Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-01-28
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The senate on yesterday killed the
bill of the Audubon society requiring
that hunters be licensed.
Chester, January "a: What bids
fair to make serious breach In
county politics and furnish some ex-
citing issues for the approaching pri-
mary has been occasioned by the re-
fusal Of Supervisor Shannon and the
county commissioners to pay three
bills submitted to them for payment
by Sheriff Colvin. The first is for
a cooking range that the sheriff
bought for the Jail. The board al
leges that the sheriff Is to furnish
his own cooking apparatus, and that
the 80 cents per diem that he gets
for feeding each prisoner covers the
bills about which there is so much
contention are the physicians fee
and undertaker's bill for coffin in con-
nection with the hanging of Lawson
Addison last April. Sheriff Colvin
purchased cheap coffin for Addison
from Childs & Barron, and turned
over the remains to the dead ne
gro's relatives, whereas the county
board says that the proper procedure
would have been to turn the body
over to the supervisor and allow him
to have the body inferred in cheap
coffin made at the poor farm. AS
to the physicians bill for pronouncing
the negro dead, the board contends
that this item Is part Of the op-
Grafton Of hanging, and Is sucn Is to
be paid for out of the $50 fee re-
ceived by the sheriff for each and
every hanging. Backing the board
in its claims and contentious is Mr..
r. L. Douglas, clerk Of the board
and also one Of the firm Of Douglas
& Wise. county attorneys. while Mr..
Colvin has the advice of Henry &
Mcclure. The matters in dispute be-
tween the sheriff and board have
been quietly pending for several
weeks; but were brought to the pub
lie attention a few days since by a
news item in the Chester Reporter in
which the board was ridiculed for al
legged mistreatment Of the sheriff.
This was followed by a reply from
the board and Thursdays paper con-
tained an article from Sheriff Colvin,
in which he went for the board with
gloves off for assailing his character
The matter is still raging, and will
probably be much in evidence in the
coming primary, as Sheriff Colvin has
hosts Of friends, while the same is
true Of Supervisor Shannon. and
Commissioners Grant and MCCARTHY.
Charlotte Chronicle: The largest
steam plant in the southern states is
to be erected by the Southern Power
company Of this city, at Greenville,
s. c., for the purpose Of generating
electric power with which to supple
ment the power secured from its va
rious hydro-electric developments
dnrfn0 lnU In tho No. fox ,t,o
river and for use in emergencies. A
tremendous amount Of power has
been sold by the company in Green
Vile and Immediately around that
city and this determined the location
of the plant. A site for the proposed
plant, containing twenty acres, has
been purchased and work will
begin on the power-house at once.
The boilers, electrical machinery and
other equipment has been ordered
during the past few days. Work on
the plant will be pushed ais rapidly
as possible so as to have II ready for
operation before the period Of low
water in the river next fall. The to-
tai cost Of the new plant, which will
be by far the largest Of its kind in
the south, and probably one of the
half-dozen largest in America, will be
not less than 100000.
On hearing the petition of Mrs. B.
R. Tillman, Jr., In the proceedings in
stituted by her to secure possession Of
her children, the supreme court last
Monday issued a rule against Senator
and Mrs. B. r. Tillman to appear next
Monday to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. When the case
came up, the chief justice called the at
fanffnn Of ha nIo fnk -
the fact that the court had recently
adopted rule requiring that habeas
corpus proceedings must be initiated In
the circuit court having Jurisdiction
over the petitioner. Counsel, however,
protested that the rule was new and
had not previously come to its atten-
tion. It had developed also that Hon.
j. w. Devore, Judge Of the circuit in
which the plaintiff lives, had dlsqual-
flied himself by giving a strong affi-
davit as to the good character and rep
utation of the plaintiff. For these and
other reasons, the supreme court went
on with the hearing Of the petition.
The affidavit on which Mrs. Tillman
bases her petition Is in part as follows:
THAT deponent and her husband lived
happily together until deponent's hus-
band became addicted to the habit of
drink, which habit gradually grew upon
him until 1t bereft him Of his better
qualities and caused him to be cruel
to deponent and her infant daughters,
supplanting his otherwise considerate
and devoted attentions into cruel neg
lect, fault-fnding and abuse. That at
the earnest solicitation Of deponent her
husband on three different occasions
took the Keeley cure for said labit,
but each and every time commenced
drinking again to greater excess than
formerly. That on several occasions
deponent seeing her husband go from
bad to worse appealed to respondents,
his parents, to use their influence to
aid deponent to reform her husband,
but instead Of aiding deponent, refused
to believe that their son drank, and re-
fused to do anything to assist deponent
to reform her husband. That notwith-
standing the said condition Of depo-
nent's husband, which had grown to
such excess that he frequently had de-
lirium tremens, and Notwithstanding
the many indignities imposed upon de-
ponent by her husband as result Of
said condition, Of too delicate nature
and too numerous to set forth here,
deponent for the sake Of her two infant
daughters, and with the hope that her
husband in time would reform, as ne
promised time and again to do, though
said promises had been broken as soon
as made, yet deponent continued hop
ing for the best, remained with her
husband, fearing II she left him that he
would take from her her infant chill
dren, as he had often threatened to do,
and which deponent had been informed
he had a right to do. And 1t was not
until deponent's husband, under the in
fiuence of excessive drink made most
outrageous, false and degrading attack
upon deponent's character, that depo-
nent so outraged and insulted, flew
through the night time with her chill
dren from deponent's home at Edge
wood to her sisters home in Edge
field for protection where she remained
for several months. That Ii Is humil-
iating to deponent to be forced to make
such disclosures, and that she does so
solely for the purpose of bringing to
the attention Of the court that deponent
has been forced to undergo to retain
possession Of her two children, and af-
ter undergoing all Of which, finally to
have them forcibly and in cruel and
inhumane way hereafter set forth TAX
en- from her and delivered into the pos
session Of the respondents That dur
ing said separation, deponent's husband
made repeated and urgent requests and
to deponent to forgive his
past conduct, admitting the falsity Of
the outrageous charges against the
deponent's character and apolosiZinS