The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-02-07
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on the News Cur.
rent and Steered Into
Our Office by our Army of Correspondents
at all Points of the Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Ee:lGer3.

At Indianapolis, Ind, Friday night,
Logan McAfee shot and killed his wife
and then committed suicide.
At Friar's Point, Miss, three Colored
men confined in jail, set the building on
fire and were burned to death.
The National Colored Press Associa-
ton has been called to meet in Cincin-
natl. Ohio, March 18th, 18th and 10Th.
Thomas Lucy indicted at Circleville,
Ohio, for cutting with intent to wound,
was found guilty and sentenced to the
penitentiary for two years.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" is playing in the
English provinces with ballet of black
girls. They dress entirely in black and
send the audience home feeling as
though they had attended funeral.
John Bond, Colored man of Mitchell,
Nd, has been in bed twenty-seven
years, having taken an oath never to
get up if his mother sold certain piece
of property, which she later disposed of.
A few nights ago two burglars were
going through Judge H. J. Ewings's
house at Cleveland, O.io, when the
judge opened fire with pistol John
Farley, Colored man, one of the
thieves, was MORALLY wounded.
The Ninth Cavalry, which fought with
such bravery in the recent Indian war,
| has been retained near the field Of &C
ton to watch further developments.
This request was made by the citizens,
and is very complimentary to the Color
ed soldiers.
The wife of Charles Ryesterer, who
created sensation few days since at
Sanduskry, o., by skipping for parts un-
known with Colored man, has written
to her husband from Norwalk, O., asking
permission to return to him. AS yet Mr..
Rysterer has not withdrawn his suit for
divorce.
1t is not often that Kentuckian raises
monument to an Afro American, but
Mr.. J. T. Estill, of Richmond, has done
so by erecting cenotaph in memory of
the. body servant Mark, who died ir
1886. Mark was a brave soldier and
fought at the side of his old master Cap
tain James Estill, in the desperate strug-
gle at Little Mountain in 1882.
VIM. H higgins, young white man,
was arraigned at Moberly, Mo-, last week
charged with unlawful cohabitation with
Colored woman named Sue Roberts,
who has borne him several children.
higgins seemed proud of the connection
and conf ssed to everything, convicting
| himself. He was fined 500, and in adj
dltion, sentenced to the county jail, at
Huntsville, for three months.
Monday night mob of masked men
went to house on the outskirts of Popu-
lar Bluff and took John Moore Colored
man to the woods. They puta rope
around his neck and hung him to limb
of tree. He was drawn up several
times in an effort to extort a confession
as to the whereabouts of some stolen
property. Moore protested his inno-
cence and the mob finally released him.
He could not identify any of the party.
An Indian hates Colored man. The
greatest punishment they have had was
IN having the Ninth Cavalry sent to fight
them. The Colored people are hated
because their new messiah takes care OF
all Colored people. It is only the white
people who are in danger They call
the Colored people bufaloes for two
reasons. One is because their hair curls
over their foreheads similar to the buffa.
los. The ether, is that when they used
to start on tkeir buffalo hunts they paint
ed their faces black.
Miss Nellie Smith, Colored girl aged
Is years, was recently returned te
Youngstown, o., from the Girls Indus
trial School Delaware, after short stay
1t being asserted that she was in deli
/ cate condition. When questioned, tn.
, girl charged her step-father Chastint
Porter. with running her. Porter wa
arrested, but the case Was dismissed, q
' the girl refused to substa initiate the charg,
: under oath. She was sent to the Intirm
t airy and recently gave birth to twins
! stubborn, one black, the other white.