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Rescue fire company, No. 5, gave
their annual parade at Salem, Ala,
recently. The affair was we'll man
aged.
Mr.. Lewis Anderson, Of Washing
ton, D. c., has been appointed to a
position in the press department OF
the Worlds Fair.
A. S. Tucker, Of Way Cross, Ca,
made application to the bar, but
was refused because OF intormallty
in his certificate.
A young coIored man near Mo-
bile, Ala, while sitting at table,
was instantly killed by shot from
some unknown person.
Albert Black burn, Of Springfield,
Ohio, has invented railroad sig
nal, and Daniel Smith Of the same
place, has gotten out tomato Dig
ger.
"A Society Of colored people of|
New Orleans refused to go on an
excursion, because the company
put on "iim crow" cars for their
transportation
Color ed United States troops
took thirty Indian prisoners to Mt.
Vernon, Ala, from San Carlos, Arl-
zona. The squad was in charge OF
Corporal Thomas Stephens.
Ida Lucas was fatally stabbed at
Louisville, KY. The circumstances
developed at the coroners inquest,
goes to show that she came to her
death from knife wound through
the heart, inflicted by her husband,
Henry Lucas. There was not
single eye witness to the killing,
but proof appears to be strong
against her husband.
Israel Gray, of st. Paul, who died
recently, willed every colored
church in the city 5000, and the re-
mainder of his fortune, $40, 900 to
establish a fund for the education
Of needy young colored people.
DR.. James III. Howard, of Wash
ington, D. c., had strong letter In
the Washington, Cd. C.) Post, May
26. in which he drew attention to
the fact that Sunday is not Sabbath
the day which He gave for religl-
Gus worship.
The graduating class of the Chi
cago college Of Law, showed their
appreciation of P. 0. Gray, the only
Afro-American in the class by ten
dering him and his bride recep-
ton and presenting Mr.. Gray with
complete set Of poems C-ho,Ioa
" z AMoKle, of 418 west 37th street,
: New York City, was appointed an
inspector of water meters, Tuesday,
by Commissioner Gilroy. Mckle
} passed civil service examination.
The salary is So a day.
The official combinations to life
Imprisonment Of the death sentences
Of the Navassa rioters arrived IN
! Baltimore, Tuesday from Wash
I ington. The three colored men.
Henry Jones, George Singleton
Key and Edward Smith will be ta
ken from the Baltimore city jail to
the Kings county penitentiary al
Brooklyn, there TO serve their life
:, sentences.
S Four colored men were burned to
e death near Chattanooga last week
& It seems that construction tran
has been located just south OF the
tunnel, at Dry Greek Siding to1
some time. A box car has beer
used as kitchen; the cooks were
King Meadows, head cook, ant
John Harvey, Will and Walter
], Browder, assistant cooks; these
I four men were burned to ashes
I The fire occurred about midnight
/ the cause of it is only surmlsed, s.
! 4 far IS learned, one theory is. tha
: tle men were so drunk, that the.
I did not know when the car accl
i IDENTIFY caught and could not sc
j out.
O. Senator Call is a Smart man am
b. clever politician, and perhaps
y his habits y ere different he Nigh
q not be So often a disgrace to hi
% state and his party. Perhaps, toe
s he is as good a senator as could b
in expected from a state that is rule
o. by a democratic caucus, where free
ID dom of thought and expression
le repressed, and where home rul
ID and honest elections are altoge e,he
D. unknown.-N. Y. Mail and E.
le press.
~ Mrs. Annie e. Walker, of Wasl
y ington, D. c., has caused the facu
= : ty Of the Concoran art gallery muc
!. anxiety by proving eligible to az
!. = mission. Her drawing sent to th
I 1 committee proved entirely satisfa
he tory, but when she presented he
II II ticket of admission the instructt
IL informed her that it would nev'
Y do to admit "colored" people;
IL - the committee had known her to |
a. Il scolored" they would not eve
-, have examined her work.