Rendres Verdict of Guilty in Murder Case in Nashville
In Nashville Tennessee special jury finds Col Duncan B Cooper and Robin J Cooper guilty of murder in the second degree and sentences them to 20 years in the state penitentiary. The jury acquits John D Sharp on the same indictment. Bond set at 25000 for each defendant amid a last minute rush of sureties.
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Eedsmen
Richmond
Nashville
Tenn
Ury
Col
Duncan B. Cooper
Robin J. Cooper
John D. Sharp
Coopers
U. S
Edward W. Carmack
Hart
E. M. Burke
Foreman
Burke
Anderson
John Sharp
McCain
Sharp
Census Reports 1908 U S Cotton Crop Totals and State Breakdowns
The Census Bureau records 13,408,841 running bales of cotton for 1908 with 27,587 ginneries and 344,970 linters, plus 93,085 bales projected after canvass. State totals list Georgia 2,022,828 bales and Texas 3,719,189 bales, among others.
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Wales
House Passes Amended Census and Health Bills
The House, in amended form, advanced the census bill rejected by the President for curtailing Civil Service Commission appointment powers. An amendment fixes appointments per civil service rules, and another requires tuberculosis health certificates with census applications.
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Washington, Special
House
Civil Service Commission
Sterling
Lills
Bennett
N. Y
Kidnapped Child Willie Whitla Held for $10,000 Ransom
Willie Whitla eight years old was taken from a Sharon Pennsylvania school by a man in a businesslike manner. A ransom note demanded ten thousand dollars. Despite money left in Flat Iron Park and police delays, no one appeared to claim the payment and the boy remained unrecovered.
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Sharon
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Frank H. Buhl
Buhl
Cleveland
Warren Ohio
Lake City
Samuel C. Leavanson
Canton
Wesley C. Sloss
Cleveland, D
Whitla
Flat Iron Park
Ashtabula
Roosevelt Sets Sail for East African Expedition
The steamer Hamburg left Hoboken Tuesday carrying Theodore Roosevelt on an East African expedition. The ex president did not want official Hoboken notices, but the departure drew many well wishers along the North River and a crowd of sea craft to witness the send-off.
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Africa
New York
Hamburg
Hoboken
N. J
Theodore Roosevelt
North River
Girls whipped in lieu of fines in Atlanta
Two girls in Atlanta were chastised at the police barracks by their mothers in front of the police matron after the city declared that a mother could whip her daughter until age 21 in lieu of a fine. One girl had been married and left her husband.
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Atlanta
Trial begins in triple murder case in Tickfaw area
In Amita Louisiana a court with state troops surrounding the courthouse opened the trial of Avery Blount charged with the murder of Buzzy Breeland his wife and step-daughter Mrs Joe Everett near Tickfaw on January 29. Garfield Kinchen allegedly involved remains a fugitive from justice.
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Amita, la
Avery Blount
Buzzy Breeland
Joe Everett
Tickfaw
Garfield Kinchen
Blount
Massachusetts wage assignment law cuts abuse impact
A Baltimore grand jury urges action to curb shark abuse. The Indianapolis News notes Massachusetts enacts a wage assignment law requiring written employer consent and, for married men, wife consent before validity. The law, filed with a record, faces corporate resistance as a step to curb abuses. The U S postage stamp variety is also mentioned.
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Baltimore
Indianapolis News
Massachusetts
Kidnapped Willie Whitla Reunited With Father in Cleveland
Willie Whitla the Cleveland child kidnapped from Sharon Pennsylvania last Thursday was brought back to his father at the Hollen den Hotel in Cleveland Monday night at 8 30. The boy says he was treated well and believes he travelled from Sharon to Warren then Newcastle. His father paid $10000 after a meeting with the kidnapers in an east Cleveland candy store.
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Laskey
Cleveland
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Sharon
Willie Whitla
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Willie
Warren
Newcastle
Ashtabula
Flat Iron Park
Celveland
East End
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Papa
Mr. Whitla
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