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EVENTS OP 1891. 



Utah : Meeting of the Irrigation Congress at Salt 

 Lake City, 800 delegates present. Mexico : Meeting 

 of Congress. Holland : Opening of Parliament. 



16. New York : State Democratic Convention at 

 Saratoga. Francis Hendricks appointed Collector of 

 Customs at New York. Massachusetts : .Republican 

 Convention at Boston. Montreal : Meeting of the 

 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. France and 

 Italv recognize the Provisional Government of Chili. 



17. Columbus, Ohio : Meeting of the Society of the 

 Army of the Cumberland. The steamship Fuerste 

 Bismark reduces the record from New York to South- 

 ampton by 5 minutes. 



18. Nebraska: State Democratic Convention at 

 Grand Island. 



19. Opening of the St. Clair river tunnel. Hamil- 

 ton, Ohio, celebrates its one hundredth anniver- 

 sary. The Pope receives a deputation of French 

 workmen, and addresses them on the labor question. 

 Suicide of Balrnaceda, the deposed President of Chili. 



21. Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United 

 States agree to enforce the protection of foreigners in 

 China. Saratoga, N. Y. : National Conference of Uni- 

 tarians. St. Louis: Meeting of the Order of Odd 

 Fellows. 



22. "Washington : Meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Inventors and Manufacturers. Meeting of 

 the American Pomological Society. Congress of 

 American Physicians and Surgeons. Troy, N. Y. : 

 National Council of United American Mechanics. 

 Great Britain recognizes the Provisional Government 

 of Chili. Oklahoma : New lands opened to settlers. 



24. The Porte addresses a circular letter to the Eu- 

 ropean powers regarding the Dardanelles incident. 

 China : A fleet dispatched to the scene of late riots. 

 Nebraska: Eepublican State Convention meets at 

 Lincoln. 



26. Tennessee : Determined revolt of convicts at 

 Bryceville. 



27. Bohemia : The Austrian Emperor visits Prague. 

 Missouri: The village of San Antonio plundered by 

 robbers. 



29. England : Five bishops consecrated in St. Paul's 

 Cathedral, London. Steamship Teutonic reaches 

 Queenstown in five days sixteen hours thirty-one 

 minutes from New York. 



30. Savannah, Ga. : General strike of wharf laborers 

 and others; higher pay demanded. Belgium: Gen. 

 Boulangei commits suicide near Brussels. Canada: 

 Parliament prorogued. 



October 1. Raleigh, N. C. : Southern Interstate Ex- 

 position opened. California : A new university, named 

 after Leland Stanfordj Jr., opened at Palo Alto. 

 Pottsville, Pa, ; Dedication of a soldiers' monument. 

 Pittsburg, Pa. : General strike of railroad coal miners. 

 Chicago : Convention of the International League of 

 America. Snow falls in the northern United States 

 and British possessions. 



2. Eome : French pilgrims desecrate Victor Em- 

 manuel's tomb, and are mobbed for the act. Vene- 

 zuela : Congress passes a bill of rights. 



3. Harrisburg, Pa. : Thirty-fourth Annual Conven- 

 tion of the National Local Preachers' Association. 



5. Galesburg, 111. : Meeting of the Brotherhood of 

 Eailway Trainmen; 400 delegates present. Kings- 

 ton, N. Y. : Mob violence threatened against the 

 wreckers of a local savings bank ; the militia called 

 out. 



6. Washington : Meeting of the Society of the 

 Daughters of the Revolution, Mrs. Harrison presiding. 

 Pittsburg, Pa. : Tenth annual convention of the Order 

 of United Friends ; delegates from 19 States. Glen 

 Summit, Pa. : Twentieth annual convention of the 

 American Institute of Mining Engineers. England : 

 Death of Charles Stewttrt Parnell, the Irish leader 

 (see OBITUARIES). \ 



7. Washington : Opening\of the Methodist (Ecu- - 

 inencial Council. Chicago : ^Equestrian statue of Gen. 

 Grant unveiled. Cornell Uni\ersity : Opening of new 

 library buildings given by H&nry W. Sage and ex- 

 President White. 



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8-20. Washington : (Ecumenical Council of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church. 



8. Indianapolis : German Evangelical Congress in 

 session. Ada, Ohio : Joint debate between Major 

 McKinley and Gov. Campbell. Chicago: Meeting 

 of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee ; Gen. T. 

 M. Dodge chosen president. 



9. Indian conference at Lake Mohonk. 



10. Pittsburg, Pa. : Annual Congress of the National 

 Prison Association. Brazil : Eioting at Eio de Ja- 

 niero. 



11. Italy : A party of 6 Austrians attacked by a 

 mob in Pisa ; 1 supposed to be killed. 



12-16. Pittsfield, Mass. : Meeting of the American 

 Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 



12. Washington : The Supreme Court meets for 

 the October term. Montevideo : A revolt quelled by 

 troops ; several insurgents killed. 



14. Massachusetts : Consecration at Boston of Phil- 

 lips Brooks as Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the 

 State. Beading, Pa. : National encampment of the 

 Union Veteran Legion. Evansville, Ind. : First 

 meeting of the National Waterways Commission. 

 Salem, Mass. : End of the Searles-Hopkins will case, 

 involving several millions of dollars. 



15. Buffalo, N. Y. : Annual convention of the Coun- 

 cil of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Boston : 

 Meeting of the Supreme Lodge (colored) Knights of 

 Pythias. 



16. Pittsburg, Pa. : Annual convention of the mis- 

 sionary societies of the Church of the Disciples of 

 Christ. 



17. Chili: Sailors of United States steamer Balti- 

 more attacked in Valparaiso ; 2 killed, 18 hurt. 



18. Washington : Corner-stone laid of the Eoman 

 Catholic Church of the Holy Name; Home and Bible 

 College for Missionaries dedicated. Brooklyn, N. Y. : 

 Beecher Memorial Church dedicated. 



20. Cincinnati : Annual meeting of the United Ty- 

 pothetffi of America. Kansas City : Annual meeting 

 of the American Public Health Association. Alle- 

 gheny, Pa. : Annual convention of the Foreign Chris- 

 tian Missionary Society. Eussian war-ships launched 

 at Cronstadt, commemorating the anniversary of the 

 battle of Navarino. 



21. Atlanta, Ga. : Unveiling of the Grady Monu- 

 ment. Worcester, Mass. : Biennial convention of the 

 Universalist Church. Chili : General election ; Lib- 

 eral victory. 



22. Omaha, Neb. : Transmississippi Congress. 

 Pittsburg, Pa. : Meeting of the Women's Christian 

 Missionary Association. 



23. Sioux Falls, N. Dak. : Indictment of officers of 

 the Louisiana Lottery under United States law. 



24. Washington : Manuel I. Morales presents his , 

 credentials as minister from Salvador. United States 

 cruiser Boston sails from New York, bound for Chili. 



26. Washington: Secretary Elaine resumes his du- 

 ties at Washington ; an explanation demanded from 

 Chili regarding the attack on United States seamen 

 (Oct. 11). Dublin, Ireland : Office of the " National 

 Press" maliciously wrecked by the explosion of a bomb. 



27. New York : The Court of Appeals decides the 

 Tilden will case in favor of the heirs. 



28. Chili replies to the inquiry of the United States 

 regarding the affair at Valparaiso (see Oct. 17). Seiior 

 Pedro Montt is recognized by the President as repre- 

 senting the Provisional Government of Chili. Balti- 

 more : Launch of the United States steam cruiser 

 Detroit. Boston : The Massachusetts Supreme Court 

 sets aside the decree expelling Dr. E. C. S. Smythe 

 from Philips Academy. Annual convention of the 

 American Institute of Architecture. England: In- 

 cipient mutiny among the household troops, London. 



29. Eichmond, Va. : Statue unveiled of Gen. Will- 

 iam Carter Wickham, late Confederate States Army. 

 Bucksport, Ark. : Fight at a political meeting, 5 killed, 

 several hurt. Cork, Ireland : Desperate street fights 

 between opposing political factions. 



30. Bryceville, Tenn. : 300 convicts set free by riot- 

 ous miners. Madagascar: A French officer 'and 8 



