The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-09-26
CHICAGO.
mo Worlds Fair City as Viewed by
The Appeal Man.
compilation of q Number OF Happen-
uEs among the Afro-Americans
Of the Second City of this
Glorious Union

Miss Gertrude Jackson has been same-
what indisposed this week.
Mr.. Edwin Baker of New York Citv
is in the city for few days.
Mr.. Clarence Mayo left Tuesday for
Louisville to spend few weeks.
: Mrs. Hannah Humphrey is very sick
at her residence, 5l0 State street.
Miss Cora sempIe leaves next week
for Nashville to visit her parents.
Mrs. John Boston and Miss Gussie
Stewart have gone to Detroit for few
days.
Messrs. R 'chard Smith and Charles
Demming painted the Windy City red
Monday.
Mrs. Foster of Denver who has been
the guest of Mrs. Geo. w. Ellison has
returned home.
Messrs. William Weller and Alonzo
Malone spent two days looking at the
sights of Milwaukee.
Henry Brooks a waiter at the South
e1n Hotel shot himself at 100 Pacific
ave Saturday because a woman Tilted
him.
Rev. G. N. G,andeson, B. D., presi-
dent of Bennett College, Greensboro, N.
c., is in the city in the interest of the
college.
Mr.. Logan Webb is the owner of one
Of the finest rigs in the city-a fine
mambrino and surrey which cost no
less than $1,000.
Rev. and Mrs. Manuel Ford of Boone,
Iowa, who have been the gnests of Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Ellison have gone to
Rev. FOld's new charge at Osceola, Ia.
Mrs. Nancy Brown after spending two
weeks with her niece, Mrs. Humphrey,
departed for her future home in Nash
Vile, Tenn. She has resided heretofore
in Benton Harbor, Mich.
Mrs. j. H Sargent of Fort Wayne,
Ind, died Sept. Is, after an illness of
seven months. She leaves two children
and husband to mourn her loss. Mr..
Sergeant is we'll known in this city hav-
ing been on Fort Wayne dining car for
eight years. The APPEAL sympathizes
with him.
Mr.. Jas. Stepney of Erg'ewood tend
cred reception to Miss Ophelia Taylor
of Louisville, KY, Sunday evening. A
large number o! vocal and Instrumental
selections were rendered and delight
full repast was served, followed by pleas
ing toasts. Altogether very enjoyable
evening was spent. Among those pres
ent we're: Mr.. and Mrs. Smith of Bos-
ton, Mrs. Blake, Mr.. Miller, Mr.. Louis
Snead of Chicago.
William Lewis, we'll known levee
character, shot and almost instantly
killed Maggie Sells about o'clock We'd
nesday morning and MORALLY wounded
John Moore. A few minutes before 6
o'clock, Lewis called at 215 Plymouth pl.
and demanded admittance, which was
d. MED him. Forcing open a front win
and making his way upstairs, broke open
the door of room occupied by Moore
and the Sells woman. The next moment
the other inmates of the house heard
number of shots and Maggie Sells ran
from the room down the stairs and out
on the sidewalk, followed by Lewis, who
free several shots at her as she ran.
The woman dropped dead on the side
walk. and the murderer coolly pocketed
his revolver and walked of.
Moore was found lying on the floor of
the room upstairs, bleeding from q
wound in his left side. He was taken to
the county hospital, where the doctors
pronounced the wound fatal.
Lewis was arrested about half an hour
after the shooting, in front of I6l Custom
House pl. by Lieut.. Sheppard and locked
.upin Harrison street station. He denied
that he did the shooting, although there
were half dozen eye-witnesses of the
affair. The motive which prompted
him was jealousy. as Lewis lived with
the Sells woman up to two months ago.
when she left him for Moore. The
murderer, commonly known as "Bill"
Lewis, is a tough character. and the po-
lice say he killed man in Louisville
some years ago and served term in
the renitentiary for it, Moore and Mag
gle had a reputation almost as bad, and
recently they we're arrested for robbinp
a greener of ST 600. e.
Kirkwood, Mo.
Rev. S. M. Arthur, of Kansas City.