The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-21
NEGRO CAPTURED
 AND IDENTIFIED Hanging Or Burning Is Threat
 Of Many Citizens MORE TROOPS CALLED FOR State Soldiers in Pursuit of Tom At kinson In Winston County Have
 Too Big Job and Wire
 for Re-enforcements.

grandfather, dragged her into the woods, mistreated her and left her for dead.
 Last night Marshal Owens passed to take a look at a negro there and telephoned police headquarters here that there Is no doubt of his identity.
 It is supposed the prisoner will be brought to Jackson and landed in the county Jail.
 If taken to Rankin county he would be lynched. the people of Pelahatchie having sworn to burn him. Governor Noel will see that the negro is protected
 Today at noon Adjutant General Fridge received telegram from Detective R. c. McCay, in command of the state troops in, Winston county on the trail of Tom Atkinson, reading: Send Captain Hern- don and 20 men to Noxupater. The terri tory too. large for present force' The present force Is 10 men under Dieuten- ant Featherstone.
 Captain Herndon got Is men and took the first train. He will arrive at Noxupater, about five miles from the home of At kinson, the ex-convict, who is defying arrest, tomorrow morning, and will take him at all hazards.
 Captain Herndon was ordered to report to Maj. Walthall Nall on arrival and advised that the entire command is in charge of Detective McCay, representa- tive of the state.
 The officers were given positive in structions not to fire save in self de- fense. Atkinson escaped from the pen- tentiary 20 years ago, has married, raised a family and been a good citizen.
 The programme for the occasion of the presentation of the silver service to the battleship Mississippi has been ar ranged finally by the commission, all members of which and quite a party of friends and other officials of the state, will be at Horn Island on the morning of June 1 for the purpose of seeing that 1t is carried out.
 Governor Noel will be accompanied by Adjutant General Fridge and other mem bers of his military staff, and by Lieut.. Matt Enochs, of the U. s. S. Kansas. who has been detailed by the navy de- partment as special aide on the gover- nor's staff Lieutenant Enochs is now at Philadelphia, Pa, and will come to Jack son by rail in time to accompany the governor to Horn Island. In view of the fact that Lieutenant Enochs Is a native of Mississippi, being a son of Capt. J. B. Enochs, an old and highly respected citizen of Copiah county and well known in this city, where he has a host of relatives, he will be accorded welcome here on their account, as well as his own.
 The programme arranged calls for in- troductions by Gov. E. F Noel; present. ation Of silver service by Mrs. Eunice Miller Loekwood presentation of hand somely bound copies of the historical pub lications of the state department of ar chives and history by Dr. R. w. Jones, president of the board of trustees; ac- ceptance by Capt. John c. Freemont.
 Possibly Adjutant General Fridge will present the battleship with Missis- sippi state flag a symbol that is rare ly seen and little known even by Mis- sissippians.
 The sheriff of Jefferson Davis county arrived here with patient for the asylum who created a great commotion around the depot when he was taken from the train and escorted a short dis tance to a hack. The patient was the wild man" captured near Prentiss a few days since, and who was ad1udged insane His name is Marvin Whithead, a young man of about 30 years of age, weighing 130 pounds, and who has lived in the woods and swamps five years, all efforts to capture him hay ing proved futile till recently. When captured his only clothing was a piece of undershirt and pants cut off at the knee. He has worn no sh oes for years. His hair hung down his back, and his beard covered his chest. both being a tangled mass and stuck full of pine rosin, as were his scant garments.
 Whitehead is said to be the son of highly respected parents, his father being a prosperous farmer and justice of the peace of his county for many years.
 The patient was landed in the state hospital for the insane without trou- ble, and will be given a shave. hair cut, sh mpooed all over and made pre- sentable.
 Charters of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state for the following concerns, viz:
 The Mississippi Home Teleph one com pany. domiciled at Jackson; capital $250, 900; incorporators George c. Grae- Der, Shamokin, Pa. J. O. Spotts, Me ridian; c. M. Williamson and N. D. Smith, Jackson and others.
 The Cooperative Mercantile company of Greenville capital $10000; incorpor- ators C. w Wilson, J. c. Chapel, N. S. Taylor and others.
 The Securities company, Redwood, Warren county, capital 0,000; incor- porators J. H. Sh ort, N. N. Hirsh and others.
 The North Mississippi Fair associa- tion, Holly Springs; capital sl0,0O0; incorporators E. c. Mahon, c. H. .Curd and several others.
 The Mississippi Home Telegraph com pany has been in process of organiza- ton here for several months. It Is in- tended as rival of the Cumberland and has caused that company to break into print extensively and seriously here of late. The Home is the same company of independents now operating in Meridian and Hattiesburg, and one of the first works of the new concern will be to connect those cities with this. The construction is to be of the very finest money can command, the wipes are to be underground here in Jack son, and the exchange and the hello girl will be done away with by the in- stallation of automatic phones.
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