The Washington bee., 1909-05-15
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For the want of a quorum the
House took no action on the Presi-
dents message on Porto Rico, last
Monday.
Francis O'Connor, a magazine
writer of note, died at Rochester,
New York, this week at the age of
II years.
Hundreds of people were reported
this week to be starving in the noun
tains of Zitacuaro, Mexico.
The closing of the ministerial con-
ference year was a special feature
of the service at Galbraith African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
last Sunday night.
The founding Io7 years ago Of
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church,
was celebrated last Sunday with
special services.
Judge William z, Penfeld, former
ly solicitor of the Department Of
State, and an authority on interna-
tional law, died this week at his
apartments in the Ontario.
Last Monday was a great day for
all who wanted to see the circus pa
rade of the Ringing Brothers. They
were here with their big shows for
two days, the first being celebrated
by rain.
We are glad to learn that DR.. ".
L Taylor, President and Grand
Master, G. F. I. 0. of T. R., is at
his desk again aften being i'll some
time.
People from all sections of this
country visited the celebration of the
forty-frst anniversary of the found
ing of Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Virginia
A fire broke out last week in
Buxton, Monroe County, Iowa. and
totally destroyed the new plant of
the Buxton Laundry and Bakery
Company, owned by colored men.
We see by the Cleveland Journal
that Honorable H. T. Eubanks is
making a very aggressive campaign
for the position of recorder of deeds"
in this city.
Willis A. White, a member of the
jury which convicted Chester S.
Jordan last week for the murder Of
his wife at Massachusetts, has been
sent to the insane hospital at Wor-
Cester.
Maurice Joyce, Sr., the senior
member of the firm of the Maurice
Joyce Engraving Company, was
severely burned while standing near
metal pot of molten lead when it
exploded
It is said that the Cuban Congress
has taken up the question of an ap-
preparation of 100000 for the pur-
chase of a site and the erection of a
home for the Cuban legation in
Washington.
An actor at London, who was sum-
moned last Tuesday to serve on a
jury made the successful plea that
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under the law he was a" rogue and a
vagaboHd' and therefore, ineligible
Many thousands Of delegates of the
Order of Railways Conductors OF
America attended the send annual
convention which convened in Bos-
ton last Tuesday.
The body of Heinrich Conreid,
former director of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, who died in Meran,
Austria, was brought to his home in
New York this week.
1t is said that before the opening
session of the twenty-fourth annual
meeting of the Association of Ameri-
can Physicians held at the New Viii
lard last Tuesday morning, DR.. Vic
tor c. Vaughn, of Ann Arbor, Mich
igan, president of the organization
in his annual address made assertions
which are regarded as an attack on
the Emmanuel movement.
Cipriano Castro, the deposed pres
ident of the republic of Venezuela
has been condemned by the courts to
pay six years rental and heavy
damages for the arbitrary occupation
of the Mirafores place in the city OF
Caracas.
The funeral services of Mrs. Eliza
A. Tancie, who died last Sunday al
Freedman's Hospital, were held al
Shiloh Baptist Church, last Wednes-