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8. South Carolina: The Supreme Court decides 

 that prohibition is in force. New York : The State 

 Constitutional Convention organizes at^ Albany. 

 Opening of the sixth annual convention of State rail- 

 road commissioners. St. Louis : Annual convention 

 of the General Association of Chiefs of Police. 



9. Boston : Second annual Convention of Work- 

 inir-eirls' Clubs. Philadelphia : Second biennial Con- 

 vention of Women's Clubs. Iowa : Kelly's Army sails 

 from Des Moines on flatboats. Seizure of two Amer- 

 ican steamboats on Lake Erie by Canadian revenue 

 cutter; the passengers arrested for illegal fishing in 

 Canadian waters. Fredericksburg. Va. : Dedication 

 of a monument to the mother of Washington. Al- 

 bany: Meeting of the New York State Constitutional 

 Convention, Joseph 11. Choate president. 



10. New York : Resignation of Richard Croker as 

 leader of Tammany Hall. Washington Territory : 

 Several deputy marshals and citizens shot in a con- 

 flict with Coxeyites. 



11. Chicago : 2,000 Pullman Car Company employ- 

 ees strike for last year's wages. 



12. Kansas : The captured Coxey Army is removed 

 to Leavenworth, where there is a strong garrison of 

 regulars. England : Opening of the annual conven- 

 tion of the Irish National League at Liverpool. 



13. Wyoming : Arrest of a Commonweal army by a 

 United States Marshal at Green river. 



15. Cleveland, Ohio: Nineteenth annual Conven- 

 tion of the Association of Iron and Steel Workers. 

 Philadelphia: Eleventh Annual Meeting of the In- 

 stitute of Electrical Engineers. Texas : The South- 

 ern Baptist Convention meets at Dallas. Germany : 

 The Miner's Congress at Berlin represents nearly 

 the whole mining population of the civilized world. 



16. The United States Bering Sea patrol fleet sails 

 for the sealing grounds. Saratoga, N. Y. : Meeting of 

 the one hundred and sixth General Assembly of the 

 Presbyterian Church. Nashville, Tenn. : Meeting of 

 the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly. 



is. Germany : All the English delegates withdraw 

 from the Miner's International Congress at Berlin. 

 Italy : At the secret consistory in Koine 6 archbish- 

 ops arc created cardinals. 



Hi. Washington: Several hundred employees of the 

 Government printing office dismissed to reduce the 

 force. Saratoga, N. Y. : Formal action taken by the 

 Presbyterian General Assembly toward union 'with 

 the Southern branch of the Church. Cincinnati, 

 Ohio : Considerable detachments of Commonweal 

 armies are suffering from cold and hunger in the 

 neighborhood of the city. 



21. England : Opening for traffic of the Manches- 

 ter Ship Canal. Barcelona, Spain : Execution of six 

 anarchists charged with the attempted assassination 

 of Capt.-Gen. Campos. Paris : Execution of an an- 

 archist. 



22. Washington : Third convention of the Bime- 

 tallic League." France : Resignation of the Cabinet, 

 which had been defeated by a majority of 40 in the 

 Chamber of Deputies. 



23. Corea : News received of the murder of the Chi- 

 nese Governor and 40 officials of the palace. 



24. England : The Queen celebrates her seventy- 

 fifth birthday. Gov. Flower, of New York, vetoes 

 the bill preventing a display of foreign flags on public 

 buildings. Nashville, Tenn. : National Conference 

 of Societies for Charities and Correction. Saratoga, 

 N. Y. : Beginning of the trial of Prof. H. P. Smith 

 for heresy before 'the Presbyterian General Assembly. 

 Pennsylvania : Five strikers killed in an attack on 

 a coke plant. London : Rear-Admiral Erben, Capt. 

 Mahan, and the officers of the United States cruiser 

 Chicago entertained at a great public dinner. 



25. Ohio : More conflicts between striking miners 

 and deputy sheriffs. London : The House of Com- 

 mons, by a large vote, adopts a resolution favoring the 

 principle of paying the expense of political elections 

 out of public funds. 



26. Pennsylvania : The Governor goes to the coke 

 regions to use his personal influence" toward allaying 



the disturbances. Colorado : The Governor orders 

 out the militia to suppress riotous miners at Cripple 

 Creek. New York : Meeting of 400 delegates repre- 

 senting the various orders of railway employees. Sar- 

 atoga : Conviction of Prof. Smith of heresy by a vote 

 of 396 to 301. 



27. Illinois : The Governor orders troops to Mi- 

 nonk, where a mob has taken possession of a railway 

 train. 



_28. New York: First meeting of the National Mu- 

 nicipal League. Saratoga: Eightieth anniversary 

 meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union. 



29. Washington : 300 employees of the War Depart- 

 ment receive notice of dismissal. The triennial Con- 

 gress of American Physicians and Surgeons opens its 

 sessions. Spain: The Chamber of Deputies adopts a 

 bill for the repression of anarchy. Opening of the 

 Anglican Missionary Conference at London. 



30. Unveiling of the Confederate sailors' and sol- 

 diers' monument at Richmond, Va. Pennsylvania : 

 The Governor issues a warning proclamation to the 

 rioters in the coke regions. Ohio : Gov. McKinley 

 orders out the militia to prevent interference with 

 coal trains. Washington : The Commonweal armies 

 hold a public parade in the streets. New Orleans : 

 The United States Court of Appeals decides that the 

 city is not liable for damages in the case of the Ital- 

 ians who were killed in 1891. 



June 1. St. Louis, Mo.: 1,000 carpenters strike for 

 the Union scale of 40 cents an hour. Gen. Kellv and 

 his Industrial Army leave the city, having lost "heav- 

 ily by desertion. Korea: The rebels capture one of 

 the chief provinces. London : Opening of the thir- 

 teenth International Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion Conference. 



'2. Chicago : Dedication of the Field Columbian 

 Museum. The United States war ship Baltimore or- 

 dered to Korea. France : Election of M. Casimir- 

 Perier as President of the republic ; vote, 229 to 187. 

 Berlin : The agrarian conference adjourns, after pass- 

 ing resolutions in favor of special legislation. 



4. Washington: Destitution among the Common- 

 wealers. New York : Session of the International 

 Temperance Congress on Staten Island. Boston : 

 Sixth annual convention of the Boot and Shoe Work- 

 ers' International Union. Berlin : Adjournment of 

 the International Silver Commission without having 

 effected anything important. 



5. Oregon : The Republicans carry the elections. 

 Ohio : Coxey nominated for Congress in the Eight- 

 eenth District. Kentucky : Judge Barr in the United 

 States circuit court decides that "the separate railway- 

 coach law is unconstitutional. Maryland : Militia or- 

 dered out against the striking miners. Colorado: An 

 agreement effected between the Cripple Creek miners 

 and the operators. Idaho : A number of Common- 

 wealers sentenced to imprisonment for train stealing. 

 San Francisco : Fifty -fifth annual Convention of the 

 American Medical Association. 



6. Ohio : The Governor orders 1,200 State troops to 

 the scene of the strikes in the eastern counties. Mont- 

 real, Canada : Annual meeting of the American As- 

 sociation of Mechanical Engineers. Syracuse : Thir- 

 ty-fourth annual session of the Brewers' Association. 

 Belgium: The Chamber of Deputies adopts the bill 

 for revising the Constitution. China: 2,000 troops 

 dispatched to suppress the Korean rebellion. Lon- 

 don : Golden jubilee of the Young Men's Christian 

 Association. 



7. Ohio : Coal trains move under the protection of 

 militia. Illinois : Kelly and his Commonwealers 

 abandon their boats at Cairo and resume their march 

 on Washington. Iowa : Sixth annual Congress of 

 the Scotch-Irish Society in America. Chicago : 

 Triennial General Council of the Episcopal Church. 

 Africa : French troops are sent into tne Congo region. 

 The Sandwich Islands: A Hawaiian vessel _ reaches 

 Neckar island in advance of a British cruiser and 

 hoists the Hawaiian flag. 



9. Iowa: Conclusion of the strike of coal miners. 

 Montana : 19 Commonwealers sentenced to jail for 



