Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-02-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Christopher ]. Perry, the proprietor
of the Weekly Tribune, has been placed
in nomination for the city council in
Philadelphia on the Republican munic-
| ipal ticket.
| The president of the Colored Ban
| Association affirms that there are 5S5
Afro American lawyers in the United
States Most of them are engaged in
criminal practice, but a few refuse all
such.
The Leavenworth Herald says;
| "There will be six Afro-American
graduates from the Kansas State Uni
versity this year, the largest number
ever turned out at any one commence
ment.a
The Republican majority of the
Nebraska legislature has elected DR.. O..
NJ. Ricketts, as temporary Speaker of
the House of Representatives He is
the only Afro-American member of the
legislature.
There are three Afro-Americans in
the South Carolina legislature. On the
recent vote for United States senator
two Of them voted for Congressman
George Washington Murray, and the
other for DIR. William Demos Crum.
The fro-Americans of Hot Springs,
Ark, are weary of the inferior public
school accommodations accorded them,
and have decided to appeal to the
courts for mandailus to compel the
school board to comply with the terms
of the law in their case.
And now it is said that an Afro.
American near Oxford, Miss. while
ploughing, turned up tin can con-
tanning S1.7OO in gold coins, some of
them so old that they are valued at
500. Some of De Soto's ill-fated
followers may have buried this treasure.
The Afro-American Masons Of New
Orleans have broken ground on the
corner of Common and Franklin streets
for the erection of temple to cost
S35. 900. This order is unusually strong
in New Orleans They hope to have
their housewarming before the end of
the winter.
Miss Kate Crawford, one of the first
Afro American graduates of the Ann
Arbor high school, after teaching many
years in the public schools of ST. Louis
is now studying medicine at Ann Arbor
There are quite a number of Afro
American women practising medicine
in the United States.
Cumberland Posey, of Pittsburgh,
owns several tugboats. He began life
as fireman during the war on small
steamer at Parkersburg, w. Va. Sew
eral Afro Americans own tugboats
which ply on the James river. The
Afro-American Steamboat Company
ran large steamer between Washing
ton and Norfolk last summer
T. McCants Stewart the prominent
Democratic lawyer Of New York, and
George Washington Forbes of the
Boston Courant are having a learned
controversy over the Latin phrase
'Hlc opus est, y as used by Mr. Stewart
in the New York Age. Mr.. Forbes
insists that "Hoc opus est is correct.
Thus far five columns of long primer
space have been consumed in the
discussion, and there is more to follow.
Theophile Terrence Allain, who has
been made third assistant doorl1eeper of
the Illinois legislature, was for long
time senator in the Louisiana legis-
lature for Iberville parish on the
unification plan of dividing the parish
offices between the blacks and native
whites. He owned a large plantation,
which he called Soulouque, after the
famous Haytian general, but went
broke as a heavy levee contractor, and
went to Chicago and opened a tobacco
factory. He is a born politician, very
Frenchy in his manners and speech
and in his lexicon has no such word
as fail