The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. Maxfield.)

Andy 10th, who was released from
the penitentiary last March after
serving twenty years for a crime
which he did not commit, has been
placed on the Carnegie pension roll.
He has been ordered to receive $4,000
month as long as he lives.
Rev. Harvey Johnson, the veteran
race champion, celebrated his oSth
birthday August q. He is the author
of a book and several pamphlets. He
| is a great advocate of equal rights
and privileges of the colored Ameri-
| can race.
An appropriation of 100000 for
the completion of the recent census,
the publishing of the complete census
returns and the repair and storage of
the tabulating machinery is asked by
Secretary MacVeagh, of the Treasury
Department.
Capt. Thomas D. Adams, a direct
descendant of Presidents John Adams
and John Quincy Adams, died in this
city last week at the age of u years.
Prof Kelly Miller, of Howard Uni
versity, has completed his tour COW
ering fourteen States in six weeks
He says colored high schools are IN
much better position than COlored col
leges and universities.
The winner of the Ralph w. Tyler
essay prize on the Relation of the
Negro to the Industrial Develop
ment," was w. H Peasants, Howard
! University, first winner, Leo English,
second, and William Gilbert, third.
A. Leo Stevens announces in New
York that Victor Evans, patent at
torney in this city, has put up $4,000
prize for an aeroplane flight from
Milwaukee to New York, to be tried
. for by Harry n Atwood. The dis
: tance will cover I,o65 miles, accord
: ing to the itinerary selected
The coronation chair in which King
:: George V sat during the coronation
= ceremonies, was made for King Ed
ward |, in 1906, and with the excep-
/ ton of Queen Mary, every sovereign
:, who has ruled in England since the
y reign of Edward has sat in this iden-
ltical chair
} The official report of the Italian
government on cholera situation
shows that from July II to 81 inclu-
isive, there were throughout the king
dom of Italy a total of 8O2 cases and
- $40 deaths.
Z The number of United States naval
officers who have committed suicide
suffered mental breakdowns or disap-
peared suddenly within the past year
=. or two has become so large that off
II cials at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will
recommend the appointment of Z
board to inquire into possible causes
Capital punishment prevails IN al
K the States and Territories of the
; Union except Michigan, Wisconsin
Il Rhode Island, Kansas and Maine. /
y was abolished in Iowa IN 1872, Du
was soon afterward restored. 1t wa
Il abolished in Colorado, but restored
u in 1901. In New York and Ohio exc
q. cution is by electricity.
IL The first school for colored peopl
I after the civil war was founded. 1t i
u stated by ]. Milton Turner, in Kansa
e' City, in 1868
ne The United States army transpOr
&c Sheridan sails for Manila with tn
u I42d Company of coast artillery an
Oh ST ,OOO,o to pay troops IN the Philip
Dy pines
mt Francis H. Holton, of Akron, O.,
e the holder of patent No. 100000, is
- sued by the United States Govern
ment. ne patent IS an dutOmODil
- tire so designed as to prevent skid
III ding. Patent No. I was given to Joh
II Ruggles, for the improvement on tn
II steam engine
rs The primitive log cabin built twer
2e' ty-seven years ago for Joaquin Mille
II. the poet, on Meridian HILL where hi
simple genius hourished for more tha
ed a decade, will be taken apart to be re
as built again on its new and permaneT
~ site in Rock Creek Park.
President Taft received anothe
ut wedding present on the 9th of thi
ed month 1t came from nine childre
II under the protection of the New Yor
m Association for Care of the BlinC
by whose institution was recently Opene
by the President The present was
a card case woven of silver threads.