The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1901, Page 1

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE, ern wHrnar —_ whe Bee GRERY ADVERTISING MEDIOM, De fearless race ? tr you want le news? Do you wanta 15 4 ors Do you want colored § ‘ade? Read and advertise in THE BEE! STANDARD OIL PLOT, noress to Make Attack | ing to their 01 Trust Methods. r Daniels Claims That ts of Her New Story « Based on Pacts Verified by Records, Potter Daniels is w “The Warners” with e Chicage Trib- by the criticism the d by its attitude to- | justrial conditions, second book may on, for it will some of the | vil company. | ed by Janu- e is considerable detail ter In outline Mrs, begin with an ons of the trust | y records, but the a com ng their | warld. But it is. The cathedral took centuries to build | tects have modele | the most bea | World. | Cats Sacrificed to Fash A hundred tons of cats’ tails were recently sold in one lot in New York | for ornamenting ladies’ wearing ap- |Parel. This means that no fewer than 1,792,000 pussies had been killed to sUp- ' ply this one consignment. | Another Worm Turns, “And I want you to remember, men,” | Said the distinguished visitor who was | addressing the crowd, “that ‘there’s | Plenty of room at the top.’” “That won’t do me no good!” spoke up a shock-headed man in the audi- pence: “Ww. I want is plenty of room | here at the bottom!"—Chicago Trib- | une. > youngster’s mother, us insists that our boy is row up to be a wonderfully and estimable man. | “That is only a natural parental pride.” “Perhaps. Iam not quite whether it is parent heredity. What Ailed He Hendry was rebuking- me | i. !-| better than myself. He s ater sum | s the promise « ‘The new bu he morning when that d immediate wealth to any was to be set in mo- | as @ terrible explosion, one sin that cannot be lai door. Griggs—No; Hendry doesn’t believe | there is anybody better than he is or that anybody possibly could be.—Bos- ton Trauscrip Might Have Repenteda. | “John, I think I hear robbers in the for being envious of people who are at his | Lodges and Grand Masters among | Masters and Grand Lod control and meddle and interfere with |in a higher Masonic De | Masonry. Ti has been jaid down as the Masonic it | amand 2 Masonic Rule ever since io 2 . Lodges were instituted and/ SSOC. €Ver since the office of Grand Maeee maser eee ae was created, that no Grand Lodges or | ee CBUECH, | Grand Master has any constitution or | inherent right directly or indirectly or |" The annual meeting of the above— in any manner whatever to interfere peenee association, was held at the with or have any power or authority | Rectory No. 1411 Corceran street last in any sense whatever over a chapter | Monday evening. The officers chosen of Royal Arch Masons, or Council of | for the ensuing year were as follows ; Royal and select Masters, or com. | President J. A. Johnson, Vice-Presid- manders of Knight Templars. or ent dirs. Eliza J. Norwood, Secretary Temples of the Mystic Shrine, or con-|Mrs. Celestine Alston, ' Treasurer, sstories of the 32nd degree ef the , Mrs. Anna-M. Cole, Executive Com. Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite, | mittee J. J. Lester, Annie M. Johnson, or any branch or department of tree | Sofa Dangerfield, Anna EB. Urusor and Masonry above a Master Masons de-| Anna J. Smith. The object of this gree; nor has any Grand Master or | association is net as its name would Grand iodge ‘Officer acting for | seem to infer, that of Strictly musical ; a Grand Lodge any power or|it is more thaa this,—that of meeting authority whatever directly or indirect | together regularly each month for ly, constitutionally or inherent to say | social intercourse and enjoyment, and pe bodies or departments of free|that of Passing a quiet evening in in- Masonry that Master Masons shall join | formal greeting and converse. or connect themselves with. Nor have ‘ligibility to membership does not ned, aad the new plant | house!” y wrecked. The super-| “Don’t say a word, dear: perhaps 1s up afterward in Bos- | they are the ones who charged you $17 nty of money and lives | for your last hat, and perhaps they It is three years before | are going to bring some of the $17 ned by drink, awakes, | back.” —Yonkers Statesman. him to seek the lit- | ——-. men whose fortunes | In Chicago. | “Mrs. Wabash looks like such a | loable woman.” | “Lovable! I should say she was lov- able! That's her long suit. She had tive husbands in seven years!"— | Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Male Owner, Jake—Here’s an advertisement in | th ‘paper fer that dog you found |@an wot owns him offers a re | Jim—How d’ye know it’s a man? Jake—Th’ paper says “no questions asked.”—N. Y. Weekly. Masonic. Noles Quite a number of colored Masons jin Philadelphia. Pa.. met last week | and adopted the following resolutions: A _ | Whereas. the Grand Lodge of A. the plot | F. and A. Masons of the State of Penn- a suit | sylvania, has recently issued an edict develop- | declaring and attempting to put Royal Daniels | Arch Masonry and Knight Templars argument |andall other higher Masonic Degrees in Free Masonry under the control and that the black man helped to leave them. The President has a th M> ‘ gree is not gh a t . | the higher Masonic Degrees in free only a violation of the Masonic bay [perfec ial He edeeeatera ete Sats ‘o the end that we may) but is an extraordinz iti . ni inary exposition of ‘horoughly understand the matter it ignorance onthe part of those who} jJects with Kindness and courtesy as much so as his whie ones.” The Presi- dent will findthat he makes no mis- | jtakeio treating the colored brother | right, we all know that as long as the | colored vote of this country was | | United with the Republican party, it | |(fhe Republiean party) remained in | Power for over a quarter of a century, | | but when it split, the Democrats came in. And had they remained iu power | }we would have seen grass growing on Pennsylvania Ave. The epubli- can party and the united black vote ;meed never fear the Solid South, these | different expression ef opinions from | prominentSoutherners should convince some of our chronic kickers the necessity of unification, and remember ing that united we stand, divided we fall. One of the great mistakes made by the Government (with no disre- spect) is that of not surpressing }camps of confederate veterans. In | the opinion of many they are doing | more harm than goéd. [hey simply; propagate and perpetuate ideas of the lost cause, viz: Sedition, The mein Pan SD oc 7 . es ° is g e i colored Masons in the United States | the colored Masons in the United | an serbia ramet I a that have undertaken to dictate and | States who bave attempted to meddle WORE COLORED MEN. KILLED 4 BLOODY SOENE SOUTH, New Orleans, Oct. 29.—A special to the Picayune from Balltown, La. says that race war between the blacks and whites which started at a negro camp- meeting at Duncan’s Chapel Sunday, forms a story of blood unequaled in the history of the Pearl River Valley. One white man is dead, another is dying with » bullet hole through his stomach, and a third white man badly injured. Nine negroes were killed in th bloody affray—five men, three aay and ome small child. A dozen or per- haps more negroes escaped to the woods and swamps with Se that are b ‘ieved to be certain death in the brus. vay from medical care. The dead, we ite: Joseph Seal, son of Willis Seal, age |thing the Southerner thinks of is | 32, residence at Varando, La | keeping the nigger down, burning him atthe stake, and giving him the old Wounded, white: Clarence Thomas Elliott, age 26, fatally wounded’; resi~ bluff on election day,. The action of dence, Varando, La. |some Southerners are very much like | those of the red-race. Consequently | they are much surprised whien they| |See the colored brother treated with |any courtesy whatever. Again they| j Should remember their treatment of | | the colored brother for Over 250 yearts. | D BIAS ADVICE |A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR LECTURES A NEGRO FAIR, |SoctaL Equatity AN IDLE Dream. | | Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 29.—Gov. Ay- | cock to-day opened the negro State fair jin an address, in which he urged the | negro to build up society ameng them- | selves, founded on culture, intelligence | and virtue. In the course of the ad- | dress he referred to the incident of | President Roosevelt dining Booker |T. Washington In telling the negroes |that their best friends lived in the | South, he told them they did not need recognition by the President, as it jwould avail nothing in the South. | He said: ~ | “It may not be inappropriate for me upon this occasion to express to you | the hope that recent events occuring {in the nation may not unduly excite you, and that you will still remember that your best friends are those who live in your State. What you wish, what you need more than recognition Dead, colored : Rev. Alexander Con. nolly, 50, pastor Duncan Chapel ; Mary Davis, 30, his daughter; Crear Lott, 46; Julia Peters, Lott’s daugh- ter, 24; Mellon Peters, her child ; Amy Tony, mother. law of Crear Lott ; Lewis Duncan, son Helen Dunn, Thomas Parker, and Kid Beverly a turpentine worker from Georgia. SOUNDED LIKE A BATTLE, Ne one is able to estimate the number of wounded negroes who escaped the carnage behind the church. They scattered in all directions. Some are known to have been shot, but they have not been found, The conflicg raged for half an hour. Those ata distance say the firing sounded like a battle between troops. Tothe camp-meeting negroes hag come from 200 miles, all up and down the valley. Elder Stephen Duncan, of New Orleans, for whom the chapel} was named, was present. On last Thursday the meeting open- ed, with several hundred negroes en- camped around the church in teats and in rudely-contructed shanties. It was to centinue one week. There they ate and slept, and held services in the chapel. One day previous to the camp-meet- ing, when the negro, Bill Morris, had been burned at the stake near Ball- town for an assault on Mrs. J. J. Bull, public feeling was ata high pitch. Under those conditions the negroes gathered at Live Oak. ‘There was troubls over a license, and Crear Lott's tent became the center of contention. Some trouble occurred Saturday even. | by the President or othex people in| ing, but there was no bloodshed. It CAPT. CHARLES G. AYERS, Who will row Be Promoted. | they any right to demanc any infor- mation trom such Master Masons as to who are members of the Temple of the | Mystic Shrine or consistory or Counci! of Roya! and Select Masters or Chap |tee of Royal Arch Masons or Com- manderies of Knight Templars, or what Church or what political organ- require knowledge of music in any form, nor that each member should be an attendant upon the services of St. Luae’schurch, Amy lady or gentle- man is eligible upon qualifying by the payment ofthe fee twenty-five cents, and ten cents monthly, thereafter. Che meetings are held regularly the | authority, is the establishment among | yourselves of a society founded upon | culture, intelligence, and virtue, and jin no wise dependent upon those of a different race. | “The law which separates you from |the white people in the State socially always has ,been and always will be inexorable, and it need not concern you nor me whether that law is vio- lated elsewhere, it will never be violat- edin the South. Its violation would be to your destruction, as well as to | the injury of the whites. Nothought- tul conservative, and upright South- erner has for your race aught but the kindest feeling, and we are willing and npany. the book a love | and management of the Grand Lodge | of the State of Pennsylvania. ization they belong to. Nor has any] first Monday in each month, lasting Grand Master or Grand Lodge any ]on anaverage of aboutanm hour. After | right to discuss or inter into a conver- | which the remainder of the evening is net here proclaim to the whole Masonic Seca rages | rn) Order that such action upon the part | above the Master Masons Degree and }-those present may elect. Therefore, be it resolved, that we|< Sion in a Grand Lodge as to any of the departments of Free Masonry spent in innecent games, recitations, music, instrumentai and vocal, etc., so Slight re- est, | of the Grand Lodge of the State of| it is not their business to inquire or] freshmentsare always served by the| ped by | Pennsylvania, and such gross unsur- out to | pation of power and authority by W.| | H. Miller, grand secretary and grand | Master Thomas is unheard of before| in the annals of Free Masonry. The) rtunes can be allow any discussion in a Grand Lodge or has any Grand Master any business, power or authority to inquire into thei: business and the rules and regulations Eexecutive Committee. At the meet ing held last Monday evening, the foliowing informal programe was most acceptably rendered. Instrumental anxious to see you grow into the high- | | est citizenship of which you are cap- | able, and we are willlng to give our energies and best thought to aid you |in the great work necessary to make | you what you arecapable of, and to assist you in that elevation of charact- er and virtue, which tends to the strenghtening of the Scate. “But todo this it is absolutely neces- sary that each race should remain dis- came up again Sunday afternoon when Constable Boon and a posse rode up to Lott’s tent with a warrant. Lott came out and is reported to have shouted with an oath: ‘One nig- ger has beer burned, but a white man will be next.” BLOW FROM A WINCHESTER. Wade Walker one of the constable’s posse was struck over the head wits |a Winchester, and then slaughter | began. The blacks fled from ithe frail | wooden church, for it was shelter from | the rain of bullets, Lott retired into |his tent, shouting and fighting. Joe | Seal received his death wound. Preacher Connolly was shot while | standing in his yard. His daughter fell just inside the house. The other negroes around Lott’s place kept up a steady rain of bullets. tt’s mother- in-law, his two daugh:-rs, and the little boy fell in a heap io. ide the shel- ter. Crear Lott was barricaded, and the next move was to fire the place, which they did. When the fire forced | same has been denounced by the above named. Any other MasonicBody | solo (piano) Mrs. A. F. Hillyer, Solo, or Department of Free Masonry, out- |(vocal)Miss Marie James, Jastrumenta] him from cover he appeared in the 2 a iety of its own. tinet and have a society be doorway and twenty rifle balls went EC A AT SS NT rae te eee 2 iliceapnttive pens Fraternity throughout the / sia¢ ofthe entered apprentice, Fellow | solo (piano) Mrs. Pellam, Select read- Fae eee ene ih es wate crashing through him. He fell in a country. | Craft, and Master Masons degree, fing, Mrs. Jesse Lawson. The next | 45 Sane Ween S spike | heap. Parker and Beverly, both blacks Resolved further, that =e believe | Grand Lodge of A. F.and A. Mason |regular meeting will be held at the | Permits with the air, caw aympetay: racy him. ia that said Grand Lodge - caer is and subordinate Lodges instituted |Rectory Monday evening Novemter and the encouragements of your white Joseph Seal, Charles Elliott, and Ed- unlawful and eae tee be said | for the purpose of controlling and re- 4th after which meetings (the first neighbors. t If you can eres te white! ard 1 hompson, the wounded whites, | stitutional and void, an¢ wrenae said | ulating and directing the first three | Monday in each Month) will be held |T@ce i achievments, in scholarship. were carried away to the home of F. P. Grand Lodge is now disso whe es ae Vinee: in free Masonry, namely that | at the residence of the members, wko | /iterature, in art, in industry, and Sones which was hastily converted ia authority and power ass Creey t edke | of entered apprentice, fellow craft and | may kindly place their parlors at the Commerce, you will find no Benerous-!to a hospital. ‘Chere Seal died yes- self-defense. | is now at an end, and ang othe pane and Master Masons Degrees. and | services of the association. minded white man who will stand 10) terday. He was buried to-day frome ih hagetpie e |that the.colored mesons be Sie tate | inder no circumstances whatever no | = e veh pee mest saret = aoe his home in Varando, six miles away, ac se — | of Pennsylvania, eae now ca ee & others and whenany Grand Lodge or} Sina imccudeicienoaat aaa lias ere sel i ry _ faleoeing and there, in the Sones’ emergency = as the desex' laude, weneon mus apeDeeee: eae’ ig | Grand Master or subordinate Lodges |The Roosevelt Washington Dinner, | [5 U&l Ene without socialiniteming | hospital, kiliott now lics dying. with a family of con-|legal and regular ce 1 Franc) of A:!F. and A. Master in any State or | He and this is well ders his mel ach Colorado. | Lodge for the State of Pennsylvania. | vito; ry, attempt to dis- | for us, ibis necessary for the peace o' 2 niasicie ‘3 Territory or country, P | our section, it is essential to the edu- e disease, and GENERAL } (SING OF WHITES, g to the boy’s care Sometime ago the Grand Lodge o} |cuss, meddle or interfere with, or | colored Masons in the State of Mich- He doe ot g Pi fe * not goon to | Confusion and trouble. It was charged S taking the sonild | and claimed by a number of the lead- s way to the Texas ling colored masons in the State of ares for the child as | Michigan, that when the Grand Lodge | afterwards their love | was organized and since its organiza- the book as a romanee. | tion, that it was illegal and clandes- | Sufterea ¢. eran stine and a large number of prominent stipe or Bird’s Crime. masons in the State of Michigan have | . ee rtimes have the | never recognized the old Masonic fearful changes in|Grand Lodges in that State. For * A man named Fergus, | many years free masonry in the State vear was discharged from | of Michigan under the leadership of prison in England after |John Evans and his followers has| ree years in jail, always | bee® 2 failure. and the fraternity has| e was entirely innoee: ye | gone to sleep. John A. Bell, 33, of| f which hoo ocent Of | Grand Rapids, Mich., G. W. Gough, hich he was aceused. 33, John A. Freeman, 33, Samuel Bay- ‘nt to Blackmoor on |jies, 32, of Ann Arbor Mich, and a} Power 4 huma | who } ‘ the theft of Lady Allon- | large number of other prominent col- Hs id ring. The prisoner |ored masons together with several | his pet jackdaw |Subordinate Lodges, working under) the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of | . rd it, | Washington, D. C., will meet at ite “ '\- | Ypsilanti, Mich., and will organize a edited until final- regular Grand Lodge for the State of | jackdaw w Michigan. We predict under the 1p door in Lady | Jeadership of John A. Bell in the State) en Fergus was | of Michigan, that free Masonry will be | | placed upon its high standing among on the his pardon followed. | gan has been continually in a state of | Lodge, or any Grand Master acting | allow any discussion in their Grand fora Grand Lodge who may attempt to interfere or assume guthority or | departments of free Masonry, outside | of the Enetered Apprentice, Fellow | fit d Master Masons degree, | the: id Grand Lodge and his sub-| ordinate Lodges than by virtue of their warrantand authority and according to the Masonic Law at once, cease to exist, as a subordinate Lodge or a) Grand Lodge and a_ subordinate | Lodge or a Grand Lodge becomes at) once null and void, and is no Grand | Lodge whatever, and should not be} recognized as a Grand Lodge. All Masons in such states _ or teriitories or places have @ lawful Masonic right vhen such Grand Masters and Grand Ledges have violated the law they / have a right to meet and organize a new Grand Lodge according to the Masonic Law, rules and regulations of the craft. | No Grand Master or Grand lodge| has any more right or authority to meddle or distrust or interfere in the least or essay the Master Masou what department in free Masonry than the higher Masonic Degrees. They should the colored masons in that State, as | |on man stands higher in the estima-| correct < that the identity }tion of the peopl ‘of such a superbly de- | Michigan, than ioke A. Bell of Grand | to oe an as the Cologne cathe- | Rapids. ¥ : Church or ' Dossibly be lost ta the Much has been said and written re-| association ae ~Sasi® “eently about two or three Grand selves with. Cathedral of Cologne, themselves with or belong to, e in the State of| nomore than they would have a right d determine what raligious demonination or political I have noticed the various ex- pressions of the Southern man (white) | upon the action of* our President in| extending to Mr. Booker T. Washing- ton adinper. As well known as Mr.| Washington is, I fail to see where the | critiscism comes in, when we iook the matter ever the President like the| head of the British Emrpire has a! mixed multitude of citizens of all) colors, creeds, &c, under his contro! | as the Chief Executive of this great Republic, and itis very strange that | he cannot exercise his private sogial | rights without so muchy,critisism. In| some countstes the parties who have, criticised his acts would be imprison-| ed for treason, If the Southern white | man would cast his mind back to 1861 | and then to 1865 inclusive, and reflect, | There are hundreds of Union men} Andersonville, and ther notorious rebel Frisons where thousands of union,soldiers, prisoners ef war were | deliberately starved to death, and terminate. At the same time the Union Army treated the rebel prisoners like human beings, If Jeff Davis and other rebel leaders had had their just de- serts they would have been strung to the highest tree and hung as traitors; as they justly deserved..In some countries their heads would have been cut off. These Southern gentlemen they should connect them- The two or three Grand should refiect how they tried to break | other barbarous methods used to ex-| | ember 3rd 1900. He was a faithful cation ef your children that there should be no misunderstanding upon this point. “Iam sure that you agree with me in what I have said, and in the spirit of one who is the governor of the whole peeple, without regard to race, I bid you God-speed in the great work of upbuilding our State, of multiplying her industries, of increasing her commerce, of educating all her children. I find no little encouragement in the friendly co-operation of the men and women of your race in thetask which we have undertaken to do, that of educating all the children, and I pray you that in this great work we shall not be retard— ed by misunderstandings,” 2 In reply, Dr. C. H. King, a premin- ent negro minister ot the Methodist it strikes me that he would keep silent. | Church, said that the negroes did not want social equality and did not in- that neither he ror his people wanted to sit down to the dinner table of the whites and that they were notin sym pathy with any such idea. | IN MEMORIAT. | Robert R. Brown, the beloved hus- band of Mrs. Rosa Brown died Nov- For twenty-four hours it looked as ifa general uprising would wipe out the black race in Washington Parish. ‘The news spread like wildfire, and by yesterday over 1,000 armed men had reached the scene of battle. They came for miles and miles; some from as far awayas Monticello, but when Sheriff Norman H. Simmons and J. K. Johnson; clerk of the court of the par- ish, atrived from Franklin yesterday, the excitement was considerably allayed. : Gov. Longino, of Mississippi, and Gov. Heard, of Louisiana, were noti- fied, and the replies came that troops | would be hurried to the scene. Yesterday afternoon the nine negroes whe were left in a heap where they died were piled into their unmarked graves, dug near the charred remains living today who remember Libby.| Gorse Booker Washington. He said |of Lott’s tent house. There was no ceremony. The minister and his daughter filled one of the holes, the womenand child another, the mena third. At the same lime prominent citizens beld a conference, which was attended by Sheriff Simmons, and a message was sent to the negroes. “De you want any more?” was the uery- “No,” came the reply. and loving husband. Robert I miss you. By his wife. Rosa Brown. This had a quieting effect; peace again reigned, and thenegroes left the country. The whites believe there will be no further trouble.