The Washington bee., 1912-01-20
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
tBy Miss q. B. Maafeld. }

! Charles Wadaeru, of Port Au
| Prince Hayti who is in this country
for study and observation. says that
the great need in Hayti today Is more
industrial education and more trades
men.
The oldest frame house in the
| United States Is being razed by
workmen in Southampton, n Y. 1t
was built in 1913 by Thomas Sayre.
an Englishman, who came to this
country in CromwelPs time Dnfing
the revolutionary war, the house was
used by British officers.
| January I3 proved unlucky TO thir-
ty-One members of the largest fourth
class ever gathered at West Point
The class was regarded as the best,
as the members had passed all COM
Ipetitive examinations. Thirteen prov
ed unlucky as thirty-one were ordered
home for failure to keep up.
Dr. w ]. Gaines, Bishop OF the
First Episcopal District of the Afri-
can NJ E Church. died at his home
lin Atlanta, Ga, at the age of Il years.
He was interested in educational
F work Of his race, and the founder of
: Morris Brown College. He had been
] Bishop for thirty years.
, The Spanish Government Is decid-
! ing upon placing an army of 10000
blacks, to be officered by Spaniards,
to take part in the Moroccan cam
= lpaign.
II For the first time a colored man
p in New York, William Abbott has
p been appointed keeper OF the Ray
: mond street jail in Brooklyn. Mr.
II Abbott was prominent IN politics
i there.
Isaac II. Nutter, a member OF the
II bar at Atlantic City. \. T., has been
. appointed by Mayor Bachrach, q
-- member Of the advisory cabinet OF
# ten prominent citizens. Mr.. Nutter IS
d colored man.
oI I'm the nine months ending Jecem-
Der 81, 2365 persons emigrated
from the United States to Canada,
O according to the immigration depart
. mcnt The total arrivals from the
r. same country WeTc zgz5Ia-
= John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. who IOr
~ two years has been actively engaged
le in the campaign against white slavery,
m will sever his connection with that
ar work. as he has been effective IN
# obtaining laws which will control
,c white slavery.
nt Ira Webb, the oldest voter in the
a United States. died in BinghamtOn.
7sIN Y. on his Io6th birthday Mr.
n Webb always voted a straight Re
st publican ticket He had a personal
T acquaintance with many prominent
d. men
Among the latest deputy sherifs
isworn in in New York is Joseph h,
IVendig, known the country over as
l"Circular Joe. former bookkeeper
land proprietor of famous gambling
establishments.
heI President Taft, officers of the army
w and navy. and many others IN official
I'd life will be present at Arlington Ma
nj tiOnal Cemetery next April, when the
a remains of the men who pcrlshed III
HI the destruction of the Maine are laid
Ter To rest.
m Senator Claude A. Swanson. OF
.u- Virginia, was the principle speaker at
ell the joint celebration of the. birthday
ia1 of Gen. Robert Z. Lee, and Gen
he Stonewall Jackson. United Confed
IDS crate Veterans and associated Confed
crate organizations were present
dy \ petition signed by about 2,3OC
ng women, wives, daughters and rcla.
IA tivee Of army officers stationed al
Ity various army posts III Ine Oiil6C
Of States and its possessions, asking for
lin the restoration Of the army canteer
700 will be presented to Congress
ip- The statement that there were 35,-
NO 600 former japanese soldiers in Ha
en waii, who would support Japan II
nd that country and the United States
he went to war, created deep Impres-
sion on the House Committee on
ent Military Affairs.
OF The town OF Franklin, Wis, is pay
IRE ing $500 per annum for support of d
ut school where there IS but one pupil
no ( This fact was reported by the county
en- superintendent
to The spring convention Of the Re
yill publican party in the State Of New
he York, to elect delegates to the Re
OF publican National Convention will be
ed held in Rochester, April O.
his The omission in the treaty Of Gc-
etz neva, OF any provision for the protec
+ tion Of the Red Cross workers in
nd civil wars will be the principal topic
mi Of discussion at the ninth internation-
ert al Red Cross Congress here next
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