The Washington bee., 1907-08-10
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS.
BY MISS BEATRIz L. CHASE

The agents of the Industrial Insur-
ance Company, Brooklyn. N. Y. have
organized labor union.
What is the next thing o. the mn
gramme, now that the men aud women
VINO are the Negroes of America bav.
had their day at the jamestown Ex-
position! Every dog has his day."
Kew. M. w. D. Norman, at who's.
church the National Baptist Convention
Will meet in September, /. chairman of
the local committee.
As the jamestown Exposition grow.
older the"Negro Criterion" grow, small
er. Why?
Kew B. I. Perkins, of Nj Zion II
L. Church, IS expected to preach two
sermons tomorrow at LutheryiIIe Md
Mr.. Marcus NJ. Cass, a pioneer Re
publican, died at his home. Watkins
y. ~ the Sd inst, aged eighty-three.
Hon. }. Milton Turner was orator ar
the very recent cornerstone laying of
the St. James Methodist Episcopal $40
600 church at ST. Louis, Mo.
Ieh ffty-first annual session of tb.
q. U. o. OF Galilean Fishermen vas
begun last Tuesday in their temple On
+ street southwest, and lasted four dsvs
The authorized capital stock Of the
q. u. 0. of Galilean Fishermen's Con-
solldated Bank, at Hampton, is 100000.
Ihe summer school at Cheyney, Pa.
closed Its third annual summer session
last Wednesday week. Prof Hugh M
Brown is principal.
Augustus Saint Gaudens said 70 :.
the nations foremost sculptor died at
his home in Cornish, N. H., after a long
illness, last Saturday evening.
1t is said that Father Levont Aartoo-
gessian, the Armenian priest now in the
Iombs, charged with having sent black
mailing threats to rich Armenian mer.
chants, has been unfrocked.
The Standard Oil tug Radiant, rFlsh
sailed from Richmond, Va, last week,
and had in tow large steel oil barge,
ran the barge upon a rock, which tore
a hole in the bottom, from which about
fifty thousand gallons of oil ran into
the James River.
Louis Sambolia, a chronic Wife-beater.
was handcuffed to a post in the stree,
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, last week. and theu
horsewhipped by Alderman L. A. Nc
Kelvey, in the presence of an approving
crowd.
The Nashville Globe says that the Ne
groes of Nashville are contributing their
part to make that city beautiful.
DR.. George H. Whitesides. Of Oma-
ha, Neb- filed suit against the Adams
Express Company for $2o,no because,
he alleges, they lost the diploma given
him by Harvard College upon his grad
uation.
Because the jamestown Exposition
authorities have failed to remit the first
100000 due on the loan of SI,ooo,ooo
made by the government to the Exposi-
ton. the Treasury officials are not muck
alarmed.
Earle Frisbie, an aeronaut, and his
wife nearly burned to death last Sun
day, while their balloon was initiating at
Fairview, Martinez, Cal.
The testing of substitutes for twine
for binding packages of mail was BE-
gun in the Baltimore Postocffe last
Monday.
tits said that the fine of $2o,z4o,ooo
on tie Standard Oil Company may not
be collected for years, if ever.
The funeral of Mr.. James w. Thomp-
son, the husband of Mrs. Rachel Thomp-
son, took place last Thursday from As
bury Methodist Episcopal Church.
Rev. Maurice Fixes, pastor Of the
First Baptist Church, Franklin, Pa, is
advocating the idea of a billiard roora
on his church property.
Plans for a new patriotic organiza-
ton. to be known as the Descendants
of the Declaration of Independence
Signers, have been perfected.
Kenneth Hines, fourteen years old,
s-ved the life of his older brother from
drowning, and is expected to receive a
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