The Washington bee., 1908-01-11

j rlckS church. took place last uesday
from the church. Many prominent cit
| liens attended the funeral rites at the
church and at the grave.
Mrs. Callie D. House, national sec
retary of the ex-Slave Movement who
has been in this city on business, has
returned to Nashville, Tenn.
The Muskegee Cimeter says The
Negroes of Oklahoma do not ask for
social equality or social mixing, but
they ask that their rights under the
law be respected"
lEncke's comet is said to have made
its appearance again, and tht it has
short period of about 1900 days.
After hearing the testimony in the
case of Nathaniel Taylor, colored, ,charg-
ed with beating his wife last Saturday
nigh, Judge KimbaIl said in court last
Monday: "You are one of those wife
beaters who ought to be tied to a whip
ping post and soundly thrashed."
Charles L. NcCleary, second assistant
postmaster, has directed postmasters to
refuse packages that are not securely
packed.
The joint investigation and inquest
On the death of 355 miners in the recent
disaster of the Monongah Mine was
opened in the county court house at
Fairmont, w. v, last Monday.
The Emancipation address by Rev. J,
H Adams, OF Shadydale, Ga, was well
appreciated by the people in that city.
Edward AA. McGrath, of Milwaukee,
Wis, who is cripple, has received a
{ medal from the President for saving
( the life of a six-year-old girl last Au
/ gust.
/ John Cowell and James Queen, por-
ter and cab driver respectively, were
in the United States Branch of the Po-
lice Court last Monday, charged with
engaging in an affray at the new Union
, Station.
Mrs Louisa c. Cameron, wife of ex-
| Governor William E. Cameron,of Rich
mond, Va, died last Saturday from
pneumonia, after an illness of about
ten days.
The Newton Center, Mass, says that
| Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire,
has started the tariff ball rolling by iE-
PRODUCING resolution seeking inform
alton relative to valuations under the
proposed commercial treaty with Ger
many.
The Colored Albanian. published at
Montgomery, Aaa issued an Emanci-
patton number January 4.
) Mr.. ]. A. Landlord, one of the lead
ing architects i'll this city, has com
pleted plans for the first three building:
TO be erected at Hillsboro, n c. Judg-
ing from the plans of Mr.. Lankford
the school will in every way be frs
class.
A bill has been introduced in tht
House of Representatives to reduce the
Irregular army to $4,000 mer. after De
csmbcr I, 1903, 10000 of whom shal
constitute an artillery tor coast defense
Rev. Joseph l. Mcclure. pastor o
the Church of the Holy Comforter, dieC
last Tuesday afternoon after a long i'll
ness. Cardinal Gibbons went from s.
Patrick's Church, following the funera
of Father Stafford, to the 'recotry o
the Holy Comforter.
4 bill to prohibit rural free deliver
carriers from delivering mail package
containing alcoholic efreshments ha
been introduced by Representative Sin
Of Tennessee.
This city and vicinity was visited by
severe wind rain snow aud hail storr
last Tuesday.
We received the first edition whic
was published January 4, 1908, of til
Mississippi Odd Fellow, Holly Spring
Miss, which we placed on our exchang
list.
1t is said that not one America
steamship of any kind now runs to rB'
zil, Argentina, Chile or Peru. and tn
American mail service to these souti
ern countries is non-existent.