The United States Legation at Constantinople has received an exhaustive report of the recent incident at Alexandretta, fully convicting the local authorities and police of making an unwarranted attack on Consul Davis and of arbitrary interference with him in pursuit of his duties in connection with Attarian, the naturalized American, who was about to embark for Egypt under the protection of the consul, but who was arrested by the Turkish authorities.
The plan for a body of American Congressmen to visit Paris, and for a number of French Parliamentarians to visit Washington is assuming a definite aspect, through the effort of Baron d'Estournelles de Constant.
The estimated postal expenditure for both city and rural free delivery service in the United States during the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, will aggregate about $47,000,000.
Advices reaching the War Department from Manila indicate that Governor Taft will have succeeded in settling the claims of the friars for their extensive property holdings in the islands before he sails for the United States on December 23.
Postmaster General Payne, in his estimates for appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905, calls for an aggregate of $168,085,770 for the postal service and $1,511,050 for the Post Office Department proper at Washington.
On October 5 in Boston a reception and banquet was tendered the Honourable Artillery Company of London by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.
A law recently enacted by the Philippine Government provides that one hundred native young men shall be sent to the States every year to be educated and fitted for positions in the insular civil service.
