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VOL. XXIX. PITTSBORQ. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1907. NO. 27.
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EVELYN iSBIT THAW -TELLS
HER STORY
Gives Motive For Husband's Al
Isgsd Insane Act. '
UFE LAID BARE IN COURT
iu Stanford White's Care by Her
Mother, She Says He Induced
Her lo Prink Wine, Then All
became Black.
New York City. Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, the vife of Harry K. Thaw,
laid hare in the Criminal Branch of
the Supreme Court the story of her
life, the recital of which was expected
bv the defense to convince the jury
that her husband was justified when
he shot down Stanford White, the
man who, she declared, first drugged
and then ruined her.
As the former chorus girl answered
readily the questions put to her by
Deiphin M. Delmas, chief counsel for
the prisoner, every one in the court
room leaned eagerly "forward, so as
net to miss a word that dropped from
her Hps. The pitiful story she told
moved every one in the room. Men
wined the tears from their eyes, while
women gobbed' aloud. It was one of
the most dramatic recitals ever heard
in any court . . . 4. (
Never before had "the "grim court
room held a' .bigger ' crowd or., one
wrought up to such a pitch of exclte
ment. The defense had' put forward
its star witness.
A more girlish figure that that
which answered when Clerk Penney
called Evelyn Nesbit Thaw could
scarcely be imagined. .She wore a
loose jacket of dark blue, such as
many a schoolgirl wears,-and a dark
hat of childish cut decorated with a
bunch of violets. About her neck
she wore a wide turndown collar of a
modified Little Lord Fauntleroy de
sign and a soft lawn tie of black tied
in a bow. Her hair, while hot hang
ins loosely down her back,, was half
caught up and tied with a black rib
bon in a sort of pug at the back of
her neck. .
The court room saw her without
a veil for the first time sine the trial
began. There was disclosed a pretty
face, small o.f feature, but regular in
cut, a pair of large black eyes, very
soft and very pleading, a pair of
straight eyebrows of heaviest black, a
mouth large but not unpleasing,
whose lips parted to disclose two
rows of very white teeth.
Mrs. Thaw was called by the de
fense to supply the testimony needed
to support its contention that the de
fendant had learned something about
the architect's treatment of Evelyn
Xesbit that had caused an insane
idea to form ir his brain that grew
with the year until it culminated in
the impulse that caused him to shoot
White on Madison Square roof gar
dec. In her story Mrs. Thaw gave a mo
tive for the shooting by laying her
ruin to Stanford White. She had
first been led by Mr. Delmas to tell
of the dinner at the Cafe Martin, the
shooting on the roof garden and of
her marriage to Thaw on April 4,
1905. Then the examining lawyer
jumped b2ck to the summer of 1903.
when she and Thaw were in Paris. It
was at this time, she said, that Thaw
first proposed marriage to her and
she had refused him.
"Ic stating the reasons to Mr.
Than- why you had refused him, did
you state a reason based on an event
of your life with which Stanford
TVMte was connected?" Mr. Delmas
asked.
"Yes," said Mrs. Thaw.
Then, in the form of a relation of
the confession she made to Thaw,
the witness told of meeting White,
through a girl friend, in August,
IS 01, when s..e" was only sixteen
years eld. She went to a luncheon
party given by White at a house in
V.'est Twenty-fourth street, she said,
and after that met the architect sev
eral times, always with the knowl
edge and consent of her mother.
Sometimes the parties were in the
Twenty-fourth street house and some
times in White's apartments in the
tower of Madison Square Garden.
After the acquaintance had been
continued for some time, she said,
White asked her mother if she didn't
want to go to her home in Pittsburg.
Mrs.' Nesbit objected that she did not
like to leave her daughter, but White
promised to look out for her, and
Mrs. Nesb;t left town, the 'witness
said.
Two days afterward White sent her
a note to come to a party at the
Twenty-fourth street house, and she
went there after the theatre. Only
'vhite was present, she said. After
supper. White invited her to inspect
a Part of the house she hadn't seen,
and they went upstairs to "a strange
rcom'' filled with cabinets, paintings,
ec. Adjoining Avas a bedroom, with
a ' tiny little table" ii the centre, on
J' hic'n was a bottle of champagne and
0De glass. At White's urgent solici
tation, she said, she drank a slass of
the wine, and "I don't know whether
ft '"as a minute after or two minutes
after, but a pounding began in my
eais, then the whole room seemed to
go around, everything got very
black."'
The girl's voice broke at this
jhit, and,, although she did, not
break down, it was only with the
greatest effort she forced back the
tears. Some of the women in the
courtroom sobbed openly, and more
than one man used his handkerchief
Vigorously.
Ambassador liryce's Farewell.
Tho Pilgrims, of London, gave a
Jewell dinner to James Bryce, Am
assartor of Great Britain to the Uni-
a States. Ambassador Whitelaw
Tec.
eei Company Profits Immense.
S vhG fi?ai'tei'lv report of the United
ues Steel Company showed net
veinS f 4 1,7 4 ,9C 4, and for the
C5t S .tg history.
"When I woke up I was in - bed, ,
she continued. l , screamed , ant
screamed and screamed."
During the whole of the time his
wife was on the stand i,Thaw had not",
taken his eyes from, her until this
portion of her testimony was reached.
Then he buried his face in a hand
kerchief, , and his body shook with
emotion. His eyes were tear stained
and red when he next looked up.
White's subsequent conduct, as re
lated by Mrs. Thaw, was cynical in
the extreme. In spite of this confes
sion Thaw insisted that he would
marry her if she would love him, de
claring that no one-could blame her
for her misfortune. They quarreled,
and she came back to New York.
By a most adroit maneuvre of the
defense all this astounding story told
by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was intro
duced in the guise of information im
parted by. her to Thaw. , As such it
was admissible only as tending to
.demonstrate its influence tipon the
sane or. insane condition of his mind
at a later period. - ;
Just before the midday recess was
reached and after Mrs. Thaw had told
of the struggles of her earlier life,
how she had eventually come to pose
for artists and then went on the
stage, Mr. Delmas tried to get into
evidence a letter Thaw wrote and
gave to Miss Nesbit, addressed to F.
W. Longfellow, his legal adviser in
this city. After recess, by a series of
adroit moves, Mr. Delmas succeeded
in having the letter admitted as iendr
ing to show' the condition of Thaw's
mind after the confession the girl had
made to him. It was a rambling
communication,' and to it was pinned
another slip of paper, on which was
written: "P. S. If you can't redd
this, don't trouble." " "
In the third letter admitted and
read, Thaw spoke of the strain he
was under, and gave evidences of it
in many rambling, almost incompre
hensible statements. ;
OLiNEY UPHOLDS SAX FRANCISCO
Says the Government Has No Right
' to Interfere in Japanese Question.
Washington, D. C. Richard Ol
ney, of Boston, who was Secretary of
State under President Cleveland, in a
letter to Representative McCall, of
Massachusetts, discussing the San
Francisco school question, takes
strong ground against the interfer
ence of the Federal Government in
the effort to restore .the Japanese
children to public schools of that
city.
treaty with Japan gives the general
Government no right to override the
police power of the State in the man
agement of its school affairs and that
the President has no right to inter-
I fere in the matter by-f orce , of 1 arms
REVOLT IX ARGENTINA.
Colonel Sarzento Heads Rising in San
Juan and "Wins in Five Hours' Fight.
Buenos Ayres. A revolutionary
outbreak occurred in San Juan, head
ed by Colonel Sarzento.
After five hours' fighting, in which
explosive bombs were used, the rev-
I olutionists were victorious. Twenty
men were killed and many wounded.
Numerous houses were burned and
others sacked. Governor F. Godoy
and other Provincial dfficials are re
ported to be prisoners.
General Sarmiento has assumed
! the rank of Governor of the province
i ad interim, with headquarters at San
Juan City.
When the news reached here Act
ing Governor Villanueva called a
; meeting of the Ministers and inter
vention was decided upon.
PATROLMAN KILLS CAPTAIX.
Shoots Superior Because He Was Tired"
of "Seeing Him Strutting Around." ,
Jackson, Mich. Patrolman Isaac
Lewis walked into the office of Police
Captain Holzapfel in the station
house and shot him through: the
heart, killing his superior almost in
stantly. He then fired a shot at
Chief Boyle, but missed him. Lewis,
it is said, had been drinking, and it
is thought he was insane.
After the murder he became vio
lent and fought like a madman
aeainst being locked i a cell. In an
' incoherent statement he said he had
shot Holzapfel because he got tired
of "seeing him strutting around."
SUICIDE WITH 'CYANIDE.
Dr. William J. Chappell, Once of New
York, Takes Life in Baltimore.
Baltimore, . Mdr Dr. William J,
ChaDnell. a well known physician,
killed himself by swallowing cyanide
; of potassium. Earlier in the day he
j had tried to suffocate himself with
g(XOy UUL Hid XXL UOUXVCCCi S v uiuii
Dr. Chappell, who was forty-nine
years old. was the son of the late
James Chappell, who is said to have
been one of the wealthiest men in
New York. He left his son consider-
! able money, but Dr. Chappell spent it
Railways to Recoup.
Tt was said in Chicago that a plan
of Eastern railroads to , increase
freight rates by increasingHhe mini
mum allowance for carloads was a
! plan to recover the amount granted
f employes in wage concessions; '
Steel and Cotton Increase.
Forward busintss is most exten
sive in the iron and steel manufac
ture and the cotton industry.
Creamery Rutter Needed.
Supplies of fresh ci eamery do not
increase in-prpportion to the demand.
Governor Magoon's Army Decree.
Governor Masoon. of Havana, haa
issued a decree prescribing the or-
ganization of the new Cuban arni5r,and
: providing for the increase of the Ru
' ral Guard to 10,000 men and the ar
tillery to 2000 men.
Oklahoma Won't Let Women Vote.
The Constitutional Convention at
Guthrie, Okla., killed the provision
for woman suffrage by adopting a
clauso givios the right of sufi'rase to f
males only. , :y
A JUSTICE BLOWN UP?
I, BY INFERNAL MACHINE
..".,'. m ;r
Robert Cortez, of Paterson, Killed
by Package Sent by Express.
HIS S0M ROBERT IS INJURED
He Was Active Against Italian Crim
inals Almost Torn to Pieces
When He Opened the Deadly Box
oent From Aewark. j j
Paterson, N, J. Robert Cote2,
Justice of the Peace and one of the
best known Italians in this cits'-, was
literally blown to pieces in his office
at 23 Passaic street by an infernal
machine. He ; was carried to St.
Joseph's Hospital with broken and
badly lacerated arms and legs and
with long-gashes in his back.; His
face and head were torn in 'many
places. His ante-mortem statement
was taken before he died. He leaves
a wife and eight children. '?
Cortez left a friend in Ellison
street and'went directly to his'office,
yvhere his- twelve-year-old son Rob
ert, gave him "an express package
that had arrived from Newark by the
American Express Company. ,
, The package was about ten inches
square, and about four" Inches thick.
It was simply addressed "Robert
Cortes, Justice of the Peace, Passaic
street, Paterson, N. J."
. The second wrapper was fastened
by a buckled strap. Cortex had
some difficulty in loosening -the
buckle. The package exploded just
when the buckle pin became unfast
ened. The action of the explosion
wasdownward. A large hole six feet
square was blown through the floor,
and the' office desk tumbled into the
cellar.
Cortez was blown about four feet
toward the door. He was covered
by plaster and tthe debris of the
office furniture.
Cortez's son was only slightly in
jured from the explosion, mostly
powder burns over his face and
hands. He was near the office door
when the explosion occurred, and
was blown into a corner. He was
unconscious when found, but sus
tained no serious injury.
The front of the place was blown
out, and the ceiling and sides of the
office 1 were shorn of their plaster.
Tho- only ' thing that withstood the
force of the explosion was the safe.
Cortez (had been active against the
thieves of late,T and it is supposed
that one of them sent an infernal ma
chine to him.
i
WANAMAKER, MANSION BURNED.
Two Famous Paintings Saved Loss
May Be $1,500,000. , -
Jenkintown, Pa. Lyndehhurst,
the country home of John Wana
maker, was destroyed by fire, only a
few of the larger and-more valuable
paintings being saved. The loss will
exceed $500,000 and may reach $1,
500,000. '?he estate covers more than thirty
acres on the old xork road east of the
line dividing Abington and Chelten
ham townships. The house, partly
English in architecture, was back
about 350 yards from the York road
and was reached by wide driveways.
John Wanamaker, at his city home,
said his loss would be fully $1,500
000. His two-finest paintings. "Christ
Before Pilate" and "The Crucifixion,"
valued at $150,000, were saved.
They were cut from their frames.
JAPS HONOR RUSSIAN DEAD.
Building Monument For Men Who
V1 Fell in Siege of Port Arthur.
St. Petersburg,' Russia. A dis
patch from Harbin, Manchuria, says
that the Japanese are putting up two
monuments on Peropelochny Hill,
Port Arthur, to the memory of the
Russian and Japanese soldiers who
fell in the siege. In proximity to the
monument to the Russians .a Russian
chapel will be built, bearing the fol
lowing inscription:
"In memory of the heroes who met
their death in the defense of Port
Arthur."
" Killed and Hurt in Collision.
Frederick Holland, a railroad em
ploye, was killed, and twelve persons
were hurt, none seriously when
train No. 5 on the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul Railroad was in col
lision in Chicago with a switch en
gine drawing a train of empty pas
senger cars.
Terrorist Kills Governor.
M. Alexandrov,ky, Governor of
Penza, Russia, was shot and killed
by young, inan, who, in trying to
escape, killed two policemen and
wounded' the 'manager of the theatre
where the tragedy occurred, after
ward killing himself. ,
Coal Land Purchase Extended.
The House Cbmtni'ttee on Public
Lands agreed upon the Coal Lands
bill, permitting one person to buy
12 SO acres, in disregard of the Presi
dent's wishes to make this land sub
ject to lease only.
United States Warships Sent.
Rumors of impending war between
Salvador and Honduras have occa
sioned the sending of United States
warships to Central America.
Count Boni Appeals. '
' It Is stated that Count Boni de Cas
tellane has filed an appeal in Paris,
France, against the decree of divorce
lately granted to his wife, formerly
Miss Anna Gould.
Conference on School Question.
Mayor Schmitz and the San Fran
cisco School Board arrived in Wash
ington to confer with President
Roosevelt on the Japanese schoc
question. .
WASHINGTON.
The first annual exhibition of paint
ings of American artists at the Cor
coran Gallery was opened.
The President has written a letter
heartily approving Secretary Hitch
cock's order , withdrawing timber
lands from allotment.
Funeral serivces were held over
the body of. Dr. Jose Ignacio Rodri
gues, chief translator of the Bureau
of American Republics.
William J. Oliver presented to the
Government his perfected bid for the
Isthmian Canal contract..
The opinion of Judge Advocate
General Davis, of the army, regarding
the right of an officer to command
a soldier to attend worship was made
public.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root contributed $100 each for the
famine sufferers in China through the
Christian Herald.
Extensive experiments with bal
loons, aeroplanes and airships are to
be made by the Signal Service Corps
of the army.
Reports by the ' Interstate Com
merce . Commission show a rapid in
crease of railroad accidents.
Charges of grave errors in "the
work, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, made by Charles S.
Hanks ' and George w. Harriman.
were declared , unfounded , by . Presi
dent Roosevelt. .
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Out in Cuba the prevailing drought
is thought to have very seriously in
jured the tobacco crop.
Loans are freely made by the Phil
ippine Commission to . the various
provinces for the erection of public
buildings in the islands.
Every effort possible is being made
to use native woods for ties in build
ing the railways in the Philippines. "
Cuba -has already paid out $57,
000,000 for soldiers who were alleged
to have served in the war with Spain.
Andies Crosas. a member of the
Executive Council at San Juan, P. R.,
has resigned.
The Supreme Court of Hawaii de
cided that the Governor might-exchange
Lanai lands for other lands.
DOMESTIC.
Illinois has cut its Jamestown Ex
position appropriation from $25,000
to $12,500.
Escaping natural gas at Youngs
town. Ohio, killed Mary Spawn and
her infant.
Sweden will send a new armored
cruiser to the great naval review at
Hampton Roads, Va.
Unmuzzled doss in St. Paul, Minn,
will be killed without warning by or
dinance of City Council.
Judge Anderson, in the United
States District Court in Chicago, dis
missed the plea in : abatement set
forth by attorneys for John R. Walsh,
formerly president of the Chicago
National Bank.
The New Haven. New York &
Hartford Railroad Company Execu
tive Committee propose the sale of
the New England Navigation Com
pany to C. W. Morse.
" The steamer Parker, belonging to
the Dale Sand Company, was blown
up on the Tennessee River near !nat
tanooga, and James Thomnson, the
captain, dangerously injured.
The steamship Seneca rammed and,
sank the bark Charles Loring off Sea
Girt, N. J.; the crew of the Loring
was saved.
, The Dawes Commission has com
pleted the enrollment of the five civ
ilized tribes of Indians, a work that
was commenced ten years ago.
Howard P. Frothingham. of New
York City, a wealth Wall Street op
erator, committed suicide by jumping
from a window.
In a wreck of freight trains on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad near
Colby Station, Ky., one of the loco
motives exploded, killing Engineer
Edward Harp and two trainmen.
FOREIGN.
Viscount Goschen, formerly British
Chancellor of tho Exchequer, is dead.
Sven Hedin. the Swedish traveler,
has explored S00 miles of an un
known country on a journey to Tibet.
The Eslgian Government denies
that the Bank of Belgium has sup
plied the State of Sao Paulo with
money for the carrying out of a 'cor-'
ner in Brazilian coffee. " ,
Ambassador Leishman stirred the
Turkish officials by communicating
directly with the Sultan on the q.ues-
tion of the recognition of American
Echools.
Four divisions of the Chinese army
have been transferred from the com
mand of Yuan Shi Kai to Feng Shan,
who is said to ba an incompetent
Manchu general.
The reconstruction committee at
Kingston, Jamaica, passed a resolu
tion to ask the Imperial Government
to advance a twenty-year loan , of
$5,000,000 at a low rate of interest.
Owing to the acts of terrorism on
the part of anarchists in-Barcelona,
Spain, the Government, under . the
law of 1904, has suspended trial by
jury in the captaincy general of Cata
lonia. :
Mail advices from Shanghai, China,
state that owing to an accident at the
wharf there the discovery has been
made that arms 'and ammunition
lave been smuggled through Shang
hai to .the districts where rebell'on
is in progress.
The people of Nicaragua are de
manding reparation from Honduras,
and oppose the action of President
Zelaya in agreeing to arbitrate an at
tack by Honduran troops on Nicar
aguan forces. ". '
Daniel1 Osiris, of Paris, a philan
thropist, who presented Malmaison
to the, French nation, is dead. M.
Osiris; bequeathed $5,000,000,0 the
Pasteur' Institute.
China is organizing i ' naval de
partment. ; Four naval bases will be
arranged immediately, and $10,000,
000 is to be provided yearly to resus
citate the navy.
TARHEEL LAWMAKERS
What Our State Lawmakers are Do-
ing Raleigh.
The Pure Food Bill.
The pure food bill .was taken up
and Buxton offered an amendment
providing that the State board of
pharmacy shall publish varability in
drugs; to prevent the importation of
liquors into Cherokee and Macon, and
to prevent any person from keeping
iu possession over a gallon of whisk
ey, excess of that amount to be pri
ma facie evidence that such person is
seeling the liquor. The bill also makes
the possession of the United States
revenue license, prima facia evidence
violation 01 this act and authorizes
tho searching of places where it is
suspected Avhiskey is concealed in
violation of the aet, to be a misde
meanor, pmniiabie b fine of not
less than $23 or imprisonment not
less than 'j !;iy, v.it'i heavier pen
alties lipm: second convrelion, not less
tl-.an $5(V or Jt;ss than 30 days, the
bill to ro into effect Jiay 1, next.
The bill to prevent the hunting and
killing of deer in -Milclicli passed, as
did tlie following biil-:
For Practical Fanners.
The bill fiUiu; up requiring the
commissioner of oi h.i .' ::'ie and mem
bers of tho board of agriculture to
bo practical "furir.ers and active in
their profession. -J.yt res opposed' it,
sMyijig;olI the i.enircers of the board
.of trustees of the A&i:':!tural & Me-
from the biard of iw-'es, and that
tins bill Mould result in'buch a dis
solution. Buxton asked whether the
commissioner and braid of agricul
ture had considered tJi- bill. Mitch
ell sn.id it had the Li u r;'y approval
ci' the department- '""fi agriculture;
that there was lire Urn. bet ween the
Agricultural & Met aiiir-al College
and 1 1107 board of ,aL-'ici'Uure', and ii
as thought bjt, to separate ' the
board". The depar ieni was sup
ported by the'fanrers ai d the lattet
should not be iequired support the
college. Diewr. 'i U ui hT'it wise' to
.: separate the' board) - buit unwise 10
pas's - this bill.
-ycek" could see no good in sep
aralion of the two irictilutions ar.d
thought they ought i" go hand in
haii'i and that the f.i'n.eis ought to
c'.-.uiu. stand by and support the col
leges. Bills passed:
To prevent tra.-pa'inj; on lands of
another in Bertie.
To define place of sale of liquor in
Alexander by giving it the anti-jug
law.
To protect the Stat swamp lands in
eastern North Carolina.
A bill to promote public deeleney
to cut or write obscene words on
trees or public plaees, under penalty
of $50 or 30 days fine was considered
and then went back on the calendar!
The bill prohibiting public drunken
ness passed second reading and then
went over.
The bill to anient! the revisal-by re-,
quiring all dealers and companies of
fering fertilizers for sale, to stamp on
package, weight, trademark," guaran
teed annalysis and per centage of nit
rogen, phosphate, ammonia, etc., was
taken up.
London Mental AnguishBUl Discussed
The bill came up providing for codi
fying all the Supreme Court decis
ions on mental anguish eases against
telegraph companies, and to make
statutory the principal of mental an
guish as established by the Supreme
Court; the bill being unfavorably re
ported by the judiciary committee
and with a minority report. London,
the author of the bill, explained it,
saying that the Supreme Court, in a
decision, had praetieally asked for
such legislation as the bill contem
plated. He said t he s bill was oppos
ed " by three able telegraph lawyers,
and was reported unfavorably by a
bare majority of the committee. He
said there was no pyit icism to be made
of the telegraph companies' effort to
defeat the ppposition to " recognize
by Statute the doctrine o damages for
mental suffering due o negligence of
telegraph- companies. The represen
tatives of 'the companies have the
rightto seelt'jfoflefeaf f 1111 making
by the- act f Hhe' Legislature a prin
ciple establisetl by the court.
He 6ffered an amendment striking
out all the sections, of the bill except
the one declaring and establishing .a
doctrine of mental anguish.
A Dangerous Bill Says Doughtonr
Further argument against the bill
was made by, Doughton and in sup
port of , it by Preston and Stevens,
'Doughton saying it as dangerous 'to
business interests and that already
'the business- rheh of North-Carolina;
were thinking, f'hat this Legislature;
wagncrmed to3 hit every body thai
had a little money.S ; He . had - never
'appeared- for , a telegraph company in
his life, but did not think it fair to
enact such legislation and moved a
re-reference to a committee so the bill
'could be amended. Stevens declared
all the. talk about the business inter
ests throughout the State being afraid
of this Legislature was the result of
persistent slanders by paid lobbyists
in the interests of railways .and
trusts, in an effort to muddy the
waters and 'distract attention of legi
timate business interests from the
much needed reform. He said Dought
on was above sucbhow motives, but
had been talking, to the wrong crowd
if he thought the Legislature, was
going to hurt any legitimate interests.
Young, Mangum and London oppos
ed further delay, the latter saying he
had held the bill up. 10 days to ac
commodate telcghaph lawyers who
had thoroughly presented their case
and secured unfavorable reports.
?iuunea! t-oiiegef-iivui, not ;ge iar-
nets atH'i jt hat t Ke ' il 01 iit jt jLinwise
'.o scpavpta the boarti oi. agriculture
Murphy spoke earnestly for. re-reference,
saying he was unalterably
opposed to, the bill and .to' the whole
doctrine of mental anguish as anun
ciated by the SupremifcC6urt. Tho
motion to re-refer wasuRi, 41 to 55,
the anouncement being received with
applause. arsoAs moved' to table the
bill. On a roll call vote dlie motion
call vote due motion
, noes '80.-. I ' : ' '
mestioa bei?3g called,
was lost, ayes '25,
The previous ques
the minority report, of tfceindiciary
committee in favor aithe"; bfll Avas
adopted, 68 to 30. TheU coming
up on second reading, Morton offered
an amendment providing that it
should not apply to telegraph offices,
the receipts of which Avere not oTer
$25 a monthv sajdng a great many
country offices were railAvay offices
and the effect of, the bill would be to"
cause the railways to close these to
the general public. He declared that
of the Democratic party continued
its hostile attitude towards the busi
ness interests 'of North Carolina there
might be a Supreme Court of a very
different political complexion.
The .previous, question Avas ordered.
Parsons moved adjournment, but 'was
ruled out of order.' Parsons appeal
ed from the decision. The House sus
tained the ruling and while members
were explaining their votes. Par
sons Avithdrew his appeal. Morton's
amendment Avas lost. That of Win
borne, providing that nothing in the
bill shall prevent a judge from set
ting aside a verdict as excessive, was
adopted. Manning's amendment .was
lost and the bill passed second read
ing, 66 to 32. Upon objection to , a
third reading it Avent to the calendar.
Liberal Pensions. " ' "
The Senate and House committees
on pensions and Soldiers' Home, at
a joint session, unanimously agreed to
favorably report the pension bill, car
rying $450,000: to continue the $15,
000 annual v appropriatioas to the
home and a special appropriation of
$0,000 for building improvements,
Avater and lights.
Justice's Rate Bill.
The committee on public service
corporations reported favorably the
substitute bill reducing ' passenger
fares on railways' and this was made
a special order for next Wednesday
at 11.
Following the announcement of this
fact, Speaker Justice introduced, out
of order, a bill to prevent freight rate
discriminations and to regulate
freight charges. It is state that this
bill has been jn Arery careful prepara
tion for' some -time and that it was
introduced as early after the coast
became clear of the consideration of
passenger reduction bills by the com
mittees. The bill is a very important
one and its text follows. The title is:
"An act to pre-ent unfair and unjust
discriminations in freight charges by
railway companies.". ,
Sec. 1. .That . the North Carolina
Corporation Commission shall, in fix
ing freight rates, not allow any rail
way company or companies doing
business in this State to charge more
for transporting freight over the
lines of two or more companies than
is at the time permitted by said com
mission for transporting a like kind
and quality '-and' quantity of freight
an equal distance of continuous mile
age oA'er the line or lines of a single
railway company.
See. 2. That in fixing the schedule
for freight rates by railways for
transporting freight from one point
in this State to antoher point,
the commission shall not fix or allow
greater charges for or by said com
panies than is then fixed or allowed
by the companies or by the authority
of Virginia for the same services and
under similar circumstances and con
ditions for transporting freight from
one point in Virginia to another point
in that State, so that ' the freiht
charges of North Carolina will nbt af
any time exceed those for like service
in Virginia, provided that nothing
herein shall be construed as a direc
tion -to raise anj' rate. .." .
Sec. 3. That any railway or officer
or. agent thereof doing business in
North Carolina Avhich shall give to
any person or shipper any advantage
oA-er another person or shipper under
like circumstances in the way of any
rebate or reduce rates not authorized
by laAv or by the corporation commis
sion, or-which shall charge for ship
ment of freights in A'iolation- of this
act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall be fined for eeh offence not
not less than $100 and such officer or
agent shall be fined or imprisoned or
both, in the discretion of the court,
and any shipper or consignee of any
frieght .in the State of North Caro
lint, Avho. shall knowingly accept any
rebate or advantage from any raihvay
company which is not afforded other
shippers or consignees under like cir-
.'stances- and which is not allowed
by laAv, shall be guilty of a misde
meanor and be fined of imprisoned in
the discretion of the court.
. WEAR WHITE-FOOTED HOSE. ,
In a published interview a physi
?5an urge3 that the wearing of stock
ings with white feet will do more to
iromote ease in Avalking and relieve
foot Ills than anything to be sug
gested. Soeks or stockings of cotton
or lisle thread in black bind the feet
and make them swell, he says, no
matter how fine and open they may
be. The black dye with the hard
thread of the lisle variety is a com
ination that is particularly torturing
to tender feet. Thin, unbleached Bal
briggan he recommends. Preferably
whole sock or stocking may be white,
but at least the foot should be. A
further caution Is added that new
cottcn hose as well as all cotton un
dergarments should be washed before
being worn, to wash out the sizing
used by manufacturers.
I ROCKEFELLER'S LAST GIFT
RECORD
Total of $43,000,000 For Educa
tion and Religion.
SON CONTROLS DISTRIBUTION
Two-thirds of Great Amount Is to II
Employed as the Rockefellers
Direct, Unless They Fail to Indi
cate Wishes.
New York City. The biggest gift .
by an individual in the history of taw
world was recorded when John I..
Rockefeller, head of Standard OIL.
gave to the General Education Baartl
$32,000,000 to be used in support or
educational institutions ' throughout- ",
the country. He had- given $11,000,-,
000 to the board, and this gift brings
the total Rockefeller fund available
for its educational promotion to tfcc?
stupendous figure of $43,,OOO,OO0-
The General Education Board teas '
been in existence about four yearsv
having been chartered by Congress i
1903. The purposes of the organiza
tion are "to promote education In thtt
United States, without dfstinctlra aT
race, sex or cre,ed. Jinrt psneciallr tor
promote, systematize and mafcs efTee
tive' various forms -of educations 1k-, .
neficence." It employs a largo force .
of experts, who spend ttWrfTm'T? fnak
ing a systematic study. of ejlcratjpnal
conditions in this country for thfr
guidance of the board ir matin??
gifts to .educational Institutions. BeT-.
fore the boad adjourned tit madcr
gifts agsrregatirg S400.000.
A revieAv of the benefactions of Mr
Rockefeller, most of whfcTi hart? ftcenr
educational or religious 'in their na
ture, snows -thai since' Ik? crenrau
lated his wealth he has sriv-riwar
ZS 8, 00 0,0 00., TJie las.t gift as
.a surprise 'even to most rr wi of
the- General Education Boa..,, a wh
had no idea such a magnificent con
tribution was to be made to thcir
fund. "This is the largest sum nTT svvere
by a man in tha history of hc race?
for any social or philanthropic pnr
poses," the members of the Ijoardt
said in a letter of thanks, which they
framed and sent to Mr. Rockefeller
immediately after the promise of the
gift had been received. ''The admin
istration of this fund entails on tl?
General Education Bonrd the most
far reaching resnonsibiilties ever
placed upon any educational organi
zation invth'e world. As- meaibcrs ofT
the board we accept this responsibil
ity, conscious alike of ita difficulties
and its opportunities.'
The first 811,000,000 which Mr
Rockefeller gave to the board was to
establish a trust- fund to hs adminis
tered by tho board. Two-thirds of
the present gift must be applied t
specific purposes under tho direction
of the elder Rockefeller or his son,.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Toe rta
maining one-third becomes part off"
the permanent endowment frrnri of
the General Education Board, of
which the elder Rockefell 21- is not tt.
member. He ,Js represented tliereo'i
by young Rockefeller.
If the Rockefellers do not mats
the designations of the specific pur
poses for which the income fronj tw
thirds of the .gift is to-be used, thent
the board has the right to distribute
it according to its best Judgment oe
of such part of It as may rerarafo after
the Rockefellers have made such. des
ignations as they desire to matte-
DR. SIMPSON ACQUITTED-
Dentist Exonerated of the Cnarse C
Murdering Father-in-Ijaw.
Riverhead, L. I. Dr. James Wen
dell Simpson is again a free man.
After three hours' deliberation Use
jury filed into the courtroom at Riv
erhead bringing a verdict that exon
erated the New' York" dentist of JI
blaini for the killing of his father-in-law,
Bradley T., Horner, on. the'
night of December 27, 1905.
MrsJulia Simpson, the wife, wtio
for a year has fought hardest to sencl
her husband to tho electric chair, was
not in court at the moment of bis
triumph.
The tovnspeople, from th lire,
loyal supporters of the prisoner.,
broke Into cheers after the verdict,
was announced. To them Dr. Simp
son is a hero.. - -v. ...
The Simpson case, from the begin
ning to the end, has been one or tin?
most exciting ever, known ait haag
Island. . .
Dr. Simpson and his .wife iivedf
with he parents, Mr. and Mrs- Krad
Jey T. Horner. ' -
OUthe evening 'of December 27!
Horner,. was. ink the kitchen alone
while Dr. Simpson in the dining:
room was amusrng the two wontca of.
the family by playing with a shotgun-,
Finally, carrying the same gun, fce
went back in the kitchen to see Hor
ner. A monent later there? "was a saot.
and Mrs. Simpson, rushing back into
the ki.tchen, found her husband,
standing abova her fathar. Horner
lay dying on the floor with a cIsarsiB
of shot in. his 'ureas;. . -
Santa Fe Issues Stock.
Stockholders of the Santa Fc Hall
read voted almost unanimously in,
favor of a bond issue of 53S,OO0.oa
at Topeka.
Fire destroys Old Castle
Fire destroyed the eleventh cen
tury donjon of the old feudal castler
at Chateaurenault, near Tonrs,
France.
Czar Sentences Officers'.
The Czar has approved the swa
tence of Russian Vice-Admiral Nibo
gatoff, tried for surrendering; ,
ships at the battle of the Sea C J.
pan, and he will be interned iu a for
tress for ten years.
Japanese Sentiment Chaii7,r6r.
Many letters and telegram-' re
ceived by President Roosevelt -ras
convinced him of ajchange o. s
ment on the Pacific slona on tfcc aa
aneBe question.