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28. Pittwburg: The trial of Sylvester Critchlow 



for murder, as a leader in the Id-meMead strike, re 

 suited in ne.|iiittal. The Senate committee on the 



PillkiTton s\>tem lit'trail its -.essions. 



i kumksgiviug Day generally celebrated. Yale- 

 Prineeti'ii football goino at New York. Vale wins, 



J to o. 



Sir .Mm Thompson succeeds Sir John C. Ab- 

 bott us Premier. 



jii. \Ve.-t Point, N. Y. : Football match with a 

 t.-.uii from Annapolis, Uie naval cadets win, score 12 



i'ittslmrg: The Carnegie mills' strikers refuse 

 to yield until their organization is recognized. Ire- 

 land : Stubborn fight between political factions at 

 Limerick. 



December 1. New Orleans: Adjournment of the Nic- 

 arii'_ r mi Canal Congress. University of Chicago: Be- 

 quest of 1^50,000 trom Mrs. Joseph Reynolds. Mex- 

 Innuguration of President Diaz. 



8. Baltimore : Meeting of the Prison Reform Asso- 

 ciation ^adjourns Dec. 7), address by ex-President 

 Hayes. Russia : The death sentence passed upon 23 

 cholera rioters. 



4. Washington: Publication of the departmental 

 report. 



5. Washington : Meeting of the Fifty-second Con- 

 gress (see article Congress). The Supreme Court de- 

 cides against the Illinois Central Railroad in the Chi- 

 cago Lake Front case. France : A new Cabinet formed 

 by M. Ribot. 



6. Washington : The President's message read in 

 both houses of Congress. 



7. Washington: The President receives a delega- 

 tion of 200 Hebrew rabbis, representing the conven- 

 tion of that sect. Canada: New Cabinet ministers 

 sworn in. Spain : Resignation of the Cabinet. 



9. New Orleans : Two murders, supposed to be by 

 the Mafia. 



10. New York : Banquet of the Reform Club in 

 honor of Mr. Cleveland and the recent Democratic 

 victory. Fairhaven, Mass., receives a bequest of 

 $100,000 for a library from the heirs of H. H. Rogers. 



11. Chicago receives a bequest of $1,500,000 from 

 Philip D. Armour for an industrial institute. Phil- 

 adelphia : Annual meeting of the American Federa- 

 tion of Labor. Mexico : A band of Garza's revolu- 

 tionist make a successful raid across the border from 



Texas. Fruncu : Extraordinary power* granted to 

 tins 1'anama Canul Investigating < on,: 

 many : It is announced that tin- .';! monetary stand- 

 ard will be maintained. llomeUmd, Pa. : Df- 

 of on alleged plot liy union men to poison nonunion 

 workmen. 



18. Cincinnati: Presbytery reeommend* the nu- 

 iieiisi..n from the ministry of the Rev. Prof. Henry 

 1'. Smith, convicted of heresy. Attempted robber} 

 of a railway truin near. Iluntington, W. Va., life 

 passengers resist and the robbers are driven on, two 

 passengers wounded. 



1 1. An authorized version published of the Roman 

 Catholic Archiepiscopal Convention, indicating a 

 liberal policy as to the public schools. Cincinnati 

 Presbytery pronounces a sentence of suspension for 

 heresy against the Rev. Prof. Henry P. Smith. 



15. Hayti : Attempted assassination of President 

 E&ppolrte. 



16. Paris : Arrest of prominent movers in the Pan- 

 ama Canal scandal, including Charles de Lessepa; 

 seizure of many papers. 



17. Georgia : Adjournment of the Legislature after 

 refusing to accept the Home for Confederates. 



19. Italian immigration societies decide to book no 

 more steerage passengers for America. 



20. Homestead: Two men confess connection with 

 the poisoning conspiracy and are imprisoned. Wyo- 

 ming : Two United States deputy marshals and 8 des- 

 peradoes killed in an encounter. 



27. New York : Corner stone laid of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. 



28. Philadelphia: Second national conference on 

 university extension. Milwaukee, Wis. : A bomb, 

 probably exploded by anarchists, wrecks buildings 

 and causes $500,000 loss. 



29. Johns Hopkins University receives from Eliza- 

 beth Garrett a gift of $306,000. Paris: Explosion of 

 an anarchist bomb. 



30. India: A national congress meets at Allaha- 

 bad, 706 delegates present Buenos Ayres : Police- 

 men and firemen arrested for plotting to burn the 

 city. New York : The Rev. Dr. Briggs acquitted of 

 the charge of heresy. Paris : issue of anarchist mani- 

 festo. 



31. France: Royalists take advantage of the Pana- 

 ma scandal to agitate their claims. Madrid : Serious 

 labor riots. 



F 



FARMERS' CONGRESS. The twelfth an- 

 nual session of the Farmers'. National Congress of 

 the United States met in Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 22, 

 1892, and adjourned on the 24th after a three- 

 days' session. The Hon. G. D. Purse, of Savan- 

 nah, Ga., vice-president of the association, pre- 

 sided in place of the Hon. A. W. Smith, of Kan- 

 sas, president of the body, who was detained by 

 illness. 



The congress was held in the new House of 

 Representatives, which was tastefully decorated 

 with flags and bunting, and the delegations of 

 the various States and Territories were welcomed 

 by Gov. Boyd, Mayor Weir, and the Hon. C. A. 

 Atkinson on the part of the Board of Trade. 

 The Rev. G. W. Crofts read an original ode of 

 welcome, and Mrs. L. Culbertson, of Lincoln, 

 read an original poem. The address of welcome 

 was responded to by the Hon. W. Pope Yeaman, 

 of Missouri ; by the acting president of the Con- 

 gress, the Hon. G. D. Purse, of Georgia ; and by 

 Col. Daniel Needham, of Boston, President of 

 the New England Agricultural Association. 

 The opening exercises were interspersed with 



music by the Lincoln Cornet Band. The Senate 

 Chamber, at the north end of the Capitol, under 

 the direction of ex.-Gov. Purnas, was completely 

 filled with farm and manufactured products of 

 the young State of Nebraska a display of what 

 seemed to be every conceivable product of the 

 soil in that latitude. 



The following subjects were ably presented 

 and vigorously discussed : " Interdependence of 

 Agriculture and Transportation," by W. Pope 

 Yeaman, of Nebraska; '"Best Beet-sugar Indus- 

 try." by Prof. M. A. Lunn, of Nebraska; "Is 

 Farming a Realized Alchemvf " by Mrs. A. .1. 

 Sawyer, of Nebraska; "Highway Transporta- 

 tion," by J. M. Stahl, of Illinois ; Transporta- 

 tion on Common Roads," by W. S. Delano, of 

 Nebraska; "Individuality of American Agri- 

 culture," by Daniel Needham, of Massui-ln. 

 "Practical Relations of Science to Agri* uhuiv." 

 liy M. C. Fernald, President of the State Agri- 

 cultural College, Maine; "Agriculture in Okla- 

 h..ina." by H. C. St. Clair; "The Science of 

 Money," by L. W. Weller, of Iowa. 



The following resolutions with reference to 



