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I m r SUES FOR THEM Action Brought Against Senator B. R. Tillnun and His Wife By MRS. BENJ. R.TILLMAN, JR. I A ' For the Recovery of I lor Two Daughters, Who, She Alleges, Were TakI en From ller by ller Husl>uii<l, Wlio Then Abandoned Her in Washington While She Was Siek. Mrs. Benj. U. Tillman, Jr., Monday instituted habeas corpus proceedings beforo the supreme court at Columbia to compel Senator and Mrs. B. B. Tillman to return her two children to her, aged three and five years, and he perpetually restrained from interfering with them. Sensational are the charges the younger Mrs. Tillman brings against her husband. They are that after repeatedly outrageously insulting her and brutally and, cruelly treating her while he was drunk; that after she had given him the Keeley treatment, following which he only grew worse in spite of promises to reform and at times had attacks of delirium tremens; that after he had squandered much of her estate; that she had appealed to his parents, Senator and Mrs. Tillman, with the result that the senator only insulted her and both blamed her for the trouoie oeiwecn iiitsch <iiiu iiur nu-sband and for his drinking to excess ?that after all this, and much more, her husband, she having gone back to him following their separation, for the sake of their two children, and in violation of their written agreement to divide their time between their father and their mother in case of separation, had her order the two children dressed while both families were at Washington last November, under pretense of taking 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," ho 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 deed his wife's "unfitness and inabili ty to rrise my two children as they should be raised," although Mrs. 13. R .Tillman, Jr., has a handsome ancestral home at Edgefield and annual rentals in addition of SI.100. The younger Mrs. Tillman is of bearing giving all tho indications a delicate beauty, her features and of high birth and of having been reared in an atmosphere of culture and refinement. SLi* is the granddaughter of the I*4 Governor F. W. Pickins, who T-. also ambassador to the Ru?tf' . court, where her mother wai N n and christened by the czar, D.rtschka, which means "little darling.' Her mother's sister was the first wife of the late United States Senator M. C. Butler, whom Senator Tillman defeated for the senate after the dramatic Tillman gubernatorial administration. She is a blood relative of many of tho old-time ruling families of the State, and of course her social standing is the highest. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman's domestic troubles appear to date from the time Tillman came home to Edgefield and found Col. James H. Tillman at his home, but thought he insulted his wife on this occasion, it is alleged, he apologized and acknowledged he had wronged her; Col. Tillman, it is said, was at his kinswoman's innocently playing with one of his cousin's children at the time Mr. Tillman came in in a rage. In an affidavit submitted to the court Monday Mrs. Tillman says that one occasion she was forced by her husband's drunken debauches and cruel treatment to separate from him, but "not until deponent's husband under the influence of excessive drink made a most outrageous false and degrading attack upon deponent's character, that deponent, sc outraged and insulted flew througli the night time with her two infant children from deponent's home at 'Edgewood' to her sister's home \r Edgefleld for protection, where slit remained for several months." It would seem from the numbei and character of the affidavits rear Monday in support of Mrs. Tlllman't right to the children, that practi cally every man and woman of stand ing in Edgefield is up in arms against Senator and Mrs. Tillman and theli son. Among the signers of thes* affidavits are several relatives 01 Justice Gary, himself a member ol the supreme bench. There are ovei signed by two or more, and several fifty affidavits, practically all of them having from 25 to 50 signatures. The signatures Include the follow Ing, all testifying that they have known Mrs. Tillman either several years or from infancy, and that she is ft woman of Irreproachable character, modest, refined, cultured, dispeculiarly fitted and amply flnanelally able to care for and educate JMI OWE chlMren. SENATOR TILLMAN I11UNG8 UP MATTKll OF PURCHAbU OF PUBLIC DOMAIN. Accmsot* Soatb?ni Pacific *f Holding Iarga Tract in Direct Violation of Cirant. Senator Tillman Monday brought up in the senate the Oregon land affair upon tlie subject of his conneclUll utklnh IJ~ ? , tun ii 11 ii it iiiv.ii j. a voiuuui ivuuair volt once sent a message to congress. "Some of you are familiar," said 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 1 was playing the rascal in regard to it, and all that sort of thing. 1 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 have the right to buy according to the terms of the grants to the railroads and to the military roads. I found out long ago that neither I nor any one else could buy them according to the terms of the grants." lie then read a letter he bad written inquiring of the attorney | general if any had been bought in accordance with the resolution of congress passed two years ago. j Continuing he said there had been a tempest in a tea pot over the Ballinger affair, but that 2,000,000 j acres of valuable timber land is held by the Southern Pacific railroad or by the Harriman interest in abso j lute and direct violation of the grant which they refuse to sell to anybody, j They have already sold over 500,000 acres contrary to the law, he . said. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon has introduced a resolution calling for information on the subject and Senator Tillman announced that . when that comes up ho will have something further to say. His reference to the famous Oregon land affair was greeted with a profound silence and looks of surprise on the faces of senators. KEPT CHILD SEVERAL DAYS And Then Turned Her Loose as She Was Not One Wanted. C. roen wnnH Vina a orao ..mw n o i vu t ocnnaiiwii. I A pretty little eight-year-old girl 1 was kidnapped and held by an old I negro woman. The unsuspecting I child was lured away by the negress, 1 who carried her to a secluded spot I near the city. The child was held I there for some hours. Her parents I grew anxious about her nonappear- I ance in the aftornoon and Immediate- I ly search was instituted but without 1 avail. The child says that the ne- I gro woman told her that she was I not the one who was wanted and I with this she was set free. Later I the little girl was brought to her 1 home by a lady living in the vicini- I ty where she was held. All of the I parents of the Greenwood school I children are in constant dretld on 1 account of the statement that the I negro failed to get the child she I wanted. No trace of the negro has I been found. COMMITTED SUICIDE. Note in Purse Asks That Husband I He Not!tied. # 1 At Dallas, Texas, a handsomely I dressed woman, giving her name as I Mrs. Nick Kunth of Chicago, was I picked up in an unconscious condition I on the street there last Thursday I night, suffering from laudanum poi- I soiling. She was taken to the Emer- I gency Hospital, where sho is report- I ed to be out of immediate danger. A note in her purse asked that her husband in Chicago bo notified of her condition. She declared that she 1 belonged to a leading Chicago faml- | [ ly and expressed regret that her i effort to kill herself had failed. Mrs. Kunth arrived in Dallas, Tuesday. All that glitters is not gold; some are blondined. > ? l slclan; Judge J. W. DeVorpe, memh her of the circuit bench; the Rev. [ C. E. Rurts, pastor of the Baptist i church at Edgefield; the pastor of ? the Presbyterian church at Edgefield; L. Wigfall Cheatham, editor p of the local newspaper; over a hunI dred of Edgefield's most influential i matrons; including Mrs. John C. - Sheppard, wife of the governor - whom Tillman succeeded, and Mrs. t Orlando Sheppard, wife of the past grand master of Masons and many ? young society women. f The real contest will come on the r return to the rule, and it will bo a bitter one, both sides having emI ployed fine legal talent. For the i younger Mrs. Tillman appears Messrs. DePass & DePass of the Columbia bar, and Mr. Samuel McGow an Simkins of the Edgefield bar, I whilo for Senator and Mrs. Tillman ? appear ex-Solicitor .T. wniinm 1 it u * mond, who prosecuted ex-Lleutenant Governor James H. Tillman on his trial for the killing of Editor N. G. Ganiales of the Columbia State. I and Senator Tillman's eon, Mr. Henry] STANDS TO THE TRUSTS TAFT TfiLLB THEM TO BE OF GOOD CKIKKK AND PEAK NOT. Says Ho Has No Intention of laterforing With Them or Tlioir 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 general's oillce 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 is exactly as already stated in the president's message." The statement was issue.l ^iter the president had talked v-'ith 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 corporaions. If corporations were violating the laws of the country he supposed they would bo brought to oook. James J. Hill's visit to the White 'louse. it U'!IU QIli/1 uroa - , .. .. nno I1IVI Cljf it I coincidence. Mr. Hill declared that 10 had discussed "general condit-l ons," with the president and had I not gone into the subject of the I prosecution of the trusts. "Normally conditions are satisfac- I :ury in all directions," said Mr. Hill, ! 'hut we don't want a lot of wild I Rories to get abroad that will cause I [lepre8sion." Mr. Hill did not want to discuss I the president's recommendations as I to railroad legislation, saying it was I too important a subject to take up I "off-hand." "But we do need the rest-cure I badly," he said, adding that the I country should be allowed full time I to hecover from the panic of 1907.1 He thought that three or four months I of rest from agitation would do a lot 1 of good. ELECTIONS HELD BY HOUSE. Judges, School Trustees and Other I Officers Chosen. The following elections wero held 1 Tuesday by the legislature: Associate Justice?D. E. Ilydric^, I of Spartanburg. First Judicial Circuit?Chas. G. I Dantzler, of Orangeburg. Second Judicial Circuit?Robert I Aldrich, of Barnwell. Third Judicial Circuit?J. S. Wilson, of Clarendon. Fourth Judicial Circuit?R. C. Watts, of Chesterfield. Sixth Judicial Circuit?Geo. W. Gage, of Chester. Eighth Judicial Circuit?J. C. Klugh, of Abbeville. State Librarian?Miss L. H. Lab- | orde, of Columbia. mamu-ikjc v/uiuuiissioncr?l'ltz H. McMaster, of Columbia. Directors Penitentiary?W. H. Glenn, of Anderson; J. D. Deas, of Kershaw. Trustees Clemson College?I. M. Mauldin, of Pickens; D. H. Rawls, of Lexington; W. D. Evans, of Chesterfield. I Trustees of Winthrop College?P. | It. Tillman, of Edgefield; D. VV. McLaurin, of Dillon, i Trustees University of South Car olina?S. P. Hunter, Jr., of Dillon; .C. E. Spencer, of York. Trustees State Colored College ? G. P. White, of Chester; J. \V. Floyd, of Kershaw. PRISONS ARE 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 duo largely to the influx of immigrants into the state, is the conclusion of C. V. Collins, superintendent of state prisons, who, in his annual report to the legislature, 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 rlrvori a/I a #*11.** ? .?? a - uu|n/i tuu aim IIUYCI UllliWUU lO TC" turn. 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 llallinger. Former Secretary of the Interior Garfield Tuesday appeared before the senate committee on houses and lands, and opposed the bill submitted by Secretary Ballinger, authorizing the secretary to withdraw the public lapds from settlement, pending a recommendation to congress YOUNG MAN MURDERED AND IIIS HODY PLACED ON THE KA1LROAI) THACK. Tlw. ? I tl/ n suv i<vui vniuo ??no VyOIIIIIHlU'll in a Hoarding Houae in IVIncaton, N. C. News from Princeton, a small North Carolina town twelve miles from Cloldsboro, tell of a homicide in that town about 11 o'clock Satin day night, when Frank Langley, a young white man, was shot and instantly killed in a boarding house run by A. CI is Pearce. Troy Pearce, his father and two brothers, Albert and Andrew Pearce, and a blacksmith by the name of Lem Sauls, are in jail charged with the crime, which, according to the reports, was cokUbloodied murder. Sauls, the blacksmith, left Princeton last Saturday night but was captured later by the sheriff near Sen me 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 know 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 retired 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 railway 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 the body. The night train going west severed the head from the body, but at the coroner's inquest held Sunday afternoon, it was discovered that the deceased came to his ueatn as the result of a gunshot wound. PET DUCK MET SAD END. Tamed by a Man In Canada, it Wus Shot in Anderson. Some time ago while hunting In the swamps on Rocky river, Mr. W. E. Bray, of Anderson, killed a ducL', and on one of the legs or the bird was found a silver band bearing the inscription "Box 4 8, Klngsville. Ontario." He at once wrote to the address, and has just received In reply a letter from Mr. John T. Miner, manufacturer of brick and the in that distant town. He says that the duck shot by Mr. Bray came to his home, where he has a small pond and a flock of tamo gray and black "wild" ducks, and joined the flock about the 5th of last August. The duck was very wild for a time, but about August 20 he had gotten ro it would almost eat out of my hand,", writes Mr. Miner. "Later the duck became very tamo and would follow me over to the tile factory and look in at the door, and T often threw crumbs of bread and corn to it. Then she would follow me into the barn, and knew right well whore the corn barrel stood. I became very much attached to the duck nnH ,? ioucu IU ?tru If I could get any trace of her after she loft here, so I put the band on her leg." Mr. Miner says that the duck was Mr. Miner says the the duck was known to him as Mabel, and left his littlo pond about December 1. Me says he Is a great admirer of birds and is often called all kinds of "green things" because of this fancy; petting birds and not shooting more than he does. "Rut this," he says, "is worth a whole season's shooting to me. "I suppose," he continues, "you will think I have wheels in my head, and sometimes I think the same, but I am a great lover of birds and can't help it." Tn his letter Mr. Rray wrote that the duck had come to the best place in the United States, and following out the thread of humor, Mr. Mlner writes that the duck was fed in the only hoqven on earth. Kill Each Other. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says more than 100 persons have been killed and many wound ed as the result of religious conflicts which have been waged in old Bokhara between the Sunites and the Shiahs for two days. The Sun itos demand the replacement of tb.i Shlah officials by Sunites. At the request of the Bokhara au thorities. Russian troops and machine guns have been sent from Samarkand *") the scene of the fighting. Shot Him Down. John B. Tatum, a prominent real dent of Autauga, Ala., was shot down Sunday night by an unknown man and instantly killed. Tatum was on his way home with his son-in-law when the shot was fired from ambush is said to have been the result m Bank of CONWAY X Capital Stock fl>e posit* . Total Assets m DIRECT /ft\ J. A. McDermott, Jr it T. McNeill, B. G. C< tlebaum, Hal. L. Bi jf|\| The oldest Bank in llorrj & olina. Associated with, the ra| maL the past decade. Our. policy ! the "Independent Republic." rmS to our customers every . reasoi /|V tent with sound banking. We s /k als, firms and corporations. 4S D. A. SI'IVEY, ? Vice-President. BANK OF Conwaj CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS.. 8ECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIREC. Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We continue to j ay 5 per cent interest it youraccount ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. n i President. "Vi THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE Ifyott wantelthera VlbratlngHhuttlo, Rotary 1 1 Shuttle or a Mingle Thread [Chain StUch\ Sewing Machine write to ! t THE NEW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE COMPANY , t Orange, Mau. Many sewing machines are made to sell regardless of 1 Quality, but the New Home is made to wear. Our guaranty never runs ?ut. 1 Mold by aathorlsed dealers only* 1 roa SALB BV ** { 111 ItKOUCli:-, & COLLINS CO., ( Conway, S. C. j t PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD < Attorney and Councelor At Law. CONWAY, 8. O. O. E. ST. AM AND, * Attorney nt Law 1 < Conway, 8. C. I i i R. B. SCARBROUGH 1 ( CONWAY, 8. Cv ( V ( Attorney at Law. , _____ ^ 1 W. E. McCOltD, I HUltGICON DENTIST. s ( CONWAY, 8. O, < Over Bank ot Horry H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon* 1 i CONWAY, 8. O. 1 i < B. WOFFORI) WAIT. [ sm,I , ; Attorney at La> I " ' j CONWAY, S. O. *s ip -.fn% # % i Stealing by Wholesale* Did Fincher, colored, pleaded 1 guilty a few. days ago of stealing a j carload of merchandise at Greenville last June and was sentenced i to five years in thie penitentiary. The negro stole 40 boxes of tobacco, 'j a tub of lard, a crate of grape juice. 12 flour sifters and other articles $ amounting to $500. He sold the j goods to a merchant at the Carolina ? Conway * . 8. O. S $50,000.00 W 150,000.00 0k 250,000.00 A rows 2? 10. C. Splvey, D. mL' >llins, C. P. Quat- J? iicR, D. A. Spivey. r and a pioneer in Eastern Car>id progress of our County for has t>een for the upbuilding of j|w With this in view we extend ^ nahie accohimodation consis- WJ * olieit the accounts of individu- /|\ HAL. L. BUCK, 4S Cas lifer. ? * HORRY, s, c. $ 50 000 10 000' 50 000 110 000 10RS W. R. Lewis,"*!J W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman, on yearly deposits, ondve solic.. RUCK, WILL A. FREEMAH ICE FREP1DENT. .CASHIEB SERIOUS SCRAPE AT SWANSEA. )no Man Sliot Three Times and Another Stabbed. A dispatch from Swansea to The State says C. C. Gantt and Fred tauffman engaged In an altercation here on Saturday evening about half last nine o'clock as the result of vhich the former has a severe knife vound in the chest, while the latter s in a critical condition with three >istol shot wounds. There were no vitnesses, and the cause of the fight :an not be learned from either man. One of the bullets entered Kauffnan's abdomen one ineh tr* _ vv/ vuc IC1L >f the navel and ranged downward, mother struck him on the left arm ibove the elbow ranging upward and he third entered above the left hip ind ranged downward. Gantt is resting easily, but Kauffnan is in a serious condition. Tho 'ormer is a member of the firm of k Cantt and Smith of Swansea, while he latter resides in the county near > .hat town. Gantt telephoned the shesiff that le would go to Lexington and sur ender pending the outcome of Kauffnan's injuries. Kauffman has been aken to the Knowlton Hospital in Columbia, where he lays in a precarious condition. His recovery is bought to be doubtful. DOUBLE INIQUITY. Counterfeiters and White Slav? >r Traffickers. Secret service men are working )n a case of counterfeiting in Elizajeth, N. J., which was disclosed by he police in a raid upon an alleged lisorderly house. The place had >een under suspicion for some time ind when Chief of Police Tenney md his men broke through the doo:hey were surprised to discover a complete counterfeiting plant and Hher essentials for the coining of jpurious coins. More than 100 half lollars were confiscated i.oob^i uuv ncu 111 in upper room two young women were found. They declared they had been brought from New York for immoral purposes. Pasquele Lebano md two companions were placed unier arrest. They were the keepers of the resort. Give This a Trial. To clean silverware, either solid or plated, use a weak solution of ammonia; (20 parts water to one + of ammonia) and soap. Rub with a brush and rinse in alcohol. This Is for bright or polished finish. For 3atin or frosted finish use the weak solution of ammonia and baking soda. Wet the brush, rub on the 3oap, then dip brush into dry soda and scrub ? mimics Tnoroughly. Repeat if necessary. Do not use sola on gray silver; it will make it ill the same color. * ~ ^ Pointed Paragraphs. It isn't always easy to find a V friend after losing your job. Riches have wings, but poverty (lobbies around on crutches. Our faults are all our own and t isn't necessary to copyright them. Whispered scandal always sounds ike a stage whisper. Don't act like the deuce because rou feel like a king. There's much difference between in imaginary snake and the real ^ thing. It takes a wise man to sit still and