The Washington bee., 1908-06-13
NEWS
By Mss ReGtris L. ChGss.


praying, the Lord would reward
them openly"
This age calls for stern facts for
the black man as we'll as all others.
There is too much surface work for
assured success.
Emanuel Cedrino, said to be the
most daring of automobile racers, was
killed last week in Baltimore while
trying to go mile in fifty seconds.
The right front wheel collapsed, thus
wrecking the machine and breaking
every bone in the mans body.
The True Reformer, Littleton, N.
c., says the "Co,ored Orphan. Asy-
lum' was never in a more prosper
Gus condition than now, under the
management of Hon. Il. P. Cheatham
! and wife.
/ Mrs. Helen Haywood, who was
under medical treatment in this city
without any improvement, has re-
turned to her home, Charleston, S.
c., where she will receive the at
tention of the best medical men.
The Evening Star say" The scenes
enacted Saturday night in the House
of Representatives, while that body
was waiting for the hour of adjourn
ment, were undignifed."
Justice Stafford, in Criminal Court
No. I, last Monday ordered a bench
warrant to issue for the arrest of
Theodore H. Price, the cotton king
of New York, and associates.
Rev. c. F. Choolzzle, BIS, MA,
a graduate of Kings College, Ok
fordd, Trinity College, University of
Berlin, and special ecclesiastical en-
voy to King Menelik, of Abyssinia,
who is spending a few days in Phil
adelphia, is telling the blacks of that
city that Eve, Moses, Solomon, and
Homer were all Negroes.
Monday evening, June IS, the
Department of the Potomac Wom-
ans Relief Corps will celebrate the
one hundred and thirty-6rst anniver-
sary of the American flag.
Bishop ]. S. Caldwell, of Philadel-
phia, preached to a large gathering
at the Union Wesley A M. E. Zion
Church, this city, last Sunday night.
A signal from President Roosevelt
10 Kingston, n Y, was flashed over
the wires last Monday from theWhite
House which started the military and
civic parade, which was the close Of
Kingston's celebration of the two
hundred and fortieth anniversary of
the city's foundation.
Fifty union cigarmakers refused to
work longer for Henry F. Ofterdin-
ger "a cigarmarIer at Ninth and E
streets when he tod them that the
wages offered exceeded from ST. to
81 per thousand.
! 1t is stated that Bishop Blackwell
preached his first sermon at the Met
ropolitan A. NJ E. Church, in this
city, not many Sundays ago.
A bill providing a home for feeble
minded children in the District was
passed by the Senate last week.
John D. Rockefeller has given an
additional 100000 to the Rockefeller
Institute at Sixty-sixth street and
East River, New York.
/. Arthur A. Martin, the colored en-
ploye of the Government Printing
Office who was arrested at his home
in Hillsdale, last Saturday morning,
to answer a charge of shooting his
wife, attempted suicide when placed
in a cell.
Rev. I. NJ. Waldron, of this city,
delivered the principal address at the
closing exercises Of the Manassas IN
dustrial School at Virginia last week.
Many residents of this city attend
ed the dedication of the statue Of
Stevens Mason, the first governor Of
the State of Michigan, which was in
veiled at Detroit
Senator A. J. Beveridge, Of Indi-
ana, who spoke at the General Con-
' ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which convened at Balti-
more, praised the Methodist Church
! for the stand taken in support of al
movements for the suppression OF
national evils
Secretary Straus, of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, re-
turned to his desk last Monday morn