The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-23
Little Girl Attacked in Alley by
 Negro
WOMAN STRUCK BY TRAIN
Miss Mattie Daley Is Carried a Hun dred Yards and Her Injuries Will Probably Prove Fatal-other
 News From Atlanta.

Atlanta, October 22.-(speeial) Word has just been received in Atlanta of the romantic marriage of John Collier, second son of the late Mayor Charles l.. Collier, in Philadelphia, Saturday night, to Miss Lucy Wood, second daughter of MT. and Mrs. A c. Wood, of the firm of Crox- ton-Wood Manufacturing company mill lfonaire manufacturers. The couple met on board an ocean liner this summer while en route to Europe and became engaged before they returned home. She re-entered Smith college in September, and they were to have been married next spring when she graduated. He prevailed on the parents to let her return home and marry him at once. This was done, and the couple sail Thursday for Europe where they both en- ter La Sarbonne, a branch of the Uni-- versty of Paris.
 Aged Man Pleads Guilty.
 E. R. sherman. an aged man, who gives his years as 65, and who was caught last Monday night in the home of Judge R. T. Dorsey, of the firm of Dorsey, Brewster S Howell in the act of burglarizing the home entered plea. ot guilty this morn ing and was sentenced to serve six years in the pen. He declared that he was a Confederate veteran, but black sheep, and refused to give the name of anyone in Atlanta who could speak word in his behalf. He claims he does not want them to know of his condition. He claims to be a morphine fiend, and did not know of what he was doing at the time.
 title Girl Attacked
 Ruth Davis. aged 10, a pupil in the third g ade of the Ira street school was choked almost into insensibilty by an un- known negro last night at o'clock in effort to assault her.
 The little girl was en route to neigh bors to use the telephone and in doing so passed through an alley connecting Me Daniel street with Whitehall Terrace. fWhen about half way a negro stepped from the shadows and grabbed her by the throat, at the same time throwing her to the ground She screamed ard the negro took fright and fled. A negro was caught later but the little girl failed to identify him. The police have the case in charge and are working on it. This s the first attempt since the riot.
 Young Woman Struck By Train.
 Picked up on the running board of a fast flying switch engine attached to suburban train of the Central of Georgia road and whirled down the track for a distance of 100 yards and dropped off to one side with a hip mashed almost into jelly. Is the thrilling and pitable fate which befell Miss Matte Daley age 16, in Oakland City, this morning. The young lady was rushed to Grady hospital, where she is now under the care of surgeons, but 1t is feared that the shock will kill her s
 Miss Daley had started to school and was crossing the double tracks in Oak land City, had crossed the first track and was on the second when a passenger train thundered down the second track and, instead of Jumping forward to safety, jumped back in front of the suburban train coming down the second track Luckily this engine was 9 switch engine and had dummy running board instead of COW catcher She was struck by the pilot and her hip fractured Instead of falling between the rails she was car ried on the running board, and as the emergency brakes acted she was tossed to one side where her agonizng con vusons was all that told she was not dead She is at Grady hospital now, where her life has been despaired of
 Many Delegates in Atlanta.
 Over 400 delegates to the Carriage Build
 
 ventlon ever held in Atlanta, have ar rived in the city for four days session, and the hotels of the city are taxed to their full capacity Room is not to be had except where reserved, and the At lanta Hotel Mems association has issued statement calling for visitors to Atlanta expecting to come here this week 10 de- fer their visit until a later date, when rooms are to be had.
 The business session of the convention will be held beginning Tuesday morning. but already the majority of the delegates are in the city Eight special trains ar rived bringing the delegates from all sec tions of the country. President A. c. Brunson of Cincinnati arrived this after noon with a party occupying eight sleep CTS on a special train. A novel feature of the convention is the s100.000 exhibit of vehicles at Piedmont park run in con nection with this monster convention A novel bit of entertainment planned for the visitors is a trip to the cotton fields in Campbell county, where there is a field white with the staple from which the delegates are to pick. A barbecue and dance are among the social features planned. The aggregate wealth repre- sented by the delegates is estimated at $50, ,000, GOO.
 Will Observe Arbor Day.
 State School Commissioner w. B. Mer- rltt announces today that the programmes for Arbor. Day, to be observed through out the state on Friday, December z will be issued from his office in a few days Special exercises are to be held in the various state schools on that date.
 Funds Raised Quickly.
 In the phenominally short space of three minutes this afternoon the sum of $50.O00 was subscribed for the purpose of starting the fund with which Atlanta will soon erect a $250, 900 Auditorium armory. The building will be built by private corpor- ation and the subscriptions today were for stocks and bonds In this new company which has just asked for charter of in- corporation.
 It is proposed to sell this building back to the city in instalments of s75,000 year The plan is meeting with enthusi- astic encouragement
 Bananas Are Scarce.
 New Orleans, October 22.-The steamer Anselm, which arrived here today. re-