The Kansas blackman., 1894-06-08
BLAOKNAN BREVETIES.

The Negroes State Association. of
Alabama, met June 9th. in Mobile,
Ala.
Hon. Geo. w. Murray, colored. of
South Carolina, has been renominated
for congress.
The Afro. Americans of Wheeling,
w. Va, have school building that
cost $50, 900.
The New Orleans Crusader is the
only Negro daily published in the
United States.
The Colored Baptists of Columbia,
Mo-, have laid the foundation for
sl2, 900 church.
The "Colored Mems Railroad As
sociation." of Chicago held q mass
meeting jane 7th.
A colored woman of Richmond,
Va. attempted to commit suicide last
Wednesday night.
DR.. ]. w. Browning has established
, the first and only colored drug store
in Baltimore, Md.
Hon. John Mitchell, of Richmond,
Va, has been reelected one of the
aldermen Of his city.
The State Sunday School Conven-
ton of Indiana, will convene June
10th, in Washington, Ind.
The Afro-American League of Neh.
rsska, will convene June 2lst and
22nd in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The commencement exercises OF
Howard University, at Washington,
ID. O., were held last week.
Tobe Lee, one of the wealthiest
Afro Americans in Indiana, died
recently at his home in Evansville,
Ind.
A colored woman named Mrs. Sar-
ah Wheeler is figuring on m establish
ment in DAnville, Mo-, for canning
green's.
The colored school In Brownville,
Mo-, is named after Charles Sumner.
The enrolment the past year has
been over 200.
In quarrel over base ball at Se>
dalia, Mo-, Summet Hardin broke
the skull of Henry Wilson, colored,
who had knocked Charles Hardin
down.
Hon. John M. Langston will sd
dress the whittier Historical Asso-
citation" of Memphis, Tenn, Monday
night, in the Beal street Baptist
church.
Two Missouri Negroes recently
married white women at Bslleville,
ILL.,, on the same day, although they
were from different parts of the slate
and we're strangers TO each other.
Miss Mary Frazier, colored, Of San
Francisco. Cal, draws the interest on
$40, 900 in government bonds, left by
her employer, in return for injuries in
Hicted upon her by the hasty closing
of door.
The colored people of Chicago are
to have, a S60, 900 apartment house,
seven stories high, one OF the finest in
the city. 1t will be erected by Lewis
Bates prosperous colored citizen Of
Chicago.
The ladies of Washington, ID. G.,
have formed q company, known n
1.-The Ladies Joint Stock Company.
When sufficient capital has been ac-
cumulated, they propose to start busin.
ess In Washinston.
Miss Blanche Henry, of Coshoc-
ton, o., the only Afro-American grad.
uate Of the High School Of that city,
in recent oratorial contest among
eighty competitors. won the 6rst
prize, q silver medal.
A. @. Drake, il the only coiorsd
Isrson who sold q temperance box
of his own production, on the World's
Fair grounds. II ID said that he had
seventy-fve thousand people u take
the temperance pledge.
In the recent examination Of the
750 clerks in the postoffice in Chicago,
Robt, r. Jackson, colored. made the
highest average. He will be given
the foremanship Of one Of the new
postal stations 10 be opened som.
| A colored lady living near Forrest
City, Arkansas. met horrible death.
She was ironing near . stove and was
suffering with q sore throat, 10 which
she had flannel rag applied, and
occasionally dampened ii with tur-
pentine. The last act Of this use of
the turpentine resulted in the bottle
falling on the stove and breaking, its
: contents flying over her clothing, and
simultaneously igniling, causing death
in few moments.