The Washington bee., 1909-09-18
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
BY
Miss Gonevia B. Maxheld

He has been under the professional
care of DR.. William F. Penn.
Professor Kelly Miller delivered
an address in Atlanta, Geirgia, last
Tuesday.
John R. Early, the alleged leper,
has been dropped from the pension
rolls, as he has been found to be en-
tirely free from any skin disease,
which had been declared by eminent
physicians to be leprosy
The International Esperanto Con-
gress has just adjourned in BARGE
Iona. The next congress will meet
in this city August 1910, This years
gathering was attended by 1900 dele
gates, representing 80 nationalities.
President Taft has removed two
Supervisors of the Census, one a Re
publican is succeeded by a Democrat,
and the other case exactly vice versa.
Policeman Kelly, who did patrol
duty at the White House under Pres
dents Mckinley and Roosevelt. and
who was retired for disability, died
the first Of this week.
A silver loving cup is being made
by firm CT local jewellers to be Civ
en- by the American Government to
the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia
The gift is in the nature of a peace
token and the inscription has not yet
Ibeen decided on.
The popular resort ''River View"
which had been for white excursions,
but more recently it had come under
ColOred management, was set on fire,
it is said. causing a loss of $1,000.
The dancing pavilion was burnt en-
Itirely down.
Mrs. Russell Sage will give $780,
600 to the Methodist Church, provid-
ed the Church raises a like amount
iby January 1910. the total amount
10 be used in spreading the Bible
over the world.
Hector Apollinaire, a Negro, was
recently admitted to the bar in Paris.
He is the only Negro lawyer admit
ted to the bar in Paris.
The colored people of Philadelphia
are organizing an Afro-American
town just outside Of the city, Land
has been purchased and many citi-
'zens are migrating there. The place
is called Sharn Hill.
A bitter quarrel is raging between
white and black secret societies, in
Atlanta, Georgia, due to the signing
of bill by Governor Brown prohib-
iting the colored organizations from
using the same insignia, ritualistic
works, grips. etc. The case will be
taken into the state courts when they
are hoping to get justice.
An industrial school as a memorial
to Harriet Tillman Davis, of the un-
derground railroad, has been propos-
ed in Auburn, New York.
In Alabama a bill was offered in
the Legislature for keeping the Ne
groes from holding office in that
state.
Although more than $4,000 was ex-
pended last year in the Medical Col
lege Of Howard University, new ap-
paratus and equipment, amounting to
5000 has been added this summer.
The average attendance has advanc-
ed from 2I2 to more than 400.
A Negro bank has just been open
ed in Dallas, Texas The directors
and principal managers are among
the most substantial people The
Bee wishes it much success.
The Negro Development Company
of North Carolina, is planning to
have a semi-centennial celebration of
the abolition Of slavery, and prob
ably will hold a Negro exposition in
Raleigh, n c.
Ninety-fiye applicants for teachers
certificates from Montgomery coun-
ty, Alabama, were last week notified
by the State Board of their success.
Thirty-hve applicants were found de-
hcient. Fifty-one of the nine-tyfve
successful applicants were Negroes.
Mr.. Lloyd G. Wheeler, a promi-
nent citizen and lawyer, of Chicago,
and business agent for Tuskegee In
stitute, died September 8. He was
the first colored lawyer in Illinois.
Although the National Medical
Association has met and adjourned, |