The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. Maxfield.) }

SlII Ol IlOSplLdl IO DC hllOWl d TIC
John A. Andrew Hospital, after the
late Governor Andrew. The givers
of the hospital do not wish their
names to be made public
Anna R. Southwick, in her will,
bequeathed $500 to the home for aged
colored women in Massachusetts and
$Ioo each to the two nurses who had
taken care of her.
Miss Sarah Wilkes, of Nantucket,
Mass, won scholarship for the
Boston University for 1871. This IS
the second successive scholarship won
| by Miss Wilkes. She is the only
colored female student at the Uni
versity.
Last year there were $4,000 dog
tags issued. while this year only
!about one-third of that number are
out. There are at present 4,6I5 dog
licenses issued, while according to the
Irecent census there are 5000 dogs
in the District.
/ According to an exchange, 268 per-
sons were killed by the heat during
the recent hot spell, I59 in Philadel-
phia, and 3Io in New England.
The War Department has sent to
Congress request for $25o,ooo in
addition to the $4,000, already ap-
propriated to continue the work OF
raising the Maine in Havana har-
Dor.
Purser Thomas Kinsey, who for
many years has been in the service
of the American Line, declares he
has made one thousand trips across
1.-THE Atlantic Ocean, a total distance
of 100000 miles.
Il Hookworm dispensaries III several
: counties in Georgia during the past
month have met with unusual sue
y cess, and a request has been made
-lof the Rockefeller HoOBworm Com
D mission to allow the dispensaries to
: remain longer. Last week 1926 cas-
: es were treated in the four counties
| in North Carolina.
Il Oklahoma City is to erect a State
lCapitol, which will cost $I,ooo,OOo.
The first railroad in the United
States was put into operation at
eI Quincy, Mass, October 70, 1926, to
granite three miles to tide
water.
Al A large company of young ladies
n from New York are in Windsor
lel Locks, Conn, living in tents on a
tobacco plantation, which they claim
is a marvellous complexion cure. The
"a atmosphere of growing tobacco is
n said to clear the face of many i'm
10 perfections.
u Senator Robert L. Taylor, of Ten
er nessee, or "Fiddlin' Bob," as his
re neighbors call him, was sixty-one
}, years old July 81. He celebrated ii
m by attending the session of the Sen
tn ate.
70, George w. L. Smith, seventy-twC
I'd years old, the second oldest postmas-
c ter in the country in point of service
Ii died last Saturday at Glen Falls. He
E. was appointed during Buchanan's ad-
ds ministration, as assistant postmaster
E. and in 1861 was appointed postmas-
or ter.
r. More men were killed at Gettys'
s. burg than in any other battle of tht
IS Civil War. Three thousand and sew
Id enty Union soldiers fell, and 2,59z
ne Confederates, a total of 5,662. Those
who died of wounds are not included
July is noted for its many historit
events, and especially the 27th. Il
1901 the battleship Maine wa
launched at Philadelphia to replac
the battleship which is now bein,
"a raised in Havana Harbor. It is ais
0 the anniversary of outbreak of wa
between Japan and China, which be
!, ~ gan in 1894, and of revolutionar
i" outbreak in Paris in 1890. On tn
same date in 1857 Franklin reache
The London as colonial agent.
he William Filtz. nine years of agt
md died of heart trouble last week. II
nm weighed $50 pounds He was cor
the nected with a show in Baltimore.