The differences between the United States and Panama, which made necessary the visit of Secretary of War Taft to the Isthmus, have been settled by the issuance of an executive order signed by Secretary Taft for President Roosevelt and assented to in a letter by President Amador of Panama.
The Rhodes scholars at Oxford University assembled Thanksgiving Day for a dinner, at which Henry White, Secretary of the American Embassy, responded to the toast "The Day We Celebrate.
The Italian Foreign Office has informed United States Ambassador Meyer that Italy is quite favorable to the conclusion of an arbitration treaty with the United States, and will empower Ambassador Mayor des Planches to sign it in Washington.
The Merchant Marine Com nission, whose establishment was authorized by Congress as a substitute for the passage of a subsidy act, will probably present a bill to Congress the first day of the December session embodying its recommendations.
An American engineer, with a party of young college graduates, has made discoveries about the Panama Canal which make it possible to solve the baffling problem of the Chagres River freshets by diverting the stream to the Pacific coast.
After experiments covering a period of twenty-eight months, the United States naval "liquid fuel" board announces that it regards the engineering and mechanical features of the liquid fuel problem practically and satisfactorily solved.
The great Packers' Strike, which began July 12, involved almost seventy-five thousand men in various cities, and has cost in round numbers, to the packers in damage, lost business to the railroads, and to the men in wages about fourteen million dollars, was declared off on the 8th.
Boston University has issued a circular inviting opinions on the proposal to hold an international conference for the purpose of adopting a "universal alphabet" by which to indicate the pronunciation of words in the leading European languages.
