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EVENTS OF 1894. 



31. Industrial armies arc a source of terror to cer- 

 tain Western towns upon which they quarter them- 

 selves. England : Three members of Parliament, 

 heirs to peerages, have framed a bill permitting peers 

 to enter the House of Commons. 



April 1. South Carolina : A large force of State 

 militia is dispatched to the scene of the whisky war 

 in Darlington and Florence. Ohio : A mob of strikers 

 at Hast Liverpool becomes riotous, and several per- 

 sons are injured. Nova Scotia : A popular vote shows 

 a majority* of 401 in favor of prohibition. 



2. Ohio : The Eepublicans carry most of the mu- 

 nicipal elections. Coxey's Army reaches Pittsburg. 

 Chicago : 5,000 plumbers, painters, etc., go on strike. 

 Pennsylvania : 5,000 coke workers strike at Connells- 

 ville. 



3. South Carolina : The Governor assumes control 

 of the police and proclaims martial law in all the 

 cities of the State. England : The House of Com- 

 mons, by a vote of 180 to 170, declares that an inde- 

 pendent" legislature is desirable for Scotland. 



4. Election in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, 

 Kansas, Colorado, Washington, Khode Island, and 

 many Western States show heavy Republican gains. 

 Pennsylvania: 6 men killed and 1 fatally wounded 

 in the riotous coke regions. 



f>. South Carolina : The Governor issues a procla- 

 mation restoring the civil status in Florence and 

 Darlington Counties. Iowa : The Legislature pusses 

 a bill conferring upon women the right to vote for 

 school officers. Massachusetts : The bill granting 

 municipal suffrage to women defeated in the State 

 Senate. Pennsylvania : The Coxey army, 500 strong, 

 reaches Homestead. New Brunswick : Political riots 

 at St. John's. 



6. Iowa : A general conference of the Latter-Day 

 Saints (Mormons) at Des Moines, attended by dele- 

 gates from Australia, England, Wales, Canada, and 

 the United States. England: The Government de- 

 feated in the House of Commons on a private bill, 

 228 to 227. South Africa : The province of Pondo- 

 land annexed to the British possessions. 



8. A St. Louis contractor named Garrett purchases 

 all the remaining World's Fair buildings at Chicago 

 for $75,500. 



10. The President issues a proclamation warning 

 against violation of the Seal-iisheries act. New 

 Jersey : The charter elections result generally in 

 favor of Eepublicans. Oklahoma : An express mes- 

 senger named Harmon defeats an attempted train 

 robbery near Pond Creek, killing 1 robber and 

 wounding others. China : The French missions at 

 Hisiangu" burned and the missionaries abused; the 

 French Government demands redress. 



11. Atlanta, Ga. : Ninth annual Conference of the 

 Unitarian Church. Holland : Defeat of the Govern- 

 ment in general elections. Newfoundland : Resig- 

 nation of the provincial ministry. 



12. Indiana: State convention at Indianapolis of 

 the American Protective Association. New York: 

 Annual meeting of the American Railway Associa- 

 tion, representing 142,000 miles of road. 



13. General strike for higher wages on the Great 

 Northern Railway ordered by the American Rail- 

 way Union. Alabama: The general council of 

 United Mine Workers orders a strike affecting 8,000 

 men. 



14. Washington: The jury in the Pollard-Breck- 

 iiiridgn case, awards $15,000 to the plaintiff. South 

 America: Surrender of the late Brazilian insurgents 

 at various points on the coast. 



15. Coxey's Army reaches Cumberland, Md. New 

 York: The Missionary Society of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church celebrates its seventy-fifth anni- 

 versary. 



16. The strike on the Great _ Northern Railroad 

 spreads to the Northern Pacific. England : The 

 budget as submitted to the House of Commons shows 

 a deficit of 4,500,000, which must be made up by an 

 increased income tax. The House of Lords passes 

 the Bering Sea bill. Italy: The Prime Minister, 



Crispi, asks for extraordinary power to deal with the 

 financial crisis. 



17. Washington : Annual meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences. 



18. Judge Sanborn issues an injunction restraining 

 the strikers on the Great Northern Railroad from in- 

 terfering with the movement of trains. Detroit: A 

 riot of Polish laborers results in the wounding <>t' the 

 sheriff and the killing and wounding of several riot- 

 ers. Germany : Defeat of the Tobacco Taxation bill 

 in the Reichstag. 



19. South Carolina: The Supreme Court declares 

 the State liquor law unconstitutional. Coburg : M ar- 

 riage of Princess Victoria Melita and the Grand Di 

 Ernest Louis of Hesse. 



20. Omaha, Neb. : A mob seizes a train of box 

 and attempts to send away Kelly's Industrial Army, 

 but the army refuses to go. South Carolina : All tlie 

 State dispensaries ordered closed by the Board of 

 Control. Russia : The betrothal announced of Grand 

 Duke Nicolas, heir apparent to the Russian throne, 

 and the Princess Alix of Ilesse. 



21. About 150,000 miners stop work in sympathy 

 with the coke strikers of Pennsylvania. 



23. England : Royal assent to the Bering Sea act 

 announced. Germany : Removal of the edict against 

 Roman Catholic orders except fhe Jesuits. 



24. Ohio : The House of Representatives passes a 

 bill giving the right of suffrage to women in school 

 elections. South Carolina : Liquor saloons promptly 

 opened in place of the State dispensaries. 



25. By sentence of court-martial, Commander Hycr- 

 man and Lieut. Lyman lose rank and pay for one 

 year, on account of the loss of the Kearsarge. Al- 

 bany, N. Y. : Semiannual meeting of the Board of 

 Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bir- 

 mingham, Ala. : Fourth annual reunion of United 

 Confederate Veterans. 



26. Ohio : A bill favoring local option defeated in 

 the Lower House. England: The Home Secretary 

 introduces in the House of Commons a bill for the 

 disestablishment of the Church in Wales and Mn- 

 mouth. 



27. Louisiana: Eight negroes lynched in Marshall 

 Parish for alleged complicity in the assassination of a 

 white man. 



28. Arrival of the Coxey Army at Washington. 

 Ohio : A division of Coxeyites arrested at Mount Ster- 

 ling for holding up a railway train. United States 

 troops ordered to assist the civil authorities in the far 

 West. On the Great Northern Railroad System the 

 Knights of Labor are called out on strike. 



29. Iowa: Kelly's Army, 1,250 strong, at Des 

 Moines. 



30. Strike of 2,000 painters at Chicago. Washing- 

 ton: Adjournment or the Supreme Court until May 

 14. Annual congress of the Sons of the American 

 Revolution. Italy : Anarchists explode bombs in two 

 cities. 



Mayl. End of the Great Northern Railway strike 

 by arbitration. Baltimore: Ninth annual convention 

 of the National League of American Musicians. 

 Washington : Fourth annual meeting of the ' 

 ciation of Military Surgeons of the" United States. 

 Attempted demonstration of Coxey's Army on the 

 steps of the Capitol. The leaders arrested. 



2. The supreme council of the American Protective 

 Association meets at Des Moines, Iowa. Cleveland. 

 Ohio: A mob of Italians and Poles attacks the iron 

 mills, but the riot is subdued by the police. 



4. Further bloodshed in the coke regions of Penn- 

 sylvania; killed and wounded on both sides. Mem-^ 

 phis, Tenn. : Meeting of the general conference of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church South. London: 

 Two Italian anarchists sentenced to long terms ot' 

 imprisonment. 



5. The President publishes regulations for the gov- 

 ernment of vessels employed in YUT sealing- 



_ 6. National Association of the Young Men's Chris- 

 tian Association Secretaries in session at Cedar Rap- 

 ids, Iowa. 



