The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-02-23
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Hon. Frederick Douglass lectured in
Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Ark, last
week. g
Hon. Henry P. Chatham, of North /
Carolina will be the only Colored man
IN congress unless some of the contest
ants get in. ~
There are said to be about dozen
Colored physicians in Brooklyn, some
OF whom have been in active practice
for fully forty years.
Dolores Cordones, nulatto girl of
Havana, was covered with petroleum
and burned to death by man whose
attentions she had refused.
Four Colored students will graduate
from Oberlin College in June, Misses
Viola B. Scott and Carrie Burnett, Mess
es. N. +. CAN'T and G. II. Dickerson.
A Cclored boy named Nelson has been
arrested at Atkinson, Kan, on the
charge of throwing lighted match into
mail box and burning a number of
| letters.
MIR. Edwin F. Horn, editor of the
"justice,' Chattanooga, Tenn, is an APP
plicant for the position Of "Superinten-
dent of Documents" in the Interior de-
partment.
Mrs. Eliza J. Shelton of Cincinnati has
got divorce from. her husband Jno.
I'll. Shelton who is confined in the Ohio
penitentary for shooting at her with in
tent to kill.
Mr.. George Marshall of Cincinnati who
is at present stenographer for the presi-
dent of the "Queen and Crescent" route
Will probably receive the appointment
as private stenographer for President
Harrison
Hon. John M. Langston, was a guest
of the Law and Order League and also
of the Massachusetts Club of Boston,
this week. He spoke at fremont
Temple on "The Enforcement of Law
Tuesday evening. .
Hiram Hendricks, the Cincinnati Col
ored man who some time ago was en-
gagged In a shooting ARRAY with Jim
Thomas, another Colored man, has been
found guilty at Dayton, of shooting with
intent to kill. Thomas was convicted OF
the sane offense week ago.
Sunday night fight occurred at Steu-
behville, 0. between Harry Weems, a
Colored man, and Steward Collins, both
striking potters, and Badly McHenry
Henry Day, scabs. Pistols were fred
and stones thrown. Weems was shot in
in the ley, which ended the battle.
Officers arrested the parties.
J. w. Robinson, Colored barber at
Aurora, ILL.,, attempted to kill his brother
Harry Sunday by shooting him. Failing
in this he assaulted him with a razor,
inficting wounds which may prove fatal.
The barber has often threatened to kill
Harry for paying attentions to his wife.
The wounded mans face, head and neck
were horrible cut.
Rufus Ballard Jr., of Cincinnati was
found back of j, Jacksonville, Ind, Jan.
2Sth with a bullet hole in his head he
died shortly afterward and coroner's
jury rendered a verdict that it was a
case of suicide. 1t is now claimed that
the young mans father has evidence
that he was murdered by Colered
companion Paris Grant, and he is at
work on this clew.
Monroe Wilkerson, the Colored muir
derer to hang at Scottville, KY, March
22d, broke his shackles Wednesday
night, knocked the jailor down when he
came into the cell with his supper and
ran out of the door. The jailor fred
twice at Wilkerson, chasing him through
the family loom and out into the streets,
where he fired at him twice more. A
desperate race followed up the street,
and Wilkerson tripped on a stone, and,
falling down, was captured by the jail
er's son, He was taken back to the
prison and chained TO the floer.
A sort of race war has broken out in
the Bradford mines ness2 birmingham,
Ala. The trouble grew out of fight be- Z
tween white man and Colored miner
in which the white man got the best of
it, Monday night lot of Colored men
went to the house of the offender and
had he not been gone would have made
short work of him. They wrecked the
house and furniture and left a noosed
rope on the door knob and card ON
i which was written: "To be used to
hang Jim Cochrane when he comes
back here" Cochrane has organized q
white force and there is trouble feared.
| J. NJ. Chatworthy, white man in
Helena, Ark, drewa pistol on CoIored
man Monday, for which offense he was
fined $50 and costs, making total OF
so4. Not having the money to pay the
amount he was put up at auction Tues
day by the Colored constable, 10 be sold
to the highest bidder, accq ding to the
law, which also requires that the deptor
shall be kept by the purchaser the num-
Der of days required to pay out the fine
at the rate of 70 cents day. In this
case seventy-two days service would be
required. The bidding was not YER
lively. The prisoner uas finally knoc'
down TO one Of his friends at 25 cc
: day. The tsbles ha ~slrnr
men used to sell Col
ared men cell w