Editorial Notes.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Sinking of the ship Gulflight by the German U-boats; Notification of the Chinese minister for foreign affairs to the Japanese minister in Peking that Chinese government cannot accept the entirety of their demands; Sentence of strike leader of the Colorado miners John R. Lawson to life imprisonment; Agreement for a political reform in shortening the ballot in the state of New York; Protests on the decision of the arbitration board on the striking railroad personnel; Denunciation of the principle of the wage-board system; Emergence of diseases and epidemics in war-torn Serbia because of the swelling population; Policy of Pullman Car Co. CEO Robert Todd Lincoln on black porters; Reaction of Harvard University president John Lowell to the intemperate epistle of professor Kuno Meyer, an alleged German propaganda; Petition of fifteen young women to be admitted to the Harvard law School on the same terms with men.