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EVENTS OF 1896. 



2. Nicaragua : The rebellion officially declared 

 suppressed. Hungary : Celebration of the national 

 millennium at Buda-Pesth. New York : Dedica- 

 tion of the new site of Columbia University. 



3. Enthronement of the new Shah of Persia. 



4. Milwaukee, Wis. : General strike of street rail- 

 way employees for higher wages and recognition of 

 union ; all lines tied up. 



5. St. Paul, Minn. : City election, Republicans 

 carry everything. The Transvaal : President 

 Krliger opens the Volksraad. Newport News, Va. : 

 2,600 men go on strike in the Shipbuilding and Dry- 

 Dock company's yard. New London, Conn., cele- 

 brates her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. 



6. Baltimore: Meeting of the National Municipal 

 League for good city government. Harrisburg, Pa. : 

 Meeting of the Scotch-Irish Society. Washington : 

 The President extends the civil-service rule to in- 

 clude 80,000 more Government employees. 



7. Philadelphia: Execution of H.'H. Holmes, a 

 notorious murderer. 



8. Italy: The Government announces its inten- 

 tion of holding Kassala in East Africa and of try- 

 ing Gen. Baratieri by court-martial. Arrest of 

 Americans by Spanish authorities ; they are con- 

 demned to death, but execution is postponed at the 

 request of the United States. Bolivia : Col. Pano 

 elected President. 



9. New York: Barnard College receives $100,000 

 as a building fund. 



10. Hungary: Socialist riots in Buda-Pesth. 



11. England : The British flying squadron is dis- 

 missed. Canada: Ministry reorganized under Sir 

 Charles Tupper. 



12. Sweden : Four hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Gustavus Vasa. 



13. The Transvaal: Gen. Joubert, commander of 

 the Boer army, is elected Vice-President of the 

 Republic. 



14. Trial trip of the United States battle ship 

 Oregon; she makes le-^- knots. 



15. Washington : The President appoints Com- 

 missioner Lochren, of the Pension Office, to be 

 United States judge in Minnesota, and promotes 

 Deputy Murphy to be Commissioner of Pensions. 

 Arrival of a Japanese commission to study electri- 

 cal appliances. Wellesley College : The heirs of the 

 late William S. Houghton give $100,000 for a me- 

 morial chapel. 



16. Holland : 6,000 dock laborers go on strike at 

 Rotterdam. 



18. Venezuela agrees to pay $8,000 indemnity to 

 Great Britain as personal damages, not to affect the 

 boundary claim. 



19. East Africa : Withdrawal of Italian troops 

 from Adigrat. Asbury Park, N. J. : May 19-26, 

 Baptist Anniversary week. 



- 20. The Transvaal : Death sentences of the Eng- 

 lish and Americans convicted of treason are com- 

 muted to terms of imprisonment. Massachusetts : 

 Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Andover. 

 England : Celebration of the Queen's seventy-sixth 

 birthday. 



21. Saratoga, N. Y. : General Assembly of the 

 Presbyterian Church. Russia : Official entry of the 

 Czar and Czarina into Moscow. 



25. Boston, Mass. : Unitarian Anniversary week. 

 Crete : British, Russian, and French war ships sent 

 to protect Christians against Turks. Washington : 

 Decision by the Supreme Court that the steamship 

 Horsa violated the neutrality laws. 



26. New York : Grand parade of the city street- 

 cleaning department under Col. Waring, 2.000 men, 

 750 horses and vehicles in line. Russia : Corona- 

 tion of Nicholas II, at Moscow. By proclamation 

 certain taxes are remitted and enlarged freedom 

 granted to exiles (see DISASTERS, May 30). 



27. Pittsburg, Pa. : The National Convention of 

 Prohibitionists nominates Joshua Levering, of Balti- 

 more, for President, and Hale Johnson, of Illinois, 

 for Vice-President; a bolt is organized for free 

 silver and woman's suffrage under the name of A 

 National Party. Minneapolis : School children 

 purchase the first house built in the city, and have 

 it removed to a site prepared for it in Minnehaha 

 Park. Princeton, N. J. : By act of the trustees the 

 name College of New Jersey is changed to Princeton 

 University. 



28. Austria : The Upper House of the Parliament 

 passes the Electoral Reform bill. 



30. Yale wins the intercollegiate championship 

 in track athletics; Pennsylvania, second ; Harvard, 

 third. 



June 1. Tennessee : Celebration at Nashville of 

 the centennial of the admission of the State to the 

 Union. 



2. Indiana: Meeting of the Travelers' Protective 

 Association at Terre Haute. New Haven, Conn. : 

 Meeting of the Congregational Home Missionary 

 Society, Gen. 0. 0. Howard president. London : 

 Twentieth annual meeting of the British Women's 

 Temperance Association. 



3. Washington: Ratification of a treaty between 

 Great Britain and the United States for the settle- 

 ment of sealing claims. New York : Conference on 

 international arbitration at Lake Mohonk. 



4. Michigan : National Conference of Charities 

 and Correction at Grand Rapids. Chicago: Gift of 

 $10,000 to the Civil Service Commission from the 

 Citizens' Association for the Enforcement of Law. 



5. Cleveland, Ohio : Conference of Secretaries of 

 the Young Men's Christian Association. New 

 York: Sale of Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power 

 Plant and franchise ; sold to Morton, Bliss & Co. 

 for $4,000,000. 



8. Spain : Martial law proclaimed at Barcelona, 

 where a bomb was exploded by supposed anarchists, 

 11 persons killed. Hungary: Opening of the new 

 Houses of Parliament. Pittsburg, Pa. : Opening of 

 the National Sangerfest. 



9. New York : Gov. Morton appoints the Greater 

 New York Commission, with Seth Low as president. 



11. Washington: Congress adjourns. Transvaal: 

 Release of the four leaders of the Reform Commit- 

 tee on payment of heavy fines ($125.000 each). 



13. St. Louis : Preliminaries of the National Re- 

 publican Convention ; Charles W. Franklin, of 

 Indiana, temporary chairman. Washington : The 

 Government pays an indemnity to families of Ital- 

 ians killed in the Colorado riot, and to England for 

 outrages on British subjects in New Orleans and 

 Nebraska. United States and Mexico: A -new 

 treaty permits troops of both nations to cross the 

 border in pursuit of marauding Indians. 



16. St. Louis : Meeting of the National Repub- 

 lican Convention. Washington : The President an- 

 nounces his views on the silver question in a public 

 letter. Detroit, Mich. : Meeting of the American 

 Institute of Homoeopathy. 



18. St. Louis : William McKinley, of Ohio, nom- 

 inated for President on the first ballot by the Na- 

 tional Republican Convention, Garrett A. Hobart, 

 of New Jersey, for Vice-President, on a platform 

 declaring for a single gold standard ; 21 advocates 

 of free silver, led by Senators Keller, of Colorado, 

 and Cannon, of Utah, retire from the Convention. 



19. St. Louis : Mark A. Hanna, of Ohio, chosen 

 chairman of the National Republican Campaign 

 Committee. The free-silver bolters from the Re- 

 publican Convention nominate Senator Teller' for 

 President. New York : Incorporation of the New 

 York Telegraph Company under the Western Union 

 Telegraph. 



20. Madagascar is formally declared a colony of 



