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17. New Jersey Senate passes a bill to prevent the 

 bridging of Arthur Kill by the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railway. New York Superior Court restrains trans- 

 fer of Broadway Kailway stock to Philadelphia^. 



18. Bismarck's spirit monopoly bill passes the 

 Bundesrath. 



20. Strike of the Pennsylvania coke-workers ends 

 in favor of the workmen. 



21. A Chinese mandarin traveling on business is 

 refused permission to land in San Francisco, and is 

 gent back to China. 



22. Balkan Peace Conference adjourned. 



28. Servia refuses to sign a treaty of peace with. 

 Bulgaria. 



March 1. Kioting in Chicago in consequence of labor 

 troubles in the McCormick Reaper-Works. 



2. Strikes on the Texas Pacific Kailroad and on 

 street-railways in New York city. 



3. Brig.-Gen. A. H. Terry. U. S. A., is promoted 

 in place of Maj.-Gen. Hancock, deceased. Pope Leo 

 XIII celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday, and the 

 eighth anniversary of his coronation. 



5. Greece calls out her reserves in expectation of 

 war with Turkey. Strike of the New York street- 

 railways ends practically in favor of the men. A mo- 

 tion denouncing the House of Lords is defeated in the 

 House of Commons by a vote of 202 to 106. 



6. General strike inaugurated on the u Gould sys- 

 tem" of Southwestern railroads; several lines block- 

 aded. 



10. General lockout of knit-goods manufacturers at 

 Cohoes, N. Y. A committee from the United States 

 Senate investigates the Pan-Electric scandal. Strike 

 of coal-miners in Pennsylvania. 



14. Great Socialistic meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. 



15. Mr. Gladstone announces his plan for the better 

 government of Ireland. Morgan art collection, in- 

 cluding the famous " peach-blow vase," sold in New 

 York for $1,207.052. 



16. New York city aldermen enjoined by Judge 

 Lawrence from passing over the mayor's veto a bill 

 authorizing the wholesale construction of cable-rail- 

 ways in New York city. W. L. Trenholm nominated 

 for Comptroller of the Currency in New York State. 



17. Electoral count bill passes the Senate. Both 

 houses pass a bill granting a pension of $2,000 to the 

 widow of Gen. Hancock. Treaty of peace ratified be- 

 tween Servia and Bulgaria. 



IS. Henry W. Jaehne is arrested for complicity in 

 the Broadway Railroad case. Prince Alexander con- 

 firmed by all the European powers except Russia as 

 Governor for life of Eastern Roumelia. 



20. American fishermen off Canadian coast warned 

 not to transgress the Treaty of 1818. 



21. Geronimo, chief of the Apaches, surrenders to 

 United States troops under Lieut. M. P. Maus. 



22. Strike becomes general on the Western rail- 

 ways. Ex- Alderman Jaehne indicted for bribery and 

 imprisoned. Troops are called out to suppress An- 

 archist riots in Belgium. 



23. Twelve locomotive-engines disabled by strikers 

 at Kansas City, Mo. 



24. Rioting at St. Louis, Mo. 



28. United States troops sent to St. Louis and else- 

 where to protect mails in transit against rioters. 



27. Many Anarchist rioters killed in an encounter 

 with troops in Belgium. The Hon. James Stansfield 

 and the Earl of Dalhousie appointed to the Cabinet of 

 Great Britain in place of Messrs. Chamberlain and 

 Trevelyan, resigned. A bill establishing a Govern- 

 ment monopoly for the manufacture of distilled spir- 

 its, proposed by Prince Bismarck, rejected by the 

 German Reichstag, 183 to 3. 



29. Mineral oil discovered in Louisiana. 



30. Two trains wrecked by strikers on Missouri 

 Pacific Railway. 



t 31. The German Anti-Socialist law, about to ex- 

 pire by limitation, is prolonged for two years by the 

 Reichstag, 173 to 146. Strikers ordered back to work 



by officers of Knights of Labor. Geronimo escapes 

 from his guard. Gen. Carceres elected President of 

 Peru. 



April 1. Railway strike renewed because the rail- 

 roads refused to take back all the strikers. Belgian 

 revolutionists resume their demonstrations. The Sen- 

 ate votes $500,000 for a monument to Lincoln to be 

 erected in Washington. 



2. Ex- Alderman Waite makes a confession in re- 

 gard to the Broadway Railroad case. 



3. The House passes a labor arbitration bill. 



4. Texas militia defeat railroad strikers. 



5. The House votes $550,000 for a Congressional 

 Library building and the Mexican War pension bill. 



6. English university boat-race. Cambridge de- 

 feats Oxford. 



7. George P. Wetmore re-elected Governor of 

 Rhode Island, with the rest of the Republican ticket. 

 A prohibition amendment to the State Constitution 

 adopted by a popular vote. The lower house of the 

 Prussian Landtag passes a bill expropriating Polish 

 landholders in Posen and colonizing^ the province with 

 Germans. The Senate rejects a bill to increase the 

 United States Army to 30lOOO men. Rioting in East 

 St. Louis depots. Gen. Don Bernardo Soto elected 

 President of Costa Rica. Political riot in Texas. 



8. The House rejects the free coinage bill. The 

 Italian ministry resigns. George Hearst appointed 

 United States Senator from California in place of 

 John F. Miller, deceased. Caleb W. West, of Ken- 

 tucky, appointed Governor of Utah, in place of Eli 

 H. Murray, resigned. Senate approves House Library 

 appropriation bill of April 5. Central Labor Union 

 resolves to boycott Jay Gould. 



9. Conflict 'and loss of life between strikers and 

 deputy-sheriffs in East St. Louis. 



13. Wholesale arrests of the New York aldermen 

 engaged in the Broadwav Railroad bribery scheme. 



14. Knights of Labor declare war against the Gould 

 system. 



16. Strike on Third Avenue Railway, New York 

 city. Mr. Gladstone's Irish land bill proposed in 

 House of Commons. 



18. The Bishop of Madrid is assassinated by a de- 

 posed priest. 



19. Strikes on nearly all the New York city rail- 

 roads. Conflicts with the police. 



20. End of New York street-car strikes except on 

 Third Avenue. 



21. Greece is notified by the European powers that 

 she must disarm. Grand Army of the Republic holds 

 its twentieth annual encampment in New York. 

 Broadway Railroad charter annulled by the State 

 Legislature. 



22. Seven indictments against bribers of the New- 

 York aldermen. Strike ends at Chicago. The Presi- 

 dent recommends the creation of a commission of la- 

 bor to consider and settle, when possible, all conflicts 

 between labor and capital. Mr. Gladstone's Irish 

 land-purchase bill is published. 



23. Church of San Luis, at Madrid, blown up. 



28. Comet discovered in Cassiopeia. 



29. Greece declines to accede to the demand of the 

 powers (April 21). Volcanic eruption in Java. 



May 1. Strike for eight-hour system in the North- 

 west. Partial success of strikers. Great labor dem- 

 onstration in Union Square, New York. 



3. Knights of Labor declare the strikes against the 

 Gould system at an end. Bloody conflict between 

 strikers and police in Chicago. 



4. Anarchist riots in Chicago. Dynamite used by 

 rioters, killing six policemen and wounding sixty-one. 

 Many rioters killed. Burmese insurgents burn a large 

 part of the city of Mandalay. Opening of the Indian 

 and Colonial Exhibition in London. 



5. Anarchist riots in Milwaukee. River and harbor 

 bill, appropriating $15,000,000, passed by the House. 



6. Greece withdraws her ambassador from Turkey. 



