The Washington bee., 1911-12-23
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED To GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxfieId.) }

4 Merry Christmas TO you
The POstotfice Department pTohted
to the extent of $4,000, which came
as a result of dead letter sale from un-
claimed pieces of mail.
DR. William Z. Chancellor, formerly
superintendent of schools in this city,
has written a book entitled History
of the Presidents" The introduction
is contributed by Speaker Clark.
Mark Tully, State Treasurer of
Kansas, says: Kansas has the larg-
est per capita wealth, based upon the
assessed valuation, of any State III
the Union The per capita assess
ment valuation is $I,642,3o.
Mr.. Booker T Washington has
been made one of the executors Of the
estate of the late Mr.. Emmett Dens-
more, in Brooklyn, n. Y. This in
wolves his also being one of the di-
rectors of the Garfield Tea Company,
located in Brooklyn, n. Y.
Horrifying details of massacre of
Armenian Christians by Turks in An
atolia, has been received by letter
sent to the Armenian Relief Society,
The letter stated $500 have been slam,
Including men, women and children.
| The United States silver pattern
ldollar, dated I776, and valued at
IS5.OoO. was exhibited at Chicago at
1.-THE convention of the American Nj
lmismatic Association The coin is
lowned by H. O. Granberg, of W1sCon-
sin. 1t represents unquestionably the
livery first United States or United
Colonies. as the confederation was
originally known.
The first Chinese chapel in this city,
dedicated to the Christian religion
was opened last Sunday. 1t Is located
p at 2o7 John Marshall Place. Dr.
George Ivan Chin, nephew of the
, Chinese Ambassador, and convert to
p Christianity. ofhciated.
President Taft accepted honorary
membership in the Georgia Society,
= OF New York. The membership was
/, rendered to Mr. Taft because of his
3 appointment of Chief Justice White
To- and Associate Justice Lamar, both OF
4 whom were Southerners,
Architects of the District are dis
= cussing the advisaDiiity OF urging
0 ! Congress to appropriate money tor
= the construction of a Lincoln memo
+ rial in the form of bridge across
d the Potomac, TO the road leading tc
o the National Cemetery at Arlington.
5 Announcement was made this morn
e ing that Capt. Miss Sallie Thompkins
/ the only woman commissioned as al
II officer in the Confederate army. wa.
elected a Confederate veteran Mis-:
5 IThOmpkins established and maintain
5 ed at her own expense a hospIta
S where 300 wounded and sick Con
e federate soldiers were treated betweel
II 1861 to 1906.
dI Ground was broken last week 70
mi Washington new city postotlice a
-o5 Massachusetts Avenue and NortI
c Capitol Street 4 gang OF men wit
at steam shovel viii push the work rap
n idly
" DR.. w. ]. Thompkins, a colore
I'd physician of Kansas City, sued tn
as Missouri Kansas and Texas RailrOa
T. and the Pullman Company for $4,000
in damages. Thompson was making
10 trip from Kansas city to NcAliste
1t, Okla, when he was elected at Vint;
and forced to ride in Jim Crow ca
w although he had Pullman ticket |
~ 4 decision handed down in the Unite
ly States Court, Judge s Van Lalkeu
Id burg says. Railroad companies hay
iy a right to Jim Crow colored passef
EN- gers when the State laws provide fc
III separate cars.
he In Greensboro. \. c.. during tn
or month of November the white peopi
sc lead in crime The total number {
ce arrests were I55, of this number s
on were white and u were Negroes.
h Last week the Juvenile Court estal
We lished a record for the amount {
nd money received in non-support case
lr. to be paid to children who have bee
IN found in want The amount receive
TO by families during the past wee
through the tribunal, was SI.I65.
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