The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-04-16
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Our Once BY our Army Of Correspondent
ct oil Points of tho Compass, Care
fally Condemned for Hasty
Readers.

American in Tennessee, died recently
in Knoxville. He was worth over 500.
600.
The recent floods in Mississippi have
caused considerable loss of life. More
than 100 Afro.Americans have been
drowned.
The first brick house erected in Char
lesion after the war was built by Col
ored mason for a Colo1ed gentleman,
! Mr.. Robert Harney.-Pee Dee Educa-
| tor.
Three streets in Guthrie Oklahoma
have been named Moss, Stuart and Me-
| Afro Americans recently murdered by
the Memphis mob.
Messrs ferdinand Havis and J. E.
Bush have been elected delegates to the
Republican National Convention from
the second and fourth districts of Ar
kansas respectively.
Maud Davis pretty young white girl
living on Fourth avenue, Louisville, KY,
was taken to the City Hospital one day
last week and shortly gave birth to a
bouncing Afro.American Child.
The black and white prisoners of both
sexes arrested by Detective Brett of the
| Tenderloin precinct West Forty.frst
street New York which he thought was
a disorderly house, were discharged be-
cause the officer had no proof to offer in
, support of his charge.
The Coroner's jury in the inquest into
the killing of Alex Johnson, an Afro
| American by Louisville Southern train,
at the Twelfth street crossing, Louisville,
KY, one week ago, returned the rather
peculiar verdict that death had been
caused by Intelligence of the dead man,
to be lying beside the track while drunk"
An Afro-American named James Scott
brutally murdered his wife with an iron
poker last Sunday evening few miles
from Jackson, Miss. His neighbors follow
| ing his example set by the superiority
race were about TO- hang him but one of
| Wiz o<sAAO AoAO uAo0uduCO ULcIu 1IOul
ursurpine that honor and he was placed
in JAIL, 1t Was only one Trigger" who
had killed another therefore the law
should take its course.
Henry Ragland, was placed on trial
Saturday in Glasgow, KY, fer car break
ing. He was one of many Colored men
induced to 60 to work on a railroad in
the Adirondacks, where he elaine a
brother was murdered and he was brut-
ally beaten. Ragland had scarcely plead
ed to the charge when he began to foam
and bark. He was seized with spasr1s,
and his yells were horrible. He attempt
ed &C. bite the judge and others, and
caused panic in the court room, He
was not tried and will die soon. Ragland
it was subsequently learned, was bitten
by rabid dog last August.
Colored laborers returning from
Logan County, West Virginia, tell some
terrible tales. -
| Twenty-seven of them went to work
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
They worked two months and half and
did not receive cent of money. The
contractor was George Brown, and the
condition of the people working under
him was something horrible.
They worked from sun to moon and
were charged with every thing they ate,
though supposed to be getting $l.4O a
day. Last Sunday eight of the laborers
escaped in the night. They were con-
tinually guarded by men with Winchest-
ers so that escape is nearly impossible.
There was man and his wife who had
been there nearly seven months and
could not get away, nor had they receiv-
ed cent of money. The longer the
men worked the deeper they got in
debt.