nard, astronomer of the Lick Observatory, takes charge of the great telescope at the Chicago University.

June 1. Washington: Count de Reventlow, the retiring Danish minister, presents his letter of recall to the President. Ohio: The striking coal miners reach an agreement at Columbus.

2. Chicago: Judge Baker decides against the Attorney-General of Illinois in a suit to annul the charter of the Pullman Company. New York: A law goes into effect closing barber shops on Sundays except in New York city and Saratoga.

3. The Supreme Court decides that the tariff act became operative on Aug. 28, 1894. Rhode Island: Part of the unemployed operatives at Olneyville resume work. Spain: The Captain General of Madrid is mortally wounded by an officer thought to be insane. Washington: The Chilian minister receives a dispatch from his home Government announcing the resumption of gold payments. Syria: A fleet of 17 British war ships reached Beyroot.

4. North Carolina: The Populists have declared in favor of an income tax. New Jersey: The Legislature reconvenes to receive the report of its investigating committee. New York: Annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons begun at the Masonic Temple. Great Britain rejects the offer of the Pope to mediate in the dispute with Venezuela.

5. Illinois: Free silver Democratic Convention at Springfield. Washington: The District Court of Appeals sustains the pension commissioner in reducing the pension of Judge Long. New York: Conference for promoting international arbitration at Lake Mohonk Carson City, Nev.: The $80,000 in gold supposed to have been stolen is found buried in the garden of an employee of the mint. New York: The new American Line steamer St. Louis sails on her first voyage to Southampton. Execution of the assassin of the Captain-General of Madrid.

6. Iowa: Conference of Free-silver Democrats at Des Moines. Washington: The Spanish minister complains of many expeditions in aid of the Cuban insurrection fitting out in the bayous of the lower Mississippi. Missouri: Dedication of the new buildings in the State University at Columbia. Paris: Meeting of the International Miners' Conference. The English, German, Belgian, and French delegutes decide in favor of an eight-hour day.

7. President appoints Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, Secretary of State, and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, Attorney-General. The Chinese minister presents a letter to the President from the Emperor of China thanking him for his kindly offices in furthering peace with Japan. Illinois: The Legislature passed a bill taxing inheritances, gifts, and legacies. New York: Gov. Morton signs the bill to prevent naturalization frauds.

8. Pennsylvania: Adjournment of the Legislature. Washington: The Post-Office Department issues a new form for money orders.

9. Rome: A permanent Russian legation established at the Vatican.

10. Washington: Richard Olney sworn in as Secretary of State.

11. Richmond, Va.: Judge Goff's decision in the South Carolinian registration case reversed by the United States Court of Appeals. Chicago: Annual session of the Ancient Order of the United Workmen. Turkey: The British, French, and Russian ambassadors formally demand the disarmament of the dangerous tribes that have recently attacked some of the consulates.

12. Proclamation by the President forbidding American citizens to aid Cuban insurgents. Debs and his colleagues begin to serve their sentences. Archbishop Ireland defends the public schools in a speech at South Bend, Ind. New York city: Twenty-second annual session of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor.

13. Appointment by the President of Allen Thomas to be United States minister to Venezuela. By or

der of the President Government printing-office employees are made subject to the civil-service rules. Illinois: The Supreme Court declares the Whisky Trust illegal. New Jersey: The Legislature adjourns after passing several bills over the Governor's veto. Central Africa: A protectorate for Uganda is announced by Great Britain. Completion of the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal (see article on ENGINEERING).

14. Celebration of the anniversary of the adoption of the American flag. Canada: The Parliament by a majority of 4 defeats a measure to increase the duty on spirits, beer, and tobacco.

15. Three revenue cutters detailed by the Navy Department to prevent the importation of yellow fever from Cuba.

16. London: Lady Somerset opens the World's Women's Christian Conference.

17. The President and family leave Washington for their summer residence on Buzzard's Bay. Opening of the Harlem Ship Canal connecting the Hudson river and Long Island Sound (see article on ENGINEERING). Oxford and Cambridge Athletic Club challenge Yale and Harvard to a contest.

18. Omaha: Meeting of the National Council of the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Illinois : Gov. Altgeld calls a special session of the Legislature. Missouri: The Supreme Court declares unconstitutional the law forbidding the discharge of employees for connection with labor organizations. England: Lady Somerset elected President of the British Women's Temperance Association.

19. Commodore Bunce succeeds Admiral Meade as flag officer of the North Atlantic squadron. New York: Ex-Police-Commissioner McLaughlin sentenced to two years and a half in States Prison for extortion. Massachusetts: Annual convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers at Hull. London: Opening of the Convention of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union.

20. Lexington, Va.: Seventh Annual Congress of the Scotch-Irish Society. Germany: Opening of the Baltic Canal from Brunsbuttel to Kiel, powerful squadrons represent the great maritime powers,_and royal guests are present from all over Europe. England notifies Russia that she is about to make a naval demonstration in the Dardenelles.

21. Ex-Capt. Howgate, of the United States army, convicted of forgery and falsification of accounts. England: Defeat of the Rosebery ministry in the House of Commons by a vote of 132 to 125. Germany: The Emperor lays the keystone of the Kiel canal and names it the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, in memory of William I. Constantinople: Detection of a plot against the Sultan among students in the university, 30 arrested.

22. New York city: Convention of American Bacteriologists. Toledo, Ohio: An injunction against Sunday ball playing made permanent by the circuit court. Cuba: Mutiny among Spanish troops, their commander commits suicide.

23. Chicago: Convention of the United Irish Societies, representing 133 organizations. England: Resignation of the Rosebery ministry. Italy: Bribery charges preferred against Premier Crispi by Signor Cavalotti.

24. New York city: Several indictments found for alleged complicity in a conspiracy to burn buildings. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Intercollegiate boat race on the Hudson won by Columbia; Cornell and Pennsylvania were the other contestants. Germany: The Emperor visits the United States flagship New York at Kiel, and sends thanks to the President.

25. Illinois Opening of the special session of the Legislature. Schnectady, N. Y.: Centennial exercises of Union College. England: Lord Salisbury accepts the premiership and announces some of his Cabinet. Italy: Defeat of a motion aimed against Premier Crispi in the Chamber of Deputies (383 to 151).

26. First payment made by the Belmont-Morgan

syndicate on the new bond issue; the gold reserve raised to $107,000,000. Providence, R. I.: Strike in the Atlantic Mills settled. Boston: Meeting of the International Supreme Lodge of Good Templars, membership more than 500,000. Germany: The Emperor and his admirals dine on board the flagship New York as guests of Admiral Kirkland. London: Fifth session of the International Railway Congress. 27. Ohio: The State Supreme Court decides that the direct inheritance tax law is unconstitutional. Pennsylvania: The Governor signs the religious garb bill. Chattanooga, Tenn.: Opening of the Second National Convention Epworth League. Albany, N. Y.: Session of the University Convocation. Newfoundland: Appointment of Sir Graham Bower to succeed Gov. O'Brien as chief executive.

28. Detroit: American Society of Mechanical Engineers in convention. New London, Conn.: Yale wins the annual boat race against Harvard. Niagara Falls: Session of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. New Orleans: Officers of labor associations indicted for interfering with interstate commerce during the late strike.

29. San Francisco: Judge Ross of the district court decides in favor of the Leland Stanford estate in the suit brought by the Government. Chicago: Indictment of 13 men charged with defrauding the city by falsifying pay rolls. Chautauqua: Opening of the twenty-second Annual Assembly. Westminster, England: Foundation stone of a Roman Catholic cathedral laid by Cardinal Vaughan.

30. The annual summer religious services open at Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, N. J.

July 1. Detroit: Organization of the International Protective Association, intended to unite interests of the Canadian and American Protective Associations. Bristol, R. I.: Launch of the yacht Defender.

2. Washington: Sentence of ex-Capt. Howgate to eight years in the penitentiary (he was subsequently admitted to bail pending decision on appeal).

3. Washington: Appointment, as chief of the Weather Bureau, of Willis L. Moore to succeed Prof. Mark Harrington, who has accepted the presidency of the University of Washington at Seattle. The State Department is notified officially that China is to pay Japan 288,000,000 in Mexican silver dollars as indemnity. Madagascar: Sharp engagement between the French troops and natives, the French victorious.

4. East Boston, Mass.: A "Little-Red-Schoolhouse" parade in which the A. P. A. and Orange Lodges and kindred organizations take part is attacked by a Roman Catholic_mob; 1 man killed, several hurt. New York city: Escape of 3 post-office robbers from Ludlow Street jail. Dayton, Tenn.: Several SeventhDay Adventists fined for working on Sunday; they are sent to prison in default of payment.

5. Washington: Arrival of the new Portuguese minister, Senhor d'Seguira Thadieu. Denver, Col.: Convention of the National Educational Association. Italy: Duel between Signor Galli, Under Secretary of the Interior, and Deputy Marescalchi. Newfoundland: Startling legislative scandals discovered at St. John's.

6. Baltimore: Successful test of an electric locomotive in the Belt Line tunnel. Chicago: Wages of workers in the Pullman shop advanced 10 per cent. India: Riot between Hindus and Mohammedans, 3 killed and 200 wounded. Russia guarantees a Chinese gold loan of £16,000,000. Cambridge, England, University accepts Yale's challenge to an athletic contest. 7. Birth of a daughter to the President and Mrs. Cleveland at Gray Gables, Mass. Chicago: For the first time in the history of the city all barber shops are closed (Sunday).

8. Toledo, Ohio: Annual convention of the glass workers of America. England: The Queen signs a proclamation dissolving Parliament. Gen. Roberts declines to succeed the Duke of Cambridge as commander in chief of the British army. 9. Connecticut: Both Houses the General Assembly pass a bill making Oct. 15 a legal holiday, to

be known as Lincoln Day. The New England Railroad sold under foreclosure for $5,000,000. Russia: Alleged discovery of an extensive conspiracy against the Czar.

10. Saratoga: Meeting of the New York State Bankers' Association. Boston: Annual convention of the Christian Endeavor Society, about 50,000 members present. Canada: Crisis concerning the freeschool system in Manitoba. England: Defeat of the Cornell oarsmen at Henley by Trinity Hall. Cuba: Election of Thomas Estrada Palma to be President of the Republic of Cuba.

11. St. John's, Newfoundland: Sailing of the steamer Kite with the Peary relief expedition bound for Greenland. Washington: Arrest of Morino, once Prime Minister of Hawaii, charged with criminal libel of the Italian ambassador.

12. England: General parliamentary elections begin. (Returns 338 Conservatives, 177 Liberals, 73 Unionists, 70 McCarthyites, 12 Parnellites.) Paris: Two duels fought between members of the Chamber of Deputies. Formosa: Considerable engagement between the Japanese and Chinese; the latter are defeated.

14. Paris: Celebration of the one hundred and sixth anniversary of the fall of the Bastile.

15. The Irish National Federation send $5,000 to Ireland as a contribution to the election fund of the Parliamentary party. Michigan: 5,000 miners vote to go on strike. Bulgaria: Ex-Premier Stambuloff shot and stabbed in the streets of Sofia.

16. Michigan: General strike among the iron miners, who demand $2 a day.

18. Toronto, Canada: Opening of the Pan-American Congress of Religion and Education, 5,000 delegates present.

19. The President extends the civil-service rules to include all employees of the pension agencies. Grand Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor announces a boycott of national bank notes beginning September 1. Turkey: Turks and Macedonians fight on the frontier; victory claimed by the Turks. Canada: By a vote of 18 to 6 the Toronto School Board sustains the right of teachers to wear bloomers.

22. Canada: Adjournment of the Dominion Parliament after postponing action on the school question in Manitoba.

23. Secretary Hoke Smith opens the sound-money campaign by a speech at Hayneville, Ga. The civilservice rules are extended to include employees of the Geological Survey, 125 in number.

24. United States troops ordered to the scene of Indian disturbances in Wyoming. British occupation announced of the island of Trinidad against the protest of Brazil.

28. New York city: General strike ordered of the Brotherhood of Tailors, 15,000 men stop work. 29. Boston: A considerable number of colored women assemble and form a national league.

30. Declaration by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma that all divorces previously granted in the Territory by probate judges are illegal. Vienna: It is announced that Bulgaria will accept the Greek Church to secure Russian protection. Lisbon: Riots in consequence of rumors that priests have been engaged in child stealing.

81. Chicago: Indictment by the grand jury of six election judges for fraud at recent elections.

August 2. Ohio: A Populist convention nominates "General" Coxey for Governor. Illinois: The Legislature adjourns its special session, passing only one of the measures desired by Gov. Altgeld. Wyoming: Gen. Coppinger reports that the trouble with the Bannock Indians is at an end. Now York: United States cruiser Columbia arrives from Southampton, having made the run in six days, twenty-three hours, and forty-nine minutes, the longest and fastest run ever recorded for a war ship.

3. London: Close of the session of the Geographical Congress. Belgium: Sectarian education made com

pulsory by the passage of a new school bill. Germany Formation of a new political party demanding federal rights for Alsace-Lorraine.

4. Annual conference of Christian workers at Northfield, Mass. China: Mobs destroy the nission station at Kucheng, killing 10 British missionaries and wounding 2 Americans.

5. Chinese troops sent to the scene of the massacre at Kucheng and the Western powers are promised prompt reparation.

6. South Carolina: Judge Goff dismisses the case questioning the validity of the registration laws. Ohio: Annual encampment of Union veterans and the Women's Veteran Relief Union at Lima. Illinois Riotous Italian miners in Spring Valley forcibly drive out all negroes in that region. China: Further outrages are reported in the burning of American missions. Germany: Discontented laborers create a riot at Argenau, 5 killed and 6 wounded by the police. Ireland: The Congress of Deaf and Dumb Associations opens at Dublin.

7. Illinois: It is believed that the race riot in Spring Valley is at an end. New York: Twenty-fifth annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union.

8. China: Further rumors of outrages directed against foreigners. Germany: Celebrations of anniversaries of victories over the French in 1870 are the rule of the day.

9. New York: Adjournment of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union with resolutions calling upon their brethren to keep out of the liquor business. Illinois: Negro miners return to work at Spring Valley under guard.

10. New York: End of the tailors' strike. Germany: An admiralty court sitting at Bremerhaven lays the responsibility of the Elbe disaster upon the British steainer.

12. England: Reopening of Parliament, Sir William Gully re-elected Speaker of the House.

18. England: The Irish Parliamentary party unanimously re-elects Justin McCarthy as chairman. Turkey: A large party of Bulgarians attack a village near the border, burn houses and kill many of the inhabitants.

15. Washington: Walter H. Davney, solicitor of the State Department, is elected Professor of Common and Statute Law at the University of Virginia. England: Reading of the Queen's speech in Parliament; an anti-Parnellite disturbance in the House of Com

mons.

16. Arrest of 23 Spring Valley rioters. Pittsburg, Pa.: Thirtieth annual reunion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Italy: Anarchists attempt to blow up the French consulate at Ancona. Belgium: Final sessions of the Arbitration Congress at Brussels. 17. Spain: Advantage has been taken by the disaffected to inaugurate revolutionary schemes during the absence of troops in Cuba.

18. North Dakota is overrun by an army of tramps who are numerous enough to terrify the inhabitants. New York: Arrival of the British yacht Valkyrie III. End of the jacket-makers' strike; the strikers win. Paris: 30,000 devotees start on the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes.

19. England: It is officially announced that the Duke of Cambridge retires and Field-marshal Lord Wolseley succeeds him as commander in chief of the British army;

20. General election of delegates to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention. Trial trip of the American liner St. Louis in the English Channel; she makes 224 knots an hour.

21. The President extends the civil-service law to include printers and pressmen in the Executive Department. It is found in the Library of Congress that there is a shortage of about $35,000, due probably to a lack of sufficient clerical help. Nebraska: A Union Pacific express train held up by robbers near Gothenburg. Scotland: 20,000 jute workers on strike at Dundee. Newfoundland: Signs of renewed trouble

between French and English in regard to fishing rights. Hawaii: It is announced that the Government has ratified a contract for a telegraph cable to San Francisco.

22. New York: Incorporation of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company, to succeed the late Whisky Trust.

23. New York: Cardinal Gibbons returns from his trip to Rome.

24. Evacuation of Port Arthur by the Japanese, the fortifications having been dismantled.

25. Reopening of trouble between the Bannock Indians and cattlemen in Diamond valley. Colorado: Bull fights have been introduced at Cripple Creek, and appear to be very popular. England: A train on the West Coast Railway breaks the record for fast time by running 540 miles in 512 minutes.

26. Niagara Falls: Power sent out for commercial use for the first time from the dynamos of the Cataract Construction Company. Madagascar: Advance of the French forces toward the interior with much suffering from sickness.

27. New York: The Liquor Dealers' Association approve the resolution to close saloons on Sundays. Boston: National Conclave of Knights Templars opens. Detroit: Meeting of the American Bar Association. Michigan: The United States Government turns over the old military reservation on Mackinac Island to the State as a public park.

29. Nebraska: Populíst convention at Lincoln, 700 delegates present. Springfield, Mass.: Annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Sci

ence.

30. New York: 322 saloon keepers plead guilty to violation of the excise law and are fined $25 each. Selection of the yacht Defender to meet Valkyrie III in the cup races. China: Li-Hung-Chang has been reinstated Imperial Chancellor.

31. Utah: The Supreme Court decides that only men are entitled to vote under the new State Constitution.

September 1. Germany: General celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of Sedan. Russia makes a present of 10,000 modern rifles and ammunition to Montenegro; England objects. Munich: The Catholic Congress adopts resolutions favoring temperance and a stricter observance of Sunday.

2. Labor Day: Parades, picnics, and speech making in all the large cities. Saratoga: Meeting of the American Social Science Association.

3. Saratoga: Meeting of the New York State Prohibition Convention. New York: The whole police force is warned against contributing to any fund raised to further legislation. Philadelphia: Annual Convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers. Panama: Laborers engaged to resume work on the canal.

4. Naval court-martial of Capt. George W. Sumner for careless docking of the Columbia in England. New York: The Oxford-Cambridge Cricket Team defeats the New Yorkers at Stapleton. Washington: Convention of Agricultural Chemists. Chicago: 11,000 children turned away from the public schools for lack of room. England: The British Trades Union Congress passes resolutions favoring the abolition of the House of Lords. Parliament adjourns till Nov. 15.

6. China: Arrest of 130 of the Kucheng rioters. An investigation into their conduct will be conducted by United States officials. Russia: Arrest of 900 nihilists at St. Petersburg and Moscow. Ecuador, South America: It is officially announced that the revolutionists have victoriously entered Quito, the capitul

7-13. International yacht races off Sandy Hook (see YACHTING).

9. Lunding of 15,000 Spanish troops in Cuba. 10. South Carolina: Opening of the Constitutional Convention. Louisville Annual meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic.

12. South Carolina: As submitted the new Constitution excludes negroes from holding office.

13. Brooklyn: Capt. Sumner of the Columbia found guilty by court-martial, suspended and reprimanded.

14. Washington: Payment of the long-outstanding Mora indemnity by Spain to acting Secretary Adee at the department. Germany: Opening of the first electric strect railway at Berlin.

15. Iowa: Conference of Latter-Day Saints at Council Bluffs, 3,000 members present. Italy: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the occupation of Rome by Italian troops.

16. New Mexico: Opening of the Irrigation Congress at Albuquerque. Pennsylvania: The university team wins the intercollegiate cricket match against Oxford and Cambridge by 100 runs.

17. Minneapolis: Annual Convention of the Association of Labor Statisticians. The United States battle ship Maine placed in commission at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Cuba: According to semiofficial Spanish authority the rebellion is now far more formidable than it was in the spring.

18. Opening of the Atlanta Exposition. Dedication of State monuments on the battlefield of Chickamauga, Tenn. China: Seven leaders of the recent riots at Kucheng decapitated.

19. Cuba: A court-martial at Havana condemns the captain of the American steamer Mascot and some of his crew to imprisonment for landing cartridges. 20. Charles D. Rose, of London, challenges for the America's cup. Great Britain sends a squadron of war ships up the Yangtse-Kiang river to protect Europeans. Italy: Unveiling of a monument to Garibaldi at Rome; opening of a Methodist Episcopal

church at Rome.

21. Atlanta, Ga.: Gathering of prominent ex-Union and ex-Confederate officers, to commemorate "Blue and Gray Day" at the exposition. New York: International club games, the Americans defeat the English in all the 11 contests, breaking several world's records. St. John's, Newfoundland: Return of the Peary relief expedition with Peary and his companions on board.

22. Madagascar: A notable French victory reported over the Hovas.

23. By order of the President the civil-service laws are extended to include all consular officers whose compensation does not exceed $2,500 a year. Philadelphia: Defeat of the local cricket club by the Oxford and Cambridge eleven.

24-28. Four races sailed between "Spruce IV" (English) and Ethelwynne (American), small yachts. Ethelwynne the victor.

24. New York: State Democratic Convention. Chicago: Delegates of the Irish National Societies meet and advocate the use of force to free Ireland. St. Louis: Annual Convention of the Catholic Young Men's Union. Newfoundland: Sir Hubert Murray appointed Governor of the province.

25. New York: Parade of the societies favoring more liberal Sunday laws. A train of the New York Central Railroad makes a new record by running from Albany to Syracuse, 147 miles, at 67 miles per hour. 26. Minneapolis: Meeting of the American Humane Association; resolutions passed condemning unrestricted vivisection. Louisville, Ky.: General Convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. England: The Duke of Cambridge makes a speech in regard to his own record as commander in chief of the British army.

27. Boston police notify Jews to close their business establishments on Sunday: the order will be contest ed in court. Germany: Quarantine ordered for all foreign live stock after Oct. 1. British steamer Alene fired upon by a Spanish gunboat off Cape Maysi, Cuba. Roar-Admiral Kirkland, flag officer of the Mediterranean squadron, reprimanded by the Secretary of War for a private congratulatory letter to President Faure of the French republic. Major George A. Armes, U. S. A., retired, addresses an insubordinate letter to Maj.-Gen. Scofield: he is arrested and placed in confinement.

28. Gen. Nelson A. Miles becomes commander in chief of the army of the United States in place of Gen. Schofield, retired. Atlanta: The attendance at the fair was 30,000, the largest yet recorded. New York: In the yacht race for half-raters Ethelwynne wins, defeating the English yacht Spruce II.

29. St. Louis: Four hundred cases of diphtheria are reported by the health authorities.

30. International cricket match at Philadelphia, the "Gentlemen of Philadelphia" defeat the Oxford and Cambridge eleven. China: At the demand of England the Viceroy of Szechuen is degraded for acts offensive to England. Hungary: The Diet adopts bills recognizing the freedom of religious worship. Madagascar: Capture of the capital of the island by France after an arduous campaign costing many lives from sickness. Russia: Several thousand deaths reported by cholera during the month.

October 1. Kentucky: The convention of the Methodist Episcopal Church votes to admit_women as delegates to the General Conference. France: A contract is signed to lay a telegraph cable from Brest to New York. Corea: The Queen murdered in her palace at Seoul.

2. Nebraska: The State Republican Convention opposes monometallism and demands an honest dollar. Minneapolis: The Protestant Episcopal Church of America begins its thirtieth annual convention. Washington: First Eucharist Congregration of the Catholic Church in America. Albany: Sixth annual convention of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty. Philadelphia: Launch of the United States cruiser Brooklyn from Cramp's shipyard. Italy: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the plebiscite; a number of pardons are granted in honor of the occasion.

3. Newport: Charles B. McDonald wins the national golf championship.

4. Trial trip of American liner St. Louis; she makes 20 knots. Salt Lake City: Sixty-fifth semiannual conference of the Mormon Church. England: Prorogation of Parliament till Dec. 23.

5. New York: Yale defeats Cambridge by winning 8 out of 11 athletic contests.

6. A note of remonstrance addressed to Turkey for her action in Armenia by the western European powers.

7. Washington: Decision reached by the district court favorable to the Government in the famous Potomac Flats case, involving several million dollars. Chicago: Electric car held up in the suburbs by masked men; all the passengers robbed.

8. Indiana: Defeat of the Republicans in the municipal elections, probably due to rigid enforcement of the excise law. Atlanta: Meeting of the American Institution of Mining Engineers, also of the Southern Irrigation Congress; the Liberty Bell is received at the exposition grounds with great ceremony.

9. Syracuse, N. Y.: Triennial convention of the Congregational Church. Easton, Pa.: Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

10. Washington: Major Armes released from arrest and Gen. Schofield censured by Judge Bradley of the district court.

11. By request of Minister Terrill the United States cruiser Marblehead is ordered to the Gulf of Alexandretta to protect American interests.

12. Atlanta: The National Congress of Farmers adopt resolutions favoring reciprocity with the South and Central American states; H. F. Clayton, of Indiana, is president of the congress. California: In the Court of Appeals a decision is rendered favorable to Mrs. Leland Stanford in the suit brought by the Government against her husband's estate. Korea: Marines land from the Yorktown to protect the American legation.

13. Turkey: Further cases of cruelty and bloodshed are reported in Armenia and other of the provinces.

14. Washington: Meeting of the Supreme Court. Baltimore: Meeting of the American Purity Alli

ance.

15. London: Publication by Lord Sackville-West, once minister to the United States, of a pamphlet reflecting upon Mr. Bayard, now United States minister to the court of St. James. Brooklyn: Eighty-sixth annual meeting of.the American Board of Commissioners to Foreign Missions. Atlanta: Twenty-first

session of the American Bankers' Association.

16. St. Louis: Meeting of the American Institute of Architects. Washington: Annual convention of the Military Society of the Loyal Legion, Gen. John Gibbon elected commander in chief. Turkey accepts proposed scheme of reform, but the massacres continue. Milwaukee, Wis., celebrated her fifticth birthday.

17. Washington: A national convention of colored men denounces Cleveland's administration, declares allegiance to the Republican party, and favors McKinley for President. Minneapolis: The Episcopal House of Deputies rejects a report looking toward the unity of the different churches.

18. Trial trip of the United States battle ship Indiana; she makes 150 knots, winning a handsome premium for her builders. Baltimore: Twenty-second convention of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union.

19. Newport News, Va.: Launch of United States gunboats Nashville and Wilmington. England sends an ultimatum to Venezuela demanding reparation for arrest of British officials.

21. Rear-Admiral Kirkland relieved from the command of the Mediterranean squadron: he is succeeded by Commodore Selfridge. Washington: Biennial session of the Supreme Council of the World Thirty-third Degree Masons.

22. Arrival of the President and party at Atlanta to celebrate what has been designated as President's Day." Minneapolis: Adjournment of the Episcopal General Convention. Baltimore: Re-election of Miss Frances E. Willard as President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Meriden, Conn.: General conference of the Universalist Church of the United States. Vicksburg, Miss.: Meeting of the Deep Water-ways Convention. Great Britain sends to Venezuela an ultimatum regarding the arrest of 2 British officials. Austria: Opening of the autumn session of the Reichstag.

23. Secretary Carlisle orders the stoppage of silver coinage after November 1. England: C. D. Rose withdraws his challenge for the America's cup.

25. Atlanta: Meeting of the Manufacturers' Association, 300 delegates present from New England, 200 from the Southern States. A train on the Lake Shore Railroad runs from Chicago to Buffalo, 510 miles, at an average of 65 miles per hour, excluding stops.

26. Cleveland, Ohio: Annual convention of collegiate alumnæ. New York: National Congress of Freethinkers, S. P. Putnam, of Chicago, elected president. Armenia: Cóntinued massacres of Christians by Turks are reported, and no efficient measures taken for their protection.

27. Arrival at Washington of Sir Charles Tupper and the Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, of Canada, to take part in the Bering Sea negotiations.

28. The postal deficiency for the fiscal year officially stated at $2,807,044. Atlanta: The National Congress of Women discusses suffrage. Paris: Resignation of the French Cabinet, the House of Deputies having passed a vote of censure.

29. South Carolina: The Constitutional Convention decides against woman's suffrage by 121 to 26. Washington: The Commissioner of Pensions reports 295 convictions for frauds during the year. Cuba: Alleged landing of a filibustering expedition from Canada.

30. New York Bay: The fort at Sandy Hook is formally named Fort Hancock by the Secretary of War. Texas: Negro lynched at Tyler. France annexes two of the Society islands. Scotland: End of the shipbuilders' strike at Glasgow and Belfast; wages

advanced 5

per cent.

31. Washington: Grand jury of the District of

Columbia declares the Government printing offices in an unsafe condition. The Bank of England pays the first installment of the Chinese indemnity to Japan, £8,000,000 sterling, the money remaining in bank, probably for the purchase of naval and military stores in England.

November 2. Trial trip of the United States war ship Katahdin. She fails to make the required speed. A board of officers recommend her acceptance at a reduced cost. Chicago: Mr. J. D. Rockefeller gives to Chicago University $1,000,000 unconditionally and $2,000,000 conditioned upon receipt of a like sum from other sources. Francis M. Hatch appointed minister to the United States from Hawaii.

4. Alaska: Canadian police fortifying strategic points along the border. Promotion of Commodore Selfridge, U. S. N., to be rear admiral.

5. Pittsburg, Pa.: Dedication of Carnegie Music Hall, Libary, and Art Galleries; a further endowment of $1,000,000 promised.

8. Washington: Civil-service rule extended to include many post offices and their employees. 17. China: Retrocession of the Liaotung peninsula, the Japanese receiving 30,000,000 taels.

18. Sentence of members of the American Railway Union connected with the strike of 1894 by the Supreme Court. This is in confirmation of the sentence of the California Court, and they must serve eighteen months in prison.

20. Departure of the United States steamship Minneapolis for Turkish waters.

28. Thanksgiving Day: 100,000 persons present at the Atlanta Exposition.

29. Rome: The Pope creates Monsignor Satolli a cardinal.

30. During the whole month murders of Armenian Christians continued without efficient effort at restraint on the part of the Sultan. The fleets of Europe remain at anchor near the Dardanelles awaiting orders for action. Several thousand Armenian Christians have been massacred.

December 2. Meeting of the Fifty-fourth Congress. 3. Germany: Opening of the Reichstag.

4. Adjournment of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention, its work having been completed. 10. Turkey: The Sultan grants permission for extra guard ships of the European powers to enter the Bosporus.

12. Switzerland: Adrian la Chenal elected President of the republic. Great Britain: Parliament prorogued until February.

14. Election of Samuel Gompers President of the American Federation of Labor.

17. Washington: A message to Congress from the President regarding the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela causes instant apprchension of war and unsettled financial markets all over the world. Philadelphia: General strike of the enployees of the street railway lines with riotous proceedings and many arrests.

20. Philadelphia: Street-car strike declared off. Ninety indictments have been found against rioters. 21. Celebration at Plymouth, Mass., of the two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims. An oration delivered by Senator Hoar.

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EXPOSITION, COTTON-STATES AND INTERNATIONAL. This great fair, held in Atlanta, Ga., during the closing months of 1895, in importance ranks third among those held in the United States; and in some of its features, as in the display of electrical apparatus and inventions, it even surpassed the Centennial. had its origin in the fact that the South, with its wonderful agricultural, mineral, and manusented at Chicago in 1895, the legislatures of the facturing resources, was not adequately repreSouthern States being prohibited by their several constitutions from making appropriations to