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TRAGIC MURDER % Of Senator parmack In Streets of Nashville \ ___ BY POLITICAL RIVAL Ho Is Shot Down in Business Section of the City by ltobin Cooper, Whose Father Mr. Carmaek llad Criticised in Tenncsseean of Which He Recently IJecanie the Fditor. . Nashville, Ttotin., N^v f).?As a seouel to the recent hi* er Democratic primary for the (Juhernatori il nomination in Tennesson, the Hon. LMur.itol H'niwl uw n iiiw M at u V'tii i! i?i \: \ ? IUI niri United States Senator from Tennessee, was shot and insiantlv Pi-led in a street duel here ihis afternoon by Robin Cooper, a young attorney. Young C'.oper was wonr.de.1 in the shoulder by a bullet from earmark's rc\o ver and is tonight und >r polite surveillance in a local hospital. Ilis condition is not serious. Cannock was wounded three times, in the neck, the breast* wild the left shoulder. ' Col. Duncan Tt. Cooper, father of the young man, was with 1.is son during the affray, but did not fire a shot. It is said he stood by witlf pistol in hand. He is detained to^ night at polic, headquarters. The direct cause of the killing is a recent ries of editorials in the Tennesseean. a dailv miner of whioh Mr. Carmaok became editor after his defeat for the nomination f >r Governor. The editorials in question had been vigorous in their comment en Colonel Cooper and his alleged connection with what Mr. Carmack termed the "Democratic machine and its methods." Colonel Cooper, who is well known in business, newspaper and political circles in Tennessee and in the South, had, it is said, notified Mr. Carmack that the reference to him must cease. Another such editorial appeared this morning. The men fought at close quarters and there were but few witnesses. It past 4 o'clock, in the dusk of th? afternoon. They met on 7th avenue, North, directly in from of the Polk fiats, a fashionable apartment house. Mr. Carmack had just lifted his ?hat to Mrs. Charles H. Eastman, a -?v Jfrlend, who was passing. In a 1110nC~^?,the firing began and Mrs. Eastman was a horrified witness at close range. So close was she that one of the Coopers is said to have charge! Carmack with being a coward and hiding behind a woman. Cooper's friends charged that Carmnck fired the first shot, but the de#d man's friends stoutly protest that his opponent was the first to shoot. The tragedy created the most In umihu excitement inrougnout the city and within a short time the streets in the neighborhood were thronged. The combatants were evidently close together when the firing began, but the question of who fired the first shot is in controversy. Mrs. Chas. H. Eastman, of this city, and J. M. Eastman, of New York, were nearby when the trag iy occurred. Mr. Eastman's hearing in not good and ho declared he knew but little of the affair. Mrs. Eastman said: Story of llystundcr. "We were walking down 7th avenue, in the direction of Church street, and had just passed the entrance to the Polk fiaiV Mr. Carmack came up the street towards us, smiling as he recognired us. ue was some steps away and there were very few pepole on the street. Mr. Eastman and I were near the edge of the sidewalk and Mr. Carmack would have passed between us and the fence. He raised his hat as we spoke. He had his right hand up and was about to make a remark when somebody said?it was the older voice?'We've got you all right,' or something to that effect. I can't say positively what the exact words were. It never occurred to me that it was anything mor? than a friend speaking. Mr. Carmack raised his eyes, instantly put on fiis hat and ran his hand hack, when the same voice said: 'You coward, you are hiding behind a woman, are you? Senator Carmack jumped out so as to get clear of me and I jumped into a gateway. I saw that Mr. Carmack had a pistol. 1 turned and said: 'For God's sake don't shoot.' I saw Mr. Carmack wheel and fall in a heap in the gutter."'/ Mrs. Eastmen said she saw the young man standing over Mr. Carmack and that he put something into his own pocket. Hliot From Itehind. Dr. McPheters Glasgow, who arrived at the scene soijp after the tragedy occurred, said tonight: "There were three bullets in the body of Mr. Carmack. One entered on the left side about two and onehalf inches below the left nipple and just a short distance below the heart and remained a short distance from the right side, under tho skin crossing the median line of the an \ atomy. "Another bullet enter the lefi shoulder and lodged about four and one-half Inches below the right nippie, under the skin. Both of thesj wounds were clean ones and I do uot thinks they were the fatal ?nes. "The third bullet, which I concoive to be the fatal one, was in the neck. The wound was one and on.v half inches to the left of the median line and one inch below the hair line on the neck , posteriorly. The bullet entered ,the neck and made an exit from the mouth of the deceased. The bullet was found ou the street, under his tongue at the sxit of the wound. I think this was the fatal wound. Two teeth were also broken loose. "I think there were two bullets fired from Carinack's gun." lte.sult of Conspiracy. Both the Coopers and Senator earmark have many friends here and throughout the State. Cooper's statement is that the affair was merely a street duel in which both sides met ami l>oth began firing. The friends of the Coopers claim they had tried to avoid a meeting with Carmack, it is said, and they were on the way to the State capitol in response to a telephone message from Governor Patttrson when the tragedy occurred and that Senator Carmack had been warned and was expecting trouble. Friends of Senator Carmack strenuously claim that the killing was the result of a conspiracy, pure and simr\i tnat lie was waylaid; that why enator Carmack left The iennesse.nl otlico for his hoarding onso the fact was telephone from a house near The Tennessean office and t lio Coopers notified that the senator was on his way and to be on tin alert. It now develops, according to friends of Mr. Cramack, that there was a third party with the Coopers jnst before the shooting, a former county official who is a close perso ial friend of both the Coopers and Patterson. Friends of the dea I senator indicate that there will be sensational developments within the next day or so regarding the affair. IMPORTANT OKCISION Of United States Supreme Court on Mixed Schools. Washington, Nov. 9.?In deciding the case of Rerea College versus the State of Kentucky, favorably to thy State, the supreme court of the United States today held that a State of the union mnv ?inofHnHAnnii? ? ...?j vuuotiiuiiv/iiaii/ legislate to prevent tne co-education of the white and black races. The case was instituted to test the validity of the State law of 1 904, prohibiting white and black children from attending the same schools. The higher State court took the position that the white and black races are naturally antagonistic and that the enforced separation of the children of the two is in the line of the preservation of the peace. The opinion of the supreme court I was handed down by Judge Brewer and affirmed the finding of both the Kentucky circuit court and the cou t of appeals. Justices Harlan and Day dissented. Justice Brewer's opinion dealt entirely with corporations as affected by the Kentucky statute, and did not consider the question of Its applicability to individuals. IltHY CJKTS THIRTY YKARS. For Attempting to Assault Young Lady Near Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Nov. 11.?John Irb.*, colored, was convicted in the special term of court this morning on the charge of assault with intent to ravish upon the person of Miss Leila Dempsey and was sentenced by Judge Schumpert. to 3 0 years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Irby was carried to Columbia this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Becknell, who was escorted as far as Laurens by the Traynham Guards, returning home after spending 2 i hours in Spartanburg helping the r\ 1 - 1- 1 jKiiiijMMii VfCHirds Keep LIIw po&CQ &D I protect the negro I rby from mob violence. The trial passed off quietly and there was no sign of trouble at any time during the day. Irby was arraigned at 11:45 and at 1:12 p. in Judge Schumpert passed sentence on him. WOK K OF T1IUOS. Four Persons Found Unconscious iu Chattanooga Streets. I ; Chattanooga, Tenn., November 8. TAti rlno laaf n 1 nrV?* ? > ? t - Ay ui itif) l(?0b illglll AUU1 W HU had been Assaulted by thugs were i found unconscious In the streets of this city. One of the victims, ? negro, died soon after being found. B. L. Owens, a white farmer, was picked up on Pine street, with his head cut open. When ho regained i consciousness he said that a negro had struck him and robbed him of ( $4 0. An unknown young white I man, well dressed, was picked up on Whiteside street, and up to a 1 late hour he had not regained con' sclousness. The last victim was a > negro woman, who was found with , a ghastly cut In the centre of her forehead. MANY MINERS KILLED 1IY AN EXPI/OSION IN A GKKM IN MINE. Only Forty-one Out of Nearly Four Hundred Workmen Es'upe the Awful Disaster. Hamni, Westphalia, Germany, Nov. 12.?The greatest mine disaster in many years in Germany occurred this morning n the Radhod nine, about three miles from this place. There was a heavy explosion in the mine about 4 o'clock this morning and almost immediately the mine took tire. There were 3 80 miners working undue the ground at the time and only six esqapetf without injury. Thirty-five were taken out slightiv isjurcd and 3 7 were dead when brought to the mouth of the pit. The remaining 302 have been given up for lost. The explosion, which was unusually violent, destroyed one of the shafts, which had to be partly repaired before the rescue work was begun. In addition, the flames and smoak proved almost insurmountable obstacles in the early efforts of the rescuing parties. A special corps, composed of the men who rendered such valuable aid in the terrible mine disaster at f 1nn rriiil'nu I^rn lion in M n '?f 1 DOG, arrived on the scene shortly before noon, but \sr re unable to enter the mine, being forced to await the result of the determined effort of the firemen to keep the flames in check. Meantime heart-rending scenes were being enacted at the mine when the dead and wounded were brought to the surface, and there were similar scenes in the town where the injured were transported through the streets to the hospitals. At 1 o'clock the fire had made great headway and later in the afternoon, after a consultation of the engineers, It was decided that any further attempts to rescue the entombed men were vain, owing to the impossibility of entering the galleres. At the same time an order was issued to flood the mine. First reports indicated that the accident was the result of an explosion of coal dust, hilt the statements of the injured men render this improbable and it is not clear just what caused it. IIMTTMII i.vn> /vvivr/?v Barrett Says Planters Can ltostorc Last Year's Iievel. Now Orleans, Nov. 11.?That it la within the power of the planters of | tho South to bring the price of cotton hack to last year's levels was the declaration of President C. S. Barrett, when he formally opened the convention of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union here today. "And when we succeed in restoring the price of cotton to the figures that ruled last year we will be richer by $ 150,000,000," said Mr. Barrett, amid the applause of 1,000 or more delegates gathered in the New Orleans coliseum. He said that meddlesome newspapers and busybodies had sought lo connesct the Farmers' Union with the night riders. It was illogical and unjust to accuse members of the union with the depredations of the night riders. He said the union was in existance to gain its ends, but did not need aad will not invoke lawless methods. The union had no sympathy with the night riders and would take the initiative to rid the country of them. Ho said that during this convention there would come in the counciles of the union for the first time business men and representatives of tin; South's commercial interests and all would be welcomed, the union viewing their willingness to co-operate in this campaign for better priced cotton as evidence of good faith. It is expected that by the opening of tomorrow morning's session there will bo present at least 1,5 00 delegates. uuorvrivvi ji/mdiv >/ -y~r w x ill \JT ill' r J%/1 I An Innocent Bystander is Heriotisly Shot In Foot. Newberry, Not. 9.?This town has had another shooting scrapo. It took place on the carnival grounds one aight last week. It seems that Mr. Mitchell Wright and Mr. Tom Hurley had some differences, which resulted in Mr. Hurley striking Mr. Wright over the hoad with a polleoman's billy, and Mr. Wrlcht ahnt at Mr. Hurley three or four times with a pistol. Fortunately, though, there was a large crowd on me grounds, only one stray bullet struck any of the people who were around, Mr. Boyd Jacobs being painfully, though not seriously, wounded In the foot. One of the shots took effect is Mr. Hurley's shoulder, Inflicting a painful wound, and Mr. Wright has a severe gash on the top of his head, Inflicted by the billy In the hands of Mr. Hurley. Fortune Is sometimes fickle, but misfortune is always sincere. A DEATH PUNGE A Young New York Lawyer Killed by Terrible Fall. EVERY BONE BROKEN The Deceased, Who Whs the Youngest Son of Henry Wntterson, Pitches Forward Through a Window to His Deatli on a Hoof Olio Hundred and Ten Feet Helow. New York. Nov. 11.?Hnrvey \V. Watterson, a lawyer, younger son of Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, plunged to his death from the 10th floor of his otllce building at d7 Wall sire i late today. His body shot dowward for 110 feet and landed or. the roof of a 10-story building adjoining. Almost every bone was broken, the head was crushed ami death was practically instantaneous. While there were no eye-witnesses to the tragedy, evidently it was en tirely accidental. Mr. Watterson'? hat and overcoat were on his closed desk. Presumably he had attempted to lower the window, and either stumbled over the radiator, which was in front of the low sill, or losing footing in some manner unknown, pitched forward and down to death on the roof below. Mr. Wattorson was o years olu and married, lie was junior member of the law firm of Wing, KusscM & Watt orson. Shortly before 4 o'clock Mr. Watterson left the odlce library, remarking that he was going home, and passed from the library through the olhce of F. R. Ragg, the managing clerk, into his private oflice, the door of which, closed and locked automatically as he entered. Ragg w< the last person to see the young lawyer alive. A few minutes later the superintendent of the building rushed in and informed Thomas Wing, senior member of the firm, that he believed Mr. Watterson had fallen from the window and looked down from the window. The mangled form was seen lying on the roof below. The body was removed to the Watterson home after the coroner had declared Hint t tin ilnnt h /\t Mr UfottoPUAM ?"> V Viivy \t? (K II \J A ill I *V (H.IVI OVMi >"> cir> duo entirely to accident. A peculiar feature of the case was that Mr. Watterson's watch and cigarette case in one pocket and a pipe in another pocket were not damaged by the fall. Mrs. Watterson was prostrate 1 when informed of her husband's tragic death. Mr. Wing said that Watterson had been a member of the firm about three years, two years after he was graduated from Columbia universit / law school. He was sure he said, that death was aceicHntaly, since Watterson had no financial or domestic troubles. Watterson was bora and reared in I,ouisville, Ky. When about 2 1 years old he came to New York an 1 entered the Columbia university law school. During the time he was a student thero he taught in a nigh' school. Shortly after becoming a member of the Wing, Russell & Watterson law firm he ran for assembly on the Tammany ticket in an upper westside district, but th?? district was strongly Republican and he was defeated. ROOK K10101 * 10 R CHLOROFORMED. the Office lie Was In Set on Fire. Greenville, Nov. 10.?A most mysterious thing happened in this city at half-past 1 1 o'clock last night. | At that hour fire was discovered in the office of William Goldsmith, Jr , real estate agent in the Palmetto building on Main street. As the firemen entered the room a man was found lying on the floor with his head wrapped. He was hastily re moved, and it was found that he was Mr. T. K. McCullough, Mr. Goldsmith's bookkeeper. He says that as lie entered tho office from a closet about 1 1 o'clock, some ono threw a rag over his heal and that was the last he knew until he came to in the police station. Tho rag was chloroformed and it (is very plain that the work was that of robbers. The flames were extinguished with a little damage. Mr. McCullough was down posting his books, and they were all out on tho shelves, and the safe was open. Mr. McCullough's keys were taken from his pocket, and thus far the polico have not been able to find them. The whole case la shrouded In mystery, but the general opinion is that robbers had chloroformed Mr. McCullough. How the flre originated is a mystery. Child Cots Life Sentence. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 10.?Solomon Rellly, a negro boy of ten, and small for his years, was today convicted in the Superior Court of the murd )r of Mrs. Walter Torrence, at Pooler, eight miles from Savannah, and given a life sentence. The boy killed her with a shot gun while hot , little children wero by her side. COTTON CONGRESS CONVHNKI> AT M KM I'll IS ON LAST TtKSDAY. President of Southern Cotton Growers' Association Makes Strong Pica for Hotter I'riri'H. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 1 <V?The ^ Southern Cotton conference begun here today. Gov. M. H. Patterson welcomed the delegates. The re spouses were made by 10. S. Gay or Montgomery and llarvio Jordan of Atlanta, president of the Southern Cotton Growers' association. Gov. Noel of Mississippi also spoke, llarvio Jordan was made permanent chairman. In an interview Mr. Jor- 1 dan said the meeting would he the i most important conference of cotton i men over held. . Mr. Jordan said that it was indeed lilting that it should he assembled 1 in this tite largest interior cotton ' market in the world. "We have assembled," he rontin- ( ued, "to safeguard and protect the great staple crop of the South from ' the artificial and depressing influence of federated interests which operate to the detriment of every business interest in this section of America. Wo face a serious condition ami whether we will arise equal to the emergency and protect our interests as men of brain anil business sagacity or indifferently accept the situation and parade before the world our voluntary weakness, is the issue which presents itself to this convent ion." Mr. Jordan said that raw cotton is the only great staple commodity in the world today which is selling below the cost of production, notwithstanding the fact that it represents one of the world's greatest necessities. "That Mtis great staple should ever sell at a price to the cotton growers of less than 10 cents per pound is a reflection upon the manhood and intelligence of the South em people. "If the cotton growers, bankers, merchants and allied business interests of the South will determine that the price of cotton must, and sha'l go hack to 10 cents before the month | of November passes, that price will j he protected, the financial future of the South will be saved and not a spindle in the world will be injured." Mr. Jordan condemned "night riding" and urged that the convention give its attention to the boll weevil menace. He also recommended the formation of a chain of warehouses. wherefrom receipts could be issue 1 which would bo acopted as collateral for short time loans by the loading financial institutions in this country and in Europe. Bishop CJaynor of the Episcopal diocese of Tennessee also spoke. COMMITS SUICIDE Because Bryan Failed t<? 1m? Elected President. Raleigh, Nov. 10.?H. L. Smith, joint station agent for the Norfolk and Southern and Raleigh and Southport railroad, at Varina, twenty miles from Raleigh, committed suicide this morning by discharging both loads of a double-barrel shotgun into his head. He had a string attached to the trigger to shoot. He left a note that he was perfectly sane, had contemplated suicide for some time but could not bring himself to the point until now. it is reported that he was despondent over Bryan's defeat. H?* was 23 years old. He had been at the station eight months. TWO KILLED LV WRECK. Work Train on New England Road Collides Willi Freight. Deep River, Conn, Nov. 10.-Two men were killed out l ight, two others fatally injured and a haif dozen severely hurt when a worn train, with Italian section hands, aboard, crashed into tho roar of a freight train standing on tlie main track of tHo Now York, Now Haven and Hartford Railroad in front of the station here this afternoon. There were twenty-eight Itlaians on the work train and all suffered injuries. The dead are x rank A. Furlong, of New I^ondon, a hrakeman, and one of tiic Italian section hands. NEGRO BOY FOUND DEAD. Ghastly Find .Made in Greenwood Oil Mill Seed Warehouse. Greenwood, Nor. 10.?Special: Arthur Warner, a young negro boy, was found dead yesterday in the big seed warehouse of the Greenwood Oil Mills here. His neck was broken by the fall, though foul play Is not j BMspecien. uatner it is thought that his neck was broken by a fall, which ho evidently had while crawling in the house hunting a place to sleep. He fell into a deep seed plr, and this was probably the cause of his broken neck. He was seen around the oil mill at midnight Saturday nigh*. WHITE SLAVERY Three Thousand Men Held in Bondage in Florida. CASE BEING TRIED before Judge Hough in New York Tli<> Covertuiieiit ('harm's That thn Men Wore to lluihl KIukirc's Hallway?Fniploymeiit Tell Horrible Story of the AlTuir. New York, Nov. 1 0. ?'The eases of illegcd peonage in building Homy M. Flagler's Florida Ka.-t Coast rail oad which have been pending in the I nile<| States courts of this district Tor nearly two y nrs, were put on rial today before Judge Hough in he United States circuit court. David 10. Ilarley, an employe of the Florida Fast Coast railway Company; Francesco Kahhin and 10 lwar I J. Triay, employnient agents of this city, and Frank A. Hough, are accused of conspiring to keep mployeo in enforced peonage. Hough had not been arrested before the opening of tli ease today. It is charged that Sabbia and Trinv hired men in New York, too:c them to New Jersey and turned them over to Ilarley and that he took them to Florida to work on the railroad. The complainant alleged th .t (lie workmen were kept there in camps in a state of "peonage, slavery nii(1 enforced servitude. It was learned that the government lias nearly It 00 witnesses, many of whom, it is alleged, wcm induced to go to Florida by inlsrep resentation. After the selection and swearing in of t lie jury, counsel for t lie government declared that 3,000 men in 100.") had hern enforced to work on Mr. Flagler's railroad. "Thes?J men," he asserted, "were held In slavery." I'roscnitiiiiis Out lined. Attorney General Glenn 10. listed outlined the prosecutions case, contending the men had been induced by alluring advertisements to apply for employment in the South. Everything went well, the attornnj said, until the men reached .horsey City, whore they were put aboard a train, the doors being locked on them and armed guards set over them prevoift their escape. Throughout t h long journey they were given nothing hut stale broad and bologna sausage and when they reached the land end of the journey many rebelled and refused to leave the train, hut a hose had been turned on them, and in tnis manner the entire consignment of human freight had been driven uhoard a waiting steamer. When the ultimate destination was reached, said Mr. listed, the ^ men found that the paradise that had been promised them was a barren wilderness, overrun with ren tiles and venomous snakes, where no place to sleep had been provided for them. Their "high wages," the prosecutor declared, were slips of paper exchangeable at the Company'* stores for shoes and clothing and food. Tne escape that many sought was impossible. Some of the men refused to work. These, Mr. Uste I said, wore threatened with death and brutally beaten. IWTKICK WANTS TO DIK. Slayer of II ice Didn't Like Coin in utat ion of Sentence. New York, November 8.? To argue before the United State Supreme Court a motion to advance the appeal to that Court in the case of Albert T. Patrick, convicted of tho murder of William Marsh Dice in this city eight years ago, William L. McDonald, attorney for Patrick, leD tonight for Washington. The motion is expected to come up before the Supreme Court tomorrow when Patricks counsel says he will further ask the Suprme Court for a writ of habeas corpus for the production of Patrick in Washington in order that he may argue hi* case himself. Patrick's appeal is to declare 11 iegai mo commutation granted him by Governor Higgles whereby his sentence to die in the electric chair was changed to imprisonment for life. Patrick made the point that life imprisonment was a much severer sentence than that which condemned him to die. Sliot Young Man. Troy, Ala., >J<ov. 9.? News was received here today of the serious wounding of W. W. White, near 1 Hanks, yesterday evening by Mr. Wadley, a fanner. White eloped with Miss Maud Wadley yesterday. I tho nAlH.lt> ? v/v#u|/io uuuiiuk 10 t roy to securo a license ami marry. After the ceremony the couple started home and wore met on the road by the father of the girl. who emptied the contents of a shotgun into the bridegroom. White will recover. A woman will do a lot of cheeky things to improve her complexion.