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EVENTS OF 1886. 



7. American schooner David J. Adams seized by 

 the authorities of Nova Scotia for alleged infraction 

 of Canadian fishing laws. 



9. The fleets of the European powers blockade the 

 Greek coast. 



10. Trial of ex- Alderman Jaehne begins in New 

 York. 



12. A new Greek Cabinet is formed. Spanish sen- 

 atorial elections result in a ministerialist victory. 



16. Ex- Alderman Jaehne found truilty of bribery. 



17. American schooner Ella M. Doughty seized by 

 Canadian authorities for alleged violation of fishery 

 laws. An heir born for the Spanish throne. 



18. Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, is made a 

 cardinal. Cincinnati musical festival opened. 



19. Pension bill passed. 



21. Fighting between Greeks and Turks. 



22. Marriage of the Crown-prince of Portugal and 

 Princess Marie Ame"lie of Orleans. 



25. Knights of Labor meet in general assembly at 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



26. Cornell University receives $1,500,000 by will 

 from Mrs. Prof. Fiske. Ormonde wins the Derby. 



28. New gold-fields discovered in Australia. 



June 1. Strike of Philadelphia carpenters. French 

 flag hoisted in the New Hebrides. 



2. Marriage of the President of the United States 

 and Frances Folsotn, of Buffalo, N. Y., in the Execu- 

 tive Mansion at Washington. Dundee made an open 

 port for foreign cattle. 



3. Gen. Carceres is inaugurated President of Peru. 

 Yellow-fever epidemic at Colon. Buddenseik sen- 

 tenced to ten years' imprisonment for building in- 

 secure houses. 



4. Chinese indemnity bill passed by the Senate. 

 Rioting in Belfast. Election in Oregon Sylvester 

 Pennoyer (Democrat) chosen Governor, with part of 

 State ticket. Legislature Republican on joint ballot. 



5. Street railroads of New York city stopped by 

 order of the Knights of Labor. 



7. In the House of Commons the Government is 

 defeated on the Home-Rule bill (311 to 341). The 

 House of Representatives modifies the pre-emption 

 timber-culture and desert-land laws, and the home- 

 stead laws. 



8. Nelson W. Aldrich re-elected U. S. Senator 

 from Rhode Island. 



10. More rioting in Belfast; fighting and blood- 

 shed. 



11. The French Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 

 315 to 232 passes the Princes Expulsion bill (le projet 

 de loi sur 1' expulsion des princes). 



13. Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, commits suicide 

 by drowning himself in Starnberg Lake, near the Berg 

 Castle. His attending physician, Dr. Gudden, also 

 drowned, probably in attempting to prevent the 

 King's suicide. 



18. Civil service is confirmed by the United States 

 Senate. Mr. Vance's motion to repeal lost by a vote 

 of 33 to 6. Mr. Frye's bill to encourage the American 

 merchant marine and promote postal and commercial 

 relations with foreign countries passes the Senate. 

 An amendment to the Constitution of the United 

 States, extending the President's term of oifice, passes 

 the Senate by a two-thirds vote in the form of a joint 

 resolution to be submitted to the people ; also extend- 

 ing the session of the Fiftieth Congress to April 30, 

 1889, and substituting April 30 for March 4, for the 

 beginning of presidential and congressional terms. 



20. Funeral of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, at Mu- 

 nich. 



21. Extradition treaty with Japan ratified in the 

 Senate. Resuryey of boundary between the United 

 States and Mexico approved by the Senate. The Ca- 

 nadian Roman Catholic bishops forbid Catholics to 

 join the Knights of Labor. Naval appropriation bill 

 passes the House ($12,930 ? 034). Parsons, one of the 

 indicted Chicago Anarchists, surrenders himself in 

 court. 



22. A new law in regard to imprisonment for debt 

 goes into effect in New York, and many debtors are 

 set free. An association of Socialists discovered in 

 Ottawa. The French Chamber of Deputies passes a 

 bill fixing an extra tax on cereals by a vote of 302 to 

 227 this in opposition to the wishes of the Govern- 

 ment. Prince's expulsion bill passes the French 

 Senate by a vote of 141 to 107. 



23. Decree of banishment issued in France against 

 the hereditary princes Victor and Jerome Napoleon, 

 and the Comte de Paris, all of whom soon departed, 

 going respectively to Brussels, Switzerland, and Eng- 

 land. 



25. British Parliament prorogued, in order to test 

 popular opinion on the Irish Home-Rule question. 

 A proposition looking to a literary convention with 

 England passed by the German Reichstag. 



26. Adjournment of German Reichstag. Its last 

 act was to reject Bismarck's brandy-tax bill. The 

 French Chamber of Deputies rejected, by a vote of 

 242 to 216, a proposition to abolish the use of titles 

 by the nobility. 



28. Prince Luitpold declared Regent of Bavaria hi 

 place of the hereditary King Otto, who is mentally 

 incapable of reigning. 



29. An asteroid of the eleventh magnitude dis- 

 covered by Dr. Peters at Hamilton College. 



30. Canadian Pacific Railway opens for regular 

 traffic. Pensions paid by the United States during 

 the fiscal year ending this day, $63,797,831.61, with 

 365,783 names on the rolls. Cuban autonomy de- 

 clared by the Cortes incompatible with the established 

 Government of Spain ; a majority of 200 was cast 'in 

 favor of this decision. Elections in Holland re- 

 sulted in a Liberal gain, the Chamber now standing 

 47 Liberals and 39 anti-Liberals. Cardinal Gibbons 

 is officially invested with the beretta at Baltimore. 



July 1. Parliamentary elections begun in Great 

 Britain. The President signs the bill restoring to 

 Fitz-John Porter his rank of general in the army. 

 Reunion of war veterans on the battle-field of Gettys- 

 burg. 



2. Harvard- Yale boat-race at New London, Conn. 

 Yale wins. Discovery of oil near Corry, Pa. 



3. Naval appropriation bill passes the Senate re- 

 duced by $46,800. Base- ball, Harvard- Yale match- 

 Yale wins. 



5. Portland, Me., celebrates its centennial. ' 



8. Six boycotters in the Landgraf case convicted 



and sentenced in New York. More than 100 rioters 



wounded at Cardiff, Wales. 



11. Niagara rapids (below the falls) passed by C. 

 D. Graham in a cask constructed for thepurpose. 



12. International chess tournament in London. 



14. Morrison resolution passed by the House. (See 

 July 30.) New extradition treaty signed between 

 United States and Great Britain. 



15. Regatta of the American Steam Yacht Club; 

 Larchmont to New London ; winners in their respect- 

 ive classes, Atlanta, Lagonda, Nereid. 



19. Bi-centennial celebration of the settlement of 

 Albany, N. Y. ; lasts several days. Fortifications 

 bill ($620,000) passed by House. (See July 28.) 



20. Oleomargarine taxed two cents a pound by 

 action of House (Senate concurs July 23). 



21. Mr. Cutting, an American citizen, arrested in 

 Mexico for an act done in the United States. Mon- 

 signor Tascherau installed Cardinal of the Roman 

 Catholic Church at Quebec, Canada. Elections in 

 Great Britain having resulted unfavorably to the Lib- 

 eral party, Mr. Gladstone, the Premier, retires from 

 office, and Lord Salisbury is appointed to succeed 

 him. The elections in Great Britain returned to the 

 House of Commons 316 Conservatives, 78 Union Lib- 

 erals, 191 Gladstone Liberals, 85 Parnellites. 



23. A boy purposely jumps from the East River 

 Bridge in mid-stream, and is not injured height 135 

 feet. 



24. Blenheim collection of paintings sold in London. 



