The Washington bee., 1912-03-02
PARAGRAPH HIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxhrId)

: Jack Johnson. the pugilist. was
made party defendant i'm a suit for
/ $4,000 hled in the Circuit Court in
/ Chicago by Miss Ruth NJ Mchl. who
/ was struck by bag which Johnson
was punching in AN exhibition. Feb
rudry II, breaking from the rope.
! The great tunnel under the Hudson
/ River. which viii supply the city OF
! New York with water, was pronounc-
! ed safe by three eminent geologists.
! Prof Berkiey, of Columbia Univer-
slty, said that the tunnel. which Is
/ seventeen feet I'm diameter, passes
through solid rock Tor a distance OF
/ 5000 feet, and AT a depth OF .SSS feet
! Is capable OF WIthstanding even an
earthquake.
/ brated their birthday anniversary in
Chester, Pa, with relatives. They are
| two sisters, Mrs Rachel 2. West
| Legs and Miss Kate d. West, and one
brother, Elias H. West, all born Feb
ruary p, 1872 They are Quakers,
] and all are in excellent health
Miss Lewis, author OF many charts
on botanical and geological subjects,
! and series OF so paintings OF Penn
| syNanla forest trees, made by her and
! exhibited at the Worlds Fair in Chi
| CagO. died at her home AT the age OF
/ 90 years.
W J.. Reid, Of Columbus. Ohio.
/ who was born in Germany. educated
in Germany and Rome, and who
speaks twenty-one languages, called
on Mayor Karb for application for
/ position in the city service. Reid.
who Is a typical Negro iii looks and
action, was born 1866 He comes
well recommended
SO far for the year OF 1912 Georgia
alone has a lynching record of eight
persons, one OF whom was a woman
Six thousand dollars was cabled to
| the Shanghai relief committee last
week by the American National Red
| Cross Society to be used IN the relief
of the Chinese famine sufferers.
Five thousand OF this came from New
| York This makes total OF $4,000
sent to China by the society since
January l.
| Pellagro still seems a mystery to
The closest researches Of the medical
world. One nj the latest iuyestiga-
tions has been carried on by f. IT,.
Grimm, assistant surgeon of public
health He visited $50 cases I'm South
Carolina. II wa, found out that the
whites were more subject To- the dis
ease than cOlored, and females were
lmuch more subject to- the attack than
- males
| Governor Stubbs. of Kansas, direct
ed an inquiry to be made ~ to- the
1 - 1. g..
twas found each one of the 5gO,53o
boys and girls in school paid ~ cents
a year for school books
: Charles T. TAFT. brother of Pro-i-
: dent TAFT. says 81 don't think Mr
> Roosevelt viii GET that nomination.
In fact, am positive we will nca- aim
AIR. Roosevelt has made himself un-
popular with the Republican party by
- his speech at Columbus
The vocational education BILL of
which Senator Page, of Vermont, is
the author. calling for about S2.L5o.O0O
next year, and increasing each year
until 1927. when the maNimum sum Of
SI4462,O 900 IS reached. viii bc favor
ably reported from the Senate Com
s mittcc Oh Agriculture and Forestry.
1t Is considered certain that the
. Commissioners viii recommend IN
. their report that the two existing
: street railway companies i'm this -i,y
! be consolidated II is said also that
e Recommendation ior Il great Gnder-
= ground terminal IN the doHntoNu
q portion Of the city wiII be made
A prediction that the next century
= will -cv nearly an of the 100000
; Jews # the whole world OH American
d soil was made by Sheriff Julius Har-
- burger. in an address in New York,
before the annual meeting of the Free
t Sons oi Israel
Adviccs which have been received
- indicate that Haitiaus aided the Do
minican IusurrcctiOnists I'm the recent
loutbreak at Monte Christi. and that
the Dominican government has de
: manded strict neutrality by the Hal
y tian eoyernmcnl in the present
! trouble
In North Carolina. there has been
Z formed by colored lawyers, State
! Bar Association