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EVENTS OP 1894. 



Catholic Bishop Scannel for contempt of court. 

 Korea : A squadron of Russian war ships arrives to 

 protect that nation's interests. 



3. Arkansas : The election results in an estimated 

 majority a little, short of 30,000 for the Democrats. 

 Saratoga, N. Y.: Annual session of the American 

 Social Science Association. Denver, Col. : Meeting 

 of the National Irrigation Convention. 



4. China and Japan : American consuls assume 

 protection of natives of the two countries. Berlin, 

 Prussia: The Emperor unveils the monument to the 

 memory of William I at Koiiigsberg. Africa: Des- 

 perate lighting between an English commercial com- 

 pany and the French, growing out of a boundary 

 dispute. 



5. Members of the unsuccessful Cook arctic expe- 

 dition reach North Sidney on a fishing schooner, 

 their steamer having been abandoned at sea. 



6. Memphis, Tenn. : Grand jury finds three indict- 

 ments against alleged participants in a recent lynch- 

 ing. Rear-Admiral Henry Erben, IT. S. N., retires-, and 

 Commodore Eichard Meade becomes rear adm ral. 

 China: A committee appointed for the impeachment 

 of Li Hung-Chang. 



7. St. Louis: Meeting of the National Retail Liquor 

 Dealers' Association. Turin, Italy : A cafe wrecked by 

 an anarchist bomb. Seven anarchists arrested in Koine 

 for conspiracy to kill the Premier. The Dutch in the 

 East Indies have reconquered a part of their revolted 

 territory on the island of LomboR. England : At the 

 Trades Union Congress it is resolved to petition the 

 Government to prevent the landing of destitute aliens. 



8. China sends a note to the European powers, lay- 

 ing the blame for the war upon Japan. 



9. Idaho: Regular troops are withdrawn from the 

 Cceur d'Alene minin^ region, lately in disorder. 

 China : Admiral Ting is degraded for cowardice and 

 incapacity. Prussia:" Much" dissatisfaction is evinced 

 by the nobility over the Emperor's speech at Konigs- 

 berg. 



10. Mississippi : Proceedings instituted against the 

 Governor and State officials, for the alleged issue of 

 State warrants in the likeness of United States notes. 

 Pittsburg, Pa.: Annual encampment of the Grand 

 Army of the Republic. Harrisburg, Pa. : Fourth 

 biennial meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive 

 Firemen. 



11. Minnesota : The cases against 16 strikers on 

 the Great Northern Railroad, charged with obstruct- 

 ing United States mails, dismissed by the district 

 court. Tennessee : The Hon. J. L. Sno'dgrass chosen 

 Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court. Conclusion 

 of a treaty of alliance between Japan and Korea. 

 Africa : German troops defeat a force of 2,000* natives, 

 with heavy loss. 



12. Ohio : At the convention of Roman Catholic 

 Knights at Dayton a resolution is passed taking 

 ground against the recent official denunciation of 

 liquor dealers. South Africa : Surrender of the chief 

 insurgent leaders to the Boers. 



13. Pittsburg, Pa. : Col. Thomas G. Lawler, of Illi- 

 nois, elected commander in chief of the Grand Army 

 of the Republic. Boston: Convention of Life and 

 Accident Insurance Underwriters. Scotland: Con- 

 clusion of the great miners' strike. 



14. New Orleans, La. : Suit begins for the impeach- 

 ment of Mayor Fitzpatrick, charged with favoritism 

 and incompetency. India : Rioting between Moham- 

 medans and Hindus in Bombay. 



15. Fall River, Mass.: 88,000 mill operators on 

 strike. St. Johns, Newfoundland: Arrival of the 

 Peary arctic auxiliary expedition. 



16. Memphis, Tenn.: Several indictments and im- 

 prisonments have occurred for the lynching of negroes 

 near Careyville. Japan : A fleet of 21 transports 

 sails for Uiinese waters. China: two imperial cen- 

 sors have been set over Viceroy Li-Hung-Chang. 

 Great Japanese victory on Valu river. 



IT. General orders from the War Department make 

 great change:', in the distribution of the regular army, 

 based upon the experiences of the late strikes. Bos- 



ton, Mass. : Celebration of the two hundred and sixty- 

 fourth anniversary of the settlement of the city. 

 Chattanooga, Tenn. : Seventieth annual session of 

 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. New York : 

 Annual meeting of the American Library Association 

 at Lake Placid. 



18. Omaha: .Impeachment of Mayor Bemis, for 

 spending the city's money on Kelly's Industrial Army. 

 Philadelphia : Sixth biennial convention of the Catho- 

 lic Knights of America. Switzerland : A petition bear- 

 ing nearly 30,000 signatures is presented to the Fed- 

 eral consul, demanding repressive measures against 

 anarchists. 



19. Toronto, Canada: A "deep-water-ways" con- 

 vention held in the interest of Canada and the North- 

 western United States. 



20. Boston : A general strike of garment workers 

 ordered. 



24. New York city : Strike of 3,000 shirt-makers 

 for an increase of 50 per cent, in their wages. Sara- 

 toga, N. Y. : Biennial meeting of the Unitarian and 

 other Christian churches. Louisville, Ky. : Grand 

 council of the Young Men's Catholic Institute of the 

 United States. Victoria: Prime-Minister Patterson 

 resigns, in consequence of the late election. Vienna : 

 German Congress of National Sciences opens with 

 2,000 delegates. Montreal : Twenty-second annual 

 meeting of the American Public Health Association. 



25. Washington: The President appoints (Jen. 

 William Ward Duffield superintendent of the Coast 

 Survey, in place of Prof. T. C. Mendenhall. Mon- 

 tana : "Several American Railroad Union leaders sen- 

 tenced to fine and imprisonment for interference with 

 the mails; others similarly sentenced in California 

 and elsewhere. Toronto, Canada : Annual meeting of 

 the Chapter General of the Knights of St. John and 

 Malta. 



26. Japan: A fresh army, 30,000 strong, sails for 

 some point on the Chinese coast. Seizure of a British 

 steamer by the Chinese, suspected contraband of 

 war. Vienna : Seventy members of socialistic so- 

 cieties arrested by the police. 



27. The President issues a proclamation pardoning 

 Mormons guilty of polygamy. London: The Cham- 

 ber of Commerce entertains at dinner the United 

 States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Morton, and 

 Congressmen Straus, of New York, and Wilson, of 

 West Virginia. 



28. New Y'ork : Ratification of the work of the 

 Constitutional Convention by a vote of 95 to 45, 3 

 Republicans voting in the negative with the Demo- 

 crats. Omaha : The impeachment trial of Mayor 

 Bemis results in a verdict of acquittal. China : The 

 Japanese capture Manchuria. Russia: Arrest of KiO 

 Poles at Odessa on account of an alleged revolution- 

 ary plot. 



29. China and the United States ratify the Chinese 

 exclusion treaty. San Francisco : Forty indictments 

 against strikers returned by the Grand Jury. Ad- 

 journment of the New York Constitutional Conven- 

 tion. 



30. The Secretary of War has selected Pensacola, 

 Fla., as one of the four ports to be fortified. Official 

 opening of the Baltic ship canal. Sweden : Elec- 

 tions result in a victory for the Conservative party. 



October 1. Washington: Indictment by the Grand 

 Jury of II. O. Havemeyer and John E. Searles, of the 

 Snirar Trust ; also of Mr. Seymour, the broker, who re- 

 fused to testify in the case. Annapolis, Md. : The 

 fiftieth academic year of the Naval Academy begins 

 with 246 cadets. Boston, Mass. : Opening of tin- 

 World's Food Fair by the Governor. Belgium : A 

 socialist attempt to make an anti military demonstra- 

 tion in Brussels results in a riot. France : Several 

 anarchists arrested in Marseilles. 



2. Council Bluff's, Iowa : Twenty -sixth annual 

 meeting of the Army of the Tennessee. Boston: 

 Forty-first annual meeting of Odd Fellows (colored). 

 Italy: Sixty-eight members of the Malavita Society 

 sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Ant- 

 werp : Close of the World's Fair. 



