The Gazette

THIRTIETH YEAR. NO. 9. SALVATORE D'ALVAREZ DRASTIC LETTER IS SENT TO NICARAGUA ATROCITIES AGAINST MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY REBEL LEADER DENOUNCED. HUNTINGTON WILSON'S NOTE Acting Secretary of State Tells Why United States Placed Marines on Republic Land When Revolution Broke Out. Washington, D. C.—In explanation and justification of the United States having practically taken over the government of the republic of Nicaragua. Huntington Wilson, acting secretary of state, has just made public his correspondence with the Nicaragua government in which he decries in the severest terms the rebel leader, Gen. Mena, and his attrocies against men, women and children. There was, during the closing days of the last session of congress, criticism of the campaign of the state department in Nicaragua. Describing Gen. Mena and the conditions which brought about intervention, Mr. Wilson said to the Nicaragua an government: Denounces Atrocities. "The revolt of Gen. Mena is in flan-grant violation of his solemn promises of his own government and to the American minister, and of the Dawson agreement by which he was solemn bound, and his attempt to overturn the government of his country for purely selfish purposes and without even the pretence of contending for a principle, make the present rebellion in origin the most inexcusable in the annals of Central America. The nature and methods of the present disturbances, indeed, place-them in the category of anarchy rather than ordinary revolution. The reported character of those who promptly joined Mena, together with his uncivilized and savage action in breaking armistices, maltreating messengers, violating his word of honor, torturing peaceable citizens to exact contributions and above all, in the ruthless bombardment of the city of Managua, with the deliberate destruction of innocent life and property and the killing of women and children and the sick in hospitals, and the cruel and barbarous slaughter of hundreds which has been reported at Elon, give to the Mena revolt the attributes of the abhorent and intolerable Zelaya regime." Mr. Wilson reminded Nicaragus of the murder by the Zelaya government of two American citizens, Groce and Cannon, and warned Nicaragus that it would not countenance "any revival of Zelayaism." He shows that the planting and banking and industrial interests had appealed to the United States for protection. SUES GAYNOR FOR $100.000 Alderman Charges Libel Contained in Letter Written by Mayor to Him on September 9. New York City—Alderman H. H. Curran has filed suit against Mayor Gaynor, asking $100,000 damages for alleged libel contained in a letter written by the mayor to Curran September 9. The letter, the alderman says, accused Curran of taking newsstand graft. The letter in which the alleged libel is contained is quoted in the papers just filed. Among the statements made by Mayor Gaynor in the letter are these: "I have called attention to the miserable grafting carried on by members of the board of aldermen in respect to the licensing of newstands and the like throughout the city. I have now for more than two years been calling the attention of the board of aldermen to cases where aldermen refuse to grant these permits unless the licensee pays heavily for them. Sums of $500 and $250 are commonly paid, and there are about 7,000 of such licensed stands. I have no doubt that the aldermen who do this share in the extortion money. Evidence has accumulated here that you pursue this system." Discover Ancient Kingdom Discover Ancient Kingdum. Philadelphia, Pa.—Dr. Edith H. Hall, assistant curator in the Mediterranean section of the University of Pennsylvania museum, has just returned to this country from Crete. The expedition which she headed found a means for fixing the date of the declining years of the great Mincan kingdom that flourished 4,000 years ago. She also told of the finding of the ruins of an ancient Mincan town on the eastern side of Crete. "We found," said Miss Hall, "bronze tripods, swords and ornaments of special interest, a number of Egyptian scarabs, dates on which furnished the means of fixing the date of this ancient town." Magazine Welter a Sulicide Magazine Writer's Sorcerer: Los Angeles, Cal.—Dependent over the law's delay in granting her freedom from her husband, and leaving note to her husband, appointed her undying love for Frank Susakl, a wealthy Japanese of Los Angeles, whom she wished to marry, Mrs. Ida Hawley, 28, magazine writer, for death of New York and Chicago, is dead at Houston, Tex, from the ef- fects of morphine taken with suicidal intent. News of Mrs. Hawley's death was contained in dispatches received from the Texas city. OUSTS ROOSEVELT MEN G. O. P. COMMITTEE PURGES SELF OF ANTI-TAFTITES. Throws Out Seven of Its Members for Heresy and Disloyalty to Republican Nominee. New York City.—By unprecedented and unanimous action the Republican national committee, sitting as a trial court in the Hotel Manhattan, ousted seven of its members for heresy and disloyalty to President Taft. Of the 48 members of the committee 41 were present or were represented by proxies. All voted to expel the accused members. The hearing was held behind closed doors and Chairman Hilles announced that the committee had accepted the resignations of the members from Ohio, Oklahoma, and Minnesota and had declared vacant the seats of four others. Those who were "fired" are: Borden D. Whiting of New Jersey, who has refused to resign. He will be succeeded by Franklin Murphy, former governor. William J. Edwards of West Virginia, who is working hard for Roosevelt and who has refused to resign. He will be succeeded by former United States Senator Nathan Scott. Richmond Pearson of North Carolina, recently declared disloyalty by the North Carolina Republican state convention. His successor is to be E. C. Duncan, a former senator. Buss Avery of California. He has not resigned, but has said the Republican party in California has quit the national Republican party. The national committee will choose his successor. Those who resigned are: Walter F. Brown, the Ohioan, whose place is to go to Sherman Granger; C. C. Priestly, a Bull Moose of Oklahoma, and J. A. Caswell of Minnesota. The committee passed the following resolutions: "Whereas, William Hamill and James Schoolcraft Sherman were nominated as the Republican candidates for president and vice president at the Chicago of the national Republican party; and "Whereas, at said convention Theodore Roosevelt was an unsuccessful candidate for president; and "Whereas, subsequent to said Republican national convention Theodore Roosevelt and his followers held a convention at Chicago, at which convention a new and distinct political party was organized; and "Whereas, in the states of Kansas and Nebraska Theodore Roosevelt is asking for the vote of the electorate of said state; and if elected they will not vote for the candidates of the Progressive party; and "Whereas, out of the ten Republican nominees for presidential elector in the state of Kansas six persons have an interest in the candidates of the Republican party for president and vice president, but will vote for the candidates of the Progressive party for president and vice president; "Whereas, out of the eight Republican nominees for presidential election in the state of Nebraska six persons have an advantage in the race for the candidates of the Republican party for president and vice president but will vote for the candidates of the Progressive party for president and vice president." "Whereas, Theodore Roosevelt is the candidate of a distinct and separate political party and is not the candidate of the Republican party." "Whereas, the Republican national committee he calls upon the above named candidates for electors who are avowedly the candidates of the Republican party to retire from the Republican party and to the people of their states; that the office of elector, hitherto held in the United States to be the most honorable of trusts, shall not be disgraced and that the Republican candidates of the Nebraska shall not be deceived into voting, under the Republican emblem, for electors who are not supporters of the Republican candidates, but who will, if elected, be the candidates of the Progressive party." KILLS TWO. THEN SLAYS SELF Dispute Over Possession of Valuable Collie Dog Leads to Double Murder and Suicide. San Francisco, Cal.—A dispute over the possession of a valuable dog lead to a double murder and suicide in which James J. Hall, manager of the St. Frances Transportation Co., a subsidiary concern of the St. Francis Hotel; Mrs. James J. Hall, his wife, and Arthur Knable, a half brother of Hall, were the victims. Knable, who was employed by Hall, evidently brooding over the trouble, walked up behind Hall while the later was using a telephone in the Geary street offices of the company, placed a revolver against his back and fired two shots, killing him instantly. Before anyone could interfere Knable made his escape from the office and went direct to the Ila residence at 1555 Hyde street. Mrs. Hall, who was alone in the house, came to the door in response to his summons. Without uttering a word Knable drew his revolver and fired two shots into her body, killing her almost instantly. After satisfying himself that his arm had been true, Knable stepped over the body of Mrs. Hall and, entering a front room of the house, sent a bullet through his own brain. Nearly 1,000 Die In Battle Home, Italy.—Eight hundred Turks and Arabs and 61 Italian soldiers were killed in the most sanguinial engagement of the war in Triploll fought September 17, near Derna, a port on the Mediterranean, 140 miles northeast of Benghazi. Forty-one prisoners, including an important Arab chief, fell into the hands of the invaders, of whom 113 were wounded. Fighting began at day break when a force of Arabs and Turks surprised and attacked a small outpost of the Italian lines. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1912. ROAST "BEEFING" OF OLD ENGLAND THE PANAMA CANAL WILL SOON BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS FOREIGN SHIPWILL PAY TOLL FFOX CHICAGO LINCOLN PRESS RECRUITS ARE DROWNED IN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN WHEN BOAT UPSETS. NINETEEN OTHERS ARE SAVED Tragedy Occurs Within One Hundred Feet of Frantic Persons on Beach—Pulmotors Do Great Work for the Inert. Chicago, Ill.—Ten boy recruits at the United States naval station at North Chicago lost their lives in a Lake Michigan tragedy which in many respects has no parallel. Twenty-three boys, one oble sea man who was a petty officer, and one other petty officer set forth for a pleasure sail. They became helpless in a gale, fought their way almost to the shore, where the tragedy occurred—within 100 feet of the frantic persons on the beach. In full view of hundreds of people along the shore the boat capsized. The lake was alive with struggling boys. Many of them had never been in rough water before. They struck out strongly for the shore but there was an undertow in addition to the heavy waves. Three boys got almost within arm's reach of rescues when they were snatched back by the sea and went down. The Commonwealth Edison Co. rushed two pulmotors from its central office in the loop district to the scene of the tragedy. The distance was between 30 and 35 miles and a record breaking automobile run was made. Some of the victims were lying inert on the beach when the pulmotors arrived and the operators worked on the victims two at a time. It is believed that at least eight of the boys owe their lives to the pulmotors. VIRGINIA BANDITS IN HOME JAIL Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards Who Were Captured Through Girl Are Landed in Hillville Prison. Columbus, O.—Sidna Allen, Wesley Edwards and Maude Iroiler, Edward's Sweetheart, who unwittingly led detectives to the hiding place of the Virginia outaws in Dee Molnes, la., passed through here last night on a Big Four train out of Chicago. They are now in Hillsville, Va., where the shooting in which Judge Massie and several others were killed last March. Labor Leader Is Arrested. Boston, Masa—Just as he was finishing an address to 15,000 persons on Boston Common, William D Haywood of Denver, general organizer of the Industrial Worekrs of the World, was arrested here on a capias warrant charging him with conspiracy in connection with the Lawrence strike of textile workers last winter. The warrant is the result of Haywood's indictment by the Essex county grand jury and the labor leader was released on $1,000 bonds. Gunmen Occupy Separate Cells. New York City.—"Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louis," the two alleged Rosenthal murderers captured Saturday night, were ordered from the custody of the police Sunday by District Attorney Whitman to separate cells in the tombs with an abruptness that caused Deputy Commissioner Dougherty and his men to stop talking of the case. Three Killed in Rail Wreck Rochester, N. Y.—Three men were killed and two others probably fatally injured in a wreck on the New York Central railroad at East Rochester. Property worth $150,000 was destroyed when three freight trains piled up in a tangled mass of wreckage on the main line. Two engines were overturned and about 30 cars hurried from the tracks. Charles Wolf, brakeman, of Syracuse, and John Dafner and William Wise of Rochester were instantly killed. SLAYER DIES IN CHAIR SPENCER, WHO KILLED SCHOOL-TEACHER, IS ELECTROCUTED. Young Man Who Terrorized Massachusetts City by His Crimes Pays Score. Boston.—Bertram G. Spencer, convicted of the murder of Miss Martha B. Blackstone, a schoolteacher of Springfield, Mass., was electrocuted here September 17. Spencer was pronounced legally dead at 12:23:50. He displayed to the last the nerve which has astonished the prison officials. His spiritual adviser was a Christian Science reader. Spencer was the sixteenth victim of the electric chair in Massachusetts. Spencer's Crime. As Spencer was seated in the chair he said: "I wish to say to the world and the press that it is not nerve; it is the love of God that sustains me." The crime for which Spencer was convicted, the murder of a young woman school teacher, was the culmination of a series of bold petty burglaries which for two years had battled the police and terrorized the people of Springfield. Spencer confessed that the fascination of reading newspaper accounts of his exploits was the motive for the burglaries. The night of March 31, 1910, Spencer broke into the home of Mrs. Sarah J. Dow. Miss Blackstone, a schoolteacher, was visiting at the home and with Mrs. Dow and her two daughters was putting together a picture puzzle. Suddenly a masked man with a leveled revolver walked into the room and demanded money. Shoots Two Women. The women screamed and started to run. The masked figure ordered them to stop and as the women did not heed the warning he discharged the revolver. One shot killed Miss Blackstone instantly and another entered Miss Harriet Dow's head, causing a fracture of the skull, from which, however, she recovered. Spencer was known only as an industrious clerk in a meat market. He was 28 years of age and had a young wife and baby. Spencer was arrested and he confessed not only to the many robberies, but to the shooting of Miss Blackstone. In his home was found a collection of miscellaneous articles he had stolen. ENFORCE LAW ON NEWSPAPERS Postmaster General Hitchcock Prepares to Apply New Regulations Which Publishers Must Obey. Washington, D. C.—Postmaster General Hitchcock has just issued instructions for carrying into effect the new newspaper and periodical law, first returns under which must be made by October 1. The law requires that publishers shall file, on the first day of April and October of each year, both with the postmaster general and with the postmaster, under penalty of denial of the use of the mails, a sworn statement of the names and addresses of the owners, publishers, editor, managing editor and business manager of their newspapers and periodicals. Religious, fraternal, temperance and scientific publications are excepted. For a corporation the names of the holders of more than 1 per cent of the stocks, bonds or other securities must be given and, in the case of daily newspapers, a statement of the average paid circulation for the preceding six months is required. All editorial or other reading matter appearing in a newspaper or magazine, for the publication of which pay is accepted or promised, must be marked "advertement," under penalty of a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500. Wreck House and Kill Man Shreveport, La.—Ambushed assassins believed to have been members of the local Black Hand organization killed John Mondello, Sr., and seriously injured his wife and two sons, Joseph and Samuel. Mondello is a wealthy farmer of Natchitoches parish. His home was dynamited by Italianes who practically wrecked the costly house. Mrs. Mondello and her sons have been brought to a hospital here and it is feared they will die. The plot evidently was carefully laid WESTERN KESERVE CLEVELAND, O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 5, 1883, SINCE. MBER 21, 1912. OHIO STATE NEWS GIVEN IN BRIEF TWO MEN SHOT IN A FIGHT ON TRAIN BETWEEN PAINES- VILLE AND ASHTABULA. BOTTLE OF WHISKY EXPLODES IN POCKET Yeggmen at Lima Raid Nitroglycerin Storage Magazine and Carry Away a Quantity of the Explosive Shoots Two in Fight on Train Painnesville. — One man is fatally injured and another is seriously hurt as the result of a revolver fight on Lake Shore mall and express train No. 43, west bound, between here and Ashtabula. Charles Buerger, Erie, Pa. is shot through the stomach and he will die. Fred Andrews, Erie, Pa. is severely wounded in the abdomen. The shooting was done by John Philips, Toledo, who claims self defense. Phillips was beating his way on a blind baggage. With him were Henry Weber, Cleveland, and Maurice Wright, Cleveland, and Victor Kraft, Toledo. Phillips says three men, two of whom he shot, held up him and his companions just outside of Ashtabula. He insists that Buerger, who had a revolver, after taking a necktie and a coat from Weber, demanded his trousers and threatened to kick him off the train. Phillips had been robbed of 55 cents, a razor and a necktie when he retaliated by pulling his own revolver and shooting Buerger and Andrews. Whisky Bursts in Coat. New Philadelphia. — A bottle of whiskey exploded in Philip Selzer's coat pocket with the result that Selzer was nearly burned to death. Selzer lay down against a brick kiln in the Diamond Brick Co.'s yard and fell asleep. He awakened with his clothing in flames. The bottle of whiskey had exploded and saturated his clothing with alcohol. William Baker was badly burned in beating out the flames which enveloped Selzer. Selzer is in a serious condition but will live. Yeggs Steal Explosives Lima. — Yeygmen raided a nitroglycerin factory and magazine three miles west of Lima and looted it of a large quantity of explosives. The powder magazine was used as a storage house for explosives employed in the drilling of oil wells. Residents were attracted to the magazine by a loud explosion. Two men hurried from the scene, carrying a sack of explosives and motored away in an automobile. An examination disclosed that an outhouse accidentally had been blown up. Will Urge Mothers' Pensions Cincinnati. — Mothers' pensions for Ohio will be provided for in the bill to be introduced into the legislature by Herbert S. Bigelow, if he is elected a member of the lower house of the general assembly, to which he aspires. Bigelow was president of the Ohio constitutional convention and advocated many of the progressive amendments which were adopted. In speaking of his plan, Bigelow said: "Often mothers could keep their children together where now they are obliged to separate them, if there were available a small pension from the state. Such an arrangement would be beneficial to the mother, to the child and to the commonwealth." Probes Milk's High Cost. Columbus. — Endeavoring to ascertain the cause of the alleged milk famine in Columbus, which was made the excuse of higher prices for milk in this city, Prosecutor E. C. Turner of this county has obtained elaborate data from producers who supply the central Ohio markets. He has found the yield greater this year than ever before, the pastures generally better, the cost of production lower than in other years, while only 10 per cent of the producers were getting more from the middlemen. The general price paid the producer is 7 cents a quart, while the price at retail here is 36 cents a gallon and an increase is threatened. Turner is now to interview the middlemen and ascertain the reason why. Forced to Wear Wife's Shoes New Philadelphia. — After George Bowers, traveling salesman, had asked police to find the man who stole his shoes, he learned his wife had put them on by mistake and gone away on a visit. Bowers, whose feet are unusually small, is wearing his wife's shoes until she returns. Sees Eggs Five Cents Anise Columbus, head of Professor F. Jacoby, head of state university poultry department, predicts 5-cent eggs for next winter—not a dozen, but apiece. He says storage eggs usually held for winter are now being used in cities. Shot by Negro Highwayman. Cincinnati.—Harry Schaibler, a truck farmer, while on his way to this city with a load of produce, was shot and badly wounded by a negro highwayman on a lonely part of Colerain plike. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS There were no negroes on the ill-fated Titanic when she went down in mid-ocean. It develops that none were to be permitted to cross the pond on the majestic liner. One instance where race discrimination was of advantage to the black man. There are many white men in this broad land of ours who are sore on Jim Flynn because he could not land on the championship title in the heavyweight class of the world, and these same people knew that Flynn had as much chance to win as a snowball has to keep from melting on a summer's day in the sunshine. They ought to be tickled to death that he was not put to sleep in the first round, which could have happened with perfect ease if Johnson had desired. Coon songs have invaded musical circles in Germany, and rag time is giving battle to the classical selections of Wagner. It is peculiar how negro music is claiming the affections of music lovers the world over. The annual session of the Texas Negro Business league was held in Palestine, Tex. The program was of must interest. The officers of the league are: R. L. Smith, Waco, president; R. C. Houston, Jr., Fort Worth, first vice president; J. P. Starks, Dallas, second vice president; H. L. Price, secretary; A. J. Syke, Sherman, assistant secretary; W. C. Rollins, Prudie View, corresponding secretary; J. B. Bell, Houston, treasurer; E. M. Griggs, Palestine, state organizer; Executive committee; S. J. Chestnut, Corsicana; H. B. Ellis, Macc.; V. M. Morris, Houston; R. B. Wells, Temple; J. F. Mogan, Livingston; A. W. Taylor, Marshall. The Sit. Luke Herald's editorial comment on Howard university's new president is this: "So, Howard university has another white preacher for president," from which we infer that this sprightly little weekly of Richmond, Va., is among the working number of negroes who are saying aloud that they prefer negro laymen with experience in our educational affairs to head our foremost institutions of learning. Thanks to the fair and broad-minded stand taken by President W. P. Motley of the hospital and health board, and Health Commissioner W. S. Wheeler, negro internes will be retained at the old city hospital in Kansas City, which was remodeled at the expense of $15,000 and turned over to the colored citizens of Kansas City last year. The hospital has a visiting staff of colored and white physicians and surgeons, and although known as a colored institution, an effort was made to displace negro internes by white ones. Our sympathies go out to the people of Haiti in the latest calamity that has befallen them. The national palace was destroyed by a gunpowder explosion, when President Cincinnatus Le Conte and many palace attendants were killed and some 400 people were injured. It appears that President Le Conte had stored large quantities of explosives and arms in the cellars of the palace to be in readiness for a war with his neighbor, Santo Domingo, just across the border, which, it was expected, would break out at any moment. The belief is general that an enemy of the president set a slow match to the magazine and thus got rid of the president, the national palace, and the precious magazine in one grand explosion. The presidents of Haiti have a hard time to get the office, and a harder time to keep it. Most of them die with their boots on, by the act of an assassin, some flee from mob soldier wrath and die in exile, often in poverty, and some are blown up. It does not appear by the record to be a very desirable job to have, and yet there is always a long line of men waiting and plotting their turn at it. A roll call of the presidents of Haiti during the past century reade as solemnly and mournfully as "The Death March in Saul." Already there are plots and rumors of revolution all the way from Port-au-Prince to Paris, by way of St. Thomas and Jamaica, by men ambitious to succeed President Le Conte. There is no hope for the future and stability of Haiti while it is governed by revolution and the impulse to revolution. It needs peaceful administration in order to develop its splendid resources of field, mine and forest, and to educate its children at home instead of in France for the work of construction at home. Can it have such administration and education? We hope so, but there is nothing in the history of Haiti to justify the hope.—New York Age. The Charleston (S. C.) Messenger is untiring in its outspoken attitude on all vital questions affecting our people. This excellent weekly newspaper has been doing what it could to champion the cause of the oppressed and the unfortunate for nearly 28 years. Like old wine it is constantly improving with age. In many Negro settlements the mouths of some Negro preachers can be heard along the highways during week days like fog-horns on ocean tramps. Men of this profession who make a practice of hanging around postoffices and grocery stores all day engaging in word arguments are a blackening disgrace to our people. The examples are bad before the young men. How can they muster the nerve to preach against loafing and vagrancy when they themselves are no better than loafers? Ministers are expected to greet people pleasantly on the highway and to enjoy a few moments of pleasant chat together when meeting with one another. It is not against this I raise a protest. I am protesting against preachers congregating on corners and in front of public places for long-drawn-out blatant, verbal contentions and hee-haw story telling which many of them indulge in out before the public for hours at a time. The preacher who stoops to this sort of conduct is void of ministerial dignity and lacks self-respect. Can't they find a more beneficial way to occupy their spare time so that their actions before the young will speak louder than their words? The death of Dr. R. F. Boyd of Nashville, Tenn., removes from our professional ranks one of the most successful physicians and business men of the country. In this great cooperation called life, the elements that are educational are those that carry the least rewards. The school teacher works for the poorest pay—brother to the writer, the reporter, the editor and the magazine—all on menger fare. Now and then a best seller is exploited, in some way catches the public eye and enriches a person here and there, but the great rank and file of this army are in moderate circumstances. The country editors may not be rich, but how brave they are in little communities, defying the rich, defying the wealthy, defying their creditors. I know an editor to whom the magnate owning a building said: "I shall foreclose this mortgage and you shall print your rag in the street;" and the little man said: "Very well, I will print it there." And many a little editor, some village Hampton, has done the same—Don Seitz, Business Manager New York World. Although he is running a $50,000 colored theater to make money, Mr. A. N. Johnson of Nashville, Tenn., has not lost sight of the necessity for moral uplift for the negro. Recently at a performance in his magnificent show house a comedian began cracking suggestive, smutty jokes. Mr. Johnson immediately stopped the show and ordered the performer off the stage. Professors in southern state universities have formed themselves into a commission for studying the race lem. One Year. $1.50 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. .50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice In Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. The final results of the recent Ohio election but verify our editorial statements, last week, anent the defeat of Proposal No. 24 to eliminate the word "white" from the suffrage clause of Ohio's new constitution. More Afro-American voters in the state failed to vote than were needed to secure the adoption of the proposal. Just why they failed to do their clean duty to themselves and those of the race in the state, and why so many of the other class voted against the proposal, is a connundrum many thinking people have been "wrestling" with ever since the results of the election became known. We do not believe there is any class of people on the face of the globe so absolutely indifferent to their vital interests—their citizen rights, privileges, etc. as the Afro-American. It is even more than discouraging; it is heart-rending. Never in the history of this country, at least during our life-time of many years, have we ever seen in the daily newspapers so many malicious lies as were "hatched up" in the various accounts of the suicide, death and burial of Mrs. John Arthur Johnson-Champion Jack's wife. The "yellow journal" reporters of Chicago's daily newspapers and those of the various Associated Press agencies, located in the "Windy City," fairly "out-did" themselves. The fact that Mrs. Johnson was a white woman, of excellent family, and a talented woman of culture and refinement had everything to do with it. Those were tremendous efforts, they made to increase prejudice against mixed marriages and the race. Mrs. Johnson's tragic death was most unfortunate from every viewpoint. The race will suffer the harrowing results, and not Jack Johnson. MANX FAIRY TALES. Under the title "Manx Fairy Tales," Sophia Morrison of Peel, Isle of Man, has brought together a collection of extremely interesting traditional tales. Most of the stories—all but four—have been handed down by word of mouth from father to son. All the stories come from "Belan Vannin," the isle of Man. The book contains nine stories. The for young and—extremely interesting—educating, etc. Published by Mr. David Nutt, 57-59 Long Acre, London, W. C. England. The price of the book is 3s. 6d. net. Original Amen Corner The origin of the name "Amen corner" is interesting and throws a pleasant light on English Catholicity of the days before the apostasy of Henry VIII. Each year on the feast of Corpus Christi the faithful went in procession to St. Paul's cathedral. Mustering in Cheapside, the procession moved toward the cathedral, the clergy chanting the "Our Father" as they passed along the street still called Paternoster row, reaching the "Amen" as they turned the corner known for years as Amen corner.—Ave Maris. MAJOR CHARLES YOUNG, NOW. Capt. Young Has Been Promoted Again—He Is in Africa—One of the Very Best Drill-masters in the U. S. Army. Washington, D. C.—Capt. Charles Young of Wilberforce, O. Ninth cavalry, U. S. army, now military attache of the U. S. minister at Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, has been promoted to the rank of major. He is the third Afro-American graduate of West Point, the U. S. military school, Lleuts. H. S. Flipper, and John Alexander of Ohio preceding him. He is the only member of the race to attain the rank of major in the line of the regular army, Chaplain and Maj. Allenworth was retired a lieutenant-colonel and chaplain and Capt. Anderson, with the rank of major. Maj. Allenworth accompanying the army of the Liberian republic with the assistance of several well-known Afro-Americans who were in his volunteer command during the Spanish-American war. It was known as the best drilled in the division. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following cities: Gavelle, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellaine, St. Clairville, Wilmington, Portsmouth, Washington, C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, M. Ternon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middleport, Bellefonte, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone, Bellingham, O., and termite will promptly. Our readers will oblige us by sending once the addresses of persons the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. STEPHENS-THURSTON. Fashionable Wedding—The Bride Popular School Teacher—The Groom Richmond, Va. — In parliars most beautifully decorated with palms, ferns and cut flowers, one of the prettiest and most fashionable of the early fall marriages was celebrated last week, Tuesday morning, in the home of George St. Julien Stephens, 100 West Duval St., when his sister, Julia Irene, became the bride of William Godon, astronist of Cleveland, O. Sobriner's son of "O. Sobriner," played while the bridal party was the parlors, and Mendelsson's "Suring Song," during the ceremony. The bridal party entered the parliars in the following order: Little Miss Sallie Irene Austin, niece of the bride, bearing the license, and wearing pale blue messaline trimmed with white lace and blue ribbons; the bridegroom and bride, wearing blue dresses; the brother of the bride; the bride leaming upon the arm of her elder brother, George St. Julien Stephens, who gave her in marriage. Miss Stephens wore a tailored suit of cream cloth, with hat, gloves and slippers to match, and carried a shower of bride's roses and lilies of the valley. Dr. W. T. Johnson of the First Baptist church, the mother of the bride, the bride leaming upon the arm of her elder brother, George St. Julien Stephens, who gave her in marriage. Miss Stephens wore a tailored suit of cream cloth, with hat and gloves to match. At noon the couple left for Cleveland, their future home, amid the well- wishes of friends. For a number of years the bride was one of the regular teachers in the Richmond public schools. She was also prominent in literary and art circles and church and society work. She was president of the Friday evening Art and Literary circle; superintendent of the primary department of the First Baptist Sunday school; chairman of the Federation of Colored Women's clubs; president of the Matron Board, and compiler of the minutes of the Right Worthy Grand Council of the Indie pendent Order of St. Luke's, besides being identified with other women's movements that make for the uplift of the race. The groom is a native of Louisa, Va. He is well and favored know-ledge of the church for several years been a ministerial attendant at Virginia Union University. They the recipients of a large number of useful and valuable presents. WHERE WAS REV. PAXTON? Personal Mention—Social Notes—Obituary—Other Items of Interest. Buffalo, N. Y.,—Misses Blanche Dent and Lucille Smallwood spent their vacation at Chautauqua lake.—Mr. George Richardson, clerk to the superintendent of the Nickel Plate road, has started on a (two weeks) vacation in New York.—Miss other Ohio cities.—Let us hope that there will be a wedding soon in Mr. and Mrs. M. Dent's family. Lots of entertaining.—Mrs. Walden, who visited her daughter, Mrs. Spencer True heart, has returned to Toledo.—Miss Helen Smallwood of Columbus, guest of the family, has visited cagoe, Monday.—Mr. David Lee, who spent his vacation in Gulphi, Ca., returned home, a little indisposed.—H. Allen and O. M. Miller of C. O. visited his cousin, Mrs. M. Lace, last week.—C. W. Brown of St. Louis lost his wife on the train. He remains in New York for the holiday. He has our sympathy.—Where was Rev. B. W. Paxton of Cleveland? We were looking for him here, at St. Phillips church, Sunday. FATHER DEMBY HONORED. Appointed Arch-deacon for Tennessee —Mrs. Demby an Ohioan—Something of the Splendid Work They Have Done and Are Doing for the Episcopal Church, and Along Local Charitable Lines. Memphis, Tenn.-A host of our people in Cleveland, O., the native home of Mrs. Nettie Ricks Demby will be delighted to learn that her husband, Father Demby, rector of our Episcopal church, here, who has just left for Kansas City, Leavenworth St. Joseph and Topeka on his vaca for the Episcopal church, for his church work among our people in this state, having done much of the work ever since his arrival here about five years ago. Rev. and Mrs. Demby have built a Sunday School room to their church and conduct school-work in connection therewith Mrs. Demby did not accompany the children of our children in a sprain in her right foot, sustained four weeks ago. Father Demby has also been appointed president of our Associated Charities, an annex to the local white organization. Our people pay their Associated Charities worker $40 per month and the whites give her food and clothes, as well as money, for our deserving poor. They also pro-merged the work of our priest. On Monday, two Afro-American nurses were appointed for our local schools, which our own physicians serve also. The two nurses have been doing district work very successfully. In all Dr. Demby's work and the local work referred to above, his sterling wife is greatly interested, and active, and only regrets that her duties are such as to make it impossible for her to work on his vacation trip, Father Demby preached the funeral of Mr. Robert Church, sr., who had been a member of his church for two years. It was a very large funeral. Woman's Faith A woman ought at least to have as much faith in her husband as she has in her powder rag—Chicago Record-Herald. HOUSE FOR SALE To a refined Colored family — a splendid home. Eight rooms and bath, electric lights and gas; in a very desirable location near Wade Bell phone, Bell phone, Eddy, 267 J, Address, 142 E, 15th St., Mrs. M. Wormser. GENUINE BARGAIN. For Sale--Three suites and store room; rents $444 a year. Price $2500 Easy terms. E. R. Cowin, 912 Scho field Bldg. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY WANTED—Young man with business education who understands stenography and is willing to start at the bottom and work up. Lifetime position to the right fellow. Must have good habits and good appearance. Address-EDITOR, The Gazette, Cleveland O. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1912. DOINGS OF THE RAGE Mrs. Wm. North, Pueblo, Col., has been appointed a deputy sheriff. BUCKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. ONCE A MILLIONAIRE CARRIES DIM Edward Corrigan, former the American turf, has coached the to stay again. little save wreck tune final years mer has lost acres set to crush tled The Ninth Cavalry has been sent to the Mexican border to help protect the American interests. It was in Texas the Brownsville affray occurred. * * * * The Emperor of Germany, King of England and President of France were among those who sent representatives to the funeral of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, in London, England, recently. * * * * Hazel L. Harrison of Indiana, who studied piano for a year or more in Berlin, Germany, under Hugo Van Balen, now has his teacher, Fernando Lopez, only the greatest living piano teacher and also a great composer, as her instructor. * * * * In the beautiful city of Buenos Ayres is perhaps the only statue in the world erected by white men to a Negro. This is the statue of Faluco, a soldier who refused to haul down the Spanish Haguel bridge of the Spanish soldiery, during the first Argentine revolution, and was shot down by the Spanish. Rev. J. M. Henderson, former pastor of A. M. E. churches in New York city and other places in the north, has been given charge of Ebenezer A. M. E. church, Detroit, by Bishop W. B. Derrick. He is one of the ablest ministers in the connection. "Peter Volo," owned, trained and driven by Ed. Wilds, the Afro-American superintendent of the Patchen Wilkes farm, Lexington, Ky., last week made a world's record for yearling trotters of 2:19 flat, displacing the time made by his relative, Miss Stokes, of 2:194 in September, 1909. If the National Negro Business League would require an affidavit from a certified accountant to accompany each paper read or statement made at its meetings by those who tell about their own business enterprises, it would prevent these narrators from being mentally consigned to the Ananas club by those who illars. Some of them are such crude liars. - Charleston (W. Va.) Advocate. Twenty-two hundred Afro-American, most of them skilled laborers, are employed in constructing war vessels and other ships used for commercial purposes every day at New York. They are the highest degree of intelligence and skill and they measure up to the requirements. * * * God Almighty alone saved Jack Johnson from having the stain of the death of his wife branded to him by the daily papers of Chicago. He, and He alone, could see in the future for him and his race. Like wolves the two men were often the city's newest every way to have someone say that Jack was in the room at the time of the shooting; yes, had he been in the house anywhere would have been sufficient to brand him as a wife murderer; but fate would not suffer it, so to the center of the city where many "alas" awaited—Chicago Defender. --- The will of the late Col. Robt, R. Church of Memphis, Tenn., disposes of an estate estimated to be worth one million dollars. It mentions thirty-five pieces of reality. He left no money to charity. A farm of 130 acres, near Raleigh, is left to the widow, Mrs. Anna S. Church, absolutely. She also is left a life interest in fourteen pieces of reality in the downtown portion of Memphis. At her death, the will provides, the property is to go to R. R. Church, jr., and Annette Church, twenty years old. Thomas Church, his children by a previous marriage, Mrs. Anna S. Church is named as residuary legatee and is bequeathed all the personal property of the deceased. S. A. Hendricks (white) of St. Louis, Mo., has been growing black for the past five months, and now he is as black as any man in the jungles. MAJOR ALLAN S. PEAL. The Western Christian Recorder, of Kansas City, Mo., under date of Sept. 5-12, contains an interesting interview on matters military and political with Maj. Allan S. Peal, a Cleveland and Columbus boy, who connect with the faculty of West Virginia, Quindaro, Kan, and commandant of the institution's cadet corps. An Ideal. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do—Thoreau. United on Deathbed. A pathetic marriage ceremony took place the other day, in a Budapest hospital. A German singer named Erdos, who was appearing professionally in the Hungarian capital, was suddenly taken ill with heart weakness a few days ago. He telegraphed to his sweetheart in Frankfort, Germany, to come to him. The girl started at once, and arrived in Budapest promptly. They were married immediately in the hospital ward, and Erdos died an hour after the ceremony. Bell Ringer's Occupation Gene Bell Ringers' Occupation Gone. The abolition of the custom of ringing the town bell at Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England, which for 300 years has toled for deaths and funerals from over the gateway of an inn, throws out of occupation Saunders, the bell ringer, whose family have rung the bell continuously for over 140 years. WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. McIntyre.—A. C. Smith spent Wednesday and Thursday in Fernwood, Eva, and Sarah Smith dined with Mr. and Mrs. Logan Smith. Wednesday evening.—Mr. G. Linear is ill—Mrs. A. Smith and Mrs. H. Thomas left Saturday to visit relatives in Cadiz.—A box social at Grove school house this evening. Sandusky.—Sunday is the last for Rev. Bass at the A. M. E. church, in this conference year. He hopes to see all of his friends at church. Mrs. M. Swan, who visited her mother, Mrs. Garner, for three months, returned to Pittsburg, Sunday.—The Second Baptist church's four clubs contest for the rally occurs Nov. 3.—Mr. Jones of Toledo has moved his family here. Mrs. York, who visited her sister, Miss Dora Elmore, for a month, returned to Nashville, last week.—Mr. Johnson is doing well in his new store. Mrs. H. Claus is expecting her husband soon. Mrs F's supper is on the 24th. Mrs. J. S. Davis, captain.—J. S. French is taking his vacation.—Mr. Robert Corom who visited his sister, Mrs. Josie Thomas, returned to Cleveland, last week. Smithfield.—Mrs. Clara West and daughter, Thelma, of Hopeda, visited her sisters, Saturday and Sunday.—Mrs. Orvilla Smith of Richmond visited her mother, Sunday.—Finley T. Davis of Pittsburg visited his wife, Saturday and Sunday.—Mrs. Jennie Moore of Dayton, who is visiting her former home, Mt. Pleasant, was here, Friday, and Mr. R. Jackson and B. Powell, Saturday, was here, Friday and week.—Mrs. John Christian of Steubenville visited her daughter, Mrs. Ed. West, last week.—Mrs. Efitzgerald and children visited her son and wife in Bradley, Sunday.—Miss L. B. Hargrave is visiting in Steubenville.—Little Fannie Flitzgerald has scarlet fever.—Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris have moved to Rush Run Ave.—Rev. S. W. White was called to Keystone, W. Va., by his son's illness.—The church entertainment, Saturday evening, was a success.—Mr. Dan Lee kins is ill, Mr. and B. Bowman were ill.—Mr. A. Reed of Emersonville, were Mr. and Mrs. N. Mitchell's guests, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. J. Powell and Mrs. Mary Brown were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Emerson, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thompson were in Steubenville, Saturday. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write, also, their names and that of their city or town, or their address, where returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance. In advance, send the address lines to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stammes during warm weather. Youngstown—Mrs. Chas. Jackson is still ill. James Lawson of stop 25, who has been ill five months, is no better. Mrs. Wesley Williams is better. She has been ill two weeks. Her son, Vest, arrived at the Fosterville Fitchue and Willis Collins are quietly married. Thursday, and will reside at Lowellville. -Lash Smith of New Castle, visited his brother, Norman, of Fosterville, Monday. A number attended the Mason's dance there. Tuesday evening, he visited the Mason's visiting his parents. Joseph Annibell Honesty of Allegheny and Joseph R. Lincoln were quietly married at the groom's parents'. Sunday afternoon by Rev. J. H. Smith. Ring ceremony. Dinner was served. They are at home at 618 Mt. Pleasant street. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel West, of Lowellville, are at home. Mr. Robinson and relatives witnessed the ceremony and dined. -Buckeye Lodge, Elks, presented the pastor of St. Mary's Zion church a fine clergyman's suit of clothes and a purse of money. Sunday evening, after the services. Rev. A. J. Wilson left, Tuesday, for annual conference at Sewickley. He attended the Baptist church, preached able sermons. Sunday, to large congregations. Both choirs rendered excellent music—Mrs. G. M. Fagan is ill. Chinese Barbers in Hard Luck Barber shops were the exception, rather than the rule, in China in the old days, itinerant barbers attending to their customers' wants in the streets or in the customers' home. There appears to be no tendency toward the institution of barber shops since the change of hairdressing; in fact, the tendency locally is to do away with the barber altogether. Thus many families are purchasing hairclippers, which seem to be regarded as the only essential to haircutting. Always a Way In a public washroom, where there were towels a-plenty, if anybody wanted to use that kind. Tip saw a man who had been sousing his face in cold water take his immaculately clean, very fresh-looking shirt sleeves, as he could with the cuff button links unfastened, and slowly mop his dripping face till it was dry; so there's always a way.—New York Press. Are You in Arrears on your subscription? You know WE NEED THE MONEY? ONCE A MILLIONAIRE: CARRIES DINNER PAIL Edward Corrigan, former king of the American turf, has come back to Kansas City, after thirty years, to start life over again. With what little he could save from the wreck of his fortune after the final crash three years ago, the former millionaire has leased a few acres of land, set up a some crusher and settled down to de er thirty years, to start life over again. With what little he could save from the wreck of his fortune after the final crash three years ago, the former millionaire has leased a few acres of land, set up a stone crusher and set-tled down to de vote himself to leveling limestone cliffs, the same sort of work he did as a railroad contractor before taking up the racing game. A few years ago Corrigan was the most spectacular figure on the American turf. His thirty years in the racing game were spent in continuous fighting. In 1891 he forced the Coney Island Jockey club to allow his horse, Huron, to start in the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay after the club had ruled that there was a defect in the entry. The horse came in second, but the judges willfully overlooked him, so that no part of the $60,000 stake went to Corrigan. From that time on New York tracks were closed against Corrigan. Nothing daunted, he took a stable of horses to England. He was not welcomed, and it was said that it was only through the efforts of Mark Hanna and others that he was granted privileges at Newmarket. The scene of Corrigan's longest and most bitter fight was the Hawthorne track in Chicago, which he managed in opposition to John Condon's Harlem track. Condon sent word that rather than compromise he would sink the Harlem track to the bottom of Lake Michigan. "Tell him," said Corrigan in reply, "that I'll put Hawthorne on top of it to keep it down." Corrigan eventually moved to the coast. He established the beautiful Ingleside course on a site overlooking the Pacific. The authorities closed its gates. In New Orleans and Missouri his hard luck continued. He awoke one morning to find himself pennless, bankrupt. The former "master of Hawthorne" now goes out to his little quarry every morning carrying a dinner pail. MRS. REBECCA CLARK IS AN OPTIMIST AT 108 of London's three centenarians, when asked how she had managed to remain an opti- mist at 108. MARY "Never since I was a young girl have I allowed worries to interfere with me," she said brightly, "and to this I attribute my long life. As a matter of fact I am of such a happy disposition that I feel I must do a step or two when I hear a band playing. "Cheerfulness is the best elixir for living a hundred years. A woman can always be cheerful if she makes her work at home congenial. In fact, a woman's place ought to be her home. Alert and active, Mrs. Charnley up and down stairs with vacity that is amazing. She can hear a bee humming and threads needles for her daughter. Every Friday she walks to the postoffice to draw her old age pension. She has a son and a daughter who are both old age pensioners Her oldest grandson is fifty-eight. Mrs. Clark's chief delight is auto-mobiling. "I always feel somehow younger after an auto ride," she says. "This summer I have often gone motoring with a friend and did a little haymaking, which is another of my favorite pastimes." Mrs. Clark scorns all invalid foods and insists on having the same fare as the others in the house. This was her birthday menu, to which she did full justice: Breakfast, 10 a. m.—Eggs and bacon, bread and butter, two cups of tea. Luncheon, noon—Biscuits and tea. Dinner, 2 p. m.—Veal and ham, two vegetables, gooseberry tart and Devonshire cream. Tea, 5 p. m.—Bread and butter, two slices of birthday cake, two cups of tea. Supper, 7:30 p. m.—Crusts of bread and tea. Mrs. Clark is the possessor of four royal letters—from the late King Edward, Queen Alexandra, King George and Queen Mary. Gave Himself Away. Mrs. Binks (with a disgusted air)—That Aunt Sallie, who writes the articles in the household department of this paper, isn't a woman at all. It's a man. Mr. Binks—Why so? Mrs. Binks—Here's an article that says woman's proper sphere is the home. 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This sanitary method of treatment is also having the desired effect in helping to prevent the spread of diseases, for it is far more effective than the ordinary care the germs of disease which often prove fatal to innocent persons coming in contact with them. For treatment, call on or address: MISS KATIE B. COLLIER 4812 Payne Ave. Cleveland, Ohio --- PURELY PERSONAL PURCHASE THE "GAZETTE" AT J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. L. SCHWARTZ'S, 2921 Central Ave. Open Sunday. O. C. SCHROEDER'S, Guyahoga Bldg. Open Sunday. ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. F. VALENTINE'S, 2130 Central Ave. SAM, FERTMAN'S, 3608 Central Ave. J. E. BRANHAM'S, 4401 Central Ave. MILLER'S, 2249 E. 105th St. SPURLOCK'S, 2737 Central Ave. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:—Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) FOR RENT—Houses—If you have places to rent or if you want to rent—notify The Gazette. For Rent—Five room suite; second floor. Bath. gas-range and heater. 2218 E. 46th St. For Rent—House with five rooms and bath; all conveniences. Enquire L. W. Forter, 9703 Quebec Ave., Doan 853 X. For Rent—To two gentlemen, nicely furnished room with light, heat and bath. 3857 Carnegie Ave. Wanted—Good girl for general housework. Inquire P. A. Hoeret, Stratford Rd., Shaker Heights. Phone Doan 484 L. Have you paid your subscription to The Gazette? Be prompt, please. Mr. Adams of Dayton is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Rudd of E 26th St. Mrs. Ina Perkins returned Sunday evening from a delightful two weeks visit with relatives in Chicago. Miss Ethel Huffman of Bellefontaine is visiting her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Johnson of 6712 Hague Ave. west side. If you owe The Gazette, please pay promptly. Do not wait for the collector or have him call repeatedly. Mr. Robert Corum of Woodland Ave. visited relatives in Sandusky, and Windsor, Can. last week. Mrs. S. P. Johnson of E. 29th St. Miss Lucy and Mr. George Manson have returned from a visit in Canada. Mr. Luther Hall is visiting his brother in New York state. He will visit other eastern cities, and in Canada, before returning. Miss Bessie Streets of E. 47th St. died last Thursday. Tuberculosis. Funeral, Monday, from St. John's A. M. E. church, Dr. Chas. Bundy, officiating. Mrs. M. Mountain, E. 43d St., who had been ill for some time, suffered a stroke of paralysis last week. Thursday, dying, Sunday. Funeral, Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Jackson of Central Ave. and Miss Oscie Manson of E. 33rd St. visited the former's daughter. Mrs. Jennie Jackson, at Niagara Falls, recently. Mrs. Ruth Norris of Wheeling snout a very pleasant week, recently, visiting Mrs. Ida Ambrose, 2228 Scovill Ave., who entertained, Friday evening, Sept. 6, in her honor. Supper was served to the following: Mesdames W. Gray, J. Lovick, Josephine Boyd, Reita Galaway, R. Rollison, Lula Cisco and K. W. Summerville. Mrs. W. G. Anderson and sister, Miss Ruth Boger of Chicago, en route to New York, stopped here last week, guests of Mrs. Millard P. Case of E. 39th St. It might be interesting to add that Mrs. Anderson's husband was the habeas-cause layyer sent from Chicago to Virginia to try the muck-talked-of case of Virginia Christian, the weak-minded girl of the race who was electronically there. In a letter recently received from Mr. Earl Parker of Los Angeles, Cal., a former resident of Cleveland, the following of local interest occurs: "There are a great number of our people from Cleveland here. The boys who came out with me are very well. Harvey Armstrong is married again. Sam Pentacost is at Venice. Billy Fields and wife are in Pasadena, doing nicely. They have purchased a lovely home. Best wishes to all the boys and friends at home." Again We Say Subscribe for THIS PAPER HE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1912. Have you paid your subscription to The Gazette? Be prompt, please. Mr. Adams of Dayton is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Rudd of E. 36th St. ```markdown ``` Miss Ethel Huffman of Bellefontaine is visiting her cousins, Mrs. and Mrs. D. B. Johnson of 6712 Hague Ave., west side. If you owe The Gazette, please pay promptly. Do not wait for the collector or have him call repeatedly. This latter is not pleasant. People are continually asking questions, the answers to which they would know—if they read The Gazette. SUBSCRIBE FOR IT! MONDAY, all roads lead to Forest City park. See advertisement, elsewhere. The Gazette. EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION, MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Hot biscuits, cakes, coffee and cream, etc., every morning at Cassell and Rowell's, formerly Adkin's restaurant. The best meals, quick service—all home cooking. There is no better cook on Central Ave. than May, Eva Wite, chef at Cassell and Rowell's, our leading restaurant. Remember the number—2613 Central Ave. --- On Aug. 24. The Gazette received a letter from W. G. Oswald, assist. sec. of the city Out-door Relief department, making inquiry of a member of the race, and asking that The Gazette help locate her. This it did, we received the following letter from Mr. Oswald: "Many thanks for the item in The Gazette. We tried in every way to find the lady, but there was 'nothin' doin' until we sought The Gazette's assistance." It pays to advertise in the "old reliable" Gazette. Chas. L. Lacey and daughter of Pine Ave. entertained, royally, last Thursday evening, in honor of Mrs. S. L. Scott of Oil City, Pa. Refreshments and music. Brief addresses were delivered by Rev. G. A. Sissle, Herbert L. Taylor, and the editor of The Gazette. Mr. William's bass solo was one of most pleasing we have heard in a long time. He was ably accompanied by a young lady from Erie, Pa. No mortal man could make the editor of this paper believe that—after John Mitchell, Jr., or the Hon. Harry C. Smith has a drop of false blood in their bodies. Both have partially worn out their active lives for a class which pays in damms for their eviction. Battle on, you brave race leaders and advocates. Earth has a haven of rest for each of you, and a hereafter heaven of joy—Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. Redemption, a story with a moral, will be shown in three grand reels at the Alpha Theatre, cor. Central and E. 33rd St., Sunday and Monday, Sept. 22 and 23. Every woman should see these wonderful pictures, the sensation of London, Paris and other world-centers. The week of Sept. 22 doo musician in the world doing this great act will appear. Every one, who can possibly attend these performances, should do so. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. Thurston, bride and groom (see Richmond letter, elsewhere in this paper), have arrived from Richmond, Va., and several intermediate points and are "at home" from Richmond, Va., at 249 11th St. Mrs. Thurston is from one of our oldest and best families of the "Old Dominion," was an active church worker, and was one of our most popular public school teachers of Richmond, Va. The Gazette welcomes her to the city. Electron proceedings to oust the Christian Missionary Alliance & Voluntary association from property at 1617, 1703 and 1707 Orange Ave. S. E. and W. O. Bowles, real estate agent from premises at 1914 Woodland Ave. S. E., were filed in municipal court Monday. The suit prepared by Assistant City Solicitor J. P. Mooney alleges that the defendants are 475 in age and that notice was given them in September to pay up or move. No attention was paid to the summons. Mooney said last evening. W. W. Edmondson, a successful farmer of New Berlin, a former resident of Cleveland, was in the city Tuesday and called on The Gazette. Other callers from out of this city were: Rev. Daleney, pastor of our M. E church at Oberlin and on Wednesday afternoon, H. C. Tuck, one of our leading business men of Oberlin and Chas. A. Thatcher, Esq., of Toledo, "Free Speech candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court" (short term), "the most important white friend" in his city, of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Messrs Delaney and Tuck extended to the editor of The Gazette an invitation to speak at a great mass meeting in Oberlin, Monday night, to further the financial interests of Rev. Delaney's church. Sunday will be observed at St James. A. M. E. church as "anniversary closing day." Conference convenes in Toledo, Wednesday. Rev. F. G. Snelson will preach on "Fifty MRS. JOHN ARTHUR JOHNSON Wife of World's Champion, Jack John son, Buried—A Suicide, the Result of Illness—The Funeral, etc. Chicago, Ill.—Jack Curley (white) prize fight promoter, Saturday took charge of the funeral of Mrs. Etta Duryea Johnson, who committed suicide. The champion, almost prostrated with grief, was unable to attend to the necessary arrangements. The services were held in St. Mark's M. E. church. Mr. Johnson, his mother and other relatives, the mother and mourners, or deceased, and other mourners, in 50 bodies, bound for the body to Graceland cemetery. Mrs. David Terry, Brooklyn, Mrs. Johnson's mother, and her sister, Elaine, rode a touring car with Mr. Johnson, who was on the verge of collapse. A trained nurse staved with the champion throughout the ceremony. Many of their white friends also attended the funeral. The daily newspaper story, that she suicided because she was "ostracized," etc., is a lie, pure and simple, just as are the dozen over tales the newspapersold in children the same last and this week, for the clear purpose of increasing prejudice against the race and, particularly, against mixed marriages. It is simply astonishing to what low ends the cheap sensation-craving and prejudiced daily newspaper reporters will stoop to serve their nefarious desires against the race. Mrs. Johnson committed suicide while ill and "out of her head." That is all there is to it. If she had been a lady of splendid social standing, she would have cated, cultured and refined, as well as musical—possibly the numerous newspaper lies would not have been hatched and published. Moving pictures of the funeral of Mrs. Johnson were barred by court order from exhibition at the Pekin theater here. Mr. Johnson obtained an injunction and after giving a bond of $550 went to the office of Chief of the Station. Mr. Johnson's co-operation. McWeeney gave orders placing a ban on exhibitions of this character. A letter written by Mrs. Johnson and addressed to her mother, probably the last and only one that she wrote before ending her marriage on Monday day by maids who were cleaning up the Johnson flat. The letter reads: Chicago, Aug. 12, '12. My Dear Mother: I am writing this and am going to have Jack put it in his safe, so if anything should happen to me there will be no hard feelings left behind me. I would-send this letter to you, only I know how much you worry and I do not want you to know how sick I really am. Jack has done all in his power to cure me but it is no use. Since papa's death I have worried myself in my grave. I haven't been worrying over papa's loss, only over some horrible dread I don't know, and I will be buried here in Chicago. Never try to take my body to Hempstead only to be a mark for curiosity seekers—let me rest for once. With love and always the sweetest to you, I am your loving daughter, ETTA. Jack stated that he offered the letter as proof that current rumors of his alleged mistreatment of his wife were confirmed and to show that she had been ill. ROOSEVELT, HIS PARTY AND THE NEGRO. Miss Alice Carpenter of Brookline, Mass., who claims to "come from abolitionist stock," who was a member of the committee on resolutions at the national convention of the Progressive Party at Chicago last month, and who was made a member of the provisional New York state committee, says she was, originally, much opposed to the barring of the southern Negro delegates from the national convention of the Progressive Party, but that she is now convinced that Roosevelt was right—that "at present the Negro is simply a bluffer between the two parties, and that his condition can only be improved by a new party formed without him." We commend this to the thoughtsful consideration of those of the racewho are trying to support the Roosevelt candidacy for the presidency,or are trying to find some good excuse to do so. The Brownsville (Tex.) "lynch-murder" of "The Black Batallion" and the subsequent persecution of those 167 innocent saviours of the Colonel and his "Rough Riders,"when in Cuba during the SpanishAmerican war, does not seem to be enough for them. They would rush in where they are not wanted as full-fledged Aemrican citizens and thrust their unwelcome presence upon the Colonel and his "party," the southern portion of which is made up, almost entirely of former "illy-white Republicans." COLUMBUS "JIM CROW." From the grand old state of Ohio and the city of Columbus comes the authentic report that Negroes had the audacity to ask for a separate day during the week of Columbus' 100th birthday anniversary. This is indeed surprising to learn that Columbus with all of its intelligent Colored men and women who advocate equal rights and who are at liberty to attend all public institutions, would ask for and "celebrate a "tim crow" day in the city of Columbus when the people were asked to join in commemorating the founders of the city and its wonderful progress. No discrimination was made when the city urged all to "make merry" the week, by witnessing everything prepared for the occasion. But it was left to a few Negroes to make a cry for a separate day in the city. If there Negroes are always in the limelight, asking for separation in public affairs is past our understanding. Why then not ask for sep- arate street cars and separate schools? We don't believe that the rank and file of the race in that state want such separation and neither do the white people. Too often a few "would-be leaders" imagining they are doing the race good by clamoring for public separation, bring harm and shame upon the race. Let us hope that the people in all sections of the north will not stand for separation in any public affair or institution but take part, and insist upon this, as men and women and not as a separate race. Our people, by whispering class of people be more vigilant in this direction and we will not have a repetition of the unfortunate affair at Columbus. Equal rights to all and no separation should be the slogan—Chicago (ILL) Defender. Right you are, conferee, and none of our people ought to be able to better understand your line of reasoning, in this matter, than our intelligent people of Columbus. For several years they have been fighting segregation in the public schools of that city, and ought to know well what a miserable and dangerous precedent they are establishing when they make such an inexusable and harmful blunder. It was Chicago's "jim crow" Y. M. C. A. that gave such impetus to the demand of wealthy Hyde Park and other residents of the "Windy City," for separate or "jim crow" schools there. Columbus, already, has one "public" school to which all of its Colored teachers were sent in recent years, and which is attended by Colored children only. These days, the "jim crow" Negro is the bane of the race—really more active and harmful than the prejudiced whites who as a rule "use" them. For a little cheap notoriety, or for a little money, er to toady to white men (as a rule), they will "saddle" almost anything upon a race that is now almost "broken-backed," bending and tottering with its awful load. Here in Cleveland, we have a park, the management of which has barred Negroes from its dance hall, skating rink and swimming pool. In the face of all this, Negroes went there to "celebrate" on August 1—jim crow" day, it was—and on the 23d of this month the Caterers' Association (Negroes), will hold their annual clam-bake at this same park. It looks as if some members of the race cannot be treated mean and bad enough by prejudiced whites, to keep them (the Negroes), from filling their (the whites') pockets with hard-earned money for publicly insulting and degrading them (the Negroes) by denials of their citizen rights in public places. Good Lord! Have mercy! Again, we call on all self and race respecting members of the race, in this community, who have sufficient manhood and womanhood to resent the miserable, insulting and degrading color line treatment accorded our people at Luna Park, to stay away from the place. A few good guits under our Ohio Civil Rights' law, will put a stop to such discrimination in all such public places in this city and county. The editor of the Defender is entirely correct when he warns our "better-thinking class of people" to be "more vigilant" and more active in heading off and thwarting the attempts of the "jim crow" Negro to toady, or to make money, or to "bask in the limelight," at the expense of the rights and privileges of all the members of the race in his community. Those Columbus and Cleveland "jim crow" days and Chicago's "jim crow" Y. M. C. A. were alike harmful and even more dangerous precedents. Let us have no more of them. AS TO PROPOSAL NO. 24. Last week, dispatches to the local daily newspapers from Columbus, announced that the indications were that Proposal No. 24 (to eliminate the word "white" from the suffrage clause of the state constitution), among others, had been adopted by the voters of the state at the special election held Sept. 3, 1912. Early this week, announcements to the contrary, from the same source, were made, until on Wednesday morning, Sept. 11, 1912, the returns from 79 counties showed that 220,210 persons voted for the proposal, and 242,865 had voted against it. Nine counties had not reported on the election of more than a week ago. They were: Ashland, Defiance, Lorain, Mahoning, Mercer, Muskegon, Paulding, Trumbull and Union counties. At that time, Wednesday morning, Sept. 11, 1912, unofficial figures showed that Muskegon, Paulding and Union counties had voted against all proposals except licence, while others had voted majorities for the principle constitution amendment proposals. Judging the returns from the delinquent nine counties on a basis of those from the 79 counties, Proposal No. 24 will be defeated by from 25,000 to 30,000 votes—just about the number of Afro-American voters in the state of Ohio who failed to do their plain duty and cast their ballots at the polls on Sept. 3, 1912. Nearly all of last year, and again this year up to the day of the election, The Gazette endeavored, unceasingly, to awaken them to a proper sense of responsibility in this matter, not only to themselves but also to others of the race in the state and those who will come after us. The response upon the part of many, here in Cleveland, was encouraging, but the results show, unquestionably, that the great majority of the Afro-American voters in this state were, as usual, blind and indifferent to their vital interests, still reposing a silly and unjustified confidence "in the white people," more than 250,000 of whom voted on Sept. 3, 1912, against the elimination of the word "white" from the suffrage clause of the state constitution, and defeated Proposal No. 24. Not only will the word "white" be in that clause, but also in the military clause as well. Any time it may suit the fancy of prejudiced whites of Ohio, not only to disfranchise Afro-American voters in state elections but also to exclude them from participating in the militia of the state, they will be able to do so, and promptly, too. For this sad condition of affairs our people, in this state, have only to thank their lack of interest in their own vital affairs. The only consolation The Gazette has, is that it did all in its power, constantly, for more than a year and a half to arouse them—but in vain, it seems. Fill with alcohol and lighters MAGIC PATENT AVAILABLE FOR TOP HALFA THOUSAND ALL WOOL FABRICS PRICE OF COMB $1. Large, Heavy, Strong and Durable. Made of copper and brass associated together and easy to one piece piece; highly polished and hardened into one plastic metal bolt which goes through the large wood handle and screws into metal out of 8 cm bolt to screw the handle from the large wood handle or crocodile of Bemerger beaver. 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