The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-03
.LIPSCOMB WILL BE
 PROMPTLY TRIED Charged With Attacking Mrs. SchrimpSher at Decatur CITY IS AGAIN QUIET A Boy 17 and Girl IA Years of Age Run Away and Are Married
 at Pulaski, Tenn.
 Other Items.
CITY IS AGAIN QUIET

Decatur, May 2.-(Special.) )-After night of intense excitement at the coun- ty jail quiet reigns today and the peo- pie now seem satisfied to let the law deal out justice to the negro, Llpscomb, who attempted to assault Mrs. Schrimp- sher yesterday evening. The negro will be tried at once.
 Sheriff Thomas Shipp stated late last night that he had turned the negro over to a deputy with instructions to take the prisoner out of the city on the first train and that he did not know where the negro was. It Is stated. however, that the negro is in the county jail at Hunts vile.
 Judge Aston of Birmingham. who is holding circuit court here for Judge Speake, stated that yesterday was the first time in the history of the state Wen a sheriff has walked into the court house and interrupted a judge while he was charging a jury. But Judge Aston complimented Sheriff shipp, saying that he did what was right under the cir cumstances.
 The negro had just been lodged in the county jail when Sheriff Shipp entered the court room while the judge was delivering his charge to jury in a damage suit and throwing up his hand addressed the the judge and told him he wished to speak to him privately on a matter of grave importance.
 The judge granting the request, heard the story of the crime and arrest of the negro and then ordered him to summon special grand jury at once, which was done Judge Aston further authorized the sheriff to deputize 200 men to guard the jail. If necessary, but the sberiff thought best to get the negro out of town, which was done.
 During the excitement at the jail last night, when a mob visited the jail. Miss Beatrice Shipp daughter of the sheriff. stood bravely by her fathers side, say ing that she was ready to assist him if the occasion demanded. A wedding tinged with romance took place yesterday. It was a runaway match and tho scene of the ceremony was Pu- aski. Tenn. the Greta Green for all North Alabama.
 The bride was Miss Clara Roper, aged IA, and the groom was Clarence Hall. aged r. both of Austinville, a suburb of New Decatur.
 They had been sweethearts for some time, and decided they would we'd not withstanding the objections of parents, on account of their tender ages.
 Miss Mollie Johnson and Mir. Willis E. Proctor, both of New Decatur, were married yesterday at the home of J. l. Transue, in New Decatur The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. w. F. Aldridge of Hanceville, a cousin of the groom
 The wedding was a quiet one and was witnessed only by relatives and a few invited friends of the bride and groom. Immediately after the wedding they left on an afternoon train for Cincinnati, where they will spend about ten days and will then be at home to their friends in New Decatur
 Arantz brothers of Decatur, have just completed the construction of a large bandsaw mill at Red Hill, in Lawrence county, and have now started the mill and are saving several thousand feet of oak and poplar timber daily This Is the second mill that this firm has established in Lawrence county.
 Both mills are some twelve miles off the railroad The lumber is hauled to Hillsboro and there placed on cars and the most of 1t transported to foreign countries