The age-herald., 1901-06-21
BUDGET OF NEWS
 FROM MERIDIAN
EStranged Couple Compromise in Court-Negro Criminal
 Arrested Marriages.

Meridian, Miss, June 2o.-(Special)- Charles L. Harry and his wife compro- missed affairs this morning, and Justice Griffin let the manager of the Meridian Street Railway Company off with a fine of one hundred dollars and ten days in jail. Mrs. Harry reached here yesterday afternoon from Kokomo, Ind, accompan- jed by her attorney, in order to prose- cute Harry for desertion and for adultry The man had come here from Jackson, where he had introduced a Kokomo girl Loville Jackson, as his wife, into good society. He was extended many cour- tesies here and the people were startled when they learned that the woman whom he had been introducing around as his wife was nothing more than paramour This morning when Harry was brought up from the county jail and confronted by his wife he was penitent. He asked his attorneys to arrange if possible a re- conciliation, and if fifteen minutes his wife had agreed to compromise. Justice Griffin said that the law had been so grossly violated he could not release the prisoner without some punishment and
 
 jail, which means that length of time on the county roads. He must also pay a fine of one hundred dollars with the costs This will run the sum up to near ly two hundred dollars.
 Della Passa this morning fully identi- field the negro, Robert Steel, or Dunlap. as the man who attempted to assault her on Mt. Barton yesterday afternoon, and failing. had shot her through the side and beaten her severely about the head. The negro was arrested in Frog Bottom, a notorious section of this city, late last night. The woman is a Mexican and oc- cupies a small shanty on the edge of the mountain. She says she was picking ber- ries near her premises when the negro approached. He made proposition which she resented, and then he grabbed her. She screamed and he pulled a pistol and shot her. The woman was found soon af- terward in an unconscious condition. She revived sufficiently to give a description of her assaiant to the officers and Dun lap's arrest followed. He was taken out this morning by Chief Eludsworth and Officer Horn. and identified by the wom- an. There will be no violence.
 This is marriage day in Meridian. At O clock this afternoon MT A. F. Brame of Wilmot, Ark, became the husband of Miss Lillie Saunders, popular Meridian girl. They left on the ''Pan-American special for Buffalo. At o'clock this af- ternoon Prof. J. R. Ellis, superintendent of county schools. and Miss Kettle Page were married at the home of the bride at Russell. A number of invited friends from Meridian drove out to the beautiful country place to witness the ceremony. MT. and Mrs. Ellis went north tonight on the same train with MT. and Mrs. Brame. The third marriage was at Lauderdale.
 en MT. Elnathan Tartt and Miss Helen Mosby were united in Union church before one of the most representative assem- blages that the county has seen. A special train was run this afternoon to Lauder dale to accommodate the wedding guests. In the party were Hon. A. J. Russell and daughters, Misses Nita and Susie; Hon. S. A. Witherspoon and family, Chancellor w. T. Houston, Hon. w. E. Ethridge. MT. and Mrs. B. c. Williams, Mrs R. M. Bour- deaux and Misses Annie Bourdeaux and Mabel Rivers, Charles E. Boykin, chief train dispatcher for the Mobile and Ohio A. J. Alexander. train master for the Mobile and Ohio; MT. and Mrs Paul D.. McRoy, MT. and Mrs. B. McDade and Messrs. H. V. Wall and Tip Walker.