The Washington bee., 1911-09-02
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId-)

Last week disastrous hail and
rain storm IS believed TO have dam
aged the growing tobacco crop to
the extent of S75o,ooo.
Gen Frederick D. Gra.. chinks
the United States army in case of
war would be seriously handicapped
because of an inadequate number of
men in hospital corps.
The little town of Degroff, Ohio,
which is dry" has twelve hundred
inhabitants. There has not been an
arrest, or cause for one, in two years.
1t is said TO be prosperous and law
abiding little community.
| Bones of the Maine" victims re-
moved from the wreck of that vessel
during the operations now IN prog
ress at Havana, will be brought to
the United States on a battleship and
buried with military honors in Ar
llington National Cemetery.
The past summer has been most
lproftable one for burglars and sneak
Thieves in the history OF the police
department; in New York more than
I$5oOooo has been stolen. Within the
Hast two months 4,2OO items also have
been stolen, of which TecOveries have
lbeen made in only twenty instances.
In Birmingham, Ala, there has
been formed a Negro Juvenile Pro-
tective Association" the object of
which is to organize and incorporate
an institution for the sole purpose of
erecting an industrial detention insti-
} tuition. The condition of the cOlored
lyouths of Birmingham from a moral
point of view has a tendency to grow
worse. This colored association has
for its object the betterment OF their
condition.
r Mr.. J. E. Wiley colored, has found
ed a new city near Dallas, Tex,
: known as Mill City He established
a cotton factory with 1000 splndles
!. and ISo looms is now practically
making all the twine for. commerci0l
iuse
d Carrie NJ. Davenport, colored, has
been denied without explanation.
d permission to teach by the Orange,
IN. J., Board of Education. Although
5 she is a graduate of the Orange
high school.
Y Privates Levi Anderson and John
lR. Lyons, of the Tenth Cavalry, have
D Ireceived certificates of merit for risk
ing their lives IN resCuing a Compan-
= ION from drowning near Fit Ethan
Allen. The man had sunk in fifteen
feet of water The certificate OF
merit carries extra pay Of s. month
The United States government has
indicated its willingness to receive
j Gen Solon Menos as Haitian Minis
y ter at Washington to succeed H
Pauleus Sannon.
Mrs. Mary Allen Davis, 80 years Of
lage, and one of the oldest members
of the Cavalry Baptist Church, dice
last week at the home OF her daugh
tier During the civil war she devOt
ed much of her time to nursing
wounded soldiers who were brought
here from the battle grounds
One million dollars damage, be
Isides seven persons killed was done
by an electric storm in Charleston
In celebration of the forty-eightl
anniversary of his release from sla
very. Gilbert Porter, reputed to b.
one of the wealthiest Negroes ii
Massilon, Ohio, will give a barbecu,
September II and I8 to which he ha
invited the whole town.
The dominions of the Unite'
|
purchase of four islands in the Pa
cifc coast The islands are Flamen
co, Culebra, Naos and PericO.
The American National Red CrOs
has received expressions of gratitud
from officials of Italy, through Am
bassador Leishman, for the part
PLAYED in the establishment OF tn
American Red Cross orphanage, a
Palmi, Italy.
A copy of the first newspaper eve
d. published in the Moro language an
!; designed to teach the Filipino trib
- the arts of peace and progress. wa
received at the War Department las
week.
According to the Chicago Defen
der. from all accounts it is though
that in Evanston, Ill, the Southerr
=. Society is working quietly and ener
81 getically. testing every law OF tn
a old State of Illinois The object i
- to establish jim Crow car law
!. there.
= The British Consul General. Cour
3 tenay Bennett, says American work
men break down the earliest as h
puts more energy into his work thai
4 does the European He also think
!. speeding is partly responsible.