The broad ax., 1904-04-16

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i Fan avenue, last Thursday night wa
great success, ana sOodly sum o.
money was realized nom It which VII
be donated TO the Old F6lk's and the
Amanda smith Homes.
Doctor A. WIIberforce Williams en-
tertained the idea that he Is smart
enough 70 practice medicine and settle
I damage suits against the Railroad
Companies at the same time, and the
result Is that he has been sWindled out
OF almost 900 BY walter Wells. who
persuaded the Doctor to believe that
/ he had three Of his fingers cut OF
while working for the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company.
Mrs.. Rev. Lena Mason preached a
ane sermon last Sunday At Zion
church, SSth and Dearborn streets. 1t
pleased the minister and the cOngre-
CATION SO wen that she has been re-
quested to assume charge Of the
church while Rev. Moreland attends
! conference at St Louis, Mo-, next
week. It is being planned for her to
hold rally services every evening this
coming week
Mr.. George Arthur, Of Baltimore,
No, nephew to Noah d. Thompson,
has been appointed secretary to Mr..
]. N. Holland, Editor-in-Chief Of the
Detective Publication Co. at 624s
Cottage Grove avenue. Mr.. Arthur
comes very highly recommended by
the president and secretary Of the Y.
n. c. A. OF Baltimore, whom he served
Is stenographer for about four years.
Thomas Nelson Page, makes snoth-
er vicious onslaught on the Negro, and
his constitutional rights, in McClure's
Magazine for April, and he win con-
tinue his attack in the May number
Of the same magazine. Thomas Mel
son Page, thus far has succeeded in
proving that he is one Of the unre-
generated and unreconstructed eX-
rebels Of the South, who has not be
come satisfied with the results which
flowed from the war Of the Rebellion.
Mrs. Emma Weaver, Worthy Grand
Matron, Mrs. Mabel Harris, Treasur-
er, Mrs. Walker, Vice Matron, Mrs.
Green, Secretary and Mrs. Brown,
Guardian, were appointed a commit
tee to make arrangements for the In
stallation Of officers Of Oriental Court,
Daughters of Sphinx; and an enter
tainment win be held and public in
staIlation Of the officers Of Oriental
Court win take place Monday evening,
April 18th at O'Clock p. m, at 1921
State street. The public Is cordially
invited to attend.
Coils MOseley and Wright feel
mighty jubilent, for they have sue
ceeded in having Justice Jandus to
hold Rev. or Elder David Rantiny VII
kins, Of the Old Church Organ. over
to the Criminal Court, for publishing
certain things in connection with
Mrs. Catherine Gillespie. John G. |
Jones signed his bond Wednesday for |
I'VE hundred dollars, in order to keep
him from being confined in the Cook
County Jail
ExGov. George S. Boutwell,, Of Bos-
ton, Mass, author Of the 14th amend |
ment, win, on April 22nd, speak at a |
great mass meeting which win be held
in Faneuil Hail, to protest against the
Acknowledgement Of the Negro in the
South. The proposed meeting was
largely worked up through the infu-
ence Of The Guardian Of that city,
which is making an unparalleled fight
for the restoration Of the civil and the
political rights Of the Negro through
out The Southern States.
It is reported that r. Thomas For
tune, has given up the ghost, and re-
signed as President Of the National
Council. The only rea-
son that we can assign for this action
on the part Of Tom Fortune, who has
for money rode every drunken politi-
cal horse in the United States, is that
be has become unable to work his
bosom friend, Booker T. Washington,
who owns and controls 1t, and others
with It, for more money in
order to lay in a good stock Of
whisky.
Quarterly meeting was held in Rev.
T. A. Clark's church at Lake Forest
last Sunday, and all the services were
ven attended. Rev. Clark woke the
brethren and sisters up in the morn
ING, and Rev. Jesse Bass Of Glencoe,
preached a powerful sermon in the
afternoon, and the Rev. Louis Madison
7enWiek held forth in the pulpit Sun
lay evening. Presiding Elder H. h.