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EVENTS OF 1884. (MAY, JUNE.) 



tions to the Egyptian financial conference at London 

 issued to the powers. 



25. Acquittal of Frank James in Alabama. Dis- 

 covery of a society ot assassins in Sicily. 



26. The Ripley navigation bill passes the House of 

 Representatives. The Niederwald dynamite attempt 

 on the life of the German Emperor made public by a 

 statement of Eugene Richter in the German Parlia- 

 ment. Visit of the Prince of Bulgaria in Vienna. 

 Opening of the Italian .National Exhibition at Turin. 



27. General election in Spain. 



28. A committee of the Senate reports a bill relat- 

 ing to interstate commerce. Marine collision on the 

 coast of Newfoundland ; 12 deaths. The bill against 

 the manufacture and sale of artificial butter signed by 

 Governor Cleveland. 



29. Prosecution of Kellogg for Star Route frauds be- 

 gun. A fire in a poor-house in Michigan; 14 per- 

 sons burned to death. Powder and gas explosion in 

 Havana. 



30. Republican State Conventions in Massachusetts, 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Iowa, Wisconsin, 

 Nevada, California, and West Virginia : Blaine nom- 

 inated in most of them. Democratic Convention in 

 Massachusetts. Marriage of the Princess Victoria of 

 Hesse to Prince Alexander of Battenberg hi Darm- 

 stadt. 



May 1. Ex-Senator Kellogg acquitted of complicity 

 in the Star Route frauds. Republican State Conven- 

 tions in Rhode Island, Minnesota, Oregon, Colorado, 

 Maryland, and North Carolina. 



2. Republican Conventions in Nebraska and Texas. 

 Forest-fires in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsyl- 

 vania. The tenement-house cigar bill passed by the 

 ]Se\v York Legislature. 



3. Three suspected dynamite conspirators in Bir- 

 mingham brought to trial. Failure of the London 

 and Oriental Bank in London. 



5. The morganatic marriage of the Grand Duke of 

 Hesse made public. 



G. The Morrison tariff bill defeated in the House of 

 Representatives. Germany and France protest against 

 the Anglo-Portuguese Congo Treaty. 



7. The German minister to Washington, Eisen- 

 declier, succeeded by Von Alvensleben. News of the 

 loss of the Florida with 135 people on board. The 

 bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister 

 lost in the English House of Commons. Christovitch 

 succeeds Aleko Pasha as Governor-General of Eastern 

 Roumclia. 



8. The House of Representatives appropriates $1,- 

 000,000 for the New Orleans Exhibition. 



9. Inundations in Louisiana. 



10. The anti-Socialist law prolonged by act of the 

 German Reichstag. 



12. The Tientsin Treaty concluded between France 

 and China. 



13. The Reichstag passes a law against explosives. 

 A vote of censure on the Egyptian policy of the Gov- 

 ernment defeated in the English House "of Commons. 

 Official notification of the French Government of the 

 treaty of Tientsin. Victory of the Mudir of Dongola 

 over the Arabs. 



14. Railroad collision near Cornellsville, Pa. ; 14 

 persons killed. Rescript of the German Emperor dep- 

 recating criticism on the influence of officials in elec- 

 tions. News of the fall of Berber arrives. 



15. Mexico ratifies the treaty with the United States. 

 Wreck of the steamer Illyrian on the Irish coast. 



16. Shooting of Bogan Cash by a sheriff's officer in 

 South Carolina. Burning of Vienna Stadt Theatre. 



18. Majority of the Czarevich proclaimed. 



19. Conflict between white and colored people in 

 Danville, Va. Kraszewski and Ileutsch convicted of 

 betraying German military secrets and condemned 

 to prison. Adjournment of the Prussian Diet. Dis- 

 covery of the inoculative remedy against rabies an- 

 nounced by Pasteur. Earthquake on the coast of the 

 Persian Gulf. 



20. Adjournment of the Hungarian Chambers. 

 Opening of the new Cortes in Spain. 



21. Monument to Luther unveiled in Washington. 

 Visit of the King and O^ueen of the Netherlands at the 

 Belgian court. 



22. Numerous business failures. Floods in Spain. 



23. An arbitration board to settle labor disputes es- 

 tablished in Pittsburg by agreement of workmen and 

 manufacturers. 



24. Socialist disturbance in Munich. Ferrv pre- 

 sents in the French Cnamberthe proposals for the re- 

 vision of the Constitution. 



25. Loss of the Erench brig Senorine known ; 62 

 lives lost. 



26. End of the spiniiftis' strike in Fall River. 



27. England and France agree on the programme 

 of the Egyptian Conference. Nihilist threats against 

 the Czar. 



28. The National Convention of the Greenback 

 party nominates Benjamin F. Butler for President, 

 Recognition of the Iglesias government in Peru by 

 President Arthur. 



29. Bankruptcy of the Perm Bank in Pittsburg. 

 Election riots in Hungary. 



30. The German Government takes possession of 

 Angra Pequena. Three dynamite explosions in Lon- 

 don. The Danish Riksdag refuses to ratify the treaty 

 of commerce with Spain. "The Naquet bill legalizing 

 divorce passed by the French Senate. 



June 1. The United States Senate pass a measure to 

 suppress the opium-traffic. General Babcock and 

 two companions drowned on the coast of Florida. 



3. Assembly of the Republican National Conven- 

 tion in Chicago. 



6. Nomination of Elaine and Logan at Chicago. 

 Visit of the King of Greece in Vienna. 



8. Affray between Orangemen and Nationalists in 

 Newry, Ireland. Boundary dispute between Servia 

 and Bulgaria. 



9. The corner-stone of the Berlin Parliament build- 

 ing laid. Riots in Hungary. 



10. A commission of officers decide upon the ar- 

 raignment of Auditor-General Swaim before a court- 

 martial. Publication of Tilden's letter of declination. 

 The Anarchist Stellmacher in Vienna condemned to 

 death. Massacre of the garrison of Berber by the 

 rebels in the Soudan. Clerical victory in the Belgian 

 elections. 



11. The State Department asks for $250,000 for the 

 Nicaragua Canal project. Agreement of the Grand 

 Duke of Hesse and Madame Kolemine to a separation. 

 French intervention in Morocco. A treaty concluded 

 between England and the King Joannes of Abyssinia. 



12. The Paris treaty for the international protection 

 of patent rights rejected by the United States Senate. 

 Failure of Middleton & Co., Washington bankers. 

 Regulation of the succession to the Dutch throne. 



13. Revelations of the Niederwald conspiracy. The 

 Liideritz establishments at Angra Pequena declared 

 to be under the protection of the German Empire. 



15. Marriage of the Grand Duke Sergius and the 

 Princess Elizabeth of Hesse in St. Petersburg. 



16. A female Anarchist arrested in Elberfeld, Ger- 

 many. Formation of a new ministry in Belgium. 

 Resignation of the new Norwegian ministry. 



17. Decision of the Ohio Supreme Court with refer- 

 ence to the Scott law. The Fitz-John Porter and 

 navigation bills disposed of in Congress. 



18^ The House passes a bill supplementing the 

 Thurman acts. Democratic State Convention in New 

 York. The dissolution of the Belgian Senate. Pub- 

 lication of a royal decree reviving the Prussian Coun- 

 cil of State under the presidency of the Crown Prince. 



19. The House passes a bill against immigration 

 under labor contracts. France annexes Cambodia. 

 The French Chamber passes the bill to legalize di- 

 vorce. 



21. The German Reichstag adopts a measure to es- 

 tablish compulsory trade associations and apprentice- 



