The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-03-06

his resolution proposing sweeping
investigation of war department and
army conditions be given immediate
consideration Rep. Siegel of New
York told the house rules commit
tee that crippled soldiers are beg
ging aims on the streets of New
York.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Har-
ry Crumley, returned Negro soldier,
was shot and killed at Holt, a fur
mace town four miles from Tusca-
loosa, by Tim Ryan, young white
man.
PHILADELPHIA-Plans are un-
der way for the erection by Philadel-
phia Masons of a new Ter pie to
cost $150,000.
NEW YORK-The 18th Regt. was
rendered a rousing welcome by white
and colored people upon it's return
from overseas.
CHARLESTON, ". Va.-Hon. J.
V. Coleman of Fayette county has
introduced a bill in the house of
delegates to implore penalty upon
the county in which a lynching oc-
cuTs.
SPRINGFIELD, III. - Miss Myr-
tIe Lee Of this city started action
against the Princess Theater man
agement for discrimination in vio-
1ation Of the criminal laws of Hi
nois-
DECATUR, Ill.-Carl Watkins,
until recently city mail carrier
was arrested Saturday afternoon by
deputy United States marshals and
taken to Springfield under a fed
sral indictment charging him with
destruction of mail matter.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-A bill
designed to put an end to lynching
in Missouri was introduced by SEN
ator Kinney Of st. Louis, which
penalties mob violence to either per-
sons or property.
SCRANTON, Pa.-As result OF
a protest by leading colored citi-
Eens, Mayor Connell has appointed
eight colored persons as a commit
tee in connection with the general
entertainment for returning soldiers.
WASHINGTON-S McNary
or Oregon has introduced a propos-
ed amendment to the district appro-
priation bill to enable the govern
ment to establish a home for aged
and infirm colored people and work
ing girls, to establish an industrial
farm to aid the people who must
move from the alleys of Washington
to provide work for the colored
youth during the summer and to aid
the colored schools in the South.
TUSCUMBIA, Ala.-The jury
trying the case against Frank Dill
lard and JEFF Jenkins charged with
the lynching at Sheffield the day the
armistice was signed refused to con-
vict, AS a result the cases against
18 others implicated have been dis
missed.
Thomas J. Donnelly, secretary of
the Ohio Federation of Labor, has
sent a letter to local federations of
labor recommending that attention
be given to the organization of
Negro workers and that efforts be
made to bring Negroes reared and
educated in Ohio into the various
unions, skilled AM unskilled.
ATLANTA, Cain order to per
petuate in history the brave record
10 hrr( h.
cent war, Professor r. r. Wright,
president of the Georgia State In
dustrial College, has been officially
requested to compile all the infor-
nation he can secure on this sub
ject.
CINCINNATI, O.-Referandum
elections will be sought in fourteen
states on the federal prohibit Ii
amendment, according to an an
nouncement made by the National
Association of Distillers and Whole
sale Liquor Dealers here on Tues
day.
WASHINGTON - Hon VIM. F.
Mason, Congressman from Chicago
has introduced a resolution asking
for an investigation of alleged dis
elimination against colored people
in appointments under the civil serv-
ice.
MARSHALL, Mo.--Prof. J. H..
Kenner, for 29 years principal of
the Lincoln school here, is dead at
the age Of 63 years.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The
Jim Crow bill introduced by Senator
Mayer has been killed in commit
tee.
SHUBUTA, Miss. - Investigators
have ascertained that DIR. Z. l..
Johnson, for whose alleged murder
two brothers and two sisters were
lynched in December committed sui
eide.
JACKSONVILLE, n. C. - John
Daniels was taken from the jail and
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