The colored American., 1903-03-28
RACE GLEANINGS-

I'm in Rochester, n. Y, an IIdIIdn
bootblack has been fined $1OO Ior re-
fusing TO shine a Negro's shoes.
IT seems assured that Mississippi
will have a Negro as one of its conf
missioners to the St. Louis exposition.
The Pittsburg and Allegheny colored
neopIe are complaining bitterly or
their difficulty in renting decent
houses.
Thc Pennsylvania legislature has
wisely concluded not to iRterdict mar
riages among the races, believing such
a law would foster immortality
Out in Ohio it cost county S5,5Oo
to lynch man, that amount being oD-
tanned on a judgment secured by the
legal representation OF the deah man;
The Negroes of Memphis, Tenn, Will
not ride in the Jim Crow cars, but
have organized stock company
among their own capitalists to operate
a bus line.
The American Colonization Society
succeeded in inducing just three per-
sons to emigrate to iberia last year
and by the way one of them was a
native African.
Mrs. Estelle E. Hawkins of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, well known as a race
poetess of merit, is winning new lau-
rels as an educator at the George X.
Smith College at Sedalia, Mo.
]. Madison Bell of Toledo, Ohio, a
Negro widely known as an advocate,
artist and poet and as the personal
friend of John Brown, has just died.
He wrote Rally Round the Flag,
Boys"
Miss Isabella H. Horton, aged 16,
who has been at work effectively as an
evangelist, is arousing the slumbering
consciences of the people of Chicago
~ hoGr hDn
preaching for five years.
John Wesley Church of Baltimore Is
proud of the distinction accorded its
beloved pastor. Rev. Ernest Lyon, but
is already lamenting his prospective
departure for Liberia.
The Negroes of California have been
making voluminous notes touching
Senator Perkins and his conduct in
the matter of DR.. Crum's nomination.
When the proper time comes the SEN
ator will hear from them.
Down in West Point, Miss, there
does not seem to be any race issue. The
races get along amicably. Negro black
smith, wagon and shoe shops flourish,
and silversmiths, grocers and hack
men, though colored, receive large pat
ronage from both races.
The Cincinnati, Ohio, Brotherhood
in its latest issue speaks with some
severity of Hon. Henry P. Cheatham
of North Carolina Mr.. Cheatham
true position will be found by perus-
ing the columns of The Colored Ameri-
can in it's issue of March 21st.
Circuit Judge Anderson some days
ago down in Mississippi charged the
grand jury in no uncertain terms,
touching the numerous cases OF white
men living in adultery with colored
women. The proceeding of that grand
jury will be watched with interest
The Central Mercantile Company OF
Raleigh, N. c., and the Myrtle Grove
Building and Trust Company of New
Hanover county. N, c., enterprises
started by colored men, have lately
been incorporated. Their capital stock
is subscribed by Negroes exclusively.
In Providence, R. l., Negro refused
to be Disseminated against in an eat
ing saloon controlled by white man
The newspapers took snap shots or
him and made great sensation over
the incident. He got his food and to
their credit, be it said, the white guests
sympathized with him fully.
The Educational and Industrial Con-
ference has recently had most inter
esting meeting in New Berne n. G.
The meetings were all well attended
and the city colored schools were
closed TO enable the teachers and pu-