Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-08-27
TROOPS sent TO MEADVILLE
Newman Faction Assembling
by the Hundreds.
MAYOR WHITTINCTOK DESERTED
Several Families Flee From the Town
and Say They Will Never Re-
turn. Four Newman Brothers
Are i NatcheZ.

Natchez, Miss.-Advices from
Meadville, the county seat of Frank
lin, state that the town was
without a mayor Monday, three COM
panies of the state national guard
were housed in its court house to
prevent bloodshed and the town was
filled with men of the Newman fac
ton who assembled to the number of
several hundred all determined to
support the sons of their dead leader,
DR.. A. NJ. Newman, who was killed
in the principal street of Meadville
on June ii and whose son Ernest
was elected to succeed his father as
chancery clerk, and upon whose l;fH
an attempt was made Sunday night
by a 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 to call for
more troops than had been ordered
to the place and made other sugges-
tions, which were not followed by the
sheriff, whereupon the mayor. said:
"The town is on your hands" AMI
accompanied by his wife he left
Meadville.
A number of families fearing trou-
BILE, left and its alleged a number
of them will not return.
A quick ear and cool head saved
Ernest Newman. from being shot to
death Sunday night. The would-be
assassin was hiding under the raised
flooring of Newman's 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 a shotgun. Newman
heard the click and jumped to one
side. AS he jumped the gun was
fired, a buckshot grazed the skin
one tore through the flesh and the
remainder of the charge entered the
ceiling. The man fed 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 beer
tied. The hoof prints in the sand
showed that only the front hoof wa:
shod. The horse was trailed to a liv
cry stable down town. The men fol
lowed the hounds and remained 81
lent when the trail ended. One sparl
| or one hot head would have precipi
tated a fearful warfare. but it wa!
decided to wait. Some of the New
man and Pritchard factions who have
been carrying the feud for years, me
| the officers of the two counties ant
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 a shoulder
ing volcano and the people are walt
ing or the eruption. Herbert Apple
white, the lawyer who was shot dow
on June IA within few feet o
where DR.. Newman fell, was in Nat
chez Sanitorium from that day unit
Monday of last week when unable I
walk, he was placed in carriage
taken to the depot and then to Mead
| Vile.
The Ncwmans had signified read
mess to bury the hatchet, sell ou
their property amounting to $1,000
and leave the county. but there wa
talk of getting the hoys" as we'll a
the father and they decided to stan
their ground. The Newmans ar
very strong as indicated by the elet
ton of Ernest to succeed his fathe
as chancery clerk -cespite the earnes
plea of his mother. begging friend
of the family not to vote for him.
With the death OF Corneliu
4 Pritchard in May DR.. A. NJ. Newma
and son, DR.. Lomax Newman, an
Silas Reynolds, four men have bee
killed in the Newman-Pritchard feu'
Companies B and c, numberin
fifty-nine men. under command
Captain A. II. Patterson arrived
Nradville Station on the Mississippi
Central Monday where ammunitlo
was obtained and the men marche