Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON

Albert B. Green of the general land office has been selected as chief of the new division of forestry of the Interior Department, authorized by the lust Congress. The Treasury Department in Washington gave notice of the discovery of a new $lO silver certificate, series of 181)1, with portrait nt Hendricks. The counterfeit is described as a photographic print without the silk filter and of inferior workmanship. The United States, according to a special dispatch from Tangier, has made another demand upon the government of

Morocco for $5,000 as indemnity to the family of Marcus Azzagui, a naturalized American citizen, who was murdered by a mob at Fez last June. Commissioner General Peek cables from Paris an announcement of the final results qbtuiued by the various countries in the form of awards at the Paris exposition. The United States received 2,4,75 awards; Germany, 1,826; Great Britain, 1,727, aud Russia, 7,493. The United States leads, not only in the grand total, but also in all grades of awards, from grand prizes to merely honorable mention. >