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Are Sentenced to Serve Twenty
Years for Murder of Carmack.
RELEASED ON §550,000 BAIL
‘Defense Will Seek to Set Verdict {Aside
Get a New Trial---John Sharp and
: : Acquitted,
‘Nashville, Toun.—Guilty of murder
in the second; degree, with twenty
yoars imprisonment as the penalty,
was the verdict of the jury in the
case against Duncan B, Cooper and
Robin J. Cooper for the slaying of
former United States Senator E, W.
Carmack. The jury acquitted John
1). Skarp as co-defendant,
Immediately the defense moved to
sel aside the verdict of disagrecment
and asked the court to declare it a
mistrial, Judge Hart said he would
listen to arguments on this motion
later., He then fixed the deiendants’
bond at $25,000 each, which amount
was acceplable to both sides.
The verdict, coming as it did upon
the heels of Foreman Burk's declara
tion that “we are hopelessly tied up
as to the Coopers,” was a decided
surprise. The defendants took it cool
ly—almost without emotion,
Mrs. Burck and Mrs. Wilson, the
young daughters of Colonel Cooper,
wete brave and aside from tearful
eyes, restrained their emotions game
ly. Mrs. Burch sat with her arms
around -her brother’s, Robin’s, shoul
der, and Mrs. Wilson was at her ra
ther's right, The suspense for the
two young women had been heart
rending, and any ‘verdiet, however
unfavorable, was a relief,
The jurors were tired looking and
disheveled and when the court re
marked: “I thank you, gentlemen, for
your patience and .devotion to the
state and dismiss you to your home
and your personal avocations,” the
entire twelve sprang from their seats
as one man and hurriedly left the
court room, The defendants and their
counsel remained to complete the
bond preliminaries and motions for
a new trial,
The jurors were not inclined to
talk® but one of them said: “On the
first ballot we acquitted John Sharp
and disregarded the conspiracy the
ory. On this same ballot we stood
six for guilty of murder in the first
degree with mitigating circumstances,
five for murder in the second degree
with twenty years, the maximum pen
alty, and one for acquittal. The
ballots all day Wednesday and Thurs
day showed the same result. Friday
the man who voted for acquittal came
over to murder in the second degree,
but demanded that only ten years
be assessed. The rest of us did not
deem ten years as anything like ad
equate, so we. disagreed again. Of
course, all' this refers to the Coopers,
not Sharp, whom we had acquitted..
Early Saturday morning the man who
was holding out for ten years agreed
to twenty years, and the six who were
voting for a first degree verdict
agreed to this verdict.”
While the jurors would not say
who the man was who held out for
acquittal, it is known from remarks
overheard by the deputies that he
was S. J. Hyde.
John Sharp hurried to the court
house when he heard of the verdict,
and was soon closeted with the de
fendants and their counsel.
Several others had been sent for
and telephoned that they would come
as quickly as automobiles would
bring them. In a few moments, Wal
ter O. Parmer arrived and signed for
the balance,
“1 will sign for a million for these
men,” he remarked. James E. Cald
well later signed for $25,000 on each
bordd and H. B. Chalburn and C. W.
Anderson for $2,500 each on each
bond. This makes the total bonds
in both cases SIIO,OOO, although only
$50,000 was asked. ’
The Burch automobile came up a
little later and the party was whirled
away to the Bradford home.,
TEDDY BEAR AND BILLY 'POSSUM
Are in Conflict in Wisconsin Over the
* Change in Town Name. ‘
Mdadison, Wis.—Teddy Bear and
Billy Possum are at war in Taylor
county and at present Billy has Ted
dy on his back and squealing for
mercy. The trouble is all because
about two-thirds of the town of
Roposevelt have .avithdrawn their alle
giance from the ex-president and
want to divide the town and call part
of it Taft,
Taylor county began its custom of
naming towns for presidents in 1899.
At that time it named one Grover and
another Cleveland. Four years later,
when the democrats were ousted from
the white house, Taylor county cre
ated a new town and named it Mc-
Kinley; four years ago it created an
other new town and named it Roose
velt. It is this last town that the
Taft settlers insist on having divided.
TUBERCULOSIS AMONG INDIANS.
Disease is Rapidly Exterminating the
' Few Indians Left.
Washington, D. C.—As the buffalo
vanished from _the great western
plains, so is the red man gradually
disappearing through the ravages of
tuherculosis.
To'save the Indian race extirgtion
by this dread disease is the greai“task
-which officials of the bureau of Indian
affairs has undertaken. ;
_ There will be a concerted effort on
ithe part of fll connected with the In
“dian service for the removal of the
causes of tuberculosis, for education
'in the measure of prevention and for
i'systematizing the care of patients af
| flicted with'this disease, " fi
* 11+ W '“l I= I ,|75 ‘“?“ Ny A ")w
Will Be Produced By thy New Tariff Bill
Presented to Congress,
Washington, D, C,—The long await
ed taritf Dbill was presented in the
house of repregentatives by Represen
tative Sereno E, Payne of New York,
chairman of the ways and means
commitiee, An increase of $40,000,
000 to $50,000,000 in the annual rev
enue of the country will, it -is esti
mated, result from the changes pro
posed, making a total of about S3OO,
000,000,
The bill contemplates downward re
vision with maximum and minimum
provision, which impose an average
maximum duty of 2u per cent in ex
cess of the present tariff, The rec
ommendations made by President
Tatt—that an inheritance tax be pro
vided, and that a lhmited amount of
tovacco and sugar be admitted free
from the #Philippines——are included
in the bill,
The measure also provides for the
issuance of Panama canal bonds to
the amount of .$40,000,000, to reim
burse the treasury for the original
purchase of the canal, and re-enact
the provision for the igsue of treas
ury certificates, the amount being in
creased from $100,000,000 to $250,000,
uuu, :
The inheritance tax provision ex
empts from taxation any property be
queathed to any relizious, gducation
al, charitable, missicuary, benevolent,
nospital or infirmary corporation, Per
sonal property other than money or
securities bequeathed to a corpora
tion or association organized exclu
sively for the moral and mental im
provement of men or women, or for
scientifie, patriotic or similar pur
poses is made exempt from the tax.
The inheritance tax provision is sim
ilar to the New York state law, It
provides a tax of 5 per cent on all
inheritances over ssovo that are col
lateral inheritances or in which
strangers are the legatees, In’ cases
of direct inheritance the taxes pre
scribed are: On SIO,OOO to SIOO,OOO
1 per cent; on SIOO,OOO to §SOO,
gou 2 per cent, and on those over
$500,000 3 per cent. It is estimated
that $20,000,000 annually will be de
rived from this tax.
In order to prevent the confusion
which attended the enforcement cf
the Dingley bill on the day on which
it became a law, the Payne Dbill is
not to take effect until the day after
it is enacted.
While there is no duty imposed up
on coffee, tea is taxed 8 cents when
imported from the country where it
is preduced, and' 9 cents when from
other than the producing country.
The internal revenue tax on cigar
‘ettes is materially increased, while
the tax on beer and whiskey is un
disturbed.
Coffee, hides and iron ore are On
the free list; boots and shoes, leather
goods, steel and iron products, lum
ber, wool, shoddy and wsate, and the
cheaper grades of third class wool
are materially reduced. Tea is taxed
‘8 cents a pound. An internal revenue
‘tax on beer and whiskey is not dis
‘turbed. The bill, it is estimated, will
produce $300,000,000 revenue from
customs,
The duty on refined sugar is reduc
ed 5.100 of a cent a pound, and on
dextrin half a cent a pound. A re
duction of one-half cent a pound is
also made. in the duty on starch, with
the exception of potato starch. Zinc
in ore is assessed 1 cent per pound
for the zinc contained, The tariff .on
pig iron is reduced from $4 to $2.50
per ton,
The principal increases are made in
the duties on lemons, cocoa and sub
stitutes for coffee, coal tar, dyes,
gloves and coated papers and litho
graphic prints.
Cne Cause of Race Suicide.
Chicago, Ill.—“Are¢ women’s organ
izations conducive to race suicide?”
This is the question which is agitat
ing the Chicago Woman’s Club, the
cause being a communication by Mrs.
Henry Hiestand, who asserts that
“there is no use denying that the
squeaking of the machinery in a meet
ing of women is distressing. To one
with immature nerves it is positively
dangerous. Grandmothers, middle
aged women, whose children have
grown up and mature unmarried wom
en, with some worldly experience, can
stand it, but young girls contemplat
ing matrimony and motherhood should
be kept away.” .
Kissing Spreads Tonsilitis.
Ithaca, N. C.——The habit of the girls
of Wells College on Cayagua Lake,
near here, of saluting each other with
kisses is said to -have been responsi
ble for the spread of tonsilitis whicit
caused the closing of the college.
There are 175 girls at Wells and, like
the young women of any other col
lege, they are wont to greet each oth
er affectionately with kisses every
time they meet.
SPEAKER,;CANNON KISSES
Y‘)UNG WOMAN HEROINE
~ Washington, D. C.—When Speaker
Cannon presented Miss Mary McCann
with the silver medal voted her by
congress for saving nine lives in the
General Slocum disaster, he pinned
the medal on her waist and then im
pulsively kissed her. “May your tribe
mcrease,” he said. g
MERCHANTS SIGN COMPACT
NOT TO SELL CIGARETTES
Decatur, Ala.—The business men of
thie little village of Town Creek, 26
miles west of Decatur, are making
war on cigt;rettes. All the business
houses of . the town have agréed no
io sell any, more cigarettes. m
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