The Washington bee., 1911-07-22
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N"N4ltJ oOHNll CillpIO) 6 WHO
have worked for twenty-seven years
or more in the Saunders Tool Fac
tory, in Yonkers, n. Y, $4,000 will
be distributed as a memorial gift.
The Senate has passed a resolution
putting Union Veterans in its en-
ploy upon Civil Service status, to
be retained permanently so long as
their services are satisfactory.
The appalling toll of human life
exacted by American railroads is
about thirty day, according to tel
egraphic reports received by the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
There has been instituted in Spo-
kane, Wash, by Mrs. John Bruce
Dodd, Fathers Day. as an honor
to the dead fathers of the land. It's
first observance was last year, the
third Sunday in June.
The people of Shanghai have add
ed $4,000 to d similar amount ap-
lPropriated by the AmericanRed Cross
Society to pay the expenses of sci
entihcally studying the rivers O. Chi
ma, with a view of preventing the
recurrence of disastrous floods in the
Celestial Empire.
Remarkable astronomical theories
were expounded in a lecture by Ed
win F. Naulty, of New York, declar-
| ing that the remarkable weather of
this spring and summer and of the
last three years, was due to the
presence of a comet in the solar
system.
Mark Twain, the noted humorist,
left actual property worth S47II36,
The value of his personal estate in
New York alone is $296,746.
All record of death rates OF Boston
were broken last week, when the
total number was 1874 in one week,
against 375 the previous week. One
hundred were due to the heat.
A coIored regiment will form
portion Of the National Guard of
New York State in the near future,
according TO bill passed by the leg
islature. There was considerable op-
position to the measure by members
who declared unalterable opposition
to any legislation which drew lines Of
race or creed.
A water famine in several portions
OF Chicago is threatened as a result
of the long continued hot weather.
In many houses the water will run
only in the basement.
One of the features of the fftieth
anniversary of the Battle of Bull
Run was pilgrimage of Confederate
and Union Veterans to the battle
field of BIackburns Ford. The Vet
.eranS of both armies participated 1t
night in campfire meeting,
Every port of entry is being watch
ed by all Government health and i'm
migration officers on both the At
lantic and Pacific Coasts, and immi-
grants are to be held in quarantine
ten days, as grave fears of an cpl
demic of cholera in this country are
entertained.
The Eifel Tower, which already
serves many purposes in Paris, is
now to be transformed into huge
'parohail." Just as a parasoI pro-
tects a person from the rays Of the
sun, SO the 'parohail," >" by electric
it is claimed, will protect
Paris from hail within a radius of
twenty miles.
The Confederate flag after being
borne through six battles, captured
by a Northern regiment, and return
ed in triumph to its original owners.
is the history of the battle flag Of
the Seventeenth Virginia Regiment.
The City Council has passed an
ordinance that no one may sell pea
nuts on the streets of Bonham, Tex
as, until he has suffered the amputa-
ion of both legs. The purpose is to
admit an aged colored man to freeze
'ut all competitors.
Joseph H. Taft. a cousin of the
President, is dead Mr.. Taft was
an architect and formerly had an Of
ice in New York, but for two years
failing health had kept him in re-