The Washington bee., 1911-08-19
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxfeId.)

Two States. Maryland and Oregon,
celebrated their political birth August
IL Maryland adopted a constitution
August "A, 1916, and the Territory of
Oregon was organized by Congress
August IA, I848.
Rose Pitonof, 10 years old, swan
twenty-one miles, in eight hours and
seven minutes The trip was from
East Twenty-sixth street, Manhattan,
TO Coney Island. 1t was the longest
swim ever made by a woman in this
country. 1t Is also a feat that many
Of the greatest male swimmers have
failed to negotiate.
A statue OF Gen James Miller, an
1872 war hero, whose assault on a
British battery won the battle of
Lundy's Lane, has been authorized by
the Senate. to be erected at his birth
place, Petersboro, n H Gen Miller
was also Governor of Arkansas,
I8Io-25.
Clad in a uniform of Confederate
gray, the body of Gen. George w.
Gordon, commander-in-chief OF the
United Confederate Veterans, was laid
TO rest IN ElmwoOd Cemetery. Mem
phis, Tenn, last week.
President Taft has designated
Thursday, November 80, as Thanksgiv-
ing Day this year. This year there
happened to have been some doubt,
because November happened to in
clude five, instead of four Thursdays.
One hundred and twenty acres of
land, costing $4,000, has been pur-
chased in Texarkana, Texas, on
which an industrial college for col
ored Americans is to be erected.
Mrs. Annie Rice, the widow of the
policeman who was shot by Zach
Walker, colored, and who was taken
from the hospital and lynched, admits
she begged to be allowed TO go along
SO as to apply the first match. Yet
she did not recognize anyone in the
party of lynchers.
Senator Borah, from the committee
/ on education and labor, wants to es-
tablish a bureau to be known as the
Ichildren's bureau. The 1uty Of which
| will be to investigate and gather in
formation concerning all subjects re-
lating to child life, including acci-
dents, morality and dangerous en-
Iployments, as we'll as child delin-
| quents and juvenile courts.
| DR.. Louis SchapirO, a graduate OF
| the George Washington University,
has been awarded a gold medal and
Ireceived a personal letter from Pres
ident Taft for bravery displayed in
the Philippines.
| A pearl weighing II grams, and
said to be one of the largest of its
kind in the United States, was found
lby a colored man on the shore of the
| r / l. nld
it for $3.50, the buyer sold it for ST.
500, and the merchant to whom 1t
was sold values it for much larger
amount.
A road made of leather waste is one
Iof the attractions of Birmingham,
England, There had been no use for
the waste leather until somebody con-
ceived the idea of road-making with
lit 1t is first shredded into fine bits,
then treated with tar The road has
been in existence for year and shows
but few signs of wear
Miss Adelaide c. White, the only
woman who ever officiated as dep
uty sheriff in Washington County,
died last week at the home of her
lmother in Hagerstown, Md
After much study, the military au-
thOrities have adopted a new cam
paign hat for the army. 1t has a
Ithree-inch straight brim and a five
inch crown with the Montana peak"
The selection was the result of a COM
lpromise between two different styles
recommended by infantry and cavalry.
Because so many students marry
upon graduation, Simmons College, in
New York, will introduce this fall a
course in the science of marketing.
Lenard L. Boyd a former student
of Tuskegee Institute, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Grambling, La
The army in China consists of 65O,-
600 men, the privates in which are
paid one dollar per month, and out of
this they feed themselves. Three dol
lars per month are paid to the cavalry,
and they are required to feed them
selves as well as their horses
| No reductions in the temporary
force Of the census bureau will be
made at the end Of this month. Re
duction at the end Of each month was
the program at the bureau since the
work of completing the thirteenth
census. Sufficient work still remains
to Justify keeping all clerks another
month
Maj. Henry Reed RathbOne who
was military aid to President Lincoln,
and who was stabbed by Booth, when
he attempted to defend Mr. Lincoln,
April "A, 1865, died in Hanover, Ger
many, this week.
Owing to a race war in Durant,
/ Okla. more than half the ColOred
population has fed.
! Packages Of unfinished American
one dollar bills, aggregatiHg many
| thousands of dollars, are said to have
/ been found on the estate Of Count
Spiridon Karada. in Hungary.
August 18th IS the birthday anni-
versary Of several men famous in his
tory, including Napoleon Bonaparte,
who was born August IS, 1860, and
Sir Walter Scott, the Scotch novelist,
who was born August IS, I77I, and
| lived until December Fl, 1852.