The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-10-17
DR1FTWoOD.
Caught Floating on tho News Our
rent and Steered Into
Our Omoe by our Army Of Correspondent
ut all Points of tho Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Reador1.

"due auu JOIN EelOer, malt brothers,
were hanged at Rusk, Texas, last Friday
for the murder of Vance Thompson.
Aug. II. :.
Bishop Turner. who has been an advo-
eating the plan of Afro.Americans going
to Africa set sail for that benighted
country last week, to see how it is him
self. ... ii.
VIM. Davis an Afro American laborer
on railroad near Roam, N. Y, replied
in surly manner to the contractor D.
o. Saunders last week, whereupon he
shot Davis fatally. Saunders was ar
rested. ..
On Friday Of last week, Joe Coe, an
Afro-American of Omaha, Nebraska, was
taken from jail by mob and hung. He
was charged with having committed an
assault upon Lizzie Yates, five year old
white girl, W no subse quently died.
Perhaps the most humorous episode
of the time, monumental in its audacity
absurd in it's conceit, and ridiculous
when calmly contemplated, the candi-
lacy of E. E. Cooper for the Worlds
Fair Commlssionership:- Indianapolis
World.
At Greenfield, Ind, the Jury in the
case of John Banks, Colored, of Indian
apolis, charged with attempt to murder
Edward Harvey at Colored picnic,
oear Maxwell. a few months ago, re-.
turned verdict of acquittal after five
minutes consideration.
The Colored people of Fulton county,
Ga, including Atlanta, are now taxed on
property assessed, 81 ,265 g 9, an increase
OF $330,O0O compared with the previous
year. This increase is considerably lar
IN proportion than that of the whites
One Colored man pays taxes on $l4 $50
worth of property.
The cage men at shaft No. 2, on the
tunnel at Niagara Falls lost control OF
the cage Tuesday and it fell to the
bottom of the shaft killing three Colored
men and fatally injurring two white
men. The cage tenders were in danger
of being lynched by the tunnel men and
they were locked up in the police sta.
ton fur safety. '".." ~ = '&:%:' - r.:
l.: Glasgow, Va, has Colored artis. ip
;>Mr. Samuel Vance Haywood, modest
member of an old aristocratic tar Heel
family, who has painted very excellen:
likeness of Fitzhugh Lee. as he appeared
on his black war horse on Pennsylvania
avenue, at the head of the Virgingia
troops at the inauguration of President
Cleveland. Gen. Lee prizes the por::
trait very highly. 49,
A series of barbarous outrages have
been committed on Colored men recent.
ly in Gloster, Miss. Among those who
cruelty suffered at the hands of the
white Comanches, is worthy Colored
man, industrious and in business, whose
place was invaded at night and himself
numerically logged, because he was
the owner of gold watch, and to lot him
know that Gloster is a white mans
town. . ..t....
The wife of William Fl Mason. Col.
ored man living at 81 East Gray street,
Columbus, Ohio. died suddenly at an
early hour Tuesday morning, and post.
norton examination held to-day devel.
oped the fact that death resulted from
an abortion produced by drugs. DR.. C
w. Bethauser, who has been attending
the woman, disclaims all knowledge of
her having taken any medicine that
would produce an abortion. The cor
oner will investigate. Mason and bis
wife formerly lived at Gallipolis.
William Smith; Colored, of No. 495
9Th av. New York, dropped dead in one of
the pevs of the African Methodist Epis.
copal church, West SD st.. Friday night.
It was during covenant meeting which
was being eloquently addressed by Rev.
D. Whistler. Smith suddenly rose from
his seat, waved his hands frantically in
the air. Then he fell into the adjoining
pew. Dr. Keele, who was called, said
that death had been instantaneous.
Smith was member Of the Sullivan st
Methodist Bethel, and enjoyed a wide
acquaintance.
J, The Domestic Monthly for October,
contains handsoYI1o cnlnrod ,,1oto ~ fho