The Washington bee., 1911-11-18
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)

That the state of Maryland will
fight the report of the commission
appointed by the Supreme Court,
which recommends that the State
sacrifice thirty-six square miles of
land to West Virginia, IS considered
certain.
Prof. Bernard Fraenkil, the noted
throat specialist, died last week in
Berlin. He was consulted by Col.
Roosevelt in May, 1910, regarding
persistent throat affections which an
noyed the American eX-President dur
ing his European tour.
A reunion of the blue and gray
took place November I3, IN Peters
burg, Va, at the unveiling on the
Crater battlefield of the handsome
granite monument erected by the
State of Massachusetts to its soldier
and sailor dead who fell there in the
civil war Gov. FOss, Of Massachu-
setts, and Gov. Mann, of Virginia,
participated in the ceremonies.
The Commonwealth of KeLtucky
won a victory over the Southern Pa
cihc Company, when the United
States Supreme Court decided that
the Commonwealth had the right to
tax the company on the latter's
steamers plying between New York
and New Orleans.
Moving picture show promoters re-
ceiyed a blow when the Supreme
/ Court of the United States decided
! that an exhibit of pictures based on
the scenes of a copyrighted book
J may constitute an infringement OF
! the copyright on the book or the re-
| served rights to dramatize.
Boston's milk war was subject
! of argument before Interstate Com
merce Commission The independent
milk producers claim that Boston and
Maine and other New England rail
roads Disseminated against them in
Boston in freight rates.
Twenty-Five years of work among
the lepers of Molokai Island, Hawaii,
was celebrated by Brother Joseph,
formerly Ira Barnes Dutton. When
a boy he became imbued with deep
religious sentiments and took a
course of theology in the Episcopal
Church, but was converted to Cathol1-
cism. He has lived continuously at
KalawaO, IS strong and active, and
has escaped contracting leprosy.
Excavators exhumed twenty-five
skeletons where a sky-scraping busl-
ness structure will be erected. They
were bones of persons buried IN old
Trinity Church Chapel in 1900.
The twelfth victim has been slain in
Atlanta, Ga, by the mysterious
Black Jack" All the victims have
been mullattoes. and have been slain
and mutilated in the same manner
Thus far the police are absolutely
without any clue as to the identity
of the murderer.
Motion pictures are to be issued by
the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
in its Red Cross seal anti-tuberculo-
sis campaign. The film story deals
with the refusal of a tenement owner
/ in New York to clean up the tene
ment. the contraction of tuberculosi:
+ by the occupants and owners wife
+ Finally it shows where a check fol
$4,000 was given for the recovery
of his wife.
f The War, Navy, Agricultural anC
, other executive departments hav,
. forwarded exhibits to the second an
nual insular fair to be held at Sar
Juan, Porto Rico, early next month
John G. Scofeld, chief clerk of tn,
War Department, will be the Gov
ernme1it's representative at the fair.
The sum Of 1851 900 IS asked O
c | Congress for Improvements and main
- tenance Of the Government Asylum
D. for the Insane during the ensuing
J. year, in the report of Surgeon Stern
/. berg and Superintendent White, sub
mitted to Secretary of the Interior
They claim the asylum needs higl
walls TO prevent escapes, and add
- tional buildings.
a James CoOkcroft, we'll known as al
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