Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-01

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Major Marion Noise. a leading law
yer and financier of Sumter, killed
himself in his Office in that city last
Sunday afternoon, shooting himself In
the head with Colts revolver.
Decided sentiment, says Colum-
bia dispatch, Is manifesting itself
against Senator Tillman In his contest
for his grandchildren. II the supreme
court decides against the mother and
makes literal construction Of the act,
a poll Of the legislature shows that the
act will be repealed and a new law en-
acted.
Chester, January 81: Yesterday af-
ternoon when Henry Howard, driving
a team of two mules and a horse from
Barium Springs, N. c., to Columbia,
attempted to pass Fishing creek at a
ford near Mills mill, this county, driver,
wagon and team were swept down by
the raging waters. The mules were
drowned: the wagon was recovered
and the driver narrowly escaped.
A white man named A. ]. Coyle, has
brought suit for $1,000 damages against
the sheriff Of Greenwood county for an
unlawful arrest and detention In jail
While the office Of the nearest magis-
trate was vacant by death, Coyle put
out a negros eye in a gambling row,
and for this was arrested. The snertn
had no warrant and the damage suit Is
based on this fact.
Representative Coke d. Mann, al
though himself Clemson trustee, says
the Browning bill introduced In the
house to have an investigation of the
affairs of Clemson should pass. He
says he Is not guilty Of any nepotism
himself, but there Is plenty Of 1t there.
Mr.. Mann says Senator Tillman has
been threatening for some time to ex-
pose this nepotism, but was content
to remain silent as long as the other
trustees did his bidding. He says Sem
ator Tillman has been having lot OF
fun out Of the matter and has been
having things much his own way.
Greenville, January 81: An anus
ing incident occurred in the operat-
ing room at a local hospital the 9TH
er night when Tom Poole, who had
in a row in the suburbs been slashed
three times across the abdomen with
a carving knife, was under the hands
of two physicians In the mixup In
which Foole had been involved, the
other party to the controversy having
been found dead in a nearby ditch,
bullet had lodged somewhere In
Poole's chest. The physicians found
1t necessary to remove a certain por-
tion Of the skin. On this part OF
Poole's body there had been drawn
by an old sea dog many years ago, a
Ill Ano In q
brilliant colors, the work having been
done aboard a man-of-war when
Poole was enlisted in the navy. Poole
refused to take an anesthetic and ap-
peared much interested in the opera
tions Presently one Of the physi-
clans ran a little knife through Old
Glory, marring the picture forever.
Poole made pass" at him, but the
doctor warded off the blow. In his
convalescence Poole swears he will
seek damages in the courts, even II
he finds 1t necessary to take his case
to congress, and haul up the doctor
for desecrating the American flag.
Columbia, January 81: The dis
tinguishing feature Of the habeas
corpus contest before the supreme
court today between Senator and
Mrs. Tillman and their daughter-in-
law for possession Of the senator's
two little grand daughters, was that
the Tillmans did not attack the char
acter Of the younger Mrs. Tillman
other than to charge that she Is ir-
ritable, and on many occasions not
specified, she did not show proper
regard for the sacred relations OF
marriage. All the morning was consum-
ed in reading affidavits and the ar
&c tIyin or QftQr-
noon. There is no indication yet that
the case will go to a reference. SO
crowded was the court room with
prominent spectators, half Of them
women, that the court finally locked
the doors. The only affidavits Of i'm
portance from the Tillman side was
a lengthy one from B. r. Tillman,
Jr., and a thirteen page one from
Senator Tillman. Young Tillman ac-
knowledged that he had drank to
excess and had on one occasion as
sailed the character of his wife, but
afterward apologized for this. He
denied all the other charges brought
against him by his wife. Senator
Tillman's affidavit set forth that the
Mrs. Tillman had taught her
children to hate him and his wife,
but in reply to the charge that the
to help their daughter-in-law reform
young Tillman, he quoted letters he
had written her and him showing the
contrary. He set forth that he never
had any intention Of attacking the
character Of his daughter-in-law but
in reply to the affidavits proving her
character, he quoted scripture about
"the wicked fleeing when no man pur-
sueth." The younger Mrs. Till
mans attorney replied with copies
of letters young Tillman wrote his
wife from Edgefield last fall show
ing that while making preparations
to desert her and take her children
he was writing her most endearing
love letters. A sensational incident
brought out in this was the letters
written young Mrs. Tillman by the
senator outrageously attacking her
character and that of her female rel
atives now dead, had disappeared
from her private desk at Edgewood
her husbands visit there
and while she was in Washington.
The contents of these letters was
proved by a number Of affidaVits, one
from Mrs. George Bunch Of Spar
the senator's niece, saying
that after these letters she did not
blame young Mrs. Tillman from re-
fusing to have anything more to do
with The senator or members Of his
family. The return in the case was
a brief mostly standing upon the old
statute under which the deed to the
was made, giving the hus-
band this sole right regardless Of the