The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-29
POSSE AFTER TWO
 NEGRO MURDERERS

Savannah, Ga., August 8.-News was brought to the city tonight by an Allan tic Coast Line train crew of the fatal shooting of white merchant named Litchfield. and a negro named Joseph Francis and the wounding of Town Mar shal Soloman at Yemassee, S. O., this afternoon by two negro car thieves.
 For some time the thieves had been at work. They were discovered at the edge of the town in a strip of woods, and the town marshall formed a posse to arrest them. The attempt resulted in the shoot ing
 Litchfield died two hours after being shot The negro was instantly killed
 As he was shot Litchfield also fired, but he could not say whether he had hit one of the robbers They escaped Into a neighboring swamp and large posse is now searching for them.
 -~~-~~-~~------~-- State university. Arthur Adams, Jr.. will be student at the Virginia Military in- stitute and Clarence Wood at the Univer- sity of Alabama.
 Miss Bessie Nabers is the guest of rea- tives in South Alabama. She plans to re- turn next week.
 Mir. James Bowron left yesterday after noon for business trip to Philadelphia.
 Mrs. A. M. Taylor and two children, Angus and Margaret, who have spent the summer months in Petoskey, Mich, will go to Chicago next week, where they will join MT. Taylor. After a weeks stay there they will return home.
 Miss Corinne Chisholm, who spent some time in Bailey Springs. was the guest last week of MT. and Mrs. Mason billiard in Florence. MT. and Mrs. billiard enter tained in her honor. and she was the re- cipient of other charming social atten- tions. She is now the guest of Miss Julia Warfield in Columbia, Tenn, where she will remain until September 15.
 MT. and Mrs. Knox ~Fleming have re- turned from Chicago, Norfolk and other points of interest
 pretty entertainment of the week was an informal reception given by Miss Addie Mae Simpson of West End in honor of her house guests, Miss Steele, Miss Stubbs and Miss Foster. The house was taste- fully decorated with lilies, roses and ferns. The evening was pleasantly spent in playing some interesting games. The color scheme, pink and green, was car ried out in the ices served the guests.
 The alumni of Washington and Lee uni versity held meeting at the Hillman
 
 officers for the coming year. President, w. R. J. Dunn; vice president, R. Preston Means; secretary, Smith Cullon, Jr.; treasurer, w. G. Montgomery William l.. Harsh of this city has been awarded a scholarship in the university.
 Mrs. s. c. Wilson has returned after a visit of three months in Mississippi
 Miss Fannie Lee McCaskey is visiting relatives in Atlanta.
 Miss Libbie Williams has returned from Cincinnati, where she spent three weeks
 Prof. John Calman, Mrs. Calman and Miss Calman have returned from an ex- tended trip through the east They vis- tied Toronto and a number of the east ern resorts while away.
 At o'clock on the afternoon of August 27, occurred the marriage of MT. Howard w. Beecroft and Miss Elizabeth M. Fras- CT, the ceremony being performed by Mir. Charles Scholl in the First Presbyterian church, Miss Handley playing the we'd ding march. The ladies of Mrs. B. R. Smiths Sunday school class. of which Mrs. Beecroft Is valued member, had made the church beautiful with ferns and palms and vases of flowers. The bride was in a travelling gown of blue. An in- | formal reception was held in the lecture room of the church, after which MT. and Mrs. Beecroft left for Lookout mountain, | On their return they will be at their own home at sn Montgomery avenue,