The colored American., 1903-03-07
RACE GLEANINGS.

ldSSU ctO WOi III DOO,UUU, ana !
$4,000 annually IN England
Georgia white people lynched a Ne
gro at Griffin, in that state, on the oath |
ultlmO, and Louisiana added a similar |
blot to her record on the same date
February is the shortest of calendar |
months, but she claims as her children |
Americas three greatest men-Wash- ]
| ingtOn, Lincoln and Fred Douglass
| Black Pearl" Negro pugilist of
some note killed companion out in
Enid, Oklahoma a few day ago, and
was with difficulty saved from lynch |
| ing.
| Mrs. Ezzel, of Kaufman County, |
| Texas, is the richest colored woman in
! Texas. Her husband left her ST., 900
and she has 260 acres of highly i'm
| proved land.
$4,000 has been given by Mr.. VIM.
| Pitts, of Massachusetts, for religious
work among the Negroes in Georgia,
under the direction of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
| Paul Laurence Dunbar seems to have
| forsalIen the East He is winning new
laurels cut West An immense throng
gathered to hear him in Kansas City,
Mo-, and the 27th ultimo.
! John Conway, of Anne Arundel
county, Maryland, an industrious but
unlettered colored man died not long
since leaving an estate worth $4,000, |
I
| the result OF his own thrift
DR.. Newton Dwight Hills in his |
Plymouth pulpit lately, startled his |
congregation by his vigorous prayer to |
God to save us all from the damnable |
heresy that this is a white mans cOun-
try.
The bill creating a new United |
States Court in North Carolina, has be-
come a law. Now let us see whether
Senator Pritchard will make good the |
prediction that he would be the first
Judge.
The Henry Highland Garnet Club, |
an organization of progressive colored |
men in Kings County, New York, is
making itself felt in Brooklyn local |
politics. George e. Wibecan is the
leading spirit.
The legislature of Virginia, demo- |
Gratis and republicans alike, recently
voted tC appropriate $4,000 to defend
the suits brought by Negroes to test |
the constitutiOnality of the recent
suffrage laws.
The entire Negro population consist
ing of twenty souls, was driven out of
Webrum, Pa, by the whites, and their
houses destroyed on account of the
shooting Cne day last week of a white |
lOafer by a Negro.
The cCiOred brother is not expected
t0 he a large or a potential factor in
the next National Republican COnVen-
tiOn. Lily-whitism will get in it's most |
deadly work against the race when the
delegates are to be selected.
Stephen Paine, a retired member of |
the Chicago Fire Department and a
Negro, who died recently, is accredited |
wi h being the inventor of the sliding /
pole, now one of the indispensable |
things in every fire engine house.
Hayden Hall of Cementville near |
JeffersOnville, Indiana, wants to be |
postmaster of his town. He is respect !
able and honest, but he is a Negro, and !
the whites who have no candidate of |
their own are protesting. 1t looks now |
as if Mr.. Hall will win out.
Mr.. James J. Butler. the democratic |
congressman from Missouri, who has |
just been unseated by the House of |
Representatives is a large employer of |
labor. 1t is said that in his various |
enterprises in the city of st. Louis, |
more than 1000 Negroes are on his /
paw rolls.
DR.. Anna B. Schultz, a successful |
colOred physician, was called in last |
week to attend a colored man, who |
had met with an accident on the rail !
road. The road agreed to pay the |
doctors bill and give the man certain /