EVENTS OF 1896. 



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Right Rev. J. H. Keane announces his resignation 

 '>r of the Catholic University. 



5. Canada: Adjournment of Parliament. Con- 

 necticut : Town elections show large Republican 

 gains. France : Arrival of the C/.ar and C'/arina, 

 who arc received by President Faure. Philadel- 

 phia : American cricket players win the third series 

 of matches against the Australians. 



6. Georgia : State elections carried by the Demo- 

 crats. 4U.IHM) majority. Vermont: Meeting of the 

 State Legislature. The President and family leave 

 Gray Gables, their summer home, to return to Wash- 

 ington. Secretary Herbert awards contracts for 

 building torpedo boats. Paris : Arrival of the Czar 

 and Czarina": fftt-s in their honor lasting till Oct. 10. 



?. Galesburg. Ind. : Celebration of the Lincoln- 

 Douglas debates of 1858: Chauncey M. Depew de- 

 livers the ortaion. England : Lord Rose be ry re- 

 signs the Liberal leadership. Turkey declines to 

 admit the United States steamship Bancroft. 



8. Washington : Secretary Olney holds a diplo- 

 matic reception. Zanzibar: British war ships or- 

 dered to concentrate because of German action in 

 regard to the late Sultan. 



9. Washington : The President arrives at the 

 White House. Chicago : Twenty-fifth anniversary 

 of the great fire celebrated by a procession, more or 



f a political character. Marked rise in the 

 price of wheat, due to the failure of crops in Indi- 

 ana and in South America. 



10-14. Pittsburg : Meeting of the Brotherhood 

 of St. Andrew 12.000 members. New Haven, 

 Conn. : Harvard wins the intercollegiate champion- 

 ship. 



11. London: Great anti-Turkish demonstration 

 held in Hyde Park. 



12. Washington: Reassembling of the Supreme 

 Court. The justices pay a visit of ceremony to the 

 President. Colorado Springs : Forty-third An- 

 nual session of the International Typographical 

 Union. Notable speech of Archbishop Ireland in 

 support of McKinley. Germany : Annual congress 

 of the Socialist party at Sieblichen. 



13. Washington : First Cabinet meeting of the 

 season. Eleventh annual encampment of the Un- 

 ion Veteran Legion. Spain : Mutiny on board a 

 war ship at Ferrol. 40 men put in arms. 



14. England: Cecil Rhodes announces that the 

 Matabelan trouble is over. 



15. France : Release of P. J. Tynan, the alleged 

 dynamiter. 



16. New York : Decision by the State Court of 

 Appeals affirming the right of the National Demo- 

 crats to use their name on official ballots. Mary- 

 land : Dedication of the Army Correspondent Monu- 

 ment at Gapland. 



17. New York : Gov. Altgeld of Illinois addresses 

 a great meeting at Madison Square Garden on the 

 political issues of the day. Monsignor Satolli sails 

 for Rome. Nicaragua, Honduras, and Salvador 

 announce a treaty whereby they become a con- 

 federacy. 



18. Germany : 26 American women enter for the 

 new term at Berlin University. 



19. Washington : Arrival of the new Turkish 

 minister. Mustapha Tahsin Dey. Germany: The 

 Kaiser visits the Russian C/.ar at Darmstadt'. 



2' i. Nashville, Tenn. : Meeting of the American 

 Institute of Architects. Princeton. N. J. : Cele- 

 bration of the sesquicentennial of Princeton Col- 

 lege. Vermont : Re-election of United States Sen- 

 ator Justin S. Morrell. St. Louis: Fifteenth 

 annual convention American Street Railway As- 

 sociation. New York: Convention of the House of 

 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

 ^ ashington : Fourth Annual Convention National 

 Spiritualists of the United States and Canada. 



21. Capture off the coast of Florida of filibus- 

 tering steamers Dauntless and R. L. Mallory by 

 the United States cruiser Raleigh. Boston : The 

 American Missionary Association begins its jubilee 

 convention. London: Celebration of the anniver- 

 sary of the battle of Trafalgar, Venezuela secures 

 a German loan of $10,000,000. 



22. England : Seizure at the Chinese embassy of 

 Sun- Yet-Zen for political reasons : his release is at 

 once demanded and enforced by Lord Salisbury. 



23. Germany: Much popular indignation over the 



,ce of army officers toward civilians. 



24. England : Appointment of the Right Rev. 

 Frederick Temple to be Archbishop of Canterbury 

 in place of Archbishop Benson (decea- 



26. China: Appointment of Li-Hung-Chang Min- 

 ister of Foreign Affairs. 



27. Japan and Russia agree to co-operate with 

 the United States in protecting the fur seals. 



28. Washington : Conclusion of the British case 

 before the Venezuela Boundary Commission. New- 

 York : Fifty-third Annual Session of the Sons of 

 Temperance. 400 delegates present. 



31. Flag Day. great sound-money demonstration 

 in many of the principal cities. 



November 1. Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, United States 

 consul in Cuba, sails for New York on leave of ab- 

 sence. 



3. Presidential election : William McKinley and 

 Garrett A. Hobart chosen President and Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the United States by a popular vote of 

 7.113.103. Japanese contracts for armored cruisers 

 given to Cramp & Son, of Philadelphia. Delaware: 

 Appointment of the Rev. C. F. Thomas, Roman 

 Catholic Bishop of Wilmington. 



4. The President issues his annual Thanksgiving 

 message, making marked reference to the result of 

 the election : in Wall Street stocks go up from 3 to 

 7 points. England : Edward R. Poynter elected 

 President of the Royal Academy in place of Sir 

 John Millais. deceased. 



5. New York : Many millions of hoarded gold re- 

 turned to the banks and subtreasuries. Chicago : 

 Reopening of the Stock Exchange, closed since 

 Aug. 3. General revival of business noted all over 

 the United States. Vienna : Marriage of Prince 

 Louis Philippe Robert, heir to the throne of France, 

 and the Archduchesse Marie Borthe fimilie. 



6. Massacres of Armenians resumed. 



7. Ohio: 3.500 miners of Jackson County strike 

 against the reduction of wages. Chili: Resignation 

 of the Cabinet because of a vote of censure in the 

 Chamber of Deputies. France presents a claim 

 against Spain for damages in Cuba. 



8. Germany : Prince Bismarck astounds the em- 

 pire by revealing state secrets. 



9. London: Lord Salisbury in a speech at the 

 Lord Mayor's banquet refers to the Venezuelan 

 controversy as practically ended, recognizes the 

 Monroe doctrine, and congratulates the commer- 

 cial world on the victory of sound money in the 

 United States. Installment of Mr. A. Fendel Phil- 

 ips as Lord Mayor of London. Cuba : Capt.-Gen. 

 Weyler takes the field in person. India : Bread 

 riots occur in the districts threatened with famine. 



lu. Rochester, N. Y. : Twentieth annual general 

 assembly of the Knights of Labor. Nashville, 

 Tenn. : Baptist Congress in session. 



11. It is decided to establish a permanent head- 

 quarters of the National Republican Committee in 



iiington. 



12. A formal organization of Italian socialists 

 announced for America under Signor Verro. 



13. St. Louis: National Woman's Christian Tem- 

 perance Convention: Frances E. Willard re-elected 

 president. Continued advance in the price of wheat 

 in the markets of the world. China: Extensive 



