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PUBLISHED THREE TD PARDON COOPER Hie Mas Who Assassinated Ex-Senator Cannack is Set Free by PARTIZAN GOVERNOR Who Signs Pardon Before the Opin ion of the Supreme Court Sustain ing the Verdict of Guilty in the Lower Court as Read to the End by the Judges. A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn., says a sensation equalling that which inflamed in November, 1908, when former United States Senator Ed ward Ward Cannack was shot and killed on a prominent street in Nash ville, was created by the pardoning by Governor M. R. Patterson, Wed nesday of Col. Duncan B. Cooper, who, wi.th his son, Robin J. Cooper, was convicted of the murder of Car mack. The issuance of the pardon on the Governor's own initiative without a formal petition before him, followed quickly the reading of the opinion of the Tennessee Supreme Court af firming the verdict of guilty in the case of Col. Cooper, under sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary, and reversing the lower Court in the case of Robin Cooper, who was sentence to a like period for the Cannack murder. Governor Patterson wrote the full pardon for Col. Cooper and filed it with the Secretary of State, while Chief Justice Beard was yet read ing a dissenting opinion in the case of Col. Cooper. In a statement giv en to the press almost immediately, the Governor said: "In my opinion neither of the defendants is guilty, and they have not had a fair and impartial trial, but were convicted contrary to the law and the evi dence." The news of the Court's action and that of the Governor in pardon ing Col. Cooper spread quickly over the city, causing intense excitement and heated discussion by numerous groups of partisans. The conviction and sentence of Col. Cooper was af firmed by a divided Com t, In an entirely different line- up of the jus tices, the Court split as ito the .guilt -of Robin Cooper, by a vote of -3 to 2, the lower Court being reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. [The reversal in the case of Robin Cooper is based on assignments of error in the trial Judge's failure to charge seperately as to Robin Coop er'B 'theory of self-defence, linking the defence of the two defendants together; excluding testimony of Governor Patterson as to talks with Robin Cooper, and advice given him as to Col. Cooper before the.tragedy; and the admission on cross examina tion of Robin Cooper as to the in tent of certain State's witnesses in testifying as to certain incidents. Col. Cooper was still at the Cap ital when the pardon was entered in the Secretary of State's office. He was as calm), and even cheerful, through it all, as if he had received an acquittal. The reversal in his son's case seemed to interest and please him to the exclusion of his own fate. "I wanted Robin's vindication more than I wanted a pardon," was his smiling remark, when told of the Governor's acton in behalf of himself. Leaving the crowds gath ered about him, he entered a car riage with his daughter, Mrs. Lucius E. Burch, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. James C. Bradford, and accompanied by Marshall Robert Marshall, was driven to the county jail, where for mlalities in the conection with the pardon were gone through with and he was released. He reached the jail at 2:20 P. IM?, leaving there about 2.30 for the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Burch. Robin Coop er is under a $25,000 l>ond. His friends freely predict that he will not again be arrained for trial. Should he be. it would be a most difficult undertaking to secure a jury in Davidson County under the law's requirements. The opinions were read before a Court room packed to suffocation, the corridors being crowed with those unable to gain entrance. Every word v.ias listened to with breathless in terest, and the scene was a memor able one. It marked an epoch in not only the legal annals of the State, but the political as well. The Democratic party of Tennessee has been rent into bitter factions over the prohibition question, and as a wheel within a wheel, "the Cooper case" has played a conspicuous part. 'Cooper is the close friend and al leged political adviser of Patterson, who is the leader of the anti-prohi bition forces in Tennessee. Carmack was the chief of the prohibition was the cheif of the prohibition move ment. Patterson was a most impor tant witness for the defence at the trial of the Coopers for the killing of Carmack, was the outcome of politi cal machinination. Now on the verge of an election of judiciary, the Su preme Court was called on to pass finally upon the case over which, it seems, the party factions have ac tually aligned themselves on one side or the other. For sixty-nine days the Court had the case and the State has been on the tip-toe of expectancy as opinion days came and went witout its being referred to. The announcement at last showed an interesting status to those famil 1es a week. KICK ON RING ROLE SOME REPUBLICANS INDULGE IN PLAIN TALK. About the Corruption Abroad in the Land and the Great Need of a Change. rr.he annual dinner of the Repub lican Club of Neida county, N. Y., was held Wednesday evening and at tended by 700 men, for the most part anti-organization men. The speak ers included Charles J. Bonaparte, former attorney-general of the Unit ed States; William H. Hotchkiss, state superintendent of insurance, and Congressman George W. Nor ris, of Nebraska. Former Assemblyman Merwin K. Hart, president of the league, In his introductory remarks, said the peo ple are as hard to fool as in Lin coln's time, and "were not deceived by the Payne-Aldrich bill, and are j tired of continued disclosures about! politicians for revenue only." ^Mr. Bonaparte's address was an analysis of the methods of bosses and rings, a protest against the methods of both and a plea for re turning political power to the peo ple. "The mass of our citizens habi tually dome to the polls, (hot to choose their rulers, but to record a preferance between nominees of two usurping monopolies," he said. Mr. Bonaparte declared leaders "have made their trade so dangerous, odious and noisome that against it every force that makes for righteous-1 ness must be directed tomorrow as it should be today." Superintendent Hotchkiss follow ed and after referring to the mes sage sent to the legislature by Gov ernor Hughes for an investigation of legislative practices and proceed ure and also to a recent speech by the governor voicing the public de mand "for the uncovering of the secret places of political power and legislative favor," said: "Thus within a week have two j blows been struck at a system? rather a system with a system?of which New Yorkers have become weary. Executives of great stateB do not speak thus without e*;reme provocation. "Through what a period have we been passing? Until recent years considerations on the si J j seem to have been smiled at by the cynical; the boasts of some of the3i in bvl iv,im ta.ks led toward several of the disclocures '.r ihe In^uiT now closing. What an atmosatv.re was was that of the capital city?3ald one witness "this is not a Sunday school, this is Albany'?where graft has been a subject for joking and the distributors of it honored in song. "And what shall be said of peo ple whose action at the polls or in convention has made such things possible? Each decade of late has seen the executive grow stronger, the legislature weaker; each decade the people have become more satisfied to trust a man, not merely to execute, but even at times to make the laws. The current just now is stronger than ever before. Impressed by the oorrupt practices of the few, the plain people are beginning to doubt the reliability of the legislative branch. Stories from Mississippi's contest In lurid vigor with those from Pittsburg; New Jersey's of late, cast in shadow even the daily tales about New York. Carried to the ul timate, the present distress of pop lar representation in city council, in state legislature, yes, even in the j Federal congressmen's, sooner or ; later, a practical despotism, a chief tainship which, while still elective, has yet all of the dangers against which the father taught. God for bid that the government should thus be weakened. "And so I take it our governor was looking far into the future when he asked a 'thorough and unsparing investigation into legislative process es and procedure.' What the peo ple want is, however, not so much a current resolution as a concur rent revolution, an overturn in meth ods, perhaps, rather than in men. So be it." Policemen Must Pay Debts. Atlanta policemen must either pay their debts or leave the force. Fol lowing the suspension of two pa trolmen several days ago the board of police commissioners announced that similar action would be taken in all cases where policemen were found to be delinquent in meeting their obligations. iar with the intricacies of the pol It i al situation. Chief Justice Beard and Justices McAlistor and Bell reversed the case as to Robin Cooper; Jus tices Neill and Shields dissenting. Justices Shields. McAllister and Neil confirm as to Col. Cooper; Chief Justice Beard and Justice Bell dis senting. The Supreme Court was more widely divided than it ever was be fore. Two of the most elaborate opinions ever rendered were handed down, and neither one of them, strange to say, actually accomplish ed result intended by the opinion itself or the Justice who wrote it. Justice John K. Shields read an opin ion covering 72 typewritten pages, affirming the judgments of the Court below in all things. In this Justice M. M. Neil concurred. OD :OR*--?JrEBUR< KILLED BY CONVICT I LATER CONVICT WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY OFFICERS. A Maddened Mob of Two Thousand Seized the Outlaw's Dead Body and Strung It Up. At Meridan, Miss, former Sheriff J. R. Temple was shot and killed Wednesday by Tom O'Neil, a negro prispnoT. " Deputy Jailer Boutwell was serving breakfast, when he was assaulted by O'Neil, the latter in the scuffle securing Boutwell's pistol. Temple, w.bo was the jailer, went to the assistance of .his deputy and was shot and instantly killed with Boutwell's pistol. ' O'Neill and anoth er negro prisoner escaped to the basement of the jail, carrying the weapon with them and defied ar rest. Later O'Neil was shot and killed by the officers after he had fired four shots at them without effect. O'Neil's companion, George WIHIamB, a negro, was shot in the leg. A maddened crowd of nearly 2, 000 people took the body of O'Neill, who was expiring, from the officers, carried it to a telephone pole about a block distant, where it was strung up. After cut, the negro's clothing saturated-with kerosene and set on fire, but was rescued from the mob , after the clothing had been burned j from the body. George Williams was placed in a cell after O'Neil had been "killed. The men insisted on securing him, but no assault has been made on the jail. Judge Buckley,* who is holding court, in an address counselled mod eration, and it is not believed that further efforts will be made to lynch Williams, although great excite-' ment prevails. Mr. Temple was one of the m'ost prominent citizens In. the county. TRIED TO KILL MOTHER. Young White Man Lodged in the Columbia onll. Because he threatened to kill his, own widowed mother, young Sadler Gillesie is in the Columbia jail upon charges preferred by his uncle. The case has excited considerable inter est for the family is well connected and prominent in social circles. Young Gillespie, a few weeks ago, flourished a carving knife1 in his hand and police officers were called in to prevent his harming members of his family. He was not arrested then on the plea of his mother, but a repitition of his threats caused his uncle, Mr. B. M. Tngllsh, to take the matter up with the result that the young man was arrested late Thurs day. Gillespie, who is well known 1 around town, is only about 18 years of age. WITHOUT ANY WEAPON. Single-Handed Whipped Fifteen Un washed Hoboes. Seeing a gang of tramps burning crossties at their camp near Willows, Cal., Monday afternoon, H. W. Sher idan, a Southern Pacific superinten tent, stopped his special train to In vestigate. One of the tramps, who appeared to he the leader, objected to the intrusion, whereupon Sheri dan knocked him down. That pre cipitaed a free-for-all fight and Sher idan found himself battling single handed with 15 brawny knights of the road. Before the train crew could reach the scene, Sheridan with kicks and blows had routed the en tire crowd. The leader was knock ed down four times. Sheridan used to be a brakeman in Utah and Ne vada, where he was a terror to hobos. BILBO HAS CLOSE CALL. His Expulsion from Senate Prevent ed by One Vote. iBy a margin of one vote short of the required two-thirds majority, 2S to 15, the Mississippi Senate, now in session at Jackson, early Thursday rejected a r< solution to expel State Senator Theodore Bilbo, who claims that he accepted a bribe of $645 in exchange for his promise to change his vote from former Governor Jas. K. Vardaman to United States Sena tor Leroy Percy during the recent Senatorial contest. The acceptance of the money, Bilbo explained, was to secure evidences of irregularity in connection with the contest for the United States Senatorship. AUTOISTS COME TO GRIEF. Machine Turns Turtle Near Gaffnoy i and Injures Four. While F. H. Knox, of Spartanburg, superintendent of the street railway company; President Smith, of the Merchants and Planters Bank: Dr. C. A. Jefferies and W. F. Smith, of Gaffney, were on their way to Gas ton Shoals, in Mr. W. F. Smith's car, the machine went into a ditch, a mile from Gaffney, and turned tur tle, which resulted in painful, though not serious, injuries to all the occu pants. Mr. Knox received the most painful injury of any of the party, his shoulder and wrist being badly sprained. Gr, S. CM SATURDAY, AP BRYAN WRITES Poors Broadside Into Trosts and Monopo lies of All Kinds. LAUDS UP JEFFERSON As the Great Leader of the People and a Safe One.?Says President Toft's Speech on Lincoln Sustains Position of the Advocates of Free Silver in the Nineties. The letter of William J. Bryan, written from Brazil and read Wed nesday night before the Democrats who attended the Jefferson Day ban quet at New York and those at a similar function in Indianapolis was as follows: "I thank you for the invitation to the Jefferson Day Banquet. While I shall not return to the United States in rime to attend, I can join with you in spirit the more heartily because of what I have learned by visiting other countries. I have seen everywhere the influence exerted by his teachings. In the nation in which I am just now sojourning I find illus trations of his idea of conquest. He contended that we should conquer the world with our ideals rather than with arms, and in this sense, we are egecting a conquest of Brazil. Her constitution is modelled after ours; she .has copied from us the federal system of government, which united local control of local affairs with na tional supremacy; her flag, like ours, has a star for each state, and her school system is being made to con form more and more to ours. These victories, too, cement friendship, in stead of arousing enmity. Hail to Jefferson, the world's schoolmaster, whose views continue their majestic march around the earth. "But in our country, as well as abroad, his principles are triumph ing. He taught that the art of gov ernment is the art of being honest and each mew investigation proves the folly of those who refuse to learn of him. "He was the foe of monopoly in every form and his nam?i is the one which can with most propriety be invoked when the trusts are attack ed and when a contest is being wag ed for the application of the prin ciples of poplar government. "I am so far away from home that I am not fully informed as to the recent events, but have just read of one Jeffersonian victory, namely, the seloction of an Investigating commit tee by the house instead of by the speaker, and, better still, each party selected its memlbers of the commit tee. This establishes an important precedent, which, if followed, will make investigations real and effec tive. "I notice, also, that we seem like ly to win a victory against the meat trust. Monopoly prices at last have provoked a popular protest and now that the people are looking for a rem edy there is hope that they will ac cept the Democratic party. It is not unnatural that they should use the boycott, even if they punish them selves while they are inflicting pun ishment on their oppressors; but I am sure they will, in the end, find legislation more satisfactory than ab stenance from meat and join the Democrats in declaring a private monopoly?not the meat trust only, but every private monopoly?inde fensible and intolerable. "But there is another item of news, which has just come to my attention. President Taft, in his Lincoln speech at New York, Febru ary 12. attributed the present high prices mainly to the increase in the production of gold and the conse quent enlargement of the volume of money. Thlis unexpected indorse ment of our party's proposition in 1S96, when we demanded more money as the only remedy for fail ing prices, is very gratifying. How valuable that admission would have been to us if had been made during the campaign of that year when the Republican leaders were denying that the volume of money had any influence on prices, and asserting that it did not matter whether wo bad much or little, provided it was all good. "We may now consider the quan tative theory of money established beyond dispute and proceed to the consideration of other questions. But the president and his predecessor admitted the correctness of the Dem ocratic position on so many ques tions that further argument is hardly necessary on any subject, we may now take judgement against the Re publican party by confession. "Please present my compliments to the- Democrats assembled in mem ory of the Sage of Monticello. I take for granted that your gathering will not adjurn without the adoption of a resolution urging the ratifica tion by all the States of the income tax amendment to the federal con stitution. "The time is ripe for a return to Jefferson principles and I trust the representatives of our party will make a record which will secure us a majority at the coming congression al elections. With that advantage gained, the Democrats will have an opportunity to outline a program, and with a program in harmony with Jeffersonian Ideas, the Democracy will enter the presidential campaign with promise of success." R1L 16. 1910. SOME TIMELY NEWS HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON THAT WILL BE READ With Interest by the General Reader Who Wrants to Keep Up With the Current Events. Congress has been a tame affaii since the complete routing of Speak er Cannon and his privileged Rules Committee, and it is generally pre dicted that much work will oe done in the next six or eight weeks, and that adjournment will be taken aoout the first of June. The President has outlined much legislation he would like to see enacted, but owing to conditions at the Capitol, he does not expect it. The Government printing ortice, located"in this city, is the largest of fice of the kind in the world. Prac tically all government publications, including the. Congressional Record, are printed there, and at present re quire a force of nearly 4,50.) em ployees. This great shop is never without its details of employers at work. There are three shifts, of 8 hours each, from 8 a. m. to 4 p rn., from 4 to 12 night, and from 12 to 8, making the work continuous, in fact much of the machinery never stops, except for repairs. The force is composed of men skilled in every detail of the priters trade, ami they come from all parts of the. L'n'on. Besides these employees of the nigh est skill, the machinery is the best known to the 'craft. Of all depart ments of the Government this im mense workshop is more up tu date than any other. The annual fight is on in Cong.ea^ respecting the distribution of free seeds. Every year a large appr > priation is rcade for the purchase, and distribution of seeds, and as there is much fraud practiced on the Government in the purchase of worthless seeds, there are many who deem it the best policy to discon tiue the work, and if the rural com mittees do not stand together against the city, and the east gener ally, this will be done. The Agri cultural Department is now raising some of Its seeds, and tests those it purchases and yet when the seeds are ready for distribution it is found that the bulk does not correspond with the samples. Under a recent decision of the Court of Claims, a large fund is now being distributed amon^ the Cherokee Indians and their descend ants. This fund was created by an act of Congress to pay these people for their land and other propery taken from them by the Govern ment when it compelled them to give up their lands and move to another location. There are a large num ber of these claimants, scattered ai. over the country, but the greater number is in Tennessee, the Caro linas, Missouri and Arkansas. The distribution is made upon sufficient proof that the claimant is a descend ant of the Cherokees in a certain degree. The Nationa1 aHU of Fame, as it is called, Is the old House of Repre sentatives in the Capitol, and is a spacious semi-circular room, with marble columns supporting gallier ies, and inlaid floors and highly dec orated ceilings. The use of this hall for this purpose was declared by an Act of Congress, and provided that each State should be entitled to place statues of two of its citizens therein, and many of the states have taken advantage of this law, and marble or bronze statutes are. fast filling the vacant spaces. But one woman is honored by occupying a prominent space, and that is Francis E. Willard, the Temperance advo cate. ELEVEN MEN BURIED By Premature Explosion Under Ions of Rock. iBy a premature explosion in the stone quarries of the Nazareth Port land Cement Company at Eastern. Pa., Thursday eleven men were bur ied under five thousand tons of rock and killed. The victims are Hun garians and Italians. The quarry force was preparing to set off a blast in four hov.> and had filled the holes with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. When the charges ex ploded men were scattered in all -directions. The entire side of the mountain of rock was torn loose. Costa Rica Quakes. Senor Calvo, minister to the Unit ed States from Costa Rica, received a cablegram Friday from San Jose stating that an earthquake shock had been felt in all parts of the repub lic Thursday. Slight damage was re ported from various sections but there were no fatalities. Attempts Murder. A sensation was caused in the pal ace of the justice of Paris Thursday when an anarchist, in revenge, fired four shots at M. Flory, the profes sor of the court, which found the man quilty a year ago. Florey was not hit and the anarchist was ar rested. Fatal Blow. At Darlington Pat Hudson and Murdock Outlaw, two young white ?men, beame involved in a difficulty Wednesday night, during which Hud eon struck Outlaw on the back of ,his head, inflicting what is probably a fatal wound. WADE GOOD HAUL ROBBERS GET OFF WITH TEN THOUSAND IX)LLARS. From *he Vault of a National Bank in Tennessee, Which They Blew Open. Robbers blew the vault of the First National Bank of Spring City, Tenn., Thursday morning at 1:25 o'clock and escaped with over $10, 000. Nitro-glycerine was used. Bloodhounds were placed on the trail, but thus far the safeblowers have not been apprehendde. Thurs day night there was $10.200 in the vault and the next morning only $30 was found. One of the robbers shot at S. E. Paul, assistant cashier of the bank, as he was enroute to the institution following the explosions. Nitro-glycerine was poured into the cracks around the safe door. Five flasks of the explosive were found in the building Friday morn ing. The work was evidently that of inexperienced men. It is thought the party was composed of four. En trance to the building was made by a side door. The first explosion was heard at 1.25 o'clock. Several per sons in the vicinity were aroused and rushed to the bank. At 1.40 the robbers were seen leaving the insti tution, having looted the safe in 20 minutes. During the time the thieves were robbing the bank, one of the party held up the operator at the Cincin natti railroad station to prevent him giving alarm of the robbery. The building, a substantial brick struc ture, was badly damaged, the front end being practically destroyed. The safe was blown to pieces, one of the doors being found several feet away. A search for the robbers was at once instituted. However, no clue to their identity has yet been un covered. BITTERLY CRITICISED. Patterson Justly Roasted for Par doning Cooper. Capt. G. T. Fitzhugh, of Mem phis, Tenn., assistant counsel for the prosecution in the Cooper case, whose speech at the famous trial at tracted widespread attention, char acterized the pardon of D. B. Coop er as an outrage. Wednesday he said: "The disgraceful haste,display ed by the Governor in pardoning D. B. Cooper before the ink was hardly dry on the Supreme Court opinion convicted him of murder, shocks ev ery sense of decency. "Sworn to execute the laws as construed by the highest Court, the Governor, without even a petition from any one, tramples law under foot and sets aside the Court's de cision for the benefit of a cold blood ed murderer, whose intluence with the Governor is, and has been, far more potent than the interests and safety of the people of this great Commonwealth." SCAFFOLD BREAKS. And Painter Falls Four Stories to the Ground. At Marion, N. C, Dan T/inks, of Atlanta, a painter employed by the New Marion Hotel Company, Thurs day afternoon fell four stories to what may prove his death. The man was at work painting on the fourth floor when the scapold broke Medical assistance was immediately summoned, but the local physician thought it advisable to send him to Asheville where an operation may save his life. Trinks was in ltilte pain when .he left town. Several months ago the middle wall of the ?hotel collapsed and five workmen were seriously injured, though no deaths occurred. GALLERY PALLS. Six Persons are Seriously Hurt in the Accident. At New Orleans six persons were injured, one fatally, when the gal lery of a building at Canal and South Rampart streets collapse.! Thursday, precipitating a dozen or more per sons into the street. Loosened bricks from the build ing fell on top of the wrecked gal lery and an unidentified boy about 14 year of age was crushed so badly that he was found to be in a dying condition when tak? n to the hos pital. The other rive, all residents of New Orleans, were not seriously injured. Knocked Judge Down. (Hot words used by Chief J. T. Jensen of the Atlanta city sanitary department in objecting to a decision rendered by Judge Nash Broyles in police court precipitated a fist fight between the two officials. In melee both exchanged blows and Broyles fell to the floor. On resuming the bench he ordered the sanitary chief escorted from the room by police men. Iiooking for Brute. Constable J. W. Adams, of Mill port. Ala., and a posse of citizens of that town, were in Columbus Thurs day searching for Alfred Barnett, wanted for an alleged assault the evening before on the little 7-year old daughter of E. J. Dotson, a pros perous planter living near LMillport. 0 rWO CENTS PER COPY DIED IN TRAP Six Firemen Burned to Death Fighting Fire in the County Jail. OTHERS BADLY BURNED Explosion of a Gasoline Tank Cause's a Back Draft and Slams Behind the Brave Fire Fighters a Big Iron Door Leaving Them at the Mercy of the Flames. Trapped by metal doors and barr ed windows, six firemen were caught by a back draft and burned to death during the partial destruction of the New Haven, Conn., county jail Thurs day. Three of their comrades Were saved through the heroism of other firemen. The bodies of the six men were found late Friday after the debris cooled. Many other firemen were fearfully burned but remaine'dh at work. Six men from truck No. 1 were fighting their way through the cell room of the jail into the workshop, when an explosion of a gasoline tank caused a back draft and slamed be hind them the iron doors seperating the two buildings. Three of the men were hemmed> in a corner and burned to death while the other three made their way to a barred window to which they clung with streams of water playing on them from the outside. Soon after reaching the window the roof fell it and ladders were put up from the outside and down the inside and the men taken out. T.he other dead firemen were caught in the same back draft as they were working at the ot'her end of the building and were carried down by the roof when it fell. The fire was discovered by a pris oner and the 175 men in the work shop were sent to their cells. Whdn it was seen that there was danger of the fire spreading to the main building the 246 male and 42 fe male inmates were taken to the po lice stations and the foot guard ar mor/. The next night the prisoners were returned to the jail. ffhe buildings destroyed were the two workshops and several adjoining sheds and two dwelling houses. The fire is thought to have been caused hy. crossed electric wires. .The loss of the New England Chair com pany for whom the prisoners do con tract work, is estimated at $135, 000, fully insured and the loss on the buildings of the jail is $35,000 with full insurance. HIT COMING AND GOING. Tossed by Engine Against Another Going Different Way. A peculiar acoident Wednesday, during which Frank Collins, 32 years old, was converted literally into a human shuttlecock, probably will cost him his life. Collins was walk ing along the Louisville & Nashville tracks in Louisville, Ky., when he was struck by a southbound freight train and tossed against the pilot of a northbound engine, which hurl ed him 20 feet from the roadway. He was picked up unconscious arid taken to a hospital, where Friday morning it was said he could not live. SAVED WOMAN FROM SUICIDE. Engineer on Train Sees Her With Stone About Waist. C. L. Carey, an engineer on a switch engine cf the Kansas City Southern railway, saved Mrs. Daisy Mason, of Kansas City, Kansas, from suicide early Thursday. As Carey's engine was passing a barge at the foot of Delaware street he rooked out of the cab window and saw a woman standing on the barge with a stone tied about her waist. Carey stopped bis engine, sprang from the cab and ran to the woman, seizing ' her just as she was about to leap into the Missouri river. HEEKS WHITE FIEND. From Alabama Who Is Wanted for Assault ' a Girl. Constable W. J. McAdama. nf Mill port . Ala., and a posse of citizens of that town, were In Columbus search ing for Alfred Barnett, wanted for an alleged assault on the little 7-year old daughter of E. G. Dotson, a prosperous planter living near Mill port. The assault took place in a barn on the Dotson plantation while Dotson was absent from home. Bar nett. who is about 33 years old, has a wife and two children. He form erly lived in Columbus and is be lieved to have gone there. Seized by Shark. L'tters received from Christobal, Panama, state that on (March 31, Samuel Barnes, a marine on the cruiser Tacoma, fell overboard and was carried under by a mammoth shark. The body was not recovered. Victims of Poison. Mystery surrounds the death of two sons of Philip Badali, a wealthy Italian of Wilkinsburg, Pa., found dead In bed Thursday, the victims of poison.