The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-02-13
DRIFTWOOD.

Caught Floating on tho News Our
rent and Steered Into
our once BY our Army Of Correspondents
1T all Points OF tho Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Readers.
Maysville has Colo, ed population OF
1851.
At Glasgow, KY, Friday, a Colored
man named Overton was killed by fall.
ing wall.
Charles Monkey has been arrested for
getting drove of cattle under false pre-
lenses from O. M. Miller of Spencerville,
Ohio. .''.'. =
Emil Pasha, writing from Msua, con.
firms the stories of cruelties practiced
by slave-hunters. EMU says that he
pursued one hunter for six days, during
which he counted ffty-one bodies OF
slaves who had been recently killed.
The bodies of all were worn to skeletons,
and the skulls Of thirty1nine had been
beaten in.
A Colored child 4 years of age died at
Hopklnsville KY, Thursday from cruelty
and neglect. Rosa Mason had been
gwen the child by it's dying mother last
summer and during the recent cold spell
it was so cruelty neglected that it's feet
were terribly frozen, several of it's toes
falling off, and its body was badly mutt
lated from brutal beating.
A Colored man of Todd County Ken.
lucky named John Pendleton was arrest
ed several days since on some trif1inp
charges. Amob oftwenty- five or thrifty
went to the Jail Saturday night, got pos
session of Pendleton, took him into the
woods where they beat him nearly to
death and ordered him to leave the
country, which he did after going TO a
physician and having his wounds dressed.
Miss Bryant has, been a school teacher
and occupying high place in the pnblic
schools of Birmingham Ala. She was
naturally leader in Colored society cir.
cles of the best class. She had saved UP
81, 100 and it was all IN the bank. Wal.
ter Edwards, bright Colored porter
found it out and paid assiduous court to
her. Walter is married, but love over
came all scruples. So drawing her mon.
ey from the bank, she fled with him tc
New Orleans.
A novel entertainment was given Fri
day night at the Crescent Opera House
Jackson, Ohio, it being under the aus
pices of the Colored church, the princi
pal feature being cake-walk- cake
being the prize given the lady and gen.
tlemen making the most impressive ap.
pearance on the floor. The first prize
was awarded to Mr.. Eliza Jones and Miss
Aga Sue. The entertainment was new
one and we'll attended, netting a neat
sum of money for the church.
Charles Creatch, man about town.
went into the "Holy Moses" saloon at
Crede, Colo, when all had settled down
and some were asleep. The Colored
porter, L. Hall, was lying on stud poker
table asleep. Creatch pulled six.
shooter, and saying: "I'll shoot the heart
out of you, you-nigger," blazed away
but being under the influence of liquor
fired low, the bullet going under the
table. Bell Immediately vacated his DO
sition on the table and sought safety in
flight out the back door of the building
Deputy Marshal Sam Williams arrived
at Paris, ILL.,, Saturday with Charley Car.
ter, the Colored whisky peddler who
shot Deputy Marshal, Bill Colbert al
Atoka, who was trying to arrest him
about | o'clock Wednesday morning
Colbert and another man first found
Carter at a restaurant, where shots were
exchanged. Later they met at the de.
pot, where Carter shot Colbert through
the arm, SCATTERING it badly. About II
o'clock Williams reached Atoka and
went in search of Carter. He found him
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon about :
miles from Atoka and arrested him with.
out any trouble.
A dramatic scene was concluded al the
death-bed of Amanda Deshazo at Ne
vada, Mo, last Saturday. The woman
was shot on the 2Sth instant by her hus
band Ira Deshazo, lingering in great
agony until Saturday morning. Whe1
she found she must die she expressed {
desire to see her husband. He wal
was taken to the room where she lay
the same in which he fred the fatal shot
Desbazo threw himself upon the be-
weeping and begging his wife to saw
he had not killed her inte-
"My poor, dear wife. you
did not intend to kill you"
over and over again, but th;
an gave no. reply, sim
head away when Des' -
her.