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RINGRULE Will Not Be Submitted to by the Tennessee Democrats Who DENOUNCE PATTERSON And the Other Kings tors for Attempting to Coerce the Supreme Court.?Eulogies on the Lute Senator Carmack Elided Prolonged Applause. Oovernor 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 for 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 of Juno 4. This action of the committee was contrary to precedent and resulted in several of the candidates for the Supreme Court and Court of Civil Appeals announcing themselves as Independent candidates. The convention, at wJiich more than five thousand Democrats of the State were present, nominated a full Judiciary ticket and appealed to the voters of tho State to refuse to participate in the primary on June 4. Governor Patterson and tho executive committee were "unqualifiedly denounced and condemned," for their efforts "to overcome and coerce the Supreme Court of the State in the decision of a case pending before it," this reference being to the Cooper case. Eulogistic references to tho late Senator Carmack elicited prolonged Jinnlause while every denunciary re ferenco to Governor Patterson was greeted with great enthusiasm. The judiciary tickets endorsed were as follows: Supreme Court: W. D. Heard, Memphis; M. M. Neal, Trenton; J. K. Shields, Chattanooga; D. L. Lansden, Carthage, and Grafton Green, Narhville. Court of Civil Appeals: S. F. Wi'son, Nashville; J. C.- liiggins, Shelbyville; J. 'Mt, Taylor, Lexlngtfon; 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 lnaleninble right to alter, reform or abolish any agencies of their own creation when those agencies seek thwart the soverign will. That tlie doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power Is absurd and slavish. That the Independence of the three coordinate branches of the Government is essential to the stability of * * * - * ' r.. rt .i the common wealth ana mo uvonuin 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 he resisted by all lawful means knows to free znon. That the paramout issue before the people of T? nnessee is the independence and integrity of their Courts. That half a century ago an amendment to the Constitution was adopted, proving that a day should he appointed for tho election of Judges , and Attorney General, soperate and apart from the day for election for political offices, so that merit and efficiency should not be obscured by 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 the independence of the judiciary. That the so-called State executive committee, not one of w.hoso members was elected by the people, and I a majority of whom were appointed J by the Governor, has attempted to, repudiate the well settled and safe) method of selecting candidal s for the judiciary and has attempted to deprive the Democrats ot t.'ie State of the right to hold their own elections, to make tlic-ir own platforms and to appoint tho committees, and 1 being completely under the control of the Governor .has adopted a plan designed to aid their master in his attempt, to coerce Uie supreme wmn to to perpetuate their own power. That by these acts of usurpation the committee and the Governor .have 1 disrupted the Democratic party and have Riven sufficient grounds for repudiating the committee. That the committee ho repudiated and the Govennor denounced and condemned for his effort to coerce the Supreme Court in a case pending before it, and that endorsement he given Justices Dearer, Sheilds and , Neil, ?of the Supreme Court, in refusing to submit to the un-DemoSUBSGf TELLS TWO TALES TAFT SEEMS TO HAVE A VERY CONVENIENT MEMORY. ? First Denied and Then Admitted the Truthfulnotts of the Charges Made by Korby. Zach McOhee, in his letter to The State, says when the New York World reached Washington Monday morning with the suggestion that a new department of the government as five pounds to fifty gallons of \vt"department of common sense," the sentiment seemed to meet with uni versal approval. Young Kerby, Uie stenographer, who disclosed Saturday the startling fact that President Taft's letter, exonerating Secretary Ihillinger, had been in part prepared by an attorney in Mr. Ballinger's own office, was Monday dismissed from the service, as was expected. What startled everybody was that President Taft, after 011 Saturday denying Korby's statement, 011 Sunflay admitting the whole thing and even worse than Kerby had charged. And a still more monstrous fact is just now beginning to dawn 011 the public, that 011 Saturday the man through wJiom the president's Jmiif! was made was none other than Mr. Ihillinger himself. Taft was out playing golf w.hen Ihillinger rushed to the White House with a copy of the Washington Times, which first printed Kerby's story. Over t.he telephone from the golf links the president told Ihillinger to go ahead and d'nv 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 Kerhy'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 Ilarriman, although in this case there is no corruption, but just a case of ordinary gullibility and general incompetence, Roosevelt emphatically and indignantly denied any collusion with Ilarriman and calV/d Ilarriman a liar, but when ho realized that Ilarriman himself might give out the letters, in short, that Ilarriman had the goods, ?ie decided to give out tin? letters, which was a confession, not an altogether open one, however, for he garbled ore of the letters. Xow Mr. Taft follows in the steps of "my policies." A representative of Kentucky, one of the most brilliant of the congressmen, remarked to me Sunday: "The whole truth is that Taft and that crowd aruond him were brought up in a school of ethics which sees no wrong in that kind of double entendre. This school teaches that a deception or a lie in business is all right, so long as it is not exposed. When exposed, it is only a mistake, not a moral wrong." F1VK l\Jl m:i> IN AI TO. The .Machine Skidded While Ikdng ltapidly Driven. As the result of an automobile accident, about one mile from Kershaw, .Mr. .1. \\ . ingrain is severely, miii not. seriously injured, and the machine of Mr. C. W. KtMpiarth is badly damaged. W.hile turning a curve at a rapid rate the rear wheels skidded, sending the car into a small bridge. The bridge being demolished, the car then ran into a nearby wood pile before it was a'2-ain gotten under control. Otic of the occupants, Dr. VY. C. Twitty, jumped. All live were slightly bruis d, but Mr. Ingram; more severely hurt than t.he others. I'setl Them nt Last. Mrs. lOva Simon, 03 years old, was buried in her home town of Wa- ' basli. 111., bast week, in a shroud and j burial outfit which she prepared <>s years a?o for .her funeral. All the ' since that time she has ki }>t | her burial clothing iti good condi- i t ion. * i * ^ LOCII! Option. The State |> mocratic convention in Montgomery, Ala., last week, declared for local option, a liberal attitude toward capital, and more of it.M'iivu ami imJiri'iivr mining iu?o. cratifi plan, and that condemnation he given Judges Handsden, Hall, Higgins, Wilson and Taylor for their claims direct to the people. That every Deniiocrat who believes in the integrity of t.he judiciary and the right of the people to control their own affairs, he called on to refuse to participate in the primary ordered for June 4, and any other Convention or primary ordered by said committee. That the candidacy of the above named aspirants for pudicial honors be formally endorsed. IIBE NO! A WIERDSTORY Body of a Mai Held in Asheville oF Eight Years is Claimed BY AN UNKNOWN WOMAN ? Tlio Body, Which Has Been in an Undertaker's Establishment, Was Tliat of a Noted Forger and Generul Confidence Man, Who Was Credited With Sixteen Wives. The remains of Charles J. As quim, tilias i^ora ueresiora, anas have at last been claimed. The l>ody of Asquith or Lascelle, the man who died at Asheville, N. C., in Octi ober, 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 be cremated in that city. The name of wife No. 1 is withheld. Negotiations for the body were conducted through a friend, Mrs. T. J. Summerileld of New Jersey, who made affidavit on be.half of wife No. 1 that tlie body was that of her husband. The undertakers being satisfied as to the affidavit! turned over the body upon payment of certain costs, incident to embalming, etc., and the body went to Baltimore for cremation. That Asquit.h or Lascelle or Lord Beresford was a thief, a forger and a bigamist is certain. It is alleged that lie had been married fifteen times. lie was known in Georgia, Colombia, Texas and other states, and bore an unsavory reputation. The man went to Asheville in September or early October in the year 1!M)2. He was very sick at the time and, althoug-h supposedly well off, when his death occurred two or three weeks after his arrival, it was found that he had no funds and apparently no friends or relatives. The 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 body has during these eight years remained unclaimed at the undertaking place until last week when wife No. 1, through her representative, made claim to the body; made affidavit 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 attracted have visited the undertaking rooms and sought to identify the body. Several times it was thought that the body had been identified by one or more wives, but always the identification proved a false alarm. It is said that the man Asquith, whose body was claimed by a woman who alleges that she was Jiis 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 lOurope and lived happily for a time and that then the man disappeared. That was the last that was s> en of him by his wife. It is said that he was in jail in lOurope; that he was finally liberated and later appeared in Italy where .he sold somebody's yacht and again "got in bad." ills care r was checkered and just how he found his way to Asheville was never explained. It is known, however, that when his death occurred in A.-.h< \ ille ho wore a tie that was purchased in Texas and also other el thing purchased in the Lone Star State, which indicated that he had come from Texas to Ashes ill . it was stated that the real name of the woman who claiini d the body of her husband is not named; that, in fact, all persons ha.ing anything to do with the taking of the body away will not divulge t.heir names and the undertakers and others interested arc pledged to secrecy. It is understood that although the local undertaker who has held the body of Laseellc for eight years turned it over to wife No. 1 upon the payment of actual est, $110, t.hat the undertakers were recently offered $5,000 for the body which they refused in an effort to comply with the North Carolina law. * Sato Ilobbers at Work. At Fargo, Gii., yeggman blow open t.he oflice of tho Southern Express Company early Sunday morning and secured several hundred dollars in coin, together with a small collevtion of rare coin placed in tho safe for safekeeping. f TO HORROR OF QUAKES SURVIVORS FROM COSTA RICA TKLL OF TIIKIR KSCAPK. When the City of Cart ago Was Destroyed and More Than Fifteen Hundred People Were Killed. The first survivors of the necent earthquake in Costa Rica, in which niore than fifteen hundred lives were lost in the destruction of Cartago, .have arrived in this country on the streamer 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 wife had spent nearly a year in Costa Rica gathering specimens for the university. They had a narrow escape when the one-story abode and plaster hotel in Cartago, whene they were stopping was wrecked. Mrs. Calvert thus describes tlu ir experiences: "Hotween April 11t and May 4 we had 1 GO seperate shocks in Cartago. The one which played the worst havoc came on the night of the 4th. We were in our room, when suddenly t.h> re came a tremor and crash and everything came down and all collapsed. How we escaped I don't know and never will, hut all we got was a shower bath of dust. ''It was a terrible "experience. The whole city was simply laid in ruins, with bodies litering the streets. It was a scene 1 am very anxious to forget." Dr. Walpole Brewer, surgeon of the Brine Joachim, told of the rescue work done by the ship's crew. The Joachim was at Ptr>rt Limon when Cartago was destroyed, and when appeals for help came Dr. Brewer was sent there with six army nurses. The party arrived at Cartago twelve hours after,the disaster. "Our special train," Dr. Brewer said, "took us through a country alive with men and women running hither and thither, shrieking and praying to be delivered from death. Sonne tried to scramble aboard the train and two or three were ground to death beneath tho wheels as we sped past. It was the most frightful spectacle of panic I ever saw. "Cartago was a city of dead and woundied. Every person who escaped injury .had run away. The town was wrecked and leveled. The Cainegie Peace palace had less than half a single wall standing. Every church was down. At the very (entrance I found five men and women lying dead beneath the spire of the cathedral. In every block we came upon blacks and whites, wo mien and children, dead in the debris of houses, stores and churches." For two days the relief party remained in the stricken city, aiding the wounded and shipping them out of Cartago. No Europeans or Americans were found among the dead or injured." * LYNCHED THE FIEND. W'lliv \ i 4 JMfti vif iW 1 hi \wwillllt !l Child Swung. Because lie w;is c.harged with attempting to criminally assaut the I eight-year-old daughter of Harry Tison, residing in the western part of Itaker County, (la., Charlie Wilson, a negro boy, about I 8 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 Xewton. Wilson, it is alleged, attempted to assault the Tison child Thursday afternoon, but her screams wore heard by her father, who caught the negro and turned him ov r to t.ho oliicers. Wilson was hanged from a tree standing near a nuieh 'traveled road and iiis body was riddled with bullets. * TOWNS TOKNADO TORN. '.term Deals Death and Destruction in Oklahoma. Maysville, a small town 1" miles northwest of Paul Valley, Ok In., was wiped off the map early Friday evening, and several persons were killed, according to meagre reports received. The town of McCarthy, near Maysville, was nea.dy all swept aw \y, and three persons t.hore were k; ied. All the wires are down. Belief trains probably will be sent out. One of the hardest hail storms in the history of the region swept over a stretch of country ileal Paul Valley Friday evening. In places destroying all signs of vegetation. * ? Trainmen Cremated. Two trainmen were cremated by 33,000 volts of electricity when a sleeper on the Illinois Traction system collided with an electric train near Lovelace, Mo., Friday. * THE HOI DIED IN FIRE ? Thirty-five Prisoners Cremated When the Siockade Burned. FIRE STARTED BY THEM ? In an Attempt to Make Their Ehoai>e.?All Efforts to Save Prisoners Were Futile.?Gruesome Scene Presented When Flames Subsided. Fate of Several Unknown. Thirty-five convicts were burned to death at an early hour Monday morning at the I.ucile mines, of the Red Feather Coal Company, located in Bibb county, fifteen miles north of i 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 difficulty saved from the same fate. The stockade was fired by & convict in attempting to escape, and he, too, met death in the tlames. 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. Those who escaped from the stockade, in w.hich about 100 were confined, attempted to escape custody, resulting in one being shot to death. After the lire the stockade pre-1 seated 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 H. W. Perry is president, and J. H. Taylor, superintendent. -Official information is to the effect that twenty-six men were burned to death and twenty-one, several of w.hom have since died, were seriously burned. Three white convicts wore confined at the camp, hut it is not known whether these met death. Several guards were slightly bumon while attempting to rescue the convicts. 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 in good condition. The stockade was fired from the inside, a plan having been formulated to make a general escape. The fi-o burned more rapidly, it. is be'isvel, than the man who set fire to the building expected, and instead of furnishing a means of escape, the men succumbed to the flames. The fire was discovered after it naa maae sucn neauway, an; iu? guards and other men, who ware nttracted to the scene, had all they could do to got out some of the men who wore locked in the colls and to prevent those who were released f-om getting away. News of the fire spread through Bibb county, and other coal communities have gone to the assistance of the Rod leather Company. Th< bodies of the convicts will ho binned near the scone of the conllagvatdon as soon as the company and S.no officials have made a full investigation in the matter. ? > ' >1' / V l 1 XI XIV w w i H * T \ I i >I ( r. wr .11.1 if i iwu r .1 .1 ij. .\ I.itle Charleston Lad Is (In* Latest \ ift im. The News and Courier says at mid-J n i -*.lit Tuesday night a report from! the hedsivie of little ltaymond Livingston, the six-year-old c.hild of Mr. .1. K. Livingston, who was bitten by a stray mad dog at Ceorge and St. Philip streets on the morning of j April 10, was to tin? effect that the i child was not expected to last through the night. IHr. I'Mward M. Poykin was in at-! tendance on the little fellow at that hour and stated that the child had a genuine- case of hvdroph >i>ia, an 1 ! 1 would not live to see t ne dawn. l.no! lad was s i/.ed with an attack on .Monday, and although all was done for him taht was possible, his life was dispairod of almost from then. 1 Th e sympathy of the entire city is, with the child and his stricken paronl c V ".O. | Raymond was given the full Pastour treatment at Atlanta ami returned to the city the early part of the month, apparently on the road to recovery. The wounds 011 his face were practically .healed up and it was thought that all danger of hydrophobia had been eliminated. On Monday, however, a change set In and the fellow sank rapidly. All that, medical science and loving and ten-1 dor hands could do for the suffering child was done, but, it Is feared, all to no avail. J 1RY HER ONE HUNDRED DEAD AM) AS MANY MOKE WOUNDED BY TWO EXPLOSIONS. A Ton and a Half of Giant Powder in Cuban Guard Barrack* Goeii 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 Pinar Del Rio, Cuba, Thursday afternoon. Fully 100 persons were killed and nearly as many were wounded. ^ r * i* ~ j * must ui tin,* ut'au were rural guards, but the entire families of several of the officers of the rural guard, it is reported, were killed also, as well as several employes of the public works department and residents of the city, on which fell a deluge of masonry and debris from the blown-up building, rt is not known yet w.hether the explosion was the result of an accident or was due to an act of conspirators, but the former is considered the most probable. Several relief trains carrying surgeons. officers and men of the rural guards and government started that afternoon from Habaua to the scene of the catastrophe. The names of the dead have not yet been reported witJi the exception of Capt. Ravena and Capt. Heiancour 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 build nig ui opuiiisu cuusii uuiiuii <uiu uuc111)ie(1 a site on 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 troops of rural cavalry. In consequence of the alarm over race disturbances the government ordered all deposits of dynamite in the city in the posession of contractors for road construction and other public works to be removed to the barracks for safekeeping. Thursday afternoon the work of removing the dynamite from the barracks for ship meat to tne government magazine was begun by employes of the public works department, assisted by rural guards. According to reports received the mangled remains of victims were found in the street of the city a mile from the scene of the explosion. There is great anxiety in Hubana, owing to the fact that a large number of the rural guards at Piar Del Rio recently were sent from the city, where their families reside. The explosions occurred at five o'clock, a tew second 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 waston. It is impossible, however, to determine absolutely the cause, for the reason that all in t.he immediate vicinity were blown to fragments. It is believed the majority of the wounded are residents of the town, as practically all within the onrraoKs were instantly Kineu or ouriod in the ruins. The work of exhuming t.he dead and searching for those who may he alive i; going on hut is greatly retarded by ihe destruction of the electric wires and the fear that a quantity of unexploded dynamite remains in t he ruins. They <?ot Scared. Hoys sent up a number of lire balloons with skyrockets attached during Wednesday night at Talladega, \la., and many negro, s set ing them and thinking the comet was going to do damage, lied in t rror. The reports reaching .hero say that practically all th inhabi'ants id' certain quarters rushed away and gathered it anotiter place and b gan at once to pray. ("rack of Doom. Hundreds of negroes in Savannaa spent Wednesday, night fasting and praying, fearing ev- ry moment to hear the ' crack o' doom." Not much labor was gotten from them during the day, so great is their fear of the comet. T.he evident concern in the negro quarters of the city was very great. Youiiir Dank Cashier. Earl P. Martin, of Donald's, S. C.? holds the record for neing the youngest hank cashier in the United States. He is eighteen years of age and was elected cashier of the Bank of Donald Tuesday. E. A ft Merger, of Belvit, Kas., aged 20, is the next youngest cashier. ALD