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196   THE CRISIS

city nurse in the Bureau of Charities, Philadelphia, Pa.

A fibroid tumor, weighing 371 1/2 pounds, 37 inches in circumference, 14 inches in diameter and 11 inches high, was successfully removed from a female patient by Dr. A.H. Kenniebrew, a Negro, at his New Home Sanitarium in Jacksonville, Ill. 

Mrs. W.R. Donovan has been appointed policewoman in Minneapolis, Minn. 

The colored women's clubs of Utah have formed a State Federation, with Mrs. Gertrude S. Lancaster, of Salt Lake, as president.

Forty Negroes in Texas are receiving pensions as ex-Confederate soldiers. 

Marshall Cochrane, a Negro at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was winner of the $25 prize offered by Collyers Eye, a Chicago weekly devoted to sports and finance, out of 6,782 contestants.

Edward Copeland and Thomas Williams, two colored men in Suffolk, Va., rescued Mrs. Fred Vullock, a white woman and one of her three children, from drowning in Smith's Creek.
 
Mrs. Herman Kinch, a colored woman, rescued from drowning a young white child at Rahway, N.J.

Alex Johnson, a colored man of Webster Groves, Mo., is demonstrator for the Pure Food Board, and will have charge of all their cooking schools in the future. 

In the annual Metropolitan meet held under the auspices of the A.A.U., in New York City, the Alpha Physical Culture Club finished second and the St. Christopher Club of St. Philip's Church finished fourth. 

Irvin Pickett, Arthur Paris, and Clyde Ethridge were among prize winners at the annual Field Day of the Orange, N.J., public schools. 

A new Masonic Temple has been dedicated in Coatesville, Pa. Many people attended the ceremony and Mayor Swing delivered an address.

Rev. Albert J. Scott, a colored pastor in Boston, Mass., was chosen by Mayor Curley as chaplain of the Fourth of July celebration in Faneuil Hall.

THE CHURCH.

THE 43rd annual session of the New England Baptist Convention has met and elected Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, Washing, D.C., president; Mrs. E.B. Holland, Providence, R.I., president of Women's Missionary Department; N.B. Dodson, president of Sunday School Convention. The convention raised $2,248.95 for Northern Baptist University at Rahway, N.J.

Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City ended its fiscal year in May. Reports show that $25,174.53 was raised during this time. The Rev. A. Clayton Powell is pastor.

Seven thousand people attended the Sunday School mass meeting during the 12th annual session of the Sunday School Congress held in Nashville and 5,000 took part in a street parade.

Union Baptist Church in Springfield, Ill., has celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the ordination of her pastor, Dr. S.C. Manuel.

St. James First African Church in Baltimore Md., was consecrated in June by Bishop Murray, assisted by more than thirty of the clergy The rector, Rev. Dr. Bragg, was master of ceremonies.

Rev. George Frazier Miller has finished twenty-five years' service as rector of St. Augustine Church in Brooklyn, N.Y.

PERSONAL.
 
BISHOP JOHN HURST is at Freedman's Hospital under the care of Dr. William T. Carr.

Miss Blanche Fletcher Powell, daughter of Rev. A. Clayton Powell, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, was married to Clarence Doyle King on June 2 at Abyssinian. Fully 1,000 people were present. 


The marriage of Miss Adelaide E. Waller, daughter of Rev. Garnett R. Waller, in Springfield, Mass., to Dr. N. Lower Burnett took place June 27.

On June 9, the marriage of Miss Ellen Retta Harris and Gale P. Hilyer took place in Montgomery, Ala.

The necrology for the month includes Harry W. Bass, the first colored member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania; William E. Sanderline, an old and respected citizen of Denver, Colo.; Dr. J.C. Gilliard, of Louisville, one of the highest Masons in Kentucky; Dr. W.E. Gray, a professor in Meharry Medical School; Bishops C.R. Harris, of Salisbury, N.C.; the Rev. M.V. Marable, pastor of First Baptist Church, Covington, Va. 


THE HORIZON     197 

[[image - photograph of shooting  training on the rifle range]]
[[caption]] TRAINING AT THE FORT DES MOINES, IOWA, COLORED OFFICERS' CAMP [[/caption]]

FOREIGN.

ENGLAND has a special African Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry on the field. The following have received awards: Sergt. George Williams and Corporal Maluka of the King's African Rifles; Private Mulandi Da Wonibi; Sergt. Helisi Sempa, Uganda Police Service Battalion; Company Sergt.-Maj. Belo Akure, Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force. 
[[Bullet]] Abbe Gabriel Sane, the first black Roman Catholic chaplain with the Colonial troops in France, has been killed at the front. 

GHETTO.

EFFORTS to discriminate against the colored officers at the Fort Des Moines training camp will prove unsuccessful. Col. Ball says: "This is government business and there can be no refusal to serve these men."

A proposed segregation ordinance has been defeated by the City Council in Muskogee, Okla.

William Gibbs, a colored interne, has been removed from the City Hospital in Indianapolis, Ind., because of his color.

In Atlanta, Ga., after the recent fire, the Auditorium was rented by colored and white people as charity headquarters. The white sufferers objected to the colored sufferers going in the front entrance for supplies and the authorities made the colored people use an alley was intended for horses and wagons.
 
Miss B.S. Carmichael, of Louisville, Ky., has been refused at the National Kindergarten and Training School because the authorities did not know she was "colored" when she wrote. 

Ex-Sheriff White of Jackson County, Ill., who permitted an unlawful and brutal hanging at Murphysboro, a few years ago, has been appointed superintendent of the Chester Penitentiary. 

CRIME.

JOHN WYNN, a colored man, was killed on an Owenton-Ensley car line, near cause he refused to have his rights ignored and be "Jim-Crowed."

In Selma, Ala., a white policeman, J.E. Black, was imprisoned for one second and immediately released for the murder of Alex Posey, a Negro.

At Temple, Tex., June 29, Robert Jefferson was shot by policeman Means without provocation. He later died. 

The following lynchings have taken place since our last record:

June 16, Holdenville, Okla.--Henry Conly, hanged; charged with assault on white woman.

June 21, Courtney, Tex.--Ben Harper, hanged; he was driving an automobile that ran down and killed a white girl.

June 25, Galveston, Tex.--Chester Sawyer, hanged; accused of attacking a white woman.

June 25, Punta Gorda, Fla.--Shep Trent, shot; attempt to attack a white woman.