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EVENTS OF 1896. 



squadron is ordered into commission on five days' 

 notice. Brazil : A contract made for the importa- 

 tion of 100,000 Europeans. 



15. Canada: Sir Charles Tapper becomes Secre- 

 tary of State; Cabinet ministers resume office. 

 Manitoba: General election; victory of the Green- 

 way party, the question at issue being whether 

 separate schools shall be allowed for Catholics. 

 New York : Opening of the building of the Clear- 

 ing House Association. North Carolina : Expul- 

 sion from the State University of 12 students for 

 hazing and conduct unbecoming gentlemen. 



16. Iowa: P. M. Drake inaugurated Governor. 

 New York : Annual meeting of the American Pro- 

 tective Tariff League. Nebraska: Secretary-of- 

 Agriculture Morton is elected President of the Ne- 

 braska State Historical Society. London : United 

 StatesAmbassador Bayard tenders thanks for kind- 

 ness to Americans in the Transvaal. France : 

 Einile Loubet elected President of the Senate. 



' Pittsburg : Employees of the Westinghouse Electric 

 Company strike against 25 per cent, reduction in 

 wages. "New York: Commander and Mrs. Booth, 

 of the Salvation Army, announce their recall to 

 England. 



17. Canada : In view of possible war, Canadian 

 lake captains offer their services to the Imperial 

 Government. Siam : Settlement of boundary dis- 

 pute between France and England. The Mecong 

 river is accepted as the dividing line. Maryland : 

 Deadlock in the Legislature over the election of 

 United States Senator. Cuba : Recall to Spain of 

 Capt.-Gen. Campos. Germany : Revision of the 

 civil code presented to the Reichstag by Chancellor 

 von Hohenlohe. 



18. Detroit: President Angell of Michigan Uni- 

 versity elected President of the Deep Water Way 

 Commission. Germany: Celebration of the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of the empire. Cuba: Appoint- 

 ment of Gen. Weyler to be captain general. 

 Virginia : The Legislature authorizes the State 

 University to issue $200,000 bonds to make good 

 losses by fire : 



19. Africa : Submission of the King of the Ashan- 

 tees to British authority. 



20. Europe : Adverse" criticisms of the press on 

 the President's promulgation of the Monroe Doc- 

 trine. 



21. Mississippi : A. J. McLaurin inaugurated 

 Governor. New Jersey : John W. Griggs inaugu- 

 rated Governor. Missouri : The Anti-Sunday Bar- 

 ber law declared void. Memphis, Tenn. : Annual 

 convention of Southern cotton growers. Chicago : 

 Annual convention of National Association of Manu- 

 facturers. Rhode Island : Meeting of the State 

 Legislature. Utah : The election of Frank J. Car- 

 mon and Arthur Brown to be United States 

 Senators. 



22. Maryland : Hon. George L. Wellington elected 

 United States Senator. Iowa : Re-election of Sen- 

 ator Allison. Washington : General conference of 

 free-silver men. 



23. Washington : Ex-President Harrison appoint- 

 ed counsel before the United States Supreme Court. 

 Meeting of the National American Woman's Suf- 

 frage Association. Abyssinia : The Italian garrison 

 of Makalla is permitted to evacuate the post. 



24. Washington: First meeting of the Venezuelan 

 Commission. Mississippi: Election of the Hon. 11. 

 I). Money as United States Senator. Florida: 

 Meeting of the National Editorial Association at 

 St. Augustine. Turkey : Conditional permission ac- 

 corded to Miss Clara Barton to relieve Armenians. 

 Washington : Annual meeting of the American 

 Forestry Association. The Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture is elected president. Ex- President Harrison 

 pays a visit of courtesy to President Cleveland. 



Coinage of standard silver dollars ordered at United 

 States mint. 



25. Russia : The Czar authorizes increased naval 

 estimates for the coming seven years. 



26. Washington : Great Britain officially accepts 

 a commission to settle the Bering Sea claim. 



27. Kentucky: Deadlock in the Legislature on the 

 election of the United States Senator. Germany : The 

 Kaiser celebrates his thirty-seventh birthday. St. 

 Petersburg: Henry Lasker wins in the international 

 chess tournament. Alabama : Coal barges pass for 

 the first time down the Black Warrior river en route 

 to tide water at Mobile. Scotland : Work resumed 

 in the Clyde shipyards after a lockout of several 

 months. Canada : Official opening of the Quebec 

 winter carnival. 



28. Washington : Meeting of the National Board 

 of Trade. 



29. Iowa: Indictment of the mayor and alder- 

 men of Dubnque, because of the passage of an 

 ordinance increasing their own salaries. Wiscon- 

 sin : Sale of the street railway system of Milwaukee 

 for $5,000,000. 



30. Indiana: Decision of the State Supreme 

 Court that the legislative appointments of 1893 

 and 1895 are invalid (both parties involved). Cali- 

 fornia : Decision by the State Supreme Court that 

 the election commission law of the Citizens' Defense 

 Association is unconstitutional. Agreement, of the 

 anthracite coal companies to limit production. 

 Philadelphia: Meeting of the American Jewish 

 Historical Society. 



31. Forty-nine bishops of the Protestant Episco- 

 pal Church send a formal protest to the President 

 against the Armenian atrocities. Similar letters 

 are sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to the 

 Czar, and to the Emperors of Austria and Germany. 

 Louisville, Ky. : George Todd, Republican, elected 

 mayor of the City Council in place of Henry H. 

 Tyler, deceased. 



February 1. California : Organization of a Pa- 

 cific Coast Lumber Trust, representing $70,000,000 

 of capital. 



4. Ecuador issues a call for a Pan-American Con- 

 gress. Washington : The President appoints As- 

 sistant-Secretary Uhl of the State Department to be 

 ambassador to Berlin. Annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Farmers' Alliance. England: Mr. Chamber- 

 lain, Colonial Secretary, invites President Kruger 

 of the Transvaal Republic to visit England for con- 

 sultation touching existing complications. Presi- 

 dent Kruger declines with thanks. 



5. Washington : Opening of bond bid for $100,- 

 000,000. Italy : Tax riots in Piedmont, 6 killed, 30 

 hurt. Germany: Widespread labor agitation, 

 strikes of cloth workers; the Government asks em- 

 ployers to arbitrate. New York : The price of coal 

 advances 35 cents a ton by order of the trust. 



6. New York : Both branches of State Legislature 

 pass bills to retaliate for the exclusion of American in- 

 surance companies from Germany. Ohio : The State 

 Senate raises the liquor tax to $500 : local option de- 

 feated in the lower house. South Africa : Beginning 

 of the trial of the Uit landers recently engaged in 

 rebellion. Manitoba: Opening of the new Legisla- 

 ture at Winnipeg, a majority opposed to separate 

 schools. Korea appoints a minister to the United 

 States. Denver, Col. : Dedication of a home for 

 consumptives. 



7. Washington : The President signs a bill pro- 

 hibiting prize fights and bull fights in the Terri- 

 tories and in the District of Columbia. Africa: 

 Great Britain proclaims a protectorate over Ashan- 

 tee. Turkey: The Sultan replies to Queen Vic- 

 toria's letter, assuring her that everything is quiet 

 in Armenia. Canada : The Press Association, in Ses- 

 sion at Toronto, passes a resolution of loyalty to the 



