The decree of the Circuit Court in the Government's suit against the American Tobacco Company and others declares the tobacco trust a monopoly engaged in an illegal combination, and restrains these holding companies from engaging in foreign and interstate commerce until competition between them is restored.
The Massachusetts commission on fisheries and game has announced the purchase of six hundred acres of land on Martha's Vineyard, which it is proposed to devote to the propagation of the pinnated grouse, or heath hen.
According to a decision by the Commissioner of Patents, any label bearing the inscription, "Guaranteed under the pure food and drug acts, June 30, 1906," where such inscription is intended to imply that the Government is responsible for the purity of the goods, will be refused registration.
The Seneca, specially built and equipped for its service, has just been commissioned as a destroyer of derelict vessels which lie in or near lanes of ocean travel.
Secretary Elliott of the American Automobile Association has sent a warning against reckless driving to the officers of the two hundred automobile clubs scattered throughout the United States, to the effect that drastic anti-automobile legislation will surely be enacted in many of the Eastern States if a stop is not put to the reckless driving.
Postmaster General Meyer, in arguing for the establishment of postal savings banks, notes the fact that fourteen States of the Union have savings bank deposits of over three and a half billions of dollars, or 98.
