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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
KING EDWARDS GRANDCHILD. Prince Henry William Frederick AL
 bert to Celebrate His Birthday.

New York. March 31.-The birthday of Prince Henry William Frederick Albert is to be the occasion of special reception to the little fellow by his grandfather. King Edward VII. says a London dis patch to The American and Journal.
 The boy, who Is years old Monday. is the youngest grandchild in the line of di- rect succession to the English throne and a great favorite with King Edward.
 There will be tiny table spread in Sandringham palace. and the tiny prince attended by 8 nurse. will sit at the head of it. Of course Prince Henry's brothers and his sister Princess Victoria. will par ticipate in the feast. which will be served bv tiny maids of honor in white dresses
 Prince Henry has his fathers eyes, and King Edward is said to have often re- marked that the little fellow looks ex- 'actly as' Prince George. his father-the present Prince of Wales-did al years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
CLowRY GOES EAST.
New President of Western Union tc
 Assume His Duties.

Chicago, March 31.-Coionei Robert C. sume the duties of his new office as Presi- dent and General Manager of the West ern Union Telegraph Company. Most of the officials in the local offices were at companied by c. H. Bristol. Superipten- dent of Construction. and J. c. Barclay. General Electrician, who have ben trans ferred to New York with Colonel Clowry. his daughter were were also in the party. '
 Colonel Clowry will formally enter upon his new duties tomorrow. when T. P. Cook, who succeeds him as General Su- perinteDdent in the Chicago office will al- so take formal charge here
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
MATTER MAY BE DR0PP rD
Northern Business Men W1r
 the Republicans.
They Do Not Propose That tho 1aeq1 Shirt Shall Bs waved Asain.
 1Gilss Rsfusss to | Retire.

Washington. March sl.--(specisL lp-I4 appears now that the crumpacksr rsantts tion. which seeks to havs an inveett6- ton of suffrage laws of the South. v1l1 be allowed to die away. When the 1u1qo Committee announced that the regoIu16 had been agreed upon. 1t was stated tn41 the measure would be reported within t(1 days thereafter. The ten days havs slf- pired and no Resolution has yet scssSe from the committed. It Is said that aGkQa a careful investigation of the sltua4iQ6s the handful of Repuhlicana. whe oo1e consideration, have discovered that the5f cannot get Republicsn majority i,s favor of the proposition ana they wiIt' therefore. at the instance of the speshes. allow the subject to drop. :. l
 The most potent influence broughf to bear in opposition to the measure |was IT. flood of protests sent. to Republioans t~ business men of the North and Eat. wSo made 1t clear that they would noe countenance revival of the force kfI1 or bloody shirt issues between tho s4os tions.
 Miles Not ssouitter.,'
 General Miles's friends have advisesz him to retire since the papers in his latsef controversy with the President aud See- retary of War were made public. T0 this advice General Miles has renlie6. f,, substance, that he is no ''quittsr.s. but. on the other hand. he intends to sfav until forced out by the President or hy the age limitation.
 The controversy between the Lieuts,1- ant General on one side ana tbe pra.;s1xxf and high army ofIicisis on the other new bids fair to rival the navy dtsturbsncSt. General Miles has his friends and tha omcfais have theirs all through ti1e army Both sides grow nsdre bitt<r aB the days wear on. The climax ls Io,sss for about the 20th of May. or soon there after. On that date General Leonard Wood comes home from Cuba without d job and there are those in official fife who predict that Niles will be retired by Roosevelt and Wood made, his successor,
 Miit Saul ts
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
CHRISTMAS TAKES IT BACK.
Says He Did Not Attempt to 'Corrup
 American Legislature.

Washington March 3l.-Mr. Brun, the Danish Minister here. called on Secretary Hay. today with reference to the pend- ing invsstigati tion by the House of charges preferred by MT. Gron in connection with the acquisition of the West Indian Islands by the United States.
 There is reason to believe that there has been received from Denmark a sweeping denial by Christmas of any at tempt on his part to corrupt American legislators and newspaper men.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
WILL KEEP UP FIGHT.
Men from Beet Sugar Districts Are
 Determined.

Washington March 31.-Following the action of the Ways and Means Commit tee in the Cuban reciprocity bill. the Re- publican members who opposed the bill held X conference in the committee room of Representative William Alden Smith of Michigan About thirty. members wsrs present. reprcsentink the various States interested in beet sugar production.
 No formal action was taken. but the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
Monument to War Prisoners

Washington. March STA movement is under way for the erection of monIl- ment in this city in memory of the i,457 soldiers, ex-prisoners of war from Ander- sonville and Cabala. who lost their lives just after the close of the war by the Memphis, Tenn. during the rebellion on the night of April s7. 1885 A bill has been prepared appropriating s50s0oo for the monument .1r
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
ACCUSED or .UxoRCIDE.
Louis Busse Charged With Murder
 ing His Wife for Money.

charged with murderinE his wife June IS. 1901, was placed on trial at Waverly at o'clock this morning. The theory of the prosecution. as outlined by the district at torney. is that Busse married his wife in sorder to secure g. .sy0 that she had pre- yiously obtained In connection with a damage suit for seduction against another man. He propossd marriage without any was accepted. Eighteen months later. it is charged that he cut her throat. placed her body on featherbed and mattress saturated the whole with kerosene and set. it on fire. It Is then alleged he left the.house expecting it to burn down. con- snming the body and that of sleeping infant that occupied an adjoining room. What purported to be confession was secured from Busse.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
Distress Among Indians.

Washington, March 1.-The attention Of the Secretary of the Interior has been directed to the state of Restitution and distress which exists among a large num- Der of the citizens of the Choctaw Nation. in the Indian Territory. and in order to meet this condition of affairs. he has about decided to make a per capita dis tribution of the town site moneys belong ing to these Indians which are being held sdys to each Indian considerable sum.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
Rathbone Wants Raii.

Havana. March I.-Estes G. Rathbone appeared before the Supreme Court today under writ of habeas corpus Senator Lanuza, counsel for Rathbone. pleaded that his client was entitled to bail under the postal code. The fiscal of the Supreme Court denied that Rathbone had a right to bail and he asked the court to fix his bail in slo0,0oo if It decided to grant 1t. The court will give it's decision in this matter tomorrow
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
Service Deine Rssumed.

New Orleans. March .u---Dervtce over the roads which have recently been badly crippled by storm and flood Is. gradually being resumed. The first through train from the East on the New Orleans and Northeastern since Thursday pulled into the city today. Superintendent Curren says that the washed out tracks have been repaired. The Mississippi Valley and Illinois trains are running again. but are late. owing to the slow time made over, tracks in the recently flooded dis trict.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
Tennessee still Rising.

Chattanooga, Tenn, March 3l.-The Ten nessee River at this point Is still rising and will reach thirty-two feet by to- morrow, one foot under the danger line, when the fall will begin. All tributaries above are falling. Fruit crops in this section were saved from destruction by frost last night by high winds The Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad traffic Is still blocked by wash- outs between Murfresboro and Tuilaho- ma. but the line will be opened by to- morrow. The Memphis and Charleston line of the southern Railway wa sopened for through business today. All other
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
KILLING AT EDwARDsvILLE.
W. H. Owen Shot to Death by Dis
 penser Garry Grice.

BirminRham. March s1,-(Special.l l.-At Edwardsville, Cleburne County. late this afternoon W. H. Owen was shot and iu- being sen. to his heart. Garry Grice. the dispenser. and Owen had difficulty dn- ring which Owen met his death
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
New york Metal, Exchanre.

election of the New York Metal Ex- change today the following were elected President Robert Nj. Thompson; Vice President; Adoiph Le11sohn; Treasurer, C.haxlss g. Trench.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
TRAINS ARE GUARDED.
Government Soldiers Guard the
 Panama Railroad.

New York. March sl.--Every train across the isthmus is being guarded by fifty government soldiers, as a result of the skirmish at Empire station Saturday. when one, man was killed and another taken prisoner. sSys Panama dispatch to The Herald Trains are running as
 So far, this year, sooaoo auiutais. of oof- fee havetbeen shipped from GHfAteit,ata. great scarcity of labor prevails thsrs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
Extension of the Rock Island

Austin. Tex. March 3i.-The Chicago. Rock Island and Texas filed an amend ment to it's charter today. providing for an extension from Fort Worth to Calves ton. a distance of 2a5 miles. The object of the road Is to reach deep water by the nearest route. The road will be an air tine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01

discussion was in the line of continuing the contest on the floor of the House. It is expected. however. that the opposition vii be from members individually. Af- ter the meeting It was claimed by those pfesent that about thirty Republicans would speak and vote against the bill.
 Tho Ways and Means Committee. lead err feel confident that the bill will pass.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
WANTS PARDON FOR RATHsoHx
The President, However, Turns Down
 Senator Hanna's Reouest.

Washington. March si.--Effcrts are be- ing made by the friends of Estes q. Rathbone to secure him a pardon from the sentence of the Havana court. sena- tor Hanna has .requested the President to issue a pardon for Rathhcne. but tiis the latter has declined. The President. however. has promised to have the papers in the case thoroughly reviewed. It is stated that unless he finds something radically wrong he will allow the verdict to stand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-01
James R. Kesns Rsttsr.

Lexington. Ky. March 3l The eondiz ton of James R Keene of New Yafk the millionaire turfman, is very much tms proved today
The colored American., 1902-08-02
City Breyities.

Garnett Wilkinson is in California.
The True Reformers are organizing a
band.
Mrs. R S. Rives is i'll in North Car
olina
This is Norfolk night among the real
people"
The Grand Army Encampment comes
on apace.
Mrs, T. NJ. Nixon is visiting in Cleve-
land, Ohio
Miss Julia R. Bush is rusticating at
Boyd's Tavern. Md.
Miss Nettie LangSton is to visit
friends in Pittsburg.
Mrs. r. B. Peters and daughter Ruth
are at Fortress Monroe
Miss Matte R Bowen will be a dele
gate to the Atlanta Congress
Mr. Waverly D Green has the agency
for new style of fountain pen.
Mr.. w. T. Menard is the guest of Ed
itor Fortune at Red Bank, n. ].
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell lectured to
4 large audience this week in Illinois.
Mr.. w. H. Conn has been appointed
superintendent of the Marlborough"
lpartment house
Prof Booker T Washington spent a
few hours in the city Tuesday of last
week.
Miss Rosa B. Childs has been visiting
n Baltimore, where she was the recip-
'ent OF much social attention.
Ground has been broken for the new
building of the True Reformers at cor
Ter of twelfth and L streets.
Mrs. I. ]. Galloway and children
He at home from a lengthy visit 10
Iuskegee and other southern points.
Mrs L R Clarke leaves on another
southern tour shortly. which will in
Iude visit TO the Atlanta Congress.
Ii IS definitely decided that Prof. John
l. layton VIII remain as director of the
'hoiT OF Metropolitan A NJ z. Church.
Every available inch of space in the
Iapltal Savings Bank building is taken
Up by enterprising business men of our
ace
Mr. w. A Hunton was in town last
week IN the interest of the Atlanta Con
The colored American., 1902-08-02
gress, and received much encourage

gress, and received much encourage
ment.
Company B, First Separate Battalion
is booked for a grand, excursion to Nor
folk August 10th, on the palatial Jane
Moseley.
DR.. w. Bruce Evans came up from
Hampton few days ago to attend the
annual encampment of the District Ma
tional Guard
DIR. S. Roger Watts goes to Switzer-
land this fall as the representative of the
Grand Lodge of Masons of this juris-
diction He is splendid man.
Lieut.. Toomey's friends are planning
to "star" him in an entertainment this
fall. in which he will give number of
readings from his own poems.
Get ready for the meeting of the Ma
tional Negro Business League at Rich
mond August 25, 20 and p. A local
business league has been finally organ
lied and delegates were chosen.
Mrs. Lottie E. Wilson, the acconp-
lished artist, gave an exhibition of her
in Baltimore last Saturday and
Monday for the benefit of the Provident
Hospital She viii organize a class
there for instruction on Saturdays.
Mrs Edna McNabb has abandoned
her suit for divorce from Harry Nc
Nabb and will ask to have the marriage
set aside on the score of being under age
at the time of the ceremony, and dureSS,
by reason of threats against her life.
Mrs Mary Chuch Terrell, our peerless
platform orator, has returned from a
sol journ of several weeks IN MaSSachus
sets, whittier she went for the benefit
of the health of little Miss Phyllis. Mrs.
Terrell is preparing new lecture for
the fall and winter season, and has al
ready contracted for a number of very
desirable engagements in the Y. NJ c.
A circuits
The colored American., 1902-08-02
Native Neutrality-suspicious."

The Native Washingtonians." a new
social organization, has issued invita-
tions to the public TO be present at their
first annual outing, which will take place
Monday. August 4. at Lake View Park
The organization is made up of a hun
dred or more of the city's representative
people, and is designed to cement into
closer social relationship those who are
unto the manor born" so TO speak The
Board of Governors includes: DR.. Jas
7. Walker, president; Miss Amelia
Barnes, vice-president; Miss Amelia
Cusberd, second vice-preSident; Miss
Lulu Pollen. recording secretary: Miss
Eleanor Robinson, corresponding secre-
tary; DR.. Clarence Gray. financial secTe-
tary; Mrs. BERTHE Lewis. treasurer. to-
gether with DR.. ]. H. Johnson. as chair
man Entertainment Committee: Prof ].
D. Baltimore, as chairman Reception
Committee; Mrs. Katie Harris. as chair
man Membership Committee, and Mr..
Jerome A Johnson, as chairman Invita-
ton Committee
The colored American., 1902-08-02
DELIGHTED WITH OUR STORY.

New Orleans. La was SO well
pleased after reading your issue of the
18th with your article on the life history
OF Prof. Booker T. Washington. Of
fuskegee Institute, that l wired YOU for
one hundred copies. Our schools and
universities are Just about having their
commencement exercises, and | thought
II would be a good idea for each young
man to have copy of this issue as they
60 forth into the battle of life. I think
ProfeSsor Washington's life viii be a
e-autIful story for them, as no man OF
our race IS doing more for the welfare
and rpbuilding OF his people. His Iife's
good work should be read in ouf
schools. as none is more worthy of EN-
uiation. have Just received the sad
The colored American., 1902-08-02
Treasury Department. Promotion

In the drawing Of promotion prizes for
the new fiscal year. the coIored employees
IN the Treasury Department Jared quite
we'll The list as far as we could aScer-
tain, includes the following raises"
James F Aston. Pennsylvania. 81 200
TO SI,4oo; J. c. Norwood. North Caro-
lima, $1,000 to $1,000: Miss Wilheimina
B. Tate. Indiana, $40 to 5000: Misses
Emma R Tolliver, Fannie E. Tolliver.
Halle B. Williams, $40 to $500.
Appointment-MiS Mary SewaII.
District of Columbia.
Promotion-Thomas H r. Clarke.
S7eo to 5000. detailed as private secretary
10 Register of Treasury.
The colored American., 1902-08-02
CHPITHL SHVINGS BANK.


oOS Z st. NV, Washington, DC.
Capital 500 900.
Hon. Jno. z. Lynch, President.
L. c. Bailey, Treasure.
j. A. johnson, Secresqry,
ID. B. McCsyy, CasAier,
Directors:
Jno. Z Lynch, Dr.. W. 8. Lotion,
w hite6eld McKinlay, L. O. Bailey,
Robt Il. Terrell, W, s, MontgOm.
cry, Wyatt Archer, John a. Pierre,
HenryE- Baker, Robt Williams J.
L. Bradford DR.. w. A. Warfeld, j.
a. johnson, DR.. A. ". TanciL
Howard II. Williams.
Deposits received from 10 cents
upward. Interest allowed on $500
and above Collections meet with
prompt attention. 4 general sI-
change and banking business DONE
Bank open from 3 am. to 4.30 pm.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

news OF the death of my old friend and
eolnrade. Capt Thos- S. Kelly Hoping
thus may find your family and friends
as well as yourself, IN the best of health
and spirits, ! am.
Very truly yours,
The colored American., 1902-08-02

Rev. J. Harvey Anderson suggests
Rev. o. o. w Smith. ex-miniSter TO
Liberia, as Zion's Bishop of Africa.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

The labor unions in Danbury, Conn,
have opened their doors to cOlored men,
A good move.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

Philadelphia, will be closed for the en-
suing year In the meantime the plans
for reorganization will be perfected and
new buildings erected. Prof. H. NJ.
Brown, the new principal will go
abroad to study the educational meth
DDS and systems of the best technical
schools, and will retain for a season the
dictatorship of the High and Training
School at Baltimore.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

Guatemala has an American Negro
millionaire in the person of John Knight
formerly slave in Alabama
The colored American., 1902-08-02

The A. NJ E. General Conference in
1904 goes to Chicago.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

Two million dollars has been set aside
bv the Louisiana Legislature to estab-
lish a colored asylum at Alexandria
The colored American., 1902-08-02

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Arkansas has a cOlored bar associa-
ton.
The A. NJ E General Conference in
1904 goes to Chicago.
The labor unions in Danbury, Conn.
have opened their doors to colored men.
A good move.
Guatemala has an American Negro
millionaire in the person of John Knight
formerly a slave in Alabama
Rev. ]. Harvey Anderson suggests
Rev. O. o. w. Smith. eX-minSter TO
Liberia, as lions Bishop of Africa.
Two million dollars has been set aside
bv the Louisiana Legislature to eStab-
ISh colored asylum at Alexandria.
In the Colored public schools of At
lanta, out of 81 teachers. go received
their education in Atlanta University
The strikes in various parts of the Ma
tion should rebound to the colored mans
benefit provided he act wisely and in
dustriously.
The next meeting of our Lott Carey
Foreign Mission Convention to be held
IN Washington, D. c.. from September
3 to 7. at Liberty Baptist Church. Dr.
l. Toliver, pastor. will will be the most
imoOrtant meeting in the history of the
organization.
General O. 0. Howard. Federal gen
eral IN the Civil War. is deeply interest
ed in the establishment of a school for |
the mountain whites of Tennessee He |
WAS the founder of Howard University |
Washington. d. c. which has done SO |
much good for our people
AIR. Thomas L. Martin. an industrious |
colored man of LewiSburg. Ky has in /
vented an ingenious educational device /
for the teaching of writing. grammar
and arithmetic. which Is meeting with /
general favor. He is planning TO have
them manufactured upon a large scale.
At the first of the Composers
Nights" in the Harrogate Spa Concert
room. Leeds, England. Mr. Coleridge-
Taylor appeared TO conduct 4 program.
consisting chiefly of his own compost
tions. II was severe ordeal for any
composer. but the young man sustained
himself with marked credit.
Ferry CheSney. the oldest man in
Tennessee. Is dead at his home on the
summit Of Cooper Ridge at the age of
I2o years. CheSney was born in Virginia
on July i. 1910. and. as a slave. belonged
TO Jonathan Jackson at ClarkSville on
the Roanoke river. When twelve years
old he saw George Washington.
Miss Louise Van Horne, daughter of
Consul Van Horn. of St Thomas, d |
w l., has the distinction of being the
hrst colored teacher to be appointed
in the public schools of Newport, R
l. She has had several years expert
ence and was appointed 10 the first va
cancy after her application was field.
Mrs. J. SIone-EateS has been elected
teacher of English at the Lincoln Insti-
tute. of Jefferson City. Mo. instead of
Miss Anna Jones, who declined the ap-
pointment- Mrs. Yates IS thoroughly /
qualified 10 FIJI the station She has had
much experience alone educational lines |
and her worth and learning adds dignity
to her position
Bishop J. B. Small a NJ. D. D.
bishop of the A NJ. E, Zion church, ser
The colored American., 1902-08-02

lanta, out of 81 teachers, go received
their education in Atlanta University.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

Arkansas has a colored bar associa-
tion.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

The strikes in various parts of the Ma
ton should rebound TO the Colored man 5
benefit provided he act wisely and in
dustriously.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

ABROAD 10 study the educational meth
DDS and systems of the best technical
schools, and will retain for a season the
dictatorship of the High and Training
School at Baltimore
Mime Helene Noble, of New York.
has opened a summer school for the
instruction of the French system of
corset making and dreSS-cutiting and
fitting. She is a graduate of L'Ecole
Professionals de Madame A Gene, de
Paris, and served two years in the dress
making establishment of Mime Prince,
in Paris. She was also with Nine Le-
.otry. whose corset establishment is one
OF the largest and best in the French
capital.
The Teachers College pedagogical
Department. of Howard University was
organized in 1900 with Prof L. B.
Moore as dean. The definite aim of the
courses is to prepare young women to
take charge of kindergartenS and to con-
duct them in accord with the highest ed
ucational standards. The department
has been doing an excellent work along
this line and is preparing for more elab-
orate efforts next year.
William Still, noted Afro-American
died few days ago at him home in Phil
ldelphia. Before the war he assisted
thousands of slaves to secure their free
dom by escaping TO the free States He
published book called The Under
ground Railroad and it had a tremen-
dous sale. The book told of the means
used to help his race to escape from the
South. Deceased was eighty years of
age and was worth nearly million dol
lars at his death
The colored American., 1902-08-02

The next meeting of our Lott Carey
Foreign Mission Convention to be held
IN Washington, D. c.. from September
3 to 7. at Liberty Baptist Church. Dr.
|. Toliver. pastor. will will be the most
important meeting in the history of the
organization.
The colored American., 1902-08-02

General 0. o. Howard Federal gen
eral in the Civil War. is deeply interest
ed in the establishment of a school for
the mountain whites of Tennessee. He
was the founder of Howard University
Washington. d. c, which has done so
much good for our people