Orders have been issued by the Navy Department to fit all ships of the North Atlantic station, now undergoing repairs, with spars for receiving wireless telegraph messages.
Secretary Hay has received a cablegram from Minister Conger at Pekin to the effect that an agreement has practically been reached for the pro-rata reduction of the claims of the Powers against China, arising out of the Boxer outrages of 1900.
Judge Grosscup has issued a temporary injunction against the six great packinghouses that together control sixty per cent of the meat business of the United States.
If Senator Lodge succeeds in reorganizing the consular service and putting it on a permanent life-tenure basis, as he is now endeavoring to do, there will be about three hundred ideal positions for ambitious young Americans which will be well worth studying for.
The executive council of the American Federation of Labor had a conference with President Roosevelt last week in which the President stated that he was in sympathy with the demands of labor as to an eight hour bill and a prison labor bill.
