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.EVENTS OF 1893. 



most of the European powers). A resolution passed 

 in the British Parliament providing for the payment 

 of members. 



25. New Orleans, La. : Judge Billings decides that 

 the ordering of a great strike in that city was unlaw- 

 ful. New York : A general strike bpgun among the 

 clothing cutters. Ilayti : A decisive buttle reported 

 between the Government and the insurgents, the lat^ 

 ter being victorious. Koine : King Humbert narrow- 

 ly escapes injury by a religious fanatic. 



26. Oregon : 67 Chinese illegally landed at Port- 

 land. 



28. New York : Dr. Joseph A. Senner appointed 

 Commissioner of Immigration. Indian Territory: 

 Fighting between the hostile factions of the Choctaw 

 nation, 20 men reported killed, France : A German 

 correspondent who has been expelled by order of the 

 Government is mobbed on his way to the station. 



29. Nebraska: Impeachment proceedings begun 

 against 3 State officials for irregularities connected 

 with the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. 



April 3. Washington : The Hon. Thomas 8. Bayard, 

 first ambassador of the United States to Great 

 Britain, takes the oath of office. 



4. Chicago : Carter Harrison elected mayor by a 

 majority of 19,000. Paris : Case opens before the 

 Bering Sea Court of Arbitration. Ireland : A great 

 anti-home-rule demonstration held at Belfast. 



5. The Colombian Government grants an extension 

 of twenty months to the Panama Canal Company. 



6. Utah: Dedication of the great Mormon temple 

 at Salt Lake City. Rhode Island : State election, 

 both Democratic congressmen chosen. 



7. England : Riotous proceedings in Hull by strik- 

 ing dock laborers. 



8. The President issues a proclamation prohibiting 

 the taking of seals in Alaska or the Bering Sea dur- 

 ing the present season. England : Troops ca'led out 

 to restrain the dock laborers. Spain : A band of an- 

 archists captured at Xeres. Riotous proceedings in 

 Trafalgar Square, London. 



9. England : The Hull strikers attack the military 

 escort of crews on their way to the wharves. Nor- 

 way : The viking ship sails from Christiania, bound 

 for Chicago and. the World's Fair. Cuba: The third 

 of the Columbus caravels reaches Havana. 



10. Chicago: Four thousand workers on the Fair 

 buildings go on strike, but a settlement is effected. 

 Hungary : An attempt made to assassinate the Car- 

 dinal Primate of Hungary. Egypt : A raid led by 

 Osman Digna, the dervish, repulsed by the Egyp- 

 tians. Peru : The Government has taken steps to 

 comply with the demands of the United States for 

 reparation for the outrage committed on the consular 

 agency at Molendo. 



11. Sir Julian Pauncefote becomes dean of the 

 diplomatic corps in Washington, since he is senior 

 among the am bassadors. Belgium : Workmen go on 

 strike at Brussels because the Chamber of Deputies 

 votes against universal suffrage. Japan seizes the 

 Pellew Islands. 



12. New York city : The two hundreth anniversary 

 of the introduction ofprinting celebrated by the allied 

 trades. Chicago : The American Railway Union 

 organizes, comprising all railway employees. Bel- 

 gium: Rioting in consequence of the antisuffrage 

 action of the Chamber of Deputies is spreading with 

 dangerous rapidity. Australia : One of the great 

 chartered banks fails, with liabilities estimated at 

 $30,000,000. Arabia : A complete Syrian text of the 

 four gospels, discovered by Mrs. Lewis at Mount 

 Sinai. 



13. Hawaii: The United States flag hauled down 

 by order of United States Commissioner Blount. 

 Rioting continues in Belgium with serious results. 



14. Ohio : The city of Toledo begins a suit for 

 damages against the Standard Oil Company on the 

 ground of conspiracy. Georgia : A negro murderer 

 lynched near Fort James. Servia: Alexander, the 

 young King, establishes his authority by a coup d'etat. 



15. Arrival in New York of the Duke of Veragua 



and his party. Belgium : Encounters between the 

 strikers' and the military. 



16. Belgium: The Mayor of Brussels attacked and 

 beaten by strikers. 



17. Celebration of Emancipation Day by a parade 

 of the colored inhabitants of the District of Columbia, 

 /The United States cruiser Detroit makes a record 

 of more than 18 knots an hour, showing herself the 

 speediest vessel of her class. England : A bill pro- 

 viding for the arbitration of labor disputes passes a 

 first 'reading in the House of Commons. 



18. : Washington : Annual meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences. Belgium : The Chamber of 

 Deputies passes a vote adopting universal suffrage, 

 and the leaders of the revolutionary movement imme- 

 diately advise the abandonment of the general strike ; 

 rioting, however, still continues in the principal 

 cities. England: The Dowager Duchess of Suther- 

 land sentenced to 6 weeks' imprisonment for con- 

 tempt of court. 



19. Arkansas : Twenty-five masked men break 

 into the jail at Morrilton and hang a negro murderer. 



20. Australia: Failure of Joint-Stock Bank; lia- 

 .bilities are $65,000,000. Bulgaria : Marriage of the 

 Princess Maria Louise and Pnnce Ferdinand. Mexi- 

 co : A band of rebels captures three towns, and routs 

 a body of Government troops with considerable loss 

 in killed and wounded. 



21. Ratification of extradition treaty between the 

 United States and Russia. Belgium : Action of the 

 Chamber of Deputies in regard to the suffrage con- 

 firmed by the Senate. 



22. Naval representatives of all powers gather at 

 Hampton Roads preparatory to the review in New 

 York harbor. 



24. The naval squadrons sail from Hampton Roads 

 for New York. Washington : The Duke of Veragua 

 and his party received by the President and enter- 

 tained, at a ball. The Trans-Mississippi Congress 

 meets at Ogden. Chicago : Strike among the Colum- 

 bian guards at the World's Fair : subsequently ad- 

 justed. Norway : The Congress has suspended its 

 sittings in defiance of the King. Ireland : Riots 

 between Orangemen and Catholics in the ship-yards 

 of Belfast. 



25. American and foreign naval vessels arrive in 

 the lower bay of New York. 



26. The naval squadrons steam to their anchorage 

 in the Hudson river. The Ericsson statue unveiled 

 in Battery Park. 



27. The President reviews the naval squadrons in 

 the Hudson river. 



28. Four thousand marines and sailors land from 

 the naval squadron and march down Fifth Avenue 

 and Broadway in New York, where they are reviewed 

 by the Governor and the Mayor. 



29. The Liberty Bell is received at Chicago with 

 suitable honors. Dedication of the Woman's Build- 

 ing at the Chicago Fair grounds. A hostile out- 

 break takes place among the Navahoe Indians, but 

 it is believed to have been effectually checked. 



30. Failure of the National Bank of Australasia, 

 with liabilities of $37,500,000. 



May 1. Chicago: Formal opening of the World's 

 Fair. Ohio : Twenty thousand coal miners go on 

 strike. France : Disorderly proceedings on the part 

 of socialists ; a number of arrests made. Scotland : 

 Ten thousand mill hands go on strike at Dundee. 



2. Nineteen thousand jute workers join the strike 

 at Dundee. 



3. Paris : Mr. Coudert presents the American case 

 before the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration. 



4. Massachusetts : Dean William Lawrence chosen 

 bishop to succeed the late Phillips Brooks. A depu- 

 tation of foreign naval officers leaves New York on a 

 special train to visit the World's Fair. Kentucky : 

 A horse thief hanged by a mob at Sherman. 



6. Minnesota : A suspected criminal captured and 

 hanged by a mob at Duluth. South Carolina : A 

 negro, an escaped convict, lynched near Columbia. 

 Germany : The Army bill rejected by a vote of 210 



