The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-04-09
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on tho News Our
rent and Steered Into
Our Once by our Army OF Correspondent
ct al Points Of the Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Readers.

Mr.. B. Barnes has been elected Alder
man at Windsor, Ont.
A Manasseh society, composed of Col
ored men married to white women has
been organized at Des Monies, Iowa.
Judge M. W. Gibbs, of Little Rock,
Ark, was elected as one of the delegates
at large to the Republican National Con
vention Thursday.
The "Jim Crow Car" bill passed the
Kentucky senate last week by a vote of
| Is to 10 it is however thought that the
governor will veto it.
At Little Rock Saturday, Tom Bailey,
Colored, murderer of. F. Hackman, a
peddler. convicted Friday, was senten-
ced to be hanged May 5.
The two Afro Americans who were &C.
cused of assaulting the daughter of Post
master Brown, of Lithonia Va, were
pursued by mob and lynched, ofcourse.
Mr.. Jordan C. Jackson a prominent
Afro-American of Lexington, KY, was
elected as one of the delegates at large
to the Republican National Convention.
The Probate Court of Memphis, last
week set apart years support for the
wife and child of Thomas H. Moss, one
of the Afro Americans recently lynched
there.
Hon. H. P. Cheatham, of the second
district of North Carolina, the only Afro
American in the present Congress, has
again been Endorsed by reclamation for
reelection.
Monk Henry notorious Afro Ameri-
can bully was shot and killed last Satur.
day night by Charles Keef, also an Afro.
American, at a church festival at Coli
sion, KY. lie was local terror and bis
death cause no worry.
Among the Afro-American Journals
which have recently been launched D.
on the Journalistic sea are; "Wisconsin
Afro American" Milwaukee, Wis.,; The
Chicago Bee," Chicago, ILL.,: 1.-THE New
Age," Fresno, Cal; "The Springfield
Eye, Springfield. LII.
Judge M. W. Gibbs, receiver of public
moneys at Little Rock, April has beer
appointed Commissioner to conduct the
sale of unsold Government lots at Ho
Springs Ark, as Receiver for the gov
eminent. The Judge has special bond
which has been accepted, for 100000
one hundred thousand dollars. The es
timated proceeds of sale will amount tc
a quarter of a million. There wifi be
excursion rates from all points. The
sale commences next Tuesday.
Iowa's civil rights bill as amended by
the Twenty.fourth general assembly
reads as follows: AL persons within THU
state shall be entitled to the full anc
equal enjoyment of the accommodations
advantages, facilities. and privileges O.
inns, restaurants, chop houses, eatin,
houses, lunch counters, and all othe1
places where Refreshments are served
public conveyances, barber shops, batf
houses, theaters, and all other places O
amusements; subject only to the condi
tions and limitations established by Law
and.applicable alike to every person.
The circuit court of Jefferson count,
Arkansas convened in Pine Bluff las
week, and. in instructing the grand jury
Judge Elliott dwelt at length on tn,
lynching of the two Afro:Americans
Kelly and Banks, in front of the Cour
House in Pine Bluff on Feb IL for tn,
murder of J T. McAdams. The Judge
charged the grand jury to spare no pain
or expense in attempting to discover th'
perpetrators of that deed and endeavo
to make them suffer the penalty of thu
law. But, of course, it will be impossible
to find anybody out of the large num-
Der who assisted at the murder.