The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-03-14
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on the News Cur,
VI rent and Steered Into
O s,uu once by our Army OF Correspondsnss
st AL Points Of the Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
3 Re:sderz.
There are nine Colored letter carriers

at Mobile, Ala. s.
There are forty Colored preachers IN
M1nchesteT,
Mr.. Lewis D. Easton of Cincinnati has
been appointed deputy sheriff.
Miss Nahar the noted elocutionist ap-
peared in Savannah recently.
A Chinese newspaper published in
San Francisco has been sued for libel by
a Negro and an Indian.
Haley Hill a Co1ored waiter was burn
ed to death on the steamer City of Rich
mond at New York Saturday.
Rev. j. T. White has resigned the pas
torate of the End Baptist church, Hele-
ma, Ark. after filling 1t for 26 years.
Alabama now comes to the front with
story about the death of Colored wo-
man who was one hundred and fifty-six
years old.
Shakespeare Reeves, was hanged at
Newcastle, DEL, last Friday for an al
legged felonious assault committed upon
little Grace Clark, a white girl of eleven
years, near Newcastle on Sunday, Sept.
%. Reeves who was employed by the
father of the girl, decoyed his victim in
to the barn and maltreated her SO that
for several days her condition was crit
ical.
When George Rivers, a Savannah
Afro-American was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary for stealing $50
he asked the court to restore to him that
portion of the money which had been
found in his pockets when arrested.
Rivers argued plausibly that he ought
to get the cash as he will have to work
three years for it, but he failed to con-
vince the court.
At the meeting Of the International
Union of Bakers and Confectioners at
Indianapolis, last Tuesday the "Negro
question" came up in the form of an ap-
peal by Robert Long, of Kansas City.
He applied for membership in the local
union, but was rejected on account of
color and appealed to this meeting. The
appeal was sustained by a decided vote
and the Kansas CITY union was instruct
ed to receive Long'or stand suspended.
An individual who called himself DR..
Sherwood and claimed to be minister.
recently turned up in Pine Bluff, Ark,
and held great revival. The mother
of one of the young ladies of the city,
however, found out that the CDR" though
accompanied by a woman he claimed as
his wife, was writing love-letters to her
daughter and preparing to elope with
her. Thereupon the mother dubbed
the DR." who in very short time .''lit
OUT"
Dan Porter was sentenced to be hang
ed at Quincy, ILL.,, March Goth, but e.
capped from the jail last week, got as far
as Kahoka, Mo-, when he was tracked to
house near Fairmont. When he came
out of the house, the four men who
were tracking him, leveled their Win
chesters and demanded that Porter give
up his arms. He delivered revolver
and a..razor, but kept his right hand in q
pocket telling his captors to shoot him
or he would shoot himself. One of the
men fred at Porter but the shot took no
effect Porter then pulled revolver
from his pocket, and placing it to his
temple, fired and dropped dead. The
crime for which Porter was to be
hanged was the murder of a man named
Edward Smith. There was a reward of
$1,000 for him, dead or alive.