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Increased. The.,minimum wages in all branches
except the local freight service fell short of the
gcalo asked by the engineers. In addition, to
prescribing genaral rates the commission pre
scribed uniform improved rules of service. In
response to complaints from the railway man
agers that they could pay no higher wages
without increased revenues the managers .were
advised that the employes must have fair wages,
and. if revenues are inadequate to meet this re
quirement the remedy must be. sought through
higher rates. Noting- that the railways must
obey the regulation of national and state com
missions, the arbitration board suggested the
creation of federal and state wage commis
sions which shall exercise functions regarding
railway labor analogous to those exercised in re
gard to capital by the existing public service
commissions. This suggestion was vigorously
dissented from by Mr. Morrissey, who saw in it
the principle of compulsory arbitration. The
arbitration award was made by a commission
made up of Prof. Charles R. Van Hise, of Madi
son, Wis., chairman; Oscar S'. Straus, late can
didate for governor of New York on the "in
dustrial justice" ticket; Albert Shaw, of the
Review of Reviews; Frederick N. Judson, of St.
Loilis, and Otto M. Eidlitz, of New York, all
appointed by the. chief justice of the United
States supreme court; the United States com
missioner of labor; the presiding judge of the
commerce court; Daniel Willard, president of
the Baltimore and Ohio, and P. H. Morrissey,
representing the engineers. The verdict of such
a high class tribunal is certain to carry weight
with the public. While the effect of the award
will bo a material increase in railway operating
expenses, it seems to dispose for the present of
the probability of another general increase of
railway wages.
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WG. WATKINS, for many years a justice of
the peace, at Clinton, Mo., was a captain
in Shelby's brigade during the civil war, and
was commissioned to recruit for the southern
army. Captain Watkins died recently, and a
writer in the St. Louis Republic says: "While
Captain Watkins was engaged in obtaining re-
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PARCELS POST regulations have been finally
JL approved by Postmaster General Hitchcock.
Hie Washington correspondent for the New
York World says: Under the regulations as
drawn, practically all farm and factory products
will bo admitted to the parcels post under the
general limitations as to size and weight. All
matter now third class will not bo permitted in
the parcels post mails. The third clasB Includes
books, circulars and all printed matter. Its
debarment from the parcels post will make this
class of matter pay a much higher rato than
ordinary merchandise. Under previous classi
fications, all matter tending to have an educa
tional value has been favored in the mails.
Seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions and plants
will be permitted in the parcels post malls
under regulations as to size and weight ap
plicable to other parcels post packages, but at
the rate of postage of one cent for two ounces
or fraction, thereof, regardless of distance. Dis
tinctive parcels post stamps must be used on all
fourth class matter, including that weighing four
ounces and less. Such matter bearing ordinary
postage stamps will be treated as held for
postage. A parcel not more than three feet six
inches in length may measure as much as two
feet six inches in girth or around its thickest
part. A shorter parcel may be thicker, thus:
If it measures no more than three feet in length
it may measure as much as three feet in girth or
around its thickest part, Measurements will bo
S m8 tmaBter hvf m 8,X,'f0t Upo 1,no nisUod
So Sfn? . i ? th0 donart,ent. So much of
i ii o fnf ,8 not.ue n measuring the length
inhln T1811!0 of tho maximum girth pormS
oblo. Parcels will bo mailable only at noiu
n v 1 8,aot,,on4ail uch numbered station as
XnMd e8'gnatod b' th Poitmuitcr, or when
pnsentdd to a rural or othor carrier dulv
authorized to receive such matter. All parrela
S Z rv th!, ,rolurn ,card of th0 onder,Potl e r
viBo they will not bo accepted for mailing
oil cos and to patrons residing on rural and star
routes; they may bo registered and may bo
accorded special delivery service on payment of
the usual fees, and they may bo Insured against
loss in an amount equivalent to their actual
value but not to exceed $25, on payment of a
fee of five cents.
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AN unusual antc-nuplial agreement is re
corded at St. Louis. A St. Louis dispatch
to tho New York World tells the story In this
way. The parties to the agreement were Louis
uihlem, and Ray Eckert: "The first clause In
tho agreement is that Yahlem will pay his brido
$100 in cash at the time of the marriage.
Without conditions of any kind ho agrees to
bequeath to his brido in' his last will $500. In
case they live together as husband and wife for
two years ho will will to her $1,000, including
the $500 in the previous clause. If they live to
gether three years or longer he will bequeath to
her one-sixth of his estato, Including the $1,000.
It is further agreed that the wife shall have no
right or claim, dower or otherwise, to share or
participation in Yahlem's estate except as sot out
in tho agreement. Yahlem waives all right to
tho estate of IiIb bride, and It Is agreed that
either may sell or encumber property without
the other's signature. No reason Is assigned for
this strange agreement which provides a sliding
scale according to how long the wife decides to
remain aB the wife of Yahlem, nor Is It stated at
what date this strange agreement will really go
into effect by tho marriage of the contractors."
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