The Washington bee., 1911-06-10
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. Maxheld.)

Mrs. w. A. Johnston, wife of the
Chief Justice of Kansas. and Mrs
Genevieve Chalkley, of Lawrence,
Kan, have been appointed by Gov
Stubs to visit the State institutions
1t will be their duty to visit institu-
tions and make suggestions for their
Improvement TO the Board of Control
The recently completed New York
Library, erected at a cost of nearly
SI2,oOo,oOO, on plot of Fifth Avenue
ground worth S2O,OOO,OOO, has been
dedicated to its office The library
houses 100000 volumes, and its gal
leries contain many notable works of
art
DR. George c. Hall, of Chicago, Ill,
has been elected a member of the
Trustee Board of the Inner-ChurCh
College, Nashville, Tenn. There are
but five COlOred men on the board.
the rest composing the .aristocracy OF
the South
Winthrop Robinson, the only col
ored member of the graduating class
of Cambridge, Mass has been award
ed a scholarship to Amherst College
A company capitalized at $4,000
has been incorporated for the pur-
pose of manufacturing the Billups
sCrubbing brush, which IS an inveu-
ton by cOlOred man.
Senator Robert L. Taylor. of Ten
nessee, will be the principal speaker
at memorial exercises to be held in
the Confederate section Of Arlington
Cemetery. In addition to the annual
Iunveiling of the Southern cross, an
elaborate musical program has been
arranged.
President Taft sent congratulations
to King George OF England on his
10th birthday last Sunday. The Eng
lish ruler also received a great num-
Der of costly gifts.
ViCe-ChanCellor Walker, Of Tren-
ton, n. J., sustained the validity of a
deed by which Mrs. Sarah Vain Hen
Erickson, of Wainford, transferred all
her real and personal property to John
| Wilson, a Negro servant. The estate
consisted Of a plantation mill, the old
homestead and about $4,000 OF per
sOnal property
The IO3d anniversary of the birth
IOf Jefferson Davis was observed IN
several of the Southern States and by
the United Daughters of the Con
federacy.
There is to be a reunion Of the
Blue and the Gray in Atlanta, Ga,
next October The occasion Is to be
the dedication by President Taft of a
monument COmmemOrating the names
and services of the organizations that
helped to create a friendly feeling be
tween North and South after the civil
war
The Government Hospital for the
Insane will not be subjected to a Con
gressiOnal committee Apparently the
opinion of the members Of the com
mittee was unanimous in favor OF
dropping the case.
The InterdenOminational Chinese
missionary, George Ivan Chiu, has be-
gun work among his countrymen IN
this city.
The centenary birthday. of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose book.
"Uncle Toms Cabin was one of the
greatest factors III destroying slavery.
will be celebrated by the colOred la
dies in this city this month.
Scott Joplin, the cOlOred composer.
has a new opera in three acts called
"Treemonisha" There are 27 musical
numbers, 23O pages to the score OF
the opera. The cast provides for II
persons and a large chorus.
The New England African Metho-
dist Episcopal Conference in New
port, r. l.. states that cOlOred Amer
leans are Disseminated against in the
United States Navy. The Secretary
of the Navy was informed by the con
ference of the existing discrimination,
and an investigation was requested
Sheriff w. c. Daniels. of Macon
County, Ala, in which Tuskegee In
stitute is located, reports that al
though there were nearly six thousand
people on the school grounds during
the Commencement May IS last, he
did not make a single arrest.
At the Commencement exercises
Of the Normal School No. ?, Elmer
Ellsworth Brown will deliver the ad-
dress. J. G. Napier, Register of the
Treasury, will deliver the address for
the Armstrong Manual Training
School, and Representative Z. L. Tay-
lor, Jr., of Ohio, will address the NJ
Street High School