The Washington bee., 1911-11-11
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss c. B. MaxheId.) }

At recent meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the John d. Rookie
teller Fund for education (the Cen
eral Education Board) reported that
the board has contributed between
100000 and 100000 to forty-one
schools for Negroes. These contri-
buttons have been limited to the
higher schools which train teachers
for the public schools.
Mrs. Anna Maria Fisher, said to
be daughter of Henry Clay, died
last month at the age of o3 wears.
Many colOred persons and institu-
tons are named beneiciaries in her
will. Tuskegee and Hampton Insti-
tute are to receive $4,000 each, and
$4,000 to Harriet and Lillian Shadd.
of this city
DR.. Daniel Williams, the we'll
known Chicago Surgeon, formerly
head of Freedmen's Hospital, of this
city, has established an operating
clinic at Provident Hospital, in
Chicago
The Boston Guardian celebrated its
tenth anniversary last week. The
Guardian said: The close of ten
years finds us busy fighting the same
congratulate the Guardian.
The campaign expenses of Gov.
Foss, of Massachusetts,, will total
about $I6,635. According to a state
ment issued from the executive Of
fees, $4,000 was contributed to the
campaign committee, $3.50 for trav-
cling expenses, and SII,285 for print
ing and mailing a pamphlet telling
of the Governors services to the
State
The United States Government
and the great powers of Europe have
been asked to intervene and put an
end Immediately to the alleged bar
barities practiced by the Italian forces
in Tripoh, by the Turkish govern
ment.
The Durham Reformer says: "a
fifteen thousand dollar hotel is to be
erected in Raleigh, n c, in first
class style, for colored people. J. H.
Love, a successful colored druggist
OF Raleigh, is the promoter OF the
enterprise"
Cyrus Field Adams. for fourteen
years Assistant Register of the
Treasury, is now suffering from
nervous breakdown, and is in St.
Paul, Mimi, with his brother, John
Adams.
The Liquor Journal states that 49,
100000 people who live in prohibition
States use 100000 gallons of alCO-
holic beverages.
General Booth, at the age of So, IS
so nearly blind he has determined to
undergo an operation in the hope of
restoring his sight.
In Japan the children of the poor
are nearly always labeled in case
they should stray from home while
their mothers are at work
The recent somewhat hurried inl-
tiation of Jack Johnson, the Negro
prize fighter, into Masonic lodge,
of Dundee, has raised a storm OF
protest throughout the country.
Several hundred clergymen of all
denominations met and passed reso-
| lutions aiming to end the persecution
of Jews in Russia, and make the Rus
| sian authorities cease refusing to
honor the passports of certain Amer
lean citizens through religious intOl-
erance.
Madam c. J. Walker, colored, of
| Indianaoolis, Ind. has given $1,000
| toward the erection Of a 100000 y.
NJ. c. A. building ior colored men.
The population "of France has
dwindled to such an alarming extent
that should war break out an infe-
rior army and navy would be com
PEELED to battle with the enemy so
| France is seriously considering re-
cruiting 100000 Negroes for her Al
rican colonies.
The Board OF Education OF New
York has engaged Mr. Matt Henson,
Commander Peary's companion to
the North Pole, to deliver q series Of
lectures on his polar trip before au-
diences in the public schools OF that
city.
During the months Of April, May
and Tuue, this year, I52 persons were
killed, and 1000 injured in train ac-
cidents For the year ended June 80,
1911. the bulletin issued shows the to-
tai number of casualties was IoO,555:
Of this number IO,396 were killed and
I5o.I60 injured.
One thousand dollars for immediate
temporary relief Of American citizens
suffering at Hankow, China, as re-
suit Of warfare there, has been sent
by the American Red Cross SocicJy-
At Open Health Mill No. ,, Home
stead Steel Works, in Pitt burg, Pa,
produced 2,475 tons Of stee! IN TWEEN
ty-four hours This breaks a record
made fifteen years ago.
November 4 was an anniversary OF
an epoch in transportation develop
ment Of the United States as eighty
six years ago on the said day, the
first boat on the Erie canal sailed.
HOWARD GRADUATE.