The Washington bee., 1911-05-06
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId.)

DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chem
Ist OF the Department of Agriculture.
Is alarmed at the number of deaths in
the United States caused by headache
powders.
Princess David Kamonana Roa.
niece OF Liliuokalani, former Queen
OF Hawaii arrived in this country ac-
companled by several attendants, to
attend the GOuld-Graham wedding.
There is keen interest in naval cir
cleS in the claim involving more than
100000 due Capt Jno. J. knapp, u.
,. n, against the United States gov
ernment for royalties due him for a
gas eJector now IN use in the navy.
The government claims the invention
was simply work in his line of duty.
Eighty-one wreaths are to be used
IN the decoration of the graves of
hremen May IS, when the hftieth me-
mortal Day of the District of Column
b1a ire department will be held.
What is thought to be the third
highest price yet paid for a single
book was paid last week at the Rob
ert Hoe sale, when "Helyas, Knight
OF the Suzanne" was sold for $4,000
to w. NJ. Hill The book was form
erly in the library of Edward Gwynne,
a book collector of the seventeenth
century.
Mrs. Martha Harmon, who is in her
seventeen year, and who has been
attending public night school in New
York, has been presented with two
gold medals, one for attendance, the
other for efficiency in studies. She
is considered an ideal pupil.
William COnnerS, after having been
examined by three white physicians.
who found no traces of Negro blood
IN him, has been sentenced to serve
three years in the Maryland Peniten-
tlary, as it was found his mother had
Negro blood. 1t is held illegal in
Maryland for whites and coloTed to
lntermarTy.
AS the General Federation Of La
Dor IN Paris was so persistent in its
intention to carry out a monster dem
onstration May I, in the face of the
governments prohibition, the author
tiles drafted 10000 additional troops
to supplement the Paris garrison of
$4,000.
By the will of DIR. Charles A.
Oliver, of Philadelphia, a valuable
library containing books OH ophthal-
mOlOgy is given Harvard University:
his paintings, engravings and pictures
given to Lafayette College, the re-
mainder of the estate, valued at SIS
600, is given in equal parts to three
medical institutions of Philadelphia.
The True Reformers Hotel, of
Richmond, Va, has been sold for ST.
600 to Mr.. ]. p. Johnson.
A COlOred planter in Mississippi
has given to Campbell College a tract
OF land valued at $1,000, the income
OF which IS to go for the maintenance
OF poor but worthy students.
DIR. NJ. w. Gilbert, pastor of Zion
Baptist Church Knoxville, Tenn, has
been elected ~resI4ent of Selma Uni
versity, succeeding Dr. r. T. Pollord,
who resigned because of old age.
Selma College is the oldest Baptist
College of the State
The establishment Of an inebriate
asylum within the District is being
strongly urged, and recommended by
the commissioners.
Every fourth woman in New York
City IS a wage Garner, according to
Miss Mary Van Kleeck, secretary of
the wOman's committee of the Russell
Sage foundation, and A per cent of
the women earn more than So per
week
At the beginning Of the present
year there were 26,845 lunatics in the
county of London, an increase of 400
over the previous year.
With an American eagle as a mas
cot, captured when it fell exhausted
after following the vessel 100 miles.
the United States transport Buford
is in port after delivering $4,000 tons
of foodstuffs to Chinese famine suf-
ferers. The mascot is priced highly.
The Carnegie hero fund has
awarded a bronze medal to Chas. F.
Faley, an employe of the bureau, in
recognition of his drowned sons
bravery.
The proclamation separating
Church and State has been promulgat-
ed throughout Portugal All creeds
shall now have an equal standing in
the country, and the Catholic faith
has ceased to hold place as the State
religion.
All railroad traffic was stopped for
an hour at Union Station in Omaha,
Nebr, when two stands of honey bees
fell and broke open, the bees swarm
ing all over the station, putting every
body to rOut