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EVENTS OF 1884. (OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER.) 



28. Hurricanes in New York, Pennsylvania, and 

 Ohio. 



29. Meeting of the Hungarian Parliament. 



30. In Iowa the courts decide that the purchase of 

 spirits is not punishable under the prohibition laws. 



October 1. Opening of the Prime Meridian Confer- 

 ence in Washington. 



2. Gordon's troops recapture Berber. 



3. The Mormons excluded from jury service in 

 Utah. Railroad accident in Wisconsin. Burning of 

 the castle Christiansborg, in Copenhagen. 



4. The French occupy Kelung, but are repelled at 

 Tamsui. 



5. German annexations on the slave coast. 



6. Intelligence arrives of the murder of Col. Stew- 

 art. 



14. Meeting of the French Chambers. 



17. The English Government decides to increase 

 the strength ot the navy. 



18. The Council of the Kegency assumes the Gov- 

 ernment of Brunswick on the death of the Duke. 



20. The Meridian Conference in Washington agrees 

 on a normal day. Tisza introduces in the Hungarian 

 Parliament propositions for the reform of the House 

 of Peers. The Liberals victorious in the Belgian mu- 

 nicipal elections. 



21. Official announcement of the presidential vote 

 of New York State. 



27. Mining disaster in Pennsylvania; 14 persons 

 killed. 



28. The Scott law in Ohio declared unconstitutional. 

 McCulloch appointed Secretary of the Treasury, and 

 Gresham District Judge. Parliamentary elections in 

 Germany. The Austro-Hungarian Delegations meet 

 in Pesth. 



30. In Colorado 17 cattle-thieves are lynched. 



31. Statement made concerning the Spanish- Ameri- 

 can treaty. 



November!. Close of the MeridianConference. The- 

 atre panic in Glasgow, Scotland. 



2. Election disturbance in Loreauville, Pa. The 

 results of the German elections leave the Government 

 in the minority. 



4. Presidential election 



5. Floods in Spain. 



6. A dynamite-factory near Heading blown up ; ten 

 lives lost. Insurrection of the Skye Crofters in Scot- 

 land. 



7. The cholera breaks out again in Paris. 



8. Several Ehode Island spinning-factories stop 

 work. 



9. Opening of the Plenary Council at Baltimore. 

 11. The county suffrage bill passed by the British 



House of Commons. 



13. The Mexican Congress begins the discussion ot 

 the bill for the conversion of the debt. 



14. The Russians march into Khiva. 



15. Final determination of the result of the election 

 in New York State. Court-martial proceedings begun 

 against Auditor-General Swaim. Opening of the Con- 

 go Conference hi Berlin. 



17. The bill passed by the Reichstag in relation to the 

 abrogation of the expatriation law thrown out in the 

 Reichsrath. Opening of the Dutch States-General. 



19. Murderous assault on editor De Young in San 

 Francisco. Official recognition of the International 

 Association of the Congo by Germany. Demonstra- 

 tion of starving work-people in Paris. 



20 Assembly of the German Reichstag. Governor 

 Cleveland makes a declaration on the negro question. 



21. Labor disturbances in the Hocking valley. Dem- 

 onstration of Spanish students against the clergy. 



22. Adjournment of the discussion on the conver- 

 sion of the debt in Mexico. 



23. Demonstration in Hungary in honor of the re- 

 habilitation of General Gorge v. 



24. Compromise between Gladstone and Salisbury 

 n the suffrage question. 



25. Earthquake in Peru. 



26. Bismarck defeated in the Reichstag on the ques- 

 tion ofpaying members of the Reichstag! 



27. The Hugues-Morin scandal in Paris. 



28. Sinking of the steamer Durango in the English 

 Channel. 



29. Passage of the electoral bill in Virginia. In 

 Vienna 20 Anarchists are convicted. 



December 1. Opening of the final session of the For- 

 ty-eighth Congress. Annual message of the Presi- 

 dent. Great Britain recognizes the International 

 African Association. Gladstone introduces the re- 

 distribution bill in the House of Commons. Presi- 

 dent Diaz installed in Mexico. 



2. The Governor of Illinois declares Leman elected. 

 Recommendation of more stringent measures against 

 polygamy by the Utah commission. Ferry meets 

 with a reverse in the French Chamber. 



3. Conviction of five polygamists in Arizona. Law 

 empowering the Government to expel or imprison 

 priests for the illegal exercise of sacerdotal functions 

 repealed by the German Reichstag. 



4. Dynamite explosion in Rochester, N. H. ; seven 

 persons killed. 



5. Bismarck presents a White Book to the Reichs- 

 tag. Dr. Schenck elected President of the Swiss 

 Republic. The county suffrage bill passes the House 

 of Lords. 



6. Completion of the Washington Monument in 

 Washington. 



7. Close of the Plenary Council in Baltimore. 



8. The collection of head-money on immigrants 

 declared unconstitutional by the United States Su- 

 preme Court. Decision in regard to the Chinese law. 

 The steamer Pochard founders off Holy head. 



9. Captain Dudley and his crew condemned to death 

 in England for cannibalism. 



10. Nihilists proclaim the death-sentence of Tolstoi, 

 Russian Minister of the Interior. 



11. Bankruptcy of the Bohemian Land Credit As- 

 sociation. 



12. Storm on the Rappahannock in Virginia ; many 

 lives lost. Revolution m Corea. 



13. Mining catastrophe in Hungary ; 75 deaths. 

 Dynamite explosion under London Bridge. 



15. Bill to discontinue the issue of greenbacks of 

 small denominations defeated in the House. Bill 

 passed to raise the head of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment to the position of a Cabinet officer. Defeat of 

 Bismarck in the Reichstag on the budget. Trial of An- 

 archists in Leipsic for the Niederwald attempt. 



16. Publication of the Spanish- American treaty. 

 Opening of the New Orleans Exhibition. The Senate 

 passes the bill for the admission of Dakota. The 

 Reagan substitute for the inter-state commerce bill 

 passed the House. 



18. McCulloch's nomination as Secretary of the 

 Treasury confirmed by the Senate. Panic on the 

 Vienna Stock Exchange ; flight of a thievish bank 

 director. 



19. German annexations in the South Sea. Ma- 

 dame Kolemine's complaint non-suited in the Ger- 

 man courts. 



22. The Senate passes the bill to create a whisky 

 commission. Three of the Niederwald conspirators 

 condemned to death. 



24. Miss Hill wins her suit against ex-Senator Sha- 

 ron. 



25. Earthquake in Spain ; great loss of life. 



26. Secretary Frelinghuysen defends the Spanish 

 treaty. 



28. Vice-President-elect Hendricks expresses him- 

 self on the subject of the colored people of the South. 



29. General Wolseley begins his advance from 

 Korti on the Nile. 



30. Secretary McCulloch's orders in relation to 

 leaves of absence and absence from duty in the 

 Treasury Department. Betrothal of the Princess 

 Beatrice of England to a Prince of Battenbcrg. 



