The Washington bee., 1908-02-29
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
By Mass Bestris L. Chass.

the enactment of the Dolliver School
Bill in its present form"
Today We pause, and drop a tear of
grief;
We cease from our mirxl and joys.
And view with reverence the ripened
shsaf,
The last Of Editor Noyes.
Editor Crosby Stuart Noyes died on
February Fl at Pasadena, Calf, aged
s3 years. The funeral takes place TO-
day in this city at 2.3o pm. from St.
Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church.
William Memo. a patient in the in
sane hospital in Jacksonville, H., is said
70 be dying from the inhuman treat
ment of three attendants, against whom
a criminal charge is to be brought
Sam Murchison. while drunk. shot
two men and then shot and killed Chief
of Police Benton last Sunday just af-
ter the churches had closed the morn
ing services at Fayetteville, N. c.
The removal of the one hundred and
fifty patients from the old Freedmen's
Hospital to the new was begun and
completed last Tuesday. The new hos
pitai viii accommodate two hundred
patients, and was built at a cost Of
four hundred thousand dollars.
Wa Ting Fang. the Chinese Minister,
is expected here shortly, it is said, 10
find oa the Presidents position as it
relates to China. 1t has been several
years since WI Ting Fang was hera
Dr. Thomas A. Stevens, who prae-
liced for a while in this city, after
graduating from Howard's Medical
School, delivered the welcome address
at his home Lynchburg, Va, at the re-
unior of the St. Lukes, at which time
Mrs. NJ L. Walker Of Richmond was
present.
1t is reported that the revival ser
vices at ST James A NJ E. Church.
Atlantic City, were held all night On
February Il.
Miss Mary V. Beasley, Of this city,
has been assigned as clerk in the True
Reformers' Office Hall at Richmond,
Virginia
If certain citizens are Disseminated
against in Alabama, will the matter be
helped by going to Oklahoma, where
the Jim Crow" car law has been set
in motion?
It is rumored that many Democrats
of Indiana endorse Mr. Roosevelt for
the next President because they think
he Is carrying out their doctrine to a
very great extent
Justice Brewer holds that "women's
rights can be no more inferior than
those of men"
An appreciadve audience greetedMiss
Matte Bowen last Tuesday evening at
Simpson NJ E. Church, at which time
she delivered an eloquent lecture
Mr.. Abraham L. Johnson was killed
instantly last Tuesday morning while
attempting TO get on street car at
Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street
James Richardson, one of the public
school teachers, was fined $50 IN the
police court Tuesday for cruelty whip
ping ten-year-old pupil with two book
straps
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that copyrighted mu-
sic may be reproduced on perforated
paper for use in pianolas and similar
without violating the law,
as the music as reproduced cannot be
read.
The city has been in the possession of
the visiting school officials from every
section of the globe for several days.
Hon D. Augustus Straker's death
was unexpected the 18th instant al
though he was sick at his home with la
grippe He was a prominent scholar
and lawyer, and was born in Barba-
Toes, B. w l., July, 1870 He gradu-
tied from Howard University Law
school
Miss Minnie J Woodson, who spent
ONE time in fitting herself or the kin
lergarten work in this city, has gone
o Memphis, Tenn, her home, to re-
uperate in health.
The formal opening of the tunnel un-
Ter the Hudson River, linking New
York and New Jersey States, took place
etween pm. last Tuesday and I am.
The president in his Office
mt the fash, a signal for starting the
lachinery.
It has been said that Father Leo Hen
chs, who was murdered while giving
last Sunday, must have dis