The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-02-08
MULTUM IN PARV0.
News Pertaining to the Colored
People of the Land of the FREQ
and Home Of the Brave.
Gathered From EVERYWHERE.

Charles Harden an old man living at,
Athens, Ca, has not slept for four
years. y. w. -lss .s....s .
Policeman George Russell of DanviIle.
KY, who shot Perry Cooper Colored
some weeks ago has been tried and ac-
quilted. .'. .@s*-'s's<t . 5s't' ~
At Gainesville, Tex, Tuesday James
Shipp and Sam Hapgood had row over
the affection ola young lady. Ship il
dead now.
Lynus T. Hutson, Of Decatur, Ind, in
attempting to board freight train yes
terday fell and was run over. Death
followed in two hours.
T. An S-year- old Colored boy was sent
to the State prison at Nashville, Tenn.
Monday, to serve QUE year for larceny.
de is the youngest prisoner ever re-
celved at the institution.
Warren R. Wade, recently appointed
postmaster at Malcolm, Md, is the first
Colored man to receive such an Office in
Maryland. The appointment was made
at the request of Congressman Mudd.
A four-year old son of William H.
Wood, of Center Square, Montgomery
County, who swallowed carpet tack
in March, 1888, coughed 1t up few days
ago. His throat allied continually in the
interval.
A Wichita youth wanted his ex-sweet-
heart arrested on the charge of getting
goods under false pretenses, because she
had accepted long list of presents from
him and then refused to keep her pledge
to marry him.
A woman in Tennessee, while riding
on train at forty miles an hour, threw
her two'months.old baby from the win
dow. The conductor picked up the ba-
by unhurt, with the exec ption of few
slight bruises. The woman claimed
that it jumped from her arms.
At Youngstown, o., Sunday, Ralph
Reynolds, Coiored barber, attempted
suicide by taking an ounce of lauda-
mum, and while physicians were
endeavoring to save him, drew a razor
and slashed his throat, but was disarmed
before he could accomplish his purpose,
The Square League, Colored organi-
zation of st. Louis, is making a most
vigorous kick, and have adopted strong
resolutions against the republicans of
the three districts embracing St. Louie
because they have not been duly re-
membered in the appointive Offices.
They threaten to 20 Democratic next
election.
c. H. J. Taylor is the name of a Kan
sas City Colored man who is reported to
haye been told, on asking for a piece of
pie and cup Of coffee in a Kansas City
restaurant, that the price would be 81.
Taylor is said to have answered that the
price was all right, and to have thrown
down dime after consuming the light
repast. telling the proprietor to sue for
the rest.
A horrible case of infanticide has been
brought to light at Trenton, N. J.. The
cruel mother is Julia Craig, twenty
year-old Colored girl, who has been en-
ployed for the past four months as q
domestic at the home of Joseph Han
NUN, a retired and wealthy Quaker, iv-
ing on East Hanover street. The girl
! acknowledges that the child was born
alive, and, not wanting it, she took it by
| the body and dashed it's head against
the bedpost. killing it instantly.
Rev. w. B. Derrick, who has just re-
turned from trip through the South,
made an interesting address the other
evening in New York. He took hope
full view of what is called the race ques-
ton, predicted that the trouble will
soon die out entirely if officious medlers
do not interfere too much," showed the
necessity of patience, advised his race to
throw politics to the dogs" and said:
"Let US beg of Congress to let US alone.
We don't want any special legislation
for our race any more than the Ger
mans want it, or the Irish, or any other
people in this country. I, for one, am
tired of seeing myself on the senatorial
desecting table every December, the
marx for demagogue's dull WITT