EVENTS OF 1896. 



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20. Washington : The Supreme Court rules that 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission may not fix 

 freight r.v 



:'.". Washington: The President nominates B. J. 

 Franklin to be Governor of Arizona in place <>f 

 Hughes, removed. New York: The Governor ap- 

 points Henry II. Lyman to be excise commissioner 

 under the Raines liquor law. 



31. Washington : The President approves the 

 bill removing the disability of army and navy of- 

 ficers who served the Confederacy. England : Ad- 

 journment of the British Parliament to April 9. 

 France: Active work ordered in the navy yards. 

 and the Mediterranean fleet strengthened. Ger- 

 many : Celebration of Bismarck's eighty-first birth- 

 day. 



April 1. South Africa: The Transvaal Govern- 

 ment offers to co-operate with England against the 

 Matabeles. Egypt : The dervishes are repulsed in 

 their attack against Kassala. Omaha. Neb. : Cur- 

 few ordinance passed over the mayor's veto by the 

 City Council. Hayti : Election for President : Tire- 

 - ->imon Sam chosen in place of Hyppolite, de- 



0. Ohio : The anti-theater-hat bill passes both 

 Houses. Alaska : The rush of American gold seekers 

 threatens to complicate the boundary question. 

 China joins the postal union. Heidelberg, Ger- 

 many: The university confers the degree of Ph. D.. 

 with honor, upon Miss B. T. Morrill, of New York, 

 a graduate of Yassar. 



Washington : Under the act of Congress each 

 Senator and Representative will be allotted 15.000 

 pack,. - - I for public distribution. Iowa: By 

 a vote of 22 to 21 the State Senate defeats a bill 

 legalizing the manufacture of liquor. 



4. Prominent Roman Catholic prelates. Cardi- 

 nals Gibbon. Vaughn, and Logue, have signed an 

 appeal for a permanent arbitration tribunal. New 

 York: Enforcement of the Raines liquor law be- 

 gins. Germany and Japan conclude a new com- 

 mercial treaty. Louisiana : State troops sent to St. 

 Laundry Parish to restrain " regulators." South 

 Carolina: Registration books opened under the new 

 Constitution requiring an educational qualification. 



6-15. Athletic games of the 1776 Olympiad at 

 Athens. Americans win a large proportion of the 

 events. Ohio and Minnesota : Town elections show 

 Democratic gains. New York : Marriage in St. 

 Thomas's Protestant Episcopal Church of ex-Presi- 

 dent Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Mary Scott Lord 

 Dimmock. 



7. Chicago : Municipal elections, reformers make 

 large gains. 



8. Washington State: Completion of the Govern- 

 ment dry docks at Port Orchard on Puget's Sound. 

 Ohio : Bill passed making counties responsible for 

 money damages in case of lynching. 



9. Ohio: Bill pa-sed t< prohibit treating to intox- 

 icating liquors. England: Parliament reassembles. 

 New York : Celebration by the King's Daughters of 

 their tenth anniversary. 



10. Spain : General elections. The Government 

 secured 309 against 131. Utah : The Legislature 

 adjourns. 



13. Iowa : A bill taxing bicycle? passed by the 

 . -lature. New Jersey: Municipal elections show 



Democratic gains. Washington: The President 

 nominates Gc-n. Fitz Hugh Lee, late of the Con- 

 federate service, to be consul general at Havana. 



14. Ohio : Annual convention of mine workers at 

 Columbus. Cuba : A considerable engagement 

 near Lechuza. both sides claim the victory. Canada: 

 A deadlock continues in the Dominion Parliament 

 on the Remedial Schools bill. Austria: The Ger- 

 man Emperor and Empress visit Vienna. 



15. New York : Passage by the Senate of the 



Greater New York bill, the mayors of Brooklyn and 

 New York protesting. The United SI 

 fense monitor Terror goes into comini>si' n a! 

 !yn Navy Yard. Giv.-re : The King de, 

 the trophies to the victors in the Olympic games, 

 eleven won by Americans. Canada: Sir C) 

 Tupper withdraws the Manitoba Remedial Schools 

 bill. Miss Eva Booth appointed commander of the 

 Salvation Army in Canada and Newfoundland. 



16. Washington : Annual proclamation of the 

 President prohibiting the taking of seals in Alaskan 

 waters. Canada : A notable emigration to the 

 United States is reported at various points along 

 the boundary. 



17. New York: Decision of the Appellate division 

 of the Supreme Court, that racing a horse for a 

 stake is not a lottery. London : Arrest of the prin- 

 cipals in the Burden diamond robbery, more than 

 $100.000 worth of jewels and precious stones found 

 in their possession. 



18. England : Visit of the Dowager-Empress 

 Frederick to Victoria. Austria: The Municipal 

 Council of Vienna elects a burgomaster in defiance 

 of the Emperor's wishes. Germany: The Reichstag 

 unanimously calls upon the Government to abolish 

 dueling. London : The building trades decide to 

 strike on May 1. 



20. Louisville. Ky. : The trades and labor unions 

 refuse to support free silver. New York : Gov. 

 Morton signs the bill requiring railroads to carry 

 bicycles free. Washington : National Congress of 

 Religious Education, Gen. John Eaton, president. 

 Brussels : International Bimetallic Conference, dele- 

 gates present from the United States. Great Britain, 

 France, Russia, Austria. Belgium. Denmark, Hol- 

 land, and Rouinania. Dutch East Indies : Govern- 

 ment troops lose 60 men killed and wounded in a 

 conflict with the natives. 



21. Denver. Col.: A woman is accepted for jury 

 duty. Louisiana : Re-election of Gov. Foster (Demo- 

 crat). 



22. Washington : Meeting of the International 

 Arbitration Conference. 



2-j. Canada: Adjournment of Parliament. Eng- 

 land : An American memorial window dedicated in 

 the Shakespeare Memorial Church, Stratford-upon- 

 Avon. 



24. Washington : Organization of the Southern 

 Historical Association. 



25. Trial trip of the United States battle ship 



husetts. she makes 16,',;^ knots an hour. 



27. South Africa: John Hayes Hammond, the 

 American civil engineer, pleads guilty of treason 

 before the Transvaal court. London : Mr. Cham- 

 berlain informs the House of Commons that the in- 

 vitation to President Kruger will be withdrawn. 

 New York : Meeting of the Theosophists of 

 America. Canada: Sir Mackenzie Bowell tenders 

 his resignation. 



South Africa : Hammond and his associates 

 are condemned to death at Pretoria. 



20. South Africa : Death sentences of Hammond 

 and his associates commuted by the Government. 

 Cuba: Capture of the American schooner Com- 

 petitor by the Spaniards. 



30. South Africa: Telegrams implicating South 

 African officials are made public at Pretoria. 

 Canada: Direct steamship traffic contracted for 

 between Canada. France, and Belgium. $50.000 

 subsidy. Richmond, Va. : Meeting of the National 

 Society of the Sons of the Revolution. New York : 

 ng of the Daughters of the Revolution. 



May 1. Cleveland. Ohio. Quadrennial Conference 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Annual de- 

 bate between Harvard and Yale: Yale wins. As- 

 Mat ion of the Shah of Persia. Eight-hour 

 strikes begin in several States. 



