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TALKS WITH VIGOR TILLMAN SAYS POLITICAL KILLIN GOUGHT IX) FOLLOW. ? ATTACK ON DR. SAUNDERS ? Senior Senator In a Spirited Interview at Greenwood Says Envy ami Jealousy Arc at the llottom of the Asylum Trouble.?Takes a ltap at Governor Illease. -mere certainly ought to bo some political killing." "1 don't suppose anybody doubts now who Rleaso's slavish underlings und satellites are." "Jealousy and envy caused all of this devilment?this monstrosity, in the affairs of our state asylum." "I have been impressed with the fact that Bleaso threatened to put l)r. B<abcock where ho could not speak if the Governor's sister's name was brought into the inquiry, while I)r. Saunders* brother had no 0110 to protect his sister." Thus spoke Senator Benjamin It. Tillman in an interesting talk Saturday morning at Greenwood on the investigation that has been In progress for the past two weeks into the affairs of the State Hospital for the Insane. Senator and Mrs. Tillman arrived there Friday afternoon from Atlanta, where Mrs. Tillman rested for two weeks at Robertson's Sanitarium, and spent the day with their son, Mr. Henry C. Tillman. They leave for their homo at Trenton, for tho purpose, as the Senator expressed it, "of planting our garden, if it ever quits raining." The first remark nuoted above was In answer to a question from a Journal representative, who wanted to know if the attack on I)r. Saunders would bo used as political capital by anyone in the campaign this summer. Quirk as a Hash, Senator Tillman replied: "There certainly ought to be some political killing. If thero isn't it will be a sad day for South Carolina and her love for chivalry and sense of honor." The conversation, in which Mr. Tillman took an interesting and interested part, had drifted very naturally from the vote favorable to Clemson College, which had been saved from "a muss" to "tho mess at the Stato Hospital for tho Insane." Senator Tillman, with a characteristic gesture, dived into tho subject with the remark: "Now, ain't that a nice kittle of fish. I don't suppose anyone doubts now who Hlease's slavish underlings and satellites are," and ho laughed heartily when he said it. "They at least know one of them, Senator," ventured tho newspaper reporter. "That Stato Senator, you ? ? HIIOW, "No, thoy don't even know who ho is yet," replied Mr. Tillman. "Rlease lied about that letter, but that does not seem to bo a very hard thing for him to do. (And ho laughed again.) "He claimed that the letter was not given to him by a Stato Senator." Tho newspaper man ventured to use tho word "moss" again, and to this Senator Tillman replied with some of his old time fire: "Jealousy and envy caused all of this devilment ?this monstrosity. Those doctors realized that Dr. Saunders knew more than they did, and they wanted to got rid of her. It is a disgrace." Turning to a discussion of tho Governor again, Senator Tillman made the remark quoted on Rlease's throat to Dr. Rabcock. Newspaper readers are familiar with the stories which appeared when Dr. Rabcock, on the witness stand, said that tho intimation or insinuation against Dr. Saunders' moral character had been made in the hearing of tho Governor's sistor. "I havo been impressed with the fact," said tho Senator, "that Rlease threatened to put Dr. Rabcock where ho could not speak if the Governor's sister's name was brought into the inquiry, while Dr. Saunders' brother had no one to protect his sister." It is understood that Dr. Saunders' brother has been for years in a weak mental and physical condition. Senator Tillman talked pleasantly (ho was in excellent humor) of his two weeks' visit to Atlanta, but had little more to say of a political significance than his opinions in tho asylum matter. Ho was reminded of the ract mat senator John L?. McLaurin was In Atlanta during the Senator's sojourn there, but fnade no comment, except to say that a number of South Carolinians went over to tho regional bank hearing, but none cf them visited him, perhaps thinking that ho did not want to be disturbed at tho sanatorium. A statement about tho national political situation was expected when tho reported asked what Senator Tillman though would bo the outcome of President Wilson's fight for freo tolls but tho Senator replied by saying that he had been away from Washington for three weeks and was not In close touch with national affairs. Senator Tillman shows no evidence whatevor of his recent illness. "I weigh 178 pounds" ho said, "and gained three pounds while we were In Atlanta. That is pretty good when you consider that I got down to 158."' LAD CUTS MAN'S THROAT < , i GREENVII.LK ROY OF FIFTEEN DEFENDS HIS MOTHER. 1 Youth Slashes An Elderly Man, I>efcnding His Home, He Says, From Drunken Men. Defending his mother and ulster | against the threatened onslaught of Cleveland Harrison, who with two other white men entered the home of Mrs. Killian in the Monughun Mill villago near (Ireenvillo Sunday morning, Robert Killian, 15 years old, sprang from the bed and slashed the throat of Harrison with a razor ho had snatched from the mantelpiece ^ and so frightened the intruder's ac- ( complices that they turned ami lied. Harrison was carried to the city hospital where he now les in a precarious condition. A call for the sheriff was sent in by the family shortly after the cut- ' ting occurred and the Monaghan mill deputy was ordered to make an investigation. Robert Killian was arrested and carried to the county jail. The two unknown white men who entered tho home with Harrison could not be 1 located. Young Killian is a boy in knee-trousers and the fearless man- 1 nor in which he drove the intruders f rnrrt tlio lmmn l>no 4 /*? i > v/iii vuv uvMiiq uao tuu i a U9U VI much comment. The boy said he was only defending his home. "I had ordered the men to leave the house," said Killian from his coll. "They were drinking and annoying my mother and sister, it was two o'clock in the morning when they came to the house. Wo had all gone to bed when they banged on the door. They called for Henry, my brother, but wero told lie was not at home. One of the men said from the outside that ho was cold and asked mama to let him in. She got out of bod, unbolted the door and built up a lire for them to warm by. "After sitting about the fire awhile one of the men took a bottlo of whiskey from his pocket, took a drink and passed it to the other fellows. They took several drinks apieco and soon they began to curse and abuse mama. I told them to leavo the house. They only laughed at me. Harrison, who was drunker than the others, picked up a chair and said he was going to 'clean up the house.' Mama and my sister were so frightened they didn't know what to do. When Harrison raised the chair 1 leaped from bed, snatched a razor from the mantlepleco and slashed him across the throat." ASYLUM POPULATION. Institution Has Over Seventeen Hundred Inmates at Year's Kinl. At the eiul of 10 13 there were 1.7G8 patients confined at the State Hospital for the Insane, according to the annual report of J. W. Ilabcock, M. I)., superintendent, prepared for the legislature. Last year 857 patients wero admitted to the hospital. Following shows residence of patients admitted to the institution: Abbeville, 38; /\iken, 52; Anderson, 78; Bamberg, 12; Barnwell, 46; Beaufort, 25; Berkoloy, 18; Calhoun, 10; Charleston, 129; Cherokee, 25; ! Chester, 39; Chesterfield, 19; Clarendon, 35; Colleton, 40; Darlington, I 38, Dillon, 11, Dorchester, 29; Edgefield, 35; Fairfield, 25; Florence, 35; Georgetown, 21; Greenville, 98; Greenwood, 49; Hampton, 19; Horry, 21; Jasper, 2; Kershaw, 23; Lancaster, 32; Laurens, 56; Loo, 14; Lexington, 31; Marion, 32; Marlboro, 35; Newberry, 38; Oconee, 55; Orangeburg, 41; Pickens, 30; Richland, 132; Saluda, 15; Spartanburg, 115; Sumter, 45; Union, 38; Williamsburg, 24; York, 62. * Killed Woman Who Rejected Him. Disappointed in love, Abraham Pepper of Tacoma Tuesday called Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, his former sweotheart, brido of a wook, to the door of a room in the hotol at San Francisco where she was spending her honeymoon, shot her doad anad thon shot himself. Humeri to Death. Mrs. Carolina Updike, 75, was burned to death in her homo at Fayette, N. Y., early Monday, and three others who escaped in their night clothos are in a critical condition i after walking barefooted a mile in a 16-below-zero temperature, to the i nearost shelter. ? ? f/l li-.l J? t?i ? *? mum in riiiiung mm. Robert Anderson, a young whito man of Marion, had his arm pulled Into a big planing machine Saturday. 1 lie was dead when discovered. His ' arm was completely pulled from his i body and his nock was broken. * i < i Walled Vp Child in Cave. Nancy Kerley, aged 70, of Waynesvllle, N. C., confessed Saturday that she placed her grandchild, Rowena Putnam, in a mountain cave and walled her in, leaving her a prey to cold and starvation. * ? I Five Children Burned. Five of the six children of Joseph Smart, a lumberman, wero burned to death when their house at Eagle Lake, Me., was destroyed by flre i early Saturday. i SOUTH SNOW CUD fCNTIUK SOUTH COVEKKDD IN GKST FA Mi OF Y FA IIS. HEAVY IN THIS STATE llonncttsvillo Reports Full of Seventeen Inches?Charleston (iets Two, While Other Places Vary Ret ween Six ami Ten.?Trains Are Relayed. Hoof Fulls in ut Rennettsville. From far off New Orleans to Charleston harbor and from the mountains of east Tennessee down to Savimnah and far into south Georgia :ame tidings of snow. The stato of South Carolina was covered from end to end. Every sections of the state shivered in the grasp of King Wintor. Charleston was covered under two inches of snow. The entire Piedmont section experienced a heavy snowfall. Augusta reports ten inches of snow Columbia measured nearly eight and Charlotte got off with two. Street car service in Columbia and Augusta was given up. Savannah and Mobile report the lirst snow of many years, the Georgia town being covered with two inches, while two short Hurries were the best that tho Alabama seaport could do. Tho snow fall was severo in the ontiro caster section of South Carolina, measuring from 12 to 1G inches on the level, and in many places 3 0 to 32 inches in drifts. In Florence tho fall was 14 inches. Clio in Marlboro county reports 14 inches on a level, and in some places tho drifts are from four to six feet deep. Business was practically suspended in many towns throughout the State Wednesday and to sonio extent on Thursday. Schools were given up and children everywhere enjoyec themselves snowballing. Trains ran from ono to three hours lato. Several trains on tho Coast Line between Florence and Orangeburg, known as tho "Shoo Fly" trains, were snowhound and had to havo big relief engines to move them. Most of the local freights wore abandoned, as well as all through freights carrying other than perishable stuff and livestock. Tho telephone, telegraph and electric light plants suffered very little, and the transportation of light and messages was unhindered. Bennettsville measured seventeen inches. A large garago and s,\lo stablo thero collapsd on account of the snow weight. Tho roof was a large fl t ntin niwl lllO UotlUnnr W v .. vy M*1\? V ? * II IUU| UUlinill^ V I 1 \7 snow against tho front wall, caused the roof of the stable at that point to dreak in. The damage to tho building and automobiles is heavy. About thirty-fivo mules and horses on the basement boor were uninjured. A dispatch from Walterboro says that for the first time in sixteen years snow is lying on tho ground. It is nearly four inches deep. Many citizens express alarm for cattle in the coastal section, and it is feared that tho excessive cold weather will result in tho loss of a largo number. CHILI) IS HUItNEI). Lancaster Girl Uses Dynamite Caps for Pluytliings. I.ittlo Annie May Perry, youngest daughter of H. P. Perry, of tho Tank section of Lancaster county, was painfully and it was thought for a while, seriously wounded Saturday by tho explosion of dynamite caps with which she had been playing and had thrown in tho fire, not realizing tho danger. Mrs. Perry, who had picked up three caps, thinking they wero empty pistol cartridges, had given them to tho little daughter to play with. An explosion of the caps followed their contact with the fire, with tho result that tho little girl was badly injured, several pieces of tho caps being deeply Imbedded in her person. She will recover. Shoots Wife and Self, When Mrs, James McConnell, at Oloversville, N. Y., Monday dropped apparently lifeless Into tho bath tub after being slightly wounded by her enraged husband, the pursuing man, believing his intended victim dead, shot and probably fatally wounded himself. ? fiives (*irl Acid by Mistake. Not being able to read tho labels, Mrs. James Raub, by mistake gave licr daughtor, Anna, of Blenheim, Pa., Thursday a dose of carbolic achl instead of paregoric to relievo stomach cramps. Prompt medioal treatment saved fhe elrl's Hf#? Honrs Funeral Through Phone. Dying of pneumonia In an upstairs bed room, Judge James Ingliss, at Patterson, N. J., Thursday heard through a telephone the funeral nervlco read in the parlor over tho body of his wife, also a victim of pneumonia, ? ? Negro Sailor Killed. At Charleston Monday Sam Meyers, a colored sailor, was struck by a street car and killed. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Farms for Sale Cheap?Kasy terms. E. Witmor, Nottoway, Va. For .-salt*? StieilauU Pomes. W. i Mclntyre, Thomasville, Ga. White Wyandotte lOggn?$1 pur 1 Nellie Payne, Hlizabethtown, Ky. Book, the great popular game. Kitty cents postpaid. Sims Book Store Orangeburg, S. C. l*ure Prize Winning White Wyan(lottes?Eggs is for $1.25. (J. B. DominicU, Neeses, S. C. Bright Barred Itocks?Farmers best chicken; f? 1 for $1. Western Slope Bunch, Salisbury, X. C. Cotton?Columbia I'plaiul long staple. Pedigreed seed; $1.50 bushed. L. M. Brown, Milner, Ga. For Sale?Fruit, Shade Ornameiilu trees and shrubs. Catalogue free Cureton Nurseries, Austeel, Ga. For Sale?Pure Georgia Cane Syrup; 35c gallon in barrels and kegs. W. H. Baits, Savannah, Ga., Box 45. Buff Orpington eggs, single comb pure bred, one dollar for fifteen Rev. 10. W. Leslie, Prosperity, S. C. Write for full particulars of my pure Improved cotton seed. Prices reasonable. G. L. Toole, Aiken, S. C. For Sale?Choice bright cotton seed meal in lots of 10 tons or more. Make best offer. Box 111, Uimer, S. C. W'jiii I?>< 1 Pfin fnvv 1?- ?Sit m t1\ niniilini price, age, and box in first letter Miss Mario lloatwright, Monotta S. C. (Jot Married?Descriptions hundreds wealthy Californians seeking mar riage, free. Mission Unity, 11-12, San Francisco, Cal. \\ liito Wyandottes?Yearling stoc.t for Bale at sacrifice. Eggs for hatch Ing. W. P. Causey, 1315 Dlckem St., Columbia, S. C. Wanted?1,000 agents for self-filling fountain pen. Exclusive territory. Particulars free. Sample 25c. Wolverton, Mass!Hon, O. lteds?Large, healthy, bright red, inoculated. Heavy layers; 15 eggs. $1.50; 100, $6. Mrs. Addie E. Patterson, Plneland, S. C. For Sale?One Flanders 20, two new cases, top, extra seat. Car In excellent condition. Price reasonable J. F. Burbank, Union, S. C. For Sale?Recleaned Lespede/.a seed free of Johnson grass; $3.50 bushel. Soy beans, $2.50 bushel. W. W. Purkhalter, Laurel Ilill, La. Special?Pure white and Exhibition Fawn and White Runners, $5; trie Utility, $1 each or $10 doz. Mrs. J P. Carroll, Hohennald, Tenn. For Hale?Triumph sweet potato seed; largest, earliest, heavy bearers, $1 per bushel f. o. b. Williston. W. E. Prothro, Williston, S. C. Keenon's I/ong Staple Cotton Heed? $1 bushel. Nancy Hall and Triumph potatoes, $.'{.7 5 bushel. Newton Farms, King's Mountain, N. C. Malari, Chills Jaundice cured oi money refunded. Rigor-Tone 50 cents post paid. Stamps or coin. Rigor-Tone Co., Petersburg, Va. For Hale?Florida cane syrup, 4 0c gallon In new barrel. Speckle velvet beans, $2 bushel cash with order. Caswell Q Grimes, Alachua, Fla. Extra Early Improved half and half cotton seed, 4 0 to 5 0 per cent lint. Others get more; my price $2.00 bushel. G. W. Coleman, Tifton, Ga. For Hale?A good portable saw mill outfit, complete. Dally capacity 1 5,000. In first class condition and repair. S. F. Chapman, Asheville, N. C. \ ouaru ?oc<i?isc?n(l dime and stamped envelope and get one ounce of seed that will grow white heads in winter. Mrs. J. W. Hill, Bamberg, S. C. For Sale?Kggs from single cornb White, Brown, and Buff Leghorns, Anconas, Btuff Orpingtons, 15 for $1. Carolina Poultry Farm, Keidsvllle, N. C. Men and Women earn $3 daily addressing letters In spare time. Send 10c for outfit and beginner. Address Morgan, Ilox 656, Salisbury, N. C, For Sale?Limited supply of Hlte's Improved Toole's Cotton Seed. Wilt '< resistant, early, prolific; 40 per cent, lint. $1 bushel. J. G. Dean, Dawson, Ga. Forty l*er cent. Commission?Big money selling guaranteed garden seed. Agents wanted In every town. Lewis and Thompson, Box 21, Tuakegoe, Ala. Fngraved Mailing Card* are neatest and beat. lou cards iu script una plale for $1.50. Style card uialleo on request. Sims Hook Store. Orangeburg, S. C. Mauley's Heavy Fruiter Cotton? Karly and prolific; 4 0 bolls to pound; 40 per cent. lint. Write foi prices and $ 1 f?0 prize offer. K. S Mauley, Lavenia. (5a. For .sab'?Fggs for hutcliing, Ron thoroughbred S. C. Hrown Leghorn prices on large lots. R. W. Chat lln, Rantowles, S. C. Strawberries?Delivered to your dooi direct from the patch in lots of no; less than 16 quarts at 25c per quart Write for particulars. H. C. Waters Rox 1SS, Starke, Fin. For Sale?Start right with Young strain single comb White Leghorns Host layers, best show birds known Fggs. setting $2 to $5. J. Walte Horry, (Jrcenville, S. C. For Sale?New crops sound and r\ cleaned velvet beans, $2.25 pe bushel; 10 bushels or more $2.0* Satisfaction guaranteed. Rudolp lierold, Miccosukeo, Fla. Carolina (Jem Cotton?Rest of ui yields; one to five bales per acre 1,000 pounds gins 500-welght bah Seed, peck, mail $1.25; bushel, $4 W. P. Howell, Wudosboro, N. C. For Sale?It. C. and S. ('. Rhode Is land Red eggs, for hatching, day oh chicks. Ciuaranteed safe delivery The Wando Poultry Farm, W. T Worsham, proprietor, Wando, S. c Palmistry?Madam Fldon, scion ti palmist, clairvoyant and astrologlst test reading by mail; send birth dat? and live 2-cent stamps. 4500 Four teontb St., N. W., Washington, 1). C "Perfection'* Potato Draws?(J. (? Padriek's) $2?J 1,000; unexcelled April delivery; book order now b depositing $1. Cabbage Plants, 1, 000 $1.10. J. L. Padrick, Tifton, (Is For Sale?Choice Barred Hocks White Wyandottes, eggs $2 to $fsetting, $."> 100. Registered Jerse\ Hull calves. Berkshire hogs. R. H Watson & Sons, Itidge Springs, S. C Fishel White Wyamlottcs?Layers, payers. Beautiful birds. Stock and eggs. Fifteen White Indian Runner ducks, Patton and Fishel strains. C. Bv. Martin, Greenville, S. C. Plant Cleveland Big Boll cotton seed Cleveland is the leading cotton at all experimental stations, always sure to make full crop. Price $1.25 per bushel. Excelsior Seed Farms, Cheraw, S. C. Automobile Contact Points, 75c? Why pay $1.50 or $2 for new points. Wo put new platinum on for 75c each. Send them to us and get them by return mail. Wlosepapo Mfg Co., Columbia, S. C. Eggs?Prize winning Rose,; Single Comb Slack Minorcas, Pape, Northrop, Mishler strains. Dark Cornish Indian Games, $2 to $3 fifteen. Satisfaction guaranteed. Paul Houston, Greenville, S. C. For Sale?Huff Plymouth Rock eggs $1 and $2 per 13. Fawn Indian Runner Duck eggs, $1.50 per 11, Day-old chicks, 10c, 15c, 20c each. Rivervlew Poultry Farm, D. C. Holland, Anderson, S. C. Unml r,. f ' ...... I vuuuin r.?CI y llll IIUM HI1IM1KI plant few bushels of my Prolific Peanuts to get seed from. In fourbushel sacks, $1.25 bushel f. o. b. Luke Park. J. S. Saunders, the Peanut Man, Lake Park, Ga. KollerstrasH White Orpingtons? Reared from $100 pen. Aidrich strain from Madison Square Garden blue ribbon winners. Fifteen eggs, $2, $.3 and $5. Orders filled with care. W. S. Stansell, Easley, S. C. For Sale?Two pens thoroughbred, well developed Harred Itocks, Thompson's strain, March hatched, and two pens Fishel White Honks, | same age, $10 per pen; satisfaction J guaranteed. C. A. Hamilton, Jonosboro, N. C. Sumnierour's Half and Half Cotton SocmI?iiavo improved cotton b> stalk and boll selection for three years. Bought original from H. II. Summerour, Duluth, Ga. Highest Untlng cotton. Try it. Known. $1.50 bushel f. o. b. Logansvllle, Ga., Route 4. For Sale?Weekley's improved prolific seed corn, carefully selected and hand-shelled. This corn beat every other variety tested at tho Georgia Experiment station last year. Write them for tho bulletin. Price $1 peck or $3.50 per bushel. John F. Week ley, Ulmer, S. C. For Sale?Choice selected Watson melon seed, saved from crop of 1012. There was no good seed saved anywhere In 1913, prices too good. My seed was saved by careful white people from large, good shaped melons. For prices address John F. Weekley, Ulmer, S. C. for this genuine Victor- Victrola , bearing the famous Victor 'trademark' XSfflSSHSEBB^ ?a guarantee of.quality C ome in and liear this instrument play your favorite music. Other style Victor-Victrolas $25 to $200. Victors $10 to $100# Easy terms, if desired. Write for information. SIMS BOOK STORE I I 10AI'ItI0SS CLI0KK SLAIN. + Telephone Operator, Hearing Strange Sounds, Calls 1'olico. Harry Edwards, night clerk tn the Wells-Forgo Express company's office at Corning, N. V., early Monday was murdered by a burglar, alleged to have been David Dunn, 19 years obi, a former employee of the company. The police say Dunn lias confessed. The prompt discovery of tho crime and the arrest of the alleged murderer was duo to tho quick wit of Miss Carrio Niles, a central telephone operator. When a call carao ovor the express office line and sho could get. no response to her requests for u number, sho listened and heard sounds t hat led her to >believe all was not well. Miss Niles notified tho police and when an officer arrived at tho express office he found Edwards dead. In his confession, according to tho police, Dunn said ho told a Htory of hard luck to induce Edwards to lot him sle< p in tho oflice and while the clerk was taking a nap lie tried to get Into the safe. Edwards awoke and in the struggle which ensued was shot through tho heart. Sees Child After 2(i Yearn. C.eorgo Miller of Chicago, after a search of many years, found his daughter, Nora, now Mrs. Horald Pontious, at Marshalltown, la. Twenty-six years ago ho placed her in a Chicago orphanage and lost track of her. I ? ? Jealousy Causes Shooting. In a fit of jealous frenzy, tho police say, Carl Kinlock killed one waitress and badly injured another Saturday in a Philadelphia restaurant, then shot himself and will probably die. * ? ? 11ns Hig Dog Killed. Because his large St. Bernard dog had gained a reputation for attacking children Julius Meyers of Charleston had policemen to kill the dog Saturday. Wanted?Two or three men to form ft onrn o ' * * ? vuiiwi ii m siai i nuiaii liiuiury ior tho utilization of our hog products for tho market, such as a fine brand of smoked hams, sliced bacon put up attractively, home-mado sausage, etc. Address at onco, Secretary Chamber of Commerce, Bennettsville, S. C. For Sale?B. B. Edwards Improved Long Staple Cotton Seed, length of staple 1 1-4 Inch to 1 3-8 inch $2.50 per bushel, ten bushels! 22.60. Made more cotton per acre with less Guano, and less work than any cotton ever planted. Send for samples at once. Amount limited. B. B. Edwards. Fountain Inn, S. C. .....i.. > ? ?-<- - imiiuj ??r K?-m It-uin n, [HIT eUUCailOn, to act as our representative In home town. Exclusive territory Klvon. Selling experience unnecessary. We furnish capital. Show how to builf permanent business that should pa $2,000 first year. Staple line. Oo booklet, "How to Start in Businee for yourself." explains all. Free 01 request. Address Box 1599. PhiVt delphia, Pa.