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146           THE CRISIS

Negro to be ordained a Catholic priest in the United States, will observe shortly in Baltimore, Maryland, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination.

The Zion Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado, started a week's celebration, November 19, in honor of its semi-centennial anniversary. It is the oldest Negro church west of the Missouri River.

The Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary with a three-days' session beginning November 19. The anniversary sermon was delivered by the pastor, the Rev. Francis J. Grimke.

MEETINGS

The full list of officers elected at the National Medical Association's session last August is as follows: President, D. W. Bryd, Norfolk, Virginia; Vice-Presidents, Dr. J. C. Johnson, Birmingham, Alabama, and Dr. A. C. Wallage, Okmulgee, Oklahoma; General Secretary, Dr. W. G. Alexander, Orange, New Jersey; Chairman of the Executive Board, Dr. G. E. Cannon, Jersey City, New Jersey; Editor of the Journal, Dr. C. V. Roman, Nashville, Tennessee; Associate Editor, Dr. F. F. Bishop, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A Conference of Employed and volunteer Workers Among Colored Women was held in Richmond, Virginia, December 6 to 10, under the direction of The National Board of Young Women's Christian Associations of The United States of America. Miss Eva Bowles, of The National Board, was the speaker at the opening meeting.

The Charity Club, the leading Negro women's organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, held a tea November 9, at which more than three hundred persons were present. The object of the gathering was to forward a movement for the co-ordination and co-operation in racial uplift work among the organizations of Negro women in Pittsburgh. Mrs. George H. Wilson is president of the movement.

The fifth annual meeting of The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was held December 6 at its headquarters in New York City.

The tenth anniversary of The Southern Medical Association was held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 13 to 17. Dr. E. W. Carpenter, of Greenville, South Carolina, spoke on "Some Interesting Conditions Seen in the Eye of the Negro."

The coming Tuskegee Negro Conference, January 17 and 18, 1917, will be devoted mainly to the discussion of Negro health. National Negro Health Week will be conserved April 22 to 28, 1917.

Dr. Paul M. Pearson, of Swarthmore College, spoke on "The Colored Man, the Future of His Race in Light of the Past," at a meeting of The Young Friends' Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He said: "The history of the Negro is that of Americanism and Africanism; he wanted to be both without being spat upon."

Negro citizens in Richmond, Virginia, have organized a local chapter of The National Sociological Society to co-operate with the white local branch of the society. The Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., has been elected president.

GHETTO
Mr. OMA HOUGHTON, a white Southerner, in Boston, has been placed under a $300 bond for insulting two young colored women. He remarked: "Why down South where I came from they'd have saken [[shaken]] hands with me for that"--which was a lie.

Will Rush, a white man, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, in Oklahoma, for the killing of Charlie Reynolds, a Negro. This is the first life sentence ever imposed for a Negro's death in eastern Oklahoma.

Two Negro women in New York City have received $100 each in a discrimination case enacted July 9, 1916, against The New York Restaurant, at Coney Island. Mr. Robert P. Lattimore was their attorney.

"Jim Crow" seats in the city court room at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is the latest step in segregation, according to signs in the court room.

Edward Hall, a third alleged participant in the attempted lynching of Charles Daniels, a colored man, at Lima, Ohio, August 30, and of the rioters who attacked the sheriff, Sherman Ely, when he refused to tell where he had hidden his prisoner, has been placed on trial. 

Justice Shannon of Sawtelle, has granted a judgment of fifty dollars and costs to Mrs. Columbus, a Negro woman, who brought suit for discrimination against The La Petite Theatre Company, in Los Angeles, California. Attorney E. Burton Ceruti represented her.

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MR. J. H. Fay, a Negro who was beaten with a strap with tacks in it by a mob at Keo, Lonoke County, Arkansas, July, 1915, has been given a verdict of $1,000.

A discrimination suit against The Eagle Restaurant Company, Chinses, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been decided by Judge Sullivan in favor of the five Negro plaintiffs, awarding them twenty-five dollars each.

Many of the stores in Louisville Kentucky, discriminate against Negroes to the extent that colored women cannot get a glass of water, but Crutcher and Starks, men's clothiers, at Fourth and Jefferson Streets, recently outdid them all by advertising a selling proposition to "white parents" only in the Sunday Herald. 

A petition to initiate "an ordinance providing for limited segregation of the black and white races" is being circulated throughout Denver, Colorado. The Denver Property Owners' Protective League is back of the movement.

Dr. James E. White, while going from St. Louis, Missouri, to Memphis, Tennessee, over the St. L. I. M. and S. Road, as a Pullman car passenger, was forcibly ejected and received injuries that confined him to the hospital for several days and robbed of his personal property. He has brought suit and Attorney Booth is to represent him.

A street car in Savannah, Georgia, caught fire in front, due to a blow-out. Only the passengers in the front of the car were affected, and three white women were killed. Hence, the transfer of the Jim Crow section from the rear to the front of the cars.

Judge Henry E. McGinn, of the Circuit Court in Portland, Oregon, has decided against the swimming of white and colored people together in the public school tanks.

The Birth of a Nation has been barred from Evanston, Illinois.

A mob of over one hundred white citizens in Jackson, Tennessee, started toward the home of Walter Elkins, a Negro, to lynch him for having struck a white fellow workman over the head with an iron bar, at the Illinois Central shops. Negro citizens armed themselves and went to the home of Elkins. The mob has not yet arrived.

The school board at Downingtown, West Chester, Pennsylvania, is making an attempt at segregation. the colored citizens have engaged counsel to oppose the action as against the educational and state law.

Fifteen hundred colored tenants of Harlem, N. Y., met and protested against the high rents charged them. The trouble arose through the substitution of Negroes for white tenants on 143d Street, because the colored tenants paid higher rents. Notwithstanding the protests 6 houses have been filled with colored tenants.

The postmaster of Akron, O., refused to appoint a colored man, J. R. Johnson, to a clerkship, although Johnson successfully passed two examinations, and stood among the highest on the lists. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Worcester. 

(From the Columbia, S. C., State.)

ABBEVILLE MEN UNDER ARREST

Charged of Lynching Negro and Rioting
Hold Hearing Today

Preliminary Before Magistrate Hammond Scheduled for Noon. Nineteen Warrants Served.

Special to the State.
Abbeville, Dec. 4. - Sheriff Burts and Deputy Sheriff J. E. Jones began serving warrants today on the parties charged with lynching Anthony Crawford, a well-to-do Negro, on October 21, and rioting on the streets of Abbeville Monday following the lynching. Ten arrests were made in the lynching case and nine in the riot charge.
The preliminary hearing will be before Magistrate Hammond at noon on Tuesday. Solicitor R. A. Cooper will be here to represent the State.
Ten men are charged with participation in the lynching as follows: Jeff Cann, Sam Cann, Lester Cann, Will Cann, Burt Ferguson, J. S. Banks, Eugene Nance, Sam Adams, J. V. Elgin, and George White, Jr. Nine are charged with rioting: Sam Cann, Jeff Cann, Lester Cann, Will Cann, Burt Ferguson, Sam Adams, J. A. Brock. W. D. Bell, and Irwin Ferguson. J. A. Brock, W. D. Bell, and Irwin Ferguson waived a preliminary hearing and were released by Magistrate Hammond under bond of $200.
The following lynchings have taken place since our last record:
At Bay City, Texas, November 5, Joe Johnson - hanged. He was accused of killing a white man. At Melville, Louisiana, November 16, James Grant - hanged for alleged murder. At Clarksville, Texas, November 29, Buck Thomas - hanged for alleged assault on a man and his wife.