The Washington bee., 1911-03-25
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G.. B. MaxneId.)


\ bill has been passed in Utah,
making 1t a misdemeanor to sell Gig
arettes or cigarette papers
The seventy-fourth anniversary of
the birth of eN-President Grover
Cleveland was celebrated in Princeton.
\. J. The association III charge of
erecting a memorial was in hopes of
getting SI,4OO TO complete the ereC-
ton of the 100000 tower at Prince
ION University.
Prof. w p Dabney, according TO
Star Cincinnati, Ohio, IS not
III favor of separate public schools
tie says If colored children be sepa-
rated, why not Hungarians and Ital-
ans' Prof. Dabney Is paymaster in
the city treasurer's office, and editor
Of the Republican Union
1t is said of the one billion spent
upon the common schools in the SIN
teen former slave States and the Dis
trict of Columbia, at least SI85,OOO,OoO
have been spent upon the common
schools for colored Americans.
Col. Roosevelt, by pressing a but
ton, opened three massive iron gates
weighing 5000 pounds a piece, thus
officially opening the Roosevelt dam,
4 part of the Salt River irrigation
project.
According to Mr.. Lohman, Japan
is hostile to United States. He claims
they have their eyes on the Philip
pines, Guam, Samoa and Hawaii
Troops will be sent to strengthen gar
risons in Hawaii
Plans are being projected by the
associations of cOlored physicians
pharmacists and dentists Of Nj con
Ga, to erect a hospital Tor &.
people to cost not less than nve .,u-
sand dollars. Thirteen hundred la.-
lars have already been subscribe
7. Thomas Fortune, the veteran
editor, was given $3I5 as d tribute IL
his work and worth.
\ movement IS on foot to have col
ored dental surgeons given places IL
the United States Army. The move
ment is being pushed to a successful
issue by several influential colored
men here and elsewhere.
The State of Pennsylvania has ap-
propriated $4,000 for the Douglass
hospital, which Is colored. The State
also appropriated $1,000 for building
purposes
Miss Zelbe Kinney, the woman
| sculptor, has the contract to make ten
| statues as memorials Of the women
of the Confederacy. The statues are
| to cost $4,000 each, and to be placed
in the capitol of each Confederate
State except South Carolina.
Rhode Island clergymen have taken
the first step toward regulating mar
| riages. A set of questions have been
sent to every Protestant minister.
Their aim is to prevent divorced peO-
pie marrying in that State, and Cou-
pies who cannot be married within
their own church from being united
by other clergymen.
Workmen making alterations in the
Isub-treasury in Philadelphia found
the SI,4oo which had been last for
| three years. The money, which was
| mildewed and covered with dust, was
in one hundred dollar bills.
| 1t is announced that boys gradual
| ing from the Cambridge high school
/ and whose parents are unable to pay
their tuition fee to Harvard, will be
| admitted free to the university dur
ing the freshman year.
| Three additional officers of the
army have been selected by the Sec
retary of War for duty at the United
States Embassy at Toxic for the study
of the Japanese language. They will
be engaged in the study of the Ian
guage about two years.
| The Rockefeller commission IN
gathering information regarding the
hookworm disease, says in Belgium,
the province of Liege, a fight against
the disease was made by the minors,
Producing the percentage Of infection
Iby go per cent And frequently
months go by without the discovery
of single parasitic anemic.
To much bathing by the people of
Java is attributed to the spread Of
Asiatic cholera in the island, accord
ing to William Palmer, the scientist
of the Department of Agriculture,
The Commercial Club of Seattle,
Wash, cabled $500 to the American
Red Cross for the Chinese famine sut-
ferers. This makes a total OF $4,000
sent by the club.
Worthy tributes were paid to Ed
ward Brown, colored, by the white
lawyers Of Richmond, Va. Brown for
some forty years had been a messen-
ger in the law library there. He was
very popular with the legal fraternity
throughout the State, and the law
yers raised money TO erect a shaft
| over his last resting place.
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