The memorial arch erected to the memory of the thirteen missionaries of the American Board of Boston, who suffered matyrdom in China in 1900 was dedicated at Oberlin last week.
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, the French Deputy, and a delegate of France to The Hague Peace Conference, has given out a statement regarding the political meaning of King Edward's visit to Paris, and the advancing world movement in favor of arbitration, in which he says: "While I am convinced King Edward did not utter a word on politics, yet his visit will have the happiest effect on the relations between the two countries.
The new American bond for the payment of the Boxer indemnity stipulates that the payment be in the equivalent of gold dollars at the rate of exchange provided for in the protocol, which, according to the American interpretation of the protocol, makes it practically a silver bond.
The United States Circuit Court last week handed down a decision in the suit of the United States against the Northern Securities Company, enjoining the company from voting the stock of the Northern Pacific or Great Northern Railway Companies, but allowing the return of such stock as had been delivered to the holding company.
February figures of the Bureau of Statistics show the largest exports of any February in the history of our commerce, and also show that the exports of the three months ending with February were larger than those of the corresponding period of any earlier year.
The passing of the bill by Congress establishing a Department of Commerce in the Government of the United States increases the number of departments to nine.
