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A frenzied demonstration of welcome by the men in gray for the son of the man who defeated them, marked the final scene of the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans at Memphis, Tenn.
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Ten years ago, when Porto Rico passed under the sovereignty of the United States, it had 551 schools with 21,000 pupils, and rot a single building constructed for public instruction; now it has 2,400 schools, with 87,000 pubils, with 160 specially built school Luildings; $35,000 was the annual appropriation for public education; today it is a million dollars.
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Fortifications to cost approximately seven million dollars are to be built to defend the Panama Canal.
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The Reclamation Service announces that the Pathfinder dam in Wyoming, which has cost $1,200,000 and has been three and one half years in the building, has been completed.
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President Eliot of Harvard was invested last week with the decoration of the first class of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, by Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassador, acting for the Mikado.
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The New York Legislature has passed an act broadening the conditions under which the public service commission may grant franchises for rapid transit lines.
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Two hundred and twenty-six commercial organizations, representing a membership of several hundred thousand merchants, manufacturers, and business men of various lines throughout the country, have joined in a movement to stop the present tariff agitation and provide for a board of experts to study the whole question and revise the schedules in the light of their researches.
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There is no longer any necessity for polluting American cities with volumes of smoke, as practical smoke-consumers can be obtained at reasonable prices and operated with economy.
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A bill is before the Massachusetts Legislature asking for a charter for "Massachusetts College.
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The Utah Fuel Company has pleaded guilty in the United States court to the fraudulent acquisition of 1,440 acres of coal land, paid a fine of $8,000, also $192,000 for the coal extracted, and relinquished the land.
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One of the largest competitive examinations ever held under the civil service commission is now in progress, and will continue in all the principal cities of the United States and at Ponce, Porto Rico, and at Honolulu, until April 27.