The Washington bee., 1911-06-24
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)


Rev E. w. Lee, colored, president
OF the Morris Brown College, at At
lanta, Ga, dropped dead in Wilber-
force, Ohio. He was surrounded bv
number of presidents of colleges of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, who were attending a meet
ing at Wilberforce
There is a movement on foot to
give Mr.. w. Monroe Trotter, editor
| of Boston Guardian, a testimonial in
recognition of the great service he has
rendered the race
An official stS tement IS given out
that the death rate in 1910 in Italy
was the lowest since 1862 The death
rate IN Rome Is I3 per 1000, the low
est rate in Europe
Five years ago the suffragettes
started TO raise a campaign fund of
| 100000. Mrs. Frederick Pethick
Lawrence announces that the war
chest now amounts to S5I5,OOO. Plans
have been arranged for obtaining a
total OF $I.25O,OOo
In Guthrie, Okla, there Is to be
erected by the Methodist Episcopal
Church. a Methodist University
In Pittsburg, Pa, there is being op-
Grated by colored Americans, a coal
mine.
Miss O'Hagan has left $4,000 to
Negro Catholic schools of Baltimore.
Lyman ID. Thurston, who was ap-
pointed postmaster of Leicester by
! Abraham Lincoln in 1901, has for
iwarded his resignation to this city to
! take effect July IS, after a half cen
I turV of continuous service
! Women have just gotten the fran
chise in the Episcopal Churches in Chi
/ CagO, during the annual convention
| of the diocese. The constitution and
. canons of the diocese were amended
| to give the women members the right
Ito vote on church matters
! Gov. Tener, of Harrisburg, Pa,
signed bill apprOpriating $4,000 for
a statue of Mai Gen. George G.
Meade, who commanded the Union
Army at the battle of Gettysburg Pa
! More than a half million persons
lin Mississippi and Louisiana are of
fering prayer for rain There has been
no rain since early IN April, and the
1 situation Is serious. Everywhere
dried and withered fields are to be
seen
! Philadelphia has the honor of fur
nishing the artist for the coronation
| John Mcclure Hamilton, of Phla-
delphia, who has for some years lived
| III London. He was commissioned
by King George to paint the picture
of the ceremony.
| A huge granite monument IN the
| form of a bowlder, erected to the
tmemory of the unidentified soldiers.
lwho died at Valley Forge during the
| encampment Of Gen. WashingtOn's
army there during I777-8, was unveil-
ed by the Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
Physicians are showing great in
Iterest in the extraordinary and sue
jcessful treatment of an electric shock
| Stanley Bloom, I5-year-Old lad, OF
Rochester, n. Y, touched d 5000
volt cable A physician had him
buried IN earth to his arm pit, and in
three hours the boy recovered con
| sciousness
The National Negro Business
| League will hold its twelfth annual
meeting at Little Rock, Ark, August
10, II and I8, 1911
At Cape Palmas, Liberia, Africa
| the corner stone laying Of the Ius-
kegee chapel, which has been named
after Tuskegee Institute, teok place
| last week. The work Of the chapel
will be among the Kroos, the leading
| tribe of the West coast.
DR.. w. G. Pierce, pastor OF All
Souls Unitarian Church, Of which
| President Taft is member, startled
his congregation by saying that the
| Bible is nothing more than an inter
esting book Of outdoor life, written
: by men who lived in the open and
who described what they saw and
felt"
J J. Proctor Knott, former governor
Of Kentucky, and prominent for
many years in Congress, died last
week at the age of eighty-two. One
| expression which made him famous
was during one term in Congress,
while in Congress speaking against
an appropriation for the betterment
of harbor facilities in Duluth, Mimi.
referred to the city as the zenith
city of the unsalted seas.
The President of Cuba sent TO Mrs.
Taft silver service with carving
sets and a large assortment of fiat
silver, all marked with an old English
| T. and the whole inclOsed IN a ma
hogany chest bound in brass. On
the nameplate of the chest is en-
graved Mrs w H. Taft, from Gen.
Jose Miguel Gomez, I886-IOIL"
The first fleet of yachts for the Sal
vation Army was dedicated last We'd
nesday. This will establish branch
which will coordinate with its land
forces in religious work They will
cruise along the Atlantic coast, touch
| ing many cities and towns to conduct
open air services, wharf meetings and
distribute literature.
Examiners Appointed.