Washington News

OF GENERAL, INTEREST. Washington, Aug. ía- Word has been received at the Treasury Department of the discovery of a countert eic two-dollar silver certiflcate whlch has just made its appearance in the West Washington, Aug. 24.- Itis learned upon Inquiry that the success of the Chippewa Indian Commission will result in the opening; of about 3,000,000 acres of land in Minnesota. Ia addition to the rescrvations named the commiesion is empowered to secure relinqutshment of such partsol the Eed Lake and White Earth reservations as may not be needed in apportioning to tha Xndians their eeveral allotmenta, estimated t 2,250. 00U acres. Tae agreement as Bigned by th Indians must first be approved by the President before it becomes operatlve. Washington, Aug. 34.- The International American congrese will meet at Washington at noon October 2, and will be attended by from fifty to sixty deleerates, including ■ome of the most distlnguished men of Central and South America. It is not expected that the congress will do more than perfect it organization at the first sitting, and it is probable that the reception will be tendered the delegates by the President that erening. The followinsr morning the party will start upon the excursión tendered the loreign delegates by the Government of the United States. The party will leave Washington at 10 o'clock on the morning of Thursday, October 3, and take the Fall Eiver boat at New York that evenIng. The next ten days wiü be spent visiting the oramercial and manufaoturlng centers of New England and Northern New York, with a day at West Point Military Academy, and the party wilt reach Niágara Falls to remain over Sunday, October 13. Monday the journey will be' reBumed and continued to Chicago, with stops at Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other cities. The trip will extend to Omaha. Washington, Aug. 26. -One "Andrew J. Whitaker, of Illinois," was appointed Depnty Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, and a short time af terward a man presentèd hlmelf, qualified and entered upon the duties of the oflice. Now another man of the same name insista that it is he who should have the office, and the Comptroller has been msked to decide who ihall have it Washington, Aug. "6.- Reliable reporta of the 24th from Port au Prince state that Ilegitime has left that city on board of French man-of-war, and that Hippolyte Is In full possession of the Government