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W}'W ' SUES FOR THEM i Action Brought Against Senator B. R. Tillman and His Wife Bj MRS. BENJ. R.TIUMAN, JR. For the Recovery of Her Two Daughters, Who, She Alleges, Were Taken From Her by Her Husban'l, Who Then Abandoned Her in Washinirton While She Was Sick. Mrs. Benj. R. Tillman, Jr., Mon- 1 day instituted habeas corpus proceedings before the supreme court at Columbia to compel Senator and < Mrs. B. R. Tillman to return her two children to her, aged three and Ave years, and be perpetually re- , trained from interfering with them. ( Sensational are the charges the , younger Mrs. Tillman brings against ( her hUBband. They are that after , repeatedly outrageously insulting her ( and brutally ant^ cruelly treating t her while he was drunk; that after she had given him the Keeley treat- , ment, following which he only grew f worse In spite of promises to reform l and at times had attacks of deli- ( rium tremens; that after he had < squandered much of her estate; that ? she had appealed to his parents, | Senator and Mrs. Tillman, with the c result that the senator only insult- ^ ed her and both blamed her for the j trouble between herself and her hus- j band and for his drinking to excess v ?that after all this, and much more, ^ her husband, she having gone back ( to him following their separation, fi for the sake of their two children, and in violation of their written f agreement to divide their time be- f twopn their fntlipr and thnlr mnther in case of separation, had her order , the two children dressed while both s families were at Washington last ( November, under pretense of taking t the children on an evening's visit ? to their grandpartens, turned them [ over to Senator and Mrs. Tillman, who brought them to South Carolina, her husband then deserting her when she was "in a condition too delicate to mention," he also leav * ing for South Carolina shortly afterward and filing a deed at Edgefield giving the children to Senator and Mrs. Tillman, alleging in this i deed his wife's "unfitness and inablli \ ty to rrise my two children as they i should be raised," although Mrs. li. c R .Tillman, Jr., has a handsome an- \ cestral home at Edgefield and annual r rentals in addition of 51.100. t The younger Mrs. Tillman is of t bearing giving all the indications a a delicate beauty, her features and 1 of high birth and of having been a reared in an atmosphere of culture f and refinement. is the grand- r daughter of the 1* Governor F. ^ W. Picking, who v also ambassa- t v dor to the Ruse/"-, court, where her 1 mother was b* a and christened by t the czar, P.itschka, which means & "little darling.' Her mother's sis- c ter was the first wife of the late a United States Senator M. C. Butler, r whom Senator Tillman defeated for v the senate after the dramntic Till- t man gubernatorial administration. She is a blood relative of many of l the old-time ruling families of the State, and of course her social stand- ^ lng is the highest. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman's domestic troubles anDear to data from thp tlmo Tillman came bomo to Edgefield and found Col. James H. Till- d 1 man at his home, but thought he A | Insulted his wife on this occasion, p * It Is alleged, he apologized and ack- o nowledged he had wronged her; Col. n Tillman, it is suid, was at his ? kinswoman's innocently playing with g one of his cousin's children at the e time Mr. Tillman came in in a rage. / In an affidavit submitted to the li court Monday Mrs. Tillman says that b one occasion she was forced by her b husband's drunken debauches and I cruel treatment to separate from e him, but "not until deponent's hus- I band under the Influence of excessive drink made a most outrageous, false and degrading attack upon de- a ponent's character, that deponent, so outraged and insulted flew through s the nleht time with her two infant t children from deponent's home at ( 'Kdgewood' to her sister's home in c Edgefield for protection, where she t remained for several months." f EHH It would seem from the number n J5S?nd character of the affidavits read d jQ&Ionday In Bupport of Mrs. Tillman's ti fright to the children, that practi- S Really every man and woman of stand- v Ring in Edgefield is up In arms agains* C BKenator and Mrs. Tillman and their 8 Wpon. Among the signers of these y ' affidavits are several relatives of ^ ustice Gary, himself a member of r he supreme bench. There are over h ' Jklgned by two or more, and several P ' affidavits, practically all of them y leaving from 25 to 50 signatures. k ii The signatures include the follow- li 9K1 fng, all testifying that they have a J ; known Mrs. Tillman either several w ^PHRjtears or from infancy, and that she a I a woman of irreproachable char- n | Hkcter, modest, refined, cultnred, dls- a: u fitted and amply flnan- h ? cially able to care for and educate O ? tatc her own children. ai \ TJr. J. Tompkins, her family phy T ' ivv^" -.; * SENATOR TILLMAN BRINGS UP MATTER OP PURCHASE OF PUBLIC DOMAIN. Accuses Soathera Pacific ( Holding Large Tract in Direct Violation of Grant. Senator Tillman Monday brought up in the senate the Oregon land affair upon the subject of his connection with which President Roosetrr?lt nnoo at- n t u mnuaa PO in nnnarnou "Some of you are familiar," Baid Senator Tillman, "with my desire to buy some land in Oregon located on a land grant, and the effort made by Mr. Roosevelt to create the impression that I was playing the rascal in regard to it, and all that sort of thing. I have followed up this matter on account of my personal Interest then enlisted. Not in the purchase of land any more, but to see that the people hare the right to buy according to the terms of the grants to the railroads and to the military roads. I found out long igo that neither I nor any one else could buy them according to the terms of the grants." He then read a letter he had written inquiring of the attorney general if any had been bought in iccordanco with the resolution of ;ongress passed two years ago. Continuing he said there had been i tempest in a tea pot over the llallnger affair, but that 2,000,000 Lcres of valuable timber land is held >y the Southern Pacific railroad or >y the Harriman interest in absoute and direct violation of the grant vhich they refuse to sell to anybody. They have already sold over 500,100 acres contrary to the law, he aid. Senator Chamberlain of Oiepon las introduced a resolution calling or information on the subject and Jenator Tillman announced that vhen that comes up he will have lomethlng further to say. His refirence to the famous Oregon land iffalr was greeted with a profound iilence and looks of surprise on the aces of senators. KEPT CHILD SEVERAL DAYS ind Then Turned Her Loose as She Was Not One Wanted. Greenwood has a great sensation. V pretty little eight-year-old girl vas kidnapped and held by an old legro woman. The unsuspecting ihild was lured away by the negress, vho carried her to a secluded spot tear ine city. The child was held here for some hours. Her parents ;rew anxious about her nonappearince in the afternoon and immediatey search was instituted but without ivail. The child says that the nejro woman told her that she was lot the one who was wanted and vith this she was set free. Later he little girl was brought to her tome by a lady living in the vicinly where she was held. All of the mrents of the Greenwood school hild.-en are in constant dread on iccount of the statement that the legro failed to get the child she vanted. No trace of the negro has ?een found. COMMITTED Sl'lClDE. ?'ote in Purse Asks That Husband Be Notified. At Dallas, Texas, a handsomely ressed woman, giving her name as Irs. Nick Kunth of Chicago, was icked up in an unconscious condition n iue street mere last Thursday ight. suffering from laudanum poloning. She was taken to the Eraer:ency Hospital, where she is reportd to be out of immediate danger, t note in her purse asked that her lusband In Chicago be notified of ler condition. She declared that she lelongcd to a leading Chicago famiy and expressed regret that her ffort to kill herself had failed. Mrs. Cunth arrived in Dallas, Tuesday. All that glitters is not gold; some ro blondinod. iclan; Judge J. W. DeVorpe, memier of the circuit bench; the Rev. 3. E. Hurts, pastor of the Baptist hurch at Edgefield; the pastor of he Presbyterian church at Edgeleld; L. Wlgfall Cheatham, editor if the local newspaper; ovei a hunIred of Edgefield's most influential natrons; including Mrs. John C. Iheppard, wife of the governor irhom Tillman succeeded, and Mrs. irlando Sheppard, wife of the pa3t rand master of Masons and many oung society women. The real contest will come on the eturn to the rule, and It will bo a Itter one, both sides having emloyed fine legal talent. For the ounger Mrs. Tillman #nnAHM leaars. DePasa & DePasa of the Coimbia bar, and Mr. Samuel McGown Simklna of the EdgeQeld bar. rhlle for Senator and Mrs. Tillman ppear ex-Solicitor J. William Thurlond, who proaecufed ex-Lieutennt Qovernor James II. Tillman on la trial for the killing of Editor N. . Ganzalea of the Columbia State, nd Senator Tillman's aon, Mr. Henry lllman, of Greenwood. ? STANDS TO THE TRUSTS TAFT TELLS THEM TO BE OP GOOD CHEEK AND FEAR NOT. Says He Has No Intention of Interfaring With Them or Their Wicked Ways. President Taft Tuesday made public the following statement as to the reports that the administration is planning a crusade against unlawful combinations of capital: "No statement was issued either from the attorney eenpriil'H oftino or the White House Indicating that the purpose of the administration to in stitute prosecutions under the antitrust law is other than as set forth in the message of the president of January 7, 1910. Sensational statements as if there were to be a new departure and an indiscriminate prosecution of important industries have no foundation. The purpose of the administration Ib exactly as already stated in the president's message." The statement was issued alter the president had talked with James J. Hill, the railway magnate, and had received Information that prices were crumbling in New York under the various reports printed the day before and that morning. Mr. Hill on leaving the White House, said he was sure that the president would not attack corporations for themselves, but the sins of the corporations. If corporations were violating the laws of the country he supposed they would be brought to book. James J. Hill's visit to the White House, it was said, was merely a coincidence. Mr. Hill declared that he had discussed "general conditions," with the president and had not gone into the subject of the prosecution of the trusts. "Normally conditions are satisfactory in all directions," said Mr. Hill, "but we don't want a lot of wild stories to get abroad that will cauBe depression." Mr. Hill did not want to discuss the president's recommendations as to railroad legislation, saying it was too important a subject to take up "off-hand." "But we do need the rest-cure badly," he said, adding that the country should be allowed full time to hecover from the panic of 1907. He thought that three or four months of rest from agitation would do a lot of good. ELECTIONS HELD BY HOUSE. Judges, School Trustees and Other Officers Chosen. The following elections were held Tuesday by the legislature: Associate Justice?D. E. Hydric^, of Spartanburg. First Judicial Circuit?Chas. G. Dantzler, of Orangeburg. Second Judicial Circuit?Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell. Third Judicial Circuit?J. S. Wilson, of Clarendon. Fourth Judicial Circuit?R. C. Watt', of Chesterfield. Sixth Judicial Circuit?Geo. W. Gage, of Chester. Eighth Judicial Circuit?J. C. Klugh, of Abbeville. State Librarian?Miss L. H. Laborde, of Columbia. Insurance Commissioner?Fltz H. McMaster, of Columbia. Directors Penitentiary?W. H. Glenn, of Anderson; J. D. Deas, of Kershaw. Trustees Clemson College?I. M. UanMIn t nl.l T-. i. r. . *><uu?uiui vn x iinriia, 1/. II. HaWlS, of I.exington; W. D. Evans, of Chesterfield. Trustees of Wlnthrop College?R. R. Tillman, of Edgefield; D. W. McI.aurin, of Dillon. Trustees University of South Car olina?S. P. Hunter, Jr., of Dillon; C. E. Spencer, of York. Trustees State Colored College ? G. B. White, or Chester; J. W- Fljyd, of Kershaw. PRISONS ARK FULL OF ALIENS. Influx of Immigrants the Cause of Increase of Criminals. That the recent remarkable Increase in prison population In New York state is due largely to the influx of immigrants into the state, is the conclusion of C. V. Collins, superintendent of state prisons, who, in hia nnniinl ?? - ' 1-?_ ...? I c^Vi t IU IUC ture, suggests that the federal government, which permits these alien criminals to land on its shores, should assume the burden of main taining them till they have served their sentence when they should be deported and never allowed to return.* A census of 4,320 prisoners in Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton prisons, showed that 1,091 or 25 per cent were aliens. Garfield Opposed Ilallinger. Former Secretary of the Interior Garfield Tuesday appeared befor? the senate committee on houses and lands, and opposed the bill submitted by Secretary Ilallinger, authorizing the secretary to withdraw the public lands from settlement, pending a recommendation to congress for legislation. i i YOUNG MAN MURDERED AND HIS BODY PLACED ON THE 1 R*n,Rn?n Tiitrir The Fonl Crime Was Committal in a Hoarding House in Princeton, N. C. News from Princeton, a small North Carolina town twelve miles from Goldsboro, tell of a homicide in that town about 11 o'clock Sat- \ uiday night, when Frank Langley, a young white man, was shot and instantly killed in a boarding house run by A. Gis Pearce. Troy Pearce, his father and two brothers, Albert and Andrew Pearce, and a blacksmith by the name of J Lem Sauls, are in Jail charged with the crime, which, according to the reports, was cold?bloodicd murder. Sauls, the blacksmith, left Princeton last Saturday night but was captured later by the sheriff near Setme and placed in jail. He denied being in the crowd which did the ! killing, but later admitted that he , was a member of the party, but did not knew who committed the deed. ( John E. Pearce, an uncle of the Pearce party, was also In the house at the time of the. killing and says , that the crime lays between Troy , and Andrew Pearce, that he had re- , tired for the night and the clock in his room had begun the stroke of 11, but only a few strokes had broken the stillness, when the succeeding ones were drowned by the discharge of a shotgun which was followed by a blood-curdling yell. . This is the only statement he would make. . The body of the deceased was placed in a cart by the murderers and carried down the Southern rail- . way track about half mile from the ' scene of the tragedy and left on the rails in order to try and hide the { crime by letting the train pass over c the body. The night train going f west severed the head from the 8 body, but at the coroner's inquest t held Sunday afternoon, it was dis- ( covered that the deceased came to his death as the result of a gunshot j wound. t PET DUCK MET SAD END. ) ? t Tamed by a Man in Canada, it Was ( c Shot iu Anderson. 1 Some time ago while huntlag In c c the swamps on Rocky river, Mr. W. t E. Bray, of Anderson, killed a duel', and on one of the legs or the bird was found a silver band bearing the Inscription "Box 48, Klngsvllle. Ontario." He at once wrote to the address, and has Just rec?l\e1 In reply a letter froln Mr. John T. Min- t er, manufacturer of brick and the g in that distant town. He sa/s thai t the duck shot by Mr. Bray came to t his home, where he has a small pond j and a flock of tame gray and black j "wild" ducks, and Joined the flock i about the 5th of last August. The c duck was very wild for a time, but t about August 20 he had gottun ro ^ it would almost eat out of my g band," writes Mr. Miner. "Later n the duck became very tame and r would follow me over to the tile t factory and look In at the door, and v I often threw crumbs of bread and r corn to It. Then she would follow r mo into the barn, and knew i right well where the corn barrel j stood. I became very much attach- r ed to the "duck, and wished to see c if I could get any trace of her after she left here, so I put the band on her leg." Mr. Miner say3 that the duck was Mr. Miner says the the duck was * known to him as Mabel, and left his littlo nnnH ?>"" * n ?* " V ^vywu uuv/lll DtT J. He snys he Is a great admirer of birds and is often called all kinds of \ "green things" because of this fan- a cy; petting birds and not shooting n nioro than he does. "But this," c he says, "is worth a whole season's / shooting to me. "I suppose," he continues, "you will think I have a wheels in my head, and sometimes i I think the same, but I am a great \ lover of birds and can't help it." t In his letter Mr. Bray wrote that the duck had come to the best place v in the United States, and following d out the thread of humor, Mr. Miner ?, writes that the duck was fed In the t only heaven on earth. ? s Kill Each Other. t A dispatch from St. Petersburg, v Russia, says more tvan 100 persons v have been killed and many wound a an me result. or religious con - (1 diets which have been waged in old d Hokhara between the Sunites and the Shiahs for two days. The Sun n ites demand the replacement of th.> e Shiah officials by Sunites. At tb9 h request of the Hokhara an thorities. Russian troops and machine guns have been sent from Samarkand the scene of the fighting. g ? c Shot Him Down. ii John B. Tatum, a prominent resl b dent of Autauga, Ala., was shot down u Sunday night by an unknown man r, and instantly killed. Tatuin was on n his way home with his sop-in-law p when the shot was fired from anr>- t' bush is said to have been the result o of an old feud. e< ACCUSED OF LOBBYING fUBPRESEltTATIYE W1CKKRSHAM SAYS MAJOR RICHARDSON rhreatened Him for Accusing Him of LiobbyLng for Special Interests and for a $7,300 Job. Scrambling at Washington for advantages in matters of Alaskan legislation has culminated in a demand by Delegate James Wickersham that Secretary of War Dickinson to order 3ut of Washington, back to Alaska or to military duty, Major W. P. Richardson, chairman of the Alaska Road Commission, whom he charges with exerting too much influence upon congressional committees. While the Alaskan legislative council bill was before the senate committee on territories. Delegate Wickersbam charged that Major Richardson was in Washington claiming to be the adviser of the administration on all matters relating to Alaska; that he was in fact lobbying in behalf of special interests, mentioning among others the Suggenheim Interests, and endeavoring to perpetuate himself as chairman of the road commission and at :he same time legislate himself in- < 0 the office of Commissioner of the Interior, an office created by the \laskan legislative council bill, at 1 salary of $7,500 a year. In his letter to the secretary of var, Mr. Wickersham says that he vas met by Major Richardson as ho ame from the committee room and n an angry tone threatened by the irmy officer for what he had said to he committee. Speaking of this en;ounter Mr. Wickersham says: "He said that only his position ts an officer in the army and my tosition as a delegate in congress jrotected me. I shall perforin my luty as a delegate from Alaska with>ut fear of assault from Major RichirdBon, but I most earnestly protest igainst being threatened In the caplol by an officer In the army for taring to perform such duty. "It 1b bad enough to have him obbylng around the corridors In an 'ffort to Impose himself bb a part >f a military legislature upon a tolpless and law-abiding American Oinmunlt V In time nf nea no tn In :rense his own salary and evade his | lutles in the army, without hnving lini threatening the representative | >f those people for perfomrlng his ( longressional duties, and I protest { igainst his violence and insolence." c m m , WORK OF HEROES. t taring Rescue of Two Women and | Four Children. Two women and four little chil- ? Iren, overcome and trapped by f imoke and flame, were rescued in f hrilliag melodramatic style Wodnes- t lay by Firemen Kelly and I.add at ' i fire in a five-story frame tenement, i <o. 16 Mill road. Jersey City, N. J. < The firemen were lowered by ropes | lown an air-shaft from the roof of c he adjoining apartment house and 1 vere pulled back, with their uncon- a icions burdens, by thei? comrades. The blaze was discovered in the early c norning and it was thought all the enants were out of the buildings, ' vhen cries were heard from the wo- ' nen and children, who had been pen- t ted in by the fire on the stairways. ( The air-shaft had Ween converted 8 nto a fiery pit, but the firemen, by I nuking two trips, effected the res :ue without accident. c - t SAYS WOMEN KOHIiKI) II1M. 4 I New York Hunker Despoiled of . Rig Amount of Cash. a 1 In New York Wednesday nigh* ? Varner M. Van Norden, the banke- a ind president of the Van Nordea t i'rust Company, was robbed of $28,- t 100 as ho was leaving the Waldorf r Istoria. . 1 With the arraignment a few days K igo of- Bessie Roberts, alias Kitty )owoll, of Chicago, and Annie ' Villiams, alias "Chicago Maggie, ' t he story was made public. e Mr. Van Norden saw two women e calking along Fifth avenue. One A Iropped a pocketbook and Mr. Van c sorden politely picked it up and re- e urned it to her. ^ A hearty slap on the hack was the 0 iomewhat startling and unconven d ional manner In which one of the d vomen signalized her thanks. Thera 8 # , 4, , , , I* mo a (jiuiuBiiMi 01 manKS a no iiows 1 ,nd one of the women fainted sudlenly on Mr. Van Norden's shouler. The woman revived and a fow t: ninutes later Mr. Van Norden mlsv b d the $28,000. The women were h eld In $30,000 bonds. c b Died of Hahies. o At Durham, N. C., Dennice Manum, a young boy died of a typical a ase of hydrophobia Monday morn- w ig at Watts hospital. Tho young Ci oy was taken to the hospital Satrday night and ho developed rahles apldly. Prior to the treatment the ladstone had heen 'J U|I- H lied and nobody was anxious. For N wo days ho suffered the horrors c! f the damned and had to be chain- si d to the bed. Iw ?> 1 GREAT FLOODS Dm in France Spread Destruction to Life and Property. RIVERS STILL RISING * The Region of liiundution is Steadily Enlarging and Villages in Scores of Places Aro Entirely Submerged, the People Fleeing For Their Lives. Advices from Paris say that the floods have brought disaster to a large part of France. The Seine is now a raging torrent and rising at the rate of more than half an inch an hour. As it furiously rushes seaward It sounds the message of increasing misery and dcstructiou The victims of the flood number more than 100,000 and the monetary losses incalcuable. Thousands of poor are hopelessly ruined and aro fleeing to Paris. The government urgent measure has requisitioned army and navy material to house the sufferers, and boats for the rescue of the stricken, as well as those imprisoned in the houses in the flood centres on all sides of Paris. The region of inundation is steadily enlarging, and villages in scores of places, are entirely submerged, the people fleeing for their lives and abandoning everything. In many cases the soldiers have been obliged to use force in compelling the Inhabitants to evacuate their homes. Hundreds of them refused to leave. clamoring only for food and water. In Paris the situation is rapidly becoming worse, the floods sparing aeither the rich "or the poor. The lood is insidio Invading the capacity built area on either side of :ho winding Seine, undermining tho 'esidences and public buildings and 'orclng the evacuation of many houses. All the streets in the south eastern section are running rivers. Every hour helps to complete the le-up of the telephone, telegraph ind railroads. The subways and tram service are deminishing and n every section gas and electrio Ights are failing. Paris is practically cut ofT South ind West, and if the present coniition continue the question of food iupplie8 will become menacing. The lenate unanimously adopted an apiropriatlon of $400,000 for national ellef and various societies are sendng out calls for aid. President fallieres heads the list with $4,000, ind other gifts aggregate $40,000. The entire population of Iver5ur Seine and adjacent places, which ire completely covered with water, ire in a desperate state. Only the ops of the houses at Alfortville are risible, the water averaging 12 feet n the street. At this place, since 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, 3,000 >ersons have been rescued by boats, ind 30,000 others have found safety >y their own efforts. In many towns ilong the rivers the houses are colapsing and the wreckage is whirled >ff in the stream. The rtescue work at Alfortville vas hampered by lack of light, lut the rescuers had more to conend with than the turbulent waters. 3roups of Apaches had gathered and eon were engaged in the work of iracy. They seized several of the oats and robbed rescued and resuers alike. In soine cases they enered the houses and carried on their lepredations. Finally a force of oldiers drove off the lookers There were many cases of drownng and death to the aged sick ,s a result <->r ? -????? auuv.it una exposure. ""wo instances of death were partieilarly pathetic. Aged ami infirm ind finding themselves unable to nove, a man and a woman nunged hemselves to a bed post. The hosiltal at Ivory, containing 2,000 paients, is surrounded by water and ;rave results are feared. President Faliieres and Premier lriand made an automobllo tiip hrough the flooded districts in the astern section of Paris. Thev wn Hifi through some of the streets, kneo leep in mud and water, and saw the rowds fleeing, men tugging at vaiiss and trunks, and weeipug women >urdeiied with children and al sons f household belongings. Tho conitions are nr?r>?n??~ .KKouiug, una me presient and premier hastened r way to eek means of relief for the sufering people. Wonderful Invention. The first line of trolleyless elecric cars in the United States will o started at Newark, N. J., this ummer. Twenty cars supplied with urrent from storage batteries will e operated over about eight miles f track. If the new storage syssm is successful there it will probbly be adopted by the corporalton 1 rhich controls most of the street ars In that section of New Jersey. J Starting Young. fl Although she is less than seven- J ?en years old, Florence Kneipp, of fewark, N. J., is under arrest harged with bigamy. Tho police ty that she has admitted marriages J ith two men during tho past year.