The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-13
The Nation S Capital
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

The State Department announces
that it will finally submit to The
Hague tribunal a proposition as to
the right of British colony to limit
treaty rights of American fishermen.
The death of retired Chief Justice
Edward F. Bingham, of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia,
which occurred at Union, w. Va,
was announced in Washington.
The sentence of James l.. Brad
ford, convicted of conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States government
out of public lands, was committed
by the President.
Members of the House Naval At
fairs Committee have gathered much
information regarding needs of the
yards and stations north of the
Chesapeake.
Friends of Miss Theodore Shonts
announce that the date of her we'd
ding to the Due de Chaulues, of
France, has been set for Christmas
week.
Col. Louis F. Beeler, president of
the National Association of Mexican
War Veterans, was visitor in Wash
ington.
Solicitor General Hoyt will be act
ing attorney general during Mr..
Bonaparte's absence.
The pleas of the fourth-class mid
shipmen that their sentences of dis
missal from the Naval Academy be
reduced have been denied by Acting
Secretary Newberry.
The White House has been newly
painted, while IA tons of old paint
have been scraped and burned from
the exterior of the mansion.
Richard Gregory, colored, confess
ed having murdered William Garner
at Rock Creek Park, four miles from
Georgetown.
Action upon the project to remove
the Constitution from the Boston
Navy Yard has been Indefinitely
postponed.
All the Cabinet officers are ex,
pected to be at their desks in Wash
ington by the latter part of Septem-
Der.
Charges of land frauds in New
Mexico are being investigated by the
Department of Justice.
Miss May Grace Quackenbos, men,
Der of the New York bar, has been
given the title of assistant district
attorney, and is doing special work
for the government in New Orleans.
The Navy Department stated au-
thoritatively that President Roosevelt
does not intend to create two battle
chip fleets.
Central American ministers have
held several conferences over Prest-
dent Roosevelt's invitation for a
peace congress.
The Treasury Department received
certificate of deposit for $4,000
from the jamestown Exposition
managers.
All records for work on the Pana'
ma Canal were broken during the
month of August.
Two new cases of yellow fever in
Cuba were reported to the War De-
partment.
The new 2O,0O0-ton battleship will
be designated as the New York.
Congressman Burton's decision to
be a candidate for mayor of Cleve.
land is regarded as the beginning OF
a fight to finish between President
Roosevelt and Senator Foraker.
Two of the four Annapolis naval
cadets recommended for dismissal fol
attractions of the rules have sent ap'
peals to the Acting Secretary of the
Navy.
The commission of Capt. Edwin G.
Pendleton to be a rear admiral was
signed by Acting Secretary of the
Navy Newberry.
The War Department has just is.
sued a new edition of the regulations
for the uniform of the United States
Army.
Richard H. Poillon has been desig-
mated as superintendent of the Rev
enue Cutter Service in Santo Do
mingo.
The Commissioner of Fisheries
denies that there wot1d be an oyster
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