Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-10

erection of q memorial building to
her husband, the late Gardiner
Greene Hubbard, the founder OF the
Nation Geographic Society, in whose
honor the present home of the instl-
tuition was built.
The corwning event Of the visit to
Washington of the Commercial Com
missioners from Japan, headed by
Baron Shibusawa, came at the end
of the three davs' festivities here,
when MI. Matsui, counselor and
charge d'afaires Of the japanese
Embassy, gave an elaborate dinner
in their honor at the Willard Hotel
Wednesday night. The dinner was
given on the birthday Of the Japanese
Emperor.
The question of granting naturali-
cation to Turkish subjects is for the
determination Of component courts.
This is the attitude of the State De-
partment as defined in a statement
issued Wednesday and is taken to
indicate that the department is not
prepared to accept without question
the conclusion of the Bureau OF Nat
uralization tina; Turkish subjects are
not entitled to naturalization.
On the ground that they have sent
circular matter through the United
States mails exploiting the Hamburg
State lottery, fraud orders have been
issued by the Postofice Department
against Franz Steinbeck and c.
Schweedt, both Of Hamburg, Ger
many. Loewenherz s. Co., of Ham
burg, and Louis Gyrard, of Paris,
have also been placed under the ban.
Rich mineral deposits, principally
coal, have been discovered by Gov
eminent agents on large tracts OF
public land in New Mexico. and the
Interior Department has withdrawn
from public entry class in that State
approximately 162,44O acres pending
classification.
A postal deficiency of $17,479,77O.
an increase Of $569,491 owe last year
was announced in the annual report
of Merit O. Chance, auditor Of the
Postoffice Department, made public
Wednesday. The audited revenues
for the fiscal year ended June. 30 last
amounted to $2O3, 562,3s3, an increase
of 6.31 per cent. over the preceding
year. The audited expenditures in
creased COZ per cents, including
losses by fire, burglary, etc.
A whirlwind tour of the city, a
pilgrimage to Washington's tomb at
Mount Vernon, and a swift to the
Congressional Libarry and the Cap
itol filed the first day at Washington
of the honorary commercial COM
missioners of Japan. The commits
sioners and their party were espec-
tally pleased Hith the Congressional
Library and the Capitol, which were
especially illuminated in their honor
Monday night. The flag on the Cap
itol flew at half-mast out of respect
to the memory Of the late Prince Ito.
People who have recently delighted
in the fact. that the hook worm dis
ease was prevalent in the South, got
a good hard jolt here Wednesday
when it was reported that at least
one hundred cases exist under the
very shadow Of the Capitol dome.
The eommander-in-chief of the
Pacific fleet reports by cablegram the
following deaths in the fleet en- route
from Honolulu to Manila, where It
arrived Sunday: Roy E. Vermilyea,
Henry j. Smith, Otto Doerr.
Imports into the United States
from the Philippines during Septem-
Der, 1909, the first full month under
the new tariff, amounted to only
$S21,O36, against ~$1,631,976 in Sep
TENDER of last wear. All the imports
last month entered free of duty ex-,
cept 1926 worth. No sugar produced
in the Philippines was imported into
the United States during the month
though in September, 1908, the guam
tity was 35,166,000 pounds. The
August import statement showed g.
$4,000 pounds Of sugar coming in
from the Philippine Islands free of
duty under the new tariff, as against
24,640,000 pounds dutiable in August
of the preceding year.
To devise some means of defense
against aerial invasion, the bureau of
ordinance of the War Department, it
was learned, is about to begin q series
of experiments of shooting at air
craft with cannon.
Ormsby McHarg, Assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor, retired
October 30th from that Office to be-
gin the practice of law in New York
and Washington.
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