Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-08-11
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I. Troy, Ohio, has Colored cornet
band.
There are three Colored men in the
police force of Boston, Mass.
Mr.. Richard Griffin, Colored, is clerk
in hat store of indianapolis.
Mr., George Hartse|lis head bookkeep.
er for a large firm in Dayton. Ohio.
Mr.. R. W. Thorn pson was last week
appointed letter carrier in Indianapolis.
Mr.. Samuel B. Hill has been appointed
to position in the tax office at Cincin.
matt.
Mr.. Adam Motley, of indianapolis
had pension of $1,000 paid to him last
week.
The Republican Colored ladies of In
dianapolis have formed carrie Har-
rison Club" q
Mr.. G. Webb, Colored, a coal dealer
OF indianapolis, does business of 500
900 per annum.
W. H. Chandler, Colored, has been
nominated for Secretary of State by the
Republicans of Florida.
Charley Dickens, a fourteen year-oltl
Colored boy preacher, is astonishing the
natives down in Macon, Ga.
A Colored tailor, F. Il. S. Peregrin, OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, has been admitted to
the British American Association.
There is not one Colored man enlisted
and doing duty as a seaman in any OF
the United States man-of-war ships.
Rev j. r Riley, formerly of WASH
lngton, d. G., has taken charge of the
Colored Presbyterian church at Indian.
apolis.
Morris Jones a Colored store keeper
IN Assumption parish, La, was forced
to leave the country because he was We nv
successful in business.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tillerson, of New Bed
ford,' Mass, who died recently, willed
her entire estate, valued at SO, 900 to
Wilberforce University.
The superintendent of schools at Gin
natl, Ohio, now that the schools are
mixed. failed to re-appoint number OF
the best Colored teachers for the ensll.
ing year.
| Mr.. Graham Dewell, clerk in the
Adjutant Generals Office at Columbus
Ohio, has been discharged for cause
His place will be filled by another Col.
ored man.
Sturgis, Dak.is troubled with two opium
joints. One is conducted by an almond.
eyed heather and the other is said tc
be managed by a lady of color and av.
oirdupols.
A company Of Colored singers sailed
from New York last week for Jamaica
Mr.. W. II. Price and Miss Matilda Jones
the "Black Patti are the stars. Mr.. J
R. Smith is the manager.
A Colored preacher near Macon, Ga
has committed to memory the entire
Bible. A few years ago he was unable
to read, and claims that his knowledge
has been revealed to him in vision.
Mrs. Florence A. Turner, Fort Leav
enWorth, Kan, recently received $500
damages for being put out of the ladies'
car on the n. G. x st. L. road. Mr.. W
H. Young Colored lawyer won the
suit. =.
David Henry a colored man down il
Wilmington, N c., stole steer and triee
to sell it one day. and was given five
years in the penitentiary for it the next
all due forms of law having been in the
mean time complied with.
| A inch of steel knife blade which ha,
been in the brain ola Florida Colorec
man for two weeks has just been ex
tracted, and the doctor SAYS the patien
| will without doubt get we'll, medical pre-
cedents to the contrary notwlthstand
ing.
J. P. Johnson Howard of New Yorl
who in 1883 fell heir to 100000, all 0
which he spent in riotous living, gainin
in lieu of his wealth, the soubriquet &
the "Black Prince" was recently sen
to the penitentiary for seven and hal
years for perjury.
r A strange disease, somewhatlike dipf
5 liberia, is epidemic among the Colore
! people in Crittenden County, Arkansa!
! The patients throat swelIs, contractin
r the air passages until death ensues frol
j strangulation. So far not one Of thos
t attacked has recovered. The scourge
s confined to the Colored people.