The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss y. B. MaxheId.)

The first lady professor N Germany
/ Will be Mile. Gertrude J. Wockler,
Phi D. She has been appointed as
slstant professor of physic at Leipsic
J University. Mile WOckler IS a Swiss,
thirty-three years of age. and will be
the youngest professor in the only
! Saxon University.
Among the colored men in the dip
| lOmatic service are Ministers 10 Haiti
and Liberia, three consuls in South
| America and two in France
John NJ. Bright, ninety-fOur years
of age, the Oldest lawyer In Tennessee.
died this week at his home near Fay
etteville. He was Inspector general
of Tennessee during the civil war,
and a member Of Congress from 1871
to 1879.
The first Negro school in Missouri
was founded in Kansas City by J. Mil
ton Turner, in 1868.
Inaugurating a crusade against vio-
latiOns of the Sunday laws at resorts
and rOadhouses near Baltimore has be
gun Already the prOprietOrs of five
such places have been presented to
the grand jury of Baltimore County
for action.
The Sacs and Foxes, Of the Missis-
sippi tribe of Indians IN Iowa and
Oklahoma will receive their full pro
rata share of the $I,o2O,OOo trust fund
now in the Treasury TO their credit,
.as soon as they assume citizenship.
II. Pauleis SannOn, the retiring Min-
lister, called at the State Department
Tuesday to say farewell to Acting
Secretary Adee He sailed from New
York Thursday with Mrs Sannon for
Havre. He expects 10 spend FIVE
months in Paris before returning 10
Haiti
Recommendation for the conversion
of Goat Alley, Hughes Court and
many other places into interior parks
are contained in the annual report of
the board for the condemnation of in
sanitary buildings. Last year 1877 in
sanitary houses were demolished, las
were in streets, AZ IN alleys. Also
6o8 tenants were forced to seek other
quarters, of this number SIS were
colOred and 81 were whites.
Andrew Carnegies offer Of $75O,oOO
to found hero fund for Italy has
been accepted by the King A com
mittee to administer the fund has
been appointed.
Mrs. Della Torrey, aunt of PTeSi-
dent Taft, quietly celebrated her Both
birthday in Waterbury, Conn
Mrs. Belle NJ Fowler has been ap-
pointed food inspector at Spokane,
Wash 1t is her business TO visit cafes,
bakeries and candy kitchens to see
that they are kept in a sanitary con
dition. She received the appoint
ment because of her reputation as a
faultless housekeeper in her own
home
Matte E Lomax, who was sea
fenced to be hanged November 20
for killing her husband, last Deem
Der, is said to be a victim of tubercu-
losis, so death may rob the gallOvs
of victim.
The services of more than o,ooo
Americans and Filipino teachers en-
plOyed in the various schools of the
islands of the Philippines, and hast
year there were over 100000 boys and
girls who received instruction FROM
the schools
Nearly 700 cases Of cruelty TO AMI
mails were reported to the police last
year Six animal drinking fountains
were installed last year and 3,4Iz ami
mails were inspected.
The development OF Latham Park
along the old York Road, and the de
struction of the old LuCretia Mott res
ldenCe removes every trace of Wha
was once an underground station dur
ing the civil war. The Grand Arm
veterans have a marker or a tablet
placed on or near the site where the
old Mott house stood
Mrs. John Barnhill, Of Truro, N. s,
recently celebrated her one hundred
and tenth birthday Her father died
just one day short of his one huH-
dredth birthday.
The crusade against unClean gTOCers
resulted in three prosecutions Ninety
three farms were inspected In Vn-
ginia, Maryland and the District, and
1853 cattle inspected; 8,925 canta-
oupes were found unfit for food; 8zz
eggs and 600 pounds of fish
Reports from the Board of EduCa-
ton show that more than 1000 stu
tents entered the night schools Of the
,ity, which opened this week Nearly
half OF this number were ColOred stu
ients