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
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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. *
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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.
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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. *
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