The Washington bee., 1911-10-28
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss u. B. MaxheId)

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Mrs "StonewalI Jackson. at her
home in Charlotte, \. c., Is prepar-
ing an article which will attempt TO
refute the characterization of General
Jackson in Miss Mary Johuston's
latest novel The Long Roll"
SOlon Menos, the newly appointed
Haitian Minister TO the United
| States, who succeeds Mr.. Sanuon in
| that capacity, has arrived Mr.. Menos
| has filled many important positions IN
his country He has been Secretary
| Of State, Secretary OF Commerce. and
Minister Of Justice He has also been
! president OF the legislative society of
/ Port au Prince, so he Is we'll quail
| fed for his new duties.
Dr. J. H. WestbroOk, we'll
known colored physician in Denver,
Colo, has been elected TO member
ship in the Denver Chamber OF Com
ImerCe. The membership of the
Chamber OF Commerce has become
cosmopolitan as we'll as metrOpoli-
! tan. DR.. WestbrOok will be accord
ed all privileges extended to mem
bers.
George w Hayes, of Cincinnati
Ohio, celebrated his fortieth anniver-
Sary as crier in the United States
Court there few days ago Mr..
Hays is a veteran of the civil war.
and marched with Sherman to the sea.
| He is native Of Louisiana
Four men accused of lynchng
Chas. P. Sellers, June Is, on a ranch
| near Valentine, Neb., have been sen
fenced to life imprisonment by Judge
WestOver
The Italian authorities at TripOli
have issued proclamation suppress
ing slavery Tripoli was the only re
naming port on the coast OF Africa
where slavery still prevailed, not
withStanding the efforts of Great
Britain on the one side and France on
the other. to prevent the traffic. it
still existed
Bishop c. s. Smith. Of Detroit.
Mich, of the \ NJ. F. Church, who
was attending the Ecumenical Meth
odist Conference. was honored with
the degree of Doctor of Divinity by
Victoria University 1t was the first
! time in the seventy-five years OF the
University that a cuia-ed man was so
honored
Approximately so claims for dam
ages resulting from the Mexico revolt
have been filed by Americans, with
the State Department, for transmits
sion to the Mexican Interior Court
of Claims, to adjust all damages
\ showing that gratifes Postmaster
General Hitchcock. .>Postmdster Mer-
rift. and officials of the city postotiice
lgenerally, IS that of the postal say
ings depository here Within three
weeks more than $4,000 has been
deposited by 542 patrons.
Chief Justice White. of the United
States Supreme Court, acted as a
good Samaritan by helping Harry
Dawson, a court page. TO carry large
mcnts. The Chief Justice IS a great
walker and generally tramps along
the avenue to court in the morning
and back in the evening.
William +. Mattingly has deposited
in the Public Library of this city three
folio volumes, being a transcript of
the correspondence OF the original
commissioners of this city, Thomas
Johnson. Daniel Carroll and David
Steuart, during the years Of 1901 10
1894
Disclosures OF a systematic robbery
lOf Wells-Fargo express offices in the
division west of Salt Lake, especially
in the California district. which. it Is
estimated, will entail a total loss of
nearly $4,000 to the express COM
pany The package was forwarded
from a bank in Los Angeles to Mo
.jare, and disappeared in transit
Ida Lewis, of Newport, r l., keeper
'Of the LIMERICK light for more than
la half century. and famed the country
over by many daring rescues, was
found unconscious at her post Of duty
last week. suffering from apoplexy.
She is u years old
John Caldwell, who was sentenced
IN Hammond, Ind, TO serve from two
to twenty years in the State prison
at Jefferson. Ind, Is the first convict
to have left unattended, paying his
own railroad fare He was convict
ed of conspiring to pad the pay rolls
OF the United States Steel Corpora
tion
Capt Herbert Edward Greenstreet
has a record of which any shipmaster
might be proud. He IS now on his
eighrieth world voyage around the
world and thus far without a single
mIshap. Capt Greenstreet has sailed
or steamed altogether about 2.O6O,OOO
miles
Eighteen bodies from the wreck of
the Maine have been recovered,
making total of forty-eight altogeth-
eT recovered from the wreCkage
DR.. DUBOIS NEW BOOK.