The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-06-15
MuLTUM IN PARyo. .
News Pertaining to the ColOred
People of the Land of the Free
L. and Home of the Brave. :.
Gathered From Everywhere.

h duu HO1u0 Oh Inc brave. r !
Gathered From Everywhere.
The 70 Colored teachers in the public
schools of Kansas City have been reap
pointed. .. ~, 49,. .-.
Miss Jennie Harris is the only Colored
graduate in the High School of Chilli
Gothic, Ohio, this year.
Judge M. w. Gibbs has left Little
Rock, Ark, for Washington to press his
claims for the Haytien mission.
Jochrim Hooper a,Colored bootblack
of Denver, started business with CAPT.
tai of 81, and has built up fortune of
$4,000.
Miss Roxie Cobbs who graduated from
the High school of Moberly, Mo-, at the
recent Commencement was the fist
Colored lady graduate.
Moses Austin, Colored, perhaps the
Oldest man in middle Georgia, died in
Peppertown, Butts County, recently
He was said to be something near one
hundred and ten years old.
Julia Kemp, Colored girl of Leota,
Miss, killed George Smith Tuesday in
a quarrel about young man. While
Violet Caruthers was watching the fight
her baby was burned to death at, home.
At the Republican County Conven-
ton held at Ironton, O.. last week,
Calvin Reynolds, the young Colored
man who held clerkship in the House
and was a candidate for Representative.
was terribly slaughtered.
Willie White, Colored, aged II, who
murdered an old man named Alexan-
der Mcfarland at. Evansville, Ind.
March 3, has been convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced to ten wears in
the penitentiary.
Deputy Marshal Williams was shot
and instantly killed by Cornelius Walk
er, notorious Colored horse-thief, of
Indian Territory, who was.in turn killed
by Williams companions. Robert and
Glenn Franklin, Walkers accompices.
were taken to Paris, Tex, for trial.
The eighteen Americans who went to
Hayti to fight with Legitime have had q
dismal experience. One died of yellow
lever, another became insane, and q
third is kept under surveillance at PORT
au-Prince. Only seven secured emplov-
ment, and they find it difficult to get the
pay promised them. The others have
returned penniless or are still in Havti
seeking employment.
At Philadelphia, last Sunday, Dan
Curtis, Colored, 22years old, struck his
sister Sarah, who is years younger, on
the neck with his fist, and now she lies
in a p1ecarious condition at the Penn
sylvania Hospital. The girl desired to
60 out for a walk, and her brother WAS
opposed to her doing so. She ATTEMPTED
to force her way past him, and this so
angered him that he struck her.
Isaac Saxton, a Colored man, has been
elected justice of the peace at Br1deeton
N. j., under peculiar circumstances. At
the election last March it was THOUGHT
that there was no vacancy in the Office
Of Justice in the Third Ward, but MANY
citizens voted for Saxton in spirit Of
fun. 1t has been discovered now that
the term of Justice Woodruff expired
on May l, and that Saxton received
enough votes to elect him.
DR.. T. S. Dekee has bought the bodv
of Will Debit, the Colored man now
awaiting in the Thomas County, Georgia,
Jail the execution Of the death sentence
this month. Debill, for the valuable
consideration Of $40 in hand paid, deeds
his body to the doctor. There has been
considerable remonstrance against his
course on the part of the Colerd people.
but Debill says the 800 will allow him to
i've comfortable the rest of his days, and
If the doctors can profit the living bv
having his body, he is willing.
Some days ago Byron Robertson. 4.
Colored man Living near Greenyille, Ga.
found log in we'll he was digging.
The log extended across the well dis
lance of forty-four four feet below the
surface. After cutting through the log q
bold vein of water was struck of pure
treestone quality. The question of how
and when the pine log reached its pres-
ent location has puzzled the heads of all
who have discussed the matter. The
hill beneath which it was found seems
to have been firmly planted just where
it is for centuries.