The Washington bee., 1910-08-27
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss J. c. Mason.)

Electric motor car service without
the use of trolley wires or the third
rail attachment is now being used on
the line of the Southern Railway and
Blue Ridge Railway between Green
vile and Anderson, S. c., the interme-
date territory being perhaps the most
thiCkly settled milling section in the
South, including the important points
of Piedmont, Pelzer, WILLIAMSON and
Belton.
Former Congressman Franklin
Bound, a member of the Forty-ninth
and Fiftieth Congresses, died last
week at Milton, Pa, aged 81 years.
Major William R. Logan, supervisor
of industries of the Indian Service,
and superintendent of the Fort Bel
knapp Indian Reservation, in Mon
tana, has been appointed superintend-
ent in charge of the construction of
roads and trails in the Glacier Ma
tiOnal Park, Montana.
The population of New Haven,
Conn, according to census report, Is
I33,6o5.
An aeroplane in which steel tubing
takes the place of wood or bamboo IN
| the frames and planes has proved a
success IN Germany.
National banks of Minnesota are
preparing to organize currency assO-
citation authorized by the Aldrich-
Vreeland law.
Plans for the new central police
station and criminal courts building,
as prepared by Albert Randolph Ross,
New York, are estimated at $z5o, 900.
Every State and Territory in the
| tUniOn, with the exception of Nevada,
which has no militia, will get portion
of the federal appropriation for the
purchase of supplies and ammunition
for the organized militia during the
Ipresent fiscal year.
| In Oshkosh, Wis, Frank B. Griffin
lis building a monoplane, which shall
be the largest Of its kind ever de-
signed and invented.
| The recent annual meeting of the
| Pennsylvania Baptist Sunday School
Convention and the Baptist Young
Peoples Union, held jointly at Pitts
burg, was the most largely attended
in the history of the two Organlza-
tions. Forty-two schools represented,
and the receipts amounted to S472.0I.
Miner Hall, Of Howard University,
has been fitted up as most attractive
Ihome for young ladies. Prospects are
Favorable for a large attendance of
young women to enter various depart
ments this year.
A railroad company, IN selecting a
Isite for a station in GuanaJuatO, one
of the oldest mining towns IN Mexico,
discovered that the walls of adobe
Ihouses were built of gold. About 800
of these houses had to be torn down
before the erection OF the station, and
in so doing great wealth was found.
These buildings have brought about
100000, Mexican, in gold.
Prof Kelly Miller and DIR. w. Bruce
Evans are delegates to the National
Negro Educational Congress, held IN
| St. Louis, this week.
Building operations in the Rue q
!Arsant, in Brussels, have led to the
I discovery of a metal case containing
about 10000 ancient coins. About
$4,000 are English, Irish and Scotch,
and the remainder were minted in Bel
gium during the reign of Henry III of
Brabant.
Some interesting discoveries have
been recently made in France. In
making excavations at the Abbey OF
Fonteyrault some tombs were brought
to light. At Senons discoveries have
been made of jewels, metals and arms
These are believed to have belonged
to the Saracens, who were defeated
by Charles Martels in 1872.
Launching of the torpedo boat de-
strOyer DraytOn took place at Bath
MAINE on August 22
By an explosion, the laboratory oi
the proving grounds of the krupp
iworks in Essen, Germany, were blown
up and destroyed by fire
The international Harvester Com
pany has added new delivery motor
car to its line of machinery.
The dedication of the John Brown
Park at Ossawatomie, Kan, will take
place on Wednesday, August 81. The
. dedicatory address will be made by
Ex-President Roosevelt. The ground
] to be dedicated to the State covers
p acres on the site of the battle ci
. Ossawatomie, which occurred August
20. 1883, which was donated by the
lWoman's Relief Corps of the Grand
! Army of the Republic of Kansas.
Either New Mexico or Arizona
when admitted into the Union as a
fuli-hedged State, may be named Lin
coin, in memory of the great emancl-
patOr.
The earliest coinage that may be
called American was struck Oft II
Massachusetts in I652
Ten ships, each a century or more
. ola, are still being used in the Danish
mercantile marine.
:, In Paris there are thIrty-twO mile;
r. of underground railways and construc-
ton for twenty-three miles more has
been authorized
Guesr of Honor.