National.

Judge Cox of the United States Supreme Court has handed down a decision to the effect that an American citizen does not forfeit his citizenship by residing abroad. This overrules the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury that after an American citizen had lived abroad five years his abode could no longer be termed a temporary residence.

Plans for the new union depot at Washington have been received at the Capitol. The station is to be one of the finest in the world. It will be built of white marble, will have a frontage of over seven hundred feet, and will cost $5,000,000. Part of the cost of construction is to be borne by the United States.

The assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco has about 32,000,000 standard silver dollars in the vaults of the sub-treasury. He is no longer able to exchange silver certificates for silver dollars because he has no room to store the coin.

By a vote of seven to four the House Committee on Naval Affairs adopted a resolution concurring in the conclusions of President Roosevelt regarding the Schley controversy. All bills and resolutions on the subject were indefinitely postponed.

The United States Supreme Court has decided that the Illinois anti-trust statute is unconstitutional because it provides that agricultural products and live stock shall be exempt from the operations of the law.

Point Barrow, Alaska, is the northernmost postoffice of the United States. It is about on the 70th parallel and 420 miles north of Nome. It is visited once a year by a revenue cutter.

W. H. Moody, who will succeed John D. Long as a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, will be the seventh Secretary of the Navy who was a resident of Massachusetts.

Foreign.

The Navy Department of Germany has decided to establish a chain of wireless telegraph stations along the entire German coast. It is probable that the Slaby-Arco system will be used. Thirty-two German warships have already been equipped with this system and eight more are having it installed. By this system messages have been transmitted one hundred and twenty-five miles.

During the past fifty years England has expended upwards of one hundred million dollars in acquiring, by purchase and construction, cable communications with her vast possessions. She has constructed a Pacific cable from Vancouver to Australia at a cost of nearly nine million dollars, and has fixed a rate of fifty cents a word for cable messages from Vancouver to New Zealand.

Alfred Moseley of Liverpool has come to the United States to arrange for the visit, this coming autumn, of a commission representing workmen's organizations in five-sixths of the great British industries. The delegates will come at Mr. Moseley's expense and will be accompanied by newspaper and literary men.

Work on the British trans-Pacific cable has begun. The route chosen is from a point on the Chinese coast via Yokohama and the Aleutian Islands to Barclay Sound, the terminus on this side. For several weeks a cable ship has been engaged in laying the cable from the Chinese coast terminus.

Colonel P. P. Tchernigovsky of the Russian Navy, who has been superintending the construction of two Russian warships at the Cramps' yard in Philadelphia, says that the United States is far ahead of any of the European countries in the building of battleships.

The report of the royal commission at Ottawa, Canada, says that Japanese immigration to British Columbia is just as objectionable as Chinese.

King Edward has set aside $150,000 with which to provide a feast for half a million of his more unfortunate subjects in celebration of his coronation.

Ten years ago British shipping carried eighty per cent of the world's cargo, but now it carries only sixty-nine per cent.

An American syndicate has obtained a concession to build a metropolitan railway in St. Petersburg.

Admiral Prince Henry has taken command of the German squadron in Kiel waters.

Industrial and Commercial.

Prosperity at home and depression abroad are cited as two of the principal causes of the decrease in exports of iron and steel manufactures. The exports for seven months ending with January amounted to $57,310,128. For the corresponding months of last year the amount was $73,616,467.

There has also been a decrease in the exportations of corn. For the eight months ending with February the amount exported was 29,912,875 bushels valued at $13,683,200. For the corresponding months of the preceding year the exports were 132,624,859 bushels valued at $60,621,569.

The Missouri River Power Company at Helena. Mont., has completed a line for transmitting power to Butte. The line is sixty-five miles long and crosses the Rocky Mountains at a height of 7,200 feet. At present the line conveys twelve hundred horsepower, but it is intended to double the power by the construction of another dam.

E. H. R. Green, president of the Texas Midland Railroad, has been awarded a patent on a wireless telegraph system of his own invention. President Green has stated that he will, as soon as possible, instal his wireless system on the Midland, which will be the first railroad in the world to use it.

The city of Detroit has granted a franchise to the Co-operative Telephone Company. The ordinance contains a provision that the company must sell its plant to the city when the city obtains the right to operate a municipal telephone exchange.

The New York Insurance Exchange has declared an increase of twenty-five per cent on "special hazards," factories, and hotels, to take effect April 1. Last year the companies forming the exchange lost $9,000,000 in the State of New York alone.

The Marconi wireless telegraph system will be tested on the lakes, and if the tests are satisfactory all the boats running on the lakes will be equipped with sending and receiving stations before the summer navigation season is well under way.

The area of the Mississippi valley coal fields approximates 66,000 square miles. The output in 1900 was 13,200,000 tons. The coal of these fields is chiefly consumed locally.

The Mexican Central Railroad has purchased the Monterey and Mexican Gulf Railway for $4,000,000. The Central gains 387 miles by the consolidation.

General.

C. E. Borchgrevink, the Norwegian Antarctic explorer, has entered upon a lecture tour in the United States. Mr. Borchgrevink was the first man to set foot on the Antarctic continent. He made his first voyage to those regions in 1894, but accomplished little. In 1898 he started on another voyage accompanied by six scientists. This time he succeeded in reaching a point five hundred miles farther south than had been reached by any other explorer. They discovered the south magnetic pole at 73 degrees 20 minutes south longitude and 146 degrees east longitude. Mr. Borchgrevink hopes by means of his lectures to raise sufficient funds to fit out another expedition.

Thirty-six American sculptors have entered the competition for the proposed memorial statue of General Grant, to be placed south of the State Department in Washington. All models must be submitted by April 1. These will be placed on public exhibition for two weeks at the Corcoran Gallery. The commission in charge will then select six designs. The sculptor of each will receive one thousand dollars, and from these six the final choice will be made.

David P. Barrows, chief of the Bureau of Non Christian Tribes of the Philippine Islands, says there is a cultivated class in all cities. It is quite small, not more than a dozen families in every town of a population of ten thousand. This upper class, however, possesses an influence over the lower class that the United States authorities have been slow to appreciate. The lower class is sending the children to school, and there is a strong desire for social betterment.

March 17, South Boston celebrated the one hundred and twenty-sixth anniversary of the evacuation of Boston by the British. The most important event of the day was the unveiling of a handsome marble shaft on Dorchester Heights, erected by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in honor of the loyal soldiers who fought in the Revolution. Rear Admiral Schley was among the important guests.

Andrew Carnegie has presented five thousand dollars to the town of Peterborough, N. H. Through this town New Hampshire gained its title as "The Mother of the Free Public Library System." The local library was established April 9, 1833, and was the first free public library ever established among English speaking people.

The Supreme Court of Texas has decided that saloon keepers who sell liquor to students of educational institutions are liable for damages. This applies to those students who are not minors as well as to those who are.