The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-01-11
Null TUM in PARVo.
News Pertaining to the Colofed
People Of the Land OF the Free
and Home of the Brave. :.
8athered From Everywhere. j

More than 1000 Colored people have
settled in Oklahoma. ~. !.
I Six Colored men have been appointed
n the fire department. of Springfield, O.
:. After several days Of intense SUFFERING
Joseph Smith Of Helena, Ark, died re-
Gently Of hydrophobia.
/ Grand Army posts at New Orleapeurs,
exercised over the organization 81 Z Col
ored post Of that order. 5
At Wilmington, O., Eli Brady While,
Eu uni e log the saw mill was seri-'
ously in1red by its falling on him. &.
:EdNin N orrisen, sevente epseaars old
wss flaed Tuesday At .,Haa:arond, I'M,
! by :the.fastma traia'on the NJ. G., B. Il.
T. VIII Thompson and, Grant;::R urr s:|l 81 81
Gainesville, Ca, foughtsa duel With g.
single ak and the latter killed the fosmsss;
At Iogansport' Ind, Gus Jones il in
jail on charge of adu1try alleged to.
nave been committed with a.sMiss
Evans, aged IA years. ~ ~: -: c
On Tuesday at Duluth, MINI, James;
Howard white, and Lizzie Kefrell, Col
ored, were married Judge Morris: Norris; per-.
forming the ceremony. ..~~: .rcr:..ss;z..,.
Will Hargrave, Colored barber Of
Evansville, Ind, who cut his; wife's
throat with razor last week, has=been
arrested at Henderson, Ky. .
A white widow of San Francisco Who.
Is worth property valued at $3.50, GOO a :;
infatuated with Peter Jackson the puaiL-.
lst and wishes to marry him. ..
| Col. James Lewis has been appointed
Commander of the new G. A. R. post re-
Gently organized among the ex.FederaI
Colored soldiers Of New Orleans. =.
! VIM. Loston the Colored> enginea Of
the building corner Of sth & Central
streets, Kansas City, shot and killed
Robert Roberts, the janitor, last week.
l. Colored people are leaving North and
South Carolina for Mississippi and other
Southern points. Poor crops and scar-
city OF money are given as reasons for
| the exodus. -
Governor Boss of Texas, has offered a
reward of $3.50 each for the arrest and (
conviction of the parties engaged in the
killing Of the two Colored men in Anee-
lima County Dec. &c. 2, ~
Citizens of Barnwell, N. c., informed
two Northern detectives who went down
there to earn the Governors reward Of
Tered Tor the arrest of the men who
lynched eight Colored men last week
that they had better move on.
A Colored:pensioner in Missouri draw
ing Sl4 month, boosted to stranoer
that he could set more fence than anv
man IN the country. When his pension
was stopped, he found out that the stran-
ger was government detective sent to
investigate his case.
VIM. Henderson of Lexington, Ky., is
IN jail charged with bigamy. Six years
ago Henderson had a wife left him and
and went to live with another man bv
whom she had had child. Hender-
son thought that this divorced him. go
married another woman.
Allentown has girl to be proui of.
A few nights ago she ate fourteen friad
oysters,two pieces of bread three pickles
two pieces of red beets. two oranges,
two apples, three bananas, two pieces
OF chocolate c@ke, a piece of fruit cake.
lot OF grapes. piece of cocoanut cake.
and some candy.
At Colored ball in North Carolina
Christmas night, Wallis Glass, dancer.
found fault with the music, saving with
an inelegance which his fervor excuses.
that he couldn't keep time with it no.
how" The aggrieved musician there
upon shot Wallis dead, thus proving
that man who can't play the banjo
may have a good touch when it comes
to the trigger. ...
Seventy masked men rode into West
point, Ga, Sunday merging and deliy-.
cred Will Wallace noted desperate
from Jail. About four months ago a
Colored man named Rouse Gordon was
assassinated while working in his field.
Shortly afterward Wallace met Colored
minister who preached Gordons funeral
and made Him repeat the sermon in the
public road. He then made the preach
er dance, after which he shot lis mus
tache off and let him go. Other outrages
were perpetrated upon the Colored peo-
pie. 1t is believed that Wallace was the
leader in all the trouble.
That is a rather pretty story that is
now making the rounds about Congress
Cheatham, the Colored representative
from North Carolina. It tells that he
asks for the retention in Office ofa
young democrat in his district on the
ground that in the old days of slavery
he (the congressman was given as a
bridal present to the young mans mo-
Their. If true, the story has many NOR
ais. Not only does it show the con-
CHEESEMAN'S magnanimity in strong
light, but it directs attention to the
marvellous change of fortunes which
quarter of a century has wrought in the
South.
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