The gazette., 1901-04-13
RACE NEWS NUGGETS
An Afro Assistant Dis
trict Attorney is Dismiss ed by j..
One Of Gov. Roosevelt's
Men.
A Valuable Invention Used In Post
Ohices-A $4,000 Hospital GIFT
who Mrs. Lillian Thomas Is-A
Hebrew Gives Us $1,000
Uncle Sam TO Give You
16O Acres-ReV. John
Jasper Dead - Ad-
ditlOnal DOings,
Personals, Etc.

perSoni OF Mrs. Theresa NJ. Roles.
Washington Duke, of the American
Tobacco Company, has given $4,000
to establish an AfroAmerican hos
pital at Durham, n. c.
Our people of Scranton, Miss, oper-
ate ten sawmills which give employ
ment to 1900 men. Over 1000 Afro
Americans of this place own their
own homes.
Mrs. Nelson, of Chicago, was re-
Gently awarded 800 damages in
suit against the Alhambra theater
for discriminating against her on ac
count of color, etc.
Rev. Jasper, the aged pastor of Mt.
Zion Baptist church, Richmond, Va,
died recently, aged 90 years. He be-
came famous as the author of the
''Sun do Move" theory. His funeral
was one of the largest ever held in
that city. He preached for 81 years.
A prominent Hebrew merchant in
Washington, ID. c., has recently given
$4,000 to assist the Tenth Street Col
Ored Baptist church of that city in
paying for their property.
Rev. j. NJ. Riddle has rendered
his resignation as pastor of the Sec
ond Baptist church, Columbus, o., to
take effect June Is, 1901. Rev. James
Poindexter, of that city, pastored the
church for many years.
There will be 100000 acres of land
thrown open to homesteaders by the
federal government in August next,
in Oklahoma, and as many Afro
Americans as possible should secure
a homestead, which consists of 100
acres of land, and only costs $14 for
filing the claim.
Hon. c. j. Jones, twice elected to
congress from the famous Shoe
string" district of Mississippi, was
appointed temporary district at
torney from Greenville district re-
Gently. The appointment was a
compliment to Mr.. Jones' ability at
the bar.
Messrs. George Gould and Archie
Huntington, adopted son of Mr.. Col
lis p. Huntington (deceased), have
Afro-Americans as private secre-
taries. A trans-continental railway
company in Broad street, also in New
York City, has like official of color.
Governor-elect White, of West Vir-
ginia, has just been appointed by
Prof. w. S. Starks as state librarian.
This is the first appointment of its
kind ever given to an Afro-American
in the birth-state of the editor of
this paper.
The United States senate commit
tee on privileges and elections re-
ported favorably on the resolutions
to allow the late DR.. Hiram r. Revels,
of Mississippi, and Joseph F. Abbott,
of North Carolina. United States SEN
ators 30 and 30 years ago, respect
fully, full pay for the term. They
came in during the reconstruction
period to fill vacancies and were paid
from the time they took their seats.
This. if passed, will give the former
S4.S47 and the latter $6,543.
A committee of gentlemen headed
by Mr.. NJ. l.. Robinson, editor of the
National Leader, representing the
Afro-American press and people, pre-
sented Hon. W. f. Chandler a hand
some gold-headed cane, March 2, 1901.
The head of solid gold bore the fol-
lowing engraving: presented on
the part of the colored press and
people of the United States. as a
small token of respect and esteem,
to Hon. w. f. Chandler, 1901" with
monogram of the senator.
Mrs. Lillian Thomas. who is paint
ing a portrait Tin Oils) of President
Mckinley, has done the same thing
for Olga Nethersole, Anna Held and
others. She was formerly Miss Lii
liam Lee, of Columbus, and married
in ST. Louis, where she was teaching
in the colOred high school. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas moved to New York and
from there TO Washington, d. c.
Judge William c. Bennett, of Ander-
son county, S. c., who declared that
Negroes were held under bondage by
contracts near Columbia which
make their condition worse than
slavery, was right. The fact is the
condition obtains throughout the
southern states that tolerate a con-
vict lease system.
DR.. w. L. Bulkley, a colored graduI
ate of Clafiin university, Orangeburg,
S. c.. has been appointed principal of
a public school in New York City. In
a class of 80 applicants for principal
ship, he received the highest percent
age on examination. DR.. Bulkley was
for several years professor of Latin
and Greek in Claflin university and
was a member of one general confer
ence. He is one of the best speci-
mems of thorough scholarship and
genuine Christian manhood the race
has produced.
The post office in Seattle. and many
of the post offices of the leading
cities of the United States, has a
most excellent letter stamp cancel
ling machine manufactured by a firm
in New York. The machine is run
by electricity and viii cancel 1000
letters per minute, and is being
adopted by almost every post office
of anv size in the United States, and
efforts are being made to introduce
it into many of the post Offices in
foreign countries. This cancelling
machine was patented by j j. Bur-
nell. an Afro-American. He has made
a tour of inspection of those post Of
fees that are using his machine and
is well pleased with their work, hop
ing to place the ca caacelling machine
in the post office of every large city
in the world.