The Washington bee., 1911-05-27
NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId.)

A movement is on foot to place a
statue Of John Brown in the Hall of
Fame at the Capitol.
Mr.. William w. Glen, colored. who
for eight years has been on the police
force IN Los Angeles, Cal, has been
made sergeant
Some of the most successful white
firemen owe their training to VIII
liam @. Burnes, colored, of Indianap-
oils, Ind, who presides at the throt-
tie OF one of the fastest trains on the
Pennsylvania line west of Pittsburg.
The Philadelphia and Baltimore
Annual Conference of the A. NJ. E.
Zion Church IN session at MetrOpoli-
tan Zion Methodist Episcopal Church.
has adjourned Five hundred dollars
as a free will offering was contributed
to the Varick Monument Fund and
$4,000 was given TO Mrs Ida V.
Smith, widow of the late Bishop
Smith
The million dollar dam erected by
the United States Government in
Mexico to control the water OF the
+ Colorado River, is now practically
useless by break in the Bee River
above it.
A diamond studded sword, the gift
of the Sultan OF Zanzibar in 1874 to
Capt John Percival, of the United
States frigate Constitution, IS the
/ subject of a suit in Boston. Mass, be-
tween a Miss Susan Minns and Ches-
| ter A. Reed.
The prolonged drought in sections
of Eastern Carolina is working such
! injury to crops that planters are be
/ coming alarmed. No rain of conse-
quenCe has fallen since last Septem-
| Der in many sections. At ChabOurn,
/ the Mayor has issued an official pro-
clamation calling the people to gath
er at their houses Of worship and in
woke Divine help.
1t is said the Times, a Democratic
white paper of Orangeburg, S. c.,
when it was found that the Recorder,
a cOlored weekly, was about to miss
an issue on account of a broken press,
offered its services and got out the
paper for the cOlOred weekly
Paul Lawrence Dunbar Taylor, a
relative Of the late Paul Lawrence
Dunbar, is the first beneficiary of the
$4,000 scholarship established at VIII
berforce University, in honor of the
poet.
Thomas O'COnnOr, of New Or
leans, La, u years of age, committed
suicide last week He was chief of
the New Orleans fire department., and
was the oldest fire chief IN the United
States, both in service and age, he
having become head of the fire de-
partment in 1860.
} Mrs p T. Rowe is said to be the
Il
nate delegate to a diocesan council
of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Rowe
has been chosen by Trinity Church,
Seattle, Wash. Mrs ROwe's election
will probably be a test case.
DR. L. E Gibson is said to have
) discovered in Lewis Hanks a new dis
ease to the medical profession. Hanks
was possessed of an enormous appe-
tite, and it was found he mad $50 lit
tie animals about one-fourth TO an
inch in length, belonging to the crab
family. The operation has thus far
IprOved successful.
Dr. D. K. PearsOns, the great Chi
cago philanthropist, has achieved his
purpose of giving away his fortune Of
, $6,OOo.Ooo and will retire to the Hin
dale Sanitarium with an income Of
10000 He was Of years OF age last
April.
1t IS said that suicide among the
Negro race has increased by over 20
per cent in the last 10 years, accord
ing to statistics.
There are now five colored churches
Of the Roman Catholic Church in the
United States.
Walter Angelo Powell, aged 80
years. died at his home in St. Joseph,
| Mo, last Sunday He, with Robert
/ Mills, designed the extension to the
Capitol during President Fillmore's
Administration He also built forti-
hcations at Winchester Harper's
Ferry and other places.
! A memorial TO the Wisconsin sol
diers who died during the Civil War,
was unveiled May p in Vicksburg,
Miss. 1t is a granite column sur
rounded by bronze equestrian flguress