The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-26
TROOPS sent TO MEADVILLE
Newman Faction Assembling
by the Hundreds.
MAYOR WELLINGTON DESERTED
Several Families Flee From the Town
and Say They Will Never Re-
turn. Four Newman Brothers
Are Natchez.


Natchez, Miss.-Advices from
Meadville, the county seat Of Frank
lin, state that the town was
without mayor Monday, three COM
panies of the state national guard
were housed in its court house ID
prevent bloodshed and the town was
filled with nIcn of the Newman fac
ton who assembled to the number of
several hundred all determined to
support the sons of their deal leader,
DR.. A. M. Newman, who was killed
in the principal street of Aleadvilie
was elected to succeed his father as
chancery clerk, and upon whose lfo
an attempt was made Sunday night
by would-be assassin, VINO barely
missed accomplishing his purpose.
AS the Newman men entered into
the town in droves, Mayor Whiting
ton wanted Sheriff Jones ID call for
more troops than had been ordered
to the place and made other sugges~
tons, which were not followed by the
sheriff, whereupon the mayor said:
The town is on your hands, AMI
accompanied by his wife he left
Meanwhile.
A number of families fearing trou-
BILE, left and its alleged a number
Of them will not return.
A quick ear and a cool head saved
Ernest Newman. from being shot to
death Sunday night. The would-be
assassin was hiding under the raised
flooring of Newmans room and when
draw the shades, the man under the
drawn the shades. the man under the
house ,crawled stealthily to the out
side, cooking shotgun. Newman
heard the click and jumped to one
side. AS he jumped the gun was
fred, buckshot grazed the skin,
one tore. through the flesh and the
remainder of the charge entered the
ceiling. The man fled through the
gate and ran some distance to where
his horse was fastened and escaped.
Sheriff Jones telephoned Sheriff
Clarke of Adams county for the blood
hounds, and the hounds tracked the
man to where the horse had been
tied The hoof prints in the sand
Showed that only the front hoof was
shod. The horse was trailed to a liv-
cry stable down town. The men fol-
lowed the hounds and remained ST.
lent when the trail ended. One spark
or one hot head would have precipi-
tated q fearful warfare, but it was
decided to wait Some of the New
man and Pritchard factions who have
been carrying the feud for years, met
the officers of the two counties and
one of the Pritchards offered a re-
ward of fifty dollars for the appre-
hension of the man who fired at Ern-
est Newman.
Just now Meadville is shoulder
ing volcano and the people are wait
ing or the eruption. Herbert Apple
white, the lawyer who was shot down
on June 4 within few feet of
where Dr. Newman fell, was in Nat
chez Sanitorium from that day until
Monday of last week when unable to
walk, he was placed in carriage.
taken to the depot and then to Mead
VILE
The Ncwmans had signified a read
mess to bury the Ratchet, sell out
their property amounting to $4,000
and leave the county, but there was
talk OF getting the boys as well as
the father and they decided to stand
their ground The Newmans are
very strong as indicated by the cleo
ton of Ernest to succeed his father
as chancery clerk, erspite the earnest
plea of his mother, begging friends
of the family not to vote for him.
With the death OF Cornelius
Pritchard in May DR.. A. M. Newman
and SOD, Dr. Lomax Newman, anc
Silas Reynolds, four men have been
killed in the Newman-Pritchard feud.
Companies B and G. numbering
fifty-nine men. under command OF
Captain A. H. Patterson arrived at
Eradville Station on the Mississippi
Central Monday where ammunition
was obtained and the men marched
to the town half mile away.