The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
WASHINGTON

ne tltSlutUl IGQuCEltu llt pres
ent members of the Inland Water
ways Commission to continue their
work, with the exception of General
Mackenzie, and added Senator ALI
son, Representative Ransdell and
Professor Swain, of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology.
The International Lodge of Good
| Templars decided to allow each of
the various grand lodges to decide
the dancing problem for. itself.
Plans have been perfected to send
the gunboat Yorktown to the Bering
Sea to patrol the seal fisheries this
summer.
Col. Baron de Bode, military at
tache of Russia to the United States,
formally was presented to Secretary
Root.
Bernhard Bettman was appointed
| by President Roosevelt as internal
revenue collector at Cincinnati.
President Roosevelt appointed
John F. O'Brien collector of customs
at Plattsburg, N. Y.
Admiral Dewey is to attend a flag
raising at the Francis Scott Key man
|
President Roosevelt directed Gov
ernor Magoon to issue a decree which
will result in the construction of
waterworks and sewer system for
Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Bishop Charles Henry Brent, of
| the Philippines, declines to accept
the bishopric of Washington, declar-
ing that God bids him to stay in the
Philippines.
Major General Leonard Wood has
been designated as the representative
of the United States at the tercen-
tennial celebration of the University
OF Saragossa. in Spain, September 20.
Ratifications of three treaties re-
Gently drawn up between Great Bri-
tain and the United States were ex-
changed by Ambassador Bryce and
Secretary Root
The Honduras Minister of Foreign
Affairs has ordered the arrest of F.
G. Bailey, fugitive president of the
Export Shipping Company of New
Jersey.
The President is reported to be
planning to go on hunting trip TO
British East Africa after he has laid
down the presidential cares.
Members of the board of visitors
to West Point found upon their ar
rival at the academy that they had no
legal status.
Miss Susan Rivire Hetzel, charter
member of the Daughters OF the
American Revolution, died of pneu-
monia.
Mail advices from the Canal Zone
describe the premature explosion by
lightning of 26 tons of dynamite al
Caimito Mulato, in which two Ameri.
cans we're killed.
In Washington and London an.
nouncement was simultaneously made
of an agreement for two-cent postage
between Great Britain and the United
States.
Jackson Smith has resigned as Z
members of the Isthmian Canal Com
mission and manager of the Depart
ment of Labor, Water and Subsist
ence.
Secretary OF the Navy Metcalf hal
practically declined a request to re
open League Island Navy Yard u
the public on Sunday,
The President appointed Roy II
Chamberlain, Representative Hep
burns son-in-law, general appraiser
at New York.
The War Department issued a bul
letin showing the result OF pistol ant
rife practice In the Army.
President Roosevelt had an exceed
ingly narrow escape from a seriou
accident while horseback riding II
Rock Creek Park.
John c. Schofield has been appoint
ed assistant and chief clerk of th'
War Department, to take effect Jul.
/.
John Hays Hammond has decided Il
enter the contest for the nomination
of vice president on the Republican
ticket.
Interstate Commerce COMMISSIONS
Lane handed down an opinion In tn
matter OF released rates.
The United States government ha
} asked the Honduran authorities Il
arrest and extradite F. G. Bailey
wanted for fraud.
The District Court OF Appeals de
cided that the Employers Liabllit.
Act, which was declared unconstitu
J tional by the United States Suprem
Coart. is valid in the District of Co
, lumbia.
} The remains OF former Senate
} James X. Jones, OF Arkansas, will b
.,.errad In Rock Greek Cemetery