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144 THE CRISIS Nation-wide Prohibition was sent to President Wilson; and Mrs. B.J. Tyler was elected to represent the federation at the meeting of the National Defense Council. The 50th annual session of the Iowa State Federation was held in Ottumwa, May 21-23. A portrait of the late Booker T. Washington, painted by H. O. Tanner, was unveiled. The picture will be placed in the historical building of the State at Ottumwa. The Delaware State Federation has held its first annual session. In Indianapolis a four days' session was held during May, representing 60 clubs and 800 women, with one hundred delagates. The 61st annual conference of the British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada will assemble at the local church, St. Catherines, Ontario, June 26. The first annual meeting of the Volunteer State Funeral Directors and Embalmers' Association conducted a two days' session in Nashville, Tenn., and re-elected E. P. Taylor as president. THE CHURCH. The first Negro suffragan bishop in the United States was elected by the Episcopal Council of the Diocese of Arkansas, May 11. He is Archdeacon J. A. Russell, of Lawrenceville, Va. The vestry of All Saints Church, St. Louis, Mo., has extended a unanimous call to Rev. Shelton H. Bishop, of St. Philip's, Pittsburg, Pa., to become rector, succeeding the late Rev. C. M. C. Mason. Rev. Bishop is a son of Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, rector of St. Philip's Church, New York City, and a nephew of the late Rev. Mason. John McCormick, the Irish tenor, donated a victrola o the St. Benedict Colored Church fair in New York City. The net receipts of the fair amounted to over $600. The Baptist Jubilee will be held at Lynchburg, Va., July 10-15, in celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Virginia Baptist State Convention. The Laymen's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada recently closed the first convention for colored men in Norfolk, Va. Six hundred and forty-eight men were registered and twenty-six churches represented. PERSONAL. Ex-Queen Ranavalova of Madagascar is dead. Henry T. Burleigh and J. Rosamond Johnson received honorary degrees of Master of Arts at the Atlanta University commencement. The will of Frank H. Keys, carriage manufacturer of Council Bluffs, Iowa, bequeaths $50,000 to Tuskegee Institute and $400,000 to the improvement of industrial conditions of colored people of the South. James R. Harris, Sr., has complete forty years' service in the mailing division of the local post office in Louisville, Ky. The marriage of Miss Emma Ethlynde Bibb to Harry H. Pace took place June 20 in Atlanta, Ga. A complimentary reception and luncheon was given in Odd Fellows' Hall, Washington, D. C., June 2, in honor of the eightieth birthday of former Governor P. B. S. Pinchback of Louisiana. A silver loving cup was presented from New Orleans. The Hon. Herbert F. Wright, American Consul at Porto Cabello, Venezuela, has returned to his home at Marshalltown, Iowa. The Rev. John Albert Williams, colored priest of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon in Omaha, was re-elected secretary of the Diocese of Nebraska at the recent annual church council. The necrology for the month includes Abel P. Caldwell, editor of the Courant, Philadelphia; Mrs. Jessie Taylor Johnson at Chicago, Ill., mother of Fenton Johnson, the poet; William P. Hall, in Philadelphia, Pa., who was a poultry dealer in the Reading Terminal Market for many years; William H. Hearn, a former employee in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C.; Will H. Dixon, the noted song writer, at Chicago, Ill.; Ruth McEnery Stuart, of Louisiana, author of dialect tales of the Negro; Joseph B. Foraker, former U. S. Senator from Ohio, who saved the reputation and standing of the five companies of the 25th Infantry, discharged without trial by President Roosevelt; Mrs. helen Letitia Fields, in San Francisco, mother of Dr. William H. Fields, and known as "Grandma Fields." At New Orleans, La., a squad of soldiers from the United States barracks, near Chalmette, attended the funeral of Colonel F. C. Antoine, who at his death was assistant adjutant and quartermaster general of the Department of Louisiana and Mississippi, G. A. R.; Col. Simon C. Collins, a Civil War veteran, who enlisted in the 6th Regiment of Colored Volunteers in Philadelphia is dead; the funeral of the THE HORIZON 145 Rev. Thomas Henry Shorts, for thirty years pastor of Queen Street Baptist Church, Hampton, Va., was attended by thousands of men and women from all sections of the State; Dr. W. F. Montgomery, a practising physician at Sophia, W. Va., and a graduate of Atlanta University is dead. Dr. H. L. Morehouse, for many years secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, is dead. He was one of the foremost Baptists of the country and will be especially missed among the colored people of the South. POLITICS. PROF. A. L. BRITWELL, former principal of Greendale School, has announced his candidacy for Magistrate for the Fourth District, Lexington, Ky. Dr. John Hopkins has been re-elected alderman of the Sixth Ward at Wilmington, Del. Dr. Alfred P. Russell, a colored man, ran well for the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, though he lost, as did Moorfield Storey. Hon. A. S. Pillsbury was elected. GHETTO. MISS BESSIE EASLEY has been awarded $100 for discrimination in the Automa lunchrooms in New York City. Frank R. Stewart, a colored attorney of Pittsburg, has succeeded in having all of the colored men discharged who were arrested wholesale sometime ago for killing a grocer. The police at the time arrested 200 colored men and sent 70 of them to the workhouse. A foreman of a chain gang in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been exonerated for the killing of a 15-year-old colored boy in cold blood. The boy was shot through the back. The Lube Martin case has been re-opened by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Gen. B. H. Young, an ex-Confederate soldier, is defending the prisoner. The Superior Court of Fulton County, Ga., after two years, has declared that colored Shriners have no legal right to exist. They are enjoined from using rituals and wearing pins of the same design as those used by the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine throughout the United States. The colored Shriners are determined to fight the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. R. C. Rogers, a Negro in Angola, Ind., has been given a judgment of one dollar against the proprietor of Angola Theatre, who ejected him from a main floor seat he was occupying in the theatre. Residents of Lauraville, near Baltimore, Md., protested against the location of Morgan College on the old Ivy Mills property on the Hillen Road. Morgan College is now located in a strictly white neighborhood and has been since 1880. Not only has no friction been in evidence on account of its location, but property values have not depreciated. Arrangements for the new location have been completed. Refusal of Southern students at the Lake Forest Academy to compete against a colored athlete, Kelly, led to the calling off of the track meet between that institution and the New Trier Township High School in Cook County, Ill. In Savannah, Ga., a colored woman has, after three years, gained $1,800 from the estate of her white father. Five Negroes have been arrested in Georgia for publishing doggerel poetry about leaving the South. Sam Conley, who last year killed a man who beat his mother and whose mother was afterward lynched, has been tried in Georgia and sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary for voluntary manslaughter. A new trial has been asked. A Cleveland auto company refused to carry Mrs. Josephine H. Miner. She sued the company through her attorney, C. S. Sutton, and recovered a verdict of $125. A riot between white and Negro workingmen has taken place in East St. Louis. It is said that the Negroes were brought in as strike breakers in the packing plants and other industrial establishments. The militia was called out and order assured after 1,500 or more colored men had been driven from the city. Difficulties which had something of the aspect of the racial riot have taken place in San Juan Hill District, New York, and in Harlem. The following lynchings have taken place since our last record: May 7, Phoenix, Ariz., Starr Daley, lynched for murder. May 11, Shreveport, La., Henry Brooks, shot for intimacy with a white woman. May 20, Fulton, Ky., Lawrence Dempsey, hanged for wounding a railroad watchman. May 22, Memphis, Tenn., Ell Persons, burned for alleged rape and murder.
