The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
MULTUM IN PARvO.
News Pertaining to the Colore1
People of the Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave,
Gathered From Everywhere

At Carlisle, KY, Monday Frank Rogers
Colored boy aged Is years, bad his
left foot cut off at the ankle while at
tempting to jump on the construction
train at the edge of the city, $3.50
Hon. E. P. McCabe who made not
able effort to secure the governorship Of
Oklahoma without success has just been
appointed treasurer of one of the largest
and richest coun ries of the new Terri
tory. A position worth fully $4,000 per
year.
H. A. Clark @ M. Brown and r. A.
Jones, of Cincinnati have issued call
for meetine:of Colored Democrats, of
Ohio, to be held at Sprinfeld on the first
day of the Democratic State Convention.
The object f the meeting is to form an
organization to assist in campaign work.
Last Sunday morning, at Birmingham,
Ala, in fit of jealousy, Charles Cato,
white, shot and killed his mistress, Liz
zie Mitchell, Colored, and then blew
his own. brains out. Four hours later
William Tatum, who had witnessed the
former tragedy, followed the example
by shooting his. mistress, Mary Barn cit,
and then himself.
Saturday Miss Nellie Faha, white was
married to Theodore J. Dolby Colored
musician and..composer. Dolby is a good
looking Colored man, and passed in st.
Joe, Mo-, his former home, as a white
man. When Miss Faha fell in love
with Dolby she believed that he was
married man, but he obtained divorce
from his Colored wife eight days ago on
the ground of adultry.
John Williams Colored porter in a
saloon, started toward Willis Allen, also
Colored, and employed by bookmaker
with knife in his hand in saloon at
the corner of Ninth and Delaware Kan
sas City last Wednesday evening. AL
len fired four shots, at Williams, three
of which took effect, one entering the
heart and causing death. An old quar-
rel is given as the cause of the shooting.
Allen ~ arrested.
At dance in Haughville, Ind, Satur-
day night row occurred between Peter
Carpenter and an Irishman named Pat
rick Horn, in which the latter was ut
with razor. This -inaugnrated= a. gen.
eral row. Marshal Andrew Dillon at
tempted to arrest some of the party,
when he was fatally shot Carpenter
has been arrested for cutting Horn and
Allen Ross for shooting Dillon. The
men were taken to Indianapolis to pre-
vent mob violence.
A mulatto named James Simpson, &C.
companied by a white woman, who he
claimed was his wife, have been stop
ping with a relative of Simpson in Dsn-
nison, Ohio for the past week. To-day
Benjamin P. Coursln, of California,
Washington County, Penn, put in an
appearance and claimed the woman was
his wife. She had eleped with the Col.
ored man, leaving him and their two
young children. He swore out war
rant and had both the parties arrested.
After conversation with HE wife he
agreed to take her back ifshe would dis
card her Colored lover, which she very
reluctantly consented to do. -.
There is trouble between the races
near Bamberg, Barnwell County, s. c..
On Saturday some Colored men went
fishing in boat owned by white man
after they had been ordered not to use
it. When the men returned they were
get upon by the whites and beaten. In
the fight white man was severely in
jured. On Tuesday night Robert Kearse
and a number of friends went to the
house of the Colored man who appeared
to be the leader Of the party. The mon
were in ambush rear the house and fred
on the whites, wounding' eight of them,
none dangerously. It is feared there
! will be more trouble over the matter,