er THE COOPERS ESCAPE DEATH PENALTY Sentenced to Twenty Years in the Penitentriay. BOTH RELEASED ON $25,000 BAIL Counsel For Defense Questions the Legality of the Verdict—S8ix of Jury Had Been in Favor of the Death Penalty and One Stood For Acquittal ~—Tl1he Case May Never Be Tried Again—Friends of the Coopers Be. siege Court Clerk In Effort to Go on Bail Bonds. Events Of The Day. The verdict of the jury was a great surprise in view of Friday's announcement that the hopeless division as to the ers. The defendants took the sen- tence without emotion, but Colonel Cooper's daughters broke down later in jail, A motion for mistr of the partial verdict Friday was overruled Bail was fixed at $2 pending a decision on a for a new trial There was great the outcome of the umbia, the home of mack, and his grave ted with flowers Ie was Coop- al becauss brought in 5,000 each, motion over ing TE€JOKK iria: a Senator wa The verdict is generally ed as a vindice honor. ation of Nashville, Tenn. find the defendants er and Robin J the ishment second degre at 20 tiary This yeraie which has been than the ward two months, slayers of Ward Carmaci Nashville Tennessean, of the in the United most historic State Colonel stunned by the accompanied to Colonel Cooper's Lucius Burch and son, and Mrs, James sister-in-law The fall even heavil dies than all bore up pronouncem Way CARTS intense situation Hart's jury filed in at known the results liberations. persons in the not expected so ing. Foreman E verdict, with trembling paling fense, Cooper more upon the bravely INE give An Judge tO courtroon silence Anderson, at entered because of the partia in by the D. Sharp. motion hrought ury John T Mr Anderson t pending the hearing of the for a new trial, and were released on $210 A rush ensued t bond Many prominent men insisted on getting tures on the paper until gate of pledges, amounts £1.500.000, The inal Court was fairly = n vain he protested over and over again that more than enough sureties been signed, but the invariable n- gwer was "We want to put our names on that bond too.” It seemed as though every friend of the Coopers considered it upon |! court on defendants bail the a motion €ach t RIED bail and wealthy their signa- the aggre to neariy incumben him to sign the bond. When there was no more names at the foot of the document the new bond:men indorsed it the face until it difficult cipher signaturvs The motion for a new probably be heard within After their relegse the ants, accompanied by to the home of James C. Bradford. a brother-in-law of Colonel Cooper and one of the attorneys for the de fense, room for ACTORS was to de the trial will two weeks two defend- relatives, went GIRLS LOST MANY BONBONS, Candy Trust Shows Swains Toss Money Last Year, New York (Specialy late Mr. Hamlet said sweet” there was no a candy trust; bug thing akin to one now, and it is call- ed the American Caramel That company made a of its earnings for the past vear, and disclosed the sad fact that they were only $35,360. a loss of $270. 000, as compared with 1507. Spent When thing as in such there Compan statement money, but the girls of the country more prosperous, they would have had. But now, the officials of the company say, business is picking up and the candy kids are spending more money and the tariff on sugar may be reduced, and there you are. Two Hit In Triangular Duel. Clarendon, Texas (Special).-<An unidentified man is dead and Floyd Autrey, of Fort Worth, is dying here as the result of a three. cornered fight with pistols on a Fort Worth and Denver train near Giles, Texas, That Autrey and his cousin, Fred Garrett, of Fort Worth, killed the other partici pant in the fight and threw him out of a conch window in indicated by the finding of a body near Es telline bridge by the police. The Sucessful Party in the Late Election is Pledged to a Re. vision of the Tariff. Washington, D. C. In special message, containing just 340 "words, including address, sig- nature date line, President Tait upon Congress the necessity for the speedy enactment the consideration be President (Special). and urged tariff same time of the or made detailed of a law, while a: careful to changed The made the inaugural address no in message, pointing to his for his views on the revision. He dispense with fubject of that important urged, however, Congress loss legisia- business he sald, activity of the which, of its of the new in the interest of the withholding tion, part country, 18 much i tar if | law. { Mr. Taft's The message, munication full the pending the passage First Message. Mr. Taft's first to Congress as President, com is In follows To as Senate and House of resentatives: “1 have convened the Congres this extra able it session in order to immediate considera the Dingiey affecting pro and busine: t revision of ion 1« 3 riff act. Conditions ianufacture ta duction, generally last 12 justment furnish autho: next enough pendity i Cees for Ed 1) uccessful party pledged to a 1 T country, sion and communi especially t if The prospect in the of import ension or yf the unc be made and be {f the pex rates SUED because « Caliss » a ness the effect it is, importance that the new be agreed upon and pass much as possible, and thorough For these reasons | have the 3 extraordinary occasion, with meaning of the Constiiut fying and ing the call exira session In my inaug A SuUmMMAary which, in ine to changes to therefore, « eat speed Con its due deemed present At requir Vision Of and indicated of revenue th m resorted order east one new ight properly be to £1 avoid a fu- necessary for ture deficit it is not then said iIggest that nterests of the co atte repeat at 1 the | untry at the sntion of the Con- session be chiefly devol- we consideration new yill, and that the other sublects of legislation in the to the less time given | session the better for coun- William H The White House, March The was read ate immedia after its it was re express approval senators, who not only but pression of a desire that the business tid be con- to the coOn- fon of the tariff to the Taft, 16. 1609 the 1 assembly message to Ken tely wived with the ons its brevity. also it of the special session sho fined as much as sideration of the revi: ” was referred Commitiee on Finance { Prolonged applause greeted Secre- tary Latta when entered the! with the message, During iis reading members listened with the greatest attention, and at close there was a whirlwind of lap- ping The possible 1€ message he House ita hand first of the House was the report of the committee ap- pointed to wait on the President Representative Olmstead (Rep.. Pa.) announced that the President desir. ed to congratulate the membership npon their prompt organization i The message was then read It produced even more enthusiasm and | favorable comment in the House than its reception and business GIVES UP A THRONE. ilization To Lafayette, Ind. mas Island, in near Singapore, Savage Royalty. Christ Ocean, find a { Special) the Pacific will have to Murray, a Purdue was married Davis graduate, recently in ilized domesticity to savage ro ity. | Murray will therefore abdicate, His college friends received this information from him. Murray, ! interests on Christnias Island, been made king of the island, that he should have sufficient authority over the natives, Three Die In Family Fight, Ratom, N. M., (Special). Thre persons are dead as the result of a fight between two coufing-——Antonlo Dijulio, a coke worker, and a man named Bartole. Dijulio shot Bartole, who took refuge in the home of his brother, Francisco Bartole, Dijulio fired into the house and killed Mra, Francisco Bartole. Francisco Bar- tole then plunged a knife into Diju- Ho's body, kiling him instantly. Francisco's brother died later in a hospital. REAL REVISION BY ed On Coffee. Lumber Charges Cut Hides Pat On Free sition Gathering Data For Fight—- Senator Hale Has Protest On Wood Pulp Already—Discussion Beging Monday — Revenue Of %:300,000,000 By Payne, In Half And Claimed Washington, D {Special}. The tariff bill, for the eration of which Congress new congid- was called in extraordinary Pres Taft, was introduced in the House of Representatives Wednesday after noon by Chalrman Pa of th: Ways and Means Committee, The measure referred Ways and Means Committee, will favorably report the bill the House without so much change as the dotting of an I or the crossing ofa T. The members of tho Committee, who the Repub introduction, and determine provision fession by ident yae, to the which Was io Democratic and Means not allowed to lean measure before its to analyze the bill attitude Whatever the were Rig toward iis result of thels Republicans have a ma- and will voile Payne bill without delib the committer the of report nendment The “"standpat” the iin plate iy on timbe cent ion There hundred School Segregation Bill, Dynamiters Suspected of Causing Flood Wh'ch Sweeps Upon Parkersburg. Water As Town supply Is Gone—Four Fatally Famine Threatens Injured. WwW. Va of two Parkersburg, { Special) By the bursting tanks, which, it is wate the persons huge believed, was work three injured and The tanks water and a dynamiters, killed, fatally less seriously hurt, the whole of the supply, which is now cut water famine is threatened Rushing down hill the flood swep: knocking them against one another and throwing the pants frem thelr beds into walter When Bearching parties through the rains 1} ing they Wagele, his wife and thelr child. The flood car Just davbreak, at 5.30, bef the had wakened for the day Twenty house Wer and flooded theran Of were four many city's off. away houses, Geen t hi i later in © morn R's f before hillside demolished John was ruined 20 more = Church wh ta bulwaril flood and from being swept those in t Mrs, John ried 00 vards in ch against the worst many house and saved awa? nem Malone: who her half of was cay hoth leg ana i hi had Ioren tedd tO home repos with fond May Be Named, SOME OF THE THE NEW TARIFF BILL The maximum and the Pi of the nt # Dot mal Treasury certificates Where list raised | instances for proie of turers with FATrs free articles been nt “! pris RIVE they a t has dutiable heen been in some duties increased is afforded their manufac Reciprocal free trade to sugar, toba and « products may enter be paid Foreigners acquiring comply with all conditions in people of this country who get aimed at eign patents must be pected to cause foreigners Cuban reciprocity is pi been nse the AN Co ping must manufac foreign trade agree; The commitice eftimates revenue annually An inheritance 000,000 annually Coal, iron ore, Lumber and timber the June A nder rove Te acl inde ended the Year itt while the bill for the ales 10 the law ITY made is8u~ certifi existing and + hese one Year . the free list to the Where duties have 1s HIries juxurd : although reVvEnUos, articles having their sufficient protection jg provided. excep! mount of these Philip- the limit set full duties in this country are required to , country which are exacted of other lands This is articles protected by for- that countries it is ex- in those a provision In the law All snd the maximum and Abhrogation of these treaties produce $200.000,000 bill will out in half Duties on manu- reduced, the reduction per cent ing steel rails and tinplate, imposing an import tax There ig no change cents a pound but a tax of § at the Canadian tea trade The duty i8 the same on raw The duty raised. tions, EXTRADITE CASTRO, Murder Charged Against The Former President, © Kingston, Jamaica (Special) Ad vices received here from Caracas, Venezuela, say that Manuel Parades has brought sult in the high federal court of Venezuela against ex-Presi- dent Castro, charging him with the murder of Gen. Antonio Parades and a number of his revolutionary com panies in February, 1507, Manuel Parades asks the judge to extradite Castro, who 8 now in Fu- rope, and impose the maximum sen tence of 15 years’ imprisonment. He presents proofs that Castro, from his sick hed at Macuto, issued the crder to kill Antonio Parades. Antonio Parades and several com- panions were cxecuted while prison ers of war. He led a futile revolo- tion against President Castro, land. ing at Pedernales on February b, 1907, : Parades and his men were captures od be Castro's troops, and a few days later all were summarily shot, B0Y STOLEN AND HELD FOR RANSOM $10,000 Demanded Far Return of Millionaire's Nephew. LAD WAS TAKEN FROM SCHOOL. William Whitla, Son Of A Prominent (Pa.) And For. | mer Candidate For Congress, is. sharon Attorney appears—Called From Studies And | Told Hix Father Wanted Hime—- | Parent Receives Letter From Kid- | And Adopts Their Plans nappers { Communicate With To Pa. Ten thou dollars Bharon {Special sand demanded ransom of James P hiitla "$114 ih’ William W eight the ret Attorney veuar-aold son irn who school here furni dots ive asked to i and that the fore threat the Iniess dreds of moneys AR of Whitla Mclaughrey, a Thi lat: confers friend of telephoned New Mr. Whitla as to what an effo: the family to Mr. Whitla Wilmington on gave hasty or who had gone to business direct i nis steps to take Immediately In {0 recover ’ At 1 o'clock mother was d¢ 2 carrier the that the following in a strange livered Mrs. Whitla handwriting her son a mail recognized Ax found written ai once the envelope of she hand We re and will will your boy turn hi $10,000 your advertisement in the papers insert indianapolis News, Cleve. land Pittsburg Dispatch, Youngstown Vindicator ‘As A do as requested J rw have m for £8 in Preds, The gpelling of been writ. Mr tho for publication to each of the newspaper penmanship and note indicated it had Whitla decided to comply with insert. Warren, Ohio.——A man said to answer the description of the one wanted at Sharon, Pa., on a charge of kidnapping the Whitla boy, was arrested here, IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE silver. E on Saturday. of ore, leading with tons McNamara has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. a share. This is to be paid April 65. The same amount was paid this month. Copper production in North Ameri- Nipissing 400 pounds, compared with 65,000. 000 a vear ago. Foreign Government bonds were weak, owing largely to the naval ap- propriation scare in the British Pure Hament, International Silver hag been earn ing from $800,000 to $1,200,000 an. nually for 7 years. The top figure was reached in 1808. In 1908 the profits were $828,000, Kansas. has $400.000,000 farm morigages but only $47,000,000 ie owned by Kansas people, Ladenburg, Thalman & Co. said: "We think there has oeen a resump- tion of pool activity in Brooklyn Rapid Transit and certainly recom. mend the purchase of that stock.” “Kaneas City Southern is a death- bed stock,” wired one of the most prominent brokers of New York to J. 8B. McCord & Co. Philadelphia. When asked to explain, the Wail Sireet man replied: “It is the sort 1 should huy when dying to leave to my family.” LAUDS LIFE OF CLEVELAND President Eulogizes His Democratic Predecessor at Memorial Meeting Prominent Men Present And Partici- pating In Services In New York, Now York (Bpecial) rover infiuen material President Cleveland's life and its © on our national progress and the the of ree Taft Car- negie The presided at memorial exerciser at Hail, meet Hail McClellan, vid inder Me a reise ing war igi wat President Taft's Tribute, Office To Office, From Cave May Be Full Of Radium. iipancingo fe) Special) substance Cornilla iw the tant: broken 1s great- reports from enhance o ail tronght carkness WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH | Samples of the cave glow been made to : Mexico by a republic that a Central with a in- tion has States ar A sugges the United Central American conference Presidents of American be held, view to removi all causes for tervent.on An address to the American peop .o is being prepared by the Democrats of the House, setting forth the po- sition of the minority leader on the rules of the House Charles Dewes Hilles, of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., has been appointed as treasury, sae. of repub ies Louis A. Coolidge. assistant sec the official bureaus of the depart- For four and a half hours the was concluded Senor Cortez, the Colombian min. has received a dispatch (rom government, saying that ali is quiet there, The Democratic members of the consideration of the Payne The President nominated Robeat I. Devlin to be United States at- torney for the Northern District of California. President Taft and Secretary of State Knox will confer regarding ap- pointments to important diplomatic posts. The decisions of the court-martial in the case of Major Fremont and Lieutenants Kinzie and Rich were submitted to the President. Miss Martha Cameron, daughter of the former Senator, was married ter | Roland Lind:ay, of the British For. eign Office. There are 11 or 12 Christian churches or temples in the city of Peking, according to a census recent Iy taken, The yellow pine reparation cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission were settled by nf
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