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and Lieut. -Gov. Hill is sworn in as his successor. 

 The New York State Legislature begins its sessions. 

 The Portuguese occupy the banks of the Lower Congo. 

 Failure of Tschinkel, Bohemian sugar firm. 



7. The Buckner bill to suspend the issue of stand- 

 ard silver dollars tabled in the House. Henry R. 

 Harrison, the Republican candidate, elected Governor 

 of Connecticut by the Legislature, no candidate hav- 

 ing received a majority at the polls. Re-establish- 

 ment of the blockade at Formosa. 



8. The Reagan interstate commerce bill passed by 

 the House. Celebration of the coining of age of Prince 

 Edward of Wales. Madame Clovis Hugues acquitted 

 in Paris. 



9. Financial crisis in Buenos Ayres. The King of 

 Spain visits the provinces devastated by earthquake. 

 Bismarck explains his colonial policy in the Reichstag. 



10. Naval appropriation, $6,120,155, passed by the 

 House. Persecution of Jews in Morocco. 



12. The charges against Lieut. Garlington in con- 

 nection with the Greely Relief Expedition dismissed 

 by the Secretary of War. Treaty concluded between 

 Russia and Prussia for the extradition of political of- 

 fenders. Disturbances in Cambodia. 



13. Hawley resolution in the Senate on the Sher- 

 man-Davis letter. Death of Schuyler Colfax. Labor 

 disturbances in South Bend and Fort Wayne, Ind. 

 Opening of the French Chambers. Police Inspector 

 Rumpf murdered by an anarchist in Frankfort. In- 

 undation in Rome. 



14. Bill placing Gen. Grant on the retired list 

 passed by the Senate. The French spoliation claims 

 and Chinese indemnity bills passed by the House. 

 John P. Jones re-elected Senator from Nevada. Fail- 

 ure of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, iron manufacturers, in 

 Cleveland. M. Jules Ferry explains the policy of the 

 French Government toward China, and obtains a vote 

 of confidence. 1 



15. Execution of Leroy in San Francisco. Opening 

 of the Prussian Diet. 



17. Battle of Abu-klea, near Metemmeh : Col. Fred 

 Buraaby killed. The Panama revolution begins. 



19. Final decision of the Supreme Court in the case 

 of the Mormon Clawson. Germany, Austria, and Rus- 

 sia reply to the Egyptian proposals of the English 

 Cabinet. Battle at Gubat, near Metemmeh ; Gen. 

 Stewart mortally wounded. 



20. WilliamM.Evarts chosen United States Senator 

 in New York, Voorhees in Indiana, Wilkinson Call in 

 Florida, and Z. B. Vance in North Carolina. Anti- 

 Socialist bill introduced in the Austrian Chamber. 



21. J. D. Cameron elected to the United States 

 Senate in Pennsylvania, Orville H. Platt in Connecti- 

 cut, Henry M. Teller in Colorado, George J. Vest in 

 Missouri, and John C. Spoon in Wisconsin. 



22. The Lower House of Congress decides that the 

 Oregon Central Railroad land grant is forfeited. The 

 King of Spain returns to Madrid from his visit to the 

 scene of the Andalusian earthquake. 



23. A French attack on the Chinese works near 

 Kelung repelled. Minister-President Tisza delivers 

 a speech in the Hungarian Parliament on the religious 

 question. The Danish ministry interpellated on the 

 subject of the neutralization of Denmark. 



24. Criminal proceedings entered against Martin 

 and his associates for electoral frauds in Chicago. 

 Sir Charles Wilson embarks on the Nile for the relief 

 ot Gen. Gordon. French reverse near Kelung. At- 

 tempt to blow up the House of Parliament and the 

 Tower of London with dynamite ; explosions in the 

 crypt of Westminster Hall and under the Peers' gal- 

 lery, wrecking the interior of the western extremity 

 f the House of Commons, and one in the White 

 Tower, injuring 16 persons. The Hungarian Cham- 



I ber rejects the bill on the subject of Roman Catholic 

 autonomy. 



25. Fighting at Kelung. The French senatorial 

 Actions. The Derenzis interpellation in the Italian 



'! Chamber on the subject of the expedition to the Red 



26. The Bayard resolution in the Senate expressing 

 horror for the dynamite outrages in London. Fall of 

 Khartoum. Effective occupation of Beilul by Italian 

 marines. 



27. The House of Representatives refuses to take 

 up the Mexican treaty bill. Federal troops concen- 

 trated to prevent trespassers from entering the Indian 

 Territory. End of the contest over the naval appro- 

 priations in Congress. Gen. Gordon killed in Khar- 

 toum. Signor Mancini declares on the subject of the 



jealous of Italy in the Red Sea. 



28. Sir Charles Wilson's flotilla arrives in sight of 

 Khartoum. The natives rise against the English at 

 Quittah, on the Gold Coast. The St. Petersburg Gov- 

 ernment proposes an Afghan boundary-line. 



29. The Senate reiects the Nicaraguan treaty. End 

 of the Hocking valley strike. Opening of the Do- 

 minion Parliament. 



30. The Oklahoma boomers withdraw from the res- 

 ervation. The Vienna newspapers refuse to print 

 the proceedings of the Reichsrath. 



31. Chinese defeat at Kelung. 



February 1. Dynamite explosion in Grand street, 

 New York. Extensive public improvements under- 

 taken by the municipality of Madrid in order to 

 furnish work to the unemployed. 



2. Yseult Dudley shoots O' Donovan Rossa in front 

 of his office. Fresh Regulator excesses in Kentucky. 



4. The Senate adopts the Cullom substitute for the 

 Reagan interstate commerce bill. Carroll D. Wright 

 enters upon his office of Chief of the Bureau of Labor 

 Statistics in Washington. Lynching in Iowa, Texas, 

 and Virginia. 



5. Treaty signed between France and the Interna- 

 tional African Association. French victory at Dong- 

 song, in Tonquin. 



6. The consular and diplomatic appropriation bill 

 passes the Senate. Anti-Chinese excesses in Eureka, 

 Cal. The French Government announces the exer- 

 cise of belligerent rights in the China seas. Grief 

 and dismay in England at the news of the capture of 

 Khartoum by the troops of the Mahdi. The Hun- 

 garian Chamber votes the budget for 1885. 



7. The occupation of Massowah by Italy. Reins- 

 dorf and Kuchler executed for the Niederwald at- 

 tempt. 



8. The news arrives at London that Gen. Gordon 

 was killed at Khartoum. The English Royal Guards 

 ordered to Egypt. 



9. Anarchist demonstration in Paris. 



10. The pension appropriation bill passes the Sen- 

 ate. Gen. Earle attacks the Arab positions at Kir- 

 bekan, near Dulka Island, winning a victory but los- 

 ing his life. The Chinese repelled at Kelung. Dy- 

 namite explosion at Witkovitz, in Moravia. 



11. The electoral votes counted in Congress, and 

 Cleveland and Hendricks declared to be elected Presi- 

 dent and Vice-President. Lord Rosebery -enters the 

 British Cabinet. Reconstitution of the Roumanian 

 Cabinet under the presidency of Bratiano. A second 

 expedition leaves Naples for the Red Sea. The Neth- 

 erlands Government announce that the question of 

 the Luxemburg succession has been settled by the 

 recognition of me right of the Duke of Nassau to the 

 throne. 



12. The Senate passes the army appropriation bill. 

 Prince Bismarck's speech in advocacy ot a protective 

 duty on cereals. The Chinese routed before Langson. 



13. Capture of Langson by the French in Tonquin. 



14. A new ministry formed in Roumania. 



15. The Spanish ministry receives a vote of confi- 

 dence from the Chamber of Deputies. 



16. The retirement bill for Gen. Grant fails of a 

 two-third vote in the House. The Indian appropria- 

 tion bill passed by the Senate. The House rejects 

 the liquor-traffic bill. Railroad communications in- 



