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We4ae»Ay.
BOYD AND BROCK (HUT
Two Now Kntrta Only on the Last
Day.—Candidates Spoke at BUh>
oprtlie on Thursday.—Charges
Made by Opponent of Attorney
General.—Lyon Replies.
The State campaign opened up in
Sumter last Wednesday. The last
day (or filing pledges was Tuesday
and up to noon of that day the only
surprise# were the entry of Barney
B. Evans for Attorney General
against Lyon and P. K. McCully.
Jr. of Anderson. Another feature
was the withdrawal of both Gen
Boyd and his Assistant Col. Brock
from the race for Adjutant General
At the meeting at Bishopviile on
Thursday the feature was the severe
attack upon the public record of At
torney-General Lyon by Barnard B.
Evans, an aspirant for that office,
and the ciear-cut, forciful reply of
that officer. Other features were the
rousing reception accorded to Thos.
O. McLoed, candidate 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 general
“warming-up" ail along the line
▲side from these points, the Meet
ing wss in effect practically the
same at that at Sumter the day be
fore.
The following is a correct list of
those aspiring for State offices ana
for Congressional jobs:
For Governor—Cole L. Blease,
John T. Duncan, C. C. Featherstone,
F. H. Hyatt, Thos. G. McLeod and
John G. Richards.
For Lieutenant ' Governor—E
Walker Duvall and Chas. A. Smith
For Secretary of State—R. M.
McCown.
For Comptroller General—-A. W.
Jones.
Eor State Treasurer—R H. Jen
nings.
■For Adjutant General—Charles
Newnham, W. W. Moore, J. M. Rich
ardson.
For State Superintendent of Ed
ucation—J. E. Swearingen.
For Attorney General—B. B. Ev
ans, J. Fraser Lyon.
For Railroad Commissioner—Jss
Cansler, G. McDuffie Hampton, G.
H. Mahon, O. C. Scarborough.
The foilowing candidates filed the
pledgee for the different Congres
sional Districts of the State:
First District—George S. Legare,
J. H. Lessene.
Second District—L. P Boyleetou,
Jas. F. Byrnes, C. W. Garris, J. O.
Patterson.
Third District—Wyatt Aiken, Ju.-
lue E. Boggs, Coke D. Mann.
Fourth District—Joe. T. Johnson.
Fifth District—Thos. B. Butler,
D. E. Finlay, J. K. Henry.
Sixth District—George W. Brown,
J. E. KUerbe, P. A. Hodges, B. B
Sellers.
Seventh District—A. F. Lever. W.
W. Ray. .
IHHBLK HANGING.
Third Ot>evict Gets Reepite From the
Governor.
Nick Marenge and Frank Chlckar-
en were hanged Thursday at Norris
town. Pa., on the same gallows for
the murder In August, 1 909, of Geo-
A. Johnson, an aged cobbler, whom
they attacked for money he was sup
posed to have hidden in hia shop.
John Billin, who also was to have
been hanged also for participation in
the crime, was granted a respite by
Gov. Stuart until October, in order
that his case might be passed upon
by the State Supreme Court. Mes
sengers carrying the reprieve arrived
at the county jail at one o’clock.
Fell HUty Feet to Death.
Charles Beasley, of Greensboro, N.
C., a lineman for the Southern Pow
er Company, was killed Tuesday
morning white working on the com
pany’s lines about five miles from
Greenville. In some way Beasley got
mixed up In the wires and fell 60
feet. The man’s body was badly
burned, his right arm being torn
from the socket and his left shoe
torn from his foot by the heavy vol
tage.
REPORTS OF OEATH PACK STIR
BIRMINGHAM.
Town Mach Wrought Up Over Trag<
edy of Mrs. Harding and G. R
Johnson.
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'Bijrmingham was deeply stirred
Thursday over the news of the sui
cide Wednesday nignt oi atra. W. P.
Harding and the death of G. R.
Johnson, who shot and fatally wound
ed himself the same day, half an
hour after the suicide of Mrs. Hard
ing.
Friends of the Johnson and Hard
ing families, who Include practical
ly all of the most influential people
in the city are indignant over the
publication of stories hinting at a
suicide pack between the two. The
following at the accounts of the
death of each, as first reported:
Woman a Suicide.
Mrs. W. P. G. Harding, wife of
the president of the First National
Bank of Birmingham, Ala., shot and
killed herself at her home Wednes
day afternoon. Nothing definite is
known about the cause of Mrs. Hard
ing’s act as her home life has seem
ed to be very happy. > She was alone
in her room when she fired a pfstol
ball through here heart.
A negro servant was on the prem
ises and ran screaming to Inform the
neighbors. Mr. Harding sailed from
New York at threeo’clock Wednes
day afternoon for Savannah, It is
said, nearly three hours before his
wife's act
Banker Takes His Life.
Guy R. Johnson, former president
of the Alabama Consolidated Coal &
Iron Company, shot and fatally in
jured himself at Birmingham at 7
o'clock Wednesday evening at his
home. The shot was fired with sui
cidal Intent and it is Impossible for
him to recover.
After having shot himself, Mr.
Johnson, in a statement, attributed
bis act to business reverses. He was
alone when the deed was committed,
and was found by his wife, who
returned * home’ from downtown
shortly after six o'clock.
The bullet passed below the heart
and lodged in the spine and there is
very slight hope for his recovery.
Ills brother states that he had be‘<n
very depressed for several days, aud
the recent developments in the Ala
bama Consolidated had preyed upon
his mind to such an extent as to make
him irresponsible.
KKUD1HT SHOOTS WOMEN.
Landlord Implicated in Murder Slays
a Tenant.
Asbury Spicer is under arrest in
Jaskeon, Ky.,. on charge of murder
ing Asbury Fusgate, a tenant on his
farm, and wounding Jennie Johnson,
a member of the household and Mrs.
Fugate, who attempted to shield her
son. The killing occurred in the
country and the first the authorities
knew of the crime was when Mr.
Spicer telephoned what he had done
and started he was on the way to
Jackson to surrender. The slayer is
oue of those accused of the murder
of Dr. Cox in Breathitt county and
was a prominent party In the Hargis
feud. The reason for his deed Is not
known.
CANTON PEOPLE FAST.
One Ohio Woman Has Not Kates for
Twenty-iteron Days.
The Starvation cult of Canton, O.,
a attracting much attention and
gathering in scores of converts. One
->t the most enthusiastic members,
drs. George Fulkerson, was compell
ed the break her fast last week by
eating a piece of toast. She had not
lasted food for 27 days. In that
time she has done her own washing,
ironing and housework besides cook-
iii* for her husband. P. D. Hardy,
•resident of the Canton Pressed
Brick company, also a member of the
•ult, is continuing his fast. He de-
dares he has no desire for food.
Progrtosulves and Democrats Hold
Up Bill Putting Army lu < hai ge
of Reclamation Service.
A combination of Insurgent Re
publicans and Democrats took anoth
er oiap at Bftllingerlsm in the Sen
ate this week. The attack came
when the combination announced its
opposition to the bill increasing the
engineer corps of the army. This
'hill, which adds about 60 to the
number of engineer officers, also au
thorizes the President to place the
army engineers in full charge of all
public works.
But the far-seeing insurgents im
mediately detected an effort to pro
vide an easy way for Ballinger to
get rid of Director Newell and Chief
Engineer Davis, of the Reclamation
service, as It had been quietly hinted
that one of the first uses that would
be made of the law would be to
place army engineers in charge of
the Reclamation service, and there
by permit Ballinger to wreack per
sonal vengeance upon Newell and
Davis for daring to publicly proclaim
that his conduct was antagonistic to
the public Interest.
Senator Bailey of Texas Is the
leader in the fight against the bill,
although he is actuated by personal
motives. He has even admitted that
be was animated by no higher pur
pose than a desire to get even with
the army ©ngineere for refusing to
recomment an harbor improvement
in Texas which he had advocated.
The Texas Senator also announced
that he would not allow the pas
sage of the bill, even if It was nec-
esaary to resort to a filibuster. But
the Senate developed other opposi
tion equally as determined, and so
strong has tne feeling against the
bill become that it is expected the
effort to pass H will be abandoned.
MURDER DUTCH TRADERS.
Gunboat Pursues Moro Slayers But
Make No Capture.
Mindanao Moros have murdered
Dutch traders on an Island off North
Borneo under conditions which may
develop into an outbreak so serious
that a demonstration by troops from
the miliafary station at Camp Jplo
may be required, according to a re
port brough by the steamer Taniba
Maru.
When the Taniba Maru sailed, re
ports had reached Hong Kong that a
party of eight Moros from the Tawi-
Tawi group of Islands, being driven
by storms to an Island of the Cel
ebes group, had murdered three trad
ers and made away with 4 0,000 pesos
worth of loot. A .Dut&h gunboat
gave pursuit and chased the murder
ers to Manusmanca, an island of the
Phillipplnes, where they are still hid
ing.
TIE UP RAILROADS.
Slippery Bugs Grraac the Kails Un
til Trains Cannot Move.
fThe valley In the neighborhood of
Scranton. Pa . containing Die little
villiage of Peckvllle, was paid a vis
it last week by millions of locusts
From early morning until sundown
the noise made by the whirring of
the locus can be heard above every
thing else, while the valley is rapid
ly being devastated of vegetation by.,
the pests. The insects have covered
one of the little coal branches of
the Ontario and Western railroad,
swarming around the rails, which
gather and retain heat during the
day, until it is impossible to operate
the road. Tons and tons of coal are
standing on the sidings because the
locomotives can make no headway
against the slippery bugs.
TAKE LAMBS AM) PIGS.
Child Shoots Down Flume.
Five-y* ar-old Thomas Gardiner, of
Thatcher, Ariz., fell Into a lumber
flume In the Graham mountains and
was carried seven miles at the speed
of an expreee train. The flume is
considered dangerous, but the child
came out at the bottom with only a
few scratches and minor bruises.
Sensational Shooting at Church.
As a result of & sensational shoot
ing at Highland Church, in Ifaeoh
county, Teno., . Monday afternoon,
one man. ts dead and three wounded.
After the aboeting it was found that
Alonza Gaines had been killed and
Robert Nichols and two men nausea
Parker had been shoV The trouble
is believed to have been the result of
an old feud between the parties.
Human Pincushion May Die.
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Cornelius Snoep, who for many
years traveled with side shows as a
human pincushion, may die in Grand
Rapids, Mich., as the result of blood
poison. His stunt was to take pinu
from people in the crowds at the
shows and run them in the flesh to
the head. He evidenced no pain and
no blood flowed after the pin was
withdrawn." %
- Workmen Found Jara of Gold.
The discovery of ten earthen Jara
by workmen while excavating on the
site of the old Carmne Convent, near
Puebla. Max., baa created quite a
stir in thf republic. It la claimed
the Jars contained $500,000 which
the law requires should be paid in
to the treasury, but the workmen •
disappeared with thttr gold. 1
Impure Ice Cream Made OS 111.
Ptomaine poisoning caused by the
eating of Impure ice cream made 96
people ill In Houston, Tex. Several
of the victims had narrow escapes
from death. - ’ ^
Old Man Has Owned Two Coirt#.
M.' V. Osborn, aged 7$ years, of
near Little Rock, Ark., has owned
only two coats in hla entire life. One
he wore before hia marriagsi, the
other was hia wedding coat 41 years
ago. Ue declares coats are useless.
Mimouri Farmers Attribute lyosses
to the Bird of Freedom.
Farmers in Missouri and other
Western States are blaming eagles
for thefts of spring lambs and pigs
from their flocks Recently C. N.
Drexler, of near Washburn, Mo.,
captured one of the big birds. It
vneasured more than six feet from
tip to tip and stands nearly three
feet high. The bird was kept alive
as a decoy to capture its mate, but
the mate never appeared. Mr. Drex
ler had been missing lambs and pigs
and blamed men for the theft, but
no trace for the missing animals
could be found. On the day he cap
tured the bird his dog was engaged
with it in fierce combat and was
getting the worst of the fray.
No Clue to Murders. »
Wit a bullet hole through the head,
the body of a w©U-dreseed man was
found late Thursday night at Chic-
kasha, Okla., partially submerged In
a ditch. A rope tied around one an
kle, the police say, shows that the
body was dragged some distance to
where it was discovered. .There is
no clue to the murderers of the man.
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Farmer Slain in .Duel.
Quincy Everett, s young farmer,
waa shot and Instantly killed, and A.
B. Macklln, hia father-in-law, waa
stabbed and fatally wounded, the re
sult .of a duel between the men at
Mlneola, Texas, Thursday.
Used Mallet to Slay Woman After
They Had a Violent Quarrel, Then
Stuck the Body in a Trunk. Car-
. ried it Down to Lake, and Threw
it in the Water.
Porter Charlton, husband of Mary
Sdott Castle Charlton, whose body
was found In a trunk in Lake Como,
Italy, reached New York on a Ger
man Liner Thursday. A man re
sembling Charlton was arrested aa
he stepped from the steamer at hi*
pier in Hoboken. He gave the names
of Charles W. Coleman, but a report
from Hoboken said that at the po
lice station he broke down and ad
mitted that he waa Charltoa.
Charlton said In hla confession
he and hia wife had been having sup
per together at the villa on Lake
Como and that they had engaged in
a violent quarrel.
Charlton said his wife, who was
one of the best women In the world,
but had an ungovernable temper,
called him some vi.e uamis „jat
finally who he could not stand her
abuse any longer, he attache* her
with a wooden mallet. The young
man said that he struck her over the
head three tlmea, knocking her un-
aconacious and killing her, as far as
he knew..
Charlton told the police that he
then stuck the body of hla wife In a
trunk and carried It down to the
lake, where he threw the trunk into
the water.
The body of Mrs. Charlton was
found packed in a trunk which was
tak^n from Lake Como near the vil
lage of Moltraaio by fishermen June
10th. The woman with her husband
had occupied a villa ou the lake front,
leased by them some time before. At
the time the woman's body was found
Porter Charlton could uot be found.
The Italian police have insisted
that Charlton was alive and have di
rected their energies to locating the
young man. American Consul Caug-
her, on the other hand, held to the
fhtory that a double murder had been
committed, and it was through his
representations that the Italian au
thorities engaged divers to make the
search of the lake bottom..
Meantime detectivea followed up
their own theory and their recent
conclusion was that Charlton was a
passenger upon some steamer which
had sailed from Genoa or ou»er liai-
ian port for New York.
The police were watching fflr the
arrival of the steamer Deutschland,
as it had been reported that Charlton
sailed on that steamer. The officers
had a description of Charlton, and
when they saw a man resembling
•him leave the ship they pounced up
on him and placed him under ar
rest. He protested vigorously and
seemed Inclined forcibly to offer re
sistance. but he soon subsided. Capt.
Scott, brother of Mrs. Charlton, took
one look at the prisoner and said
the man was Charlton. Later Charl
ton made a signed statement to Uie
police.
While he was being sweated un
der the "third degree,' Charlton be
came Infuriated, and drawing a re
volver, tried to shoot Chief of Police
Hayes He was quickly disarmed,
and a few minutes later confessed
tne crime.
Within -half an hour after his ar
rest Charlton had signed the follow
ing statement:
"My wife and I lived happily to
gether. She was the best woman in
the world to me. hut shd had an
Ungovernable temp* r. So had J.
We frequently quarreled over the
most trival matters and her lang
uage to me was frequently so foul
that 1 know she did not know the
meaning of it.
"The night I struck her she had
been quarreling with me. She was
in the worst temper I had ever seen
her in. I told her if she did not
cease I would leave her and put a
stop to It. She stopped for a little
while and started again.
"I took a mallet which I had used
to do household, repairs, and struck
her three times. I thought she was
dead. I put the body in a trunk in
which I also threw the mallet.
“About twelve that night I
brought the trunk to my house and
dragged it down to a small pier and
threw it overboard. 1 left the fol
lowing night and went to Como, end
from there to Genoa, where 1 took
the steamer Irene three days later.
“The room where I killed her was
an outdoor sleplng apartment. '
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Prisoner Mokes Confession.
While confined in hia cell in San
Quentin, Cal., on conviction of rob
bery, John Avery, declared he was
haunted by the face of a man he had
killed In Spokane. Wash. He related
his experiences to a guard and the
facts have been corroborated.
The first regular sir ship service
wss Inaugurated at Dusseldorf, Ger
many, Wednesday, when Count Zep
pelin's great craft, the Deutchland.
carrying twenty passengers, success
fully made the first scheduled trip
from Frledrlchshsfen to Dusseldorf,
a distance of 3Q0 mllea, in nine
hours.
The weather waa perfect and the
motors worked faultlessly. The aver
age time maintained for the complete
course was approximately thirty-three
miles an hour, but between Frled-
rlchsh&fen and Stuttgart the 120
miles were covered at an average
rate of speed of forty-one miles an
hour. The beat speed for a single
hour was forty-three and
miles.
Count Zeppelin waa at the helm
when the Deutschland arose at Fried-
richshafen at three o'clock in the
morning and sailed away on the trip
that was to mark an epoch la avia
tion. The passengers were directors of
Hamburg-Amerlcan Steamship Com
pany and the German Stock Company,
joint owners of the dirigible, and
their guesta. They occupied the ma
hogany walled and carpeted cabin,
situated between the gondolas aud
from the windows of which they view
ed the scenery as the aerial car
swept along.
Count Zeppelin steered for the
greater part of the distance. The
route was via Stuttgart, Manhelm
and Cologne to Dusseldorf. It had
.been carefully marked out In advance
for the guidance of the pilot and waa
followed exactly. There was no air
•tiring, and the Deutschland made
her initial trip through a flow of
bright sunshine.
The hour and minute of the prob
able passing of the various points hdil
been bulletined ahead, so that not
only the people of the cities of the
line, who filed the streets, bnt the
inhabitants of all the intermediate
villages turned out and cheered en
thusiastically as the Immense torpedo
like structure, with its whistling
screws drove over their heads at a
height of between 200 and 300 feet.
The Deutschland swung gently In
to her landing at noon, and the mul
titude surrounding the lauding yards
shouted a welcome. The city had
been decorated in honor of the event.
Regular trips will be made, and
many tickets already have been so.d
for the first few days at from $2t>
to $&0 each. The airship is equipped
with a nstaurmnt, whlck will supply
the passengers with a buffet service
such as is afforded on parlor car rail
road trams
The dimensions of the Deutchland
are: Length, 4&J feet. Its gas capac
ity Is 24,852 cubit yards, and It car
ries three motors, having a total of
330-horsepower. It uas designed to
maintain a speed of thirty-five miles
an hour. Its lifting capacity It 44,-
000 pounds, of whjeh 1 1.000 pounds
cover the crew, passengers and ex
press It Is expected to be sble to
accomplish a continued trip of 700
mllea.
At last four persona were fatally
Injured and a dozen others seriously
hurt early Wednesday when two
crowded cars on « seeule railway on
the Bowery at Coney Island, Nf Y. : ,
running at a temtic speed, jumped
the track and dropped a sheer 60
feet to the ground.
Two cars of Ue big switchback had
been filled and hauled up the lupine
and the party laughing and shout
ing. plunged down the first steep. Up
the next incline the cars shot to
the level of the scenic road and began
the dive down at a mile a minute
pace.
Something went wrong with the
mechanism and as the cars were dash-
a half^ed around the first turn ths rear car
jumped the track, dragging the for
ward car with It. Ten of the occu-
pants were hurled from the cars and
went crashing down among the scen
ery, falling to ground where
they lay unconscious. Six went down
with the first car and were pinned
fast beneath the wreckage.
These last were the one most ser
iously injured. Five of them werF,
residents of Brooklyn. The sixth was
from l.os Angeles.
As the cars took their frightful
plunge, spectators screamed In terror
and the panic waa increased when
some one switched off the electric
lights. The man In charge of tb'»
driving cars escaped In jumping. He
could not explain the accident, but
declares It was unavoidable.
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CONFESSES TO KILLING.
PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
Unfamiliar With Dummy Elevators
Servant Is Redly Hurt.
A white woman, who name could
not be learned, was seriously injured
Wedoeaiay ^Afternoon at IMitmore
house, the home of George Vandei'
hilt, a few miles from Asheville, N.
C. It seem that she had only been
at the house for a week or so and
was unfamiliar with the excentn-
ties of dummy elevators Some on>'
yelled “look out” ard she la sale
to have thrust her head into the ele
vator shaft aud was caught, -her face
being badly bruised. It Is said that
for the fact that tlpe motor, which
ran the dummy elevator was one of
small strength, her head would have
been crushed to a jelly.
Diamonds Tossed in Pipe.
Baroness Von Schroeder, daughter
of the late pioneer Peter Donahue, of
San Francisco, who left her a fortune
of millions, is tearing out the plumb
ing of her country home, Eagles Nest,
in a search for Jewels valued at $3 0,-
000. The Jewels were carelessly
tossed Into a wash basin by a maid
and were swept into the pipes. The
plumbing of the entire house has
been d ismantled without success.
Dwellings Wrecked.
More than s dozes small dwellings
were wrecked | Wed«e*dsy night in
and around Decatar, Mias. Crops
were badly damaged, telegraph ser
vice impaired and many trees blown
down.
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Blackberries Make Hens Drunk.
Spoiled blackberries thrown In her
back yard by Mrs. James Burnet, of
Holiday’s Cove, W. Va., made •
feast for her bens and put them on
a jag. While they were drunk sh?
thought they ware dead and thriftily
plucked their feathers. Now ths
birds are wearing blankets.
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Three Firemen Injured.
Three firemen were injured dur
ing a fire Wednesday which complete
ly destroyed a five-story building at
ftf. Paul. Minn. Ths loss wss over
$100,000.
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Crazed by Wife’s Denth.
Perry Noblet&bot and killed him
self a few hoar! after the death of
hla wife near Hamhvrg, Iowa. He
was crazed by grief. ,
Webb Says He Killed 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
tion Monday night. W*bb, Jn a sign
ed statement to the police, said ne
killed Johnson In self-defense after
a brawl between the two men ia
Johnson's room at the hotel. Mrx.
D. W. Kersch, who was arrested with
Webb, is exonerated from complicity
In the crime by the confessed slayer
who charges, however, that she con
spired with him In the packing of
the body in the trunk and sending it
to the station. Mrs. Kersch Is sup
posed to be the wife of Johnson^ bnt
she admitted that she was the wife
of Bert Kersch. s city employe of
Seattle, and that she ran sway with
WeUb a year ago. Webb says be is
a printer and ia 45 years old.
MAKER FLIGHT AT NIGHT.
Hamilton Hurtles 10,000 People by
His Daring Flight.
Charles K. Hamilton, made a sen
sational flight af Nashville. Tenn..
Wednesday night, taking hia bi-plane
Into the air after darkness had fal
len. He flew for eighteen minute#
through Inky space while 10,000 peo
ple at the fair grounds stood aghast
at bis daring.
The attempt wss unannounced
and the spectators hardly knew what
wss happening until tb« great-bird
like figure had shown Itself far above
the myriads of electric lights and
disappeared Into blackness. . Sud
denly It reappeared, and three times
Hamilton thril^d the spectators by
dipping in front of the grand stan<
until he almost touched the row of
lights stretched across the track. He
even dipped under^the wires atd
finally came to earth on the track
directly In front of the cheering
thousands.
MOTHER KILLED HKKHKLF.
Worry Over lilneMa of Owe of Her
Daughters the Motive.
Soon after her 19 year old son
had left her. Mrs. Ellen C. Eagie
committed suicide in a sensational
manner Wednesday on a sidewalk
In Media, Pa. Accompanied by her
son, Louis, Mrs. Eagle came from hef
home in Lansdowne, Pa., on a trbl-
iey car. Alighting from the car. Mr*-
Eagle told the.boy to go into a Arag
store and drink a soda water as the
dsy was hot.
As he turned his back Mra. Eagle
took a bottle containing poison irom
her pocket and drank the contents.
The son turned to say something to
bis mother and witnessed 'her act.
She collapsed to bis arms and died
soon afterward in a hospital. Mrs.
Eagle's worrju over the illness of
one of her dsughtes ia believed to
have been her motive for suicide.
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Two Little Boys Bunted to Death.
Playing with matches resulted in
the death of two little sons of J.
O. Taylor, aged two and four years,
respectively, at IredelL Texas. Tues
day. Ths lilt 14 boys war* starting
a firs when their clothes became tg
nlted atd they Were burned to death.
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First fax* Bala.
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Among the
by the bears
ton market W<
Houston, Texas,
first Texas 'tel* o!
WOBld
-put, forward
cot-
frona
that
The Democratic party of Oil# goes
Into the State campaign this fall wtu
Judaon Harmon aa its candidate for
governor aad President. Tim
ocratic state convention, which com
pleted Its labors Wednesday at Day-
ton, endorsed him in the
terme for the Presidency
United Bute after it had
ed him for governor by
The belief held by many ~
that the governor will resign short
ly after the begiantng of hla' n«w
term in order to become a candidate
for President before the nest Demo
cratic national convention waa voic
ed by former Governor James
Campbell. The ex-governor wee in
troducing Altee Pomerene, of Canton,
the nominee for lieutenant governor.
"Hqre.la the man.’' he said.,“who•
#111 be -lieutenant governor, car
months and the goveredr fir a ye^r ^
and six months. Both of them fabu
lous promotions, however, were ac
complished against the enrneaf pro
test of their beneficiaries.'’
The following resolution was pre
sented by the committee oa resolu
tions by the eonveation endorniag
Governor Harmon for the Presidency
to 1I1S:
“We invite the atteatioa of the
nation to Judaon Harmon aad fhs
work he is doing for Ohio. Two years
henee It will have been completed,
then we can spare him for larger
duties. He believes that gam Is per
sonal—Is acting on that belief at
home, aad would act upea it to'largg
fields. A high aense of dwtgr provid
es hia only motives for ofleial ac
tions and hie aense of Juatice alone
* rapines Judgment. Firmaem aad
strength mark him the man to sup
plant vacillation and weaknaaa. The
nation needs a real man and the
Ohio Democracy presents aad udor-
ees for the Preetdeacy of 191$ J ad-
son Harmon. ’
Governor Harmon mpdrg;
quest of the reaolutlona
that they omit the
ioraement reaolutlona. anyiog
is making hla present light
issues and did not waat naiioi
sues Injected into the
paign. Ha waa told that it
be prevented.
At lee Pomerene
self a candidate agutoat Hannon for
the nomination If (hr
tion two yoars ago. almost angrily
demanded that he ho not compelled
to make the aacrlgee, aa he termed
it, of accptiag the nomination for
second place. Although Mo
was not placed to nomination, he re
ceived nearly enough votes oa the
first ballot to nominate. He form
ally withdrew, but oa the second
ballot, before the roll call waa com-
pl* ted, the nomination waa made
unanimous. He asked time to con
sider the matter and after an Itoinr'a
conference with bis frienla announc
ed he would accept.
The proposition to endorse a can
didate for United SUtea senator that
was suggested by William J. Bryan,
was defeated, receiving bnt 284 oat '
of the 1,099 votes in the cbnvctatloa. ~~
A move of great Im portage# !■
Ohio was made by the convention
when it endorsed the propoeal for—
a constitutional convention, a ques
tion that will he voted upon by
people this fall.
The following is the ticket that
waa nominated to make the cam
paign with Governor Harmon.
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Lieutenant Go vernor—Attee Pom
erene. Canton. *
Attorney General—Tlmoth 8. Ho
gan, Wellston.
Secretary of State—Charles H.
Graves, Oak Harbor-
Treasurer of State—D. 8. Cream
er, St. Clairaville,
At the conclusion of the nomina
tions the convention adjourned slae
dli. —
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Fourth Destroyer Launched.
The torpedo boat destroyer War
rington, built for the U. S. Govern
ment by tbe Cramps of Philadelpitia.
was launched last week. It wab nett
ed by Mrs. Richard Hattan. of New
York city, grand-daughter of-Commo
dore Warrington. The boat la tbe
fourth of five that are being
Philadelphia.
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Aeroplane Dived
In an attempt to make a
across the Ohio'flyer at
Ky.. J. C. Mars was
the motor of hia aeroplane
ajid the machine dived
or. He was aet
machine not dai
tha
and
L. Royer J
of hia
J
returning
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