EVENTS OF 1884. (MARCH, APRIL.) 



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German Reichstag. Dynamite explosion in a London 

 railroad- station. Sir A. W. Peel elected Speaker of 

 the House of Commons. 



27. Bill repealing the test-oath passes the Senate, 

 with an amendment debarring officers of the Confed- 

 erate army or navy from military or naval positions. 

 The Hungarian Government takes steps against anti- 

 Semitic agitation. The impeachment of the Norwe- 

 gian ministry results in the conviction of Selmer, the 

 .Prime Minister. Conclusion of a treaty between 

 Great Britain and the Transvaal, recognizing the inde- 

 pendence of the South African Republic. 



28. The quinine-factory in Philadelphia burned. 

 Gladstone introduces the suffrage bill in the lower 

 house of Parliament. Victory of the British troops 

 near Trinkitat. Baccelli's bill on the reorganization 

 of superior instruction passes the Italian Chamber of 

 Deputies. 



29. The Senate passes the bill for the construction 

 of seven steel naval vessels. First report of the Civil 

 Service Commission presented to Congress. Prohi- 

 bition amendment rejected by the New York State As- 

 sembly. Cabinet crisis in Italy. 



March 1. Meeting of the Peruvian Congress; Iglesias 

 sworn in as provisional President. Arrest of the An- 

 archist Kammerer in Vienna. Recapture of Tokar by 

 the British. 



3. The House of Representatives passes a bill pen- 

 sioning survivors of the Mexican War. New \ork 

 convict-labor bill signed. The Supreme Court decides 

 in favor of the legality of the act of 1878 to reissue re- 

 deemed legal-tender notes. The prolongation of the 

 anti-Socialist law proposed by Prussia in the German 

 Bundesrath. 



4. Prohibition adopted in Iowa. The German 

 Reichstag meets. 



5. Bill enlarging Yellowstone Park by 2,000 square 

 miles passes the Senate. Resolution ot the Clericals 

 for the repeal of the gag laws lost in the Prusoian 

 House of Deputies. 



6. The Mexican treaty ratified by the United States 

 Senate. European powers agree on combined action 

 against Anarchists. Attack on the Chancellor at the 

 opening of the German Reichstag on account of his 

 treatment of the Lasker resolutions, of the United 

 States Congress. German Liberal party formed by 

 union of the Progressists and the Secessionists. 



7. Reports of the cattle-disease in Kansas. Snow- 

 slide in Utah: 12 people killed. French advance 

 against Bacninh in Tonquin. 



8. Completion of the Mexican Central Railroad. 



10. Correspondence with Germany in relation to 

 the Lasker affair laid before Congress by the Presi- 

 dent. Avalanche in Colorado ; 16 deaths. The Peru- 

 vian Congress ratifies the treaty of peace with Chili. 



12. Bacninh captured by the French troops. 



13. The Porter bill passed by the Senate. A woman 

 suffrage amendment approved by the Iowa State Sen- 

 ate. Catastrophe in a Virginia coal-mine ; 154 miners 

 loss their lives. Bismarck explains the Lasker episode 

 in the German Parliament, and promises the repeal ot 

 the prohibition edict against the import of American 

 swine-flesh. British victory over Osman Digma near 

 Tamanieb. Minister-President Tisza's statement in 

 the Hungarian Parliament in relation to the Austro- 

 German alliance. 



14. High water in the Mississippi. Arrests of An- 

 archists in Pesth. 



15. Hugo Schenck, the Vienna girl-murderer, and 

 his accomplices, condemned to death. Prince Bis- 

 marck explains the working-men's insurance project 

 in the Reichstag. 



16. Stringent measures taken by the Spanish Gov- 

 ernment to prevent disorder. A detachment of Gor- 

 don's troops defeated near Khartoum. 



17. Act depriving the New York City Board of 

 Aldermen of the right of confirmation goes into force. 



18. Trichinosis in Lathrope, Pa. Explosion of gas 

 in Paris. 



19. Resolutions on the Lasker affair adopted by the 

 lower house of Congress. A bill with reference to 

 retaliatory measures introduced in the Senate. The 

 Swiss Federal Council resolves in favor of the extra- 

 dition and banishment of Anarchists. 



20. The Italian ministry hand in their resignations. 



24. A hurricane in Kentucky kills 12 people. 



25. Earthquake on the Pacific coast. 



26. Congress grants $25,000 for the sufferers from 

 the inundations in the Mississippi valley. Minister 

 Sargent nominated to the St. Petersburg mission. 

 Prince Bismarck calls upon Bremen to join the Cus- 

 toms Union. 



'27. Riot in Cincinnati. Osman Digma defeated 

 near Suakin. 



29. A treaty signed between Denmark and Spain. 



30. Reconstruction of the Italian Cabinet. 



April 1. The House of Representatives passes a bill 

 to call in the trade-dollars. Airuero's expedition lands 

 on the coast of Cuba. Dissolution oi the Spanish 

 Cortes. 



2. The Danish Folkething reject the project of na- 

 tional defense. 



3. Sinking of the Daniel Steinmann off the coast of 

 Nova Scotia ; 120 persons drowned. New Greek cus- 

 toms tariff voted. The Norwegian ministers con- 

 demned and deprived of office ; a new ministry 

 formed. 



4. The French in Tonquin march^ upon Ilunghoa, 



5. The cholera breaks out in Cochin-China. Mas- 

 sacre of Christians in southern Africa. 



6. Proposed introduction of ministerial responsi- 

 bility rejected by the German Bundesrath. The 

 stamp duty in Mexico creates dissatisfaction. 



7. The Blair school bill carried in the United States 

 Senate. The restoration of the old wool tariff de- 

 feated in the House of Representatives. Establish- 

 ment of a colonial association in Berlin. Biancheri 

 elected President of the Italian Chamber. 



8. Minister Bratiano in Bulgaria offers his resigna- 

 tion. 



9. The Democratic State Convention in Pennsyl- 

 vania declares in favor of protection and the candidacy 

 of Randall for President. 



11. Three men arrested for dynamite crimes in 

 England. The Merv Turcomans acknowledge the 

 sovereignty of the Czar. 



13. Tilden and Hendricks decline to become candi- 

 dates. Attempt on the life of the President of Gua- 

 te.nala. Takingof Ilunghoa by the French in Ton- 

 quin. Admiral Hew ett' B visit to the camp of the King 

 of Abyssinia. 



14. 'Journey of the Prince and Princess Imperial of 

 Austria to Constantinople. 



15. The beginning ot the debate on the tariff in the 

 House of Representatives. Charles E. Coon appointed 

 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Gen. Millot oc- 

 cupies Hunghoa. 



17. Queen Victoria's visit to Darmstadt. 



18. The bankruptcy law earned in the Senate. The 

 general street railroad bill passes the New York Le- 

 gislature. An encyclical ot the Pope against secret 

 societies, in particular the Freemasons. 



19. The House of Representatives passes a bill to 

 create a bureau of labor statistics. Dr. Nachtigal 

 sent to the West Coast of Africa by the German Gov- 

 ernment. 



20. Fall of Shendy in the Soudan, and massacre of 

 the garrison. 



22. Official recognition of the African Association 

 by the American Government. Earthquake-shock in 

 England. 



23. Republican State Conventions in New York, 

 Ohio, and Connecticut. Understanding between Eng- 

 land and France in reference to the basis of the Egyp- 

 tian Conference. Murder of the policeman Hlubeck 

 near Vienna. 



24. Republican State Conventions in Michigan and 

 Virginia; Democratic Convention in Iowa. Invita- 



