AMERICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 13, 31 March 1909, Page 8

AMERICA.

Roosevelt's Departure. Hr Roosevelt and his son Kermit received a great send-off at Hoboken aboard the steamer Hamburg, en route to Italy. From Naples they proceed to Africa on a hunting expedition. The Wrecked Aeon. H.M.S. Cambrian, which visited the scene of the wreck, found that the Aeon's back had been broken. The forepart remains on the reef, but the afterpart has disappeared. The R.M.S. Moana, from Vancouver, brings news that the wrecked steamer Aeon has broken up. Political Tragedy. Col. Cooper and his son Robin have been found guilty of murdering Senator Carinack at Nashville on November 9. They have been released on £5OOO bail pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. I'he tragedy was a sequel to the American political campaign. Ex-Senator Carmack was a candidate for governor, but was beaten by Governor Patterson. In his -campaign and in his subsequent writing in the "Nashville Tennesseean,” <'armack made caustic reference to Col. Cooper, one of Patterson's leading supporters. The latter demanded that his name be kept out of Carmack’s paper. The demand was refused. Cooper made threats of personal violence. Carmack ■was persuaded by his associates to arm himself. The two men met in the street. Carmack and the son of the Colonel exchanged shots, Carmack fell dead, young Cooper was taken to the hospital, shot in the shoulder, and the elder Cooper was arrested. One of the friends of all three men, Col. Short, says of the tragedy: “This thing is a tremendous shock to the entire south; it is

equalled by nothing since the Civil War.” He apprehends as a result violent and bitter partizanship between prohibitionists and anti-prohibitionists. Suicide of Society Woman. After giving a dinner in honour of Lady Paget, the American-born wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Paget, commanding the Eastern command, Mrs Pierre Lorrillard, wife of a well-known tobacco magnate, committed suicide. She was missed for some time, and eventually her body was found in the bathroom, where she had suffocated herself by dosing up all the openings and then turning on the gas. She was still wearing her dinner gown and diamond coronet.