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6. General John B. Gordon, Democrat, chosen Gov- 

 ernor of Georgia : no opposition. 



8. Chicago packing-houses announce a return to the 

 working-day of ten hours. General strike of the em- 

 ploye's ordered. Plot frustrated to assassinate the 

 Emperor of Austria. 



9. Chicago Anarchists sentenced to be hanged. A 

 new Spanish ministry formed. 



11. Wholesale arrests of Chicago Anarchists. 



12. Judge Wallace, of New York, affirmed the le- 

 gality of city tax on national-bank snares. 



15. Mexico appropriates $6,000,000 to drain the 

 valley surrounding the capital. 



16. Protestant Episcopal Church holds its General 

 Convention at Chicago ; it refuses to drop the word 

 " Protestant" from its official title. 



18. Strike at Chicago ends ; pork-packers accept 

 the ten-hour schedule. Arrest of Jacob Sharp and 

 others for complicity in the Broadway Railroad brib- 

 ery case in New York ; bail, $50,000. 



19. George F. Edmunds re-elected United States 

 Senator from Vermont. 



21. The President visits the Agricultural Fair at 

 Eichmond, Va. 

 23. Inman Steamship Line sold for $1,000,000. 



25. Geronimo and 14 Apache warriors remanded to 

 Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla. Brotherhood of 

 Locomotive Engineers meet in New York city. 



26. Robbery of an express-car near St. Louis, Mo. ; 

 $100,000 taken. ^ . 



27. Queen Christina of Spain signs a decree liber- 

 ating the Cuban slaves. Yale College is formally de- 

 clared to be a university by act of its corporation. 

 King Otto of Bavaria officially declared insane. Bar- 

 tholdi's Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, on 

 Bedlow's Island, New York Harbor, is unveiled, with 

 due ceremony, in the presence of a delegation from 

 France, including the artist and a great number of 

 officials. 



November 1. Louis Napoleon, one of the exiled 

 French princes, visits Washington. The British Co- 

 lonial Office forms a new province of the western 

 part of Zululand. 



2. Elections held in California. Colorado, Connecti- 

 cut, Delaware, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, 

 Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennes- 

 see, Texas, and Wisconsin. (For particulars, see spe- 

 cial articles on the different States.) In New York 

 city Abram S. Hewitt, Democrat, was chosen mayor, 

 receiving 90,552 votes ; Henry George, the Labor can- 

 didate, received 68,110 ; and Theodore Eoosevelt, Re- 

 publican, 60,435. 



8. Methodist Missionary Board appropriates $1,- 

 050,000 for missions. 



5. George W. Baxter appointed Governor of Wyo- 

 ming Territory. 



7. Militia called out in Chicago. 



9. Riots in stock-yards in Chicago ; mob dispersed 

 by militia and detective officers. 



10. Waldemar, son of the King of Denmark, elect- 

 ed by acclamation Prince of Bulgaria ; he declines the 

 honor. 



11. Prince and Princess Komatsu of Japan sail for 

 Europe. Government suit against the Bell Telephone 

 Company dismissed. 



13. Strikers at Chicago ordered back to work by 

 Master- Work man Powderly. 



15. Trial begins of Alderman McQuade for bri- 

 bery in connection with the Broadway Railroad 

 franchise. 



18. Colonel John Moore appointed Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral U. S. A. 



19.^ Fullgraff and Duffy, two of the accused al 

 men in the Broadway Railroad case, make full 

 sions in court. 



24. The McQuade jury disagrees ; new trial orde 

 Ex-Gov. Person C. Cheney appointed United Sta 

 Senator from New Hampshire, m place of A. F. P" 

 deceased. 



25. Opening of the German Reichstag. 



December 1. The Spanish Cortes unanimously votes 

 a credit of $45,000,000 to improve the navy. 



3. French ministry resigns. 



4. New French ministry formed, with M. 

 Goblet at its head. 



6. Congress meets. 



9. Bulgaria, Servia, and Roumelia form an offensi 

 and defensive alliance, with a joint army of 400,'" 

 men. 



10. Rev. Dr. McGlynn, of New York, summoned i 

 Rome to answer for his support of Henry George' 

 theories. Coal discovered in Texas. 



13. Engagement between the British forces and 

 Burmese, near Mandalay ; 200 natives killed. 



14. American schooner Highland Light condem 

 for violation of treaty, and sold at auction ; she 

 bought in by the Dominion Government, and turn 

 into a cruiser. 



15. Panic on the New York Stock Exchange. 

 Alderman McQuade found guilty, and sentenced 

 seven years in State Prison and $5,000 fine. 



16. House passes a bill allotting lands in severalt, 

 to Indians. 



18. Morrison tariff bill defeated in Congress. 



22. Lord Randolph Churchill resigns from the B 

 ish Cabinet. 



23. Strike on city railroads, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 28. Hearing begun in the case of the Andover p 



fessors charged with heresy. 



F 



FAIR-TRADE LEAGUE, an organization that 

 sprang into being in England after the depres- 

 sion in trade and the agricultural prostration 

 that began in 1873. It was the result of the 

 efforts of several members of Parliament, who 

 made speeches and wrote pamphlets laying the 

 existing economic disturbance to the account 

 of free trade, and pressing a protectionist re- 

 vival in the form of reciprocity, or retaliatory 

 or countervailing duties. The matter was taken 

 up by the land-owners and tenant-farmers, and 

 the movement eventually took shape in the for- 

 mation of this association. So great was the 

 feeling aroused among the British public that 

 the Conservatives, on their accession to power 

 after the defeat of Mr. Gladstone's government, 



were forced into appointing a royal commis 

 sion to inquire into the causes of trade depi 

 sion. This commission was composed chiefly 

 Conservatives, under the chairmanship of Lord 

 Iddesleigh. Prominent members were the Earl 

 of Dunraven, Sclater-Booth, R. H. Inglis Pal- 

 grave, F. R. S., and Prof. Bonamy Price, and 

 the commission held sittings, examined influ- 

 ential witnesses from the chief centers of com- 

 merce, and received reports and statements 

 from chambers of commerce and boards of 

 trade throughout the United Kingdom and the 

 British colonies. The first report of the com- 

 mission was issued Feb. 7, 1886, and contained 

 the evidence of Messrs. Giffen, of the Board of 

 Trade ; 0. M. Kennedy, head of the Comrner- 



