The Appeal., 1892-05-21
DRIFTWOOD.
caught Floating on the News Our
rent and Steered Into
Our ONCE BY our Army OF Correspondent,
1T al Points Of tho Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
ReHdorS.

fully Condensed for Hasty
| Readers.
Chas Amosby is dead at Memphis,
Tenn.
There are more Colored people in
Rhode Island in proportion to popule-
ton than in any other State in New
England.
An unknown Afro American accused
of an attempt to assassinate the owner OF
Leniveck plantation in He'll Hole Swamp
near Charleston, S. G was shot to death
by mob Sunday.
The M. E. Conference in session at
Omaha, on last Tuesday by a rising vote
without dissent denounced the Jim Crew
Car law and the outrages generally per
petrated upon Afro-Americans in tie
South.
One day last week George E, Ross was
accused of attem pting to outrage white
woman near Melvin, Miss, and lodged
in Jail. Last Friday night brutal mob
Of white men went to jail took Ross and
hanged him.
l.. D. Slaughter and Thomas Bailey,
the two Afro-American murderers, were
executed at Little Rock, Ark, last Fri
day. Slaughter killed his mistress, Jen-
ME Love, last August, and Bailey mur-
dered }. +. Hackman, map peddler.
Two Colored labcrers on the Norfolk &
Western railway near Louisiana, Kv.,
named Smith and Finky, killed Colored
| boy last week, without the slightest pro-
vocation. Friends of the murdered boy
pursued and captured them and riddled
their bodies with bullets.
The color line must be drawn in labor
circles, or the Federation of Labor will
lose most Of it's white members in New
| Orleans. The white organizer was on
last Saturday night ordered out of the hall
where new Union was being organized
and an Afro American performed the
duties of organizer.
Mary Brown, Susie Williams and
Jennie Glib on, Afro-American girls
under l6 years Of age were presented tc
the criminal court of Memphis Monday
charged with murder. They were in
dicted for driving buggy over Capt
David Hukill, an aged steamboat man
who subsequently died of his injuries.
Miss Margaret Watson, a white woman
who died recently in Pittsburg be
queathed Mr.. George Washington, al
Afro-American of Perryville, $6 900 anc
his eldest daughter Miss Maggie $5, 900
Miss Washington is graduate of ALE
ghepy High School, and for the pas
two years has been studying at Oberli1
College, Ohio.
A conflict occurred at Simmons Greek
Va, last week between a white mai
named Justice and an Afro-America,
named Wells in which the former as
saulted the latter. Friends of Well
took up the matter and pursued Justic,
and shot him to death. Fifty armed
white men then made an attack on tn,
Afro Americans and shot Wells to deatl
and wounded several others.
Lebbus Redman Wolfey NJ. A. O
Mexico, No., and James Robert Spur
geon of Richmond, Va, both members O
the Senior Class in the Yale Law school
were named sometime ago to speak fo
prize offered by Prof Francis Waylart
dean of the law faculty Mr.. Spurgeon i
a Colored man while Mr.. Wolfey i
white. The latter has announced tina
he will not compete for the prize. H,
objects to Mr.. Spurgeon's color but no
to his intellectual qualities.
Virginia Johnson, a young woman EN-
ployed as a servant at 200 Chelton ave
nue., Germantown, was Saturday com
mitted TO Moyamensing Prison by Cor
oner Ashbridge to insure her appearanc,
as witness against DR.. Nichols. an Afro
American physician, of 1886 Fitzwste
street, Philadelphia whom she admitted
was guilty of criminal malpractice upol
her. A warrant has been issue for tn
arrest of DR.. Nichols, who about si,
years ago received sentence of thre,
years for similar offense.
An attempt was made to lynch ma,
named Sim Cummins by band of Afro
Americans at Charleston, W. Va, Sun
cay as a result of game of craps" H,
shot at crowd with whom he wa
engaged in a general fight, woundin,
4 three. He was chased by mob for
mile and half, when he was arrested
| by officers, who prevented Tyr ching
When brought to the Jail large crowt
of Afro. Americans surrounded the of
fcers, and at one time seized him, bu
prompt action prevented further trouble