The Washington bee., 1911-05-13
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId.) }

In New York City there is great en-
thuslasm being manifested at St.
Philips Episcopal Church. There
has been provided for adjustment pool
and billiard tables, card rooms, and
occasional dances, like many white
| churches. The plan is meeting with
| the hearty approval OF some and the
| criticism of others.
The Colored Americans of Peoria.
ILL.,, are to be rewarded for standing
| by the Republican ticket A colored
tlre company is promised them.
Upwards of 100 business and pro-
| fessional colored men are recorded in
the business directory of Birming-
ham, Ala. This shows remarkable
progress.
SEVEN-BEE.
Two hundred dollars had to be paid
by the Temple Theater of Rochester
for violating the Civil Rights law.
Mrs. Susan JOyner, a coloTed lady,
was refused admission to occupy a box
seat 1t was decided that law-abiding
citizens ought to be protected by those
IN authority, and operators of such
/ theaters hereafter shall be punished
to the full extent of the law.
A gentleman in Rochester, n. Y,
has just contributed $4,000 in cash to
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
John E. McCrea, who served as Lin
coins personal courier during the
| civil war times, carrying dispatches be-
tween the White House and the front,
died last week at his home in New
York
Rumor has it that w. T. Vernon,
Rar Of II t,a
be named to fill the diplomatic post
which was formerly held by Henry
w Furniss as Minister to Haiti
Thirty-six new postal savings banks
have been established bv Postmaster
General Hitchcock to begin operations
about June I.
Joseph Cordat, a gardener, of
Lenox, Mass, refused an offer of
ST 900 for three ancient English pen
nies which he dug up there. Two of
| the pennies bear portraits of George
III, and are dated I777, the other a
portrait of George II, and dated I742
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
more to the original gift Of S75o,ooo
for the construction of the handsome
home of the Pan-American Union.
Mr.. Carnegie is hailed as the great
apostle of peace" and "benefactor of
humanity" by President Taft.
A huge boulder bearing a descrip-
tive tablet of bronze will be unveiled
to the memory of Abraham Lincoln
on the spot where he stood July II
AZ years after the memorable engage
ment in which Lincoln played so con-
spicuous part
The Confederate organizations of
this city are arranging to observe the
anniversary of the birthday of Jeffer-
son Davis June 5.
Sales Of postage stamps and stamped
paper at the postOffiCe here during
April amounted to SI30,06582, or an
increase of 7.82 per cent over the
same month of last year.
All of the old Confederates are plan
ming to attend their annual reun-
ion, to be held in Little Rock, Ark,
May IS to Is.
Fifty members of the Cincinnati
Commercial Club, who were President
Taft's boyhood friends, have an
nounced their intention to come to this
city to help President Taft to cele
brate the 18th anniversary of his we'd
ding, June 20.
Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, former wife
of the tobacco king, and six years ago
mistress of SIS coo, 900, now friend
less and forgotten by those upon
whom she squandered thousands Of
dollars, is now dying a pauper in the
Illinois State Hospital for the Insane.
At an autograph sale, a letter writ
ten by Martin Luther to Emperor
Charles V was bought by a Florence
dealer for Sz5,5OO The purchase is
said to have been made for J. P. Nor
gan.
The Southern Industrial Education
Association donated the sum of $2I,-
600 to be used in educating the
orphaned white children of the South,
at a meeting held at the residence of
Chief Justice Seth Shepard.
At the meeting Of the COlOred \.
NJ c. A. last Sunday at the Howard
Theater, it was announced $1,000 had
been given by Mrs John Hay, wife of
former Secretary of State Hay. to-
ward the new building, and similar
amount was given by w. A. Satin.
Last year the number Of Bibles is
sued amounted to 2,826,83I, OF which
I,427,247 were from the Bible House
in New York. and I,3O0,584 from the
Society's agents throughout the world.
This is 100000 in excess of the issue
Z l.