The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-05-11
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THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT
DISTANCES
q Collection Of . Few Of tho Events Oc-
curing Among the Afro-Amer Of tn.
Capitalof This Great and Glorious Nation
Tor Our Many Readers.
Mr.. Daniel Murray read "a paper on
Some Colored Generals, before the
Bethel Literary Society tuesday even
7 ing.
Hon. John p Green addressed the
Second Baptist .Lyceum Sunday after
noon on Renaissance of John
Brown
The nineteenth annual banquet and
reception of the Coachmen's Union
and Aid Association IN 10. at Conven-
ton Hall, Friday night, was attended
by ullyE70O couples, and was "a sue
cess in every respect The dancing
program contained twenty tWo-steps,
IWaltzes and quadrilles. The banquet
proved a most enjoyable affair.
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A boys apparently seven years old, a
deaf mute, was taken to the House of
Detention after suffering fall from a
car Of the Anacostia and Potomac rail-
road. At the House of Detention the
boy was shown a slip of paper on
which he was asked to write his adj
dress and name. He did not under
stand the question, however,. and
nothing could be learned from him.
James Fantroy, aged nine years, of
1916 Union court southwest, was
drowned in the Washing channel at
the foot of o street Monday. He was
playing on the wharf with Floyd
Young, another boy, but went too near
the edge, tripped and fell overheard.
Several persons, fishing near BY, en-.
deaVored to rescue him, but when he
came to the surface he was too far out,
to be reached. Boats were put out, but
too late to be Of service.
The will of Mary Shannon, of New
ton, filed in the Middlesex Probate
Court at Cambridge, Mass; contributes
more than S125,00O to charitable and
public institutions. Hampton (Va.)
Normal and Agricultural Institute gets
$40, 900, and Tuskegee (Ala.) Institu-
ton, Kittrel1, n. c., Normal and In
SdustrialS School for Negroes; Atlanta
(Ga) University, and Mallalieu Sem
mary for Poor w hites, Kinsey, Henry
County, Ala, SIS, 900 each.> s 55sss
4 Edward Perry, laborer, employed.
by Littlefeld, Alvord & Co, was Sc
verely injured while at work at Dean
wood. With other men he was NOV
ing property from a freight car side
tracked at the station, and was struck
in the head by a beam which had been
broken. HefWas removed by the POI
lice to the Casualty hospital, where a
number of cuts and bruises were found
about the head and body. Twenty
stitches were required to close one big
cash on top of the. head. ssss
al = &.
Ida Jackson, twenty four years old,
who believed she was tired Of living,
swallowed a quantity Of carbolic acid
about o'clock Sunday morning. The
police patrol wagon was summoned
and she was removed to the Elmer
gency hospital from her home, No.
124 Eighteenth street northwest. For
tunately for the woman, the solution
was not a strong one, and the physi-
clan soon had her out of danger.
Mrs. Hall, of Chicago, wife of DR..
Hall, is the guest of DR.. and Mrs. "a.
M, Curtis.
The Presidents speech to the stu
dents of the Southern University at
New Orleans was as follows: 81 am
glad to know thatsall over the South,
where most of you dwell, the states
have provided institutions of learning,
where every boy and every girl can
prepare themselves for usefulness and
honor under the government in which
they live. The thing today is to be
practical What you want is to get
education, and with it you want good
character, and with these you want
Eunfaltering Industry, and if you have
these three things you will have sue
cess anywhere and everywhere. God
bless YOU. .s.sss3z3
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