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144 THE CRISIS search laboratories of the Hooker Electro-Chemical Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y., would like the names of colored chemists and chemical engineers who would be interested in forming a national association. The Circuit Court of Baltimore has ordered that the Donovan Trust Fund of sixty thousand dollars, yielding about sixty-five hundred dollars a year, shall not be turned over to the State or to the Colonization Society. The fund was created for transporting Negroes to Liberia and for providing schools. The case will probably go to the Court of Appeals. A community center, embracing about one-fourth of the District of Columbia, has been formed by colored people, meeting at the Dunbar High School. The Richmond Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. is moving for better schooling facilities in the city. A colored restauranteur at Fostoria, O., has been fined one hundred dollars and costs and ordered to take down a sign which read, "Colored Trade Not Wanted." It is reported that Negroes are still leaving Alabama for the North, especially around Dothan. The seventy-fifth anniversary of Shiloh Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa., has been celebrated by the installing of a new pipe organ which cost ten thousand dollars. The Reverend Mr. A. R. Robinson is pastor. PERSONAL. CAPTAIN OLLIE DAVIS of the Ninth United States Horse Troops, now stationed in the Philippine Islands, has been promoted to the rank of Major in the Second Squadron of his regiment. Miss Willie M. Hatcher, R. N., of Decatur, Ala., and a graduate of Hale Infirmary, has been appointed nurse-in-charge of the Emergency Hospital at Camp Sheridan. Miss Eva Burleigh, a sister of Harry Burleigh, the composer, and herself a prominant social worker, died suddenly in New York City. Colored men were recently elected to office as follows: Richard A. Cooper, re-elected a member of the City Council, Philadelphia, Pa.; in Englewood, N. J., Dr. William F. Willoughby was elected Coroner of Bergen County, on the Republican ticket; Thomas W. Fleming was re-elected to the City Council, Eleventh Ward, Cleveland, O., for the third time, against four white opponents; Dr. Sumner A. Furniss was elected to the City Council of Indianapolis, Ind. Essex DeLoath, a colored man in Newport News, Va., has invented a self-serving table, for use in hotels, restaurants and boarding houses. It is being exhibited at the Richmond Manufacturing Exhibit. Talladega College, at its semi-centennial in November, inaugurated the Reverend Mr. Frederick A. Sumner as president and conferred honorary degrees as follows: Doctor of Divinity on Dallas James Flynn and William Harvard Holloway; Doctor of Letters on James Weldon Johnson and William Stanley Braithwaite; Master of Arts on Colonel Charles Young and Jefferson G. Ish. Miss Eva Mulford, a colored woman, has been appointed a visiting nurse for the Newark, N. J., Board of Health. Walter F. Gerrick, a junior in the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, is the first Negro student to be admitted to membership in the Zelosophic Literary Society of the school, which has been established for eighty-eight years. David LeRoy Ferguson, rector of the Church of the Merciful Saviour, Louisville, Ky., has obtained leave of absence for a year to do Y. M. C. A. work in France. The Reverend Mr. T. J. Searty, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn., is dead. His funeral was attended by thousands. Robeson, the giant colored football player at Rutgers College, was the hero of the game between Rutgers and the Newport Naval Reserves, and has already been named by certain writers for the "All-America" team. Julius C. Johnson, Deputy Grand Master of the Odd Fellows, is dead at Baltimore. A testimonial reception has been given to Dr. J. E. Moorland at Washington, D. C., who has finished twenty-five years as international secretary of the Y. M. C. A. The remains of the late James L. Curtis, Minister to Liberia, were brought to the United States and funeral services were held in New York and Chicago. Alexander C. V. Cartier, for thirty-three years a priest of the Episcopal Church, is dead at Philadelphia. Dr. A. Clayton Powell of New York City has celebrated the twenty-fifth anni- THE HORIZON 145 versary of his ordination to the Baptist ministry. A pageant was given in honor of Mr. N. B. Dodson, who for twenty-five years has been superintendent of the Concord Baptist Sunday School, Brooklyn, N. Y. The school is graded, with six hundred pupils and fifty-two officers and teachers. During his service Mr. Dodson has raised $14,335. FOREIGN The young daughter of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor lately made her debut in concert in London as soprano soloist. One of her own song compositions appeared upon the program. Eugene Bullard of Columbus, Ga., twenty-two years of age, volunteered in the French Foreign Legion in 1914. He was twice wounded at Verdun and has the Croix de Guerre, a much coveted decoration for bravery. After six months in the hospital he has enlisted in the Aviation Corps. A committee, of which the Reverend Mr. Charles A. Tindley is chairman, and Doctor W. F. Graham and the Reverend Mr. W. G. Parks are members, is appealing for funds for relief of the colored people of the Island of Grand Cayman, B. W. I. The island was visited by a violent hurricane, September 24. The property loss reached $300,000. Nearly all the houses and crops were destroyed. News from Haiti says that the operating room of the new hospital in Port-au-Prince has been completed. Contracts have been made for electric light and power companies in the capital and at Cape Haitien. Haiti has sent to Havre, France, during 1916: 125,124 sacks of coffee, 21,309 pounds of hides, 308,192 pounds of honey, 104,582 pounds of cotton, 852,604 pounds of cocoa, 11,827,118 pounds of campeche, and 483,958 pounds of cotton seed. The Reverend Dr. Majola Agbebi has died in Sierra Leone at the age of fifty-seven. He was a native African of the Ijesla Tribe, was educated in Mission schools, and was head of the native Baptist Church. During the recent visit of the King and Queen of England to France they reviewed the African Labor Contingents. There were Kaffirs from various tribes, splendid looking men. King George said: "I have much pleasure in seeing you who have traveled so far over the sea to help in this great war. I take this opportunity of thanking you and your comrades for the work done in France by the South African Labor Corps. Reports have been given me of the valuable services rendered by the natives of South Africa to my armies in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa. The loyalty of my native subjects in South Africa is fully shown by the helpful part you are taking in this world-wide war." A reception was tendered Senor Don Julio Arjona of Panama in November by more than two thousand colored laborers. Among other things, they protested against rents which they are compelled to pay. Senor Arjona promised to look into the matter. One of the chief planters of the Island of Barbadoes, Alexander Ashby, has left an estate worth $250,000 for public purposes. This is the only public bequest since Codrington College was endowed. CRIME. GOVERNOR HUGH M. DORSEY of Georgia has offered a reward for the conviction of "night riders" who have been terrorizing Negro autoists. A colored woman in Augusta, Ga., shot and killed Earl Harmon, a white private, for robbery. In Etowan County, Ala., Andy Mason, a white man, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for the murder of a colored man, Walter Wafford. Leroy Griggs, a white man, in Baltimore, Md., has been sentenced by Judge Allen McLane to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a colored woman. Will Henderson, a colored man, accused of attacking a white woman at Bradentown, Fla., was mutilated and branded by a mob while in the hands of a deputy sheriff. The following lynchings have taken place since our last record: Quitman, Ga., November 10, Jesse Staten, shot to death. An "insolent" letter to a white woman was the alleged cause. Another Negro is missing. Welch, W. Va., November 22, unidentified Negro shot to death, charged with attacking a white woman. Dyersburg, Tenn., December 2, Ligon Scott, burned to death. He was accused of attacking a white woman.
