The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-07-10

of Howard University. DR.. Emmett j.
Scott, secretary of Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama, was selected secretary
treasurer of the University. The
new official enters actively upon his
duties July 1st.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Reorgani-
cation of the system of education in
colored schools of the District is con
tanned in plans submitted by Presi-
dent George f. Hamilton of the board
Of education to the board at its meet
ing.
OMAHA, Neb.--Over the protest
of a majority of the Public Welfare
Board against the appointment of a
colored woman to succeed Frank A.
Kennedy. State Labor Commissioner,
Mayor Smith has appointed Mrs
Julia Hadlein. a former Y. W c. A.
worker in Chicago and New York
BUCYRUS, GA pilgrimage to-
Upper Sandusky, the birthplace of the
home missionary movement, in mem
ory of its founder, John Stewart. Col
ored, will be made by visitors to the
Methodist Centenary celebration on
Saturday, July 5.
QUINDARA. Kan Western Uni
versity closed its twenty-thrd annual
session on June 5th with its com
mencement exercises witnessed by a
large number of people. Col. Chas
Young. of the United States Army ad-
dressed the graduating class He
spoke at length on the relationship OF
the races and admonished his race
to love his brother rather than hate
CANTON, Outward Baylock,
custodian at the First Trust and Saw
ings Company, this city, is bonded
for $4,000, said to be the highest
bonded colored man in the state.
CLEVELAND For the second
time in its history the much coveted
Phi Beta kappa Key has been won
by a colored student at Western Re
serve University. Mr.. Perry b. Jack
son Of Janesville, a student who has
hid to work his way through college.
is the winner.
CHICAGO, Ill.-The Workers Ad-
visory Committee, an organization
representing practically every race
fraternal, welfare, religious and labor
body in this district and affiliated
with like organizations in other dis
tricts, asked the American Fedora
tion of Labor in convention here last
week to urge international unions to
strike from their constitutions arti-
cles barring Colored members.
SPOKANE.-United States Senator
Miles Poindexter is to he formally
named as "A candidate for the presi
dency of the United States A call
issued today by prominent Republi-
cans asks that Poindexter clubs be
formed all over the state on the even
ing of July 5.
WASHINGTON.-Prof. J. Slas
Harris, of Kansas City. Mo. president
Of the Negro National Educational
Congress. was sworn in Tuesday
morning as a clerk in the U. s. Sen
ate.
BOSTON, Mass. Herbert Wright,
drummer, formerly Of the 369th In
fantry Band, who slashed the throat
Of Lieut. James Reese Europe, has
been brought to trial and sentenced
to from ten to fifteen years in the
penitentiary, on the charge of man
slaughter.
LA CROSSE, Wis Louis Ruehl.
Milwaukee railroad detective, who
shot and killed Fred Bunker and
John b. Schommers, discharged sol
diers. while they were said to be tres
passing in the local yards on March
10, today was acquitted OF the charge
Of murder by a jury in circuit court
Ruehl pleaded self defense.
VICKSBURG, Miss.---A white man
raped a colored girl in Bovina. Miss,
one day last week. Bovina is only
four miles from Vicksburg, and in
the same county. A charge was
promptly made against him and he
was arrested and placed in Jail at
Vicksburg, but not one word has been
heard Of the kerosene can, tho rope
nor the outraged public conscience.
WASHINGTON - Secret service
agents OF tho treasury department
are said to have struck a yeritable
gold mine In tho back yard Of Charles
II. Turnbull, a trusted employe in the
macerating room Of the treasury de-