The Washington bee., 1911-09-02
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss @. B. Maxheld.)

Last week disastrous hail and
rain storm is believed to have dam
aged the growing tobacco crnp to
the extent of S75oOOo
| Gen, Frederick D. Graz. thinks
the United States army in case of
war would be seriously handicapped
because of an inadequate number of
men in hospital corps.
The little town of Degroff, Ohio,
which IS dry" has twelve hundred
inhabitants. There has not been an
arrest, or cause for one, in two years.
1t is said to be a prosperous and law
abiding little community
| Bones of the Maine" victims re-
moved from the wreck OF that vessel
during the operations now in prog
ress at HAVANA, will be brought to
the United States on battleship and
buried with military honors in Ar
llington National Cemetery.
The past summer has been most
Iprohtable one for burglars and sneak
thieves in the history OF the police
department; in New York more than
I$5oo,ooo has been stolen. Within the
last two months 4,2oO items also have
Ibeen stolen, of which recoveries have
Ibeen made in only twenty instances.
In Birmingham, Ala, there has
ibeen formed a Negro Juvenile Pro-
Elective Association" the object of
which is to organize and incorporate
an institution for the sole purpose of
Ierecting an industrial detention insti-
tuition The condition of the cOlored
Iyouths of Birmingham from moral
ipoint of view has a tendency to grow
worse This cOlOred association has
for its object the betterment OF their
condition.
Mr.. J. E. Wiley colored, has found
ed new city near Dallas, Tex,
known as Mill City. He established
| a cotton factory with 1000 spindles
land I8o looms is now practically
making all the twine for. CONNIE, ia!
!use
Carrie NJ Davenport, colored, has
been denied without explanation,
permission to teach by the Orange,
n. J., Board of Education Although
she is a graduate of the Orange
high school.
' Privates Levi Anderson and John
R Lyons, of the Tenth Cavalry, have
received certificates of merit for risk
ing their lives in rescuing a Compan-
p ion from drowning near Fl Ethan
Allen The man had sunk in fifteen
feet Of water The certificate of
merit carries extra pay Of s. a month
The United States government has
indicated its willingness to receive
Gen. Solon Menos as Haitian Minis
: ter at Washington TO succeed H.
Pauleus Sannon
Mrs Mary Allen Davis, 50 years of
age, and one of the oldest members
of the Cavalry Baptist Church, died
last week at the home of her daugh-
ter During the civil war she devot-
ed much of her time to nursing
wounded soldiers who were brought
here from the battle grounds
One million dollars damage, be-
sides seven persons killed was done
by an electric storm in Charleston,
s. c.
! In celebration of the forty-eighth
anniversary of his release from sla-
very Gilbert Porter, reputed to be
one of the wealthiest Negroes in
Massilon, Ohio, will give a barbecue
September II and I8 to which he has
invited the whole town.
The dominions of the United
States have been extended by the
purchase of four islands in the Pa
ciic coast The islands are Flamen-
co, Culebra, Naos and Perico.
The American National Red Cross
has received expressions of gratitude
from officials of Italy, through Am
bassador Leishman, for the part it
played in the establishment of the
American Red Cross orphanage, at
Palmi, Italy.
A copy of the first newspaper ever
published in the Moro language and
designed 10 teach the Filipino tribe
t, the arts of peace and progress. was
received at the War Department last
week
According to the Chicago Defen-
der. from all accounts it is thought
n that in Evanston. H., the Southern
Society is working quietly and ener-
! getically, testing every law of the
: old State of Illinois The object IS
: to establish jim Crow car laws
there.
The British Consul General Cour-
tenay Bennett, says American work
men break down the earliest as he
puts more energy into his work than
does the European He also thinks
speeding is partly responsible