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VOL. 23
WOMAN ASSAULTED
NEAR ATLANTA
BRUTE MAKES ESCAPE
AND POSSE PURSUES
Whole Community Is Greatly
Excited. Seven Negroes
Caught But Possa Still
Searching.
In a deserted strip of woods
three quarters of a mile west of
Battle Hill, Mrs. Georgia Hem¬
bree, wife of Richard Hembree,
a truck farmer, was attacked by
a negro man about 7 o’clock
Wednesday morning, robbed of
$2 in money and made the victim
of an attempt atcriminal assault.
Through strength of arm and
coolness of nerve, however, the
brave woman resisted her assail¬
ant until becoming frightened at
what lie supposed to be approach¬
ing footsteps, he lied through the
woods and left her to return in
safety to her home. Though se¬
verely choked, Mrs. Hembree
escaped serious injury
Five minutes after the news of
the brute’s attempted crime had
spread through the community
fifty men, some on horseback,
some in buggies, others racing as
fast- as they could afoot were
beating the woods for miles
around. Hounds were secured
and set upon a f rail, but for some
reason failed to follow well. The
neighborhood was in a high state
of excitement and it was openly
declared that if the guilty negro
were caught a lynching would
follow.
Ry I ffiO o’clock in the after¬
noon aevpn negroes had been
captured, two of whom were tak¬
en before Mrs. Hembree to be
identified- Both of these, how¬
ever, she said, were the wrong
men. One of them Milton Mat¬
thews, was at onge released. Tile
other, Russell Barker, whose in¬
nocence was not certain, was
taken to a store nearby and there
held for the officers. Five other
negroes have been caught in va¬
rious parts of the city and sub¬
urbs on suspicion, all of whom,
except one, who escaped from
the motprman and conductor of a
Wesfview car, in whose charge
he had been placed, have been
taken to the police station or to
the Tower for safe keeping.
Early Wednesday morning Mrs,
Hembree started out to take a
Westview car, her object being
to visit her mother, Mrs. Simp¬
sons of Atlanta, who was critic¬
ally ill with a stroke of paralysis.
Her path lay through a neck of
that stretches up from tfie Hem
hf@e farip and shuts off the house
fpom the main iQ.ff by about
three-quarters of a mi]e. The
lady was walking alone, her purse
swinging from her right hand.
Midway the woods she saw’,as she
glanced up, a short, thick set
negro some 20 yards ahead,
dressed in blue overalls, a black
shirt about which his coat was
tightly buttoned, and a dirty
slouch hat. Too far from her
h< me to turn back the lone wom¬
an hesitated while the negro
rapily advanced.
“GHmme your money,” he de¬
pended when a few feet away.
6he handed over the pocket
book. As she did so the negro,
seizing her left arm, threw her to
the ground, dragged her through
the dirt and underbrush 10 yards
into the thicket where the tangle
of boughs and leaves and vines
cut- off" all view from the road.
Then he elioken her, his threats
becoming more fiendish as the
awful grip of his claws tightened.
But the strength was not
the brute alone, Mrs.
js a woman of similar
THE MURRAY NEWS
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY GEORGIA, AUGUST 17, 1906.
HON. RUFE
HUTCHENS SPOKE
Here Wednesday to a Large and
Appreciatn e Audience.
Hon. G. R. Hutchens, of Tal¬
lapoosa, spoke here Wednesday
afternoon to an appreciative
audience and told the people a
few things they had not heard.
IIis speech was somewhat un¬
usual from the ones we huve
been bearing lately from the
part that he had no vile abuse to
heap on the head of no man. lie
just, pulled off bis coat and got
next to the boys in a good heart
to heart talk and they appreciat¬
ed it too.
Rufe Hutchens is a man who
will have an attentive hearing
at any time, for he always has
something to tell that is worth
listening to.
Wanted —OhesEhuf oak tan bark
in any quantity, known. price Address higher
than ever
Robert Scholze,
Chattanooga, Tetin.
ami composure. Though terri¬
fied, she fought as a man would
have fought. How long her
fierce struggle, not even she
knows. afterwards. Years it seemed,” she
said
Just as the brave woman was
drawing a hat pin to plunge at
the negro he ^suddenly leaped
away and ran tor his life down
through the woods. He had
heard uojse and evidently sup¬
posed help was coming to his
victim.
Daze with fear and exhaustion,
Mrs, Hembree made her way
back toward her husband’s farm.
A short distance from the plan¬
tation road a negro farm hand
sighted her. On learning what
had happened he raced back to
the house and told the husband,
in half an hour the posse had
organized and every road in the
neighborhood showed its squad
of men, their eyes peering eag¬
erly forward. Soon the fields
and woods rang with Die yelping
of hounds gnd the hunt for the
brute was fully under way.
When Milton Matthews, a
negro, was intercepted in front
of a store at Gordon and Lucile
streets, put into a wagon and
driven to the Hembree home it
appeared that a lynching was
inevitable. The negro was sul¬
len, though he denied guilt.
As the wagon with its captive
wound tlffough the crooked for¬
est road, men joined the proces¬
sion until when the house was
only a few yards gome dozen
pursuers were in the party.
There was talk of shooting, but
Justice of the peace William
Wood and James Oourgey ad¬
dressed the crowd and insisted
that nothing be done unless the
negro was fully identified.
Matthews, t lie negro, was
finally taken from the wagon and
guarded by four men who walked
behind him, taken to the door¬
step of the Hembree home.
There Mrs. Hembree, with her
two little children sat waiting.
She gazed steadily at the negro
for four minutes. She was with¬
out a tremor of nervousness. She
was silent. Close behind the
captive the dozen armed men
formed a semi - circle. Every
moment it was expected that a
shot would ring out. Two guns
were raised.
Mrs. Hembree .dropped her
eyes, then raised them and said
slowly without the least excite¬
ment, “No, he isn’t the one.”
The negro was released.
PURELY LOCAL AND PERSONAL
CL W. Wilbanks, Enoch, Ga.
is a new subscriber.
D. W. Knick is a new name on
our subscription list.
Frank Summerour, of .Dalton,
spent Wednesday here.
Miss Fannie Leonard, of Dal¬
ton, is visiting friends in the
city.
Col. Bob Harris, .of Atlanta,
has been attending court this
week. ‘
George Jones was hurt severely
Wednesday horse. by being kicked by
a
Miss Mary Howell, of Fairy,
spent a portion of last week in
the city.
Col. Gordon Gatin spent Satur¬
day and Sunday at his home in
Marietta.
D. 0. Dunn, of Gregory, has
our thanks for a paid up sub¬
scription.
J. O. Camp, of Arkansas, i>
visiting friends and relatives in
the county.
D. C. Vining, Mount Selman,
Tex., will read The News as a
new subscriber.
FOR SALE my farm on Con
nasaitgamver. Langston, Apply to J. W.
Amzi, Ga.
R. A. Vining, of Kelly, Ala.,
spent a portion of last week with
relatives in the county.
Dr. J. W. Hightower, of Dal¬
ton. came over to attend the
political rally Wednesday.
Miss Sal lie Holland, one of
Mt. Zion’s belies, was a pleasaul
visitor at our office Monday.
Willie and Daws Keith, of
Chattanooga, aie visiting friends
and relatives in the county.
Hon. T. C. and T. W. Milner,
ot Oartersville, spent a portion
of this week in Spring Place.
FOR SALE—Engine and saw¬
mill and fixtures, cheap. Cash
or on time. ApplyoA. L. Keith.
Lee McWilliams, senior mem¬
ber of the firm of McWilliams
Bros., of Hatton, spent Monday
in Spring Place,
Cols. Geo. G. Glenn, W. C.
Martin, R. J. McCamy and Jim
Rudolph represented the Dalton,
bar here this week.
Mrs. It. B. Rem hert and
daughter, Miss Nellie, of Dalton,
are spending several days in and
around Spring Place.
Miss May Bagwell, of Blue
Springs, Tenn.. is spending a few
week’s with her sister, Mrs. J.
E. Everett, at this place.
The young people enjoyed a
dance Wednesday night given
by M. H. Williams in honor of
the Misses Green, of Atlanta.
Congressman "Gordon Lee lias
been in Spring Place this week
looking after the interests of the
people he so ably represents in
Washington.
W. L. Shields who has been
connected with Montgomery’s
Vindicator, a newspaper publish¬
ed at Sivierville, Term., for some
time is with hornefolks.
Representative T. P. Ramsey
passed through Spring Place
yesterday enroute home from
Atlanta, the legislature having
adjourned Wednesday night.
Murray superior court which
is so ably presided over by Judge
A. W. Fite, assisted by Solicitor
General S. P. Maddox, was ad¬
journed Wednesday afternoon.
The full proceedings will appear
in our next issue.
J. O. Willbqnks, Don Ether
edge, E. N, Whitmire, Jack
Greer, Gordon Lee, G. W. Will
banks, E. G. Gladden, J. W.
Beard, Frank Adams and Frank
Nix have our thanks for paid up
cash subscriptions this week.
When you go up to the place
for holding the election next
Wednesday read carefully and
see if you can swallow the pill.
That little clause at the top is
pretty hard to control but if you
take the dose the democratic
party will welcome you with
open arms. It’s a straight line
up this time, something that has
never been done in a state pri¬
mary before and gives a fellow
a mighty little chance for a slide
out.
RUBE ARNOLD
rm SPOKE
HERE
3
Last Wednesday at the Noon Hour to
A targe Crowd Who Were Here
Attending Court.
Hop ■I
Rube Arnold, of Atlanta,
spoke, for about two hours in the
court, house Wednesday to a large
crowd, His speech was along the
usual lines of the Hoke Smith
booster and employed most oi
his time in bemoaning the Dem¬
ocratic party and bemoaning ttie
fate that awaits it, provided it is
l«ft in the hands of the state
Democratic committee that has
charge of it now.' '
He took up the “record” ot
every man on it, and “exposed”
their way of doing tilings, and,
according to his statements, they
are about as sorry a lot banded
together as ever hit the world.
The balance of his time was
employed in trying to straighten
out the Mrs. Hampton episode
and the negro appointments, but
his excuses were lame ones.
is a line speaker and a good
story teller and, from an amusing
standpoint, the crowd enjoyed
his speech. ,
FRIENDS ADVISE HIM
TO COMMIT SUICIDE
Birmingham Police Believe That
Cashier Will Act Upon
Counsel.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 14.—
It is the belief of the United
Stales officers that Alexander
OL.^.alm will never live to stand
trial for stealing $ 100,000 from
the First National Bank. The
marshal here has deputies watch¬
ing Chisholm all the time to pre¬
vent his attempting his own life
for it is positively known that he
has been advised on more than
one occasion to end his life.
Chisholm will not be able fo
make bond, and the marshal has
him in custody, keeping him at
the hotel, where two men guard
him day and night.
The books of Gilbert <k Gay,
local brokers, with whom Alex¬
H, Chisholm, defaulting
paying.teller of the First Nation¬
Bank, is alleged to have squan¬
$38,000 of the bank’s funds
in speculations, have been taken
by Assistant United States
District Attorney N. L. Steele,
is prosecuting this firm and
for their alleged connec¬
with the defalcation by
which the bank is tfie User of
A warrant is out for P. G.
manage! of Doster & Co.,
brokers, charging him with aid
ing and abetting Chisholm’s em
hezzlenient, but he has not yet
boen arrested, being on a pleas
ure trip to the east. Chisholm
is alleged to have squarubr-d
$71,500of _,. A the ,, bam.’s , , money with i
this firm.
W. L. Sims, ma a\ei f r < i >
ert <fe Gay, und C. M. Hays, his
who were arrested last af¬
ternoon, arc out in bonds of $50,
000 and $ 10,000 respectively.
Chisholm is in the custody of two
deputy marshals, not having yet
made "bond. His bond was fixed
at $10,000. His preliminary trial
and that of the brokers has been
fixed for next Monday before
Commissioner Watts. Chisholm
ir reported to have said today
that his shortage at one time
amounted to almost $150,000, but
he made several winnings recent¬
ly, one amounting to $30,000,
which reduced his shortage to a
little below $ 100 , 000 .
The Citizens’ Live Stock In¬
surance company of Georgia, with
its principal office in Adel, has
been granted a charter by Sec¬
retary of State Philip Cook and
will be issuing politics in a few
days.
MISS MAUD
LOWRY DIED
Last Friday Morning After An Illness
Of Several Weeks With Typhoid
Fever.
On last Friday morning at 6
o’clock Miss Maud Lowry died at
her home in Spring Place after a
severe struggle with typhoid fe¬
ver. Miss Lowry wus sick for
several weeks and all hopes ol
her recovery had been given up
several days before the end came
to relieve her of her suffering.
She was a great favorite with
everybody and especially the
young people and her death came
as a great shock.
It is sq sad to have to give ui
a young person like Miss Lowry,
who was just blooming into wom¬
anhood, and who had so bright a
future before her.
The News, with everybody who
knew Miss Lowry, extends condo¬
lence to the bereaved family.
ASSAULTS GIRL
WITH MEAT KNIFE
Negro Makes Diabolical Assault
On Young Woman.
Greenwood, S. C., Aug. 14.—
One of the most diabolical at¬
tempts at criminal assault possi¬
ble was made today upon the
person of Miss Jennie Brooks,the
20-year-obl daughter of J. I*.
Brooks, a prosperous merchant
ind farmer near this place by a
negro named Bob Davis. Brooks
had absented himself temporarily
leaving the young lady in charge
of the store. The negro, after
making some purchases, grabbed
a meat knife and said : “You are
what I want.”
Seizing an iron bar, the young
lady made an attempt to defend
herself, whereupon the negro
slashed her across the throat,
making a gash 4 inches long and
almost severed two of her fingers,
A posse of 1,000 men is in pur¬
suit of the negro and if caught
he will probably be lynched.
Davis’ brother was lynched 12
year's ago for assaulting a white
woman.
About an hour after he cut Miss
Brooks’ throat, the same negro
a colored woman.
HONOR TO GORDON
PAID BY HOUSE
#
Eloquent Speeches in Eulogy of
Life and Deeds of the
Gallant Soldier.
“The man of the twelfth of
May,” Gen. John B. Gordon, pa
Diot, soldier and statesman, to
whose memory a statue will be
erected on the capitol grounds,
should the senate concur in the
of the house of represent
atives on Saturday morning, has
long been a name to conjure with
in the South in general, f and in
Georgia in part cuhu% but 0H
Saturday it provoked a veritable
fioodtide of eloquent speeches.
Even the colored member from
McIntosh, Representative Wil¬
son, raised his voice in behalf of
thus honoring one of the state’s
most illustrious sons.
When the vote was announced,
that the bill had passed by a vote
of 105 to 4, the wildest excite¬
ment ensued. Led by Hon. Joe
Hill Hall, the author of the bill
to appropriate $15,000 for the
statue, the members threw hats
aloft and cheered for several mo¬
ments. Such a scene has not
been witnessed in the house of
representatives since Henry Gra¬
dy marched in beating a brass
drum and adjourned the house in
honor of Grover Cleveland’s first
election to the presidency.
Tax Receiver Henderson of
Muscogee county has given out a
statement of the tax returns of
the county for the present year,
and it shows an increase of nearly
two millions of dollars over last
year. To be exact, the increase
$ 1 , 666 , 220 .
NO. 36
EDISON’S MANTLE CLAIMED
BY INVENTOR OF TELE
QRAPHONE.
“It is one of those things which
open the eyes of all scientists.”
This is what Sir W illiam
Preece said, after seeing a
demonstration of V a 1 d e in a r
Poulson-’s this “speaking telephone,”
Since epochmaking inven¬
tion Poulson has kept steadily at
«vork, and now at the age of 30,
he ranks among the most bril¬
liant electrical engineers of the
day. He has "discovered princi¬
ples in electro-magnetism which
has turned up-side down what
the text books say on the sub¬
ject, and scientists everywhere
follow his researches with the
closest attention.
Poulson is a native of Den¬
mark, born in Copenhagen in
1874. His early education was
received in the public schools of
chat city, after which he passed
through the best European tech¬
nical schools.
I 11 the United States Poulson’s
name is familiar mainly as the
inventor of the telegraphone. It
is not only the broad commercial
possibilities of this invention
which make it a remarkable
ichieremeno. It is the fact that
it is based upon an entirely new
principle in physics—that mag¬
netism can be localized.
Applying this principle in a
practical way, Poulson evolved a
machine which records speech,
nusio or any sound such as the
icking of the telegraph, storing
lie sound records in the form of
nagneiic impressions The on a fine
wire or steel plate. practi¬
cal uses of the machine are the
same as those to which the pho- '
nogrnpn is put, and many more.
Li meed with the telephone, the
telegraphone makes a permanent
roewid of ovoryf lung that passes
over the distance lime; it Covered taxes dictation by tdurU y
at any ■
telephone, and talks off, wither
perfect distinctness, the, records
nude in this way,- JDmwicau
capital, seeing the great "money¬
making possibilities of the tele¬
graphone, are backing the erect¬
ion of a plant to manufacture
tjie machine here and meet the
ever-increasing demand.
Hoke Smith on Disfranchisement.
I favor, and if elected, will
urge with all my power the elim¬
ination of the negro from politics
as the best possible solution of
the race problem, for both whites
and blacks.
Disfranchisement can be ac
by legal and constitu¬
tional methods, just as it has
been adopted in North Carolina,
Carolina, Alabama, Miss¬
issippi, Louisiana and Virginia,
disfranchising a single
white man.
If elected, 1 would oppose,with
my power, the enactment of
legislation that would have
the effect of disfranchising a sin¬
white voter in Georgia.
Hoke Smith,
The annual meeting of the di¬
rectors of the Central of Georgia
railway was held in Savannah.
Five per cent dividends were de¬
clared on the first, second and
third preferred income bonds.
The net earnings for years are
$3,160,00.99 and surplus. $017
The killing of 40-pound bears is
not an every day occurence in
Georgia, but this feat was ac¬
complished Chickasawhatcliie by Mr. Crosvie Lun
day in swamp,
14 miles from Albany Wednes¬
day. The bear was dressed and
the meat sold at 15 to 20 cents a
pound.
When the steamer Nan Eliza¬
beth started on her downward
trip to Brunswick and arrived at
the Hawkinsville drawbridge of
the Southern railway the steamer
could not get through. At noon
the next day the steamer was
still at the bridge which had not
been opened.
The retail merchantsof Albany
have organized a retail Grocers’
and Merchants’ association, O.
W. Rawson, president; Seig
mund Sterne, vice president; J.
A. Benjeman, secretary and
treasurer, The object of the
association will aid its mem¬
bers in the extension of credits.