Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-16
Straps and facts.

A petition asking that the Davidson
county, Tenn, criminal court declare
illegal and void the proceedings by
which Robin ]. Cooper. charged with
the murder OF Senator Edward Car
mack, was acquitted, was filed last
Saturday by all the attorneys who
represented the state in the trial in
which Robin ]. Cooper and his father,
Duncan B. Cooper, were convicted.
and by Sam c. Carmack, brother of
Senator E. w. Carmack, prosecutor
in the case against the Coopers. 1t
charges that effort to acquit the de-
fendant was a fraud upon the state,
done without the knowledge Of any
lawyer representing the state and
without conference with any witness
es for the state. After hearing the
petition, Judge A. B. Neil refused to
allow the petition to be filed. The
next move to be made will be to take
the case before the supreme court on
a writ of certiorari.
In an engagement at Rancho
Santiago, Mexico, last Monday, 900
revolutionists fought Gen. Navarro
with a thousand regular troops to
standstill. All told, says dispatch,
IA persons are known by independent
investigation to have been killed.
Navarro took no prisoners-it is con-
trary to his orders-and in his camp
today there were no wounded or the
other side. The bayonet had COM
pleted the work of the bullet.
horrible instance of barbarity of the
campaign occurred after the battle.
Every man in the hamlet of Cerro
Prieto Ozark hilD was brought before
the mayor to prove his innocence or
participation in the revolt. Thirty
could not do this. AS fast as their
identity became known they were
taken out and shot. They are IN
cluded in the number of dead. Gen.
Navarro places his own dead at one
captain, one lieutenant and twelve
soldiers. Twenty-seven of his men,
including two officers. were severely
wounded.
Macon, Ga, December IA: WORD
was received here this afternoon from
Miner, Ga, TO the effect that long
series of midnight whippings OF ne
groes in that section eliminated early
this morning in the shooting of VIII
Atwater, a negro, who was injured
seriously. and the probable wounding
of a white man. who, it seems, Is be-
ing secreted by the masked men VINO
accompanied him. Today local au-
thorities received word from j. w.
Woodall, a wealthy planter there,
that the trouble between whites and
blacks had reached a crisis and aid
was needed. The Macon Telegraph
will say in the morning that investi-
CATION of affairs at Miner shows the
agitation dying down. According to
Bud Blackburn, nineteen masked
white men bastinadoed him at dead
of night three weeks ago and a vigi-
lance committee has been whipping
negroes regularly. Woodall says that
Atwater was dead and that one white
man was killed by him before he died
during last nights fight, when the
night riders visited Atwater's home.
The identity of the white man Is kept
a secret Milner physician says
that no white man was killed, al
though there might have been one
wounded and that Atwater is living.
The century old French spoliation
claims were the subject of considera-
ton in the senate last Wednesday, and
consumed practically all of the few
hours Of the days session. The
claims, amounting to $4,000, con-
stitute an essential part of the omni-
bus claims bill and there was de-
termined effort to press them to final
consideration. There was just as
stubborn opposition to them, and
Of conducting a mild filibuster against
them with the result that the bill was
still in the calendar when the senate
adjourned. In addition to the ap-
SldIIll bAIS DAAA NSNA@A~
about s1,5OO,O0O which for the most
part covers War of Secession claims
arising in the southern states, and
the Kansas senator charged that they
had been incorporated in the bill to
assure it's acceptance. He asserted
that the French claims were outra-
geous The bill was defended by
Senators Burnham, Gallinger, Smoot,
Warren and others, who, explaining
that the spoliation claims had origin
ated during the troubles with France
at the beginning of the last century,
contended that this country had obli-
gated itself to pay them. In the course
of the discussion Senator Gallinger
said: IF a nation could be impris-
oned for debt the United States would
be in Jail most of the time" There
was a sharp division over an effort on
the part of several of the southern
senator's to have the bill enlarged by
the addition of a number of Civil War
claims.
- Salina, Kan, December Is: Ira
Ward, 80 years old. who, it is said, this
morning robbed the state bank of
Paradise at Paradise, Kansas, secur-
ing $4,000, killed himself when sur
rounded by posse of farmers fourteen
miles north of that place, late today.
Wards suicide was a climax to one of
the most sensational robberies COM
mitted in Kansas in recent years. He
made a hard ride for liberty, but a
posse of farmers surrounded him at a
place IA miles north of Paradise at
sundown. Then he turned the gun he
had bought early in the day upon
himself and sent a bullet through his
brain. On his body the posse found
the $4,000 which Ward had stolen from
the bank. Ward, who lived twelve
miles northeast of Luray, Kan, went
to Paradise last night. He attracted
only casual notice. This morning he
went to hardware store and bought a
revolver, ammunition and a coil of
rope. He then entered the bank,
where he covered Cashier Bert O'Brien
and four other men with the weapon.
After the safe had been opened by the
cashier at Wards direction. the five