The Kansas Blackman from Topeka, Kansas • 1

si si lie iaeJfflian indigesti causes i. VOL. 1. COITEYV1LLE, KANSAS, FIJI DAY, SEf NO 15 ailments, their SHOT LIKE DOGS passive under this awful curse, but TOPEK A TOPICS THE BLAGKM AN. someday, driven to desperation, he will rise in his hnmble might If MILLINGTON, BRINGS GEORGE FREEMAN.

THE GREAT A PAPER BY AND FOB THE NEGRO. FORTH AN AWFUL CRIME. CORNETIST, DIES SUDDENLY W. D. DRIVER, Editor and Publisher.

A Noted Citizen and Musician Gone Published Friday at Coffey vllle, Kan, For Cash Buyers Only. Suspected of Burning Barns, Six No grooa dro Arrested and While In Charge of Ollloors, aro Shot to Pieces While Bound Hand and-Foot Another Awful Outrage Added. and the blood of innocent men, the prayers of mothers and wails and moans of loved ones will be wiped out in the blood of our oppressors, we do not excuse vice or paliato crime, but if the law is supreme, let men be heard before their lives are wake justice from her downy chamber and let the light from humanity's torch shine down in the dark recesses of an apathetic and indifferent to Join the Band In the Great Beyond Imposing and emn Cer monios Church Social Life Personal and Interesting Paragraphs Terms of Subscription: On year, $1.00 I Six months, .75 Throe "lonihs, .40 Single copy, .6 lubly lu Advance. stotvaSh. ONE' TRICE What's the use in paying full regular ('Credit House" prices for your Dry Goods, Shoes, Tinware.

Quccnsware, Gents Furnishing Goods, Notions, Hats, etc, you can save 25 to 33-1-3 per cent on every purchase you make at the ONLY strictly ASH store in Coffey ville. You often see advertisements in. the papers "selling out below cost" to make room for TRICES THAT TALK. Tho remains of the late George free Memphis, Sept. 1, Six colored men were lynched by a Men's Oil Grain Ladies Dongola Patent tip shoe 1 00 man, tho only son of Mr.

ana Mrs. Address all a ail to THE BLACKMAN, W. D. DRIVER, Pub'r, COFFEYVILLK, KAN. Mark Freeman, 829 Kansas Avenue, mob near Millington.

a ladies oxlord Patent tip shoe onions Kangaroo Calf Ittltll'a Itlll.lrl.k nluwk public let the hell-houns of the south bo seen as they small town on the Chesapeake, O- arrived lu tho city Sunday morning from l'lttsflold, whore ho came to his udden death caused by heaat tall goods, etc. etc. Rememhnr' Tho best 4 sewed broom are and punished for crime and no wo are not selling goods on any CO 134 .98 12 25 25 05 05 25 4 FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, 1894. voico of protest will be heard disease The deceased has boon traveling with musical organizations for tho patt fifteen yoars.

At the time of his death" he was traveling with the famous minstrels of Primrose and hio and Southwestern railroad, thirty miles north of Memphis, last night. The names of the dead are: Daniel Hawkins, Graham "White, Edward Hall, John Hayes, Robert Haynes and warner Williams. such pretentions. Every article that goes out of tho BIG RACKET 8 bars best laundry soap 7 spools Clark's thread 24 sheets best note paper 25 envelopes' 10 yds lawn (groat bargain) for Roinnant calico (best) per yd A 1 window shade with spring from the Negro when ho is punished after properly convicted. Justice is all the Negro asks.

West The late Georare Freemau was the acknowledged Nogro coronetist of bears a profit a small one we ad-mit, but a profit, nevertheless. We The prisoners were in charge of America. He was in tho city visiting TICKET. i For Associate Justice Supreme Court, VV. A.

JOHNSTON. OF OTTAWA COUNTY. his parents for six weeks this summer Be industrious, cater to the MASSES and not the and economical. and at the time of his death had been away from home only two weoks. CLASSES.

BIG PRICES WILL NOT DO Detectives w. S. Richardson and A. T. Atkinson, who had arrested them a few hours before on the charge of arson.

The men were all handcuffed and shackelcd and were on their way to the county Let principle be your guide and Muring his stay in this city he played with Jackson's Military Baud. At the time of his death ho was 31 years. your pitfalls will grow less. 4 mouths and 19 days of age. During roller 19 14 qt galvanizod bucket 25 Table oil cloth per yd, ,18 12 qt paper buckot 32 A first class sweat pad 28 A good web halter Wo have just recioved a lino lino of quoenswaro- Cqmpare prices with us before you buj Our line of FJOATH-ERBONE CORSETS you will find cheaper than any other corsets In the city of like grade and we will make this warrant: Money refunded after four weeks trial if not when even the rich cannot afford to waste their money and the poor must look after every penny.

Not by favor but by merit alono we jail at Memphis, when the officers Virtue shines as brightly in the ins trip in Jfiurope no mado many friends who will be grieved to ear humble cottage as in palatial halls. of bis sudden death. reached a dense swamp, a few miles from Millington, they were surrounded by a mob of fifty men, The procession headed by Jackson's expect to hold and increase our Every Negro who loves his race Military Baud left the family resi trade. armed with Winchester rifles and shotguns, and commanded to halt. should subscribe and pay for some race paper.

The mob surrounded the wagon Eiil TREaciiERY is owe of the grea and the prisoners seemed to know I test curses with which the Negro is afflicted. instinctively what is going to happen. They were sitting on boxes that had been thrown about For Oovornor, E. N. MOltUILL, or BHOWN COUNTV, For Lieutenant Governor, JAMES A.

THOUTMAN, OK HIIAWNKK COUNTV. i For Seuretary of Nlato, W. 0. EDWARDS, Or PAWNEE COUNTY. For Auditor orBtnlo, I GEORGE E.

COLE, a' Or CHAWPOKI) COUNTY, For Stale Tronmiror, OTIS L. ATIIERTON. or HUHsni.i, county, For Attorney General, FERNANDO B.DAWES. or CLAY COUNTY. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, EDMUND STANLEY.

Of IIOUQIiAB C'JUM'V, For OongresHman-at-Large, RICHARD W. BLUE. The populist administration has on the floor of the wagon. One sat on the seat by Driver Atkinson. Nearly Opposite Southern Hotel, been the worst Kansas, as a state, has ever experienced.

One man in the body of the rose up on his feet and threw COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS "Deliver us from populism," is the way an old Kansan prayed, Jackson's Militarv up his shackled hands. That motion was his last, for a shower of bullets were poured into his body. Ho fell over and out of the wagon into the road, dead. dence at 3 in and slowly woudod its way to St. John's A- M.

E. church whero more than nine-hundred poo-pie had assembled to pay tbo last respects to an honored citizen. '1 he band in full uniform were the first to enter tho church, Rev. C. Owens entered saying: "I am the resurrection and the lite, saith the Lord; he that bolieveth in me, though were dead, yet shall he live, ana whosoever liveth and bolieveth in me, shall never die." John xl 25, 26.

"Man that Is boru of a woman bath hut a short time to live, and is full of misery. Ho eometh up and is cut down like a flower, hefleeth its it were a shadow and never continueth in one Tho casket next ippoared with O. W. Watkins, J. Hume Childers, II.

10. Stelton, John Edmonds, Reuben Wade and John Wright as pall bearers. After the caskot was plac in position tho llowers, which consisted of "aTttttrvLefcrgliB TOpresouVWig Vno gatca ajar, an anchor of rel and a morning star were placed on the eas-ket. A cornet draped in mourning was p.acedon tho casket. A beautiful awning overshadowed the whole giving it a picturesque appe'ai-anco.

Tho band occupying seats to and the were loud and the republican rally at Wakarusa last Friday. deep. Mrs. Rev H. Parks' liWf.

fiti- Iwii The colored man sitting beside Henry Toilard who has been ill for some time with heart disease, died Itst Kriday evening at his homo ott Washington street, Mr. Pollard professed a hope in Christ about two weeks previous his death. Tho funeral services wore conducted by Rev. 0. 1).

Oldon, at the Second Baptist church, Sunday at ll'a; m. The homo in Kansas City last Mondav aft The Race dissention and inward the driver threw his arm about At ernoon. strife rises like an insurmountable Tennessootown lias a froo library, a T. and a kinson with an exclamation and gesture of supplication. Tho muzzle of a gun was shoved barrier between the Negro and kindergarten, an L.

OK UNN COUNTY, HOWlllff scnoo progression. Iesdamoo i.VHon and For Meto-OnwresM'WfJ District, Education properly A. S. S. KIRK PATRICK, or WII.SOW COUNTY.

creates a self-respect which will add much to the Negroes chances ni8 tne charge was sent through his body. Volley after volley was poured into the bodies of tho schackled and manacled Negroes in tho wagon until all of them were dead. Then the mob took the bodies out of the wiigon, threw them into tiie For I in this country. COUNTY TICKET. od tlie Masonic convention, Emporia, last week.

Arnicoiiis Childs, tho little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Childs, Is visiting in Emporia. Mrs. Chas.

Trice, who has been sick since her return to tho city, is reported to bo somo bettor. Miss Mamie Johnson, of Emporia, attondod tho funeral of Ooorgo. Freeman Sunday Miss Helen Clark was in St. Joseph, last weok, attending tho District Conference of tho M. E.

church. Respect yourself; respect the wo men of your race and smash the flu ot.C..' urjr mio uuihuci yimj the last respects due an honored member. Mr. Pollard leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss. SPECIAL NOTICE! the Blackman has a large lint subscribers In Topoka and has secured tho services of one of the acknowledg orl newspaper women of Topeka and Kansas as agent and eorrespondent, In tho person of Miss Lutle A.

Lytle, 1024 Kansas Avenue, whore items of news for tho Topeka department may bo lea. Miss Lytle is to solicit subscriptions and make collections lor the blackman' and any transactions by hor in the name of the the rb'pt iye U1U favorite of the deceased. Kev. Green knolt in prayer and bis words wero goms of encouiagomont to tho bereaved family. Tho choir, in a low pathe scoundrels of the other race who offer them insult.

tic harmony song, "snan we moot io-yond the As tho last notes Of the organ cease'd, ltev. Owens read If the women of our race were road and continued to fire volley after volley into them. Having concluded its work, the leader of the mob shouted, "Forward, boys" Guns were shouldered, and the members of the mob walked back into the woods and disappeared. The lynched men were all accused of arson. the text no naa ctiosen ior inis occas- more particular about their asso shalt be missed, because Peter Jonos of Lawrence, attondod I the funeral of his nephew, Ooorge Freeman, Sunday afternoon.

i 1 i 1 1 ciations, tne men wouia De more thy seat win be liov. uweus For Representative, F. M.BENEFIEL. For County Attorney W. E.

ZIEGLER. For Clerk of District Court W.C. FOREMAN. For Probate Juitife, N. E.

BOUTON. For County Superintendent, ANNA KELLER. For Coroner, JAMES THOMPSON. For Commissioner, Second District. P.

S. MOORE. delivered his discourse in such a ulackmamwm noduiy nonorea. oy manly, the wo mes more respected hoautiful way that both saint and sin deceased Ooorge Freeman, was in Thfi i bllU i 4 tini.nl jti.T- vtA. nnii.taa and the race generally would be uor cou'd glean thoughts of the life M1UU bllV UnU.il IICWBI'ltf'U tUUlVDO ios boextendod Miss Lytle.

Er. greatly elevated. hereafter. Alter tne tunorai sorvicos the procession moved east on Eighth stroec. men norm on ivumhub If Lewellino should live to to Sixth street thence to the cemetery Emporia, Kansas, Aug.

grand lodge of col. Masons in session here to-day elected the following officers for the ensuing year. Joseph Jones of Topeka, welcome Gabriel he could not where mother, lai her, sister, a number arid his betrothed, Miss raake as many votes for the pop ulist party as his rotten, criminal city this weok to attend the burial sorvicos. i3S Addie Reeves, who has boon visiting in the city for tho past three weoks, left Friday for hor home in Emporia. A Very pleasant party was given Tuesday evening at Guy's hall, by the young "elites" of the city, in honor of Miss Addie Reoves, of Emporia.

An unusually largo crowd was pros ont and tho principle feature of the evening. Mrs. Julia Brown loft tho city Wednesday afternoon for Toluco, 111., where she will spend a few days vls- Sadie A. 8 aughter, laid to rest. In behalf of the bereaved fami the citizens requested ibe following resol-to be drawn up: grand master; Dennis Jones of administration has made against BLACKMAN BREVITIES.

The grand lodge of Masons of Ohio have decided to expel all masons of that jurisdiction guilty of selleng intoxicating liquors George E. Taylor, of The Solicitor, Oskaloosa, and Miss Cora Buckner, ono of the leading ladies of that city, were recently married. AN EOnO FROM JIELL: RESOLUTIONS OF BE8PECT. it. But he is a populist reformer and his renomination only eviden Leavenworth, deputy grand mar shal; J.H.

Glass of Leavenworth grand senior warden; Hugh Grig' gings, of Kansas City, grand jun ior warden; Dan Weeks of Empor Whereas. The groat and Bupremo Six Negroes shot to death on the suspicion of having burned a barn ces the make up of the party. Ruler ol the uuivorso has in His infinite wisdom removed from among us, one of our worthy and estoemed young is the sad report from MiUington, last Saturday night. There ia, grand treasurer; II. H.

Curtis of The Southern Negro, by indus v. try and economy, sometime!) ac white Methodist minister is nothing new about these burn men Ooorge Sherman Freeman and. whereas The loug and intimate relation held with him in the faltntul discharge of his duty as a musician makes it eminently befitting that we Baxter Springs, grand secretary; A.Kuykcndall of Topeka grand lecturer; R. J.Smith of Leavenworth' grand orator; A. W.

Ramsey of Te- named Thompson, of Fostoria, quires property enough to make him financially indapendent if he doesn't get lynched. Kansas ings, lvnchings and butcheries in the southland, but the savagery has married Miss Libbie Hawk, an attractive young mulatto, and now record our appreciation or him. That the wisdom and City Journal. itinsber son, Geargo Wosloy Brown, formerly of this city. Mrs.

Brown will go from Toluco to Nashville, where she will visit relatives ana friends. Happy voices and joyous laughter announced that the little ones were holding high carnival at tho residence of Mrs. R. S. Sims, 1310 Vanburon street.

A happy band of bad gathered to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Little Leon Sims Tuos he is out of a job, having been ability which ho has exercised in the peka, grand chaplain; ll.Faulkner of Atchison, grand marshal; Chas. Washington of Atch grand sword "fired" by his congregation. Yes, "if he doesn't get lynched." The northern Negro has indepen- aid of our musical organizations, Dy service, contributions and counsel, and heineousness of unquestioned outlawry cannot be passed silently by. In a christianized country, with a law for every crime, with ample poiice protection and with will be heia in grattiui romemurance. dence(?) without finance, if such a Res lived.

That the sudden removal bearer; B.F. Perkins of Tepeka, grand standard bearer, Henry Free manofEskridge, grand senior deacon; M.W.Raiford of North Tope of such a life from among us leaves a thing is possible, and he is lynched also. the Necro is "pe vacancy and a shadow that will be day afternoon from 3 to 6:30 o'clock. the whites numbering six to one deop'y realized by tho friends of the! The veterans of Ft. Pillow Post, G.

ka, erand senior steward; E. Dan- doceaseu ana win prove a serious toss ridge of Topeka, grand junior ste A. aro making preparations lor a grand emancipation celebration at the Negro, this awful method of dis pensing justice speakes in no un Boyd Gray, an Afro-American wheel man, is making a tour of the United States on his bicycle. His object is to make enough money shining shoes to raise a mortage on his fathers' home in Atlanta, Ga Harry T. Burleigh has been elected one of the teachers of singing in the National conservatory of music, ifr.

Burleigh was one of the favorites among the great number-of singers of tbe race at the ward B. Stoayll of Kansas City to the community ana tne public. Resolved, That with deep sympathy with the bereaved relatives of the deceased we express our hope tnat even Park on tne 22nu, and snmiid meet with every encouragement. The pro grand persuvianb Prior Williams certain tones and the cries and ceeds are for tho benefit of the depend of Leavenworth, grand tylcr. ent old soldiers, tlielr widows ana moans of loved ones made widows and orphans without the sanction committee has been appointed to so great a lost to us all may no over-iuled for good by Him Who doeth all things well.

orphans. Some exccllet spoakers will make arrangements for the organi be on nana ana a splendid program itesolvea, IBM a copy oi inese reso will be sriven. The Drosrram will be zation of a grand conmandery, of law by these hellhonds must not be lost sight of. The old charge published in these columns next woek, lutions be priuted in The Kanbas BLacKuaN. Citizens of Toi-KKa.

culiarly" situated both north and south. The brutal, barbarous butchery which has been practiced in the Winfield asylum by the populists officials in charge of that institution is almost beyond belief, but the cold tacts are undisputed. After laying aside politics, humanity demands that men with some degree of humanity be placed in charge of these institutions, and the only way to do this is to retire Knights Templer. 1 Worlds fair. A box car entered tho houso of Mrs of "outrage" was not laid at the doors of these -victims.

No "lives NEWS NOTES, Chas. French was In the city last Chaplain Henry V. Plurtimer of the Ainth cavairy (colored) U. S. A.

is Dicie McCutcheou, South Monroe street, last The houso is a story and a half high and has three rooms. It is within a few feet of the week. 'V' Jiad been taken by them. Noth agitating a scheme to explore cer- Ron McCormick loft Wednesday for They were Kansas 'ity. nqfi, lug uau nsvvu j.vicrv Mr.

Henry Kmery, or tsaiina, was in tain portions of the dark continent He petitioned the secretary of war to furnish him a company of picked the city last week. I' spected and they were shot. And lis is America, where liberty and call at 1024 Kansas avenue and pay colored soldiers and transport your subscription. taw are said to be supreme; where Lewelling at the November elec- them to Afriica. With these men ntee Henry Diliard was In Wichita a Missouri Pacific "spurs" that are used for "houso" tracks at the freight do-pot.

The houso faces the west and the spur ends to its north side, Ha'f of the stone wall has fallen in and the remaining walls are badly shaken, Tho railroad will pay the Tho reception given at St. John's A. M. church Friday evening, by the Busy Bool -Sub was theniost pleasant affair of the season, Tho Busy the rights of no man are paramount f10n he believes that he will be able to few days last week. Mr.

Wm. Dixon, one of the ablest Afro-Americans inTennessee, is a candidate for the legislature of taht sttte. Mr. Dixon is President of the Wheelers, au agricultural association, and would make a creditable representative. Peter Jackson, the big colored pugilist, ho is matched to fight James J.

corbevt for the championship of the world, was born in the West Indies about 32 years ao. He is six feet one and onehalf inches tall hi his gftoes and weighs -bout 100 pounds when in condition. He has whipbed Frank Si.v vln, Geerpe Godfrey, Jem Huiith, Jackson's Military Band will play WHAT TIIES -8 penetrate into the heart ol Africa and expects to discover many things that are hidden from the atVinowaod Snnday. Mrs. Pago, of 914 Clay street, is on The RLacKMAN is the best Negro the sick list resu ting from a fall view of civilization, Mr.

Plummer journal published in Kansas. B-e is commwd of tho young ladies Mrs. Chas, White very sick at her has read much upon Africa and of St. John, who havo iiliiijml them home on Kansas avenue. the explorations that have been selves to do all they can lotli fpiritu- to another, where every man, black or white, is presumed innocent until proven guilty; where the grand old flag waves in token of protection to all mankind, but which, to the Negro, seems only a mockery, we have said our say on previous occasions, we repeat; these conditions can't always prevail.

The Negro will not forever be MIhs Eva Hawkins has returned from an exteixled visit In Salina. made there and is well versed up on all subjects relating to that con Litt John Chi Ids arrived in the ai'y ana financially fur the iipmnu-In jr. of the church. The larcH and ad-preciotive audience proved to the club that the pub ie was well pleased and Texa Protest. The "Balckman" published by W.

D. Driver a well known newspaper man has changed base lrom Topeka to Coffcyville Kansas. Chicago Frcc-Sjiecchr tinent. He believes from what he city morning from Oklahoma Tom Lees, Patsey corditT and Joe has read that Africa is a country Jordan and Keklal Ridley proud ofllie ftand tb young a fit mi.n.l were in Kunwia a few iays last havetaken. fieliments of all kind' wonderful resources and unto' mineral wealth.

draw with Janes J. corbeU, week' wertj served in the.