EVENTS OP 1890. 



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Mayl. New York: The State Assembly passes a 

 bill to abolish capital punishment (afterward recon- 

 sidered and defeated). Labor demonstrations occur 

 in most of the large cities. Strikes occur in New Eng- 

 land. Europe : Extraordinary measures alone pre- 

 vent violent labor demonstrations. Slight disturb- 

 ances at Paris and Pesth. 



2. New . York : Ballot-reform bill signed by the 

 Governor. About 50,000 men on strike in Chicago 

 and other large cities. France and Spain : Riots and 

 strikes occur. 



3. Spain : Strikers obtain possession of Barcelona 

 and hold it for a time. 



4. England: Immense labor meeting in Hyde Park ; 

 170,000 present ; no disorder. 



6. Germany : The Emperor opens the Reichstag 

 and recommends legislation to protect working men. 



7. Africa: The Germans capture Kilwa from the 

 Arabs. 



8. Arkansas: The Congressional investigation 

 closes at Little Rock. South Carolina: The Episco- 

 pal diocese votes not to exclude a colored minister, 

 now a member. Syria: Heavy fighting between 

 Maronites and Druses. 



13. Louisiana: The State lottery offers $1 ? 000,000 

 for the renewal of its charter. New York : Iwenty- 

 fifth anniversary of the National Temperance Society. 



14. Haltimore: National Conference of Charities 

 and Correction. Florida : The mayor and city mar- 

 shal of Cedar Keys are arrested for obstructing Gov- 

 ernment business. England : The Government is 

 defeated on an Irish bill in the House of Commons. 

 Riotous strikes in various European cities. 



15. Spain : Several strikers killed at Bilbao. 



1 6. Canada : Parliament is prorogued. 



19. The Supreme Court decides that the Edmunds 

 act is constitutional in its clause relating to confisca- 

 tion of Mormon property ; it decides also against Cor- 

 nell University in the Fiske will case. The French 

 capture two strongholds in Dahomey. Japan : A new 

 Cabinet formed. 



20. Cincinnati : Opening of the May music festi- 

 val. 



21. Italy : Strikers fired upon by troops. Achcen : 

 Dutch troops are repulsed by natives. 



22. The President receives the delegates to the Na- 

 tional Convention on Charities and Correction. 



23. Egypt : Alleged famine in the Soudan. 



24. Chicago : 26 men indicted for election frauds. 



25. New Haven, Conn. : Meeting of the Brother- 

 hood of Locomotive Engineers ; address by Chauncey 

 M. Depew. Ireland : Nationalist meetings defy the 

 police. 



26. Chicago : Congressional committee on alien 

 labor law violations. Jersey City : 68 indictments 

 against election officer?. 



27. Ireland : Land League meetings broken up by 

 police and troops. 



28. Washington : Meeting of Republican National 

 Committee. Richmond: Mercie's equestrian statue 

 of Gen. Robert E. Lee unveiled. Newfoundland : A 

 French war ship destroys fishermen's nets ; payment 

 of taxes refused. Paris": Russian Nihilists arrested. 



30. Memorial Day : Lakeview, Ohio, Garfield me- 

 morial dedicated ; Vicksburg, Miss., commemorative 

 exercises of the Blue and the Gray ; New York, cor- 

 nerstone laid of Washington Memorial Arch. Ire- 

 land : Petit, the American tennis player, wins the 

 Avorld's championship at Dublin. Hunerary: The 

 Lower House refuses citizenship to Louis Kossuth. 



31. Bavaria : Prime Minister Baron von Lutz re- 

 signs. Germany : The cathedral spire at Dim fin- 

 ished ; highest in the world. 



June 2. The work begins of taking the census of 

 the United States. England : The House of Com- 

 mons considers the Behring Sea and the Newfound- 

 land fishery questions. Kansas : An " original pack- 

 age " whisky war is threatened. 



3. Germany, France, Russia, and Switzerland have 

 agreed to suppress anarchy. France: The Duke of 

 Orleans pardoned. 



4. Brooklyn, N. Y. : Great Sunday-school parade 

 of 60,000 children. 



5. England : It is alleged in Parliament that the 

 French acts in Newfoundland are justified ; the bill 

 tor a channel tunnel is again defeated. France : At- 

 tempted destruction of the monastery of La Grande 

 Chartreuse. 



7. Wisconsin: Lutherans condemn the State edu- 

 cation law. England : Miss Phillippa Garrett Faw- 

 cett carries off the highest honors at Cambridge Uni- 

 versity. 



9. Columbus, Ohio : Strike riots. New York : 60 

 arrests for refusing to answer questions of census 

 enumerators. 



11. Clifton, N. Y. : Annual meeting of the Inter- 

 national Missionary Union. A British schooner seized 

 for smuggling Chinamen on the Pacific coast. 



12. St. Louis, Mo. : National Convention of Young 

 People's Christian Endeavor societies, 8,000 dele- 

 gates present. Russia: A fresh plot discovered 

 against the Czar's life. Canada : The Duke and 

 Duchess of Connaught sail for England. 



13. Columbus, Ohio : The street-car strike settled 

 by a compromise. Germany and Morocco : An inter- 

 national commercial treaty signed. Acheen : The 

 Dutch win a victory over the natives. 



16. California: One of the peaks of Mount Shasta 

 disappears. England: Stormy scene between Mr. 

 Balfour and the Irish members of the House of Com- 

 mons. 



17 Bunker Hill Day celebrated in Boston and Chi- 

 cago. 



18. England-Germany : Proposed transfer of Heli- 

 goland announced. Quebec elections result favorably 

 to the French Nationalists. 



20. Harvard University : Clement Garnett Morgan, 

 a negro, delivered the class oration. England : Notice 

 of a motion given in the Commons to consider retali- 

 atory tariff legislation as against the United States. 



21. The President appoints commissioners for the 

 World's Fair. Harvard beats Yale at baseball. Can- 

 ada : Important concessions made to favor American 

 fishermen. Chicago: The Lake Front site is decided 

 upon for the World's Fair. 



23. Brazil : New Constitution promulgated. 



24. Strike on the Illinois Central Railroad. New 

 York : The Court of Appeals sustains the anti-Sugar 

 Trust decision ; it also affirms that Kemmler must be 

 executed by electricity. Yale beats Harvard at base- 

 ball. San Salvador : A new government is formed 

 with Gen. Carlos Ezeta as President. National As- 

 sociation of Editors meets in Boston. 



25. Louisiana: House of delegates recharters tlie 

 State Lottery for ^ twenty-five _ years at $1,000,000 a 

 year. London: French Royalists hold a conference. 



27. The President signs the dependent pension bill. 

 New London, Conn.: Yale-Harvard Boat Race, Yale 

 wins. 



29. Shawnee Indians sign a treaty receiving their 

 lands in several ty and $100 per capita. 



July 3. Portland, Me. : Society of the Army of the 

 Potomac meets. Cincinnati : Strike of freight han- 

 dlers. Newfoundland : Further French aggressions 

 reported. 



4. The one hundred and fourteenth anniversary of 

 American independence celebrated all over the United 

 States, and by American colonies abroad. 



5. Spain : A new Cabinet formed with Sefior Cano- 

 vas de Castillo as Premier. France : The Senate votes 

 a duty on corn. Paris : Conviction of six Russian 

 Nihilists. 



7. Louisiana: Gov. Nicholls vetoes the Lottery bill. 

 The new Chinese minister reaches Washington. ' Lon- 

 don: Threatened strike of policemen. 



8. Milwaukee : National Convention of Knights of 

 Pythias. St. Paul : Annual National Educational 

 Convention. London : Insubordinate policemen sen- 

 tenced to imprisonment. 



9. Lieut.-Col. Batchelder is confirmed as quarter- 

 master-general, U. S. A. Cincinnati : National Con- 

 vention of Colored Catholics. 



