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-V .j: -V-. ? .. ousts" dispensary " South Carolina State Liquor Institution is Abolished. LOCAL OPTION CINCHED Governor Fires Members of Dispensary Board Who Are Charged With Gross Mismanagement and Crooked Dealing. The South Carolina state seriate, Saturday, by a vote of 21 to 15, passfed the Carey bill abolishing the state aicnoronrv svst#?m and substituting a 8r-' local option system between county dispensaries and prohibition. This en^s South Carolina's experiment of 14 years with the state dispensary system of handling whiskey and is a distinct defeat for the dispensary element which has had tne readership of Senator Tillmun. The house has already passed the local option bill by a large majority and the bill will become law as soon as signed by Governor Ansel, who was elected on a platform carrying out this local option idea. Governor Ansel at once removed from office the three members of the .state dispensary board who were accused by the 'legislative committae of gross mismanagement and illegal purchase of whiskey. These members are J. M. Rawlingcon. of Richland; J. B. Wylie, of -Chester, ar.d John V.. Black, of Colletcn. ! The removal came only a few days before the board would be removed from office by the bill abolishing the ; ? -dispensary, -which the legislature has passed. SOUTH WILL GET SHARE. KgE : ' Rockefeller's Mammoth Gift Will Be Widely Distributed. A New York dispatch says: FredI?: crick T. Gates, chairman of the gen-eral education board to which John D. Rockefeller gave $32,060,000 a few days ago, says that the income from this gift and the income from Mr. Rockefeller's prior gift of $11,000,000 ' will be used to increase the resources of various educational institutions in . this country within the next decade, by from $200,000,000 to $250,OCO,vjO. This is to say, the board will aim to .stimulate local pride in and generosity toward public institutions and colleges throughout the nation, and its distribution of the income will usually be conditioned upon tlie raising of larger amounts by the recipient. It is understood that the idea of the elder Rockefeller is to make his future benefactions through nis son. This is said to be indicated by his having made the gift of last Thurs day through the junior Kockeiener. It is probable that the younger Rockefeller will devote most of his time <r -V. * , - hereafter to administering the bene. voler.ce of his father. As an immediate result of this big gift, the board will extend its agricultural demonstration work to all of the Southern states. It is predicted that this work, which consists in conducting mpuel farms on educational lines, will moan the agricultural rejuvenation of the South. jfe*. , VALE NEW YORK CHINATOWN. ffct Home of the ,Celestials Will Be Replaced by a Park. The heart of New York's Chinatown ? was officially wiped out at a meeting bl the board of estimates, when a new park was authorized, it is understood, on the block bounded by the Bowery, Doyers, Pell and Mott streets, i Much of the property is owned by Chinese firms and individuals. The tract includes the Chinese theater, the Chinese joss house, in which most of the Chinese worship, and has long been considered the most picturesque pt'sl S?JUl ju iuc v-IIJ. ' LOTTERY GAME BROKEN UP. Government Agents Run Honduras Company Out of Business. Apparently the government has won an extraordinary victory as a result of the prosecution it has instituted against the managers and agents of the Honduras lottery. Suits have been brought in various places throughout the country, one indictment has been piled upon another and tilings have teen made so hot for the lottery- people that they have thrown up the sponge and -have gone out of business. GRAND JURY INDICTS JUDGE. St.' Favrot Must Stand Trial for Murder of Life-Long Friend. ? At Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Democratic Congressman-Elect Geo. K. Favrot, one of the leading members of the bar, and best known of younger politicians of the state, was indicted by the grand jury for the murder of his lifelong friend, Dr. H. H. Aldrich. !r Tr' / A CROSSING HORROR. Train of Wild Cars Strikes Trolley Loaded with Workmen and Four Men Are Mangled to Death. A cut of wild cars shifted by a Southern freight engine crashed into a crowded street car at the crossing j at Twenty-seventh street and First avenue in Birmingham, Ala., about 7:13 o'clock Friday night, with the result that four people were instantly killed and many others badly injured. Ti e car struck was a trailer filled j with people returning to their homes j at East Lake. The trailer is reserved j i'nr Ti?pn who wish to smoke, and no i women were on it. The trailer was turned completely over, and pushed for some distance. The Twenty-seventh street crossing is a veritable death trap, more than a dozen accidents having happened there. It is at a number of furnaces, among them being those of the SlossSheffield Steel and Iron company. The street cars at this point have to cross about a dozen tracks, those of the Louisville and Nashville, the Southern and other roads. The- engineer of the freight train, R. L. Carnes, says that he had a heavy train of coal cars, and that the cut broke loose accidentally and struck the street car. The judge has actively aided the police in the capture of Italian lawbreakers recently. Judge Corese was 48 years of age, and oLjtalian descent. His office was at 23 Passaic street. His son, Robert, received the infernal machine, which came from Newark, and was delivered by an American Express wagon. Robert banded the package to his father, who removed the outside wrapper. Inside was another wrapper of paper, made fast with a strap. The judge rested the package on the desk and pulled the end of the strap toward liim, so as to loosen the tongue of the buckle. The moment he did so^ there was an explosion. A hoie 6 feet square was torn in the floor, and at the desk was driven down into the cellar and torn to pieces. The boy was hurled into a corner, and seriously bruised and burned. Judge Corese had both legs and both arms broken, his face and body j torn and lacerated, and his back apparently broken. He was removed to St. Joseph's hospital, where his antemortem statement.was made. MORE CASH FOR EMPLOYEES. Norfolk and Western Railway Grants Increase in Wages. The following wage increases which have been granted to employees by the Norfolk and Western Railway company were announced in Roanoke, Va., Friday. Engineers from $4.25 to $4.G0 per day; yard enginemen, from $3.75 to $4.25 per day; brakemen, from $1.S5 to $2.10 per 10D miles, and 21 cents I-e^ hour for overtime; passenger' brakemen from $1.20 to $1.35 per 100 miles. WOULD -BE UNWISE MOVE. Clay is Asked by Republicans Not to Press Philippine Resolution. An effort has been made by the administration senators to induce Senator Clay not to press consideration of his resolution, calling upon the secretary of war to furnish detailed information as to military operations and expenditures in the Philippine Islands since 1902. They contend the resolution is inopportune. WANAMAKER HOME BURNED. Country Residence Near Philadelphia in Ashes and Loss is $1,500,000. Lyndhurst, the country liorae oi John Wananiaker, at Jenkintown, near Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire Friday night. The loss will reach $1,500,000. Mr. Wanamaker and family were at their city residence when the fire occurred. Two- valuable paintings,"Christ IJefore Pilate" and "Christ on Calvary," were saved. COTTON TAX FOR VETERANS Is Purport of Bill Introduced In the House of Representatives. Another bill, which seeks to secure for the people of the south, the cotton tax collected immediately after the war, was introduced in the house Thursday by Representative Speight It provides that the money just returned to the states shall be used solely for the purpose of paying pensions to Confederate soldiers and their widows. The amount wth interest is no'-w about $80,000,000. TELEGRAPHERS WANT RAISE. Seek Similar Advance Given Conductors and Trainmen. Now that the conductors and trainmen of the Southern railway have secured a considerable advance in wages, a movement is on foot to also bring about a similar advance in the j wages paid to the telegraphers and block signal operators of the Southern railway. ! FOR STATE RIGHTS Senator Frazier, of Tennessee, Takes Up Cudgels. I MAKES TELLING SPEECH Pleads for State of California in Position Taken in School Row at 'Frisco?Laws of State Supreme in Matter. Federal encroachment on state rights, with the Japanese school question as the principal illustration, \va3 the subject of an address to the senate Friday by Senator Frazier of Tennessee. Mr. Frazier said that this was not a question that concerned California, but concerned the right of every state to control its domestic affairs. If the federal government by treaty could rob a state of the right to control its own school system, the last stronghold of local self-government was destroyed. If a treaty could force Mongolians into the white schools of California, a like treaty could force the negroes of Cuba, Santo Domingo, Hayti and the Congo into the schools of Tennessee in defiance of the laws i for tile separation of the races. * He expressed the highest admiration for the Japanese, but said that the action of California furnished no pretexc for a quarrel with that country. The school board of San Francisco had simply executed a state law providing for the education of white and Japanese children in separate schools. It had been decided over and over again that states had a perfect right to make such separation. That the state of California was but exercising its legal and constitutional power. He denied with emphasis that this government had ever undertaken by treaty to interfere with the constitutional rights of California. "I challenge any one to find in the treaty a word guaranteeing to Japanese residents the right to enter public schools of the states at all, much less to enter them in defiance or state laws and regulations. "The United States government cannot compel a state to create public I schools at all. The schools were creatures of state laws, maintained by state taxation and subject only to state control. The right of residence guaranteed to the Japanese implied the right to work and make a living, but not to go to school. But even if the right of residence did carry with it the- right to enter public schools/' he added, "it did not carry any exception from the right of separation in the schools. The ireaty with Japan provided that the Japanese 'must conform themselves to the laws police regulations of the country like native citizens.' Can it be contended that Japanese aliens have acquired higher privileges than they wouid have as citizens of the United States?'' He contended that the president ought to have followed the example of Mr. Blaine in the case of the lynching of Italian citizens in New Orleans. There was a treaty with Italy, which guaranteed protection to Italian citizens,'but when the Italian government complained Mr. Blaine informed it that Italian citizens had no higher rights than American citi a ii w zens ana uiai me ugui, iu paiuMi for murder was the exclusive province of the states where the crime was committed. Mr. Frazier said he did not believe we had reached the point where we must apologize for our constitution or change its character by construction at the dictation of a foreign power. Our trouble with Japan, he said, had its origin in our colonial policy which had inspired a fear in the nations of the east that we were attempting to dominate the politics and commerce of the Orient. Mr. Frazier dwelt at length on the recent speech of Secretary Root, which he declared to be a threat to wipe out state lines and absorb all power of the state into the government. "When," he said, "the states are deprived of the right to judgi whether and how far they shall exercise their powers we cease to be a free people. The secretary intimated that this usurpation of power was necessary to control the trusts. Before seeking to rob the states of their power, let the federal government us? its own. Let it reduce the monstrous tariff which had built up and was protecting the trusts." It was not necessary, said Mr. Frazier, to make the rights and powers of states conform to a standard set up by the chief executive alone. KICKED ON NON-UNION MAN. Machinists in Shops of Southern at Selma, Ala., Walk Out. All machinists in the Southern shops at Sclma, A'a., walked out on Thursday. The trouble seems to be that a man named McGowan was sent there from Birmingham to be night foreman of the round house who was not a union man. ... .> .. .'i'.. </- -j-tSsu TO SETTLE JAP QUESTION Delegation of Cslifornians Hold Conferences W:th President Roosevelt?Both Sides Juggling. A Washington dispatch says: President Roosevelt and the authorities of Kan Francisco, at a meeting at the White House Saturday, reached the mutual understanding that the Caliiornia-.Tananese school question can bo adjusted without danger of any serious difficulty with Japan. The details of the adjustment are not agreed upon, it was authoritatively stated after the meeting that the one accomplishment of the conference was i mutual understanding that a settlement could be reached v hich was satisfactory, and which would leave - no ground for trouble malting complaint by Japan. The t'"alifcrnia delegation Cauip to Washington, it is stated, with n..ruing in the nature of an ultimatum, but rather open to the consideration of any basis of settlement which the adniinistral ion might propose. The conic ronce was attended by J'resident L'oosevelt and Secretary Foot, reprinting the ailtaiurstrat'on, and by Mayor T.> E. SehmiU, the momhe-is ot the loard of education, the superintendent of schools and the assir.tutir cit> attorney of San Francisco, representing the educational latere?:? of the city. Mayor Sehmitz, in speaking of the conference, said: Nothing l.as been decided and no proposition is pending, between now and the time c? the ne\t conference our delegation will. prepare au outline ;>f its case. We are prepared to receive and consider proposals fr.cn the : .. , ~ - * .1 ^V*/v iNAAtt.M ?.vtr . ?I"' elot:i 1>IIU LUC SLvlCWIJ or u. make proposals." Two Sunday Conferences. Mayor Schmitz and the members of the San Francisco school board were in conference twice Sunda5r, and formally agreed on the policy they will pursue in connection with the question of the Japanese and the ban Francisco schools. The mayor and members of the board have refused to make any statement as to what post-, tion they will take. More than 300 telegrams were received by Mayor Schmitz and the members of the board during the day, urging them, to stand Arm for the exclusion of the Japanese coolies from the United States. A telegram received by M*yor Schmitz from the president of the California Exclusion League, in part, reads: "Morning papers announce in big headlines that Schmitz deserts labor tor Japanese, mayor and school board make complete' surrender. We cannot and will not believe it. Exclusion f J J - -1 K.. A? league at'iiuiiiuo mwnsiuu uy .ic?. *jj. congress, treaty will not exclude. Sovereign rights must not be bartered away by promises, .and should not be basis for compromise. We will not yield one iota of our lights as a sovereign people regardless of cost or consequence." Mayor Schmitz's reply to this telegram, in part, follows; "Telegram received. Announcement of morning papers absolutely false. Have made no arrangement up to date of any kind. Story false like all other statements made about me. Have re fused to give any statement to re porters. President has refused aiso. Conference completed, and is showing friendly spirit. I am a Californian trying to do my duty to uiy state. Cannot succeed if hampered by hostile press of San Francisco." The Californians will present their views to President Roosevelt in writing. Secretary Root spent two hours at the White House Sunday night discussing the school question with the president and it can be authoritatively stated that the president will assure Mayor Schir.Itz and the school board that if they will agree to end the agitation by abolisiting the Oriental school the president will, in turn, use his influence to secure a treaty witii Japan that will exclude the coolie from this country. A DAGO'S DEADLY REVENGE. Goaded to Desperation by Taunts, Italian Shoots Four Men. Enraged because he had been made a butt for the humor of his fellowworkmen, Gabriel Ferrara, an Italian, suddenly turned on a score of them who were standing in line near a New York Central' pay car at the n~or.fi pantral station in New York, Uinuu vw-*v. ?- r? ; ? Wednesday, and shot four men. Two of the men, trainmen, were killed ana tne other two dangerously hurt. rDEATH WAS IN PACKAGE. Italian Justice of Peace at Paterson, N. J., Killed by Infernal Machine. At Paterson. N. J., Justice of the Peace Robert Corese was fatally injured in his office by the explosion Friday night of an infernal machine, sent hi in by the express. The office was wrecked, and the detonation could be heard for blocks. The judge died within a short time. - TOO HOT FOR MAILS] ? j I Is Disgusting Details of Notorious Thaw Case. PRESIDENT MAKES MOVE Roosevelt Orders Postmaster General J Gortelyou, if Feasible, to Shut Cut Papers Publishing Scandalous, and Demoralizing Stuff A Washington special says: Monday President Roosevelt called upon the postmaster general, according to official announcement made at the white house, "to know whether it is feasible to bar from the mails the newspapers that give the full disgusting particulars of the Thaw case. He does not know whether it is feasible, but if it is, he wishes it done." The president's letter was referred to Assistant Attorney General Gooawin of the postofhce department, for a legal opinion. If anything is done it is expected that it will be done promptly, though Judge Goodwin is now out of town. The president, in direcciug the attention of the postmaster general to the reports of the Thaw case, did so without knowledge of the latter's sentiments, but had in view, evidently, the federal statute forbidding the sending through the mails of "lewd, lascivious and obscene matter." Unquestionably the work of censoring the daily newspapers of the country would be attended with many difficulties and possibly daily legal contests would result over whether or not newspapers had compiied with the postoffice regulations in printing certain evidence adduced at the trial. The present force of postoffice inspectors would have their hands full as at least one inspector would be needed in each city where daily newspapers are published. Whether or not legal action follows the president's action, he has placed himself on record as condemning the stories published. Since the Thaw trial began the New York papers ha\e been excluded from the library in the white house. Upon being interviewed in regard to the president's inquiry Postmaster General Cortelyou declined to make any statement concerning any action that might be taken or to say that any such proposition was under consideration. President Roosevelt received a number of protests from persons who think that the newspapers printing the full details of the Thaw case should be prohibited transmission through the mails. One of these was a long, telegraphic protest from a newspaper, the name of which, however, was not given out at the white house. The recent discussion of the j question in Canada notably in the [ Canadian parliament and the stateI ment of the postmaster general at Ottawa, who was reported to have said thac any newspaper publishing such evidence as that given in the Thaw case of last Thursday would be guilty of a misdemeanor under the Canadian law' also was brought to the attention of the president. ? Women Excluded from Court. . The features of Monday in the Thaw trial were the exclusion of women from the court room and the statement of Dr. Wagner, an alienist, based on a hypothetical question, that Thaw did not know his act? was wrong when he killed Stanford White. During the two days of last week, when Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was on the witness stand. New York women crowded the. court room, having in some manner solved the problem of getting past the bailiff at ihe door. Monday morning the women stormed the portals again, but in vain. Their indignation knew no bounds when the court officers repuised them with the statement that the court's order excluded every one except such as were working newspaper reporters. I BIDS WILL BE ASKED For Construction of Georgia Building at Jamestown. W. N. Mitchell, chairman of the Jamestown commission, announces i that bids for the work on the Georgia building at the exposition will bo advertised for at once; plans and specifications are ready, and as soon as the bids are all in the contract will be let. Mr. Mitchell also announces that the board of aldermen of Columbus has ratified the gift of $1,000 to the Georgia building fund. MONUMENT TO SCREVEN. Provided for in Amendment to Army Appropriation Bill. Senator A. 0. Bacon Monday secured the passage in the senate of an amendment to the array appropriation bill providing that the sum of $5,000 be appropriated for the erection of a monument to General Screven of revolutionary fame, at the oici Midway church, in Liberty county, Georgia. | THIRTY-TWO MIlLIONS'lSl Is Surprising Gift of Rockefeller Cause of Education?Presented to. General Board in New York. Thirty-two millions of dollarEpm^ ! worth of income-bearing securitfai^g a was the gift which John - D. Rock lellei% through his son, John Rockefeller, Jr., announced to general educational board when it sembled for a special meeting in Xe York City Thursday afternoon. vjB "For general education purposei^S 'Jjjjl throughout the country" is given a*;*;J|9 the purpose of this donation?the est single prize ever handed ont such purposes. Mr. Rockefeller previously had en the boar<| $11,COO,000 for the work, his contributions now amountr;wJs ing to $43,000,000. The general education hoard ently was not prepared for this which was announced simply in following letter: "New York, February 6, 1907. General Education Board, New City. Gentlemen: My father izes me to say that on or before 1, 1907, he will give to the generft||ijil board income-bearing securities, tjftjrellg present market value of which about 132,000,000, one-third to be ed to the permanent endowment dfiSlaB tlie board; two-thirds to be applied J9 9 such specific objects within the COrirojJBj porate purposes of the board, as elthi^af^aff be or I may from time to time rect, any remainder not so design^tro^^M at the death of the survivor to/$|MS9 ridded also to the permanent endow^p^J ment of the board. Very truly. " "JOHN. D. ROCKEFELLER, Most of the members of the boaTd^^M were amazed at the size of the gitfc^jffgfl The elder Rockefeller is not member of the board, but his rrm member and the active directtojhlilM "doubtless will come from him. ||g9 me Doara vuieu to accept 1110 and in appreciation directed a lett&B&fl to the elder Mr. Rockefeller, as lows: . : r "The general education board knowledges the receipt of the cotpjajB raunication of February 6, 1907,' Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a metygrajM ber of this body, announcing your jj B rection to give to the board for tMngM purpose of its organization sectzmSfgM of the current value of $S2yOOO,00&y|l||^B "The- general education board jMwgyjaSH cept this gift with a deep sensejraJeM gratitude to you and of bility to society. The sum, adde$^m|BB the $11,000,000 which you have'dlBjBB merly given- to this body, malcM^BH the general education board guardian and administrator of. tal trust fund of $43,000,000. /flpB "This is the largest sum et^er t^j?88| by a.man in the history cdrthe>]M^^9| for any social or nhilattthJ^fa^|M^HIMi poses. The board congxatj^tef^8BBH| upon the high and wise impulse has moved you .to this deeit, sires to thank you, in beh^ of^ili^SB educational interests, whose ments it will advance; in behah^^^HB our country, whose civilization forvjBgBHfl time it should be made to strengtim^H and elevate, and in behalf of man&|3Hl|9 everywhere, in whose interests it liaaf^^B been given and for whose use dedicated." .- JiM The members of the board whQ:-wmB^i I 7iTr? Q(v>Vofa11op'ti im aumiuiot^i iiii J?wuv*v?*v* M ii gift include some of the best knbMp^g^a educational workers, financiers, pjyp?M licists and philanthropists in the coua^^H try.' NEW POSITION FOR EGAN. .? s"--:'wKi Well Known Railroad Man Accef8s|Sjj? Place with South American Co. John M. Egan, president of Union Depot company of Kansas CigewoB and widely known throughout the UajSSrelH ted States as a railroad manager^lu^^J^a resigned his position, to which salary of $15,000 was attached, ast$|^1|| has accepted a position with a Sout&ffiraa American railroad company. RIVERS AND HARBORS BILL.^;'J|i Passed, Carrying More Than $83^jj||| 000,000?Amendments Adopted, The bouse Thursday completed anid^83| passed the rivers and harbors appro~|| ^J| priation bill, carrying more than 000,000 with sundry amendments, 'ai?J&$i of which were suggested by 166^^ chairman of the committee, Mr. ton, of Ohio. One amendment provide^|5 ^ for a survey of the Savannah river thirty miles below Augusta, Ga.,. SOLONS WANT "TIPS" ABOLISHED^ J Since Their Pay Was Raised TheyJjS . Become Suddenly Economical. I The house committee on the Pi? .^B^ trict of Columbia made a favorable port Thursday on the Mury bill, whitih^B ^ | makes it unlawful to either givevor|?\|j receive tips in any hotel or eatin^y^ house in the District of ColumbtiLr^M ANOTHER LICK AT RACING. I Legislature Makes it Felony to Keej*>| Another blow at horse racing struck by tho Tennessee house of lesentatives on Wednesday, when that body passed a bill, by a vote of 7X to 3, making it a felony to keep a placft^ -^ where betting on horse racing is lowed. This wa3 a companion Mil ,to|||S the one passed Tuesday. '