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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1916)
General Race News BURNED TO DEATH BY MOB AT WACO, TEX. Fifteen Thousand People Gather in Public Square—Victim Taken From Court. Waco, Tex., May 26.—With 15,000 persons as witnesses, including wo men and children, Jesse Washington, a Negro boy, who confessed that he attacked and murdered Mrs. Lucy Fryar, seven miles south of here May 15, Monday afternoon, was taken from the Fifth district courtroom shortly before noon May 16 and burn ed to death in the public square. The youth was burned immediately after the trial had ended. The jury had returned a verdict of guilty, giv ing him the death penalty. Then some one started the cry of “get the Negro!” It was quickly taken up by all of those from that part of the county where Mrs. Fryar was killed, and Washington was then seized. The mob at first seemed willing to hand the victim from*the suspension bridge, but a suggestion that he be burned met with instant response. He was dragged to the city hall yard, where the chain already around his neck, was thrown over the limbs of a tree, wood piled around him and the fire started. And still we hunt the outlaw, Villa! How about these civilized (?) Amer icans ? WHITES STEAL CHICKENS FROM COLORED FARMERS Albany, Ga., May 26.—J. A. Moore and J. M. Clark, two young white men, have been arrested here on war rants charging them with stealing chickens from Colored farmers living around Baconton in Mitchell county. Two white men were discovered in a hen house at an early hour Monday morning, May 15. The farmer report ed the matter to Marshal L. A. Lof ton, of Baconton, and when the robb d man and the marshal arrived on the scene, the men were gone with the chickens. Several other coops in that section also were visited. The men were seen in a skeleton buggy, driv ing a gray horse, the coop of chick ens being in the back of the buggy. They were traced to Albany, and in vestigation showed where they had sold chickens and guineas to local grocers and the two men were arrest ed. About forty chickens and guineas were missed and one turkey gobbler. Some one made a raid on the hen roosts in the neighborhood of Bancon ton last week. METHODISTS ELECT TWO BISHOPS FOR AFRICA Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 26.— The Rev. Alexander P. Camphor of Birmingham, Ala., was elected Negro missionary bishop for Liberia, Africa, on the second ballot by virtually an unanimous vote, at the general Meth odist conference. He is president of Central Alabama college at Birming ham. The Rev. Eben S. Johnson of Sioux City, la., was elected missionary bish op for the remainder of Africa. Mr. Johnson has held pastorates in the Northwest Iowa conference, including Sioux City, where he has been sta tioned since 1909. THE NEGRO IS MORE SELF RELIANT THAN THE WHITES Surprising Statement is Made by New York Charity Organization. In the New York Charity Organza : tion Bulletin there is made a state ment that will probably be surprising to most of the people who read it. “The Negro,” according to this high authority, “is more self-reliant in pov erty than the white living under the I same conditions. He is slower to seek i assistance, and more eager to be inde J pendent again.” These are certainly admirable pe culiarities, and thfe Bulletin, assuming as is safe, the truth of its assertion, is well justified in asking if in them there is not to be seen a promise to the Negro of ultimate success in his struggle for recognition. It is also somewhat surprising to learn, or at any rate to hear, from the same source, that the environ ment of the Negroes in that city is more than ordinarily favorable to them, and that in Harlem, with its wide cross streets and the broad, clean stretches of Seventh and Lenox avenues, they have been able to de velop their capacities for orderly, in telligent and prosperous living to a greater degree than almost anywhere else. This they have done through business and professional relations with each other in a fairly homo geneous community of 50,000 Colored i people. They have not forgotten to be kind, either, for the Charity Organization i society has a special committee in Harlem of 19 Colored men and wo men, working efficiently with a Col ored “visitor,” employed jointly by the organization and the Harlem Re lief Society. APPOINTS COMMISSION TO MEMORALIZE CONGRESS Philadelphia, May 26.—A commis sion has been appointed by the gen eral conference of the African Meth odist Episcopal Church to memorialize Congress to make lynching a federal offense. The commission is headed by Bishops W. D. Chappell, R. B. Parks and C. T. Shaffer. Resolutions favoring preparedness and in opposition to segregation and ! Jim Crow laws were adopted. The lewlutifcii on preparedness follows • ‘As for preparedness, we wish to j j go unreservedly on record. “Naturally a people who furnished j 188,00;) soldiers when slaves for the st.lv;uioi! of the Union would row as irccmen reemit to its full manhood strength to , i.'.tect the flag and coun try. We b. ieve in mobilizing both m-*n ; nd . iries and in putting at ihe head of t:'is army in th , Presiden tial . i.f a uc and trie'1 American patnet, a man who stands for a sr.uarc deal for all classes, and who believes in the Roosevelt doctrine ‘of all men up and not some men down’.” HORSE RACING AT BENSON Douglas County Agricultural Society to Hold Three Day Meet. Commencing June 8th, the Douglas County Agricultural Society will hold one of the best race meets that Ne braska people have ever witnessed. Nearly 200 crack horses from nine j states have been entered for these races furnishing the best racing sport that has been seen in Ornaah ior many years. It will be a three-day meet running up to June 10th, in clusive. There will be four races each day. Many famous horses will be entered and to those that love the “king oi sports” it will be a rare treat. Thes« races will be run under the manage ment of J. F. McArdle, secretary of the society, with F. I). Van Pelt, of Omaha, as starting judge. If you have anything to dispose of, a Want Ad in The Monitor will sell it. t I I AH ALL STYLES Anj \QL straws y&j ICE CREAM For Sale at Leading Drug Stores and Confectioners. Made by THE FAIRMONT CREAMERY . COMPANY. ,,,,,, r HAVE YOU TRIED *"*"’"*' j Ipano-ma’s i I BISCUITS! You’ll Find Them Delicious j t 19 Biscuits in a Dainty Glassinc I (Wrapper, 10 Cents At All Grocers t JAY BURNS BAKING CO. \ I Base Ball!! t Brandeis Stores I vs. Brown’s | Tennessee Rats { | (The first team composed en- j | tirely «»f Colored players to visit | • Rourke’s Park this season.) i l Rourke Park j i May 30, June 3 and 4 ! j t J ADMISSION TO ANY SEAT, 25c J Welter De Vaughn SEEDS AND NURSERY i 1614 Harney Street Telephone Tyler 2060 HOTEL CUMING Rooms with Hath, $1.00 and Up I’er Week Barber Shop and Pool Room in Connection I). G. Russell, Proprietor Mrs. Bryant. Manager 1916 Cuming St.Doug. 2466 Start Saving Now One Dollar will opno an account In tin- J Savings Department I of the United States Nat’l Bank I6lh and Farnam Streets I HENRI H. CLAIBORNE Notary Public Justice of the Peace lies. Doug. filSH 512-13 Paxton Block | ! Moving Vans and Piano | Moving, Packing, Shippings j GORDON VAN CO. j j Uth and Davenport Douglas 394 J We recommend the k STATE FURNITURE CO. Corner 14th and Dodge Sts. as the most reliable, accommodat ing and economical furniture store to buy from. EMERSON LAUNDRY K. S. MOREY, Proprietor 1303-05 North 24th Street Phone Webster 8i'0 IOKRIE S HULSE C. H T. UIEPEN Hurnuj *Kh7 Hartley if>«4 HULSE ® RIEPEN Funeral Directors Doug. 1226 701 So. 16th St. |