The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14
MULTUM IN PARVO,
News Pertaining to the Colored
People of the Land of the FREQ
and Home Of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.

Mrs. Jane Dobson OF Providence, R.
l.. died last week aged 113 years.
AT Springfield, o., Sunday, Chas. Buck
was cut by VIM. Sames, Colored.
The Progressive American of New
burgh, N. Y, is the latest addition to
the list Of Colored journals. III
At Thaxton, Tenn, Mrs. Lou. Jones
aged only 13, gave birth to nine pound
/ boy. She sheen marriedtwp. years.
Tke Apo ntment 81 James & ~ { rowf,. S.
send, as recorder of the general land
office was confirmed by the Senate Tues
dar.
Herbert A. Clark of Cincinnati, has
been appointed transacting clerk in the
office Of Major Hawkins, Adjutant Gen.
eral of Ohio.
William H. Smith of the District of
Columbia who has been assistant librar-
ian of the House of Representatives for
years has been promoted to be librarian.
AS Will Cooper, Colore d, was walking
along the streets Of Danville, Ky, he
was ordered off by a white policeman.
He refused to obey aud was instantly
shot.
The boiler of Calhoun's cotton-gin at
Colfax, on the Meredith plantation,
near Boyce. La, exploded Monday,
killing six men and two women and in
Turing many others, all Colored.
Three Colored men, James Hill, of
Mississippi, John M. Langston, of Vir-
ginia and Thomas Milton, of South
Carolina are contestants for seats in Con-
gress to which they were certainly
elected.
The National Line Steamship Co..
dock at New York took fire last satur-
day, Richard Johnson and George Boo
ker were killed and John Hopson and
Gilbert Farmer long shore men were in
jured. There were also two white men
killed and two injured.
The governor of Kentucky has granted
further respite until January Is, 1890,
to John Green, Colored, who was con-
victed of the murder of his wife and
sentenced to be hanged, in order that
the friends of the prisoner might obtain
evidence to show HE insanity.
At Spokane Falls, last Friday, Albert
Sanderlin shot his wife and then blew
his own brains out. The wound of Mrs.
Sanderlin is thought to not be fatal.
She had just begun suit for divorce on
the grounds of cruel treatment and nom
support which was the cause of the rash
act,
William Johnson, Colored man liv-
inv near Hartwell, met with a painful
accident while LICKING after his hogs
Saturday. johnson placed his left hand,
in which he held and ear of corn, on
the top of the railing of the sly, when
a savage porker grabbed both the
corn and Johnson's index finger. In
the struggle which followed, the end of
Johnson's finger was torn off.
Alcorn College, Rodney, Miss, is sup
ported by the State for the higher edu-
cation of her Colored youths. The en-
tire faculty is composed of Colored in
structors. The college has improved
rapidly under the management Of Prof.
]. H. Burrus. All of the dormitories are
crowded, and still application is coming
in from young men desiring admission,
who must be turned away for lack of
room.
At Mittsville, N. J. Friday, Mrs. Annie
Borden was found murdered. The
woman was covered with blood, and her
clothing was almost wholly torn from
her person. Medical examination re-
vealed the fact that the woman bad
been outrageously assaulted, her muir
derer having ripped open her abdomen
with keen knife and committed acts
that sounds like descriptions of "Jack
the Ripper's" work.