The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-02-15
MULTUM IN PARvO,
News Pertaining to the Colored
People of the Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.

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! A Colored laborer in South Carolina
has been sent to penitentiary for break
ing contract to work given time for
his employer.
Apreacher at Charlotte, N. c., alluded
personally to one of his parisoners in q
Sermon, and two nen were killed and
three shot in the ensuing fracas.
Henry Blakeney was fatally shot by
Henry Warning at Oberlin, Ohio, We'd
nesday night. Both men are Colored.
The cause of shooting was quarrel over
girl.
George Godfrey, of Boston. and Patsey
Cardiff, of Minneapolis, have signal ar
ticles fora fight the winner to take $1,000
and the looser $3.50. The date must be
named before March Is.
The dwelling of farmer named Rose
near Stevenson, Ala,. was burned Sat-
urday night and that Mr.. Roth and his
family, consisting of wife and four
children, persisted in the flames.
The outcome of the National C,nven-
ton of Colored men in Washington, D.
c.. last week was the formation of the
American Citizens Equal Rights Associ-
alton. 1t will meet annually, in Febru-
| ary.
The Virginia Legislature has passed a.
bill giving the consent of the State to
the erection of a hotel at Fort Monroe
by J.. c. Asqurg, Colored, who is the
commemorative Attorney of Norfolk
County.
Harry Brown, one of the most widely
known Colored trainers of race horses
In America, died the other day in Lex
ington. He was the late James A. Grim
stead's trainer, and handled many
noted horses.
In Florence County, S. c., Coroner S.
T. Burch killed Colored man whom
he found. as alleged, stealing potatoes
from his yard. The murderer then
presided at the inquest, the jury re-
turned verdict of justifable homicide.
The appointment of Frances Flood.
q young Colored girl of New York.
by Captain Meredith as a plate print
er's assistant has exited great wrath in
the bureau of engraving, all the plate
printers having refused to work with
her.
White County, Arkansas claims the
champion big girl. Her name is Nellie.
| rI|HQ Mo1ohpo ,
the 18th of last August, and now weighs
23O pounds. Her father is dead. but
she has two sisters and a brother, all
younger than herself.
Charles Log4n, of Parkersburg. w.
Va, was burned in an oil explosion.
taken home and put to bed. Shortlv
afterwards his mother was Mortified to.
discover that the bed was on fire. The
strange occurrence can be accounted for
on the theory spontaneous combustion.
Minister Fred Douglass writes to q,
friend; am quite satisfied with nv
position in Havti. There is chance of
being of some service here. It is the
black mans country and while there is
much to regret in it's condition there is
much to commend. The people are
called lazy but they do manage to ex-
pert 100000 worth of produce per
annum.
/ Louis Butler, aged about seventy years.
and formerly slave, was buried at Gen.
tropolis last Monday. Butler is we'll re-
membered by many of the old residents
of Kansas City. He was one of the most
sfalwart men ever seen here, being 6
feet 3 inches in height and weighing
about two hundred and fifty pounds.
stralghtas an arrow and finely developed.
His arm was the size of an ordinary
mans leg.
Wash Robinson, Colored. died at
at Mitchell, Ind, Wednesday from the
effects of Rough on Rats. and the entire
family are suffering from the poison.
which had been placed on a shelf above
table where they mixed their dough.
for baking bread, and prepared their
meat for cooking. His widow and six
children are in a precarious condition.
1t is supposed the wind blew the poison
on the meat or -four while preparing
dinner.
The Sons of Protection, Colored
secret organization of Lexington, Mo-.
were iniating seven candidates the
other evening. The applicants were
blindfolded, when Rice Anderson, mar
shall of the lodge, thinking to have some
fun at the expense of his unsuspecting
brethren, ignited the fuse of an inn
mense frecracker which he had pro-
cured for the purpose of soaring them.
The fuse burned too quickly for him.
and before he could relinquish his hold
upon the cracker it exploded, tearing
his right hand into shreds
Della Humphrey, an ignorant Colored
woman living at Macomb, ILL.,, has been
recently turned from light mullato to
an ebony black. She became greatlv
frightened over the singular occurrence.
and has been fairly insane over the idea
that she was "voodooed.n A Colored
doctor from Quincy, named F. L. Tenor.
claiming to have powers Il. dispel the
"voodoo" curse, was sent for and adj.
ninistered the poor creature some sort
Of drug. The woman Immediately
went into spasms and soon died in great
agony. The doctor has disappeared.