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The Horizon

POLITICS.

TWO colored candidates in New York City were nominated by the Republican Party; Attorney E.A. Johnson for the Assembly of the Nineteenth District and Attorney James C. Thomas, Jr., for the Twenty-sixth Aldermanic District of the Twenty-first Assembly District.

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Colored women suffragists were in attendance at the convention of the Suffragists at Saratoga, N.Y.

THE WAR.

THE power shops at Springfield, Mass., are being guarded by 125 colored soldiers from Connecticut.

Information from Red Cross headquarters at Washington, D.C., states that 150 colored registered nurses are to be selected for a Government Base Hospital at Des Moines, Iowa, in connection with the training camp for colored troops.

The colored draft will consist of eighty-three thousand troops distributed among sixteen cantonments.  From these a Negro division of thirty thousand, officered by the colored officers from Des Moines, will be organized for service in France.  Besides these, volunteer units for labor will be organized among both white and colored persons.

RIOTS

THE September Grand Jury has not yet taken up the investigation into the race riots in East St. Louis, Ill.  The last Grand Jury indicted 144 persons and recommended that the new Grand Jury continue the work.  Though the Grand Jury at Bellville indicted Mayor Mollman and his private secretary, Maurice Ahearn, as a result of the recent riots, the Mayor says: "As far as the recommendation of the Grand Jury, that I resign pending trial, is concerned, it is too silly to discuss."  While only one white man has been tried, ten Negroes have been convicted of murder!

Speaker Clark of the House has named Representatives Johnson of Kentucky, Baker of California, Foster of Illinois, Democrats; Cooper of Wisconsin and Foss of Illinois, Republicans, to investigate the recent race riots in East St. Louis, Ill.

Lee Sparks, a police officer in Houston, Tex., has been indicted by the Harris County Grand Jury for assault on Sergt. Baltimore, a Negro trooper of the 24th Infantry, and with murder in connection with the death of Wallace Williams, a Negro civilian.  Chief of Police Brock testified that his orders to policemen to treat colored troopers with restraint were stolen from two record books, and Lee Sparks denied ever having heard such an order.

Race rioting was renewed in Chester, Pa., September 16 when George For, a Negro, shot Patrolman Joseph Hardman.

[[inset photo of ATTORNEY E.A. JOHNSON.]]

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INDUSTRY.

MR. WILL TURNER, a colored farmer in Lebanon, Ill., thrashed 4,082 bushels of wheat this season, which he sold at an average of $2.43 per bushel.  This crop was gathered from 175 acres.

Colored women are loading and unloading freight in the New York Central yards in Cleveland, Ohio.  Their wage is $2.60 per day.

Messrs. W.H.C. Brown, Wyatt Terry and E.C. Brown, Negro bankers and real estate operators, took over the property of the Philton Holding Company in Harlem, New York, which was controlled by the late Philip A. Payton.  Mr. Payton then bought out his partners.

The New York Age, of New York City, edited by Mr. Fred R. Moore, has celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.

The Red River County Colored Fair was held at Clarksville, Tex., October 4-6.

The Southern Beneficial League, an organization of colored Southerners in New York City, reports $22,971.81 on deposit.  Mr. Thomas W. Griggsby is president.  The organization has been in existence thirty-one years.

Colored and white longshoremen in New Orleans, La., have declared a strike.  There are 1,500 men in the colored organization.

Colored carpenters are being used pretty generally in preparing buildings for the southern cantonments.  They are receiving from four to seven dollars a day.

Mr. F.W. Lancaster has invented a cash register for clubs and churches.

The colored waiters at Copley Square Hotel, Boston, Mass., have returned to their places, the management recognizing the Union.  Some of the waiters had been in the employ of the hotel for twenty-five years, when the Union ordered a strike.

The hosiery mills in Elizabeth City, N.C., which formerly employed white labor, are now employing Negroes.

Gen.  Lewis T. Bryant, State Commissioner of Labor in New Jersey, announces the establishment of a Negro Welfare and Employment Bureau.

Dr. G.E. Haynes of Fisk University finds that 3,500 out of the 7,000 men employed by the Newport News, Va., Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, are colored.  Some of the colored men have worked twenty-five years for the company, and are earning from fifteen to thirty dollars a week.  Much community work is being done for the colored workmen.  Mr. Paul G. Prayer, a colored man of New York City, is now labor representative for this company.

Mr. J.H. Collins, Jr., is in charge of colored employees at the Bush Terminal in New York City.

Negro cotton handlers of New Orleans struck and raised their wages from $2.80 to $3.60 per day.

A Commercial Study Club has been opened in Washington, D.C., with C.W. Banton as president.  It aims to encourage the establishment of Negro business enterprises.

The General Electric Company, which formerly had no colored employees among 22,000 persons, has now 125 colored men and one colored woman stenographer.

Strikes among Negro workmen have occurred in various points.  At Rocky Mount, N.C., 500 workers struck because increased wage was given to the whites and not to the Negroes.  In Norfolk, Va., 300 colored women, working for the American Tobacco Company, struck for increased wages and shorter hours.

MEETINGS.

THE Negro Organization Society and the Virginia Negro State Teachers' Association will meet in Portsmouth, Va., December 5-7.

The fourteenth annual session of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs has been held.  The seventh annual session of the colored women's clubs in Oklahoma was addressed by Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, national president.  Thirty active clubs were represented and reported $5.10 per capita for maintenance of state work.  Mrs. Judith C. Horton was re-elected president.

The fortieth session of the Masons in Alabama re-elected W.T. Woods, of Mobile, Grand Master.  The Grand Lodge and Chapter collected $118,855.89 during the year.

The forty-second annual convention of the Masons in Kansas was held in Winfield.  Mr. H.I. Monroe, of Topeka, was elected grandmaster.

The Mississippi Rural Conference was held at Jackson, September 26-28.  City