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EVENTS OF 1884. (JANUARY, FEBEUARY.) 



the Curia. Conviction of the Marquis Kays, the colo- 

 nial swindler, in Paris. 



4. Spanish treaty of commerce with the United 

 States in relation to the West Indies concluded. 



5. Burning of a convent in Belleville, 111. ; 27 lives 

 lost. Fighting between the French and the Chinese in 

 Tonquin ; China prepares for war. 



6. The King of Annarn ratines the treaty with 

 France. 



7. Congress resumes its session. Working-men's 

 demonstration in Vienna. .Resignation of the Egyp- 

 tian ministry. 



8. Reassembly of the French Chambers. 



9. Kailroad accident near Bradford. Pa. 



10. Court scandal, in relation to the family life of 

 Prince Frederick Charles, transpires in Berlin. 



11. The new Egyptian Cabinet announces the evac- 

 uation of the Soudan. 



12. Close of the Boston Exhibition. > The Hungari- 

 an Peers reject a second time the mixed marriages 

 bill. 



14. Arrival of the damaged steamer Celtic in Eng- 

 land. Wreck of the steamer lluai Tuen, bound for 

 Hong-Kong ; 200 lives lost. 



15. Henry B. Payne elected United States Senator 

 from Ohio. Senator Allison re-elected in Iowa. 

 Burning of a railway train near Bradford, Pa. 



16. Acquittal of the accused in the Nutt murder 

 case in Pennsylvania. A line of steamers between 

 Trieste and New York established. 



17. Introduction of the temperance education bill in 

 Albany. Senate bill appropriating $1,000,000 for im- 

 provement of the Mississippi passes the House. Mur- 

 der of the prelate Cesare in Rome. The Spanish min- 

 istry defeated in the vote on the address. 



18. The Senate rejects the Mexican commercial 

 treaty. Wreck of the steamer City of Columbus on 

 the coast of Massachusetts ; 97 persons drowned. Re- 

 constitution of the Spanish Cabinet under Canovas 

 del Castillo. Departure of Gen. Gordon for Egypt. 

 E. K. Wilson elected Senator from Maryland. 



19. Canovas del Castillo suspends the session of the 

 Spanish Cortes. 



20. Conference between the Russian Minister De 

 Giers and the Emperor Francis Joseph in Vienna. 

 Sanguinary tumult in Ireland. 



21. The House of Representatives pass a bill to re- 

 peal the iron-clad oath. The House Committee de- 

 cide that the Texas Pacific Railroad land grants are 

 forfeited. The Croatian Diet dissolved amid great 

 excitement. 



22. The Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Sen- 

 ate instructed to inquire into the exclusion of Ameri- 

 can pork from Germany and France. Passing of the 

 electoral bill in the Senate. The House passes the 

 Grecly relief expedition bill. Confessions of the mur- 

 derer Schenck in Vienna. 



23. Resignation of Assistant Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury John C. New. The Bishop of M'jnster pardoned 

 by the Prussian Government. 



24. Passing of the bill relating to the office of Clerk 

 of the Senate, and of the presidential succession bill, 

 by the United States Senate. Mining accident in 

 Colorado ; death of 57 miners from fire-damp. 



25. Senator Hoar's bill to provide for a vacancy in 

 the presidential office passed by the Senate. Assassi- 

 nation of the detective officer Bloch in Vienna. A 

 deputation to the English ministry calls attention to 

 the housing of the poor. Sinking of the Simla in the 

 English Channel. 



26. Storm on the coast of England. General Gor- 

 don be-'ins his ride through the desert to Khartoum. 



28. Funeral of Lasker in Berlin. 



29. The Austrian House of Deputies rejects the bill 

 to declare German the state language. 'The French 

 Chamber votes the extraordinary budget. 



80. Declaration of Secretary Frelinghuysen against 

 retaliatory duties on German products. End of the 

 strike of glass-blowers in Pittsburg. The Danish 

 budget refused by the Folkething. 



31. Railroad accident near Indfanapolis. Banish- 

 ment of Socialists from Vienna, and issue of a decree 

 suspending constitutional rights in the capital and 

 environs. Failure of a banking-house in London 

 with $4,000,000 liabilities. 



February 1. The temperance education bill passes 

 the New York State Senate. Bill to restore General 

 Fitz-John Porter to the army passes the House. 



2. The spinners in Fall River go on strike. The 

 Ferry ministry sustains a defeat in the Chamber and 

 the Senate. Lynching affairs in Ohio, Nebraska, and 

 Georgia. 



4. Morrison brings in his tariff bill in the House of 

 Representatives. The English Government concludes 

 an arrangement with M. de Lesseps in reference to 

 the Suez Canal. The French Chamber passes an act 

 to inquire into the needed reforms for the benefit of 

 the working-classes. 



5. Ex-Senator Henry Cooper murdered in Mexico. 

 Opening of the British Parliament. Baker Pasha's 

 army routed by Osman Digma neai Tokar; 2,000 Egyp- 

 tian soldiers slain. 



6. Blackburn elected Senator in Kentucky. Mas- 

 sacre of Christians in Tonquin. 



7. Flight of the defaulting City Treasurer of Troy ; 

 $80,000 of peculations. 



8. Mexican land-grant bill passes the Senate. 



9. Death of Cetewayo. 



10. Devastating floods in the West. Disturbances 

 on the Texas border. Arrests of republicans in 

 Spain. Insurrection in Crete. 



11. Final passage of the Greely relief bill in Con- 

 gress. Congress appropriates $500,000 in aid of the 

 sufferers from Western floods. The Austrian Gov- 

 ernment lays before the Reichsrath a bill of excep- 

 tional measures against the Anarchists. Fresh arrests 

 of Socialists in Vienna. Publication of the Queen of 

 England's memoirs. Bradlaugh excluded from Par- 

 liament. 



12. News arrives of the fall of Sinkat in the Soudan. 

 Lord Salisbury's vote of censure adopted in the House 

 of Peers. Resignation of Charles Bradlaugh. 



13. The commercial convention with Spain signed. 



14. The Austrian Reichsrath approve the suspen- 

 sion of constitutional rights in Vienna. Government 

 bill against street demonstrations passed by the French 

 Chamber. Russia annexes Merv in Central Asia. 



15. Congress grants $200,000 more for the relief of 

 the flood sufferers. An English expedition for the 

 succor of Tpkar departs from Suez. In Chili the first 

 railroad-train crosses the Andes from Buenos Ayres. 



16. Prince Bismarck sends back the Lasker resolu- 

 tions. Rafael Nunez made President in Colombia. 

 President Caamanp inaugurated in Ecuador. The 

 Christich ministry in Servia resigns. 



17. Attempted assassination of the King of Italy. 

 Arrival of Gordon in Khartoum. 



18. Adverse vote of Congress on the Dorshcimer in- 

 ternational copyright bill. A new Servian Cabinet 

 formed by Garaschanin. 



19. City election in Philadelphia won by the Re- 

 publicans. Storms in Alabama; 15 lives lost. Tor- 

 nado in the Southern States. Mining catastrophe in 

 Pennsylvania : 19 coal-miners suffocated. Prohibi- 

 tion bi'll passed by the Iowa Senate. Bradlaugh again 

 re-elected in Northampton. The Gladstone ministry 

 sustained in the vote of censure o Egyptian affairs. 



20. Tidal wave in California. Fire-damp explosion 

 near Uniontown, Pa. ; 19 miners killed. 



21. Bradlaugh again disqualified by vote of Parlia- 

 ment. General Graham's expedition advances. 



22. The Portuguese Chamber of Deputies votes the 

 project of constitutional reform. 



23. General Ignatieff made Governor of the Russian 

 Trans-Caucasian possessions. The French Govern- 

 ment interpellated on the subject of Madagascar. 



25. The McPherson currency bill passes the Senate. 



26. Congress receives an address of thanks for the 

 Lasker resolutions from the Liberal Deputies of the 



