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gpr "" "'" RING RULE Will Not Be Submitted to by the Tennessee Democrats Who DENOUNCE PATTERSON' Anl the Other lUngstors for Attempting to Coerce the Supreme Court. Eulogies on the I>ate Son atop Carraack Ellcted Prolonged Applause. Governor M. R. Patterson and the State Democratic executive committee were bitterly denounced Wednesday at Nashville in speeches and resolutions, by the largest mass meeting of voters ever held in the State of Tennessee, called ror the purpose of protesting against the action of the Governor and executive committee in attempting to force all judiciary candidates to submit their candidacy in the general primary ol June 4. This action of tho committee was contrary to precedent and resulted in several of the candidates for the Supreme Court and Court ol Civil Appeals announcing themselves as independent candidates. The convention, at which more than five thousand Democrats of the State were present, nominated a ful. Judiciary ticket and appealed t9 the voters of the Stato to refuse to par ticipate in the primary on June 4. Governor Patterson and tho exec utlve committee were "unqualltledl: denounced and condemned," for theii efforts "to overcome and coerce the Supreme Court of the State in the de cislon of a case pending before it." this reference being to the Coopei case. Eulogistic references to the late Senator Carmack elicited prolonged applause, while every denunciary re Terence to Governor Patterson wat greeted with great enthusiasm. Th Judiciary tickets endorsed were a: follows: Supremo Court: W. D. Heard Memphis: M. M. Neal, Trenton; J. K Shields, Chattanooga; D. L. Laos den, Carthage, and Grafton Green. Nashville. Court of Civil Appeals: S. F. Wi' Bon, Nashville; J. C. Higgles, ShelbyviHe; J. 'M. Taylor, Lexingtfon. F. P. Hall, Dresden, and H. Y Hughes, Tazewell. The following synopsis of the declaration of principles was adopted by the Convention: That the people have the lnaleni% able right to alter, reform or abolish any agencies of their own creation when those agencies seek to I thwart the soverign will. That the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power is ab Eurd and slavish. That the independence of the thret coordinate branches of the Government is essential to the stability of the commonwealth and the freedom of the people. That any attempts to coerce the Courts in the exercise of their proper functions is destructive of peace and safety and should be resisted by all lawful moans knows to free men. That the paramout Issue before the nannln nf la th IllfloiH'nd "' - ~ mm. m. , ence and Integrity of their Courts. That half a century ngo an amendment to tho Constitution was adopted. proving that a day should he appointed for the election of Judges and Attorney General, seperate and apart from the Jay for election for political ofllces, so that merit and efficiency should not be obscured b> heat and strife of a political campaign, and has always since been recognized by both political parties of the State as wise nd patriotic, and as prompting tho independent of the judiciary. That tho so-called State executive committee, not one of whose members was elected by the people, and a majority of whom were appointed by the Governor, has attempted to repudiate the well settled and safe method of selecting candidates for the judiciary and has attempted to deprive the Democrats of the State of the right to hold their own elections, to make their own platforms and to appoint the committees, and being completely under the control of the Governor has adopted a plan to aid their master in his attempt to coerce the Supreme Court to to perpetuate their own power. That by these acts of usurpation tho committee and the governor .have disrupted the Democratic party and have given sufficient grounds for repudiating the committee. That the committee be repudiated and the Governor denounced and condemned for his effort to coerce the Supreme Court In a case pending before it. and that endorsement be given Justices Board, Sheilds and | Neil, of the Supreme Court, in refusing to submit to the un-Dem^cratic plan, and that condemnation be given Judges Ixmdsden. Hall, Hlggins, Wilson and Taylor for their Claims direct to tho people. That every Democrat who believes In the integrity of the judiciary and the right of the people to control their own affairs, be call-d on to refuse to participate in tho primary' ordered for June 4, and any othe TELLS TWO TALES TAFT SEEMS TO HAVE A VERY CONVENIENT MEMORY. First Denied and Then Admitted the Truthfulness of the Charges Made by Kerby. Zach McGhee. in his letter to The State, says when the New York World reached Washineton Mondav morning with the suggestion that a new department of the government as five pounds to fifty galioni of wi"department of common sens.'," the sentiment seemed to meet with universal approval. Young Kerby, the stenographer, who disclosed Saturday the startling fact that Pr sident Taft's letter, exonerating Secretary Ballinger, had been in part prepared by an attorney in Mr. Ballinger*8 own office, was Monday dismissed from the service. as was expected. What startled everybody was that Presl-'ent Taft, after 011 Saturday denyii g Kerby's statement, on Sunday admitting the whole thing and even wors? than KVrby had charged. And a still more monstrous fact is just now beginning to dawn on the public, that on Saturday the man through whom the president's boor5 was made was none other than Mr. Ballinger himself. Taft was out playing golf when Ballinger rushed to the White House vlth a copy of the Washington Titties, which first printed Kerby's story. Over t-he telephone from the golf links the president told Ballinger to zo ahead and d< uy the whole thing. The denial was accordingly fixed up then and there at the White House and given out The next day, Sunday, the president realized that Kerby's story would be believed, that, in short, he was caught, and so he decided to admit it. It is a second case of Roosevelt and Harrlman, although in this case there is no corruption, but just a case of ordinary gullibility and general incompetence. Roosevelt emphatically and indignantly denied any illusion with Harriman and c.B d Harrlman a liar, but when he realized that Harriman himself might give tut the letters, in short, thnt Harrinan had the goods. ?te decided to give out the letters, which was a onfession, not an altogether open me, however, for he garbled os-c of the letters. Now Mr. Taft follows in the steps >f "my policies." A representative >f Kentucky, one of the most brilliant of the congressmen, remarked 'o me Sunday: "The whole truth is that Taft and that crowd aruond him were brought up in a school of ethics which s es no wroti in that kind of double entendre. This school teaches that a deception or a lie in business is all right, so long as it s not exposed. When exposed, it is only a mistake, not a moral wrong." FIYK INJl'llKl) IX At TO. The Machine Skidrieil While IJelng Rapidly Driven. As the result of an automobile accident. about one mile from Kershaw, Mr. J. W. Ingram Is severely, but not seriously injured, and the ma hine of Mr. C. W. Requarth Is badly lamage 1. W.hile turning a curve at 1 rapid rate the rear wheels skidded, sending the car into a small bridge. The bridge being demolished, the car hen ran Into a nearby wood pile before it was a'rain gotten under control. One of the occupants, I)r. W. 0. Twitty. Jumped. All five were slightly bruised, but Mr. Ingram more severely hurt than the others. Chased Policeman. While strolling along his lonely beat In Portland, Ore., Patrolman Swennes was surprised by a jcinnamcn l>ear. About the time the animal gave a growl and a snarl Uie patrolman mas making record time toward police headquarters. A still 'Mint revealed the hear belonged to the Portland Bird company and after his taste of freedom he returned to his cage. ( rack of I>oom. Hundreds of negro *s in Savannan spent Wednesday night fasting and praying, fearing ev> rv moment to hear the ' crack o' doom." Not much labor was gotten from them during me uuy, so great is tneir rear of the comet. The evident concern In the negro quarters of the city was very great. .Made tUm l.euve. Following the publication of alleged offensive articles in his paper, K. N. Bryant, a negro was driven out of Hrookhaven, Miss., and his plant and residence burned llnngcd for Assault. With t.he Jail guarded with three companies of state militia, Howard Harris, a negro, convicted of assaulting a white woman was hanged at Convention or primary ordered by said committee. PThat the candidacy of the above med asolrants for pudicial honors formally endorsed. A WIERDSTORY Body of ? Mao Held in Asheville oF Eight Years is Claimed I BY AN UNKNOWN WOMAN The Rotly, Which Has Reen in an i nut'ruiKcr i*.sta!>Uslutient, Wan That of a Noted Former and (ionoral Confidence Man, Who Was Cmllted With Sixteen Wives. The remains of Charles J. As(luith, alias "Lord Beresford," alias have at last been claimed. The body of Abqulth or Lascelle. the man j who died at Asheville, N. C., in October. 1902, and which has remained in a local undertaking establishment ever since, was last week shipped to Baltimore on affidavit of wife No. 1 that the body was of her husband and the remains will We cremated in that city. The name of wife No. 1 is withheld. Negotiations for the body were conducted through a friend. Mrs. T. J. Summer field of New Jersey, who made affidavit on behalf of wife No. 1 that the body was that of her husband. The undertakers being satisfied as to the afTi lavit turned over the body upon" payment of certain costs. Incident to embalming. etc., and the body went to Baltimore for cremation. That Asquith or Lascelle 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, TexaB and other states, an.i bore an unsavory reputation. The man went to Asheville in September or early October in the year 1902. He was very sick at the time and. although supposedly well off when his death occurred two or three weeks after his arrival. It was found that he had no funds an ! apparently no friends or relatives. Th> body was embalmed by an undertaking firm and In the absence of pay, and in the absence of information and advice from friends or relatives the hnitv h-io w MMO uui uih mratf eight years remained unclaimed at the undertaking place until last we- k when wife No. 1, through her representative, made claim to the body; made alildavit that the body was that of her husband and paying all expenses claimed and secured the body for shipment to Baltimore. The shipment of the body of Asquith or Lascelle ends a most interesting and mysterious story. During the years that the body has remained unclaimed in Asheville, many hundreds of people as a result of the notoriety that the incident at- I traded have visited the undertaking rooms and sought to identify th> body. Several times it was thought that the Inidy had been identified by one or more wives, but always the id ntification proved a false alarm. It is said that the man Asquith, whose body was claimed by a woman who alleges that she was his original wife and married to the woman some twenty years ago in the "Little Brick Church Around the Corner," in New York; that they went to Europe and lived happily for a time and that then tne man disappeared. That was the lust that was s?en of him by his wife. It Is said that he was in jail in Europe; that he was Anally liberated and later appeared in Italy where he sold somebody's yacht and again "got in bad." ills career was checkered and Just how he found his way to Ashe vine was neTor explained. It Is known, however, that when his death occurred In A&hevllle he wore a tie that was purchased in Texas and also other clothing purchased in the Lone Star State, which indicate.! that he had come from Texas to A&heville. It was stated that the real name of the woman who claimed the body of her husband is not named; that, in fact, all persons having anything to do with the taking of the body away will not divulge their names and the undertakers and others interested are pledged to secrecy. It is understood that although thr local undertaker who has hold the body of Lascello for eight years turned it over to wife No. 1 upon the payment of actual cost, $110, that the undertakers wore recently offered $">,000 for the body which they refused in an effort to comply witb the North Carolina law. * I mmI Them at Ijist. 'Mrs. Eva Simon. 95 years old. was buried In her home town of Wabash. 111., last week, in a shroud and burial outfit which she prepared 68 vears aso for .her funeral. All the years since that time she has kept her burial clothing in good condition. Safe Ilobbers ut Work. At Fargo, Ga., yeggman blew open tJh? office of the Southern Express Company early Sunday morning and secured several hundred dollars in coin, together with a small collevtion of rare coin placed in the safe for safekeeping. HORROR OF QUAKES survivors from costa rica TELL OF TIIKIK ESCAPE. When the C!!y of Cartago Was Destroy! d anil More Than Fifteen Hundred People Were Killed. The first survivors of the recent earthquake In Costa Rica, in which more than fifteen hundred lives were lost in the destruction of Cartago, .have arrived in this country on the st/'amer Prinz Joachim. There were nearly a dozen of them, mostly tourists. among them Prof. Philip P. Calvert of the University of Pennsylvania and his wife. Prof. Calvert a well known entomologist, and his wifo had spent nearly a year in Costa Rica gathering specimens for the university, i hov had a narrow escape when the or.e-story abode and plaster hotel in Cartago, where they were stopping .. i.o ..itiivru. KII3. LiUH'll IUUS UOscri' s tfc/ ir experiences: j "between April 13 and May 4 we had 160 seperate shocks in Cartago. The one which played the worst havoc came cn the night of the 1th. We were in our room, when suddenly t.h re came a tremor and crash nd everything came down and all col'.'psed. How we escaped I don't know and never will, but all we got vas a shower bath cf dust. ''It was a terrible experience. The whole city was simply laid in ruins, x ith bodies lltering the streets. If was a scene I am very anxious to forget." Dr. Walpole Brewer, surgeon of the Prir.c Joachim, told of the rescue work done by the ship's crew. The Joachim was at ihnrt Limon when Cartago was destroyed, and when appeals for help came I)r. Rrewer was sent there with six army nurses. The party arrived at Cartigo twelve hours after the disaster. "Our special train," Dr. Brewer said, "took us through a country 'live with men and women running hither and thither, shrieking and praying to be delivered from death. Fiona-.' tried to scramble aboard the train and two or three were ground to death beneath the wheels as we sped past. It was the most frightful spectacle of panic I ever saw. "Cartago was a city of dead and wounded. Every person who escaped Injury .had run away. The town was wrecked and leveled. The Carnegie Peace palace had less than half a single wall standing. Every church w;.s down. At the very entrance 1 four.! five men and women lying dead beneath the spire of the cathedral. In every block we came upon blacks and w-hites, women and children, dead In the debris of houses, stores and churches." For two days the relief party remained in tlie stricken city, aiding the wounded and shipping them out of Cartago. No Europeans or Americans were found among the dead or Injured." LYNCHED TIIE FIEND. Brute Who Attempted to Assault a Child Swung. Because he was c.hnrired uHfh - - tempting to criminally assaut the elght-y-^ar-old daughter of Harry Tison, residing iu the western part of Baker County, (la., Charlie Wilson, i negro boy, about 18 years old, was lynched at a late hour Friday night by a mob of citizens, who took the negro by force from a bailiff before he could be landed at the jail at Newton. Wilson. It Is alleged, attempted to assault the Tison child Thursday afternoon, but her screams were heard by her father, who caught the negro and turned him over to t-he officers. Wilson was hanged from a tree standing near a much traveled road and his body was riddled with bullets. TOWNS TORNADO TORN. Storm Deals I math and Destruction in Oklahoma, Maysvllle, a small town 15 miles northwest of Paul Valley, Okla., was wiped off the map early Friday evening, and several persons were killed, according to meagre reports received. The town of McCarthy, near Maysvllle, was nearly all swept aw ly, ind three persons there were k- ied. All the wires are down. Relief trains probably will bo sent out. One of the hardest hail storms In the history of the region swept over a stretch of country neal Paul Valley Friday evening. In places destroying all si^ns of veeetation. Young Itunk Cashier. Bnrl P. Martin, of Donald's. S. C. holds the record for neing the youngest bank cashier In the United States He Is eighteen years of age and war elected cashier of the Hank of Donald Tuesday. L. Atl Merger, of Helvit, Kas., aged 20, is the next young-st cashier. Trainmen Cremated. Two trainmen were cremated by 23,000 volts of electricity when a sleeper on the Illinois Traction system collided with an electric train near Lovelace, Mo., Friday. * % 4 DIED IN FIRE Thirty-fife Prisoners Cremated When the Stockade Burn d. FIRE STARTED BY THEM In an Attempt to Make Their Escape. All Efforts to Save Prison* ers Were Futile. Oruosonie Scene Pn'scntwl When Flames Subsided. Fate of Several I'nknovvn. Thirty-five convicts were burned to death at an early hour Monday morning at the Lucile mines, of the Red Feather Coal Company, located in Bibb county, fifteen miles north of Cartersville, Ala. The men were cremated while making desperate efforts to escape from a burning stockade, in which they were confined, and other prisoners were with great difilculty saved from the same fate. The stockade was fired by a convict in attempting to escape, and he. too. met death in the fiaines. Guards of the camp were aroused by cries of anguish from the suffering men, but the stockade burned so rapidly that their efforts to save all inmates were futile. ThUse who escaped from the stockade, in which about 100 were confined. attempted to escape custody, resulting in one being shot to death. After the fire the stockade presented a gruesome scene, the ground being covered with baked bodies, while the groans of those injured added to the horror of the scene. All convicts at the Lucile mines are leased by the State to the Red Feather Coal Company, of which 11. YV. Perry is president, and J. H. Tay;or, superintendent. Official information is to the effect that twenty-six men were burned to death and twenty-one, s veral of whom have since died, were seriously burned. Three white convicts w -re confined at the camp, but it is not known whether these met death. Several guards were slightly humea while attempting to rescue the con victs. State Convict Inspector Hugh Wilson .has been sent to the scene, and the Governor has offered assistance. The camps were inspected several weeks ago and were repor.ed m good condition. The stockade was fired from the inside, a plan having been formulated to make a general escape. The ft-' burned more rapidly, it is be'iavuj. than the man who set fire to the building expected, and instead of furnishing a means of escape, the men succumbed to the tlames. The fire was discovered after it had made such headway, an l the guards and other men, who ware attracted to the scene, had all they ?ould do to get out some of tlie men who w re locked in the cells and : > prevent those who were released t'-jin getting away. News of the fire spread through Bibb county, and other coal ccuimunlties have gone to the assistance if the Red leather Company. Tli. bodies of the convicts will be bur.eJ near the scene of the conflagration is soon as the company and S rte itficials have mad a full investigation in the matter. BITE OF MAI) lHHi FATA L. \ IJtle (1iori( ti>n I-id Is the laitcst Victim. The News and Courier says at midli'giht Tuesday night a report from he bedside of little Raymond Livingston, the six-year-old child of Mr. j J. K. Livingston, who was bitten by a stray mad dog at George and St. I'hllin streets on rhe mom I no' nf April 10, was to the effect that the ^hlid was not expected to last through tho night. J)r. Edward M. Poykln was In attendance on the little fellow at that hour and stated that tho child had a gerulne case of hydrophobia, ami would not live to see the dawn. The lad was s ized with an attack on Monday, and although all was done for him taht was possible, his life was dlspaired of almost from then. The sympathy of the entire city is wit-h the child and his stricken pa.ents. Raymond was given the full Pasteur treatment at Atlanta and returned to the city tho early part of tho month, apparently on the road to recovery. The wounds on his face were practically healed up and It was hought that all danger of hydrophobia had been eliminated. On Monday however, a chancre act In ani*. the fellow sank rapidly. All that medical science and loving and tender hands could do for the suffering child was done, but, It is feared, all to no avail. They <*ot Soared. Roys sent up a number of fire balloons with skyrockets attached during Wednesday night at Talladega. Ala., and many negroes seeing them and thinking the comet was going to do damage, fled in terror. The reports reaching .here say that practically all the inhabitants of certain quarters rushed away and gathered at another place and b gan at once to pray. r-%y. . , ' S V T'-.. <' *' "; , VONE HUNDRED DEAD AND AS MANY MOliK WOUNDED BY TWO EXPLOSIONS. A Ton and a Half of (iiant Powder in Cul>an Guard Barracks Goes Off. Two almost simultaneous explosions of stores of dynamite, supposed to consist of 3,000 pounds, completely demolished the rural guard barracks in the city of Plnar 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, wero killed also, as well as several employes of the public works department and residents of the city, on which fell a deluge of masonry and debris from the blown-up building. It is not known yet whether the explosion was the result of an accident or was an art of conspirators, but the former is considered the most probable. Several relief trains carrying surgeons. officers and men of tlie 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. Helancour of the garrison and their families, who are believed to be buried in the ruins of the officers' quarters adjacent to the barracks. The barracks was a massive building of Spanish construction and occupied a site 011 the outskirts of t.he city to the north. During the late Intervention it was the headquarters of Col. Parker's regiment, the Eleventh cavalry. Adjacent to the barracks was a long row of officers quarters. The barracks was occupied by the public works department and four trUops of rural cavalry. In consequence of the alarm over race disturbances the government ordered all deposits of dynamite in the city in the posesslon of contractors for road construction and other public works to he removed to the barracks for safekeeping. Thursday afternoon the work of removing the dynamite from the barracks for shipment to the government magazine was begun by employes of the public works department, assisted by rural guards. According to reports received the nvangled remains of victims were found in the street of the city a mile from the scene of the explosion. There is great anxiety In Ilabana, owing to the fact that a large number of the rural guards at Piar Del Rio recently were sent from the city, where their famillos reside. The explosions occurred at five o'clock, a lew socond before the men would have quit work. It is generally believed that the first resulted from the accidental fall of a box of dynamite, which was being lifted on a wagon. It is impossible, however, to determine absolutely the cause, for the reason that all in the immediate vicinity were blown to fragments. It is believed the majority of the wounded are residents of the town, as practically all within the barracks were instantly killed or bur led In the ruins. Tho work of exhuming the dead and searching for those who may be alive ij going on but is greatly retarded by the destruction of the electric wires and the fear that a quantity of unexploded dynamite remains in the ruins. FAIjSK CKY STAIiTS PANIC. Many Injured While Viewing u Circus Parade. A mistaken cry "the lion's loose" threw a circus crowd of women and rhrildren into a frenzy of panic, at Newark, N. J., Tuesday afternoon and some were badly crushed and cut. one man fell In a fit, a woman had her shoulder dislocated and many other persons sufT' red minor Injuries. One little girl has her jaw broken. The panic occurred outside the circus tent, during the parade. Ilecause of the size of the circus one of the largest in the country the streets were packed with sightseers. Suddenly the band struck up. A mounted policerm^n's horse took friirht and bolted straight for f>i thick of tho crowd. Itefore ho couid get it under control, so me bo ly shouted "a lion's loose," and the crowd went mad with frlgn \ Adults and children rusbci f-r the neA-est point of safety, upsntinsj baby carriages and trampling or ti.o babies In their charge. So;n- jumi>>d Into front ja.ds, and a nearby grocer's shop was wrecked The windows were OKen, the O'Ticn. overturned an l che floor cover-1.! wi'h siKiiled goods. I.<mhI Option. The State Democratic convention In Montgomery, Ala., last week, declared for local option, a liberal attitude toward capital, and more effective and protective mining laws. * '