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prisoners were released in India. Municipal election 

 m Philadelphia results in a Republican victory by 

 28,000 plurality. 



16. Bill to increase the naval establishment ($22,- 

 000,000) passed the Senate. Woman^ suffrage in 

 municipal elections, went into effect in Kansas. 



21. Election for German Reichstag resulting as fol- 

 lows': Conservative, 81 ; Imperialist, 39 ; National 

 Liberal, 100; Center, 97; New German Liberal, 34; 

 Polish, 15; Protester, 15; Socialist, 11 ; Guelph, 4. 



22. Election in Canada resulting in the choice of 

 112 Ministerialists, 95 Opposition, 8 doubtful. Sena- 

 tor Ingalls elected (pro tern.) to the presidency of the 

 Senate, vice Sherman resigned. 



23. Retaliation bill regarding the fisheries dispute 

 passed the House (252 to 1). Private pensions bill 

 passed over the President's veto. 



24. Veto of the dependent pensions bill sustained 

 in the House (175 to 125). 



25 and 26. Prolonged engagement between the 

 Italians and Abyssinians near Massowah ; Italians de- 

 feated. 



26. Consular, diplomatic, and agricultural appro- 

 priation bills passed the Senate ($1,'429, 942.14). 



March 1. Fisheries retaliatory bill as proposed in 

 the Senate agreed to by the House ; legislative and 

 deficiency appropriation bills passed the House. 

 Mr. Parnell twice defeated iu the British House of 

 Commons on motions relative to the clbture. 



2. Naval appropriation passed by Senate ($25,- 

 753,165.44). 



3. Opening of the new German Reichstag (see 

 February 21). Legislative appropriation bill passed 

 by the Senate ($20,701,221.67); Mexican pensions 

 bill passed by the Senate (86,000,000.96). 



4. Sunday civil appropriation bill passed by the 

 Senate ($22,862,490) ; end of the Forty-ninth Con- 

 gress ; both Houses adjourned. 



11. The seven years' army bill passed the Reichs- 

 tag (227 to 31). 



12. Schooner yachts Coronet and Dauntless sailed 

 from New York'for an ocean race to Queenstown. 



13. An unsuccessful attempt made to assassinate the 

 Czar of Russia; many arrests. 



19. Bill for the redemption of trade-dollars passed 

 both Houses. 



21. River and harbor appropriation bill passed the 

 Senate. 



22. Interstate Commerce Commission appointed by 

 the President. Ninetieth birthday anniversary of the 

 Emperor of Germany. 



24. Oscar S. Straus, of New York, appointed Min- 

 ister to Austria. 



27. Schooner yacht Coronet reached Queenstown. 



28. Mr. Balfour moved the Irish crimes bill iu the 

 House of Commons. 



31. The President made an allotment of land to the 

 "Warm Spring Indians under the new law ; Charles 

 S. Fairchild appointed Secretary of the Treasury vice 

 Manning, resigned. 



April 1. The Irish Crimes bill passed its first read- 

 ing DV application of dciture(Z\ to 253). 



4. In Michigan a Constitutional amendment pro- 

 hibiting the sale of liquor was defeated by about 5,000 

 majority. 



6. John W. Davis, Democrat, elected Governor of 

 Rhode Island. 



12. The Governor of New York vetoed the Crosby 

 high license bill. 



13. Opening of the Dominion Parliament. 



14. The body of Abraham Lincoln removed to its 

 final resting-place at Springfield, 111. 



16. Gen. Alexander R. Lawton appointed Minister 

 to Austria-IlunLrary. 



18. The Irish' crimes bill passed its second reading 

 in Parliament of Great Britain. 



20. The Queen of Hawaii and suite arrived in San 

 Francisco. 



21. A French official, Schnaebeles by name, was 

 arrested as a spy by German police near Pagny-sur- 



Moselle, and much excitement followed, but a peace- 

 ful solution was at last reached. 



26. Resolutions against the Irish coercion bill were 

 passed in the Canadian Parliament. Monument to 

 John C. Calhoun unveiled at Charleston, S. C. 



27. The ecclesiastical bill passed the Prussian House 

 (243 to 100). 



29. The British House of Commons declined to sub- 

 stitute the word " crime " for " offense " in the coer- 

 cion bill. 



30. Commissary Schnaebeles released by the Ger- 

 mans. 



May 1. Convention announced between England 

 and Turkey looking to the evacuation of Egypt in 

 1890. Turkey cedes to England the island of Cyprus. 



11. James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, appointed 

 Treasurer of the United States vice Conrad N. Jordan, 

 resigned. 



12. Monument to James A. Garfield unveiled in 

 Washington. Annexation of Zululand by Great 

 Britain. French crown-jewels sold. 



17. The French ministry resigned on the rejection 

 of its financial scheme by the Chamber of Deputies. 



19. Samuel Pasco chosen United States Senator 

 from Florida. 



June 14. A bill granting a temporary extension of 

 the franchise on a property qualification passed by the 

 Dutch Parliament. 



21. Jubilee celebration in honor of the fiftieth an- 

 niversary of Victoria's accession to the throne of 

 Great Britain. 



27. British House of Commons passed the Irish 

 crimes bill (349 to 262). The French Chamber of 

 Deputies rejects a measure providing for the election 

 of Senators' by universal vote. Cutter-yacht Genesta 

 won the Jubilee yacht-race around Great Britain. 



29. Jacob Sharp convicted of bribing the Board of 

 Aldermen of New York city. 



30. Bloodless revolution in Hawaii. The King 

 forced to grant concessions demanded by citizens of 

 Honolulu. 



July 1. Yale won the University boat-race. 



3. Meeting of veterans on the battle-field of Gettys- 

 burg. 



4. Equestrian statue of Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside 

 dedicated at Providence, R. I. 



7. Mormon convention at Utah adopted a constitu- 

 tion for a proposed new State, separating Church and 

 State, and forbidding polygamy. Prince Ferdinand, 

 of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, elected Prince of Bulgaria by 

 the Sobranje. British House of Lords abolished pri- 

 mogeniture in cases of intestacy. 



9. Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn excommunicated by 

 Archbishop Corrigan. 



14. Jacob Sharp found guilty of bribing New York 

 Board of Aldermen : sentenced to four years' impris- 

 onment and $5,000 fine. 



19. Queen Victoria assented to the Irish crimes bill. 



23. Review of the British Navy off Spithead in 

 honor of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. 



During the month elections in Hungary resulted in 

 the choice of 224 Liberals, 59 Independents, and 38 

 Moderate Oppositionists ; Otto, King of Bavaria, was 

 officially declared insane; and a bul was passed by 

 the Belgian Chamber of Deputies exempting, with 

 limitations, the pay of clerks and laborers from legal 

 process. 



August 1 . Election in Kentucky ; Gen. S. B. Buck- 

 ner (Democrat) chosen Governor by 17,000 plurality. 



2. An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate 

 the Czar of Russia. 



4. Election in Texas : vote on Prohibitionist consti- 

 tutional amendment, 127,273 for, and 221,627 against. 



5. Land bill passed to a third reading in the British 

 House of Commons. Conviction in Chicago of eleven 

 city officials for receiving bribes. 



9. Fight in Colorado between Ute Indians and State 

 troops ; 4 Indians killed. Celebration at Monmouth, 

 England, of the five hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Henry V. 



