The state capital., 1892-09-17

George Harvey whose home was in
Chlcago, committed suicide at Lima,
o., recently,
1t is rumored that E. P. McCabe will
sever his connection with the Langston
City Herald,
| w. W. Williams is trying to form a
bicycle stock company to be composed
entirely of colored men.
The Second Baptist Church d at corr
st Louis, opened their new cbititnte
16earundnst Sunday Aug 14th.
The colored citizens OF Portland, Ore.
held mass meeting to demajad race
representation in the public offices.
The alpha" Home at Indianapolis,
for aged or indignant women has an in
mate aged 107 years and one 1l5 years
OF age respectively
Wilson Woodford, recently admitted
TO the bar at Decatur, ILL.,, attained 95
per cent in his examination, and stood
second in a class of forty white.
Fifty cOlOred men have been employ
ed at the Carnegie mills as 'puddlers'
which has so incensed the strikers as
to make bloody riot imminent.
Billy McLain is leading colored COM
n6t
"South before the War" company
which opened the new Emp ire Theatre
A colored man named John Henry
died at the work house in Indianapolis
last week of consumption. He was sent
to the work house for go days for veg
rancy. His home was in Virgin -
Ben Howard, who was under arrest
and being taken to jail at Evansville,
Ga, on the charge of shooting man
from ambush, was taken from the con-
stables by mob and shot to death.
A party aboard an excursion train en-
route from Harrodsburgh to Richmond |
KY, engaged in a quarrel over crap |
game, when Sid Egglston was fatally |
shot. The murderer escaped.
Rev. J. B. Fields. of Denver, COL, the |
famous lecturer, historian and preach |
er, has just closed months successful |
engagements of lectures in Kansas |
City, Kas., and vicinity. He will So
journ in st. Joseph, Mo-, about two
fortnights beginning Sept 1st.
AT Shreveport, La, Aug. 9th, Silas |
Mcfarland, murdered his wife on the
Hodges plantation, twenty-three miles
below this city. The woman was shot |
in the back of the head without warn
ing. Jealousy was the cause ofthe act. |
Mcfarland barely escaped. lynching.
~
w III. H. Hart prominent young
lawyer of Washington, ID. c., is being
favorably considered as assistant dis |
trict attorney He was for many years
private secretary for Senator Evarts, u |
S., and was the only colored man to
hold such position.
The No. IL, fire department nine OF
Kansas City, met the Lexington Black
touoChitiSc DIT GApOeitlOu 4 dIk, hailSdS
City. Saturday and Sunday Sept. Sd
and 4th, besides the ball game there
were foot races and ball Throwing con-
tests for prizes. These are the two
crack colored clubs of the state. DAN
iel Gatewood, general manager, No. IL
Engine House, 1909 Indiana ave.
Mrs. Charles Hawkins, wife of the
wealthiest Afro-American of Daviess
county, Ind. and Mrs. ALI Buress, a
prominent colored woman of Peters
burg have filed suits against the pro-
prietors of famous health resort:
These ladies went to the Springs to re-
main a few weeks, Mrs Buress beirg
an invalid. They were given rooms in
the hotel, and having unpacked their
trunks and made their toilet were des-
cending to the dining room, when they
were stopped by the hotel man and po-
litely informed that he could not enter
tain them, owing to the bitter opposi-
tion Of his white guest. :