Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE AUGUSTA DAILY HFBfIT.D
VOLUME XV, No. 24
MRS. TILLMAN
ISAS GUSTODY
OF CHILDREN
Daughter-in-Law of Sena
tor From Soutli Carolina
Asks Court to Force Him
to Return Her Little ones
—lnjunction Sought.
COLUMBIA, S. C. —Mrs. B. R. Till
man, Jr., today Instituted habeas cor
pus proceedings before the supreme
court to compel Senate" a Mrs. B.
R. Tillman to return 1 two children
to her, aged three and five years, and
be perpetually restrained from inter
fering with them.
When attorneys for Mrs. Tillman
started in on the proceedings before
court Chief Justice Jones stopped
them and reminded them that a rule
adopted by the court required these
court proceedings to be instituted be
fore the circuit judge in the home cir
cuit of the litigants unless good reason
shown why case should be heard in
original jurisdiction. Mrs. Tillman’s
attorneys protested that they had
been advised of no such rule and they
were informed that this rule had been
announced from the bench about three
weeks ago. Chief Justice Jones said
the court was very busy this mornig
but would hear further from Mrs.
Tillman's attorney at noon.
It turns out that the Edgefield judge,
Judge DeVore, could not hear the case
as he had previously been approached
for an affidavit in Mrs. Tillman’s
favor and he gave a strong one.
To Be Heard in April.
When the matter was taken up
again at noon Mr. DePass, for the
petitioner, stated that Mr. Thurmond,
attorney for Senator and Mrs. Till
man, joined in the request that the
supreme court hear the case in its
original jurisdiction, as both sides de-
(Continued on page three).
Mrs. B. R. Tillman , Jr's. Petition
COLUMBIA, S. C.—The following
is a copy of the petition in the Till
man case instituted today:
First—That she is the mother of
Douschka Pickens Tillman, an infant
girl of the age of five years, and Sara
Stark Tillman, an infant girl of the
age of three years.
Second —That your petitioner is the
lawful wife of B. R. Tillman, Jr., the
father of said infants, Douschka Pick
ens Tillman and Sara Stark Tillman.
Third —That your petitioner hereto
fore, to wit, on the 23d day of No
vember, 1908, was forced to leave
her husband, B. R. Tillman, Jr., by
reason of his cruel, unjustifiable and
base treatment of your petitioner and
her two infant children and because
of a low, degraded, false and disgrace
ful attack upon the character of your
petitioner.
Promised to Reform.
Fourth —That following said separa
tion of your petitioner and her hus
band, A. R. Tillman, Jr., after con
tinued and urgent entreaties from her
said husband for petitioner to return
to him, and upon the specific condi
tions and promise to reform from
drink, and acknowledging the falsity
of the attack upon the character of
your petitioner and making pologies
for same, and other conditions and
promises not necessary to mention
here, your petitioner against the ad
vice of her family and friends and at
the expense of alienating herself from
them, and in face of said insults, cru
elty and Hi treatment from her hus
band to herself and her infant chil
dren, with great effort your petitioner
put aside her pride, believing it to be
for the best interest of her two chil
dren, went back to her husband on
the 26th day of February, 1909. That
since said time and until the 27th
day of November, 1909, you petitioner
and her husband were living together
as man and wife in fair accord and
happiness. That on said day without
any warning or indications of his in
tention to do So, the said B. R. Till
man, Jr. t under the guise and avowed
purpose ’of taking his and your peti
tioners said two infants to see his
mother, Mrs. S. S. Tillman, who was
temporarily in Washington, D. C.,
where your petitioner and her hus
band were then living, your petitioner
believing this expressed intent of her
husband’s was his true intent, com
pelled said hildren, against their pro
test, to go with their father to see
their grandmother. That late that af
ternoon the said B. R. Tillman, Jr.,
returned without said infant children
and informed your petitioner that he
had sent them to South Carolina with
“THIS IS I DEPLORABLE TRAGEDY"
E. R. TILLMAN, JR.
TRENTON, S. C.—“ This is a most
deplorable tragedy,” said Benjamin R.
Tillman, Jr., Monday morning when
shown an account of the suit filed by
his wifr ■ against Senator and Mrs. B.
R. TillAian, for the recovery of her
children. "I do not care to make any
other statement at this stage of the
game,” he said when asked for a
statement, “but I will say that every
Mrs. Tillman s Story of Wrongs
As Alleged in Her Affidavit
COLUMBIA, S.C.—Young Mrs. Till
man's recitals of her wrongs in- her
suit filed today are touchingly recited
in her own language in her aflida
vit, which after setting forth the facts
of her marraige says:
That deponent and her husband
lived happily together until deponent's
husband became addicted to the naolt
of drink, which habit gradually grew
upon him until it beren mm or his
better qualites and caused him to be
cruel to deponent and her two infant
daughters, supplanting his otherwise
considerate and devoted attentions
into cruel neglect, faultfiding ana
abuse., That at the earnest solici
tation of deponent her husband on
three different occasions took the
Keeley cure for said nabit, but each
and every time commenced drinking
again at greater excess than former
ly. That on several occasions depon
ent seeing her husband go rrom bad
to worse appealed to respondents, his
parents, to use their inlfuence to aid
deponent to reform her husband, but
instead of aiding deponent, refused to
believe that their son drank, and
blamed ’deponent for his conduct If rm
did drink, and refused to do anything
to assist deponent to reform her hus
band.
That notwithstanding the said con
dition of deponent's husband, which
had grown to such excess that he fre
quently had delirium tremens, and
notwithstanding the many indignaties
imposed upon deponent by her hus
band as a result of said condition, of
too delicate a nature and too numer
ous to set forth here, deponent for the
sake of her two infant daughters, and
with the hope that her husband would
in time reform, as he promised time
and again to do, though said prom
ises had been broken as soon .as raaoe,
yet deponent continued hoping for the
best, remained with her husband,
fearing if she left him that he would
take from her her infant children, us
he had often threatened to do, and
which deponent had been informed he
had a right to do. And it was 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 so outraged and insulted,
flew through the night time with her
two infant children from deponent’s
home at ‘Edgewood’ to her sister’s
home in Edgefield for protection,
his mother, he having given them to
his mother and his father. That,
then and there, said B. R. Tillman,
Jr., packed his valise and informed
your petitioner that he intended to
desert her, whereuon he left.
Disposed of Children.
Fisth —That several days thereafter,
to wit, on or about the 4th day of De
cember, your petitioner was informed
by letter, dated December 3, 1909,
through counsel for respondents, that
the said B. R. Tillman, Jr., had by
deed disposed of the custody, care
and tuition of said infants, to the re
spondents herein, and that said re
spondents had the custody of your
petitioner’s two infant daughters, and
would contest any effort of your peti
tioner to regain the custody and con
trol of said infants. That said in
strument, purporting to be a deed,
was recorded on December 1, 1909, in
deed book 21, at page 617, In the of
fice of the clerk of court of Edgefield
county, reference being hereto had
will more fully appears.
Sixth —That your petitioner has
never in any way given her consent
to respondents to take charge and
custody of her two infant daughters,
or either of them, and that said in
strument, as between petitioner and
respondents, is a nulity, at least dur
ing the life time of your petitioner’s
husband, if not entirely so.
Able to Support Them.
Seventh —That the respondents re
fuse to deliver the custody of said
children to your petitioner, notwith
standing that said respondents have
no right to the custody of said in
fant children as against your peti
tioner and unlawfully retain them
from your petitioner.
Eighth—That your petitioner Is
amply able to support and educate
said infant daughters in accordance
with their station in lisp, and that
your petitioner is otherwise amply
qualified to nuture, rear and educate
said children, all of which will more
fully appear by petitioner's affidavit
hereto attached and the reference
threin contained, all and each of which
is made a part of this petition.
Wherefore, your petitioner prays
for the issuance of a wn. of habeas
corpus to deliver the said infants,
uouschka Pickens Tillman and Sara
Stark Tillman, from the unlawful re
straint of respondents, and that the
said infants be turned over to your
petitioner's care, custody and train
ing and for such other and further
relief as to the court may seem just
and proper, and your petitioner will
ever so pray.
possible means will be used by my
father and mother to retain my chil
dren whom I have deeded to them.
Senator and Mrs. Tillman are in Wash
ington, and with them are the two
pretty little girls, Sarah and Douschka
Tillman, over whom centers this fight
between two of South Carolina's most
prominent families.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1910.
where she remained for several
months.
Says It’s Humiliating.
That it is humiliating 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 what deponent has been
forced to undergo to retain posses
sion of her two children, and after
undergoing all of which, Anally to
have them forcibly and in a cruel and
inhumane way hereinafter setforth
taken from her and delivered into the
possession of the respondents.
That during said separation, depon
ent's husband made repeated and urg
ent requests and supplications to de
poru-nt to forgive his past conduct,
admitting the falsity of tne outrage
ous charges against the deponent's
character and apologizing for the same
and beseeching deponent to return to
him, deponent believing it to be for
the best interest of her two infant
children for she and ner husband to
put aside all personal considerations
and live together, making their best
interests paramount to deponent’s
wounded pride, humiliated and out
raged feelings, and upon the specific
agreement and condition that depon
ent's husband was to refrain from
drink, and other conditions and agree
ments not necessary to mention here,
deponent disregarding the advise and
pleas of relatives and friends not to
do so, and at the sacrifice of being
alieniated and separated from them,
thinking only of her two infant daugh
ters and their best interests, and Be
lieving that her husband then real
ized his error of the past and would
fulfill his promises for the future,
went bank to her husband, B. R. Till
man, Jr., on the 26th day of February,
1909.
A Written Agreement.
That during this separation of de
ponent and her husband, for the rea
sons aforesaid, deponent and her hus
band entered into a written agreement
in regard to the custody of tlr’ir two
infant daughters, dated the 6tli day of
December, 1908, the original of which
agreement is hereto attached and
marked exhibit “A” and made a part
of this affidavit.
That after deponent and her hus
band had made up their differences
they lived peaceably and in fair ac-
(Continued on page three).
Celebrates Forty-Third Year
On New Orleans Police Force
NEW ORLEANS, La —John R. Com
mons, who celebrated Monday the
forty-third anniversary of his member
ship on the New Orleans police foroe,
lays claim not only to the longest con
stinuous police service in the country
but also to a record as the “most
Cigarette User From Childhood ,
Woman Dies at Age of 116 Years
PATAGONIA, Arizona.—Mrs. Juana
Corona said to be the oldest person
in Arizona died here Sunday at the
age of 116 years. Her youngest sur
viving child is 60 years old. Mrs.
Thirty-One Dead , Forty-Six
Injured in Canadian Wreck
TORONTO —Thirty-one dead, two
missing and 46 injured is the total toll
of the Spanish river wreck. The
10 HUH AGAINST
LON LIVINGSTON
Will. S. Howard Announces
His Candidacy for Con
gress from Fifth Georgia
District.
ATLANTA, Ga.—William Schley
Howard Monday formally announced
for congress in this, the Fifth district,
to oppose Lon Livlngßton.
GOV. BROWN APPOINTS
NEW SECRETARY
W. W. Larsen of Swalns
boro, Given Position Va
cated by C. C. Brantley,
of Valdosta.
ATLANTA, Ga. —Governor Brown
Monday appointed W. W. Larson, of
Swainsboro, executive secretary to
succeed C. C. Brantley, who resigned
to re-enter newspaper work at Val
dosta. Mr. Lawson is a young lawyer
and partner of Judge F. H. Kaffold.
He has already assumed the duties
of his office.
* THE WEATHER
► Forecast Till 8 p. m. Tuesday.
For Augusta and Vicinity: Un
► settled weather tonight; Tuesday
► fair.
• For Georgia: Unsettled weath
► er tonight, with rain near the
► coast; Tuesday Fair.
RIE-FOM 3F
FRANCE IS m
UNDERITEI
Seine Still Rising at Paris
with Highest in Over
Hundred Years Eiffel
Tower Threatened.
. TEN VILLAGES FLOODED
> CHALONS - SUR - SAONE—
> The dyke at Saone-Au-Doubs
broke this afternoon inundations
• ten villages. Thoe streets of
•Chalons are under water and two
• persons have been drowned. H'.m
--• dreds of persons are on the roofs
> of their nearly submerged homes
• crying for help. Boats are being
> used by rescuing parties.
One-Fourth of France Wet
PARIS—A fourth of France, it is
estimated, la under water Monday.
Snow and rain are adding to floods
unprecedented in the present genera
tion.
The Seine continued to rise Monday
at three quarters of an inch an hour
and the situation in this city grew
worse hourly. Water drowned out
the electric plant in the chamber of
deputies and today the deputies met
by lamplight.
The Eiffel Tower is now believed to
be in no danger of falling. Prices of
food have risen, to the great distress
of the poor.
PARIS. —The flood situation in Paris
reached the most critical stage Mon
day morning. The Seine registered
7.63 metres at Pont Royal. This is
the highest the river has been since
1802, when it reached 8.80 meters, the
(Continued on page five).
peaceable patrolman. Commons join
ed the j)o!ice force here when he was
nineteen years old and has been on a
“beat" ever since. "I’ve got all mine
to the station with no outward show
of trouble,” he says. Local police
records hear out the assertion.
Corona was born in Sonora, Mexico,
Oct. 21, 1794. She had been married
three times. From her tenth birth
day until her death she was a con
stant user of cigarettes.
coaches have been raised and the dead
removed. There may be a few bodies
in the river, but the officials are not
inclined to admit.
FlEilC MUSI
SERIIE SEHTEHCE
Prominently Contnected
Man Shot Springfield’s
Chief of Police and His
Deputy.
COLUMBIA, S. C. The governor
today refused a pardon to H. L. Flem
ing, a prominently connected white
man, serving a seven year sentence
for shooting and breaking the legs of
both chief of police Holloway of
Springfield and farmer Cooper, who
was deputized to help make the arrest.
Holloway says he is convinced that
Fleming was harried by his lawless
family to shot him and that Fleming
knws about the burning of Holloway’s
house, while the chief was ill there
with his broken leg.
NIGHT RIDERS
IK ISM IGTIIE
Further Reel Foot Lake
Trouble Threatened
Through Posting of
Notices on Bluffs.
TIPTONVILLE, Tenn.—Captain F.
W. Kparkw, a close friend of Judge
Harris and who has kept in close
touch with the Reel Foot Lake trou
bles, says the night riders have been
active again on the* lake tdiiffs. Tie
says he has it from good authority
SENATOR BEN TILLMAN
. • v . 7*
siKu
ii mm
Materially Increased, tkeir
Score in Saturday Con
tests Getting Fifteen out
of Seventeen Seats.
• HOW PARTIES STAND
► London—The position of the
► parties at this time is as follows:
► Government coalition: Liberal
► 200; Laborites 32; Nationalists,
► 69.
► Opposition; Unionists 219.
4
LONDON —The Liberals materially
increased their score, according to to
day’s returns from Saturday’s elec
tions for members of parliament. They
tain 15 seats previously held out of
a total of 17 contests. Of Ihe other
two seats, one went to a Unionist and
the other to a Naationalist.
David Lloyd (Jcorgv, chancellor of
tfie exchequer and author of the bud
get, which led to the general elections
was re-elect, d from Carnarvon Bo
roughs, but i majority was 146 less
than the last general elections. In the
Romford division of the Essex where
the Liberals in the last election re
ceived a majority of 8,885, Sir J. H.
Bothell, the Liberal candidate, only se
cured re-election by 1,957 on a total
vote of 44,405.
Thirty oonstitutenejos are electing
members to the new house today. The
same constituencies were represented
in the last parliament by 16 Liberals,
8 Unionists, 2 Liberals and 4 Nation
alists. The gains of the respective
parties in Saturday’s election com
plete remain as announced Sunday
morning. They were: Unionists
100; Liberals 14, Labor!tes 1.
pooWli
OFFSET CENSUS
m FIGURES
NEW YORK.—The report of the
Census Bureau showing 9,792,990 bales
ginned to January 16th was quite gen
erally regarded by statisticians of the
local cotton trade as confirming the
government’s estimate of the crop.
Nevertheless it was followed by a very
nervous and irregular market, opening
easy at a decline of 9 to 17 points,
owing to relatively weak cables.
The demand created by tie- bullish
census report quickly caused a rally
of 9 to 10 points, but it looked as
though a lot of last week’s buyers
had been waiting for tbe census fig
ures to take profits. Offerings became
heavy, there was no aggressive de
demand and by midday March cot
ton sold at 1418 and May at 14.32 or
30 to 21 points ur»d«*r the close price of
last week and about $1.60 to $2 per
bale below the high prices of Satur
day.
that It was a hand of night riders
who recently posted the notices on
Burdick's Kish Dock at Hamburg and
that there in no doubt but that ex
tensive “riding” will be done as soon
as tin weather permits, us the band
is fully organiz'*!.
DAILY AND SUN DAY, $(LOO PER YEAR.
8,732,330 BILES
SINNED, SIVS
CENSUS in
Figures Show Amount Re
jorted up to Jan. 16—
Compared With 12,666,-
201) Bales Last Year.
WASHINGTON—-The census bu
reau reports tlie number of bales of
cotton ginned from the growth of 1909 |
to Jan. 16, 1910, was 9,792,990 bales, ]
as compared with 12,666,209 bales for
the year 1908.
The proportion of the last three
crops ginned to Jan. 16, Is 96.8 per
cent for the crop of 1908; 96.5 for
1907 and 93.8 for 1906. Round bales
included this year are 147,846 com
pared with 232,610 last year and 188,-
037 for the .season of 1907-08. Sea Is
land 92,001 this season; 90,287 lasi
year and 80,190 for the. season of
1907-08. The distribution of sea Is
land for 1910 by states is: Florida
L‘7,888; Georgia, 20,872 and South Car
olina 13,241.
The number of bales of cotton gin
ned from the growth of 1909 to Jan.
16, 1910, as compared with last year
is as follows, counting round bales
as half bales and excluding linters:
States 1910 1909
United States . .9,972,990 12,666,203
Alabama 1,028,725 1,316,803
Arkansas 664,946 931,133
Florida 60,896 68,624
Georgia 1,827,752 1,952,113
Louisiana 254,018 458,762
Mississippi 1,028,101 1,551,702
North Carolina. . 651,533 661,669
Oklahoma 532,251 612,144
South Carolina . .1,114,806 1,192,723
Tennessee .... 232,146 321,727
Texas 2,378,312 3,528,981
All Other States . 55,505 69,732
The statistics in this report for
1910 are subject to slight corrections
when checked against the Individual
returns of the ginner being transmit
ted by nlall. The corrected total of
cotton ginned this season to Jan 1,
1910 Is 9,647,327.
THALIANS TRY-OUT
AT UNIVERSITY
Organization Begins work
on Performance to be
Given in March.
ATHENS, Ga.- -The competitive try
out. for the Thallgns, the dramatic or
ganization of the University of Geor
gia, was held Saturday and seven stu
dents made the organization. About
[thirty applicants tried out. The Thai!-
ans give two performances In Ath
ops, and two in Gainesville annually.
! .ho organization will begin work at
I once on the first play, which will be
j presented In March.
The following in a list of those who
MONEY VALUE OF TRADE-MARK
S. C. Dobbs, of Coca-Cola, said the
( other day that the arbitrary trade-
I mark name of bis product was easily
I worth $5,000,000 -a value which he
! said was created almost entirely by
j advertising, He cited the names
! "Kodak,” “Vaseline” and others as
1 having a market value running into
millions.
Home time ago a prominent maga
zine advertising manager who had pa-
I tientiy listened to the deprecations of
advertising by ari old advertiser, sud
denly asked him what he would take
for his trade-mark. The advertiser
blinked a. little confusedly and "real
ly couldn’t say." The magazine man
offered a million arid was Indignantly
spurned. He offend to double the
amount and still met refusal. It II
! nally appeared that the advertiser set
iso high a value on ibis trade mark,
| wholly developed by advertising, that
jiie was not willing to part with it at
FIGHT Di TRUST
SENDS PRICES
Din
Chicago Pork Dropped.
Sixty-Seven to Seventy*.
Seven Cents Below Sat
urday's Closing Figures.
CHICAGO. The widespread
agitation against the high price
of meat made itself felt there
Saturday when pork declined
C 7 1-2 to 77 1-2 cents from Satur
day's closing figures. Other pro
ducts also declined, but to a lesser
degree. Pork for January de
livery broke from $20.90 —the
closing quotations of Saturday—
to $20.12 12 within the first hour
of trading. The May option sold
from $21.25 to $20.50 and the July
delivery from $21.25 to $20.57 1-2.
Fight on in New York.
NEW YORK. New York Monday 1*
In the thick of the fray for a reduc
tion in the cost of living.
A grand jury Investigation into the
meat question is pending a
tors inquiry Into the cold storage situ
ation has been begun, meetings in
protest against high prices for food
products have been called and
pledges of abstention from meat are
being numerously signed. The city
thus gives ample evidences of deep
sealed interest In helping find some
solution of a problem which has
aroused practically the entire corn*,
try to action.
CHICAGO. —Tin 1 work of preparing
the case of (he government against
four big meal packing concerns of
this city to ascertain whether thev
have operated to control the prices
of fresh meat was begun In earnest
In the United States district court
Monday before Judge K. M. Landis.
A special venire of jurors appeared
before Judge Landis and 22, men were
chosen to compose the jury that is to
nehar the evidence and decide wheth
er indictments shall he returned
against the packers.
The firms against which the gov
eminent will proceed are: Swill /k
Co., Armour A. Co., and Morris &. Co.,
who, it is alleged, emit rot t he National
Packing company for their common
benefit.
Early Monday Deputy United State*
Marshals were started out with more
than score of supboonnen and writs
to bring before the grand jury em
ployes and books of the concerns lu
' volved.
CHICAGO.—The action of the Fed.
oral grand Jury In the Investigation
of the methods employed by four big
local meat packing comuanles was
temporarily halted Monday when It
was announced that some routine
matters had to bo disposed of first.
USED 292 DESKS
AT STATE CAPITOL
Architect of Pennsylva
nia’s State House on
Third Trial for Big Con
spiracy Charge.
PITTSBURG, Pa.—The trial of
Joseph H. M. Huston of Philadelphia,
architect of tho state capitol on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
commonwealth, began before Judge
Kunkol, In the Dauphin county court
hero Monday. Huston Is accused of
conspiracy to defraud tho state In
certifying to the correctness of a bill
for 292 desks supplied to tho state
capitol by Jno. M. Sanderson, furni
ture contractor of Philadelphia. The
indictment sets forth that a bill for
$61,948 contained a fraud of $25,571.
Huston was the architect for the
construction of the capitol and also
was retained to design tho furniture.
Millions of dollars worth of furniture,
decorations and equipment were sup
plied and alleged frauds were dlscov
jered. The trial is tho third to be
[held as a result of the expose.
made the organization: Jacob H.
jiowery, Jr., of Augusta; Eralbert T.
Miller, of Columbus; Jack Hocock, of
Athens; Carl Fleetwood, of Macon;
W. W.’ Anderson, of Danbury; Robt.
li. Troutman, of Athens, and Sellers
Roger*, of Athene.
all, at any price! And then the maga
zine man practically made him swal
low Ids deprecating words about ad
vertising.
Krcquently there Is a hue and cry
raised about the "billions” lavish* d
on advertising as if advertising were
a wide-mouthed hopper down which
money swiftly vanished for ver out of
sight Advertising Is still charged
purely as "expense” by many cone* rns,
quite different from productive ex
pense. it is charged up In the man
ner of charging up political bribe
money, or charity, or cigars and
lunches.
Properly considered, well-planned
advertising is like a hand purchase for
productive investment. No listed se
curity dri the New York Stock Ex
change is a more stable value than
good will. In fact, good will created
by advertising is frequently the only
good cash asset in an otherwise mis
managed business. —(Printers’ Ink.)