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BEQUEATHS HALF OF FOR
TUNE TO COLORED NURSE
Jacksonville, Fla.—Florida society
and business circles received a dis
tinct shock this week when it became
known that the late Robert Weldon,
one of the state’s most prominent
business and real estate men, had be
quethed to his Negro nurse prop
erty and cash to the amount of $125,
000, which was considerably more
than he left his wife. Mr. Weldon’s
estate is estimated at from $225,000
to $250,000.
The will was made January 8, 1916,
and bequeaths to a Mrs. Conrad
Schmidt considerable property owned
by the deceased in the Security Land
Company, and also some to J. H.
Taylor and Dr. N. S. Burham. His
will reads: “To Sarah P. Thompson,
Colored, who nursed me through a
severe illness without pay, I give lots
16, 17 and 18, block 22, north Miami
also all property and whatsoever in
terest I may have in Jape’s subdivi
sion, Erickson’s addition and Waddell
additions to Maimi, all these being
ac’ditions to Maimi. I also give her
any money I may have on my person
or on deposit in any bank and all my
personal effects of any nature whatso
ever, and direct all this to be turned
over to her within one month of my
death.”
The closing clause of the will i-eads
as follows: “The balance of my es
tate I give to my wife, Alice Wel
bom to be paid to her at the rate of
$100 per month for two years. Then
it shall be given to her as a whole."
Mr. Welbom came to Miami during
its early days and his estate has been
accumulated since that time.
COLORED BOY SAVES
GIRL FROM DROWNING
New York.—Walter Parrot, a 15
year-old Colored boy, is the hero of
Cranford, N. J.
Constance West, 12 years old.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry D.
West, 39 Eighth street, Cranford,
started across the Cranford river,
thinking the ice was strong. A short
distance from shore the ice broke and
she was plunged into water over her
head.
Parrot heard her screams and ran
to her rescue. He was able to drag
her to safety with difficulty and only
after breaking through the ice several
times. Parrott is receiving much
praise for his heroism.
STUDY OF AN UNKNOWN
TRIBE OF BLACKS
In the Scientific Monthly for Janu
ary, Hubert Lyman Clark gives an
exhaustive study of the Miriamites, a
black race under the protection of
Queensland and far removed from alk
courses of civilization. They live on
four little islands, Erub, Mer, Dauer,
and Weier, several hundreds of miles
from Australia. It is a sympathetic
study and very interesting.
WANT COLORED COURT OFFICER
Dayton, O.—Appointment of a Col
ored person as an assistant juvenile
court officer to have charge of the
welfare work pertaining to Colored
children was asked by a committee
representing the City Federation of
Colored Woman’s Clubs, who visited
Judge Roland W. Baggott last week.
DR GILES DISCHARGED;
WILL NOT GIVE UP FIGHT
Chicago.—Just six hours after he
had assumed position as physician im
the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitar
ium, he was fired by the head physi
cian, Dr. Charles P. Caldwell, last
Saturday, February 3.
The 700 white patients jeered at
Dr. Giles when he appeared in the
ward and the white doctors left the
dining room when he appeared. Giles
then complained to Caldwell, who
wrote out his dismissal, giving "for
the good of the service” as a reason.
Caldwell says he offered the Col
ored physician a good position at the
same salary, but the latter refused the
tender. Dr. Giles passed a civil ser
vice examination with flying colors,
but his prospective appointment rais
ed a hullabaloo. It is said that a
good deal of the opposition against
him was manufactured. He expects
to contest in the courts.
WHITE GIRL TAKEN FROM
NEGRO WOMAN IS MISSING
Chicago—More than sixty hours
had passed today when detectives re
sumed their search for Margorie Del
bridge, the 14-yearlold white child left
by her dying actress mother to “Mam
my” Jackson, a Colored woman, from
whom the juvenile court recently took
the girl.
Margorie knows no mother except
the old Negro woman, who for many
years worked hard and kept her foster
child well dressed and in school. The
girl protested against being taken
from her “mammy,” but the court
held that she would be better in the
home of persons of her own race. She
was in the home of Mrs. Louis Brock,
by permission of the court, when she
disappeared.
VETERAN EDITOR DEAD
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St. Louis, Mo.—The funeral of Phil
ip H. Murray, for 25 years editor and
publisher of the St. Louis Advance,
was held at St. Paul A. M. E. Church
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Murray, who was 74 years of
age, was born in Reading, Pa. He
was one of those that advocated the
enlistment of Colored troops in the
Civil War, and, with Frederick Doug
lass, spoke in the West in advocacy of
the proposition.
He was an early advocate of edu
cational advantages for the Colored
people of Missouri. He moved to this
city in 1870, and soon /became a
prominent figure.
MOTON WRITES OF
TUSKEGEE’S IDEALS
In the Missionary Review of the
World for January, Robert Russa Mo
ton, principal of Tuskegee, writes an
article entitled, “Tusekgee’s Ideals for
the Negro.” The contribution abounds
in good thoughts, clear expressions
and noble sentiemnts. It is worth
reading, and if these ideals are lived
up to, Tuskegee will go on producing
valuable workers for the race.
LEAVES $12,000 TO MAID
New York, Feb. 15.—By the will
of Mrs. Maura B. Winslow, her maid,
Louis Pache, has been left $12,000 in
cash and other gifts.
COUNCILMAN DE PRIEST
WITHDRAWS FROM RACE
Chicago.—A hot fight for the al
dermanic nomination in the second
ward seems assured since Alderman
Oscar DePriest has withdrawn from
the race. Following Mr. DePriest’s
indictment in the alleged graft charg
es here, a number of the newspapers
insisted that he should retire from
the race.
Among those in the contest for the
nomination are Louis B. Anderson,
successful lawyer; W. G. Anderson,
former lawyer; William R. Cowan,
real estate dealer, and Francis L. Baf
nett, who served sixteen years as
habeas corpus attorney for the city.
RETIRED MINISTER
LEFT $100,000 ESTATE
New Haven, Conn.—Franklin Coel
len, attorney for the late Rev. Henry
H. Johnson, a retired Negro minister
and real estate dealer, in searching
among the clergyman’s effects, re
cently, found in the holes and chinks
of his dilapidated house notes and
deeds valued at $100,000.
The Rev. Mr. Johnson was men
tioned for Minister to Haiti in the
Administration of President Cleve
land. He left the ministry and went
into the real estate business, in which
he was successful. Besides the se
curities found he left about $10,000
in cash.
THE MILLENIUM MUST BE NEAR
Ashdown, Ark.—Fred Edwards, a
white youth of Texarkana, Ark., was
sentenced here to serve a term of 99
years in the penitentiary for crim
inally attacking a Colored girl.
Boys, watch the work of Fred
Houston. He is one of the best bar
bers in Omaha. At Jewell and Phan
nix, 105 So. 14th.—Adv.
BISHOP GAILOR FLAYS
WHITES OF THE SOUTH
Memphis, Tenn.—Rebuking the
white South for surrendering the in
terests of the | Negro race to the
clutches of the “low-brow white peo
ple,” Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, best
known Episcopal prelate in the South,
stirred the fashionable congregation
at Calvary church last Sunday morn
ing. He was talking to the richeet
and most enlightened white people in
Memphis.
The Bishop declared that responsi
bility for the Negro race rested as
much upon southern white people as
upon the Negroes themselves, and said
that scorn of the the black man was
a form of murder.
WORTH ONE-SEVENTH
OF MILLION
Philadelphia, February 15.—Harry
Ratliff gave a dinner in honor of the
ton directors of the Eureka Invest
ment Company Wednesday night, and
it leaked out that those gathered
around the banquet board had a com
bined wealth of $150,000 and that Rat
liff was not the poorest in the crowd.
Mr. Ratliff, who is 69 years old,
was 39 years in charge of a parlor
car on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He
was retired four years ago. During
his railroad service he became known
to many prominent men.
COLORED STUDENT GETS
PRIZE AT MAINE UNIVERSITY
The prize for the best original ora
tion delivered by a Bowdoin College
senior this year went to David A.
Lane, Jr., Colored. “The Task of the
College-Trained Negro,” was his topic.
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lowing Saturday.
Colored People
Intending to
Come North or ^ARMERS, farm laborers,
m . * skilled and unskilled
; flCSl""* workmen, who intend leav
T5t|cP Mntipp ing the south should pro
IdllC nuilbc tect themselves against
swindlers and chance con
ditions. The Monitor has taken up this
, problem and is able to be of service to you.
Write at once for information and en
i close stamp for reply. Address,
George Wells Parker,
Business Manager of The Monitor,
Omaha, Nebraska.
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