The first torpedo-boat flotilla, consisting of the destroyers Decatur, Chauncey, Dale, Bainbridge, and Barry, convoyed by the cruiser Buffalo, has arrived from San Juan in the West Indies at Las Palmas in the Canaries.
The Germanic Museum of Harvard has received from a committee of German artists and scientists interested in the museum, the collection made in Germany of copies of the best work of Nuremberg and Augsberg goldsmiths and silversmiths from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
The chief of the Insular Bureau of the War Department, has made public circulars calling for subscriptions for $7,000,000 Philippine land purchase bonds, the proceeds of which are to be applied to the purchase of the friars' lands.
The Commission on International Exchange has received the conclusions of the Monetary Commission of Japan regarding the proposals of the American commission for a uniform coinage system for China.
The United States Legation at Constantinople has received an exhaustive report of the recent incident at Alexandretta, fully convicting the local authorities and police of making an unwarranted attack on Consul Davis and of arbitrary interference with him in pursuit of his duties in connection with Attarian, the naturalized American, who was about to embark for Egypt under the protection of the consul, but who was arrested by the Turkish authorities.
The plan for a body of American Congressmen to visit Paris, and for a number of French Parliamentarians to visit Washington is assuming a definite aspect, through the effort of Baron d'Estournelles de Constant.
The estimated postal expenditure for both city and rural free delivery service in the United States during the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, will aggregate about $47,000,000.
Advices reaching the War Department from Manila indicate that Governor Taft will have succeeded in settling the claims of the friars for their extensive property holdings in the islands before he sails for the United States on December 23.
