The Washington bee., 1911-01-14
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)


Henry Redings, a pioneer colored
| American, of Sioux CITY. Iowa. X
years OF age, who died without rela-
tives, leaves a fortune Of $4,000 to
Tuskegee Institute, it is claimed.
A Representative from Florida in
troduced two bills providing for the
regulation of street car service in the
District. One provides for Jim Crow
cars, and the other fixes a two-cent
tare tor any passenger who is not
able to obtain a seat
John r. KIssinger, the Indiana vol
unteer soldier who allowed himself
TO be bitten by mosquitoes during the
first American occupation of Cuba to
demonstrate the theory of mosquito
infection, has been granted a pension
| OF SIPS per month.
= Edward Malone, d graduate of Tus-
! kegee Institute, now Assistant Farm
Director at Clark University, was re-
Gently granted patent upon a scratch
| harrow. This is the second patent
which has been granted him The
race is proud of such colored Ameri-
cans
Mrs. Robert H. Sayre, of Cam
bridge, Mass, has refused an offer
of 100000 fos a famous Perugini
! painting of the Madonna and Christ
Child, made by a millionaire Boston
collector
1t is rumored that DR. J. f Shep-
/ ard, President and founder of the
National Religious Training School
at Durham, n. c., will visit Africa in
| the early summer
| Hon. Harry w. Bass, who has the
honor of being the first colored man
| of Pennsylvania to be elected as a
member of the State Legislature, was
sworn in at Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 3,
1911.
| According to the Philadelphia Trib-
une, there is a distinction being made
in Africa, the native home of the Ne
gro race. 1t is said white Americans
are trying to enforce Jim Crow rules.
A celebration of the Emancipation
| Proclamation was held in Baltimore
at the John Wesley Church Emil
nent addresses were made by ex-
Minister Ernest Lyon and Judge Rob
| ert II. Terrell, of this city. Judge
| Terrell IS always interesting.
| On Jon. appropriate memorial
services were held in several cities
in honor of the tooth anniversary of
the birth of Charles Sumner. to whom
we are indebted, as well as sew
eral other good Republicans, for our
rights before the law.
Last Sunday was known in the po-
litical world as Jackson Day, as it
was the 05th anniversary of the bat
tie of New Orleans, from which An
drew Jackson won such fame as to
lead him to the Presidency.
A bill has been passed to erect a
lS2,ooo,Ooo memorial to Abraham Lin
coin in this city. One million has
lbeen given, so as to begin the work.
Fifty per cent of the students of
| Wellesley College are deficient in
/ spelling One hour a day will be de-
tvoted to spelling classes throughout
the rest of the year. Any student
who submits a paper in which three
;: words are misspeiled IS compelled TO
enter the spelling class.
Prof. William II. Pickering, OF the
! Howard Observatory, IS interested IN
the recent statement of DIR. /. J. J.
See, of the Mare Island Observatory,
that the planet Venus IS inhabited.
Prof Pickering always held the idea
that life existed on the planet Venus.
According to Booker 7. Washing
ton, the decrease in population OF
counties IS due to the lack Of eduCa-
tional facilities He cites as a sub
sanitation Of facts Macon County, in
which his school is located. This IS
the only one showing an increase III
population during the last decade.
New York capitalists, through New
York papers. are irving to make ii ap-
lpear as if another revolution will
isoOn be starter in Haiti. 1t is said
the black Republic under President
Simon is doing better than ever.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt has ac-
Icepted an invitation to speak in At
lanta. Ga, at the Southern CONNER
: cial Congress. His subject IS "The
: South's responsibility in statesman
ship and business endeavOr.'
, According to the bulletin of the
Bureau Of Statistics, Department of
Commerce and Labor, nearly $780,,
100000 worth of silk, produced and
imported, is consumed in the United
, Estates yearly.
By voluntary contributions, the
members Of the San Francisco Fire
Department have raised $1,000 for the
Ibenefit Of the families of their fellow
fremen who lost their lives in the
stockyards fire at Chicago.
Il George Wilson, Secretary Of the
Board Of Charities, and Dr. George
; IKober claim the conditions in the
lcolored ward at the Washington
/, Asylum is overcrowded, and unless
/ relief is offered within 90 days the
= situation will be serious. There are
now II3 colored male inmates, and
Accommodations are provided for 80.
It is said the japanese Government
has ordered 100000 tons Of rice from
h lSaigon Ondo-China) growers for i'm
+ mediate delivery. The only similar
/ order for such a large amount was
= given just prior to her war with Rus
sia.
/ Under the terms of the will of the
o ! late Senator Elkins, the estate, which
is valued at $zO,o 100000, IS to be held
intact for FIVE years, then to be d.
lvided among his seven children.