The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1912-02-10
meet at Tuskegee April 17-18.

Central Railroad left $1,000 to John
| Deelfkin, his faithful colored employee
| Mrs Vara A Marjette, Il white lady
from Jessnp, Ga, comes out in /.
strong press article against lyuching
AT the suggestion of Senator w. o.
Bradley, r. r. Wright, president of
the Georgia Colored State College.
appeared before the Senate Commit
tee last week in the interest of the
bill introduced by Senator Bradley
at the first session of the 62nd Con-
gress appropriating $25O,O0O to hold
a negro emi-centenniaI exposition
at some central or historical place.
Louisville will possibly secure the ex-
position by subscribing $4,000 adj
ditional thus making 100000. The
Senator has since received notice
that the bill will be reported favor
ably.
A colored National Democratic pa
per has been started at Washington.
Mayor Bacharach, of Atlantic
City, N. j., has appointed Isaac Fl.
Muller. a cOlOred member OF the bar
as one of the ten prominent citizens
as his Advisory Cabinet.
The 1000 colored hotel walters Of
Baltimore have been called to or
ganiZe before the meeting or the
Democratic National Convention.
The late Prof. T. S. Delaney. Of
the cOlOred blind school in Louisville
left $500 to Wherefore University,
his alma mater.
A call has been issued for the col
orede baseball teams Of Chicago, St.
Louis. Indianapolis. Louisville and
and Kansas City to form a league.
Miss Ida Lee, Of Louisville. was
left $4,000 last week by white lady
in lllionis as reward for stopping
a runaway horse and thus prevented
the lady from being seriously in
jured when returning from school
one day some years ago. Miss Lee
also recently got $1,000 for being in
a railroad wreck.
Hon. "A. p. Priolean, colOred, o.
South Carolina, appeared before the
Committee OH elections last week to
contest the seat of Hon. Geo. S.
Legare, white, in the United States
Congress.
|. II. Alexander, colored. brilliant
representative of the Louisville High
school has been offered a lucrative
position in the Government service
of st. Paul.
DIR. Dan IT. Williams, the noted
surgeon and physician of Chicago.
conducted the annual clinics at the
the medical department of Walden
University at Nashville, Tenn, this
week in the presence of $50 negro
medical students.
The cOlored hodcarriers union of
Louisville have submitted their scale
of wages for the ensuing year to the
contractors which is the same as last
year 30 cents an hour for brick car
riers and 80 cents for mortar car
riers and s hours to constitute day.
On account of the position held by |
Judge w. c. Hook, of Kansas, ON |
the "Jim Grow" law and protests
from prominent cOlored men Presi-
dent Taft has eliminated his name
from his available list and may APP
point Chas. Nagel Secretary of Com
merce and Labor to succeed the late
Justice John M. Harlan, on the Su-
preme Court Bench.
Announcement was made today
that work will be started on MAY /
on an eight-story hotel for negroes.
1t will go up at Chestnut and West
streets, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, and will be erected at cost
Of 100000. The Clay-Lewis Hotel
Company, it is said, is behind the
venture.
1t is stated that the new hotel will
,e completed in four months, and
hat it will have 800 rooms. Rates. it
< oppo,,p.oI ,,.;u 40 &c.,, do ny =. |