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EVENTS OF 1885. (SEPTEMBER OCTOBER.) 



Fany to lands in Washington Territory are denied, 

 rorogation of the British Parliament. 



15. An order of the Commissioner of Internal Rev- 

 enue gives effect to the decision shortening the bond- 

 ed period for whisky. The Executive Committee of 

 the Irish National League meets in Chicago. Count 

 Schonborn installed as Prince- Archbishop of Prague. 



16. The murderer Maxwell is brought oack to St. 

 Louis. Warlike intimations dropped by French min- 

 isters at the unveiling of a statue to Gen. Chanzy at 

 Le Mans. 



17. The Texas Land-Office is charged with defraud- 

 ing the State of $2,000,000. 



18. Strike of laborers on the Wabash system of rail- 

 roads. 



19. A canal conference in Utica, N. Y., declares for 

 the improvement of the Erie Canal without aid from 

 the Federal Government. 



20. Gov. Hoadly renominated by the Democrats of 

 Ohio. 



23. Demonstration in Madrid against Germany. 

 Erroneous arrest of five Englishmen in Frankfort-on- 

 the-Main. 



24. Socialistic disturbance in Amsterdam. 



25. Death of ex-Gov. Fentpn. A colored corporal 

 in the regular army lynched in Dakota. Meeting of 

 the Emperors of Austria and Kussia in Kremsier. The 

 Burgomasters of Riga and Revel are removed by the 

 Czar for using the German language. Execution of 

 Gen. Prestan m Panama for the burning of Aspin- 

 wall. 



26. A murderer lynched in Texas after killing eight 

 people. Czech demonstration against the Germans 

 in Konigboff, Bohemia. 



31. The cattle-men begin to remove their herds from 

 the Indian reservations in obedience to the President's 

 proclamation. 



September 2. The Chinese in Rock Springs, Wyo- 

 ming Territory, barbarously ill-treated and forced to 

 flee ; United States troops ordered to the spot. The 

 trial of editor Stead, of the "Pall Mall Gazette." and 

 his accomplices is begun in London. The Sultan of 

 Turkey finally agrees to nominate a commissioner to 

 negotiate with Sir Drurnmond Wolff. 



3. The Treasury tries to bring silver dollars into 

 circulation by withholding greenbacks. 



4. A convention for promoting the improvement 

 of navigation on the Mississippi meets in St. Paul, 

 Minn. 



5. Extensive frauds in the issue of school bonds by 

 township officials come to light in Indiana. Violent 

 anti-German manifestations in Madrid at the intelli- 

 gence of the occupation of Yap by the Germans. 



6. Barbarous lynch-murder in Arkansas. 



7. President Cleveland returns to Washington. 

 Opening of a conference for the international protec- 

 tion of literary and artistic property at Bern, in Switz- 

 erland. 



8. Fresh anti-Chinese outbreaks in Wyoming and 

 Washington Territories. 



9. A whirlwind destroys Washington Court-House 

 in Ohio ; and severe storms rage on the Great Lakes. 

 The Swiss Federal Council expels five Anarchists. 



10. Regulators in South Carolina attempt to sup- 

 press miscegenation with violence. The German gun- 

 boat " Blitz'' runs down and sinks the English steamer 

 u Auckland." The protocol of the Anglo-Russian 

 agreement in the Afghan boundary question is signed. 



11. Molly Maguire outrages recur in the Pennsyl- 

 vania coal districts. 



14. Gen. de Courcy sets up a new king in Annam. 



16. Ihe elephant Jumbo is run over and killed by 

 a railroad train in St. Thomas, Ontario. 



17. The Eastern Roumelian revolution occurs, and 

 the union of the two Bulgarias is proclaimed. Close 

 of the International Telegraph Conference in Berlin. 

 An Austrian captain is condemned to prison for trea- 

 son. The Emperor Franz Josef makes an excursion 

 into Servia. 



18. The Apaches massacre six settlers in New 



Mexico. The Mormon bishop Sharp pleads guilty to 

 a charge of polygamy, and is let off with a tine. The 

 German Federal Council prolongs for one year the 

 minor state of siege in Berlin. Gladstone's election 

 manifesto appears. Count Taafe strengthens the min- 

 isterial majority in the Austrian upper house by the 

 creation of new peers. 



19. The prosecution of the perpetrators of outrages 

 upon Chinamen in Wyoming is demanded by the 

 representatives of the Chinese Government. 



21. Five Chinamen are murdered in Idaho. Divis- 

 ion in Jibe Austrian Constitutional party and forma- 

 tion of a German club. 



22. The American Forest Protection Convention 

 meets in Boston. Mobilization of the Servian army. 

 Prince Alexander of Bulgaria makes his entry into 

 Philippopolis. Kriffler, the Vienna swindler, is con- 

 demned to prison for seven years. 



23. Dorman B. Eaton, President of the Civil-Serv- 

 ice Commission, hands in his resignation, which 

 President Cleveland declines to accept before Nov. 1. 

 The Republicans of New York nominate Ira Daven- 

 port for Governor. The eleventh annual meeting of 

 the Bankers' Association is held in Chicago. The 

 apology of the Spanish Government for insults to the 

 German flag in me Madrid riots is accepted by Ger- 

 many. 



24. Gov. Hill is nominated for the Democratic gu- 

 bernatorial candidate in New York. 



25. In a fight with the Apaches in Arizona the 

 Federal troops make prisoners of 45 red-skins. The 

 Pope of Rome accepts the role of mediator between 

 Germany and Spain in the Caroline Islands dispute. 



26. Opening of the Austrian and Hungarian parlia- 

 mentary sessions. 



27. Indian outrages in Arizona. End of the strike 

 in Cleveland^ Ohio. 



28. A political murder in Lynchburg, Va. In 

 North Carolina four colored men* are lynched. The 

 great powers come to an agreement in the Eastern 

 Roumelian question at the preliminary conference of 

 the ambassadors in Constantinople. Socialist trial in 

 Chemnitz. 



29. Conviction of Mormons in Salt Lake City. New 

 persecutions of Chinese in Washington Territory. 



30. A convention of colored men in Virginia aban- 

 dons the Republican party and praises the Cleveland 

 Administration. Civil-Service Commissioner Gregory 

 sends in his resignation. The President decides that 

 gangers and weighers come within the civil service 

 rules. The Servian Government contracts a loan 

 with the Austrian Land Bank. 



October 2. Secretary Whitney's special commission 

 makes a report on the construction of naval vessels. 

 Death of the Earl of Shaftesbury. 



3. King Milan opens the Servian Skuptchina with a 

 warlike speech from the throne. Equivocal declara- 

 tions of the Hungarian Minister Tisza in reference to 

 the Eastern question. 



4. The conference of the powers begins in Constan- 

 tinople. General election in France ; surprising Con- 

 servative gains. 



5. The Alabama Claims Court opens its final sitting 

 in Washington. Strike of street-car employe's in St 

 Louis. The Danish Rigsdag begins its sessions ; the 

 constitutional conflict become's more acute. The Abys- 

 sinian general Razalaula wins a victory over Osman 

 Digna ; the latter is killed and Razalaula wounded. 



7. The grand jury of Rock Spring fails to find ai 

 indictment against the persons accused of the outrage? 

 on Chinamen. The President makes a number of aj 

 pointments in the diplomatic service. The nine S 

 cial Democrats on trial in Chemnitz are acquitted. 

 Sensational trial of the artist, Prof. Graf, in Berlin, re- 

 sults in an acquittal. 



8. The street-railroad strike in St. Louis fails, mi 

 a striker is shot. Revelations of extravagance in the 

 Mare Island navy-yard. 



9. Attorney - General Garland explains his rela- 

 tions to the "Pan-Electric Telephone Company ; 



