White Sawyer, a Missouri Negro, has lost the suit in which he attempted to compel the school trustees to transport his children. There is only one colored school in his township and that is six miles from his home. * * * * * An industrial school is to be founded in Nicodemus, Kansas, a colored colony planted at the time of the exodus. * * * * * A. B. Johnson, of Mississippi, states that in his own county with less than 7,000 Negroes of school age over 5,000 have never been to school. * * * * * Effort is being made in Washington, D. C., to remove R. C. Bruce, the colored superintendent, for alleged incompetency. * * * * * In a talk to white Atlanta ministers a colored preacher asked that influence be used to improve public school facilities for the Negroes. He said the Negro school children of Atlanta number 10,000 and he declared 5,081 of the number are out of school. “The Negroes of this city pay $10,000 for education of their children,” he stated, “that the whites get free.” * * * * * The city of Chattanooga has refused to take steps toward establishing a Negro normal school. It is much needed. * * * * * H. T. Kealing, formerly editor of the _African M. E. Review_, has been elected president of Western University, at Quindaro, Kansas. * * * * * There are a large number of applicants for the position of president of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute at Frankfort. * * * * * The colored Baptist Women’s Convention has voted $15,000 to the National Training School for Girls in the District of Columbia. * * * * * The Negroes of Georgia have raised $25,000 as a memorial offering at the quarterly centennial of Morris Brown College. * * * * * The white boys of the Doolittle Public School of Chicago have tried to get rid of the Negro pupils. The result has been a good deal of fighting. * * * * * THE CHURCH. A colored institute in memory of Bishop Dudley has been dedicated at Louisville, Ky. * * * * * The convention of the Episcopal Church has authorized suffragan bishops. This will allow the segregation of colored people under bishops who will act as assistants to the regular bishops and have no vote in the convention. The colored people asked for missionary bishops who would vote in the convention. Such bishops are to be permitted only in case the bishop and convention consent. * * * * *