The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-05-25
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The school teachers of Ballard County.
Ark, gave their children 1864 lickings
during last year.
i Mr.. Dan Lucas, Of Kansas CITY, Mo-.
has been nominated for Alderman by
the Republicans.
] a Colored man in Hart county, Geo,-
gia has q foot fourteen inches long.
actual easuremeht. r ..
The Colored people of Decatur, Ala.
organized joint stock company and so
shares were taken in 20 minutes.
The Star of Zion says that Harrison
has appointed six Colored postal clerks
and two postmasters in North Carolina.
AT Texarkana, Ark, VIM. Tell and
Bill Butler fought over debt of so cents.
Tell stabbed Butler in the heart killing
him instantly.
len Colored men while crossing the
river in skiff near Westpass. Miss.
last Sunday were capsized and nine of
! tnem were drowned.
A Colored man at Columbia. La. was
arrested Thursday night for participa-
ton in burglary. A party took the
fellow from tie sheriff and hung him to
a tree.
Mrs. Mary Jenkins, wife of a Pullman
car porter, living in New York, got jeal-
Gus OF a white servant girl in her en-
ploy last Saturday night an fred four
shots at her without hitting her.
Hon. Geo. c. Smith, of Kansas City,
Mo-, prominent Colored man, has been
appointed as a special agent in the Gen.
eral Land Office. The position paws
Sl'ooo salary, and travelling expenses.
Two Colored women, Amanda Hardin
and Ann Cunence quarreled over the
division of some soft soap in Russellville.
KY, last Friday when the latter drew a
Barlow knife and killed the former and
fed.
A Colorsd police officer named Robb.
while searching for man who had shot
woman at Joliet, ILL.,, last Friday, mis-
took seventeen-year-old boy named
William Hanson, for the criminal and
shot him killing him instantly.
a Colored child 10 months old fell
from the second story Of building in
Evansville, Ind, striking the brick
pavement with its head, but, strange to
say, beyond severe bruise it is not in
jured in the least, and ten minutes after
it was picked up it began playing and
laughing.
Charles H. J. Taylor, the Colored law
yer has got into hot water by thresten-
ing to bring suit for heavy damages
against Atlanta University for: tho Ok
pulsion Of certain refractory students.
He claims to have proofs of the prossest
immortality prevailing at the University.
Nobody seems to either fear his suits or
to believe his statements and the whole
thing smells of blackmail. -
A remarkable accident occurred at tho
Exchange Hotel Columbus, o., last
week. A Colored child shout 5 wears
old fell into the area leading to the
basement of the hotel, which is occupied
as barbershop. In it's fall it struck
window, breaking the sash and SKATER
ing the glass. A barber who was shay
ing a customer near the window was 30
startled by the breaking of the glass that
he jumped suddenly, and accidently
clipped off piece of the nose Of the
man he was shaving. and cut slice from
lone of his own fingers; with the razor: =,
The child was not injured. ,.'.,i 81:
Stephen Nkoiyo, a nephew of. the
King of the Free States of the COMO. is
student at the Wayland Seminary in
Washington. He was converted BY
missionaries, came to this country, and
is translating the Bible into the Congo.
tongue. His translation will be printed
as soon as he finishes it. This is the
first time that any one has ever attempt
ed to translate the Bible from the En-
glish to the Congo Language, and Nkoiyo
is probably one Of the youngest men
who ever under took work of similar
character. He j. very enthnsiastic over
his labors, and says he hopes that it
may achieve much good. ~