The rule of a railroad limiting its liability to a certain stated sum where a passenger loses baggage carried on his ticket, has been upset by the appellate division of the New York supreme court.
Experiments by the postoffice department for the last ten weeks show that the government can effect an immense saving by shipping a large part of its second-class mail matter by freight cars rather than in mail cars, as heretofore.
The contest over probably the richest coal lands in the world was transferred to the supreme court of the United Sates when the government docketed an appeal from the order of the federal court of Washington quashing the so-called "Stracey group" indictment.
The Democrats of the House will investigate the entire sugar industry in the United States, according to a decision reached last week by the committee on rules, which was called together to consider the resolution introduced by Representative Hardwick of Georgia, calling for an investigation of the American Sugar Refining Company.
Chief Justice White of the United States supreme court, who announced the decision in the commodities clause of the Hepburn law regulating interstate commerce, said in summing up: "It must be held that, while the right of a railroad company as a stockholder to use its stock ownership for the purpose of a bona fide separate administration of the affairs of a corporation in which it has a stock interest may not be denied, the use of such stock ownership in substances for the purpose of destroying the entity of a producing, etc.
The American section of the new world map, in which countries will be drawn on the same scale, that the relative size and characteristics of each may be shown, is progressing rapidly under the direction of the United States geological survey.
The Boy Scout movement is emphasized as an aid to conservation by conservation by Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester, who says of it: "There are very many reasons why I believe in the Boy Scouts; one of the first of them is that I do not see how it is possible for any good scout to grow up without becoming a good forester.
