The American Commissioners at Pekin have completed their award on the indemnity claims of the American missions, commercial houses, and private persons.
According to a report just issued from the Post Office Department, the estimated cost of covering the 700,000 square miles of territory not yet reached by the rural delivery system would be about $24,000,000 and would require over 25,000 men for the twelve hundred routes.
Attorney -General Knox has decided that if the United states should accept the offer of the new Panama Canal Company, submitted last spring the sale of the canal for $40,000,000, it would receive the parties in interest a valid and unencumbered title to the property.
The trustees of the Carnegie Institute have received numerous letters urging them to take up the subject of economics and to make a thorough investigation of the relations between capital and labor, the rate of wages paid in proportion to the unit of work performed, private ownership of natural monopolies, etc.
