S52 cubit yards. and it car is three motors, having a total of :Z-horsepower. It uns designsd to aintain a speed of thirty-five miles i n hour. Its irfting capacity it 44. 00( pounds. of which 11.4)00 poundsl over the crew. pasengers and ex ress. It is expected to be able tI ecomplish a continued trip of ~7u , PECULIAR ACCIDENT. 'faiiar With Dummy Elevators tI eratIs Badly Hurt- t A white woman, who name could a tI tot be learned, was seriously ir-d ~, ednesday afternoon at RiJtmore g ilose. the home of George Vander- d it, a fe'w miles from Asheville. . ti . It seem that shes had only been si t the house for a week or so and l< 'as unfamiliar with the excentra- a lies of dummy elevastors Some on yelled "look oat" ard she is saic a have thrust her head into the ele ~ator shaft and was caught. .her face 3 ~eing badly bruised. It Is said that Mr :he fact that the motor. which ran the dummy e:*vator was one of :nall s:rength. her head would have y~ h~cen cr'ushedl to a jelly. f I"ell Sixty F~eet to INeatha. I Charltes Beas'ey. of Greensboro. N. c C . a lineman for the S')uthern Pow- t r Comnpar y. was killesd Tuesday: mornin:: while working on the comn p n's lines about five miles froma Greeville. In somte way fleasley got t mixed up in the wires and fe:1 60 1 feet. The man's body was badlya aurned. .his right arm bein.: torn from the socket andi his left shoee torn from his foot by the heavy vol tage. D~iamtonds To'.ed in Pipe. Blaroness v'on Schroeder. daughter of the late pioneer Pet.'r Donahue. of San Francisco. who left her a fortune of miilions. is tearing out the plumb-| ing of her country home. Eagles Nest. in a search for jewo:s valued at $2".-: (sOi. The jewels were carelessly1 tossed into a wash basin by a maidI and were swept into the pipes. The plumbing of the entire house has been d ismant~ed without success. Rmackberrie.' Make Hens Drunk. Spiledlack>arries thrown in her back yard by Mrs. James Burnet. of Holay's Cove. W. Va.. made a feast for her hents and put them on a jag. While they w'ere drunk sh-' hought they were dead and thriftily pucked their feathers. Now the birds ara wearln: h.lankets. Old Man H.a, Owurd Twt . Coat'. St. V. Osbr. aned ~ years. of near Little R-ck. Ark.. baa owrned only two coats in his entire life. One he wore before his marriage, the otevr was h i vriding roat 46 years en. He decla--s cent, are useless. RAPS BALINGER ilE NATE WII.1. FIGIT SC(HIE.L TO WIZEAk VENGEA1NCE. r'gressive" and lkncocrats lid Up Bill Putting Army in Charge of Iteclamiation ,ervice. A conbination of insurgent Re ublicans and D- nocrats took anoth -r slap at Ilallingerism in the Sen ate this week. The attack came vhen the combination announced it: pposition to thbe bill increasing the -ngineer corps .f the arn.y. This i:1. which adds about t to th. umber of engineer officers. also au horizes the President to 1i'ace the rny engineers in full charge of all ublic works. But the far-seeing inaur:tents imi itdiately detected an effort to pro ide an easy way fur Blallinger to eL rid of Director Newell and .hief ngineer Davis. of the Recaniation ervice. as it had been quietly hint.-' at one of tho- first uses that woul.' e mtaJ of the law would be to lace army enginieers in charge of ie Reclamation service. and there y permit. Balliner to wreack p-r nal vengeance upon Newell and avis for daring to public'y proclaim iat his conduct was antagonistic to ie public interest. Senator Bailey of Texas is the ader in the fight against the bill. hough. he is actuated by personal otives. He has even admitted that e was animated by no higher pur )se than a desire to get even with te army engineers for refusing to -comment an harbor improvement i Texas which he had advocated. he Texas Senator also announced tat he would not allow the pas ge of the bill. even if it was nec sary to resort to a filibuster. But te Senate developed other opposi on equally as determined. and so rong has tne feeliag agal:.st the I become that it is expected the fort to pass it will be abandoned. MURDER DUTCH TRADERS. nboat Pursues Moro Slayers But Make No Capture. Siindanao Moros have murdered tch traders on an island off North >rneo under conditions which may velop into an outbreak so serious at a demonstration by troops from e miliatary station at Camp lolo ay be required. according to a re rt brough by the steamer Tamba aru. When the Tamba Maru sailel. re rts had reached Hong Kong that a rty of eight Moros. from the Tawi twi group of Is'ands. being driven storms to au island of the Cel es group. had murdered three trad and made- away with 40.000 pesos >rth of loot. A Dutc~h gunboat xre pursuit and chased the murder s to .\anusmanca, an island! of th' illippines. where they are still hid TIE I' lZ.llLR0ADS ippery flug% G~reae the Rlails I'n til Taians Cannot 3Move. The valley lin the nei-thborhood of :rmnton, Pa.. containing the little liage of Peckvll-. was paid a vis last week by mililiors of locusts. om early morning until sundown e noise made by the whiring or e locus can be heard above every ig else, while the valey is rapid being devastated of vegetation by e pests. The insects .have covreredi ec of the little coal branch.^s ofj e Ontario and Western railroad. aring around the rails. which ather and retain heat during the ay. until it is Impossible to operate t road. Tons and tons of coal are .anding on the sidings because the bcomotives can make no headway gainst the slippery bugs. TAKE L.AliS AND. PIGS. Ilsuri Farmerca- Attribute LoNe% to the Bird of Freedom. Farmers in .\issouri and other est--rn States are blaming eagles r thefts of steri::g lambs and piga ro their flocks. Recently C. N. rexler. of near Washburn. .\o.. aptureud one of the big birds. it ieasured more than six feet frcim ip to tip and stands nearly three et high. The bird was kept alive s a decoy to capture its mate, but he mate never appeared. 3Mr. Drex er had bee:n missing lambs and pigs nd blamed men for the theft. but o trace for the missing animals ould b-- found. On the day he cap ired the bird his dog was engaged vithb it In fierce combat an~d was e:ting the worst of the fray. No Clue to Mturdera. Wit a hullet hole through the head. be body of a w-ll-dressed man was ound late Thursday night at Chic asha. Okia.. pattally submerged in ditch. A rope tied around one an Ce, the police say. shons that th. >ody was dran;:ed some dIstance to ahere it was discovered. .T:herb is .o clue to the murderers of the man. Fourth IeNtroyer Launched. The torpeelo boat destroyer War. ringtn. b-::it tar the U. S. Govern ment '-- the Cramps of Philadelphia. a launched last week. It was nam ed by M1rs. Richard Hattan. of New York city, grarnd-daughter of Commo dora Warrington. The boat Is the 'ourth of five that are being built in Phladelphia. Farmer Slain in Duel. Qiney Everett. a young tarnmer. w.as shot and instantly kiled. and A. . 3!aekiin. his father-in.-law. was stabbed and fatally wounded, the re sl of a duri >e'ween. the men at RESTS ITS CASE Defence in Tri of Lorimer Says Testi MORT NecesSury Submitted. WHOLLY UNEXPECTED State's .ttorney Wyman in .Argu. ment to the Jury Says Murderer (an (o C'npunished. but There ib No Jutification for Iribery. Defendant Will Not Testiry. Precluding; Vie possibility of the def'n-ant going upon the stand in his own behalf. counsel say, and .-hutting ouzt all te-stimory that Sen ;tovr William Lorimer riight have tn offer in denial of the charg-- that H-i -eat In the Unite-I States senate wai purchased. lawyers for Lee O'Neili iBrowne abruptly rested their case ir the criminal court at ChiagO :at n-loria Tuesday. The sudden move of t.he defense in the alleged legislative bribery tr'al was who'ly unexpected. More than fifty witn-sses for the defense were thus excluded from the records of the case. Several of *.hese in addi tion to Browne and Senator Loriuer were considered of importance to the defense. Among them was Lieuten ant Governor John G. Oglesby. -1 is said that Browne's counsel believe their case stands or fal1a upon whether the jury is willing to accept the testimony of Representa tive Charles A. White, who made the first confession and delivered the principal testimony in the alleged bribery scandal. Attorney W. S. Forest. who has led the defense of Browne. has insist .1 f-nm th.- begi;ning that he is nio c.)erned materially over the out come in the criminal court: that he has made out a legal case for hia client to stand on in a higher court. In this connection Mr. Forest said zt the close of court: 'We have submitted all the testi mony that we believed necessary. We wanted chiefly character witness es to support the defendant as be lieving that after what the jury hearo about White. his testimony would have no weight." State's Attorney Wyman. how ever. takes another view of the pre eeding. He s vs that Brown. anc his lawyers fe-r to allow the case t e probe)d further, that eve;! witr their own witnesses they dnre n': aiko a chance ef an .inexpecte.1 stop Although .Mr. Wynan be.an lhis losing argumenlt to the jury com arativeiy early in the afternoon. he :ad nct finished when court was ad ourned for the day. M\r. Wymar sid in part: ".\lurderers can go unpunshed arceny is often .xcusedl by th law nd a man may go out in the niight nd rob to feed a starvig family ut there is no justification for brib. ry. It crinst go) l)uuishe-d. "The fact that over fifty tiemo rats voted for Senator Lorimer.': tepb::ian. shows in itself that there :s bi b.ry. Repres.e;:tative \\'ht t :as thuls brihed to elect a memblie: ' the only body in our fe-ieral go' rnm-nut thait can dtclare war or e: et peace- for the millions of out .opulation. -t was a gigantic muomet:t for irowne. the minority leader, when e tried to elect Lorimier. If he had fail- d. what amends could .he have ade to his constituents? As long s he succeeded the Denmocrats could o back to their co'stitulents and~ inke some sort of apology because ie had succeed' d.'' UETi~T SEI'UCE. Ja-lectrc cars to Bie i...e-t by the Southern Riailweay. Followir g t.he announcement mad y the Southern Railway Company on lay ' 1st that the use of gas-eiectric cars in somec cf the more congested istricts .along its !tn.s was contem' pated. it is definitely anr~ounc-d by tat Compatny that its steam passenl cr train servie in the Greenville torritory is to oc supplemented in 1uly by the inaugeirationt of regular gas-- Itetric: motor car service. Pending :.he comxpletion of three motor cars now being built for th' Southern Railway Company. the man agement. determined not to delay the inaugurationf of the new s.rvic-. ha. arranged with the General Electrti Company for the return of :.he nas eectric car which was ulsed experi rentally with very satisfactory r sults last summer on the li.e ibetweell Marassas and Strasburg. Va. Gas-electric motor car service wit tory by this car until the delbery o! .he two improved gas-eectric cars b-ing built especially or ti-e South ern Railway Company by the' Gernera Electric Comsany. and the gasolin< car being constructed by the Mce KEen Mlotor Car Company. of Omaha Neb. These cars will be cornpleter in a few months and will be pu into regu'ar service as soen as de livered to the Sout-hern Ra:lway Comn pan y. PrisonerF Makes Confew'ion. Wb: --onfneed 1: his cell in Sai Q:entin. Cal.. or. convictionl of rob bery. Jchn A-:ery. declared he wa 1.hautd by the :ace ot a man he ha< Jkiid in Spokane. Wash. He relate his experiences to a guard and th !acts ba' a ben corroborated. IhrelelingsWekd Mfore :h 'n a doze: small dw-l'irni were wrecked Wednesday night I .d around Decatur. Mi1ss. Crop were badly damaged. :elegraph sci CARS JUMPED TRACK FOUR F.ATALLY HUR 'IT ON SCENIC R.AILWA Y. Merry-Making Crowd at .Coney Island Hurled from the Cars a Distance of Sixty Feet. At last four persons were fatally irjtiured and a dozen others serijusly hurt early Wet-iesday when two crow*ded cars ,;n a scenic railway on the fowery at Coney iland. N. Y.. running at a terrific speed. jumip u the track and dropped a sheer 6v :eet to the ground. Two cars of .he big switchl'ack had be.-n til:ed and hauled up the incline and the party laughing and shout ing. plung-d down the first steep. Up the next inclsne the cars shot to :.e level of Ube scenic road and began ;he- dive down at a mile a minute pace. Something went wrong with the mechanisn aud ab the cars were dasg ed1 around the irst turn the rear car Ium;,e t.e track. tirgring the for ward car with it. Ten of the occu pants were hurled front the cars and went crashing down among the scen cry, falling to th. ground where they lay unconscious. Six went down with the first car and were pinned ';st beneath the wreckage. These last were the one most ser lously 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 pruic was increased when some one switched off the electric lights. The man in charge of tv* dririnc cars escaped in jumping. He could not explain the accident. but leclares it was unavoidable. COWESSES TO KILLING. Webb Says He Kiled 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- 1 tian Monday night. Webb. in a sign- f ed statement to the police. said ne e killed Johnson in self-defense after t a brawl between the two men in c Johnson's room at the hotel. Mrs. s D. W. Kersch. who was arrested with 1, ''hb. is exonerated from complicity r n the crime by the confessed slayer ( .-ho charges. however. that she con pired with him in the packing ot s :he lj-!y i- the trunk and sending > the station. Mrs. Kersch is sup- 4 ,o! cd to be the wife of Johnson. nn' t -he admitted that she was the wife f Pert Kersch. a city emp'oye oi eattle. and that she ran away %:tth i: Weibb a year ago. Webb says he is s :L printer and is 45 v.:ars old. .31AKE5 FLI(11T AT NIGHT. Hamilton Startles 10.000 People byt Charles K. Hanilton. made a sen saiona! flight at N.rshville. Tenn.. Wenesday night, taking .his bi-plane 'to the air after darkness had fat ;n. He flew for eigthteen minutes 'rough inky spa~ce while 19.000) peo le ;ut the fair grounzds stood aghast t his daring. The attempt was unannounced I and the spectators hardly knew what .as happening until the great-bird like figure had shown itself far above ~ the myriads of electric lights and disappeared into black::es. . Sud denly it reappeared. and three times ilami'ton~ ibrilled the spectators by -tipping in front of the grand stant entil he almost touched the row of lights stretched across the track. He~ even dipped und'r the wires at~d finally came to earth on the track eretly in frcnt of tihe cheering osan ds. .3IOTHER KIL.LED) HERSELF. Worry Over Illness of One of Her Daughters the Motive. Soon after her 19 year old son had left her. .\rs. Ellen C. Earg.e committed suicide in a sensational manner Wedn.-sday on a sidewalk in Me.dia. Pa. Accompanied by her sn. Loutis. Mrs. t'.agle came from her home in Lansdowne. Pa.. on a trol ley car. Alighting from r.he car. Mrs tage teld the boy to go ir:o a drug tore and drink a soda water as the day was hot. As h.' turned his hack .\rs. Ea:le took a bottle containing poison fronm h-r pocket and drank the contens. The son turned to say something to his mtother a::d witnewsd her act. She collapsed! in his armts and died oon aft..rward in a hrspitai Mrs Eagle's worny over th: illness of one of her daughtes is bleved to hae been her motive for suicide. Two Little Boys Burned tn Death. Playir. with matches resulted in the death of two :ittle sons of J . Taylor. aged two and four years. resectively. at lredelI. Texas. Tues day. The little boys were starting 1 fire wher. their clothes became :g niedi and they were burned to death. Aeroplane Dived Into River. (In an attempt to make agld acoss the Ohio rive r at Louisville K.. J. C. Mars was surprised for SIthe motor of his aeroplane stopped Iand the machine dived into the riv Ier. Hn was not injured and the machi:- not damaged. Rajinbow Appeared at Night. C' I. 5oyer and memers of h:2 amly saw a rainbaw between ,' and one -'clock while e"uning to rheir home -rar Prosser. Wash. The moon was aninning brigh:Ty. The NAMES HARMON Ohio Democrats Remimate His For. GoTeror of Ohio. STATE TICKET ANNOUNCED He is Endorsed for the Presiden-y by the State Convention at Day topn.-Wi;l Ilesign Governorship to .take the Bace.-Bryan's Sugges tion to Endorse Senator Defeated. The Democratic party of Ohio goes into the State campaign this fall with Judson Harm.>u as its candidate for rovernor and President. The Dem Xratic state convention. which com ileted its Isbors Wednesday at Day on. endorsed him in the strongest erms for th' Presidency of the V'nited State after it had renominat :d him for goveraor by acclamaUou. The belief held by many delegateA hat the governor will resign short y after the beginning of his new erm in order to become a candidate or President before the next Demo ratic national convention was voc id by former Governor James A. ampb- l. The ex-governor was in roducing Altee Pomerene. of Canton. he nominee for lieutenant governor. "Here is the man." he said. "who will be lieutecant governor. for six nonths and the governor for a year nd six months. Both of these fabu ous promotions, however, were ac :omplished- against the earnest pro est c. f their beneliciaries." Th- following resolution was pre ented by the cowrmittee on resolu ions by the convention endorsing vernor Harmon for the Presidency -We invite the attentior of the ration to Judson Harmon and the ork he is doing for Ohio. Two years tense it will have been completed, hen we can spare him for larger luties. He believes that guJt is per onal-is acting on that belief at tome. and would act upon it in large ields. A- high sense of duty provid s his only motives for official ac ions and .his sense of justice alone empletes judgment. Firmness and trengtil mark him the man to sup !ant vacillation and weakness. The ation needs a real man and the hio Democracy presents and endor es for the Presidency of 1912 Jud on Harmon." Governo; Harmon made a futile ref est of the resolutions committee hat they omit the Presidential en orsent resolutions. saying that ne ; maki;:g his present fight on state 5%6s and did not want national is ues injected into the coming cam aig::.' Ha was told that it could not e prevented. Atlee Ponierene. who was him e'lf a candidate against Harmon for he nomination in the state conv--n ion two years ago. almcst angrily emanded that .hie be not compel'ed a manke the sacrifice, as he Termed c. of ace'ptin~g the nomination for econd plaice. Although his. name cas not placed in nomination. he re elved nearly e:ough votes on the rst ballot to nominate, lie form Ily withdrev.. but on the second allot, before the roll ca:l was com 1--ted, the nomination was made nanimous. H-' asked time to con Ider the matter and after an hour's onference with his frienls announc d .he would accept. The proposition to endorse a can lidate for Lnited States senator that cas -:ggested by William J. Bryan, 'as defeated. receiving hut 254 out *f the 1.'t99 votes in tae convention. A move of great importance in )hio was made by the convention :hen it endorsed the proposal for tconstitutional convention, a ques .ion that will be voted upon by the eople this fa:1. The following is the ticket that was nominat-'d to make the cam aign. with Governor Harmon. .ieutenanlt Go vernor-Atlee Pom -ren". Can'.on Attornley General-Tim~oth S. Ho tan. W.-listoit. Secretary of State-Charles H. :raves. Oak Harbor.. Treasure'r of State-D. S. Cream At the *.enciusion of the nomina ons the convention adjourned sine Killed hiue With Wife. Samuel Lucas was shot from am bus'h and :.iled while walking with his wri.- late Wednesday night in lo::tgmery county and 1:llis Goard Flier l.illis. A. F. NicCrady. Samuel Gensby and R. L. .\axey are :n jail charged with the crime. Lucas and his wife wer'- returninig home afer visn:ing a neighbor when Lu cas was shot through tho .head. It is said Lucas had disputed a ciati for mnoney held against his wife by Goard. Two Burned to Death. Two men were burned to death and two others received sl:ht inju ies in. a Wie that des.troyed th-' Cen tury Club eottage and an adjoining smali summer residen~ce at Bates Pak. an Beverly. Stass.. Tuesday. The dead art': Het:ry B. .Barrott. of Peaocy. and -3er: MicShane. of Sa: em. The two men. with the three ohers. had hired the cottage for their summer escationl. S.ever@ Sentence. Tro u:p.otntry is not te only part 0- --:n wor~i wher the :cgal sain o: wh:-k.y 's run:shei. Ir. Su:mter :.. BEu Du:tor. :s servitr-5 a 3~ monhs' senternce for just cffering a dinl to a~ customer, accordl~ to Duton-a stat:emnlt at the -rIal.