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EVENTS OF 1892. 



Nancy Hanks makes a mile in two minutes, five and 

 a quarter seconds. 



October 1. Homestead, Pa. : Nine of the late strikers' 

 advisory committee arrested for high treason. Wis- 

 consin : The Apportionment act declared unconsti- 

 tutional by the Supremo Court. Chicago: The new 

 university opens with 500 students. 



2. Minnesota: Defeat of the Faribault school plan. 

 Woburn, Mass. : Two hundred and fiftieth anniver- 

 sary celebrated. Hungary : Cholera appears at Buda- 

 Pesth. 



3. Tennessee : Gov. Buchanan violently assailed 

 while speaking at Blountsville. 



4. New York city : National convention of Demo- 

 cratic clubs. England : An assembly of Low Church- 

 men attacked at Folkestone, England. Samoa : The 

 United States Government secures a coaling station at 

 Pago Pago. 



5. Cotfey ville, Kan. : Kaid upon banks by outlaws, 

 4 citizens killed, 3 wounded ; of the 6 robbers, 4 were 

 killed, 1 badly wounded, 1 escaped. State election 

 (see GEORGIA). Baltimore : Triennial convention of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church. 



7. Washington : Reception by the President to the 

 delegates of the Colored Odd Fellows. Homestead, 

 Pa. : Nonunion men's boarding house blown up with 

 a dynamite bomb. Africa : The French defeat the 

 King of Dahomey. Spain: Congress of Americanists 

 opened at the Convent of La Rabida. Venezuela: 

 The revolution ends with the triumph of the insur- 

 gents. 



8. New York : Beginning of the Columbian cele- 

 bration with religious services in Hebrew synagogues. 



10. Salt Lake City, Utah : Close of the sixty-second 

 annual conference of the Mormons. 



12. Minneapolis: Triennial meeting of the Congre- 

 gational Church. Lake Mohonk, N. Y. : Tenth an- 

 nual Indian conference. The Columbian anniversary 

 celebrated in many European cities. 



13. New York : The Columbian celebration ends 

 with a banquet at Lenox Lyceum. Homestead, Pa. : 

 State troops withdrawn after ninety-five days' service 

 protecting the Carnegie works against strikers. The 

 Court of Appeals, New York, affirms the constitution- 

 ality of the Apportionment law. France : Riotous 

 strikers at Carneaux ; troops called out. 



14. Twelve Chinamen arrested while concealed on 

 a barge entering United States territory from Canada. 

 The French gam a victory in Dahomey. 



15. The President proclaims 1,800,000 acres in the 

 late Crow reservation, Mont., open to settlement. 



16. Columbian celebrations held in several cities. 



17. Washington : The Supreme Court affirms the 

 constitutionality of the Michigan electoral law. Fight 

 between cowboys and cattle thieves in northern Ida- 

 ho, 9 thieves killed. Africa : The Wahehe tribe at- 

 tacks a German station, killing several settlers. 



18. Indianapolis: National Conference of the So- 

 ciety of Friends. Great Britain : Mutinous demon- 

 strations among the Life Guards at Windsor, and the 

 Thirteenth Hussars in Ireland. 



19. Chicago : Opening dedicatory services of the 

 Columbian Exhibition. New York : The Inman 

 steamer City of Paris arrives from Queenstown in five 

 days, fourteen hours, twenty-four minutes. Wash- 

 ington : Supreme Court sustains Idaho's " Test-oath 

 law "(see article IDAHO). Vermont: Redtield Proctor 

 elected United States Senator vice Edmunds. Turkey : 

 Riots in Crete, 14 soldiers and 4 rioters killed. 



20. Homestead, Pa. : Violence resumed by the late 

 strikers. 



21. Columbus Day : A national holiday, celebrated 

 in every town in the United States. In Chicago the 

 World's Fair buildings were dedicated. 



22. Chicago : Dedication of many State buildings 

 at the World's Fair. 



23. Florida: Encounter between negro outlaws 

 and a sheriff's posse near Titusville, several killed 

 and wounded. 



24. New Brunswick : Provincial election, Liberal 

 administration sustained. 



25. Washington: Death of Mrs. Harrison, the 

 President's wile. 



26. Alliance announced between the Philadelphia 

 and Reading and the Boston and Maine Railroad 

 Companies. 



27. Mexico : The village of Tomocnic annihilated 

 for rebellion against the Government. 



28. Denver : National Convention of the Women's 

 Christian Temperance Union. 



29. Political tight in North Carolina : 5 killed, near- 

 ly a dozen wounded. 



30. Mexico : Twelve brigands attempt to plunder 

 a store in San Juan, but the townspeople rally, kill 3 

 and capture 3. 



31. Turkey : More fighting in Crete between sol- 

 diers and natives. 



November 1. Washington : A convention announced 

 between the United States and Great Britain regard- 

 ing the sale of arms and liquor to Pacific Islanders. 



2. Hamburg : The cholera epidemic officially de- 

 clared at an end. (See article on CHOLERA.) 



3. Spain : Riot at Granada due to the unpopularity 

 of the Queen-regent. France : End of the strike at 

 Carmeaux. Washington : The President appoints 

 Nov. 24 for Thanksgiving. Canada : Acquittal of 

 ex-Premier Mereier, tried for malfeasance in office. 



5. New Orleans : Dangerous strike among the la- 

 boring classes. England : General strike among cot- 

 ton workers. Pittsburg, Pa. : Cols. Hawkins and 

 Streator found not guilty of assaulting Private lams, 

 who suffered military punishment during the Home- 

 stead trouble. 



6. Chicago fails to prevent the erection of a monu- 

 ment to the 4 anarchists executed in 1888. 



7. Italy : A general election results in a victory 

 for the Government. 



8. General election in the United States; Grover 

 Cleveland elected President. Paris : An explosion, 

 supposed to be the work of anarchists, kills 4 men 

 in a police station. Belgium : Riotous demonstration 

 in Brussels favoring universal suffrage. 



10. Brooklyn, N. Y. : Launch of the United States 

 armored cruiser Cincinnati at the Navy Yard. New 

 Orleans-: Formidable labor strike, almost stopping 

 business. 



11. New Orleans : The strikers fail of their pur- 

 pose and return to work. A British steamship with 

 arms for Dahomey seized by the French. 



13. Homestead, Pa. : Strikers resume the offensive. 

 Many shots fired, but no one hurt. 



14. Washington : The President appoints William 

 Potter, of Pennsylvania, minister to Italy; David P. 

 Thompson, of Oregon, minister to Turkey ; and Ed- 

 ward C. Little, of Kansas, consul general at Cairo. 

 Memphis, Tenn. : National Convention of the Farm- 

 ers' Alliance. St. Louis, Mo. : Convention of the 

 Knighta of Labor. 



15. New York : Meeting in council of the Roman 

 Catholic archbishops of the United States. 



16. St. Louis : General Master Workman Powderly 

 delivers his annual address before the Knights of 

 Labor. Washington : Meeting of the National Fra- 

 ternal Congress, representing several societies. Spain : 

 Nine convicts killed while attempting to escape at 

 Tarragona. 



17. Homestead, Pa. : Three hundred of the late 

 strikers resume work at the Carnegie mills. 



19. Beaver Falls, Pa. : The great strike officially 

 declared off, the strikers having failed to gain their 

 point. Springfield, Mass. : Yale-Harvard football 

 game, Yale wins, score 6 to 0. 



21. New York : General meeting of the Salvation 

 Army. France : Amid great excitement the Cham- 

 ber of Deputies decrees an inquiry into the affairs of 

 the Panama Canal. Africa : French troops enter the 

 King of Dahomey's capital. 



22. St. Louis: The Knights of Labor re-elect T. 

 V. Powderly General Master Workman. Belgium : 

 Meeting of the International Monetary Conference at 

 Brussels. Germany : Opening of the Reichstag, the 

 Emperor delivers his speech. 



