EVENTS OF 1894. 



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ron; Commodore Kirkland to the European squad- 

 ron. The French Chamber of Deputies rejects the 

 proposition for an income tax. An anarchist attempts 

 to burn the French ironclad Carnot at Toulon. Ger- 

 many declares a tariff war against Spain. Korea : A 

 conference of foreign representatives endeavors to 

 effect a settlement between China and Japan. 



13. Debs offers to declare the strike off condition- 

 ally, but the railroad managers refuse to treat. Reg- 

 ulars fire upon the mob at Sacramento. The assassin 

 of Mayor Harrison hanged in Chicago. Ohio: A de- 

 tachment of Kelly's Industrial Army captures a rail- 

 way train. Paris: The police frustrate an anarchist 

 attempt to blow up several public buildings. 



14. Strikers are returning to work in many places. 



15. Strikers wreck a freight train at Indianapolis, 

 but in general trains are running regularly. 



16. Italy : The Senate approves the antianarchist 

 bill. England : International athletic contest Ox- 

 ford wins 5i events; Yale, 3i. 



17. Debs and other leaders sent to jail by the Fed- 

 eral Court. The President signs a bill permitting 

 Utah to hold a constitutional convention and be ad- 

 mitted as a State. Paris : Bitter debate on the anti- 

 anarchist bill in the Chamber of Deputies. 



18. New York: The committee on suffrage in the 

 Constitutional Convention votes against woman suf- 

 frage. 



19. Federal troops withdrawn from Chicago. Efrypt : 

 Encounter between Italian troops and Mahdists, with 

 heavy loss on both sides. Italy : The anarchist who 

 attempted to kill Premier Crispi convicted and sen- 

 tenced to prison. 



20. Retirement of Rear-Admiral Fyffe, U. S. _N. ; 

 Commodore IS tan ton promoted to be rear admiral. 

 Michigan : State troops sent to I ron wood. 



21. The American Railway Union declares the 

 strike off', unconditionally, in California. Paris is 

 placarded with handbills' threatening anarchist ex- 

 plosions by wholesale. Italy : The Senate approves 

 the Government's financial measures. 



22. On authority of Roman Catholic Bishop Wat- 

 terson a letter from the Papal Legate Satolli is pub- 

 lished, approving the suspension of liquor dealers and 

 saloon keepers from ecclesiastical office. 



23. Chicago : Beginning of the strike cases in the 

 Federal court. South Carolina : The Governor issues 

 a proclamation to reopen State liquor dispensaries on 

 Aug. 1. 



24. Washington: Investigation of the frauds of the 

 Carnegie Company in connection with the manufac- 

 ture of armor plate. Ocean Grove, N. J. : Annual 

 convention of the International Order of the King's 

 Daughters and King's Sons. Korea: Native troops 

 attack the Japanese garrison at Seoul. 



25. Republican State conventions in Illinois, Wis- 

 consin, Iowa, and Arkansas. Hostilities break out 

 between the Chinese and Japanese naval forces. 



27. Completion of a new Atlantic cable from Ire- 

 land to Newfoundland. 



28. Paris : The French Chamber of Deputies is 

 prorogued. 



29. The Japanese capture a Chinese war vessel, 

 and sink another, with heavy loss of life. 



30. Provisional recognition of the Hawaiian Repub- 

 lic, subject to the President's approval. 



31. Florida: Meeting of the Democratic State Con- 

 vention. Washington: Meeting of the Labor Com- 

 mission to investigate the strikes. Arrival of the 

 Royal Hawaiian commissioners. Hostilities between 

 Spaniards and Malays. 



August 1. Japan declares war against China. Ocean 

 Grove, N. J. : Annual camp meeting of the National 

 Temperance Society. St. Paul, Minn. : Twenty-fourth 

 annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence 

 Union. Blueflelds, Central America : A British force 

 landed to preserve order. 



2. Nashville, Tenn. : An unsuccessful attempt to 

 rob the grave of Andrew Jackson. Chicago: Con- 

 vention of the American Railway Union opens with 

 53 delegates, mainly from the West. China: The 



Emperor issues a manifesto accepting war with 

 Japan. 



3. South Carolina: Arrest of 12 prominent citizens 

 of Darlington County for participation in the late 

 whisky riot. Recognition by the United States of the 

 new Government of Salvador. 



4. Debs and the American Railway Union urge 

 voters to support the Populist party. Peru : Installa- 

 tion of Gen. Caceres as President. 



5. Chicago : The general strike committee of the 

 American Railway Union decides to call the strike 

 off, except as to certain roads whose employees are 

 determined to settle local grievances. Dispatches 

 from China and Japan report considerable engage- 

 ments between the contending forces on sea and land. 



6. Commodore Erben, U. S. N., promoted to be rear 

 admiral. China and Japan making purchases of war 

 material in England and on the Continent. 



7. Chicago: The Governor dismisses the State troops 

 called out for duty during the strike. 



8. Washington": Industrial Armies rapidly desert- 

 ing their camps in the vicinity. The movement con- 

 sidered practically at an end. 



9. The President formally recognizes the new Re- 

 public of Hawaii. China and Japan are hurrying 

 troops to Korea. 



10. Nebraska : Two companies of State militia or- 

 dered to South Omaha to restrain packing-house 

 strikers. France : At Dijon 3 anarchists are convicted 

 of sympathy with the murderer of President Carnot. 



11. Virginia: An Industrial Army at Roslyn dis- 

 persed by State troops. The Japanese fleet attacks 

 the Wei-'Hai-Wei forts, and, after a few shots, crosses 

 the channel and similarly attacks Port Arthur. The 

 gre.at Chinese arsenal at Han-Yang destroyed by fire. 



13. Washington: Adoption of the amended Wilson 

 Tariff' bill by both Houses of Congress. The relics 

 of the Industrial Army shipped to the West. South 

 Africa : Revolt of Kaffirs in the Transvaal. 



14. The President approves a bill to tax national 

 bank nates and United States Treasury notes. Lon- 

 don : Rejection by the House of Lords of the Evictive 

 Tenants'bill. Arrival in London of large numbers of 

 anarchists from the Continent. 



15. The Tariff' bill sent to the President. New 

 York : Annual session of the National Association of 

 News-dealers, Booksellers, and Stationers. York, 

 Pa. : Twenty-sixth annual convention of the Irish 

 Catholic Beneficial Union. Rome: The police dis- 

 cover an anarchist plot to assassinate the Premier. 

 London : A dynamite bomb explodes in a city post 

 office. Arrival at Tromsoe, Norway, of the Wellman 

 Arctic expedition. 



16. Brooklyn, N. Y. : Forty-third annual meeting 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. Korea: 50,000 Japanese troops ready for 

 service. France: Execution at Lyons of President 

 Carnot's assassin. 



17. A Japanese cruiser sunk by the Chinese. 



19. All Federal troops on strike duty on the Pacific 

 Railroad have been withdrawn. 



20. Davenport, Iowa : Thirteenth annual encamp- 

 ment of the order of Sons of Veterans. 



22. Korea: The King declares himself independent 

 of China, and claims alliance with the Japanese. 



23. Fall River, Mass. : Lockout of 25,000 mill oper- 

 ators. 



24. Blucfields : American and British residents im- 

 prisoned by the Nicaraguans. 



25. England : Parliament prorogued until October. 



26. London : Demonstration in Hyde Park by the 

 National League for Abolition of the House of Lords ; 

 70,000 people said to have participated. 



27. The Tariff' bill becomes a law without the Pres- 

 ident's signature. Washington : Encampment of the 

 Knights of Pythias. Borneo : A Dutch military ex- 

 pedition defeated by natives in the interior. 



28. Adjournment of Congress. Chinese dispatches 

 announce landing of the Ja'panese forces at Pa-Ku. 



September 1. Omaha: Judge Scott, of the United 

 States circuit court, issues an attachment for Roman 



