Acting Secretary Loomis has been notified by the Russian Charge d' Affaires that hereafter passports issued to American citizens who expect to visit Russia will be vised only at the Russian embassy in Washington and the consulates in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Injunction proceedings, it is reported, will be begun if any further attempt is made by Philadelphia city councils to send the old Liberty Bell on further excursions like the recent one on the occasion of the celebration of Bunker Hill Day at Boston.
Last week week the European squadron of the American Navy, after the conclusion of its visit to the manoeuvres of the German fleet at Kiel, proceeded to Portsmouth, England.
The results of the first season's trials in raising cotton in Porto Rico by the United States Agricultural Experiment Station leads to the conclusions, officially announced by Commissioner of the Interior Elliot, that the poorer, sandy soil of Porto Rico, when fertilized, will produce a remunerative crop of sea island cotton, and that the dry months of winter and early spring are adapted to the successful harvesting of this crop.
President Roosevelt returned to Washington June 5, after a trip that lasted sixty-six days, the longest ever taken by a President of the United States.
The detailed statistics of immigration during the month of April show a large increase over April of last year and over all previous months of the present fiscal year.
Plans have been undertaken by a number of the patriotic societies to prevent the improvement of Manila at the sacrifice of the ancient wall of the city.
