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with contributions from Theodore Roosevelt, Mutsuhito

Greetings have been exchanged between President Roosevelt and Mutsuhito, the Emperor of Japan, over the American cable connecting Island of Guam and Japan, which was recently completed.
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Attorney-General Moody, in a statement which had the sanction of the President and members of the Cabinet, says that criminal proceedings will be commenced immediately against the Standard Oil officials.
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At a recent dinner in New York City before the Inter-Parliamentary Union, representing the Parliaments of the world, Professor John Bassett Moore, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, and now of Columbia University, took the advanced position that The Hague Conference must develop into a world government, embracing the three complete departments of legislative, judicial, and executive control.
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The National Wholesale Grocers' Assotion of the United States, with a membership pledged and in prospect of more than one thousand individual jobbers, was organized in Buffalo last week.
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The members of the Supreme Court of the United States attended the dinner given on the 31st inst.
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The San Francisco banks, on the day they opened for business, May 23, had in their vaults about $45,000,000 more than they had at the time of the earthquake.
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The Hepburn railroad rate regulation bill passed the Senate last week by a vote of 71 to 3.
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The Northwestern Paper Trust, on trial at St.
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President Roosevelt last week submitted to Congress the report of Commissioner Garfield on the inquiry into Standard Oil, and in his own message said: "The report shows that the Standard Oil Company has benefited enormously up almost to the present moment by secret rates, many of these secret rates being clearly unlawful.
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Joint international action by the United States and Canada for the preservation of the scenic beauties of Niagara Falls, says the Scientific American, is an assured fact.
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The following message was sent on the 16th by President Roosevelt to their Imperial Majesties, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor of China, Pekin, in commemoration of the opening of the last link of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company's cable connecting the United States and China:
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The trustees of the Carnegie foundation, who are charged with administering $10,000,-000, the gift of Andrew Carnegie to provide pensions for professors and teachers of institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada, met recently and adopted a scale of pensions.