A long step toward the establishment of a broad boulevard extending from Boston to the White Mountains will be taken during the present year, in the construction of the so-called "Merrimack Valley trunk line," a highway authorized by the last session of the New Hampshire Legislature.
Herbert Knox, Commissioner of Corporations, has reported to the President regarding the Standard Oil investigation, and appears to make out a serious case.
Postmaster General Meyer announces that he is considering the advisability of extending the "sea post offices" on at least two more of the transatlantic steamship lines.
The steam shovel men at work at the Panama Canal on March I last applied to Secretary Taft for increases as follows: Engineers from $210 to $300 per month, crane men from $185 to $250 per month, firemen from $83.
The first annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, which followed the first annual Peace and Arbitration Congress, was held at Washington, and was really a continuation of the sessions of the Peace Congress.
It is not improbable that President Roosevelt may soon announce to the Chinese Government that the United States does not care to receive any more money on account of the indemnity awarded to this country, growing out of the Boxer uprising.
The chief result of the first Hague Conference, which met on the 18th of May, 1899, and was in session until the 29th of July, was the Convention which provided for the setting up of the "Permanent International Court of Arbitration.
Changes in the local government on the Canal Zone, which will result in the harmonizing of various parts of the Zone, are to become effective April 15.
