The Washington bee., 1910-12-24
PARAGRAPH|C NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)

convicted OF peonage. 1t looks as II
they viii be sentenced to spend a
period in Jail, since the United States
Supreme Court has confirmed the de-
ClsiOn of the lower court.
There seems to be a school fight
IN Columbus, Ohio, as they are try
! ing to segregate the children The re-
suits are eagerly being watched by
the colored people III Ohio.
The Catholic University has found
ed two scholarships ON q donation
made by Herbert q. Squier-. at one
time United States Minister to Pan
anna.
AIr NJ. Goldstein. of this city. was
nned $40 in Richmond. Va. for riding
IN the Jim Crow car, which Is re-
! served for colored people Not be-
ing familiar with the laws in Virginia,
d he refused to move when told by the
conductor.
/ A I,QOo-year-oId egg has been dis
covered by party of explorers cN-
cayatng the ancient Noguntiacum.
constructed by Drusus, son of En-
perOr Augustus OF Rome. i'm II B. c.
SenOr Don Aubal Cruz. Minister
from Chile to the United States. ex-
, pired suddenly at the Chilean Lega-
| ton last Sunday from heart disease.
His death was a shock to his col
leagues, and he will be missed from
the diplomatic circle.
A committee from the Mississippi
Society has been appointed to prepare
a program to observe the birthday an
niversary of Gen. Robert Z. Lee. The
Society also strongly indorsed the
proposal to hold the Panama Expo
sition in New Orleans in 1915.
So anxious was his desire to see his
name in the newspaper, H. c. Denno,
an apprentice seaman, shot himself in
/ the finger while on duty. Oh, for no.
tOriety.
Mrs. Russell Sage has asked Park
Commissioner Stover for a list of the
laborers in Central Park that receive
So and less per day, as she intends to
give each one S. gold piece. There
are 335 men who will receive Mrs.
! Sage's bounty.
Many mounds of prehistoric con-
struCtion have recently been opened
in the Mississippi Valley and in the
neIghbOrhOod of St Louis. There has
also been a large amount of ethnol-
OgiC material collected from them, and
a bulletin has been issued by the
Smithsonian Institute.
/ Senator Root has leased an apart
ment in the new SI,OOOOOo house
erected in New York for S25,Oo a year.
His suite will consist Of p rooms
and eight baths. The price is one
OF the highest prices ever paid for a
/ New York apartment.
4 l.
TAFT, the President of Panama has
closed all the lotteries in Panama. The
lottery companies affected were own
ed by Chinese and earned about
, $1,000 900 a year. These companies
were a big source OF revenue TO the
Republic, and it was a big sacrifice for
Panama to abolish them.
Announcement IS made that a peri
odical to be known as the Catholic
Educational Review IS to be published
by the trustees of the Catholic Uni
versity of America.
| Tolstois grave at Yasnia POliara Is
likely to become one Of the chief
places of pilgrimage. At the grave
many hundreds NAV be seen on their
knees chanting and kissing the soil.
Harvey w Wiley, NJ. D., Phi D.,
Ii. D., chemist of the Department OF
Agriculture, will be presented with
one of the Elliott Cresson gold med
ais by the Franklin Institute of Phil
adelphia in that city next week
., Plans have been decided on for the
erection here of Normal College for
the higher education of the sisters
who teach in Catholic schools.
At the commencement of the cur
rent year the Jews in Russia num-
bered 5,IIO,S48 persons. The largest
Jewish centers are Warsaw, with
! 2547I2, and Odessa, with I38,O35.
| John D. Rockefeller has completed
the task he set for himself in the
founding of the University of Chi
Icago. He gave his final gift Dec.
2I, which was SIo,OOOOOO, making d
total of $35,ooo,ooo which has been
donated to the university by Mr..
Rockefeller
| Don't fail to consult 'McCall's Mag
jazine, ''the Queen Of Fashions" be
fore making up your New Years
trOusseau.
| Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the traveller.
will return to New York on the steam
ship George Washington DR.. Cook
has not been in New York since his
disappearance shortly after the sub
mission of his polar records to the
University Of Copenhagen, more than
a year ago.
Two Haitian Deputies, Me5srs
Pierre and MarieIlene Jaeielien, are in
New York negotiating with bankers
for loan Of several hundred thou
sand dollars, which IS TO be used in
payment Of arrears Of government sal
aries
President Taft sent 70 the Senate
the nomination of Charles A. Cotterill.
Of Toledo, Ohio, to be Collector Of
| Internal Revenue at Honolulu.
, Hawaii It is said the people Of Hon
olulu are greatly wrought up over the
appointment OF Negro to the Col
lectorship.
Ten million dollars have beer given
iaway by Andrew Carnegie for the
purpose Of preserving the peace OF
the world
John ". Smith. 6S years Of age
once 4 slave. has started to school at
his home in Kansas City, Kans. He
says he has given his children a good
Ieducation, and now it is his desire
to crafty his ambition, which has
beeu 70 read and write