The Washington bee., 1908-05-02
NEWS
By MISS BeGfris Z. Chase.

that the bill increasing the pensions
of widows of the Civil War is not
invalid because the President signed
it on Sunday. He says without the
Presidents signature at all the bill
would have become law within a
period of ten days.
The recent returns from the police
census show an increase in the pop
ulation of the District of Columbia.
Total population 33,4o3; 24L,92o
classed as white, and 7,483 classed
as colored.
The death of Mrs. Clara Florida
Bacchus Lyon, the wife of Rev. DR..
Ernest Lyon, American Minister to
Liberia, was sudden, and the funeral
took place the nth of last month,
and was attended by State officials,
Diplomatic Corps, and citizens. Mrs.
Lyon, formerly Miss Bacchus, was
at one time a student at Howard
University. She was married to DR..
Lyon in 1903.
We learn from the Philadelphia
Pilot that its editor, Mr.. Samuel
Stemons, was assaulted at his place
OF business a few days ago by some
vulgar men, when spoken to by the
editor about their language.
Mr.. John Lane, who died in this
city few days ago, was a native of
Elizabeth City, N. c.
Asbury NJ, E. S. S, Baltimore,
Md, Rev. c. G. Cummings, pastor,
celebrated its eighty-second anniver-
sary last Sunday with an excellent
programme.
Senator Robert L. Taylor address
ed large gathering last Monday
evening at Continental Hall on"Cas-
ties in the Air"
Seventy thousand dollars was the
price paid for a seat on the New
York Stock Exchange this week.
Louis Lundy, who was shot by
Representative Hefin, was arraign-
ed before Judge Kimball, of the Po-
lice Court, last Monday morning,
charged with assaulting an aged coll
ored women. He pleaded not guilty
and demanded jury trial.
The subject of an address delivered
by Gen Andrew s. Burt, U. S. A,
retired, in the Walker Memorial
Baptist Church last Sunday evening,
was "The Negro Soldier"
The permit clerk of the District
was this week engaged in distribut-
ing and allotting the new tags for
motor cycles.
The 5000 discovered several weeks
ago remaining to the credit of the
Police Court Jury fund, is about ex-
hausted, and all prisoners demanding
jury trials will have to wait.
1t has been announced that the
Supreme Court of the United States
will adjourn for the term, June I.
According to accounts received
from Atlanta, Ga, last Monday, the
list of those who perished in the
tornado numbered $40.
Many patriotic men and women
who are interested in preserving the
sacredness of the American flag and
preventing its desecration, attended
the hearing last Monday morning be-
fore sub committee Of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs.
The president and manager of the
Monarch Discount Company at Chi
cago was forced into a vault in his
Office one day this week by a man,
who then stole 81 1000 from the cash
drawer
Justice James T. Linturn, OF the
county court, in Paterson, n. J., in
a, charge to a new grand jury, called
upon its members to indict the edi-
tor, publisher, and person responsible
for the circulation of the anarchistic
paper La QUESTION: Sociale.
For the first time in the history
of the city OF Cleveland, Ohio, street
car service was absolutely free last
Tuesday.
The Korean colony of Hawaii at a
large gathering denied the statement
that Koreans in Hawaii knew of the
plotting of the assassination of Ste
vens.
The Swedish conference held at
Boston, Mass, last week discussed
plans for establishing a church in
this city.
Last Monday the official thermom-