AMERICA.

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AMERICA.

1031 immigrants departed from Canada, and 480 persons were refused admission during the last six months. Air. Ar Belmont and other prominent American racehorse-owners are transferring their stables to France as a result of the anti-gambling legislation of New York and other States. Devastating Fires. The forest fires in Minnesota have been checked. Twelve thousand have been rendered homeless. Orderly Unionists. The Labour Day anniversary celebrations in New York, Chicago, Boston, and the various centres of Canada passed off Very quietly. The processions of unionists were unusually large, but were very orderly. Conscience Stricken. An ex-Minister of Justice for Denmark has been arrested at Alberta, Western Canada, on his own confession, of forgery and of defrauding the Zealand Peasants’ Savings Bank, of which he was a director, ,f half a million sterling. A Set-back. President Roosevelt’s anti-eorporation campaign has met a sharp reverse by the Federal Circuit Court of Pennsylvania declaring that the commodities’ clause of the Hepburn Act is unconstitutional. This clause forbids railway companies to ship from one State to another, or

abroad, commodities whereof they are producers or manufacturers, unless the commodity is essential to their legitimate functions as common carriers. It especially aimed at the railway ownership of collieries. The railways affected own or control 90 per cent of the _ unmined anthracite coal in Pennsylvania. " The Attorney-General (Mr. C. J. Bonaparte) appeals to the United States Supreme Court.