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General Race News I GUARDIAN CELEBRATES FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY Boston, Mass., Dec. 8.—That the Boston Guardian has done a good work in fighting the battles of the race was asserted by W. P. Brigham .n an address at the Columbus Ave nue A. M. E. Zion Church, where the fifteenth anniversary of the journal .vas observed. He also said that 10, 000,00 Colored people of this coun try should have a representative in Congress. Revs. B. W. Swain, A. W. Puller and M. W. Thornton, Miss Eliza Gard ner, J. R. Bourne and W. M. Trotter, publisher of the Guardian, and M. W. Storey also spoke. “I believe that an segregation ’aw in the United States is unconstitution al and I believe, furthermore, that the end of segregation has come,” Moor field Storey told the aldience. “I don’t believe that any body of people in any state should be cut off from general society and oppressed after the manner the Negro race is cut off and oppressed. It is wrong for the Southern states to take the attitude they do in regard to the wel fare of the Colored people.” NEWSPAPER NESTOR AT NATIONAL CAPITAL Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.—T. Thos. Fortune, the veteran editor who placed the New York Age on the journalistic map, has moved to this city, bag and baggage, and is quar tered temporarily with Mr. H. P* Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows Journal. Amid the congenial sur roundings of the nation’s capital he will engage in literary work of a varied character. He will be the ac credited representative and general correspondent of the New York Age and will be editorial contributor to the Philadelphia Tribune, the Norfolk Journal and Guide, and other papers. As a side line in conjunction with Miss Jeanette Carter, a capable sten ographer and barrister, he plans to develop a syndicate news service for papers of both races throughout the country. WIIY RAILROADS REFUSED ARBITRATION New York.—That the railroads re jected arbitration in the dispute of trainmen for higher wages because they did not want seventy-five small railroads of the South and Negro em ployes and certain classes of white workmen from getting any benefits out of any agreement reached, was as serted by W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers in an address at the closing meeting of the New York Academy of Political Science last Friday night, November 24th. DANIEL H. MURRAY, JR., DIES Washington, D. C.—After an illness of three weeks, Daniel H. Murray, Jr., died here November 22nd. He had studied music at Oberlin Conservatory and also in New York and Boston. He was a violinist of considerable ability and the composer of a number of songs and arrangements for his instrument. Of late years he paid particular attention to orchestral work. His father is an assistant librarian in the Library of Congress. ;els high cost of paper Odd Fellows’ Journal to be Published Every Other Week. Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.—Be cause of the increase in the cost of japer and printing material and the .nadvisability of raising the annual subscription price, the Monthly Board jf the Sub-Committee of Management of the G. U. O. of O. P., has decided to publish the Odd Fellows’ Journal only twice a month instead of weekly. Hence, Editor H. P. Slaughter, be ginning December 7, will issue the Journal only on the first and third Thursday in each month. VNOTHER SUIT AGAINST DEMOCRATS St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 8.—John L. Sul ivan, Colored, of 2301 Walnut street, one of the eighty-nine Colored men arrested on election morning in fur therance of the Democratic scheme of intimidating the Colored voters, filed suit in Circuit Court recently for $11,000 damages against Democratic leaders, election officials, members of the Board of Police Commissioners, and policemen. He is the second Col ored man to sue as a result of the wholesale arrests of Negroes at the polls. LIEUT.-COL. YOUNG TO BE PROMOTED Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.—It is reported that when the army is fur ther increased Lieut.-Col. Charles Young, now attached to the 10th Cav alry and the only Colored officer of his rank assigned to the line, will oe made a full Colonel and given ac tive duty with his command as such. YOUNG SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER AT NEW ORLEANS New Orleans, La.—Miss Rosalie I. Singleton, a fellow of the National Urban League, has taken charge of the community work in connection with Straight College. The work is co-operated in by three Congregation al churches of the city, Central, How ard and Beecher. LABORER LEAVES $10,000 Louisville, Ky.—The filing for pro bate of the will of Samuel Carter revealed the fact that he was worth $10,000. He could not read or write, tnd made his money doing odd jobs. He owned a number of houses. He was unmarried, and left his estate to Miss Frances Virginia Owens, whose family he had known for fifty years. BALTIMORE Y. M. C. A. GETS SITE FOR NEW HOME Baltimore, Md.—Announcement has just been made that the Colored Young Men’s Christian Association has secured the property at McCul-, loh and Dolphin streets for the new $100,000 home. BUYS MACHINERY FOR LAUNDRY Stanley, N. D., Pec. 8.—Mr. F. W. 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