The broad ax., 1897-04-24
coLoRED AMERICAN NOTES

Ohio, is q progressive member o
the race. He owns large property
interests, and is a commissions
from Ohio to the Tennessee Expo
sition.
Mr.. Matt. N. Lewis, managin.
editor of the Norfolk Recorder, j
modest and retiring. He is abou
thirty-eight years old, a practicinl
lawyer, and edits an excellent paper
The City Council of Augusta
Georgia, appropriates $500 annual!
to the colored troops of that cit!
for the purpose of paying armor!
rent.
Hon. G. L. Jones, who lately In
troduced the bill abolishing separate
schools in his State, recently pre-
sided over the Indiana House Of
Representatives with credit to him
self and race.
The Richmond Planet, a credit.
able paper, published by Mr.. John
Mitchell, a former Alderman OF
Richmond, Va, says the aggregate
taxable wealth of the colored Amer
leans of that State amounts to
SlO,927 ,s42.
Hon. Judson w. Lyons, OF
Georgia, a graduate of Howard Law
School, is one of the two colored
members of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. He is a tall
man of pleasing address, power in
Georgia politics, and believes In his
race.
Mr.. W. c. Ferris, who recently
read paper before the Bethel Lit
erary Society here, is a graduate of
Yale College, and is now pursuing
a postgraduate course there In
sociology and English literature.
He was born in Connecticut about
twenty-three years ago.
DR.. C. NJ. B. Mason, of Louis
lana, is secretary of the Freedmen's
Aid Society of the Methodist
Church. He was educated at New
Orleans University, and later took
a degree from Common Theological
School in Georgia. He is deep
thinker, and has the respect of the
leaders of his race.
]. E. Bruce, ESQ.,, bruce Grit.
of Albany, n. Y, is fine writer
md true race man. When he
learned recently that the daughter
of John Brown, of ante bellum
days, was living in California in
distress, he inaugurated plans
among his fellow-citizens and raised
500 for her.
Rev. 7. W. Cain last year bought
Pullman ticket, but was elected
from the car, and brought suit. The
decision rendered last week by the
Court of Appeals affirmed his right
to ride IN any car to which his
ticket entitled him. DR.. Cain is
a Virginian, and the rector of the
Colored Episcopal Church in Gal
weston, Texas.
Mr.. Edward Knox, business man
ager of the Indianapolis Freeman,
is a tall, slender, young man of
twenty-four, who has much execu-
tive ability. The Freeman claims a
circulation of $4,000, is a paying
property, and is owned by Mr..
Knox's father, Mr.. George L.
Knox, a wealthy barber and infu-
entail citizen of Indiana.
At a meeting of representative
colored citizens in North Carolina
recently, $4,000 was pledged and
nearly s., 900 paid in cash to put
In operation the cotton factory at
Concord, N. c. Mr.. W. c. Cole
man, who is risking all his wealth,
is the leading spirit in the move
ment. The plant will be managed
exclusively by colored operatives,
who have learned in the white fac
tories.
Drs. Mckinley, Abner, Davis and
Smith, are fairly successful prac-
titioners at Austin, Texas. They
are all Mehorry graduates. DR..
Mckinley located in Austin twelve
years ago, and has since attended
several special courses at New York
universities. The Jennings Phar-
macy has chief clerk, Miss Pauline
Morrow, also a graduate of Me
horny, the only female who has sue
ceeded in passing the rigid exam
nation of the State board.