The Washington bee., 1911-02-18
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)

George L. Harris, COlOTed, of Bal
tImOre, Md, who bought some land
near Paramount, Md, has discovered
oil on it And it is thought the land
will yield 100 barrels daily Mr.. Har-
ris is a cook and bought the land
very reasonable.
\ bill has been introduced in the
Alabama Legislature to appropriate
$4,000 toward maintaining a reform
atory for cOlored boys. The institu-
ton has been already organized,
bought and paid for. by the Fedora
ton of Colored Women's Clubs. The
Legislature is asked to take charge
and provide the annual expenses.
| Mrs. Zereida Samuels, so years old.
mother of Frank and Jesse James. the
bandits, died near Oklahoma City,
Okla
i President Taft and the United
States Supreme Court were strongly
denounced by the Council of Confed-
Grated Colored Bishops from all parts
of the country. Bishop B. f. Lee, of
Wilberforce, Ohio, and Bishop H. NJ.
Turner were the principal speakers
Judge Campbell, of the United
States Court, holds that Oklahoma's
! grandfather clause violates the ff-
| teenth amendment, and IS therefore
void He also said the clear purpose
of the law was to disfranchise the
colored Americans.
1t IS said Prof w Z B. Du Bois,
John Z. Milholland and DR.. Felix Ad-
Ter had a confidential chat with Pres
ident Taft last week. The secret has
not as yet been unveiled.
/ In Nashville, Tenn, the Negro
! Knights of Pythias lost suit Chan
! ccllor Allison decided against them.
holding that they have no right to the
name. regalia, badges, etc. The case
! will be taken to the Supreme Court
= Thirty thousand dollars was be
queathed to Tuskegee Institute by
Henry Readings, colored, of Sioux
City, Iowa, who died without rela-
tives.
Z; 1t is said Mr.. w. Sidney Pittman
issued a call for all Tuskegeeans to
, meet at GOO + street northwest, where
a Tuskegee Alumni Association was
formed.
The largest cog in the world, eighty
times the size of an ordinary hens
egg, is one Of the latest acquisitions
in the museum in New York The egg
- is 400 years old, and is two feet two
/ inches around its shortest Circumier-
- ence, and is popularity known III Mad
NJ agascar, whence it came.
The State of Virginia gave $4,000
- for the Colored Normal and Indus
r. trial Institute, and $4,000 was given
r by the students.
/ | wish to congratulate the editor OF
the Cadiz Informer on his 6Sth birth
% day, March Q. All, good and faithful
one, we wish you many more years
5 of usefulness.
ai February seems to be the month of
D many illustrious births-Horace
f Greeley, Abraham Lincoln and
b. George Washington. 1t IS good to
1 be born in February.
$ At the complimentary dinner given
/ to the Hon. Nathan Straus, Charles
r w. Anderson. Collector Of Customs in
New York City. Is among those prom
iinently mentioned. There were about
5 400 present.
5 Bert Williams, the famous COM
- edian, gave SIOO toward a movement
;, to have colored policemen and fremen
D | in New York lie was followed by
t James Boley, who also gave $IoO. The
e movement is pushed by both Repub-
{ licans and Democrats.
/ TIE South joined the North in OBJ
II serving the IO2d anniversary Of the
y birth Of President Lincoln. For the
e first time in the history Of the city
G Of New Orleans. the city celebrated
t the natal day Of Lincoln in appropri-
70 ate manner Banks were all closed
- at noon and exercises were held III
- the schools.
Prof. w T. 3. Du Bois, in speaking
4 before the Twentieth Century Club,
- said that by the segregation Of the
fl colored race the United States Is SOW
i ing the seeds Of a civil war, and that
Y race feeling was on the increase and
f would mean trouble if not stopped.
II Catholics have decided 70 raise their
2 voices against divorces. One hundred
! thousand Catholics Of Boston have in
5 dorsed the resolution CondcmrInI di-
vOrces at the recent meeting Of the
b. Federations Of Catholic Societies in
! Boston
? Miss Pearl Morris has been award
ed $4,000 damages by a jury against
the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad
b. because she was compelled to ride
. from Vicksburg 20 New York last No
vember with three coIored bishops.
The case will be brought, if neces-
sary, to the Supreme Court by the
railroad
Mr. William H. Flood, who was a
personal friend OF Abraham Lincoln
and the first to reach his side after
his assassination, died at his home in
this city on the IO2d anniversary Of
his friend
The conTerees on the legislative ap-
preparation bill are still at odds on
increasing the salary Of the Secretary
to the President from 10000 to $4,000
per year
/ A joint resolution passed by Con
gress, authorizing the reinstatement
lat West Point Of the nine cadets who
were dismissed for hazing, was vetoed
by President TAFT
The latest anesthetic IN operating
/ for appendicitis IS lukewarm water.
! This has been used at Johns Hopkins
Hospital with great success, according
10 statement Of a surgeon OF na-
tiOnal reputation
Fifty women, mounted and well
drilled, led 4 parade Of 1000 in ks
simmee, Fla, LinCOln's birthday. A
thousand former Union soldiers were
in line; also several hundred school