The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-02-27
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sulting from courtmartial during
the war, has created considerable
commOtion in the war depart.
ment.
Secretary of War n. D. Baker
has been impressed by the action
of the American Bar association s
executive committee in moving
for an investigation of the alleg-
ed injustice of military courts,
and it is regarded that the admin
istration will find it necessary to
remedy the evil. A review of all
courtmartial cases, to result In a
reduction of unjust sentences and
the correction of other injustices
is being demanded.
Columbus, O.-Attorney Robert
B. Barcus has just been appointed
special counsel in the office of the
attorney general. He assumed
his duties last week
st. Louis, Mo.-.Mr. Clarence
Howard, president of Common
wealth Steel Co., has just cOntri-
buted $500 to the Pine st. Branch
Y. M. C. A, as another evidence
of his interest in the colored peO-
pie,
Boston, MaSs.-Sergt. H. J. Ho-
mer, one of the two colored mem
bers of the local police force, has
voluntarily retired on pay. He
is rs years of age and has served
40 years on the force.
Washington, D. C.,-Capt. Rus
sell Smith, United States Infantry,
has been relieved from duty at
Howard University, this city, and
detailed as professor of military
science and tactics at Tuskegee In
stitute, Alabama. First Lieuten-
ant Campbell c. johnson, United
States Infantry, has been assigned
to duty as professor of military
science and tactics at Howard
University.
E. st. Louis.-Following the ar
rest of fourteen Negro farm hands
who said they were imported to
East st. Louis from Mississippi
by a travelling section foreman of
the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, la
Dor leaders of East st. Louis to-
day made a protest against the
importation Of Negroes.
New York.-The 370th Inf.
Gold 8th Illinois) has arrived from
France. For the present it will
go to Camp Upton. They are ex-
pected to demobilize at Camp
Grant.
Charleston, w. Va.-Dean Pick
ems, vice president of Morgan Col
lege, Baltimore, spoke to large
audience in the Legislature hall,
. last week. He came at the invita-
. ton Of the leading white and col
, ored citizens of the city. He spoke
on the NEGRO in the Reconstruc-
ton.
Paducah, Ky. Thornton
Grooms, a soldier just returned
from France. charged with shoot
ing a white man at Eddyville, was
brought here to prevent his be-
ing lynched.
Brunswick, Ga.-Ben Jordan is
on trial here for the killing a
white man he found in a compro-
missing situation with his wife
He will plead the "unwritten
law"
Cincinnati. O.-The board of
managers of the Freedmen S Aid
Society Of the Methodist EpiSco-
pal church passed a resolution
asking the Senate and the House
4 of Representatives of the United
States to pass a federal law for
\ the suppressing Of lynching.
Washington, D. C.-Forty col
ored walters at the Ebbitt Hotel
\ walked out on a strike following
= refusal Of the hotel to give them
Il salary increase.
i Kansas City, Kans.-W. f. Sa-
Atlanta. Ga.-John II. Shillady,
Il Sect. y. a. A. c. p. spoke to a
monster mass meeting on Con
u ditions that Have Grown out Of
81 the War =
New Orleans. La. Madison
Vance, prominent lawyer and pol
4 itician, is dead here.
Harrisburg. Pa.-The colored