General Race News
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ANOTHER BLACKED WHITE
MAN ROBS WOMAN
Elizabeth, N. C.—If the man who
assaulted and robbed Mrs. Frank G.
Congleton, a white woman of this
town, of $702 on Saturday night, No
vember 26, had been more careful in
putting on his disguise, it is quite
probable that the Negroes here would
have received rough treatment from
the white people. She was robbed by
a man with a black face but white
hands.
Mrs. Congleton and husband did not
believe in banks and their savings
were carried by the woman in a wal
let concealed in her bosom. As she
was en route home about 8:30 that
night the highwayman met her and
thrust a pistol in her face, demand
ing her money. From a pocket in her
blouse he secured $7, but evidently
having some knowledge of the hiding
place of her savings, he knocked her
down, choked her and tore from the
inside of her bodice the wallet with
the money.
Mrs. Congleton didn’t recognize
him, but she declared to the author
ities that while the man’s face was
black his hands were the hands of a
white man. The police put dogs on
the man’s trail and he was tracked to
the Norfolk Southern depot, where
the trail was lost.
LYING BOY MIGHT
HAVE CAUSED LYNCHING
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Rocky Mount, N. C.,—An 8-year
old white boy was the cause of con
siderable excitement in the Stoney
Creek district, about three miles from
this town, when he ran to his mother
and excitedly declared that a Negro
had murdered two white women and
thrown their bodies in Stoney Creek.
His circumstantial account of how the
two women were killed while gather
ing corn in a field near where he was
at play excited his mother and she
spread the news.
The chief of police and his entire
force, together with the sheriff of
Nash county, spent two hours search
ing for clues on the strength of the
boy’s imagination before someone ex
ercised common sense enough to go to
the home of the two wmen, where
they were fund very much alive and
equally as much in the dark con
cerning the report that they had been
killed.
Nearly the whole of Rocky Mount’s
population thronged to the Stoney
Creek section, seeing visions of a
prospective lynching.
CARNEGIE STEEL CO.
EMPLOYS RACE LABOR
Newark, N. J.—For the first time
in its history the Carnegie Steel Com
pany of this city is employing Col
ored labor. Thirty-five men are em
ployed at the Waverly, N. J., ware
house, and officials of the company
say that they are all making good.
Nearly all the men are from the
South and most of them have brought
their families.
GETS $10,000 ESTATE
Asbury Park, N. J.—By a ruling of
Vice Chancellor Foster, Mrs. Mary
Hubbert has been given a li a interest
in the estate of her deceased husband,
Lot C. Hubbert, a constable, who died
here last February.
SUIT BROUGHT
AGAINST THEATER
Minneapolis, Minn,—The manage
ment of the Pantages theater is this
city has repeatedly refused to allow
Negroes to occupy seats on the first
floor of their building, and they have
made it a practice of seating them in
the balcony. Attorney R. A. Skin
ner, a young practicing lawyer, has
been refused, also several other re
spectable persons on account of their
color. Messrs. L. C. Valle, Oscar G.
Price, Dr. W. Ellis Burton and Miss
L. O. Smith were refused admission,
having in their possession tickets for
seats they were not allowed to oc
cupy. Attorney Skinner has brought
suit, and will be assisted by Attorney
Brown S. Smith. They intend to
make a strong legal fight to overcome
this discrimination. A series of suits
will be brought indivdually, and they
will present this case to the grand
jury.
ST. HELENA ISLAND
PLANTERS PROSPEROUS
Beaufort, S. C.—St. Helena Island,
a few miles from this city, has a pop
ulation of 7,000 Negroes and 55
whites. There is never any race trou
ble and an evidence of the prosperity
achieved by the Negroes is seen in the
recently announced sale by McDonald
Wilkins and Co., of 400 bales of cot
ton at 19%, cents per pound.
SOLDIERS MADE HAPPY
El Paso, Texas.—An entertainment
was given recently by the Negro Red
Cross Society for the Colored troop
ers confined in the base hospital. Af
ter an elaborate musical program, a
‘comfort bag” was presented each of
he 40 patients and fruit distributed.
Prof. William Coleman delivered an
address on “Our Flag and Manhood."
LABORERS ORGANIZING
AT PANAMA
Panama, Dec. 6.—Negro workers
of the Canal and Panama railroad and
unemployed Negroes have taken steps
under the leadership of two lawyers
to foTm a permanent organization of
workingmen to be affiliated with a
similar organization in the City of
Colon.
STATES NEEDS OF
FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL
Washington, D. C.—The need of a
pathological building, the lack of suit
able quarters for laboratory study
and the need of more laundry space
are among the wants of Freedmen’s
Hospital, as stated in the annual re
port of Dr. W. S. Warfield, surgeon
in-chief to the Secretary of the In
terior.
It is declared the unkempt and un
sightly grounds about the hospital
cannot be utilized for the benefit of
the patients until funds are provided ■
for the necessary fencing and beauti
fying. A ward for the eye and nerv
ous patients is greatly needed, it is
stated, while an increase in the force
af employes of the institution is also
asked for.
Will build you a bungalow on a
'srge lot close to school and car line
for $100 cash and $15.00 monthly.
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