EVENTS OF 1885. (JULY, AUGUST.) 



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13. End of the Austrian elections. 



14. Storms and whirlwinds in the Northwest. End 

 of the Suez Canal Conference in Paris, and of the Sani- 

 tary Conference in Rome. The earthquakes in Cash- 

 mere continue, causing thousands of deaths. 



15. End of the lock-out in the iron-works of the Pitts- 

 burg district. The cholera spreads in Spain. Death 

 of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, and of Admiral 

 Courbet. 



16. The Legislature of Rhode Island re-elects Blair 

 to the United States Senate. Lynching outrage in the 

 Indian Territory. Gen. Grant taken to Mount Mc- 

 Gregor. The Pitts burg iron strike ends in a com- 

 promise. 



17. Judge Stallo nominated Minister to Italy by 

 President Cleveland. A renewed discussion in the 

 Italian Chamber on the colonial policy of the Govern- 

 ment results in a majority for the ministry of only 

 three votes ; the ministers proffer their resignations. 

 Labor disturbance hi Brunn, Austria. Death of 

 Field -marshal Manteuffel, Stadtholder of Alsace- 

 Lorraine. 



18. Sec. Whitney asks of the Attorney- General an 

 opinion on the legality of rejecting the Dolphin. 



19. A claim raised for the payment of $20,000 to the 

 Government by the late Agricultural Commissioner 

 Loring. Arrival of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty 

 in New York. King Alfonso insists upon visiting the 

 cholera districts, but is restrained by the threat of the 

 ministers to resign. 



21. Tornadoes in the West and South. Lynching 

 of five men in Texas. Death of Mamiani, Italian 

 statesman. 



22. DeathofElMahdi. 



23. The Marquis of Salisbury accepts office in Eng- 

 land and forms a Conservative Cabinet. 



24. E. L. Hedden appointed Collector, H. S. Beattie 

 Surveyor, and S. W. Burt Naval Officer in the New 

 York Custom-House. 



25. An agreement come to between the United 

 States and the Canadian Governments in regard to 

 provisionally prolonging the fishery treaty. Sir Na- 

 thaniel Rothschild created a peer, the first Jew in the 

 House of Lords. 



26. Sanguinary encounter between Mexican troops 

 and Indians on the Arizona frontier. News of the 

 death of Olivier Pain in the Soudan confirmed. 



27. Director of the Mint Burchard suspended from 

 office; Jones T. Kimball appointed his successor. 



29. A disturbance made by Poles in Toledo. Lynch- 

 ing of twelve men in the Indian Territory. The Rou- 

 manian legislature imposes a 50 per cent, surtax on 

 the products of France and other countries not pro- 

 tected by treaty. 



30. The Italian ministerial crisis ends in the retire- 

 ment of Mancini, Depretis taking the portfolio of 

 Foreign Affairs provisionally. 



July 1. The President makes important appoint- 

 ments. Secretary Manning declares for civil-service 

 reform. Mackin condemned to five years' imprison- 

 ment for electoral frauds. Strike of street-car drivers 

 in Chicago. The shoemaker, Lieske, is condemned 

 to death for the murder of Police Councilor Rumpf 

 in Frankfort. 



2. The Central and South American commission's 

 report on commercial relations with Chili and Peru is 

 published. King Alfonso visits the cholera sufferers 

 m Aranjuez incognito. 



5. Malcolm Hay t First Assistant-Postmaster-Gen- 

 eral, resigns, and is replaced by A. E. Stevenson. 



'\\ war breaks out again in Peru, 

 t. The New York Schiitzen corps are received in 

 grand style at Bingen-on-the-Rhine. 



6. Secretary Lamar is requested to expel the cattle 

 kings from the Indian Territory. Lord Salisbury de- 

 clares his policv. The cholera breaks out in Toulon 

 and Marseilles." 



7. End of the car-drivers' strike in Chicago. The 

 'Pall Mall Gazette" begins to publish its disclosures 

 of immorality. 



8. An agricultural convention is held in Washing- 

 ton. The trial of the case of Paymaster-General 

 Smith begins in Washington. State Convention of 

 the Pennsylvania Republicans. 



10. The French Chamber votes an appropriation for 

 the education of every seventh child in poor families. 



11. The negotiations for a commercial treaty with 

 Spain are broken off. 



12. Attorney-General Garland delivers his opinion 

 to the effect that the " Dolphin " should not DC ac- 

 cepted by the Government. Attempt to kill the Em- 

 peror Wilhelm at Ems. 



13. Important decision of the Commissioner of 

 Lands regarding grants to railroad companies. Labor 

 strikes in East Saginaw and Bay City, Mich., Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., Meriden, Conn., and other places. 



14. Labor disturbance in Cleveland. Labor troub- 

 les at Trebitsch, in Moravia. Failure of the Munster 

 Bank in Dublin. 



15. Republican State Convention in Virginia. The 

 Niagara Park opened with* public ceremonies. 



17. Ovation to American Turners in Dresden. 



19. A Kentucky feud ends in a triple murder. 



20. Opening of the Monetary Conference in Paris. 



21. Kaiser Wilhelm arrives at Gastein. 



22. Lynching outrage in Louisiana. Disturbance at 

 the funeral of the Socialist Killer at Frankfort-on-the- 

 Main. 



23. Death of Gen. Grant. Proclamation of the 

 President requiring the cattle -men to vacate the 

 Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations. Marriage of 

 the Princess Beatrice of England to Prince Henry of 

 Batten berg. 



24. Prof. Hilgard, of the Coast Survey, is removed. 

 Failure of the brokers, Babcock & Andrews, of Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y. 



27. A deputation of cattle-owners waits upon Presi- 

 dent Cleveland. Charges of gross violation of the 

 civil-service law brought against Postmaster Jones, of 

 Indianapolis, are investigated. 



28. The twelve months' strike of the coal-miners 

 of Mount Carmel, Pa., comes to an end. Death of 

 Sir Moses Montefiore. 



31. Philip S. Wales, late Surgeon-General of the 

 Navy, is suspended for five years, with half pay, for 

 gross neglect of duty, by a court-martial. The Pa- 

 cific Mail and other steamship companies refuse to re- 

 new their mail contracts. 



August 1. The Secretary of the Navy appoints a 

 commission to investigate the business methods of 

 the department. 



3. Storm and cloud-burst in Philadelphia. A threat- 

 ening article against France in the official " North 

 German Gazette." 



5. The Civil-Service Reform Association commends 

 the official course of the President. The complaints 

 against the Indianapolis postmaster are dismissed as 

 without foundation. The Paris Monetary Conference 

 adjourns to the 1st of October. 



6. Meeting of the Emperors Wilhelm and Franz 

 Josef. 



7. The Government undertakes to complete the 

 vessels begun on the Roach contracts. Minister, 

 Keiley's appointment is canceled after the definite 

 official refusal of the Vienna Government to receive 

 him. The Secretary of War issues an order for offi- 

 cers on special detail to rejoin their corps. The Presi- 

 dent goes on vacation. 



10. The liberation of the American citizen Santos, 

 in Ecuador, is officially announced in the State De- 

 partment. The Oklahoma trespassers break up their 

 camp near Caldwell, Kansas, and disperse. Opening 

 of tke International Telegraph Congress in Berlin. 

 Admiral Paschen forces the Sultan of Zanzibar to give 

 in by means of an ultimatum. 



12. Count Kalnoky visits Prince Bismarck at Varzin. 



13. End of the strike in the Saginaw valley. Ex- 

 citement in Spain at the reported annexation of the 

 Caroline Islands by Germany. 



14. Claims of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- 



