The Washington bee., 1910-12-10
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Maxfeld.)

N0N4it ~ aSSSl tam tIt IOIdl QOpula-
ton of the United States has been
made
a. J. Shaw, of Guthrie, Okla, an
election Inspector, was arrested at
| Tulsa, Okla, for refusing to allow col
ored Americans to vote. The court
| held that registration before the adop-
ton OF the Grandfather clause" did
not give the colored American the
right to vote.
There are eight female cooks want
ed for the Indian service. They are
compelled to pass a civil service exam
nation, so as to show their physical
ability, their previous training and ex-
perlence. Now is a chance for some
OF our graduates from the Armstrong
Manual Training School.
; he annual report to the District
commissioners of Maj. Sylvester, Su-
perintendent of Police, should be read
by every one. Among other things.
1t showed a less number of crimes,
seven arrests for murder during the
past year, and generally the District
is said to be showing diminution of
various crimes, of which the Police
Department feels very much encour-
aged,
Miss Helen Taft, the Presidents
daughter, unveiled the bronze statue
Tot Maj. Gen. Won Steuben, Inspector
General of the American Revolution
airy War, last Wednesday. Among the
distinguished speakers were President
Taft and the German Ambassador.
Four new desks have been ordered
for the United States Senate. They
will be situated on the Democratic
side, without regard to the political
character of the occupants, who will
be Senators from Arizona and New
Mexico
The Treasury Department has sent
word that it will receive bids for IoO,-
600 ounces of silver from the Denver
Mint. 1t will be used for coming
dimes exclusively, and will make, it is
stated, about $4,000 worth of them
The Association for the Prevention
of tuberculosis has been active in its
fall work, and a winter of activity is
planned, especially along educational
lines. Every fourth and eighth grades
in both colored and white schools will
be visited and taught how to keep
from contracting the disease.
According to the 10th annual report
of the Southern Railway, in the past
year $4,000 tons of wines, liquors and
beers were transported into the South
ern States, despite the wave of pro-
: hibition supposed to be sweeping over
the Southland
Rev. Dr. Charles Alexander Rich
mond, President of Union College, at
an address at the dedication of the
. Thomas R. Proctor Library at Rich
field Springs, said: "The educators of
the country are going mad over the
!. subject of trade schools and technical
training. In my judgment, the en-
, phasis upon industrial training is al
ready too strong"
! Alason A. Summer, a Director in the
| Standard Oil Company, we'll known
, in business circles in New York, died
: last week
The State of Massachusetts will
I erect a monument to its soldiers who
r fell in the battles about Petersburg
Va, and there has been selected a
} site for a handsome memorial on the
= Crater battlefield, a few miles from
Petersburg, Va.
Miss Mary a Holbrook, many years
2 a missionary for the American BOARD
= in China and Japan, died at her home
} in New Haven, Conn, last week.
D The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
r sion for France has made its award:
for acts of heroism performed during
+ the past year. Eighteen persons
the majority of whom are widows Ol
e orphans of those who sacrificed then
t Lives for others, received sums rang
. ing from $40 to 5000.
: One of the most historic army post,
t of the Southwest, Fort Davis, which
= twas the scene of many desperat,
f struggles with the Apaches and othel
t warning Indian tribes, will pass out o
e the government possession and b,
0 sold at public auction in a few days
d The Civic Betterment Association
has adopted resolutions congratulatinG
e Commissioner Rudolph for having in
troduced modern business principle!
e into the administration of the affair.
: in his Department"
y Within the past FIVE years the Ne
d groes of Macon County, Ala, have
{ raised $4,000 toward building a schoo
I house and extending school terms.
Moses Webb, a colored American
who is said to be the last survivor
lwho led the horses attached to tn,
d hearse at the funeral of Abraham Lin
s coin in Springfield in 1865, died a
Z Aurora, Ill, last week at the age o
s l85 years.
t H. o. BlaisdelI, the worlds cham
It pion typist, established a new world
r Io-minute record He wrote LA.
;; words in that time and made only Il
>; ierrors.
# 1t is announced that Dr. NJ A. Bar
/. Der, Professor of Bacteriology at tn,
r University of Kansas, will go to tn,
e Philippines at the close of the presen
e school term to spend two years IL
S medical research.
u Separate schools are to be agitatec
: in Chicago. Oh. if Ethiopians coul,
:; change their skini
:. James K. Polk Taylor, an ex-slave
) II years old, and his wife have givel
e 40 acres at Calhan, 40 miles east o
e, Colorado Springs, as a site for a Ma
IS tiOnal tuberculosis sanitarium for Ne
e groes of the United States.
Ir DR.. Ernest Lyon, who returned t,
this country a few weeks ago from Ii
IBERIA, where he has been America
N Minister for the mast cever vaaFc 70