The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-15
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

attorney General B0naparte has
announced that James II. Wilkerson,
OF Chicago. special attorney for the
Department of Justice. had been Of
fered the position of assistant at
torney general, to take the place va
Gated by Afford W. Cooley, but had
refused to accept.
Bidding fair to rival the cotton
seed industry of America. the palm
oil and nut industry OF West Africa
only awaits improved methods of cul-
tivation and preparation for the mar
ket. says Consul w. ]. Yerbey, OF
Sierra Leone.
The records in the case OF Capt.
Solomon Avery, Jr., of the Coast
Artillery Corps. stationed at the
Preside, of San Francisco, Cal, are
now under consideration at the War
Department and will be transmitted
to the President for his action in a
short time.
A special train left Washington
for Fort Smith, Ark, carrying 100
prisoners. transferred from the Uni
ted States Jail to the Fort Smith
penitentiary, because OF the crowded
condition in the Washington insLitu-
tion.
Orders we're issued to the cruiser
Charleston. now at Bremerton Navy
Yard. to proceed on October 26 to
the Asiatic station via Honolulu and
Guam to. become the flagship of the
third squadron of the Pacific fleet,
replacing the cruiser Rainbow.
The greater portion of the worlds
tonnage for several months has re-
manned unproductive, reports Consul
General Dierich, of Antwerp, in fur
nishing statistics concerning the de-
pressed condition of the worlds ship
ping trade.
| Postal savings banks and parcels
post we're both warmly indorsed by
First Assistant Postmaster General
Charles p Granfield in his address
to the conventio1tof fourth class post
masters at Des Moines, Iowa.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray has announced that he will put
into Immediate action a plan for the
formation OF II districts of national
bank examiners with a chairman ex-
aminer in charge of each.
The Navy Department has invited
the various wrecking companies to
submit bids for salvaging the cruiser
Yankee, wrecked off Spindle Rock,
at the entrance of Buzzard's Bay,
about two weeks ago.
The commandant of the naval
training station at Newport, r. l.,
informed the Navy Department today
of the death of Warrant Machinist
George L. Peary from heart failure.
The proposed arbitration treaty
between China and the United States
has been signed at the State Depart
ment, WI Ting-fang, the Chinese
minister, acting on behalf of the
Chinese government.
Mrs. Donald Mclean announces
that she has arranged for 100000
loan to complete the Continental
Hall for the Daughters of the Revo-
luton.
To abolish all grade crossings on
railroad lines in Belgium, says Con-
sui Johnson, of Liege, would cost
approximately S60.000,000.
That the United States government
may be sued and enjoined from in
fringing the patents of the Fried
Krupp Company, of Essen, Germany,
in the manufacture of Springfield
rifles and other Army ordnance, was
decided by the Court of Appeals of
the District of Columbia in an opin-
ion by Associate Justice Robb.
More than ever impressed with the
fact that an efficient army is tho
surest guarantee of peace, Major
Paul e. Straub has returned to
Washington from Germany, where
he witnessed the workings of the
German medical department,
The importance of India's grow
ing northwestern port of Karachi
has led to the establishment of an
American consulate there.
w. A. G. Clark, at Roubaix, says
that while the great English wool
manufacturing industry is steadily
increasing, the United States and
Germany are rapidly forging ahead
and Italy beginning to struggle for
place among the leaders.
The Department of Justice will re-
move from the District Jail 100 pris-
oners and transport them to an In
dian prison at Fort Smith, Ark.
The National Conservation Com
mission has caused the first compre.
hensive attempt at census of the
standing timber in the United States
I ever undertaken.