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*r..' . PARDON COOPER lie Man Who Assassinated Ex-Senator Carina ck b Set Free by PARTIZAN GOVERNOR Who Signs Pardon Before the Opin Ion of the Supreme Court Sustain tag the Verdict of Guilty in the liower Court as Read to the End by the Judges. A diBpatch from Nashville, Toon., says a sensation equalling that which inflamed in November, 1908, when former United States Senator Edward Ward Carmack was shot and killed on a prominent street in Nashville, was created by the pardoning by Governor M. R. Patterson, Wednesday of Col. Duncan B. Cooper, who, with bis Bon, Robin J. Cooper, was convicted of the murder of Carmack. 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 TenneBBee Supreme Court affirming 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 Carmack murder. Governor Patterson wrote the full pardon for Col. Cooper and filed it with the Secretary of State, while Chief Justice Beard was yet reading a dissenting opinion in the case of Col. Cooper. In a statement given to the prees almost immediately, the Governor said: "In my opinion neither of the defendants is guilty, and they have not had a fair and imnartial trial, but were convicted contrary to the law and the evidence." The news of the Court's action and that of the Governor in pardoning 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 affirmed by a divided Court. In an entirely different line- up of the jusl tices, the Court split as to 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 Cooper's 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 examination of Robin Cooper as to the intent of certain State's witnesses in testifying as to certain Incidents. Col. Cooper was still at the Capital 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 ploase him to the exclusion of his own fate. "I wanted Kot>in s vinaicmwn more than I wanted a pardon," was his smiling remark, when told of the Governor's acton In behalf of himself. Leaving the crowds gathered about him, he entered a carriage with his daughter, Mrs. Lucius E. Burch, and his Bister-in-law, Mtb. Jcmes C. Bradford, and accompanied by Marshall Robert Marshall, was driven to the county jail, where formalities in the conectlon with the pardon wore gone through with and he was released. He reached the jail at 2:20 P. !\l., leaving there about 2.30 for the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Burch. Robin Cooper is under a $25,000 bond, H1s friends freely predict that he will not again be arralned 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 sufTocation, the corridors being crowed with those unable to gain entrance. Every word wag listened to with breathless interest, and the scene was a momorntiio one It marked an eooch 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 bb a wheel within a wheel, "the Cooper case" has played a conspicuous part. Cooper is the close friend and alleged political adviser of Patterson, w.ho is the leader of the antl-prohlbltion forces In Tennessee. Onrmack was the chief of the prohibition was the cheif of the prohibition movement. Patterson was a most Important witness for the defence at the trial of the Coopers for the killing ot Carmack, was the outcome of political machlnlnatlon. Now on the verge of an election of Judiciary, the Supreme Court was called on to pass finally upon the case over which. It seems, the party factions have actually aligned themselves on one side or the other. For sixty-nine < < KICK ON RING RULE SOME REPUBLICANS INDULGE IN PLAIN TALK. About the Corruption Abroad in the hand and the Great Need of a Change. rr.hje annual dinner of the Republican Club of Nelda county, N. Y., was held Wednesday evening and attended by 700 men, for the most part ' 0 anti-organization men. The speak1 ers included Charles J. Bonaparte, former attorney-general of the United States; William H. HotchklsB, state superintendent of insurance, and Congressman George W. Norrls, of Nebraska. Former Assemblyman Merwin K. Hart, president of the league, In his Introductory remarks, said the people are as hard to fool as In Lincoln's time, and "were not deceived by the Payne-Aldrlch bill, and are 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 returning political power to the people. "The mass of our citizens habitually oome to the polls, not 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 righteousness nuist be directed tomorrow as it shouH be today.". Superintendent Hotchklss follow en an" -uter rererrlng to the message s? nt to the legislature by Governor Hughes for an investigation of legislative practices and proceedure and also to a recent speech by the governor voicing the public demand "for the uncovering of the secret places of political power and legislative favor," said: "Thus within a week have two blows been struck at a system? rather a system with a system?of which New Yorkers have become weary. Executives of great states do not speak thus without e<.rem? provocation. "Through what a period have we been passing? Until recent years considerations on tho sIJi seem to have been smiled at by the cynical; the boasts of some of the3i in bi^t room tailis led toward several of the disclocures the in ,uiry now closing. What an atmospn' re was was that of tho capital city?said 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 people whose action at the polls or in ctonv^ention has made such things possible? Each decade of late oaa 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 law3. The current just now is stronger than ever before. Imnressed bv 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 ultimate, the present distress of poplar representation in city council, in state legislature, yes, even in the 1 Federal congressmen's, sooner or later, a practical despotism, a chief- 1 tainship which, while still elective, has yet all of the dangers against which the father taught. God forbid 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 processes and procedure.* What the people want Is, however, not so much a current resolution as a concurrent revolution, an overturn in methods, perhaps, rather than in men. )>r> H " 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 familiar with the intricacies of the politial situation. Chief Justice Heard and Justices MoAlister and Hell reversed the case as to Robin Cooper; Justices Neill and Shields dissenting. Justices Shields, McAllister and Neil confirm as to Col. Cooper: Chief Justice Heard and Justice Hell dissenting. Tho Supreme Court was more widely divided than it ever was before. Two of the most elaborate opinions ever rendered were handed down, and neither one of them, strange to say, nctually accomplished result intended by the opinion itself or the Justice who wrote it. Justice John K. Shields rend an opinion covering 72 typewritten pages, affirming the judgments of the Court below in all things. In this Justice M. M. Nell concurred. \ / - . t" ~ \ j r KILLED BY CONVICT 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 Merldan, Miss, former Sheriff J. R. Temple was shot and killed Wednesday by Tom O'Neil, a negro prisoner. Deputy Jailer Boutwell was serving breakfast, when he waB assaulted by O'Neil, the latter in the scuffle securing Boutwell's nistol. Temple, who was the jailer, went to the assistance of his deputy and was shot and instantly killed with Boutwell's pistol. O'Neill and another negro prisoner escaped to the basement of the jail, carrying the weapon with them and defied arrest. Later O'Neil was shot and killed by the officers after he had fired four shots at them without effect. O'Neil'B companion, George Williams, a negro, was Bhot 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 from the body. George Williams was placed in a cell after O'Neil had been killed. The men insisted on securing "nlm. but no assault has been made on the jail. Judge Buckley, who Is holding court, in an address counselled moderation, and it is not believed that further efforts will be made to lynch Williams, although great excitement prevails. Mr. Temple was one of the most prominent citizens in the county. TRIED TO KILL MOTHER. Young White Man Ixxlged in the Columbia Jail. Because he threatened to kjll his own widowed mother, young Sadler Gillesie is in the Columbia jail upon charges preferred by his uncle. The case has excited considerable interest for the family is well connected and prominent in social circles. Youne GlllesDie. a few weeks ago. flourished a carving knife in his hand and police ofllcers were called In to prevent his harming members of his family. He was not arrested then on the plea of his mother, but a ropltition 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 Thursday. Gillespie, who is well known around town, is only about 18 years of f ge. WITHOUT ANY WEAPON*. Single-Handed Whipped Fifteen Unwashed Hoboes. "Seeing a gang of tramps burning crossties at their camp near Willows, Cal., Monday afternoon, H. W. Sheridan, a Southern Pacific superintentent, stopped his special train to investigate. One of the tramps, who appeared to be the leader, objected to the Intrusion, whereupon Sheridan knocked him down. That precipltaed a free-for-all ilght and Sheridan found himself battling singlehanded with 15 brawny knights of the road. Before the train crew could reach the scene, Sheridan with kioku nnrt blows hart rontort the on tire crowd. The leader was knocked down four times. Sheridan used to be a brakeman in Utah and Nevada, where he was a terror to hobos. RILBO HAS CLOSE CALL. His Expulsion from Senate Prevented by One Vote, By a margin of one vote short of the required two-thirds majority, 28 to 15, the Mississippi Senate, now In session at Jackson, early Thursday rejected a resolution to expel State Senator Theodore Hilbo, who claims that he accepted a b-ibe of $645 in exchange for his promise to change his vote from former Governor Jas. K. Vardaman to United States Senator Leroy Percy during the recent Senatorial contest. The acceptance of the money. Bilbo explained, was to secure evidences of irregularitv in connection with tho contest for the United States Senatorship. Pa Li I Blow. At Dnrlington Pat Hudson and viuruucK uuuaw, two young wnite men, beanie Involved In a difficulty Wednesday night, during which Hudeon struck Outlaw on the back of his head, inflicting what is probably a fatal wound. \ ictims of Poison. Mystery surrounds the death of two sons of Philip ltadali, a wealthy Italian of Wilkinsburg. Pa., found dead in bed Thursday, the victims of poison. . , J SOME TIMEY NEWS HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON THAT WILL BE READ With Interest by the General Reader Who Wants to Keep Up With the Current Events. Congress has been a tame affaii since the complete routing of Speaker Cannon and his privileged Rules Committee, and it is generally predicted that much work will oe done in the next six or eight weeks, and Him nu j<> 11 in mem win do taKon aouut 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 orfice, located in this city, is the largest office of the kind in the world. Practically all government publications, including the Congressional Record, are printed there, and at prescit require a force of nearly 4,500 employees. 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 1 p m., 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, aud they come from all parts of the Un'on. Besides these employees of the Highest skill. the machinery is the best i known to the craft. Of all departments of the Government this immense workshop is more up to date than any other. The annual fi^ht is on in Coig.es* respecting the distribution of free seeds. Every year a large appr priation is made for the purchase and distribution of seeds, aad 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 discontiue the work, and if the rural committees do not stand together against the city, and the east generally, this will be done. The Agricultural Department is now r.iising 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 araon; the Cherokee Indians and their descendants. This fund was created by an act of Congress to pay these people for their land and other proper?v taken from thera by the Qove/nment when it compelled them to give up their lands and move to another location. There are a large number of these claimants, scattered ai. over the country, but the greater number is in Tennessee, the Carolina8. Missouri and Arkansas. The distribution is made upon sufficient proof that the claimant is a descendant of the Cherokees in a certain degree. The Nation*' aHU of Fame, as it is called, is the old House of Representatives in the Capitol, and is a spacious semi-circular room, with marble columns supporting galliories, and inlaid floors and highly decorated ceilings. The use of this hall for t.his purpose was declared by an Act of CongrosB. 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. Rut one woman is honored hv ncoiinvinc n prominent space, and that is Francis E. Willard, the Temperance advocate. ELEVEN MEN RUIUED By Premature Explosion Under Tons of Rock. By a premature explosion in the stone quarries of the Nazareth Portland Cement Company at Eastern, Pa., Thursday eleven men were buried under five thousand tons of rock and killed. The victims are Hungarians and Italians. The quarry force was preparing to set off a blast in four holes and had filled the holes with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. When the charges exploded men were scattered in all directions. The entire side of Hie mountain of rock was torn loose. Arrested for Murder. Mary Washington, of Savannah. I On., a negress. who was struck by the automobile of Alfred Marshall, a well known Savannah man, died Monday. Her husband, who was struck at the same time, died last | week. Marshall Tuesday was arrested the second time charged with murder. He was released on bond. Knocked Judge Down. Tlot words used by Chief J. T. Jensen of the Atlanta city sanitary department in objecting to a decision rendered by Judge Nash Proyles In police court precipitated a fist tight | between the two officials. In melee both exchanged blows and Broyleg i fell to the floor. On resuming the i bench he ordered the sanitary chief escorted from the room by policemen. \ / . FEED AND SEED INSPECTION LAW GOES INTO EFFECT MAY FIRST. Os That Day Important Measures Passed at I*uxt Session of Ijef(iNlature Will Become Effective. A special dispatch from Columbia to The News and Courier says one million eight hundred thousand stamps have been ordered by the department of agriculture, commerce and industries for the enforcement of the Feed Inspection Act, which goes into effect on May 1. | Th.. -a "* i inr siuiiipH win snow tne number of pounds and the amount of mon y represented by them. For the various weightB of feed stuffs the Btamp will rus aB follows: 100 pounds. 1 1-4 cents; 75 pounds 9 3-8 mills; 50 pounds, 6 1-4 mills; 25 pounds, 3 1-8 mills; 10 pounds, 1 1-4 mills; 5 pounds, 5-8 mill. The stamp will bear the fac simile signature of the commlss'oners. The feed inspection blanks will soon be ready to be sent out to concerns interested. The rules and regulations and standards aB required by the act will be arrained by Commissioner Watson. John F. Courcier, of Toledo, Ohio, secretary of the National Grain Dealers' Association, was in Columbia in conference with Commissioner Watsos. Mr. Courcier will also visit the grain dealers in Charleston, Columbia and other parts of the State, asking them to become members of the Association. The object of the Association is to aid in the honest enforcement of the laws for honest houses. Mr. Courcier was discussing with Col. Watson the matter of making the standards in this State uniform, as fixed by the National Grain Dealers' Association. This standard has been accepted by the United States and by the several States now having feed inspection laws. In Georgia, Tennessee and other States the standards fixed a year ago are in force now, but there have been some amendments since that time. The new regulations will be adopted by the State of South Carolina, as these new standards have been adopted by the United States Government. All the forms, blanks, etc., for the Seed Inspection Act are now in the hands of the publishers, and will soon be issued. The charge for analysis of samples under this Act is 25 cents. Prof. Paur, of Clemson, is already arranging at the experiment station to prepare for the examisatlon of samples of seeds. By special request some examinatlos have already been made. This act will go Into effect May 1. Violations will be punished and inspections will be made in the open market. In eonection with the pure food and drug law the State health department. is to cooperate in giving directions to inspertov-s of seeds. These instructions will be carried out by the agents. This is a good law. and will save farmers from being imposed on by dishonest dealers in seed, who are willing to palm off faulty seeds. * SKKKS WHITE FIEND. From Alabuma Wlio Is Wanted for Assaulting a Girl. Constable W. J. McAdams. of Millport, Ala., and a posse of citizens of that town, were in Columbus searching for Alfred Harnett, wanted for an alleged assault on the little 7-yearold daughter of E. G. Dotson, a prosperous planter living near Millport. The assault took place in a ham on the Dotson plantation while Dotson was absent from home. Barnett, who is about 33 years old, has a wife and two children. He formerly lived in Columbus and is believed to have gone there. Tripped a Burglar. At Fort Wayne, Ind., her two little girls and a masked burglar, tumbling down the stairway together, bowled over Mrs. O. H. Tlaird, who was standing at the foot of the stairs holding a lamp late Monday night. The burglar dashed frantically back upstairs, leaped through a rear window and fled, empty handed. The children, going up to bed, had come into collision with burglar and tripped him in their wild effort to retreat. One Dead, Five Hurt. Jj. (7. Travis, an automobile demonstrator, was killed and his wife and four of his children were sevetely Injured when the automobile in which they were riding Monday night was struck by a Southern Pacific train at a street crossing at Santa Ana, Cal. Should 1m? liii|* n(died. Rev. J. Inman Townsley, pastor of the Second Methodist Episcopal church, South, in New Orleans, declared, during the course of a sermon there Sunday night, that Oovernor Patterson, of Tennessee, should he Impeached for pardoning Col. I). It. Cooper, convicted of manslaughter in the killing of former United State Senator Carmack. ^ fgj V DIED INTRAP' Six Firemen Barned lo Death Fighting Fire in the Connty Jail. | OTHERS BADLY BURNED Explosion of a (I'nsoline Tank Onuses ^ a Hark Draft and Slams Itehind Uio Rrave Fire Fighters a Ilig Iron Door Iieaving Them ut the Mercy of the Flames. Trapped by metal doors and barred windows, six firemen were caught by a back draft and burned to death during the partial destruction of the New Haven, Conn., county jail Thursday. Three of their comradeB 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 remained at work. | Six men from truck No. 1 were I 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 behind them the iron doors seperatlng the two buildings. Three of the men were hemmed in a corner and burned to death while the other three made their wav 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. The other dead firemen were caught in the same hack draft as they were working at the other end of the building nnd were carried down by the roof when it fell. The fire was discovered by a prisoner and the 175 men in the workshop were sent to their cells. When It was seen that there was danger of the fire spreading to the main building the 246 male and 42 female inmates were taken to the police stations and the foot guard armory. The next night the prisoners were returned to the jail. The buildings destroyed were the two workshops and several adjoining sheds and two dwelling houses. The fire is thought to have been caused by crossed electric wires. The loss of the New England Chair company for whom the prisoners do contract work, is estimated at $135,000, fully Insured and the loss on the buildings of the jail is $35,000 with full insurance. Ai ruiMn <JU>IK TO UltlfiF. Machine Turns Turtle Near Gaffney and Injures Four. While F. H. Knox, of Spartanburg, superintendent of the street railway company; president Smith, of the Merchants and Planters Hank; I)r. C. A. Jefferles and W. F. Smith, of Gaffney, were on their way tj Gaston Shoals, in Mr. W. F. Smith's car, the machine went into a ditch, a mile from Gaffney, and turned turtle, which resulted in painful, though not serious, Injuries to all the occupants. Mr. Knox received the most painful injury of any of the party, his shoulder and wrist being badly sprained. IIIT COMING AND GOING. Tossed by Engine Against Another Going Different Way. A peculiar accident Wednesday, during which Frank Collins, .12 years old. was converted literally into a human shuttlecock, probably will cost him his life. Collins was walking along the Louisville & Nashville tracks in Louisville, Ky., when ho was struck bv a southbound freight train and tossed against the pilot of a northbound engine, which hurled him 20 feet from the roadway. ' He was picked up unconscious and taken to a hospital, where Friday morning it was said he could not live. SAYKD WOMAN KltOM SI ICIDK. Kngineer on Train Sees Her With Stone About Wais?. C. L. Carey, an engineer on a switch engine of the Kansas City Southern railway, saved Mrs. Daisy Mason, of Kansas City, Kansas, from suicide parly Thursday. As Carey's engine was passing a barge at the foot of Delaware street he looked out of the cab window and saw a woman standing on the barge with a srona uoo aoont tier waist. Carry stopped his engine, sprang from the cab and ran to the woman, seizing her jnst as she was about to leap into the Missouri river. ^ Race Horses Killed. Durlsg the severe storm at Louisville, Ky., Saturday lightning struck two barns at Churchhill Downs race course Instantly killing George J. Long's two y ar old Denies and four year old, Solitle, Frank Repass and Nerbit, two years old. 0 K