The Washington bee., 1909-07-17
them Bible history.

ing gwen to the three granddaughters
of the late Charles Dickens, the great
novelist.
There will be at an early date inI
this city a popular educational mass
meeting in the interest of Ferguson
and Williams College, of Abbeville,
Souyh Carolina. Several members of
Congress will make addresses. Rev.
Z. H. Williams, DID, and Mrs. E.
Y. c. Williams, are doing excellent
work for the race throughout the
country and should be encouraged by
all lovers of education.
The Hampton Negro Conference
will hold its regular session July I4-I
Is at the Hampton Institute.
Because Postmaster Peachy of
Williamsburg, Virginia, appointed al
colored school teacher, 7. I. Green
how, as mail carrier for rural route
No. I, 4 storm Of protest has broken
out in the upper part of Jamestown
District, James City County.
In New York the nations returns
to date from the Fourth of July cele-
bration of 1900 are sixty-one dead
and 3,246 injured.
The famous Hope diamond, which
blazed on the bosom of May Yohe
when as Lady Frances Hope she was
singing in New York, was sold at
auction in Paris for $4,000.
Bombs were exploded in two thea
tres in Barcelona, Spain, and seven
persons were seriously injured,
Archbishop Farley was given an
amethyst and diamond ring by the
Pope at the Vatican, Rome.
The cutting mill of the Oxford
Paper Company at Rumford Falls, |
Maine, was destroyed by fire started
by an exploding frecracker. The loss
was $4,000.
A new Penny Savings Bank open
ed the other day at Dallas, Texas.
Senator Scott, of West Virginia,
addressed the colored Young Mems |
Christian Association the other Sun
day.
The new one cent piece bearing the
head of President Lincoln will be is
sued by the treasury department from !
the mint at Philadelphia, beginning
on August I, next.
A patent has been issued to DR.. |
]. H. Smith for a machine for ston-
ing cling stone fruit. DR.. Smith IS
a dentist in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The largest flag in the world was
unfurIed in Pittsburg July 5, It pull
ed thousands of pounds of tile roof
ing from the courthouse and many |
persons miraculously escaped injury
Fire losses in June amounted to
$IO,O57, according to the report of
Fire Chief Wagner. This is a con-
trast to the month of May which was
$93829.
Mr.. Henry Baker of 2348 9th
street, northwest collected $500 on
Sunday for Mrs. Perry the colored
woman who was left destitute by the
drowning of her husband and twol
two sons sometime ago Contribu-
tons are also being taken for her at
the Star office.
If Dr. L. Duncan Buckley and
other specialists associated with him
find John r. Early has not the lepro-
sy his pension of S72.oo per month
Will be stopped.
It is said that Democratic mem
bers of Congress will urge President
Taft to give instructions that only
white enumerators shall be employ
ed in taking the census, south of the
Mason and Dixon line.
In Jacksonville, Florida there are
fourteen colored physicians, ten
graduated pharmacists, eight drug
stores, sixteen trained nurses, two
dentists, two banks, two industrial
insurance companies. two newspapers
SIX lawyers and I85 churches This
shows that the Negro can do Just
what the white man can do if the op-
DOrtunity is given him.
The gallant old 24th Iplantry took
part in the celebration II the discov-
cry Of Lake Champlain, by Sieur de
Champlain- As they were reviewed
they were applauded to the echo. ]
The latest statistics show that there
are 5,yI5,I77 regular Baptists in the
United States.
Professor Kelly Miller, of Howard
University, has returned from a five
thousand mile tour studying indus
trial and educational conditions Of
Our race. Professor Miller seems
to be quite hopeful and says the edu-