The Washington bee., 1907-08-17
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
sY MISS BEATRIZ L. CHASE

President Roosevelt has issued the La
Dor Day Proclamation granting holiday
tc all per diem employees and laborers
he first Monday in September
Thomas A. Edison has plead sat
against Thomas Moore, of this city, for
alleged infringement on his rights
Major Sylvester reported that the To-
tai amount of money taken by James E.
Kemp the property clerk, was $3,47sIa
The comet which appeared daily on
the eastern horizon has been named
the Daniels in honor OF its discov-
erer, Professor Daniels, of Princetoa
University.
Mrs. Louise Taft was reported last
Monday as being critically i'll at Wor-
cester, Mass.
Four women were hurt in a panic
while leaving a blazing trolley car last
Sunday afternoon at Atlantic City, NJ.
Astronomers say that the stars which
arc brightest A-e rot nearest to the
earth.
John II. Mitchell, skipper of the va
ter tricycle. "Genevieve," sailed from the
coast of Coney Island last Sunday am.
The National Baptist Convention, hav-
ing a membership of 100000 Baptists
in the United States, will convene ia
this city September nth.
Last week fully two thousand persons
were addressed at the University of Chi
cago by Able Felix Klein, who is in
structor in literature in the Catholic In
stitute, Paris, on The Common Good of
Christendom.
The National Medical Associations
will hold their next session in Balti-
more August p, 28 and 20.
Mr. Walter Shrivers. of Smithfeld.
Va, attended the ffy-frst annual ses-
sion Of the Grand United Order of Gal
lean Fishermen, which was held in this
city.
The United States Grand jury Was
very much engaged last Monday in hear
ing the testimony concerning the hand
book work in the District of Columbia
Louis c. Bahan, an insane patient,
who escaped from the State Hospital at
Middleton, n Y, on July 81, and sent
souvenir postal cards to the different
officials of the hospital. has been cap
tured.
a large crowd visited the new bathing
beach at the site of the governments old
fish ponds last Sunday.
About twenty residents of the Chinese
colony along Pennsylvania avenue near
the Capitol went to the Congressional
Cemetery last Monday afternoon and
conducted the semi-annual custom Of
feeding the. dead"
Messrs. James Thomas, w. E. Atkins
and Robert Curry, of Hampton, Va. at
tended the ffty-frst annual session of
the Grand United Order of GalileaH
Fishermen.
A fair which was called the Tri-State
Negro Industrial Exposition, was held
by the colored people of Missouri, Kan
sas, and Nebraska, last week in St. Jo-
seph Mo.
The fortieth session Of the R. w. G.
Council of the I. o. of St Luke will
be held in the St Luke Hall, Rich
mond, Va, August 20, 2I and 22.
G. w. Griffin, who was a prominent
physician in Savannah, Ga, died last
week. His funeral took place last Sun
day.
The twenty-seventh session of Tuske-
gee Institute begins September roth.
Mrs. Rosa Graham, who jumped from
the roof of her home in Philadelphia, to
escape arrest, died last Monday in the
German Hospital.
Fredericl; Nye, assistant editor of the
New York World, was struck by car
in Lexington avenue, New York, last
Monday evening, and fatally injured.
More than three hundred delegates
attended the State Grand Lodge of Ne
gro Odd Fellows at Pine Bluff, Ark.
Henry Lacy, dark-skinned citizen of
Kansas City, has built motor car which
is run by wood-burning engine.
Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropologist
of the University of Chicago, says that
he believes Japan could whip the United
States in war.
The two companies of tie State Guard
that have been at Tell City, Ind, since
last Saturday, left Monday. It is stated
that all has been quiet among the strik-
ers.