Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — KILLED BY BANDITS. [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY BANDITS.

Ex-Senator Cooper, of Tennessee, Murdered and Robbed in the Mexican Mountains. [Dispatch from Cui Incan, Mexico.] Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United States Senator from Tennessee, was killed by robbers near this city yesterday. No further particulars. He was manager of the famous Polk silver mine, and left home in November with $30,000 in United States exchange to pay off the debts of the concern and start a mill. Soon after bls arrival in Mexico he wrote back that he had struck very rich ore, many pockets running to thousands of dollars per ton, and would start the mill as soon as supplies were received from Culiacan. He was on his way there for that purpose when killed. The mine is high up in the Sierra Madre Mountains and the country between there and Culiacan is infested with robbers. (Judge Henry Cooper was elected United States Senator from Tennessee as a Democrat (defeating Andrew Johnson), to succeed Joseph 8. Fowler, Union Republican, and served from March 4, 1871, to March 3, ■1877. J