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EVENTS OF 1891. 



EVENTS OF 1891. The year opened with 

 the Indians of the Northwest in armed revolt, 

 but they all surrendered before the middle of 

 January. The most considerable war of the year 

 was that in Chili, which began on Jan. 7 and 

 ended in August with the complete triumph of 

 the popular party. The Government of the 

 United States was obliged to take a firm stand 

 with Chili because of an attack upon American 

 sailors in Valparaiso. England by force of arms 

 subdued a formidable revolt in her Indian pos- 

 sessions, and was very near hostilities with Por- 

 tugal about certain conflicting claims in Africa. 

 Apart from these the actual and possible wars of 

 Christendom have been immaterial. Diplomatic 

 negotiations of considerable moment have re- 

 sulted in reciprocity treaties of great commercial 

 importance between the United States and many 

 foreign countries, and the threatened difficulties 

 with England regarding the Bering Sea have 

 been happily adjusted. The list that follows 

 embraces only such occurrences as are held to 

 be of somewhat general interest. More detailed 

 accounts will be found under the proper headings, 

 alphabetically arranged, in the body of the book. 



January 1. Baltimore, Md. : Roman Catholic Me- 

 morial Cnurch of Corpus Christ! consecrated by Car- 

 dinal Gibbons. Pittsburg, Pa. : Strike of 500 Hun- 

 garian steel workers, 3,000 men out of work in conse- 

 quence. Africa : Germany takes formal possession of 

 Her new territory. 



2. Washington : A. L. Drummond, of New York, 

 appointed chief of the Treasury Secret Service. 



4. Ireland : The Viceroy issues a declaration re- 

 garding a famine in the western counties. 



5. fight wifh Indians near Pine Ridge agency. 

 Supreme Court : Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, takes 

 the oath as Associate Justice. Scotland : Fight be- 

 tween railway strikers and police at Motherwell. 



6. Scotland. : Continued encounters between strikers 

 and the authorities at Glasgow. 



7. Gen. Miles's forces surround the hostile Indians 

 in Pine Kidge reservation. Secretary Tracy relie\ 7 es 

 Commander Keiter of his ship on account of the Bar- 

 rundia affair. Meeting of International Monetary Con- 

 ference in Washington. Chili : Balmaceda assumes 

 the dictatorship and part of the navy revolts. 



8. Lieut. Casey killed by Indians at Pine Eidge. 



9. Rochester, N. Y. : The great shoe strike de- 

 clared off. 



10. France : The Irish Nationalist leaders hold a 

 conference at Boulogne. France: The new Govern- 

 ment loan promptly taken. 



11. Hostile Indians, 3,000 strong, approach Pine 

 Ridge with a view to surrender. Mahoning Valley, 

 Ohio : Sixteen blast furnaces shut down, 10,000 men 

 out of work : object, to force railroads and coke com- 

 panies to reduce prices. 



12. Canada brings suit before the United States 

 Supreme Court in re seizures of vessels in Bering Sea. 

 San Francisco : St. Mary's Cathedral dedicated. 



13. California: Leland Stanford (Rep.) re-elected 

 United States Senator. 



14. Conference of Indian chiefs with General Miles 

 at Pine Ridge ; they agree to surrender. 



15. Scottish railway strikers try to wreck a train 

 near Greenock. 



17. George Bancroft dies at Washington, aged 91 

 years ; flags on all Government buildings are placed 

 at half-mast until after the funeral. 



19. General Aliles officially announces the Indian 

 outbreak at an end and congratulates his troops. A 

 British squadron ordered to Chili. 



20. Kalakaua, King of Hawaii, dies at San Fran- 

 cisco. Governors are inaugurated in several States. 

 United States Senators elected : Connecticut, Orville 

 H. Platt (re-election); New Hampshire, Dr. J. H. 



Gallinger (Rep.) ; North Carolina, Zebulon B. Vance 

 (re-election). Texas: Fifteen masked men wreck im< I 

 Tob a train near Brownsville. Washington : M< d i n- 

 of the United States Potters' Association. Baltimore : 

 Annual Convention, American Brotherhood of Steam- 

 boat Pilots. French war ships sent to Chili. 



21. Gov. David B. Hill (Dem.), of New York, elect- 

 ed United States Senator. The following-named 

 Senators are re-elected : Henry M. Teller (liep.), of 

 Colorado; Daniel W. Voorhees (Dem.), of Indiana: 

 J. D. Cameron, of Pennsylvania; W. C. Squire, of 

 Washington; James K. Jones (Dem.), of Arkansas; 

 George G. Vest (Dem.), of Missouri. New York: 

 Fortieth annual meeting of the American Society of 

 Civil Engineers. The Hon. John Lothrop succeeds 

 Judge Devins in the Supreme Court of Massachu- 

 setts. 



22. England: Parliament reassembles. Russia: The 

 Tsar expels Hebrews from Moscow. 



23. North Dakota elects the Hon. H. C. Hansbrougii 

 (Rep.) United States Senator. Belgium: Prince 

 Baudouin, the heir-apparent, dies suddenly. Brazil : 

 A new ministry is formed. 



24. Boston : Centennial celebration of the Massa- 

 chusetts Historical Society. 



26. Spain agrees to a reciprocity treaty between the 

 United States and Cuba. A delegation of recently 

 hostile Indian chiefs selected to visit Washington. 

 Chili : The insurgents bombard Coronel. 



27. Wisconsin: Ex-Secretary Vilas (Dem.) chosen 

 United States Senator vice John C. Spooner (Rep.). 



28. Connecticut: The Legislature declares that 

 there was no choice of State officers in the late election 

 save in the case of the Comptroller. Oberlin College : 

 William Gay Ballentine elected president. Kansas : 

 The Legislature elects William A. Peffer (Farmers' 

 Alliance) to be United States Senator vice John J. 

 Ingalls. 



29. Death of William Windom, Secretary of the 

 Treasury. Nevada: Senator J. P. Jones re-elected. 

 Chili : Iquiqui recaptured by the Government forces. 



31. United States steamer Newark accepted by the 

 Navy Department. Portugal : Three regiments of 

 the line revolt at Oporto, mutiny quelled by loyal 

 troops. France: Death of Meissonier, the artist. 

 Caroline Islands: Natives attack the Spanish gar- 

 rison, 90 killed. 



February 1. Alabama : Race riot at Carbon Hill, 

 troops called out, 4 negroes killed. 



2. Washington: The Supreme Court decides that 

 it has jurisdiction in the case of the schooner Say- 

 ward. Spain : A general election results in Conserva- 

 tive victory ; rioting at Barcelona. 



3. Canada : Parliament dissolved on the reciprocity 

 question. 



4. Ohio : Charles F. Thwing installed President of 

 Western Reserve University. Italy : A Cabinet 

 crisis, Gen. Vias summoned by the King to form 

 a new ministry. 



5. The President signs a reciprocity treaty with 

 Brazil. Maine : Keels of two new United States 

 cruisers laid at Bath. New York: Strike of 1,500 

 cloak-makers. 



7. Washington: Conference with Sioux chiefs at 

 the Interior Department. 



9. Connellsville, Pa,: Strike of 10,000 miners. 

 Strike on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad. Italy : 

 New Cabinet sworn in by the King. 



10. Strike of 300 men on the Pittsburg and West- 

 ern Railroad. The courts in St. Louis decide that 

 certain clubs in that city are illegal as regards the 

 liquor law. 



11. Idaho : Judge William H. Claggett chosen 

 United States Senator. Washington : Close of tin; 

 conference with the Sioux delegation. 



12. England : Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien surren- 

 der to the police at Folkestone on their arrival from 

 France. Kearney, N. J. : Strikers' riot at the Clark 

 Thread Works. 



' 13. Washington : Death of Admiral 1 David Dixon 

 Porter. 





