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| PARDON COOPER The Mao Who Assassinated Ex-Senator Carmack is Set Free by ? PARTI ZANGOVERNOR Who Signs Pardon Hefore the Ophi Ion of (he Supreme Court Sustaining the Verdict of Cuilty iit ilie Lower Court as Itcad to the lOnd by the Judges. A dispatch from Nashville, Toon., says a sensation equalling thai which inflamed in November, 190S, when former United States Senator Edward Ward Carmack was shot and killed on a prominent street in Nashville, was created by the pardoniug by Governor M. R. Patterson," Wednesday of Col. Duncan B. Cooper, < who, with his son, Robin J. Cooper, was convicted of the murder of Car- i mack. The issuance of the pardon on the Governor's own initiative without a formal petition before him, followed 1 quickly the reading of the opinion of the Tennessee Supreme Court affirming the verdict of guilty in the case of Col. Cooper, under sentence twenty vears in the penitentiary, and reversing the lower Court in I the case of Robin Cooper, who way ' 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 thex press almost immediately, the Governor said: "In my opinion neither of the defendants is guilty, 11 and they have not had a fair and impartial 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 I 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 justices, the Court split as to the guilt of Robin Cooper, by a vote of 3 to 2, the lower Court being reversed and ho case remanded for a new trial. I ? n^vln I JThe reversal in the case 01 nuuu.. 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 Coooor, and advice given him 1 as to Col. Cooper before the tragedy; and the admission on cross examina-I tion of Robin Cooper as to the intent of certain State's witnesses in | testifying as to certain incidents. Col. Cooper was still at the Cap-11 ital when the pardon was e.ntered in the Secretary of State's ollice. He 11 was as calm, and even cheerful, I ' through it all, as if he had received an acquitjtal. The reversal in his I son's case, seemed to interest and I' please him 10 the exclusion of his J ' own fate. I I "I wanted Robin's vindication J ' more than I wanted a pardon," was his smiling remark, when told of ' the Governor's acton in behalf of 1 himself. Leaving the crowds gath- ' ered about him, he entered a car-11 riage with his daughter, Mrs. Lucius J ' iS. Burch, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. James C. Bradford, and accompanied 1 by Marshall Robert Marshall, was driven to the county jail, where formalities in the collection with the pardon were gone through with and ""1*rt,l tVin I he was released. ne reuu.uu jail at 2:20 P. IM., leaving there about 2.30 for the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Rurch. Robin Cooper is under a $25,000 bond. 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 wine listened to with breathless in terest, and the scene was a memorable 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. Oooper is the close friend and alleged political adviser of Patterson, w-ho is the leader of the anti-prohibition forces in Tennessee. Carmack was the chief of the prohibition was the cheif of the prohibition movement. Patterson was a most important witnesa for the defence at the trial of the Coopers for the killing oi Carmack, was the outcome of political machininatlon. 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 acItually aligned themselves on one side or the other. For sixty-nine KICK ON RING RULE SOME REPUBLICANS INDULGE IN PLAIN TALK. Almut the Corruption Abroad in the Land and tiie Great Need of a Change. (T.h.e annual dinner of tlie Republican Club of Neida county, N. Y., was held Wednesday evening and attended by 700 men, for the most part anti-organization men. The speakers included Charles J. Bonaparte, former attorney-general of the United States; William II. Ilotchkiss, state superintendent of insurance, and Congressman George W. Norris, of Nebraska. Former Assemblyman Merwin K. Hart, president of the league, in his introductory remarks, said the people are as hard to fooi as in Lincoln's time, and "were not deceived by the Payne-Aldrich bill, and are tired of continued disclosures about politicians for revenue only." /Mr. Bonaparte's address was an analysis of the methods of oosses 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 t.hat against it | every force that makes for righteousness must be directed tomorrow as it shonH be today." Superintendent Hotchkiss followed and after referring to the message sent 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 I 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 ecreme provocation. "Through what a period have we been passing? Until recent years considerations on the siJ i seem to have been smiled at by the cynical; the boasts of some of the3* in bvlroom taJ:s led toward several cf the disclocures the in ,ui?y now closing. Whal an atmospn-re was was that of tho capital city?said wifnoRs "this is not a Sunday VliV^ T? 4 V, 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 <*>n\Vntion has made such things possible? Each decade of late nas 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 corrupt 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, ?ast in shadow even the daily tales fit>out New York. Carried to the ultimate, the present distress of poplar representation in city council, in state legislature, yes, even in the Federal congressmen's, sooner or later, a practical despotism, a chieftainship 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 lie 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. So be it." 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. "" of i?>ct showed 'I IIP {III IIU (IIUIMIICII V CI v- . an interesting status to those familiar with the intricacies of tlie politial situation. Chief Justice Heard and Justice? McAlistor and Hell reversed : the case as to Robin Cooper; Jus' tices Neill and Shields dissenting. Justices Shields, McAllister and Neil confirm as to Col. Copper; Chief Justice Heard and Justice Hell dissenting. The Supreme Court was more widely divided than it ever was hefore. Two of the most elaborate opinions ever rendered were handed down, and neither one of them, strange to say, actually accomplished result intended by the opinion itself or the Justice who wrote It. Justice John K. Shields read an opinion covering 72 typewritten pages, affirming the judgments of the Court below in all things. In this Justice M. M. Neil concurred. j KILLED BY CONVICT eater convict was shot to death hy officers. ? A Maddened Mob of Two .Thousand Seized the? Outlaw's Dead liody and Strung It lTp. At Mbridan, Miss, former Sheriff I J. K. Temple was shot and killed j Wednesday by Tom Q'Neil, a negro prisjonier. Deputy Jailer Houtwell was ser\ing breakfast, when he was nasnnitftfi bv O'Xeil. the latter in the scuttle securing Boutwell's pistol. Temple, who was the jailer, went i 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 k'lled by the officers after he had fired four shots at them without effect. O'Neil's companion, George Williams, 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 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 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. THIEI) TO KILJ, MOTHER. Young White Man Dodged in the Columbia Jail. Because he threatened to kill hiB 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. Young Gillespie, a few weeks ago, flourished a carving knife 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 ?* tn tnkp the uncle, Air. u. m. iu6uo??, ~ . matter up with the result that the young man was arrested late Thursday. Gillespie, who is well known I around town, is only about 18 years of f.ge. WITHOUT ANY WEATOX. 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 in vestigate. One of the tramps, who appeared to be the leader, objected to the intrusion, whereupon Sheridan knocked him down. That precipitaed a free-for-all fight and Sheridan found himself battling singlehanded with 15 brawny knights of the road. Before the train crew could reach the scene, Sheridan with kicks and blows had routed the entire 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. BILBO HAS CLOSE CALL. ? Ilis Expulsion from Senate Prevented by One Vote, By a margin of one vote short of? the required two-thirds majority, 28 to 1 r>, the Mississippi Senate, now in session at Jackson, early Thursday rejected a resolution 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. V rni.,lnm.in tn TTnit?/l Stsitnu SpTlM I \ , V (U UII1IKUI tv/ W II I vv>v? K/vt? VV>U ? , tor TiCroy Percy during the recent Senatorial contest. The acceptance of the money, Bilbo explained, was to secure evidences of irregularity in connection with tho contest for the United States Senatorship. Fahil Blow. At Darlington Pat Hudson and Murdock Outlaw, two young white men, beame involved in a difficulty Wednesday night, during which Hudson struck Outlaw on the back of his head, inflicting what is probably a fatal wound. \ ictiniH of Poison. Mystery surrounds tho death of two sons of Philip Badali, a wealthy Italian of Wilklnsburg. Pa., found dead in bed Thursday, tho victims of poison. SOME TIMELY NEWS HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON THAT WILL BE IiEAJ> With Intercut by the; General Header * Who Wants to K<k'p Up With the Current Events. Congress lias been a tame affaii since the complete routing of Speaker Cannon and bis privileged Rules Committee, and it is generally predicted that much work will oc done in the next six or eight weeks, anil 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, ne does noi expect it. The Government printing cilice, 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 present 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 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, and they come from all parts of the Un'cn. Resides these employees of the nighest skill, the machinery is the best known to the craft. Of all departments of the Government this im- i mense workshop is more up to date 4 h ? ? IF nthnr ( II (til ciii.y ntuvi . The annual fi^lu is on in Coig.esn respecting the distribution of free seeds. Every year a large appr > p nation is made 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 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 's 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 Bamples. Under a recent decision of the Court of Claims, a large fund is now being distributed amonv the Cherokee Indians and their descendants. This fund was created by an act of Congress to pay these people for their land and other property tnknn from them by the Govern ment when it compelled them to give up their lands and move to another location. There are a large number of these claimants, scattered al. over the country, but the greater number is in Tennessee, the Carolinas, Missouri and Arkansas. The distribution is made upon sufficient proof that the claimant is a descendant of the Cherokees in a certain degree. The Nationa' allll 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 gallieries, and inlaid floors and highly decorated 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. Rut one i? honored bv occupying a ? UJUtill IM .. prominent space, and that, is Francis E. Willard, the Temperance advocate. ? ^ RLKVEN MEN BUKIEl) \ + By Premature Explosion Under Tons of Hock. By a premature explosion in the stone quarries of the Nazareth Portland Cement Company at Eastern, Pa., Thursday eleven men wore buried under Ave 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 po..nds of dynamite. When the charges exploded men were scattered iu all j directions. The entire side of the mountain of rock was torn loose. Arrested for Murder. Mary Washington, of Savannah, Oa., 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. Ho was released on bond. ? ? ? Knocked Judge Down. Wot words used by Chief J. T. Jensen of the Atlanta city sanitary department in objecting to a derision rendered by Judge Nash Itroyles in poiieo court precipitated a fist tight between the two otlloials. In melee ( both exchanged blows and Hroyles i fell to the floor. On resuming the j bench he ordered the sanitary chief eseorted from the room by police4 FEED AND SEED INSPECTION LAW GOES INTO EFFECT MAY FIKST. Oh Thut Day Important Measures Passed at Last Session of Legislature Will Heeome Eft'ective. 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. ...ill ,.l i nt; slumps win suuvv lih? nuinuci of pounds and the amount of 111 on y represented by them. For the various weights of feed stuffs the stamp will rus as follows: 100 pounds, 1 1-4 cents; 7f> pounds 9 3-8 mills; 50 pounds, G 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 commissioners. The feed inspection blanks will soon be ready to be sent out to concerns interested. The rules and regulations and standards as required 1 " 4 ...111 nxrnlnnrl KlI fnm U y II1C itCl Will uc ai i aiu^u %j j w missioner 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 i ~ * naHi* of riomRnn. i r L'tJIi LS. r I Ul . A J Cl IM y Vi >_? m m r already arranging at the experiment station to prepare for the examisation of samples of seeds. By special request some examinatios h?ve 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 conection with the pure food and drug law the State health department is to cooperate in giving directions to inspectors 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 so<-u, \%nu (u <r. willing to palm off faulty seeds. * SEEKS WHITE FIEND. From Alabama Who Is Wanted for Assaulting a fiirl. 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. 0. Dotson, a prosperous planter living near Millport. The assault took place in a barn on the Dotson plantation while Dotson was absent from home. Harnett, who is about .13 years old, has a wife and two children, lie 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. II. Baird, who * ' rt X _ ^ 4.1 o, { was standing at trie root ?i me mnim 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. E. C. Travis, an automobile demonstrator, was killed and his wife and four of his children were seveiely 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 be Impeached. "Rev. J. Tnnian Townsley, pastor of the Second Methodist Episcopal J church, South, in New Orleans, declared, during the Course of a aer- ( mon there Sunday night, that Governor Patterson, of Tennessee, should , he impeached for pardoning Col. D. It. Cooper, convicted of manslaughter in the killing of former United State Senator Carmack. DIED INTRAP Six Firemen Burned to Death Fighting ^ Fire in the County Jail. OTHERS BADLY BURNED Explosion of a Gasoline Tank Causes a Hack Draft and Slams Behind the Brave Fire Fighters a Big Iron Door Leaving Them at the Mercy of the Flrmes, 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 comrades were saved through the heroism of other firemen. The bodies of tho 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 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 seperating the two buildings. Three of the men were hemmed in a corner and burned to death while the other three made their wnv to a barred window to which they ciimg 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 back draft as they were working at the other end of the building and were carried down by the roof when it felj. 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. Al'TOISTN COME TO CHIEF. Machine Turns Turtle Xear GaflTney and Injures Four. While F. H. Knox, of Spartanburg, superintendent of (be street railway company; President Smith, of tho Merchants and Planters Bank; I)r. C. A. JefTeries and W. F. Smith, of Gaffney, were on their way t.) Got?ton 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. HIT COMING AND GOING. A Tossed by Engine Against Another Going Different Way. A peculiar accident Wednesday, during which Frank Collins, 32 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 by a southbound freight train and tossed against the pilot of a northbound engine, which hurl- J L ( O A C ?v-* l\n r/\n il o ir UU Illlil ^ U it'Ul I I vim tnc i udu ? cijr , { Ho was picked up unconscious and taken to a hospital, where Friday morning it was said lie could not live. ? SAVKI) WOMAN FKOM SUICIDE. Engineer on Train Sees Her With Stone About Waist. | 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 early Tnursaay. as uarey a 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 bar&e with a stone tied about her waist. Carey stopped his engine, sprang from the cab and ran to the woman, seizing her just as she was about to leap into the Missouri river. Race llor?cs Killed. /Durlsg the severe storm at Louisville, Ky., Saturday lightning struck two barna at Churchhlll Downs race course instantly killing George J. Long's two yonr old Denies and four year old, Solitie, Frank Repess and Nerbit, two years old.