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ship. Action of the German authorities against Mor- 

 mon emissaries. Conviction of conspirators in Ireland. 

 Death of the Prince of Orange. 



22. Destructive cloud-burst in Montana. 



23. Bismarck defines his colonial policy in the 

 Keichstag. Outbreak of cholera in Toulon. 



24. Jewish persecutions in Nijni Novgorod. Demo- 

 cratic State Conventions in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, 

 North Carolina, and Arkansas. German law of ex- 

 patriation repealed on the motion of Windhorst. 



25. The Italian ministry sustained by a vote of 

 confidence. 



26. Organization of the Republican National Com- 

 mittee. The Government proposition to subsidize 

 steamship lines voted down in the German Reichstag. 

 The suffrage extension bill passed by the English 

 House of Commons. The repulse of French troops at 

 Langson by a so-called ambush. Bismarck's speech 

 on colonial policy. Sverdrup forms a ministry in Nor- 

 way. 



28. Meeting of the Egyptian Conference in London. 

 Adjournment of the German Parliament. 



30. The English ministry sustained on a vote of 

 censure. Mining accident in British Columbia ; 24 

 deaths. 



July 1. Strike of the coal -miners ill the Hocking 

 Valley. 



2. The Fitz-John Porter bill vetoed by President 

 Arthur. 



3. The French Chamber passes the proposals for 

 the revision of the Constitution. Presentation of the 

 Bartholdi Statue of Liberty to the American minister 

 in Paris. 



7. France demands 250,000,000 francs indemnity 

 from China. 



8. Meeting of the Democratic National Convention. 

 Session of Congress closes. Appointments of Kasson, 

 Taft, and Francis, as ministers to_ Berlin, St. Peters- 

 burg, and Vienna. The extension of the suffrage 

 bill rejected in the English House of Lords. 



10. Divorce of the Grand Duke of Hesse and Ma- 

 dame Kolemine. Cholera-panic in France. 



11. Cleveland and Hendricks nominated in the 

 Democratic National Convention. 



12. The steamer State of Maine stranded on the 

 coast of New Brunswick. 



13. Attempt on the life of the Emperor Francis 

 Joseph. 



14. The Independent Kepublicans call a National 

 Convention. The Government takes measures for 

 the prevention of cholera. The German flag insulted 

 in Paris. 



15. Lynching of five horse-thieves in Montana. 



16. Disclosures of the Anarchist Kammerer in Vi- 

 enna. Action of the Austrian police against Mormon 

 proselyters. 



17. News of the rescue of the survivors of the 

 Greely Expedition. Discovery of a plot against the 

 Czar m Moscow and wholesale arrests. 



18. Elaine's and Logan's letters of acceptance 

 published. Ravages of the plague in Russian Asia 

 Minor. 



19. The divorce law enacted in France. 



21. Completion of the Bennett-Mackey cable. Vio- 

 lence against Jews in Galicia. Mass-meeting in Lon- 

 don in favor of the county suffrage bill. 



22. Excesses committed against the Salvation Army 

 in Switzerland. 



24. Fresh arrests in Warsaw and St. Petersburg in 

 connection with the journey of the Czar. 

 26. Nomination of St. John by the Prohibitionists. 



29. Governor Cleveland officially notified of his 

 nomination. Outbreak of the Texas fever among* 

 Kansas cattle - herds. The revision bill passes the 

 French Senate. 



30. The National Labor party declares for Cleve- 

 land. A German expedition departs for the Congo. 

 W"reck of the steamer Amsterdam near Sable Island. 



31. Spread of cholera in Italy. 



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August 1. Arrival of the Greely relief vessels in 

 Portsmouth. Conviction of dynamiters in England. 



2. Breaking up of the Egyptian Conference. 



3. Banishment of 2,000 persons from Germany at 

 the instance of the Russian authorities. Sinking of 

 the steamer Dione in the Thames. 



5. Organization of the French Chambers as a Con- 

 stituent Assembly. A vote of credit for an expedi- 

 tion to the Soudan granted by the English House of 

 Commons. Popular demonstration in Antwerp against 

 the Clerical School bill. 



6. A statue of Herkimer unveiled in Oriskany, N. Y. 



7. Hurricanes hi upper Austria and Hungary. 



8. A German gunboat sent out for the protection of 

 the North Sea fishers. Execution of Stellmacher in 

 Vienna. 



9. Coal and iron production stopped in Pennsylva- 

 nia. Iron-works in Massachusetts closed. Bombard- 

 ment of Kelung hi Formosa by the French fleet. 



10. In Tennessee five Mormons are murdered. 

 Earthquake in New York. 



11. Caceres attempts a state-stroke in Peru. 



13. Revelations of cannibalism among the Greely 

 party. Bankers' Convention in Saratoga. Annual 

 convention of the Irish National League in Boston. 

 Conclusion of the revision of the Constitution in 

 France, and adjournment of the Chambers. 



14. Mutiny in the < Kentucky State Prison. Ad- 

 journment of the British Parliament. A fusion of 

 Democrats and Greenbackers effected in Iowa. 



16. Butler's letter of acceptance published. Anti- 

 Jewish riot in Warsaw ; seven persons killed. Un- 

 successful attempt to assassinate General Gurko. Be- 

 ginning of the sales of the lands of the Propaganda in 

 Rome. 



18. Explosion in the Russian fortress of Kazan ; 100 

 persons killed. 



19. Cleveland issues his letter of acceptance. 

 21. Sinking of the steamer Tallapoosa. 



23. The arsenal at Foochow bombarded by Admiral 

 Courbet. 



27. French operations in the Min river ended. 

 Dissolution of the Croatian Diet. Sanguinary street 

 fight in Lima, Peru. 



29. Sinking of the Belmont in Ohio river; ten 

 deaths. Railroad-fire in Colorado. 



30. Hendricks opens the campaign in Indiana. The 

 Clerical School law carried in the Belgian Cham- 

 bers. 



September 1. Disturbance in the Hocking valley. 

 The Extreme Left in France demand the assembly 

 of the Chambers on account of the Chinese war. De- 

 parture of Lords Wolseley and Northbrook for Egypt. 



2. Opening of the Electric Exhibition in Philadel- 

 phia. Waller nominated for Governor by the Demo- 

 crats in Connecticut. State election in Vermont. 



4. Arrest of a band of Socialists in Vienna. 



5. Coal-mines stop work in Ohio. 



7. Conflagration in Cleveland. Riots in Brussels 

 and Antwerp on account of the new school law. 



8. State election in Maine. Arrival of the Czar in 

 Warsaw. 



14. School law signed by King of the Belgians. 



15. Meeting of the three Emperors at Skiernievice. 

 Revolution in Colombia. 



16. Publication of Elaine's letters by Fisher and 

 Mulligan. 



17. Discovery of tin in West Virginia. 



19. Earth-shocks in the West and the Northwest. 

 Suspension of the Egyptian sinking fund. 



20. Execution of the Anarchist Stellmacher in Vien- 

 na. Opening of the Vorarlberg Tunnel. Gen. Gordon 

 defeats the Arabs near Khartoum. 



23. A British gunboat founders off the coast of 

 Ireland ; 52 persons drowned. Jewish riots in Sara- 

 tov, Russia ; 11 persons killed and many wounded. 



25. Gresham appointed Secretary of the Treasury. 



27. Protest of the great powers against the suspen- 

 sion of the Egyptian law of liquidation. 



