The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-04-18
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on the News Cur.
rent and Steered Into
Our ONCE by our Army of Correspondents.
at all Points of the Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Rea6ers.

Mr.. John G. Keelan of Toledo, O.. has
been appointed compositor in the govern
ment printing office.
Charles Craig the Cir" innati murderer
sentenced to be hanged Friday has been
respited to May Sth. ....l'.- - -
Ann Baker. Colored, of Jackson, Miss,
has confessed to numbering her husband
because he made her cook breakfast too
early.
John H. Kincle, admitted to the bar
lest week. at Savannah, Ca, is the first
Afro American allowed to practice in
that city.
There are e9l convicts in the Arkan-
sas penltentiary of whom 446 are Negroes.
IL Is evident that black skin does not
debar man from entree to the prisons
at least of that ate.-Prison Mirror,
Col. George W. Williams. author Of
''Ihe Colored Troops in the Rebellion"
who has been for some time in the en-
ploy of the Congo free state, is out with
letter censuring Stanley for the rear
guard affair.
Alexander Foote, who murdered J. J..
Meadows at BluefeId, W. Va, last Tues
DAY, was taken from Jail at Princeton.
Mercer county, Va, and hung to tree.
just before being strung up he confessed
three other murders.
jackson is still going about on crutch-
es, but processes to be confident that he
Will be in perfect condition to give bat
tie to Corbett. He says he expects tn
lay the sticks aside in ten days, and that
will give him four weeks in which to
train.
Mrs, J. A. Houston, wife of a promin-
ent farmer of independence, Mo-, on
Monday. eloped with an Afro-American
farm hand named Dick Black. Mrs.
Houston is the mother of a family of
grown up children. The elopement has
caused great excitement and if the man
Is captured he stands splendid chance
OF dangling on the end ola rope. -
Patrick Murray. was fatally stabbed
last Friday at Syracuse, n. y, by Moses
L. Walker, the Colored ex-catcher ofthe
Stars. Walker dropped into drunken
stupor after his arrest and when no
awoke he stretched himself and asked
an officer in attendance: "Who was
that feHow,I cut? He made a bad move
when he came for me-"
Walker was student at Oberlin COL
lege one year and was also year in the
Ann Arbor law school. Murray had
served term in Auburn prison for bur-
glary. 80; .,
Charlie Bagsley who killed officer
Wood at Blocton, Ala, a few d avs since,
was shot and killed by a posse at Johns
station last Friday morning. Several Of
ticers learned that the murderer was con-
cealed IN house near Johns, and going
there, demanded his surrender. In
stead, as in the former instance, Bagsley
opened fire with two pistols. Deputy
John Sanders fell, painfully wounded
and Bagsley broke out of the rear door
OF the house and ran. Before he had
gone many steps the crowd opened fire
on him and he fell with fully twenty bull
let holes in his body.
An intelligent looking Colored man
pointing to the tower of the Tribune
building New York City, last Saturday,
said that he prophesied the earthquake
IN this city on Sunday afternoon in Au-
gust. 1884. II prophesied the Charles
ton earthquake and also the Johnstowu
disaster. Now have seeD," he said.
lin vision that tall building over there.
with large part of the city, destroyed
by an earthquake. While part will be
destroyed, not stone of the rest will be
disturbed. Chicago will be entirely de-
stroyed at the same time. It will hap
pen during my life time" The prophet
proved to be Rev. A. Jones of Carlisle.
Pa, a Baptist minister who is now hold
ing revivals in the Colored churches of
this city. He uttered his prophesies in
matter of fact wav, as if there were
nothing extraordinary about them.
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