The Washington bee., 1911-12-09
PARAGRAPH NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)

John Mitchell, yr, president of the
Mechanics Savings Bank, of Rich
mond, Va, was the only colored dele
gate to the American Bankers Asso-
citation, which met in New Orleans,
La.
Bishop Walters will be presented
with a silver cup by the several aux
iliaries of the Galbraith A. NJ. Z.
Church, of which DR. Corrothers IS
pastor, on the night of December IA
DR. d. Webster Davis headed a
committee which last week requested
raise in the salaries paid colored
school teachers. who now receive one
third less pay than white teachers in
Richmond, Va.
Commissioner O'Neil, OF New York,
has been asked by many admirers OF
sport to put an end TO the matching
of colored and white men The com
missioner Is of the opinion that they
/ are not wanted by the public, and that
each should battle between them
| selves.
Andrew Carnegie and John d.
Rockefeller will have to pay their
personal taxes as assessed by the city
of New York Mr.. Carnegie will pay
taxes on SIO,Ooo,ooo as against S5,ooo,-
600 last year Mr.. Rockefeller will
pay on S5.ooo,ooo just twice last year s
assessment Mrs. Russell Sage, whose
personal property has been assessed
at $1,000, 900 will pay on just half the
| original amount
| Mrs. Minerva Miller, a COlored wO-
man of Patterson, n. J., was award
ed $4,000 damages in suit against
a moving picture show which sought
to charge her 25 cents admission
when the posted price was ; cents.
For the first time IN the State of
Georgia, white man was convicted
and paid the penalty for killing a Ne
gro woman and her child. He CON
fessed his crime, and the State de
| clined TO act on his case.
Just before Vice President Sherman
took up the gavel to call the Senate to
order last Monday, telegram was
Ihanded him announcing the death OF
his mother-in-law, Mrs Babcock, in
Utica, ~ Y.
| Within the last ten years there has
been in the United States S6,O34 muir
ders or an equivalent to the total pop
ulation of Springfield, Mass. Presi-
dent Taft says 1T is not too much to
say that the administration of crimi-
nal law in this country Is a disgrace
to our civilization
| The only home in America of John
Paul Jones was marked appropriately
by a bronze tablet and unveiled at
the house where the famous Ameri-
can naval hero lived in IT'S in Fred
IeriCksburg, Va, and where he was ap-
pointed a lieutenant in the continent
tai army.
. DR.. Frederick A. Cook, the explo-
lrer, has sued the New York Times
for 100000 damages on the ground
that his reputation had been injured
and public distrust has been engeI.-
dered through the publication by the
Times of story that he was egged
when he tried to lecture in Copen-
hagen October "a last.
Chas. H. Turpin, colored was cleo
ted State constable in ST Louis, Mo.
| He was nominated in the direct pri-
mary over three white men by Is7
votes. The new constable was born
lthirty-five years ago, in Georgia
| The Salvation Army has represen-
tatives at work in forty-seven differ
lent countries, and issues forty-flve pc
riodicals, printed in twenty-one Ian
guages
| Medical statistics prove that ampu-
| tatiOns are four times as dangerous
after the age of fifty as before
There has been fled by Archie
Hawkins, an attorney OF Baltimore. a
! complaint against the Baltimore.
| Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway for
determinations against colored pas
sengers; last Monday. Attorney Ralph
Robinson, who represented the de
PENDANTS. admitted that discrimina-
hons existed, and that his company
would conform TO any decision rem
dered by the commission, but that
they objected to being made a scape-
goat in the matter
Senator Hoke Smith. of Georgia.
made the government present Of
nearly $1,000 by refusing to accept any
salary which elapsed between his
election as Senator last July and his
taking the oath of office last week
The money was turned back into the
Treasury
The Librarian OF Congress has lust
submitted his annual report in which
he states that the accessions to the
library for the year I0Io-IOII were
08.57I volumes, bringing the grand
total OF printed volumes in the col
lection IN to 2OT Zoo