The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-01-24
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on tho News Cur
rent and Steered Into
Our Office by our Army Of Correspondents
at all Points of the Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Readers.

Oliver Thixan was lyncbed near Fay
cite, Mo-, Tuesday morning for criminal
assault upon young lady.
Andrew Ramey and ''Chuck" Tilley,
Of Jefferson City, Mo-. had quarrel last
Tuesday, over girl, when Ramey shot
and instantly killed Tilley. Ramey is in
Jail. xa. -
Green Watson, white, shot and Instant
" killed Frank Watson, Colored cookou
the steamer, Belle Crockett, near Texar-
kama, Ark, because the latter, who was
waiting on the table, when asked for
butter said there was none.
Eleven men were arrested last week
at Catherine, Ala charged with conspir-
acy in notifying the Colored postmaster
to leave the place under penalty of death.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has is
sued an order abolishing the office.
At Bakersfield, CAL, Andrew Mckay
and the Colored porter at the depot had
a quarrel over a dice game Monday.
Mckay struck the porter heavy blow
on the jaw, dislocating his neck from the
spinal column and causing instant death.
Mrs. Henry Ray, a Colored women,
whose husband was an army cook in the
war Of 1912, is now living near Glen Gar
diner, New Jersey, at the age ofll2 years.
She is the oldest pensioner in the Unit
ed States, and although she is in good
health ia nnar1v hind
Sam Beecham, an inmate of the Door
farm at Lebanon, Ind, got into dis
pute with Geo. Wharburton, another in
mate, over the ownership of a chair,
last Sunday and during the dispute the
former struck the latter several times
with heavy cane fracturing his skull
and killing him.
Congressman John M. Langston has
introduced bill, which proposes to
amend the Federal constitution by pro-
viding that no elector shall be allowed to
| vote at Federal election who cannot
read and write the English language,
the basis of representation of each State
to be apportioned upon the vote SO cast.
At Youngstown, Ohio, Willie Smith, a
Colored girl aged 10, recently charged
her step-father, Chastine Porter, with
having caused her ruin, but she dismiss
ed the case and was sent to the Girls
| industrial Home, at Delaware. Tuesday
she was sent back, the authorities refus-
ing to keep her, as she would soon be-
come a mother.
/ Rev. Simon P. Anderson, q we'll known
preacher, of st. Louis, who was lately
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary, was Sunday surrendered bv his
bondsmen, Christ Schwacker and Henry
Bridgewater, and was taken and placed
in Jail at Clayton. The bondsman were
afraid Anderson would skip out while
the motion for new trial was pending.
A Colored barber, of Lincoln, Neb.,
named Mcfarland has confessed that he
murdered John Sheedy on the 18th inst,
at the instigation of Mrs. Sheedy who
agreed to give him SIS, 900 to do the job.
Mcfarland says that Mrs. Sheedy also
poisoned her husband after he had as
eaulted him to make the job sure. Shee-
dy was quite wealthy. Mrs. Sheedy and
her paramour, Harry Walstrom, have
also been arrested.
Tuesday nig't about a dozen white
men went to the home of i'm Blackbu
some distance from Little Rock, Ark,
took him from his bed and gave him such
a terrible fogging that he is under ply
sician's care. The mob then visited the
house of Rich Brown, man of some
prominence, battered down the door,
and as they attempted to enter, Brown
fred into the crowd with double bar
relied shotgun, killing Jim Huntley and
severely wounding another of the party.
Brown fed but afterwards returned and
surrendered to the authorities. It is
not known how the trouble originated.