Roosevelt Honors a Conspicuous Negro

Man Who Struck Down the Assassin of McKinley Is Called to Washington.

     ALTOONA, Pa., Dec. 21.—Called to Washington by President Roosevelt to receive as a Christmas gift the first official recognition of his bravery in knocking down Assassin Czolgosz when he shot McKinley in Buffalo last September, James B. Parker, a negro, passed through Altoona to-night en route to the capital. He will receive a Federal appointment that will make him a national character.
     “It’s to be a messengership in the Senate,” said Parker to-night, “and as far as I am concerned, it comes unsolicited and unexpected. Senators Hanna and Mason have been interesting themselves in my behalf and have kindly solicited the place of all places I have wished for.”