The Washington bee., 1908-06-27
!QRtGRAPHIC NENS
3 Miss Bsatyis L. ChdJs.


of this city, is planning to locate per-
monently in Oklahoma.
Miss Clara Green, of whose mar
riage mention is made in another col
umn of this paper, is we'll known in
this city and was a favorite among
the young people with whom she
mingled while in this city.
We are in receipt of the new quar-
terly Sunday School literature pub
lished by the National Baptist Pub
lishing Board, Nashville, Tenn, R.
H. Boyd, ID, LID, secretary.
Miss Lucy Slowe, a recent grad
uate of the College Department of
Howard University, was appointed as
teacher of English and History in the
High and Training School of Balti-
more, Md.
The official Nor Deutshe Zeitlung,
published in Berlin, in referring to
the nomination of William H. Taft,
makes the following statement: "We
have no doubt that. should Mr.. Taft
be elected Chief Magistrate of the
United States in November, as seems
evident, the great transatlantic re-
public will give itself in him an ex-
| c.IIa,,4 ~-ae;Ja,ED
The seventy-6fth anniversary of
| Oberlin College was celebrated at
Oberlin, Ohio, last Saturday.
Many men and women from all
sections of the United States and of
Canada attended the annual conven-
ton of the United ProfessionalTeach-
ers of Dancing of America at Tole-
do. Ohio.
Nine. WI, wife of the Chinese
Minister at Washington, arrived in
this city this week
Some of the churches in this city
held Children's Day exercises last
Sunday.
A man who was bitten three months
ago at Pittsburg by dog was re-
ported last Monday to be dying of
hydrophobia.
United States Commissioner Ma
tile, of the Eastern District of Wis
consin. died at Green Bay, Wis, last
week.
James R. Garfield, SECRETARY of the
Interior. is visiting the islands of Ra-
wall
Now that the Commissioners have
absolutely no control of street rail-
days operating in the District, the
street cars in this city can travel at
any speed and the government can
only make a note of it, being entirely
powerless to prevent or punish
Due to a misunderstanding of sig
nails between the two motormen, two
cars of the H-Street and Brookland
lines collided last Saturday morning.
The fire which was started by
lightning almost destroyed the Vic
tor Rubber Company's plant at Syn
derville. west of Springfield, Ohio.
The chauffer of King Leopold was
fined $IIo last week at Brussels for
having upset and injured bicyclist.
Miss Jean Reid, daughter ofWhite-
law Reid, the American Ambassador
to England, was married last Tues
day afternoon in the Chapel Royal of
St. James Palace, London, to the
Hon. John H. Ward, brother of the
Earl of Dudley
It was announced last Tuesday by
the health officer that the employees
of the dog pound are actively engag-
ed in enforcing the Commissioners
ming at large.
Capt. Lorenzo D. Baker, known as
"The Banana King of Jamaica, died
last Sunday at the age of sixty-three
years at the Parker House, Boston.
The wealth of w. B. Leeds, who
died suddenly at the Ritz Hotel, Pa
ris, last Tuesday morning, is estimat-
ed at S35,Ooo,Ooo.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the Presi-
dents son, it is understood, will get
that experience as an employe of the
United States Corporation this sum-
mer.
christianity and Socialism" was
the principal topic before the Pan
Anglican Conference at London last
, Monday. More than six thousand
persons were present.
The new switch connecting the two
principal railway lines with the I'm