The Washington bee., 1911-07-01
NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss @. B. MaxheId.)

An official report says the crops Of
China are now being harvested, and
that the people are no longer starv-
ing. The total amount received by
the Red Cross Society for that work
was $50, 800, practically all of which
has been expended.
Senator Fletcher, of Florida. pre-
sented at the White House a protege
whom he wishes appointed Minister
to Haiti. The candidate is Joseph F.
Wiley, a Negro, who, according to
the Senator, is the head of a miniature
Tuskegee Institute in Florida.
The new census gives the common
wealth OF Australia, consisting of
New South Wales, Victoria, Queen
land and Tasmania, a population of
4,440,405, against 3,773,SOI in 1901.
The ColOred population of the State
of Georgia has been thrown into a
state of terror by the finding of the
mutilated body of another colored
woman. Six consecutive Sunday
nights have been marked by the muir
der of a colored woman The indica-
tons are that they were first stran-
gled to death.
The Navy Department is going to
open a correspondence school for the
education by mail of officers in the
naval service. The school will be es-
tablished shortly by Read Admiral
r. {. Hollyday, Chief of Bureau of
Yards and Docks, for a two years
course of instruction for assistant
civil engineers.
Although $500 more is needed to
carry on the plans for the safe and
sane Fourth of July celebration, the
contract has been given out to pre-
pare for the display which will take
place on the White House ellipse.
President Taft sent to Fisks Uni
versity a message telling that that he
| believed in manual training for the
masses of cOlored people and higher
EeducatiOn for the leaders, He said
Fisk" was one for the education of
1.-THE leaders.
| J. NJ. Holt, of Louisville, KY, has
,been admitted to practice before the
Court OF Appeals. He IS the third
lcolored man to be admitted IN the last
quarter of a century to the bar of the
Franklin County Court,
/ The Massachusetts, blue satin slip
per. presented to President Taft on
the 25th anniversary of his wedding,
has an interesting history The first
owner of the slipper was Mrs. Jona-
than Holman, wife of Col. Holman,
an officer i'll the Revolutionary War,
and whose wife was the great-great-
grandmother of President Taft
| Mrs. Carrie S. O'COnnOr, the only
lpolicewoman of Moline, Ill, was one
lof the delegates at the National Con
ference of Charities recently held IN
Boston
Mrs. Glendower Evans has been ap-
pointed by Gov. FOss to act as a men,
Der of the commission just authorized
by the Legislature of Massachusetts
to investigate the conditions and re-
Enumeration of wage-earning women
in the State.
The SIoO reward which was offered
several months ago for r. I. Hill, the
Iabsconding cashier Of the True Re
Iformers' Bank, has been raised to
IS5oo by the bank directors for his
lCapture.
! William Albert is the second col
ored boy to graduate from the High
| School in Red Bank, n. ]. He re-
ceived several medals, and was fav-
orite in the athletic club.
| Henry Greene, cOlOred, was buried
in the Gideon Welles' family plot in
Hartford, Conn Mr.. Welles was
Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln.
Henry Greene was born slave in
Virginia, and has been with the
Welles family all his life.
The announcement that prospects
are very favorable to the proposed
memorial to the late Dr. AmOry II.
Bradford, in the erection of a $4,000
building for the colOred branch of the
,IY. NJ. c. A. in Montclair, n. ]. DR..
Bradford was d great champion Of the
rights of the colored American race.
/ A monument was erected to the
memory of John Brown at the West
ern University, QuindarO, Kan, by
colored citizens last week. No one
deserved a monument more than this
martyr Of Negro emancipation and
| slavery.
The War Department has awarded
A contract for 100000 blankets to help
keep the army warm during the next
fiscal wear TO the Hinsdale Woolen
Mills in Massachusetts, as its bid ag-
gregated S265,ooo for all grades.