The Washington bee., 1908-03-28
PARAGRAPHIC. NEWS
By Miss BeGtTis L. Chase.

it states that he is slowly improving,
but it is doubtful whether he will re-
turn to Washington again during the
present Congress.
Mrs. Laura Lemon Turner, wife Of
Bishop Turner, has been elected as
general president of Connectional
Woman's H. and F. Missionary So
ciety
It is rumored that Minister Wa
has given an invitation for the At
lantic battleship fleet to stop at China
ON its way around the world.
Action was taken last Tuesday by
the House Committee authorizing the
construction at Boston of an immi-
grant station, not to exceed $3.50, 900
in cost
Andy Johnson, of Tennessee, who
was bitten by a dog, and was given
treatment developed rabies, but three
women and two men, then choked
himself to death by tying a collar
around his neck, the early part of
the week
A joint resolution authorizing the
President to appoint a commission
of FIVE to investigate the conditions
of the Jail and workhouse, was in
troduced in the Senate last Tuesday.
PresidentRoosevelt has granted the
request of Senator w. ]. Bryan, who
died last Sunday at Providence Hos
pital, to name one of the battleships
now being constructed the Florida"
Mrs. Elizabeth Sousa, mother of
the band master, lost her suit insti-
tuted to obtain $1,000 accrued pen
sion money due her as the widow of
Antonio Sousa. The suit was dis
missed last week
1t is officially stated that the death
rate and sick rate in Panama is lower
than Washington, Baltimore, or New
lOrleans.
Among the dinners and receptions
given in honor of Senator P. c. Knox
the testimonial by the Pennsylvania
ent were all the high officials.
Rev. Radcliffe, of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, says,
The time is coming when a larger
cooperation and mutual partnership
between men will take place" His
sympathies are with the ones who
| toll.
! Mr. B. T. Washington is reported
as saying that during the month of
January there were 24332 arrests, Of
which 33 were for drunkenness.
Many persons are connecting them
selves with the American National
! Red Cross Society. since the Gov
ernment decided that it should be op-
en- to every good American citizen.
According to the Afro-American
| Ledger, some of the ladies of Balti-
/ more are wearing "parasols and UNI
brellas for hats" Must be very large
hats.
The forty-ffth annual session of
the Washington Conference opened
in the Metropolitan M. z. Church,
Orchard street near Druid Hill ave
nue., Baltimore.
1t is said that Williams Industrial
College, of Little Rock, Ark, after
FIVE years existence, has closed its
doors. The property is in the hands
of creditors.
1t is said that the depositors Of
the Oriental Bank in New York,
which failed during the recent fnan-
cial panic, will be paid in full.
The Health Department statistics
at Baltimore, Md, show that tuber-
culosis caused the death of II2 per-
sons during the month of February,
in that city.
The Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia was forty-fve years old
| last Monday, the court being organ
lied March %, 1863.
Samuel Einstein, who has been for
thirty-fve years District Poundmas-
ter, has impounded during that time
over 100000 dogs and put TO death
of that number 10000.
i Spencer c. Cavendish, the eighth
Duke of Devonshire, died at Cannes,
France, last Tuesday of heart fail
ure. The Duke owned $4,000 acIes
!. of land and many mines.
i 1t is reported that the present King
of Portugal who was wounded in the
; attack in which King Carlos and the