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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12546, 24 May 1909, Page 3

Chili has' a. greater number of ets in proportion ,tp'" its" population than any otHer country on ,earth. Oii -the river Hoogly. at Calcutta, 1000 vessels are sometimes anchored, at one time. They -lie in tiers parallel to -the : -shore; : each - vessel- moored stem- aiid' stern. to -buoys. David Belasco, credited as being the greatest* producer of plays' in America^ and-a millionaire; is said to have started -life as a ;newsboy in San Francisco-- ■Besides-starring-many of ths Eimto&t. artists' wlio - liotve ' visitea America > Bolasco owns -Qiie- of the most luxurious- -theatres: in New York. Oneof the most 'remarkable, murder "trials " ever" conducted in America was brought to ; a; conclusion when at Nashviller Tennessee, on .■March 6th, Colonel Puncan 8.. Cooper and his son, Eobin Cooper,- were found "guilty" of the murder of .ex-Sena-tor Cormack, editor of the Nashville "Tennessean," on November 9th last year.. The. jury returned a verdict of murder in the second .degree, and -the accused were sentenced to twenty "years' imprisonment each, ft is announced that rtho verdict will .be appealed agAnifit on tins, aground of the nature of the Judge's ruling. The 'feeling in .Nashville over the Cooper verdict is such that now the result is -known- further bloodshed is feared. ' -Both sides paraded the town fully armed. : ; . . . . .- "'