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EVENTS OP 1890. 



10. Act for the admission of Wyoming signed by the 

 President. Louisania : Both branches of the Legis- 

 lature sustain the Lottery bill against the Governor's 

 veto. Strikes at Toledo and Louisville. 



11. The United States torpedo boat Gushing runs 

 from New York to New London at the rate of 25 -35 

 miles an hour. 



12. Col. Alexander McD. McCook promoted briga- 

 dier-general. South America : General financial strin- 

 gency. London : End of London postmen's strike ; 

 marriage of Henry M. Stanley to Miss Dorothy Ten- 

 nant in Westminister Abbey. 



14. London : Opening of the Peace Congress, David 

 Dudley Field, president. 



15. Philadelphia decides to erect 25 new school 

 buildings. 



17. San Salvador and Guatemala : Pitched battle 

 between the opposing armies, San Salvador victorious. 

 Bulgaria : A revolution in Sofia. 



20. Boston : Monument to Count Schwab dedi- 

 cated. 



21. Joliet, 111. : Unsuccessful strike of quarrymen 

 ends. 



23. Brighton, Mass. : Annual meeting of the arch- 

 bishops of the United States. Formation of the Na- 

 tional Woman's Health Association. Agreement 

 reached between England and France in regard to 

 African affairs. The United States squadron of evolu- 

 tion is officially welcomed at Rio de Janeiro. 



24. New York : End of cloakmakers' strike. Wy- 

 omins: : Celebration of the admission of the State to 

 the Union. Central America : Severe fighting be- 

 tween the armies of San Salvador and Guatemala. 



26. South America: Revolution in the Argentine 

 Republic ; riots in the streets of Buenos Ayres. Eng- 

 land: The Queen opens the new dock at Southamp- 

 ton. 



27. Jay Gould purchases the Northwestern Railway 

 system for $1,750,000. Asheville, N. C. : Woman's 

 Christian Temperance Union Assembly in session. 18 

 States represented. Cincinnati : End of the freight 

 handlers' strike. 



28. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com- 

 pany mortgaged to the Central Trust Company of New 

 York. Buenos Ayrcs: Several hundred men killed 

 in the street fighting ; a truce agreed to. More fight- 

 ing between the Guatemalans and the Salvadorians, 

 result indecisive. 



29. New York : The Squadron of Evolution returns 

 from its foreign cruise. Constantinople : Four hun- 

 dred Armenians arrested for demonstration against 

 the Greek patriarch. 



30. Tennessee : Republican Convention meets in 

 Nashville. Buenos Ayres : Order restored and gen- 

 eral amnesty granted by the Government. 



31. A cruising squadron of three British war-ships 

 visits Newport, R. I. Central America : A counter- 

 revolution broke out in San Salvador. 



August 4. Chicago : Biennial Convention of the Unit- 

 ed Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in session. 



5. Missouri : Convention of the American Dental 

 Association at Excelsior Springs. 



6. New York : First execution by electricity in the 

 State Prison at Auburn. The British fleet leaves 

 Newport, R. I. 



7. Chicago : National Convention of Odd Fellows 

 in session. Massachusetts: Revolt of the State Prison 

 convicts at Charleston quickly checked. Louisiana : 

 The Anti-Lottery League meets in New Orleans to 

 oppose the continuance of the State lottery. 



8. New York : Disastrous strike on "the Central 

 Railroad. 



9. Connecticut: Celebration of the seventy -sixth 

 anniversary of the bombardment of Stonington by the 

 British. Indianapolis : National Bar Association in 

 session. England : Heligoland formally transferred 

 to_Germany. Africa : The Congo State annexed the 

 Kingdom of Monatayamoo, a large adjacent territory. 



10. Boston: Annual encampment of the Grand Ar- 

 my of the Republic, very large representation, a naval 

 squadron detailed to be present. Heligoland : The 



German Emperor lands and takes official possession. 

 International Medical Congress in session in Berlin. 

 11. Revolution announced in Morocco. 



Farmers' Alliance. New York : Failure of the strike 

 on the New York Central Railroad. The Caroline 

 Islands: Natives massacre a detachment of the Span- 

 ish garrison. The Salvadorian Government makes 

 amends for its seizure of the United States consulate. 



13. Mississippi : State Constitutional Convention in 

 session at Jackson. Boston : W. G. Veasey, of Ver- 

 mont, elected Commander-in-Chiefof the Grand Ar- 

 my of the Republic. Pittsburg, Pa. : Strike of the ma- 

 chinists of the Westinghouse Company. Boston : First 

 annual convention of the letter carriers of the United 

 States. 



15. Washington: Bronze statue unveiled of Da- 

 guerre, the discoverer of photography. 



17. An express train near Otterville, Mo., robbed 

 of $90,000 by highwaymen. Albany N. Y. : Strike 

 riots on the Central road ; several persons wounded 

 by Pinkcrton deputy sheriffs. 



18. Baltimore: Thirty-fifth annual convention of 

 Catholic-German Societies. Indianapolis : Annual 

 convention of the American Association of Science, 

 adjourns Aug. 28. England : Parliament prorogued. 



20. The Sultan of Morocco has put down an insur- 

 rection and beheaded eighty rebels. 



22. Pennsylvania : Large meeting of the Farmers' 

 Alliance at Mt. Gretna. Saratoga, N. Y. : Simeon E. 

 Baldwin, of New Haven, is elected President of the 

 American Bar Association. Argentine Republic : Min- 

 isters of Finance and War resign. 



23. The body of the late Capt. John Ericsson dis- 

 patched to Sweden on the United States steamship 

 Baltimore. General lockout of brickmakers along 

 the Hudson river; building operations checked in 

 New York. 



24. Indiana : Council of the Federation of Railroad 

 employes in session at Terre Haute, the New York 

 Central strike under consideration. 



26. Cincinnati: The Board of Education decides 

 not to employ married women as teachers in public 

 schools. Chicago : Strike of railway switchmen in 

 the stock yards. Railway managers combine to re- 

 sist their ^demands. Germany : A large mass meet- 

 ing of Socialists at Berlin. Treaty of commerce signed 

 between Germany and Tin-key. General E. Burd 

 Grubb, of Philadelphia, appointed minister to Spain. 



27. Iowa : Farmers' National Congress in session at 

 Council Bluffs. The new United States cruiser San 

 Francisco makes a successful trial trip ; average speed, 

 more than twenty miles. Salvador and Guatemala 

 sign a treaty of peace. 



29. Chicago : Failure of the switchmen's strike. 

 General strike in the shipping trade in Australia and 

 New Zealand. 



30. Servia : The. Cabinet resigned. England : Strike 

 of dockmen at Southampton ends. 



31. Melbourne, Australia: Great labor demonstra- 

 tion parade of 40,000 strikers. 



September 1, General celebration of Labor Day. 



2. Saratoga: Annual session of the American Bank- 

 ing Association. New York : The State Board of 

 Arbitration takes testimony concerning the New York 

 Central strike. Pittsburg, Pa. : Failure of tbe strike 

 in the Westinghouse Works. Chicago : The car- 

 penters' strike "a failure. Gettysburg : Monuments 

 are dedicated by two Pennsylvania regiments. St. 

 Louis: A new political party formed by the Union 

 Labor, the Prohibition, and the Greenback parties. 

 Single-Tax Convention in New York. 



5. Ireland : Reported failure of the potato crop. 



9. Chicago : The World's Fair directors select a 

 site on the Lake Front and in Jackson Park. 



10. Meeting of the American Library Association 

 at Fabyan's, N. H. England : A strong force of sol- 

 diers and police ordered to Southampton to suppress 

 the strikes. 



