The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-08-02

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Farrell. Pa.-AIr Archie w. Kemp,
of Darr avenue, head of the nail coat
ing department at the plant of the
American Steel and Wire Company,
has been ordered to Donora, Pa, for
fifteen days to superintend the open
ing of the nail coating department of
that place, which has been idle for
some time. Mr.. Kemp is an expert in
| his line of work and is an efficient
employe.
Pensacola, Fla. = Miss Rosebud
Spann, young colored woman, daugh-
/ ter of Mrs. j. Il. Spann, widow, one
of the leading colored families of this
place, was attacked July 9th, and
dragged from her buggy to the woods
by a white brute Two hundred and
| fifty dollars reward has been offered
for the arrest and conviction OF the
assailant by colored citizens of Pen
sacola, and the aid of the governor of
Florida has been sought.
Savannah, Ga.-The Wage Earners'
Savings Bank and allied interests
have Just begun what is doubtless the
most stupendous commercial transac-
ton ever effected by our people. AT
cost of $4,000 tile bank has just
acquired the remaining portion $50
feet) of that block of West Broad
street realty between Wayne and AL
ice streets. The cost price represent
ed approximately $1,000 per front foot.
The complete proposition will entail
Il total estimated expenditure OF halt
million ($500,000) dollars. a mod
ern, up-to-date transient hotel, mod
ern theater-auditorium and Il first
class department store Will be em-
braced in the great structure which IS
soon to be erected on this commanding
site.
New York-A colored woman's re
markuble gift to the people of her race
in the United States is reported by DR..
j. NJ. Castor, chief executive of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions for
Freedmen.
The woman, said Mr.. CASTOR, is
graduate of Scotia Seminary, Pres
byterian school in North Carolina. Left
a widow ON her own resources, she
courageously opened Il rooming house
in an Ohio city and accumulated 3d.
600 OF this she has set aside $4,000
for business capital and the remaining
$4,000 she has presented TO the Freed
mems Work of the Presbyterian
Church in the U. S. A., in order, as
she said, More girls may have the
same chance L had"
New York, July 2S.-COngressiOnal
investigation of the wave of mob vio-
lence and lynching throughout the
United States was demanded in an
address to the NatiOn," signed by
former President Taft, officials of sew
eral southern states and other nation
ally prominent citizens, made public
here today by the National Association
for the Advancement of the Colored
People.
Patriotic citizens throughout the
country feel the shame which lynch
ings have cast upon the nation, but
they have assumed partial RESPONSE
bility for this shame by their silence
and their acquiescence.
''The time has now come when cit
liens of the United States can no long
er contemplate without protest the set
ting at naught of the fundamental
principles upon which their citizen
ship is based'
The address recounts that in 1918
no less than 81 persons "were done to
death without trial or any process of
law" and declares that it is well
known that the innocent, with the
guilty, suffer the cruel inflictions of
mob violence" A congressional inves-
tigation is urged so that "means may