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Secretary Wilson has just returned to Washington from a tour through the intermountain States and the Central Western States.
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The Hepburn Railway Rate Bill has been in effect one year and despite predictions of inefficiency to meet conditions and repair injustice, a great deal already has been accomplished.
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The Public Service Commission of New York State, a boby created by the last Legislature in line with Governor Hughes' policy as expressed in his message to the Assembly, has adopted a series of rules intended to prevent hereafter the overcapitalization of corporations which come under the jurisdiction of the commission.
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Postmaster General Meyer proposes the establishment of a parcels post and a savings bank in connection with the post-offices.
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In a public report, Herbert Knox Smith.
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An increase in the salaries of fifteen thousand female teachers in the public schools of Greater New York has been recommended to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment by the Board of Education.
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The Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey has just decided an interesting case in favor of the Vulcan Detinning Company, which was organized for the detinning of tin scrap,—the separation of the metallic tin from the steel.
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The first step to enlist the college students of the Nation, as a body, in the peace cause, was taken two years ago at the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration.
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Passenger rates on all railroads of the United States, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, will be reduced to two cents a mile.
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Up in the hills behind Peekskill the first spadeful of dirt has been turned in the great engineering undertaking which will eventually furnish the city of New York with eight hundred million gallons of water a day, in addition to that which is available from the Croton and other existing sources of supply.
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Protection for the people was the topic of President Roosevelt's speeches at the Jamestown Exposition last week.
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Prosecution for violating the Sherman Anti-trust Law in restraint of trade by monopolizing the bituminous coal supply will be started immediately by the Department of Justice against the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Philadelphia and Reading, the Seaboard Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Norfolk and Western, and the Beech Creek Railway, leased by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.