The Washington bee., 1911-12-30
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss 6. B. MaxheId.) }

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| That General Morales IS likely to
forfeit his life by his last attempt at
rebellion in Santo Domingo. is the
tenor of Advices received from Hayti.
1t is understood that the ex-president
is soon to be put on trial for his life.
Henry L. Watterson, editor OF the
Louisville COurier-J Journal, in an in
! terview, said: "Rooseveltism would
mean absolutism if they put him in
the White House again, and we will
never get him out, except feet fore
most"
During the general holiday festivi-
ties the Chinese children of this city
were not forgotten. Last Tuesday
evening the spirit of Christmas reign
ed in the Chinese Chapel, and a score
| of boys and girls celebrated the birth
day of the King of Kings,
DIR. Charles w Eliot, president Of
Harvard University, is resting quietly
at Handy, Ceylon, after an operation
for appendicitis Almost hundred
cable messages were sent out from
university circles wishing Dr. Eliot
Christmas greetings
President Taft has been presented
with a book issued by the Southern
Commercial Congress, entitled The
| OOutn : GHySlCdt INCCONCl [AL LiAC
time of the presentation a committee
representing the Southern CONNER
cial Congress invited President TAFT
! to the Nashville convention of the
Congress next April. The invitation
was accepted tentatively.
George Dewey, Admiral of the
Navy, celebrated his seventy-fourth
birthday on the Goth Admiral Dewey
4 made no elaborate plans for the cele-
!, lbration He ended his last sea cruise
; October, 1890, since which time as
!, | Admiral of the Navy and president
: of the general board, he has had his
. headquarters IN this city.
Upon the grave OF Clement I.
- Moore who wrote Twas the Night
= Before Christmas" holly wreath
- was placed by 100 Sunday School
10 children
= Miss Clare Bar.en. foundsr OF the :
= Red Cross. celebrated her ninetietil
= birthday Christmas day very quietly
= at her home in Glen Echo, Nd
,fI lean BaOtist lie Guen globe trOtter,
!, journalist and linguist, arrived IN this
, city Christmas day, and after brief
- stay will continue his walk around
I the world. He started on his tramp
:, in 1902, ana since that time he spends
- only three days in one city, stopping
lust long enough to obtain the auto
graphs of prominent men.
Among the popular books edited by
colored Americans this year are, My
st Larger Education by Or. Booker I.
les Washington; The Quest OF the Sil-
E. yer Fleece" by Prof. w. Z. Dubois,
and Wisdom Call" by Rev. Sutton
IS E. Griggs.
W /. K. Salisbury. president Of the
e Mississippi, Delta Planting Company,
a Memphis, Tenn, which employs thou
i'd sands of Negroes IN connection with
he its operations. Is to deliver one of the
Is principal addresses at the Tuskegee
of Negro Conference, to be held January
&C II and IS.
e Washington was fourth among all
ne the cities of the United States in
IS point of building for the month Of
November, only New York. Chicago
a and Boston exceeded the Capital in
ct the amount of new building for which
lg permits were granted and contracts
re awarded
re A new and very valuable oil has
g been discovered in tomato seed by an
sc expert chemist in Italy. The oil is
at useful in the manufacture of high
IS grade varnish. 1t IS highly uanspar-
I'd ent, possesses great lasting qualities,
er and dries very quickly, without CON
at tracing or producing cracks.
e A new movement to aid IN the up
OF lift of the masses and to correct the
to abuses from which they are supposed
ze to be suffering, was formally launched
ne at the initial convention Of the IN
n, diana State Arie Club
st Harry K Shaw, slayer of Stanford
h
IL fight for liberty from the asylum in
Matteawan, n Y.
nd Endoros c. Kenney, principal of the
IL high school in New York, spoke Of
lg the foolish care we take to prevent
II criminals from taking their own lives
re He also urged that doctors be permit
er ted TO kill patients suffering from lin
s gering, fatal Illnesses, IN an address
a before the Washington Secular
ut League.
10 Assembling the parts OF the Co
to lumbus Memorial to be erected on the
is Union Station Plaza, was started last
IS, week. The massive blocks are aTriv-
es ing daily at the Station. and work
ne men are laying the foundations. The
at contract calls for the completion Of
at the memorial by May l. It will cost
= about $IOOOoO-
Mt When the employees at the railroad
ir station and the telephone and tele-
N graph Offices went to work Christmas
y day at Tarrytown, n Y, they found
% gold pieces awaiting. them with the
n seasons greetings, OF John D. Rookie
II feller and Helen NJ, Gould
John R Mclean, proprietor of the
d Cincinnati Enquirer and the Wash
o ington Post, sent two checks Of $500
It each TO Cincinnati, for the Firemens'
Protective Association and the Police
Relief Fund, as Christmas gift. It
s is said he also remembered the fire.
: men and policemen of this city, but
O | .rr;chad 10 nt,hlicifu 70 he given