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KILLED WIFE ,rA Arrested u lie Cuie OA Genua Liner at New Yerk. HE CONFESSES CRIME U?ed Mallet to Nlay Woman After v Tfaejr Hud a Violent Quarrel, Then c Htuck the Ilody in a Trunk, Car- c ried it Down to Lake, and Threw * f it in the Water. a Porter Charlton, husband of Mary Soott Custle Charlton, whose body n was found In a trunk in Lake Como, a * > x/ ? _i. ? CLnr. c ltaiy, rearueu .>ew i ui n. vu ? ' man Liner Thursday. A man re- 1 r sembling Charlton whh arretted as r L he stepped from the steamer at ht* r pier lu Hobcken. He gave the names i ?i Charles W. Coleman, but a report ii from Hoboken said that at the po- z lice station he broke down and admitted that he was Charlton. v Charlton said in hJs confession r he and his wife had been having sup- z per together at the villa on Lake t Corao and that they had engaged in t a violent quarrel. f Charlton said his wife, who was p one of the best women in the world, j but had rd ungovernable temper, t called him some vile names and that f finally who he could not stand her h abuse any longer, ho attacked her f with a wooden mallet. The young e man said that he struck her over the a head three times, knocking her uneconeclous and killing her. as far as g ho knew.. r Charlton told the police that he a then stuck the body of his wife iu a t trunk and carried it down to the f lake, where ho threw the trunk into f the water. s Tha body of Mrs. Charlton was h found packed in a trunk which was \j taken from Luke Como near the vil la^e of Moltrasio by fishermen June I a 10th. The woman with her husband I h had occupied a villa on the lake front, I 0 leased by them some time before. At I jj the time the woman's body was found I j] Porter Charlton could not be found. I y The Italian police have insisted I t, that Charlton was alive and have di- I u reeled. their energies to locating the J & young nan. American Consul Caug- I h her, om the other hand, held to the J theory that a double murder had been t* committed, and it was through his I ti representations that the Italian au-L thorities engaged divers to make the b search of the lake bottom.. J Meantime detectives followed up I n their own theory and their recent \({ conclusion was that Charlton was u I t< passenger upon some steamer which y had sailed from Genoa or other Itai-1 ^ ian port for New York. I 8 The police were watching for the r, arrival of the steamer Deutschland, as it had been reported that Charlton a sailed oa that steamer. The officers n had a description of Charlton, and r when they saw a man resembling 3 him leave the ship they pounced up- n ou him and placed him under ar- a rest. He protested vigorously and 0 seemed Inclined forcibly to offer re- c sistance, but he soon subsided. Capt. p Scott, brother of Mrs. Charlton, took a one look at the prisoner and said r the man was Charlton. Later Charlton made a signed statement to the ' police., [ While he was being sweated un-1 y p der the "third degree," Charlton became infuriated, and drawing a re-1 volver. tried to shoot Chief of Police J Hayes. Ho was quickly disarmed, and a few minutes later confessed * the crime, * Within .half an hour after his ar- v rest Charlton hud signed the follow 1 ing statement: e "My wife and I lived happily to- ^ ge4 her. She was the best woman in H the world to me, but she had an ' ungovernable temper. So had 1. 1 Wo frequently quarreled over the ^ most trival matters and her lang- ' uago to me was frequently so foul v tiiat i know she did not know the s meaning of it. 1 "The night I struck .her she had 1 been quarreling with me. She was I in the worst temper 1 had ever seen H her in. 1 told her if she did not c cease f would leave her and put a stop to it. She stopped for a little ^ while and started again. a "1 took a mallet which I had used to do household repairs auu struck . her three times. 1 thought she was dead. I put the body in u trunk in C which I also threw the mallet. c "About twelve mat . brought the trunk to my house and r dragged it down to a small pier and ( threw it overboard. I loft tho fol- r lowing night and went to Como, and f from there to Genoa, where I took 1 the steamer Irene three days later, f "The room where I killed her was t an outdoor sloping apartment." ( Two Burned to Death. Two men were burned to death . and two others received slight inju- < rfes im a fire that destroyed the Cen- I tury dab cottage and an adjoining < small Hammer residence at Bates i Park, In Beverly, Mass., Tuesday. I The dead are: Henry B. .Barrett, of Peahody, and Bert McShane, of Salem. The two men, with the three pthera, had hired the cotUkge for their sammer vacation, , MAKES GREAT FLIGHT IKPPKLIN'8 DKUT8GHLAND MAR INO KHGUIiAR FLIGHTS. mmea.se Airship Covers Three Hun dred Mile Journey in Nine Hours Curries Twenty Passengers. The first regular air ship service ras inaugurated at Dusseldorf, Ger nany, Wednesday, when Count Zop ?ellu's great craft, the Deutchiand arrying twenty passengers, success ully made the first scheduled tri] rom Friedrichshafen to Dusseldorf i distance of 300 miles, in n Ln< tours. The weather was perfect and th< uotors worked faultlessly. Tiie aver >ge time maintained for the complete ourse whk approximately thlrty-tbre< uiles an hour, but between Fried ichshafen and Stuttgart the 12< niles were covered at an average ate of speed of forty-one miles ui lour. The best speed for a sinel* lour was forty-three and a hal niles. Count Zeppelin was at the heln vheu the Deutschland arose at Fried ichshafen at three o'clock iu tin norning and sailed away on the tri] hat was to mark an epoch in avia ion. The passengers were directors o lamburg-American Steamship Com any and the Gorman Stock Company olnt owners of the dirigible, an< heir guests. They occupied the ma logany walled and carpeted cabiu ituatod between the gondolas am rom the windows of which they view id the soeiiery as the aerial ca wept along. Count Zeppelin steered for th< ;reater part of tho distance. Th< oute was via Stuttgart, Manhein nd Cologne to Dusseldorf. It hac >cen carefully marked out in ndvanci or the guidance of the pilot and wai ollowed exactly. There was no ai; tiring, and the Deutschland mad< tor initial trip tnrougn a now o >right sunshine. The L >ur aDd minute of the prob hie passing of the various points hat >een bulletined ahead, so that no' nly the people of the cities of th? Ine, who filed the streets, but th< habitants of all the intermediate illagos turned out and cheered enhuslkstlcally as the immense torpedi ke structure, with its whistling crews drove over their heads at a eight of between 200 and 300 feet The Deutschland swung gently ino her landing at noon, and the muiItude surrounding the landing yardi houted a welcome. The city hat1 een decorated in honor of the event Regular trips will be made, and lany tickets already have been soid jr the first few days at from $2tj 3 $50 each. The airship is equipped rtth a restaurant, which will supplj he passengers with a buffet servict uch as is afforded on parlor car raiload trains. The dimensions of the Deutchland re: Length, 4 85 feet. Its gas eapacty is 2 4,85 2 cubit yards, and it caries three motors, having a total ol 30-horsepower. It uas designed tc naintain a speed of thirty-five milei ,n hour. Its lifting capacity it 4 4, 00 pounds, of which 11,000 pound! over the crew, passengers and ex A-.J 1- - ?l.l? 4, tress. it is expecieu 10 u? huic k. .ccomplish a continued trip of 7 0( niles. COYFNSSKS TO KILLING. Vcbb Says He Killed Johnson Ant I'ut Uody in Trunk. Jesse B. Webb Tuesday night a 'ortland, Ore., confessed to the kill ng of W. A. Johnson, whose bod: vas found in a trunk at Union sta ion Monday night. Webb, in a sigu id statement to the police, said n< :i 1 led Johnson in self-defense afte l brawl between the two men ii ohnson's room at the hotel. Mrs ). W. Kersch, who was arrested witl Vebb, is exonerated from complicif: n the crime by the confessed slaye vho charges, however, that she con pired with him in the packing o lie body in the trunk and sending 1 o the station. Mrs. Kersch is sup tosed to be the wife of Johnson, bu he admitted that she was the wif< ?f Bert Kersch, a city employe o Seattle, and that she ran away vitl Vebb a year ago. Webb says he 1; i. printer and is 4 5 years old. Fell Sixty Feet to Deatli. Charles Beasley, of Greensboro, N }., a lineman for the Southern Pow >r Company, was killed Tuesda; norning while working on the com >any's lines about five miles fron Jreenville. In some way Deasley go nixed up in the wires and fell 6< eet. The man's body was badl, jurned, his right arm being tori 'torn the socket and his left sho orn from his foot by the heavy vol age. Diamonds Tossed in Pipe. Baroness Von Schroeder, daughte 3f the late pioneer Peter Donahue, c 3an Francisco, who left her a fortun of millions, is tearing out the plumt Ing of her country .home, Kagles Nes in a search for jewels valued at $30 000. The jewels were careless) tossed into a wash basin by a mai and were ewept into he pipes. Tfc plumbing of the entire house hi been d lsmantled without luoceas. RAPS BALL1NGER - SKNATH WlIJi FIGHT tMTlKMK TO UllHAK VHNGHANCK. * ^ ProgBMntrcH and I)enHKraUi Hold Up Rill Putting Anuy in Charge of Reclamation Bcrrice. 9 A combination of insurgent Re. publicans and Democrats took auoth. er slap at Ballingerlsm in the Senate this week. The attack came when the combination announced its ^ opposition to the bill increasing the engineer corps of the army. This j bill, which adds about 60 to tin' number of engineer officers, also au? thorizes the President to place the . army engineers in fall charge of all public works. ii..t thn fur.?pnini? insurgents im . mediately detected an effort to proj vide an easy way for Bellinger to e get rid of Director Newell and Chief j Engineer Davis, of the Reclamation B service, as it had been quietly hinted f that one of the first uses that would be made of the law would be to 3 place army engineers in charge of . the Reclamation service, and theiee by permit Ballinger to wreack perp sonal vengeance upon Newell and _ Davis for daring to publicly proclaim f that his conduct was antagonistic to _ the public interest. Senator Bailey of Texas Is the j leader in the fight against the bill, although he is actuated by personal motives. He has even admitted that j .he was animated by no higher purpose than a desire to get even with r the army engineers for refusing to recomment an hart>or improvement e in Texas which ho had advocated. e The Texas Senator also announced a that he would not allow the pasI sago of the bill, even if it was necB essary to resort to a filibuster.* But B the Senate developed other opposir tion equally as determined, and so , strong has the feeling against the t bill become that It is expected the effort to pass it will be abandoned. J HOTTER SERVICE. t ? i Oaw-Klertric Cars to Be Used by the , Southern Hallway. Following the announcement made ' by the Southern Railway Company on 5 May 3 let that the use of gas-electric 1 care in some of the more congested districts along its lines was contem' plated, It is definitely announced by that Company that Its steam paasen* ger train service in the Greenville 4 territory is to bo supplemented in July by the inauguration of regular 1 gas-electric motor car service. 1 Pending the completion of three ' motor cars now being built for the ' Southern Railway Company, the management, determined not to delay the ! inauguration of the new service, has ' arranged with the General Electric Company for the return of the gas' electric car which was used experi' mentally with very satisfactory results last summer on the line between ' Manassas and Strasburg, Va. ' Gas-electric motor car service will 4 be furnished in the Greenville terri" tory by this car until the delivery of 4 the two improved gas-electric cars, " being built especially for the South} #?rn Railway Company by the General * Electric Company, and the gasoline car being constructed by the McKeen Motor Car Company, of Omaha, Neb. These cars will be completed in a few months and will be put 1 into regular service as soon as delivered to the Southern Railway Company. t ? TIE VP RAILROADS. Y _ Slippery Hugs Grease the Kails Until Trains Cannot Move. B r The valley in the neighborhood of 1 Scranton, Pa., containing t.he little ,. villiagc of Peckville, was paid a vis1 it last week by millions of locusts. y From early morning until sundown r the noise made by the whirring of - the locus can be heard above everyf thing else, while the valley is rapidt ly being devastated of vegetation by - the pests. The insects have covered t one of the little coal branches of 8 the Ontario and Western railroad, f swarming around the rails, which i gather and retain heat during the s 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. y Sensational Shooting at Church. As a result of a sensational shootl ing at Highland Church, in Macou t county, Tenn., Monday afternoon, 0 one man is dead and three wounded. y After the shooting it was found that ri Alonza Gaines had been killed and e Robert Nichols and two men namec. - barker naci neen snot. in? troume 1b believed to have been the result of an old feud between the parties. T Human Pincushion May Die, if Cornelius Snoep, who for many e years traveled with side shows es a )- human pincushion, may die in Grand t, Rapids, Mich., as the result of blood poison. His stunt was to take pina y from people in the crowds at the d shows and run them in the flesh tc ie the head. He evidenced no pain and is no blood flowed after tV? pi"\ wa? withdraws. I % *' I CARS JUMPED TRACK FOUR FATALLY HURT ON SCENIC ] RAILWAY. Merry-Making Crowd at Coney Island 1 Hurled from the Cars a Distance of Sixty Feet. At last four persons were fatally Injured and a dozen others seriously r hurt early Wednesday when two crowded cars on a scenic railway on the liowery at Coney Island, N. Y., ' running at a terrific speed, jump *d J the track and dropped a sheer 6U c feet to the ground. I Two cars of the big switchback had i been filled and hauled up the incline and the party laughing and shout- i ing, plunged down the first steep. Up 1 the next incline the cars shot to i ' - ..-1 ."" lin I'/Wilj till. I lllll/Mtl ? utii! ie?ei ui uiv owim- i v/?w unu i the div? down at a mile a minute pace. Something went wrong with the mechanism and as the ears were dashed around the first turn the rear car jumped the track, dragging the forward car with it. Ten of the occupants were hurled from the cars and went crashing down among the scenery, falling to the ground where they lay unconscious. Six went down with the first car and were pinned fast heneath the wreckage. These last were the one most seriously injured. Five of them were residents of Brooklyn. The sixth was from Ix>s Angeles. As the cars took their frightful plunge, spectators screamed in terror and the prnic was increased when some one switched off the electric lights. The man in charge of th^ driving cars escaped in jumping. He could not explaiu the accident, but declares it was unavoidable. MUliDKK DUTCH TRADKItS. Gunboat Pursues Moi*o Slayers But Moke No Capture. .1 Mindanao Moros have murdered j Dutch traders on an island off North a Borneo under conditions which may f develop into an outbreak so serious r I that a demonstration by troops from s the miliatary station at Camp Jolo may be required, according to a re- n port brough by the steamer Taiuba v Maru. j When the Tamba Maru sailed, re- v ports had reached Hong Kong that a t party of eight Moros from the Tawi- ^ Tawi group of Islands, being driven h by storms to an island of the Cel- h ebes group, had murdered three traders and made away with 40,000 pesos worth of loot. A Dutch gunboat gave pursuit and chased the murder- | ers to Manusmanca, an island of the Phillippines, where they are still hiding. MAKKN FLIGHT AT NIGHT. J . i Hamilton Startles I0,(M)0 People by ^ a His Daring Flight. 1 s Charles K. Hamilton, made a sensational flight at Nashville, Tenn., , Wednesday night, taking his bi-plane t into the air after darkness had fal- ^ len. He flew for eighteen minutes . through inky space while 10,000 peopie at the fair grounds stood aghast at his daring. The attempt was unannounced ^ and the spectators hardly knew what j was happening until tht great-bird like figure had shown itself far above the myriads of electric lights and disappeared into blackness. . Suddenly it reappeared, and three times Hamilton thrilled the spectators by dipping in front of the grand stand until ho almost touched the row or lights stretched across the track. Ho even dipped under the wires and finally came to earth on the track (Erectly in front of the cheering thousands. CANTON PEOPLE FAST. One Ohio Woman Has Not Raton for Twenty-seven Days. The Starvation cult of Canton. O., is attracting much attention and gathering in scores of converts. One of the most enthusiastic mem.bers, Mrs. George Fulkerson, was compelled the break her fast last week by eating a piece of toast. She had not J tasted food for 2 7 days. In that time she has done her own washing, ironing and housework besides cooking for her husband. P. L). Hardy, ( president of the Canton Pressed j Prick company, also a member of the , cult, is continuing his fast. He de- , clares he has no desire for food. ( * ^ * i I No Olne to Murders. < Wit a bullet hole through the head, i the body of a well-dressed man was ' found late Thursday night at Chic- 1 kasha, Okla., partially submerged In i a ditch. A rope tied around one ankle, the police say, shows that the body was dragged some distance to j where it was discovered. .There is no clue to the murderers of the man. First Texas Halo. i Among the telegrams put forward , by the bears in the New Orleans cot, ton market Wednesday was one from I Houston, Texas, announcing that the i first Texas bale of cotton this season would arrive there the next day. \ PROMINENT VICTIMS [iKFORTS OF I)KATH PACK STIR BIRMINGHAM. rown Much Wrought Up Over Trag - 11 a i> CHI J OI Mnt. tiuruiiiK IUIU u. n. Johnson. >nilrmlngham was deeply stirred Thursday over the news of the sui ide Wednesday night of Mrs. W. P. larding and the death of G. R. Johnson, who shot and fatally wounded himself the same day, half an lour after the suicide of Mrs. Hardng. Friends of the Johnson and Hardng families, who include practicaly all of the most influential people n the city are indignant over the lublication of stories hinting at a suicide pack between the two. The following at the accbunts of the loath of each, as first reported: Woman a Suicide. 'Mrs. W. P. G. Harding, wife of .he president of the First National1 dank of Birmingham, Ala., shot and tilled herself at her home Wednesiay afternoon. Nothing definite is mown a)>out the cause of Mrs. Hardng's act as her home life has seemed to be vt'ry happy. She was alone n her room when she fired a pistol >a'.l through here heart. A negro servant was 0:1 the premses and ran screaming to inform the icighbors. Mr. Harding sailed from Slew York at threeo'clock WednesJay afternoon for Savannah, it is laid, nearly three hours before his life's act Hunker Takes His Life. Guy It. Johnson, former president >f the Alabama Consolidated Coal & ron Company, shot and fatally inured himself at Birmingham at 1 j /clock Wednesday evening at his lonie. The shot was fired with* sui idal intent and it is impossible for lim to recover. After having shot himself, Mr. fohhson, in a statement, attributed lis act to business reverses. He was done when the deed was committed, md was found by his wife, who eturned homo from downtown hortly after six o'clock. The bullet passed below the .heart md lodged in the spine and there is ery slight hope for his recovery, lis brother states that he had been ery depressed for several days, and he recent developments In the Ala>ama Consolidated had preyed upon lis mind to such an extent as to make dm irresponsible. FEUDIST SHOOTS WOMEN. jandlord Implicated in Murder Slays a Tenant. Asbury Spicer is under arrest in askson, Ky.,. on charge of murderng Asbury Fusgate, a tenant on his arm, and wounding Jennie Johnson, i member of the household and Mrs. ^ugate, who attempted to shield her ion. The killing occurred in the ountrv and the first the authorities mew of the crime was wheu Mr. Jpicer telephoned what he had done tnd started he was on the way to fackeon to surrender. The slayer is me of those accused of the murder >f Dr. Cox in Breathitt county and vas a prominent party in the llargis 'end. The reason for his deed is not mown. 1>OUB?jK HANGING. Third Convict Gets Kespito From the Governor. Nick Marenge and Frank Chickar?n were hanged Thursday at NorrisLown, Pa., on the same gallows for Lite murder in August, 1909, of GeoJohnson, an aged cobbler, whom Lhey attacked for money he was supposed to havo hidden in his shop. John Billin, who also was to have tioen hanged also for participation in :he cinie, was granted a respite by 3ov. Stuart until October, in order hat his case might ho passed upon >y the State Supreme Court. Meslengers carrying the reprieve arrived it the county jail at one o'clock. ? ? SHOT BY II Kill AW YM AX. talesman Fired on by Negro Who Attempts to Hold Him I'p. While en route from Newborn, N.. J. to JOUOs county monuay inurnm^, 4r. Ralph Lupton, a traveling saloslian for the Carolina Grocery Co. vas held up hy a negro man about en miles from this city, who orderlim to hand over all of his money. Mr. Lupton refused to do this and ittempted to secure his revolver, A'hich was in the foot of the buggy, but before he could do so the negro fired at him, the ball taking effect in .his thigh. After shooting Mr. Lupton the neKro took to the woods and has not not been seen since. ? ? ? Two Little lloys lturned 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, Tuesday. The little boys were starting a Are when their clothes became ignited and they were burned to death. 1 '.vl NAMES HARMON Ohio Democrats R dominate Him For Gorersor of Ohio. STATE TICKET ANNOUNCED He la Kndorsed for the Presldencf by the State Convention at Dayton.? Will Kcaign Governorship 'o Make the Have.?llryan's Sugxcs. tion to Kndor.se Senator Defeated. The Democrutic party of Ohio goce into the State campaign this fall with TiirTcrm V 1 si r tiin nu ifu />n n li < 1 :i f n f< ** governor and President. Tho Democratic state convention, which completed its labors Wednesday at Dayton, endorsed him in the strongest terms for the Presidency of the United State after It had renominated him for governor by acclamation. The belief held by many delegates that the governor will resign siui.ly alter the beginning of his new term in order to become a candidate for President before the next Democratic national convention was voiced .by former Governor James A. Campbell. The ex-governor was introducing Altee Pomerene, of Canton, the nominee for lieutenant governor. "Here is the man," lie said, "who will be lieutenant governor, for six months and the governor for a year and six months. Both of those fabulous promotions, however, were accomplished against the earnest protest of their beneficiaries." The following resolution was presented by the committee on resolutions by. the convention endorsing Governor Harmon for the Presidency in 1912: "We invite the attention of the nation- to Judson Harmon and the work he is doing for Ohio. Two years house it will have been completed, then we can spare him for larger duties. He believes that guilt is personal?is acting on that belief at home, and would act upon it in large fields. A high sense of duty provides his only motives for official actions and .his sense of Justice alone completes judgment. Firmness axxi strength mark him the man to supplant vacillation and weakness. The nation needs a real man and the Ohio Democracy presents and endorses for the Presidency of 1912 Jud son Harmon." Governor Harmon made a futile request of the resolutions coiacnittee that they omit the Presidential endorsement resolutions, eaying that he is making his present fight oil state issues and did not want national issues injected into the coming campaign. He was told tnat i: could not be prevented. Atlee Pomereue, who was himself a candidate against Harmon tor the nomination in the state convention two years ago, almost angrily demanded that he be not compelled to make the sacrifice, as he termed it, of acepting the nomination for second place. Although his name was not placed in nomination, he received nearly enough votes 011 the first ballot to nominate. He formally withdrew, but 011 the second ballot, before the roll call was completed, the nomination was made unanimous. He asked time to conn? .1 .... v....... .* niwi-i cut" iiiaiLVi anu tuiri an iumii i conference with his frienls unuounced .he would accept. The proposition to endorse a candidate for United States senator that was suggested by William J. Bryan, was defeated, receiving but 254 out of the 1,099 votes in the convention. A move of great importance in Ohio was made by the convention when it endorsed the proposal for a constitutional convention, a question that will be voted upon by the people this fail. The following is the ticket that was nominated to make the campaign with Governor Harmon. Lieutenant Go vernor?Atlee Pomcrone, Can'on. Attorney General?Tinioth S. Hognn, W' llston. Secretary of State?Charles H. Graves, Oak Harbor.. Treasurer of State?L). S. Creamier, St. Clairsville. At the conclusion of the nominations the convention adjourned sine die. ? LIGHTNING ST It IK US NKGKO. Strikes Shoes from His Feet but Ne gro is I'nharmoil. Lightning struck the shanks of William Graham, a negro, Sunday afternoon at ' Wiriston-Snlem and stripped him of his shoes and socks, not injuring him, however, in any way, outside of mental anguish, no to speak, for William was surely scared. Mis wife, who was in the room at the time was also uninjured. The lightning ran down th*. chimney during the severe electrical storm which swept through Cnai city, and tore up the bureau, before it divested William of his shoes and stockings, besides ripping his drawers also from the ankle to the kae* Many persons in the neighborhood visited the scene and William show. ed them corroborating garments. <