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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1909)
A NEGRO PREACHER LYNCH ED NEAR COCHRAN. “Cochran, H>-c. ,4. —-bdii. Harvard, u who / hliul and fatally injur' d Will i>. Booth tw<» lnilcit from tin* plan* Inti* Wednesday afternoon, wa* captured live -milee from Imre bv enraged citizen* that night at Pi o’clock and lynched. Hi* hody wa* riddled with bullet*. (tooth i* a wall known bimine»t» man of llawkm»ville und wa* hi route to Cochran m an autoino tnl« when the ahooting occurred. He dr ,ve up behind Harvard who wan in front of linn in a wagon. Harvard charged that Booth * machine frightened hi* mule*, lie drew a pistol after a f> w word* and fired upon limit It, three allot» taking effect., liootli returned tlm fire and it. win leurned'alter tin- negro wa* captured that he curried two bullet*, but neither *t rue k|\ it a l|J-pot * and li<‘ "ii*ilv limde|hi* *••*■11 pe, fniiml inn him three miles frnni tin* place where the *hootmg ncelire*l. liootli w’iia brought to tbi* place immediately utter tlm ahooting. Snrgi'oii* gave out the aluluinont that there wa* little hop** for hi* recovery, lb ha* a wife and *e\- *• ral children.J j from Ilnwkinsvtlle in nutomobilenjand carrying Jtrack lioiiml*, went imiiiediut<dv to tin* ni'iuic of the shooting, Imt a party of enraged citizen* wa* quickly; fornu'd and l railed the negro on liorachnek 1,0 hi* hiding place. II" mliowc*! light, but wna aullering *<> Hcverely from the «• lV»**;t*• <d In* in- ; jurie* until h<- could oiler hut lit- 1 lie l'e*i*l Mle'e. ||e freely admitted the shooting and it i* *tuted ju*ti te*d lii* aid ion hy the fact tliul Hootir* uuto in dole Inghteni'd hi mule*. TRIED ON MANY CHARGES; CONVICTED ON ONE. liftinbridge, tin , Dec. I —A. P Oliver, th>‘ former hanker of t.’li max, today wa* found guilty nl bigamy in Decatur Superior Court , and was sentenced by Judge F.unfc Park to servo lour year* in the penitent iniy. The charge against the now In iuoiis prisoner came of In* mar riage to Mi** KoHehuil I l .nglish ot Climax, whom lie wedded within a tew week* after lie started on In* meteoric career in thi* county. It wa* asserted that ho already had a wife, whom lie married while she was attending an art school m Atlanta in IfKUi. Strangely enough, it wa* not upon any of the charges that were brought iignin*t Oliver because of his operations in banking and lumber ami building industries in flit* section of tlie state that sen tence against him was pronounc ed, though thi* part of Ins career here wa* more largely stressed. Thus far the grand jury Ini* fail mi to tind a single indictment against him for any of hi* opera tion* in the business life ot the little community that In* startled almost « year ig iby In* announ cement that lie wa* a millionaire, and meant to “build up South Georgia, The principal witness against Oliver to-day wa* Mr*. >l. T Hodge* of Atlanta, a sister ot the woman who, it •* said, was Ins licit wife. Mrs. Oliver No. I did not appear in the court room dur ing the trial but In-r story was told by the sister. Tin* latter stated that Oliver was known as L. Charles Harding in Atlanta and that her sist-r was married to bun under that name. Oliver’s defense was that he ha* a i win brother and that »t was this brother Mr*. Oliver N> l wedded. Tlie jurv was out but a •bolt time after lieing given the C.a*e. It was staled today that Mrs. Harding or Oliver bus al ready obtained a divorce. “ Oliver will tight for hi* freedom and will appeal from the verdict. Another splendid lot of M*n s ami Boys’ Clothing received this seek. See it earlv. \V II Mcijneen, Mi. Vs men, v a 1 * « i -. THE JAPANESE PRINTER. He Hat Troubles* of Hi« Own In Hi* Composing Room. If the typ.-ctler* <>f the western •.vorhl have their trouble* tbc\ are ,i* nothing compared with those of 1 1**- .la pa lie coiiijKi-ing room. The .lupane-e. like their breth ren. the < liiiK -e. cmplo. u written l.ingnugo wluit might he called a literary dialed that i* quite dif ferent from the colloquial longue. In other word*, tlno do not. a- we, twite a* they speak. This proceed mg requires the printing ot their journal* m two language-, the "Isa iia ami the square characters -erv mg a* a key to the oilier. Tbe-e -on.ire character* are modeled on Cliliicsc ideograph". « jumble nl geometric figures. ero-~e>, etc., pre enluig a picturesque z.igzug effei t. There arc 1 1,000 to 5.000 of tlie*» iileograpli* in everyday u*e. The ompo-itor must therefore lie some tiling of n cellular, in the oriental eii e. to he able to recognize the character' al sight. In order to .M ilitate In- task as lunch a* po ilile the arrangement, of his work room i* oin,-thing like (hi*: The compositor seal- hirn-elf at i little table, Upon which are spread nrtv ‘rii'ii Kami elm raider*. A he i e cives copy he cut* it into , mull -lip-, handing each *1 rip to a buy. This buy marches along the ! room until he has finally been able to collect from a number of ca*e* arranged in files down the room the ditVeient ideographs desired. About -IX or sex on hoys Hie thus employed 111 the uverilge dapaue-e composing room running hither and thither. As they go their round in search of the ideograph* they keep up a dirgelike chant, which would cor tainlv lie very trying to the nerve" of juiv but an oriental. When the hoys have collided all their ideographs they place them before the compositor, who then lias recourse to a pair of goggle* in older to decipher the character*. li"h out the corresponding type* in \ the kilna character and linully *el up the whole foi proving The proof* are sung aloud hv one reader to another, thus adding to the con fusion of .weird sound* til read v ; lenuimg m the room. New ork Tribune. SteArnthip Tipping. As a ship near.* land after a trip across the Atlantic inexperienced y traveler" are always in a ferment in regard to the proper tip to give their various steward*. Os course one may give wliut one chooses and no matter how small the amount will never he questioned by the re cipient, though Ins looks may mean ! much. 1 may say, however, that it i* customary to give the table >teu aid about s.t, Your bedroom slew aid should receive not les* than the steward that pohshes vour boot of a morning $1 and your hath steward In the larger boats, in which there are lift* that run he l weeu she K and \ dei ks. saving you the climb of five tliglds of stairs. ; should your cabin happen on 11 J deck, it i* now customary to give a "pourboire” to the hoys who oper ate the curs. It is advisable, hv the way, to engage a position lor your deck chair and indicate the time at which you de*ire to take your morn ing tub at the time when you en gage your pa-sage. llentlemen"* ,1 oiirual. A Sailor Superstition. “It's funny," remarked an old skipper on the water front, “how an i tent *ujH*r*ti|ions ( ling to the men ; who go tii "in. Take, for instnnee. ihat *hnrk'* tin nailed to the tip ot the Hying jihboom of that vvimljam mer. There's hardly anv id' the peo ple who conic down to the dock* on a Sunday afternoon that don't look and wonder at it But few know what it means to seafaring men. It's « superstition as old as the art of sailing and one in which all sea liven believe. They llimk it take* Ibe ginger out of heavy seas when llm ship is shoving her nose under, , and they also Udieve that so long ;i" tlm shark’s fin holds tlie ve-sei wdl never lie in a collision. It i a . mascot w huh brings all good, Im s di-s adding speed to the ship. A sailor would as leave see the masts go by the hoard as to see the shark'* tin |o*t otT the jiliboom.” San Francisco t'all. Plenty of Reason. While governor of Tennessee Senator I‘oliert 1., lav lor was once ' apjiroaehed hv an old negro woman i who a-ked a pardon for her hus batnl. sent to the jKoiitentiary for dealing a hog. “How long has he been in jail?’ 1 Was a-Ked. ••Doin’ on two years now,’* came the answer; “but, law. he ain’t no * good to them and wa’n't uo *-.•• ,*f to no nohow, an’ 1 speck they’ll l„ , glad to get rid o’ him.” ' \\ hv do you want to get liijtt out I if be was of no use to you?” “To tod the truth, guv ’tier, a* done *<ruaT thort o’ meat." TIIK MONTGO.MKfiY .Mo.MTnt:— Til IT.-PA Y. H<’ - 1 |! * Vl °- *»'»?* '/* 'J*"! <* *£*'' ‘S*‘J\ 'J * g* ittPITV-fc'- | ANNOUNCEMENTS| • -•-•-a * •. m •-% • * •-» » s • m * - ?' T ? ' ." 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