The Washington bee., 1909-01-02
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS

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tomorrow to condemn the sentence
recently passed on officials of the la
Dor unions.
Many lives and much property
were lost by the earthquake which
visited Italy the first of this week
Canada and Mexico have been in
vited by President Roosevelt to take
part in the North American Confer
ence to be held at the White House
the 18th of this coming February.
The work of the San Francisco
Relief Corporation ended with the
last day of 1908, and the funds,
1897, ,267.25, in hand will be turned
over to the charitable organizations
The Corporation distributed $o,ss3,-
1876 before going out of existence.
Twelve Representatives, members
of the Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee of the House. have
gone to Panama. They are expected
back by the I4th instant.
The world was not destroyed last
Sunday and the police of Nyack, New
York, are looking for Lee ]. Spang-
Ter the maker of the prediction.
The ball at the White House FAST
Monday evening in honor of Miss
Ethel Roosevelt, who made her de-
but, was most brilliant and many out
of-town guests attended.
Senator P. c. Knox, it is said, will
be Secretary of State under Mr..
Taft's administration.
The United States Geological Sur
, vey is planning to operate rescue
stations" in the principal coal fields
by which the number of accidents is
expected to be 1essened.
Sixteen cadets were sent home
from the United States Military
Acadenv at West Point Nine were
deficient in discipline and seven fail
ed in mathematics. They were sent
away the day after Christmas.
More than $4,000 has been reported
as the result of the sale of Red Cross
stamps and the workers of the or
ganization have concluded to sell
stamps every Christmas holiday.
Letters may now be sent direct to
Germany for two cents an ounce.
A drunken man, wearing a long
buffalo overcoat, was mistaken for a
bear and shot and instantly killed
Christmas night, near Lafayette,
| Tennessee.
The Presidency of Juan Vincents
| Gomez is recognized throughout Ven
ezula and Castro has turned over
all the arms and ammunitoihs.
Notwithstanding the question of
Poe's eligibility for the Hall Of Fame
has been raised, his admirers will on
the 10Th instant, celebrate the centen-
ary of his birth.
Henry w. Poor, a Wall Street
broker, has failed and ms liabilities
are not less than $5,ooo,ooo.
Secretary Cortelyon has notified
MIR. ]. ] Mccarthy. Surveyor of the
| port Of Boston, Massachusetts, and
Chairman-pf the Republican commit
btee1 Of ,Bosto6 that he must resign
from one of the two positions. HIS
saigu7as sbrvsg9r is $1,000 year.
Joseph L. Moore, Judge of Mont
gomeryl-.County, New York. sent
Christmas presents to prisoners
whom he had sentencedst5 Clinton
prison during fast yeaiS.
| It is reported that DE- c. Sum
ner Taylor, who graduated in 1905,
expects to quit Iowa. on account of
| the climate and locate irf Florida.
IS Women who have not been mar
ried oyer three years haY organized
a club, c1ii'i in Chicago called A common
sense club o. yes, they IRE colored,
and ertertaihed their ''h ADbies" yes
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Students who Rft 7Hew#d to spend
t the p .sIcthfist95ss : -gBftb sthef relatives
zand friends are back in good shape
TO resume their school Vi srk.
Z sIhe & American Negro Academy"
-openede-its T2th- annual session at
Lincoln Memorial Temple last Mon
+day-zas -s-ss5 vac zaA
The next annual encaalpment of
the Blue and Gray will be held at
EItzgetald, Georgia, sometime in
March, y 'Et'418
zaAasas SREesklesx known as the
sugar king" died last Saturday at