EVENTS OP 1898. 



9. London : Lord Salisbury in a speech favors 

 American acquisition of the Philippine Islands. 



10. Wilmington, N. C. : Race conflict, 8 negroes 

 killed, 3 whites wounded. Washington : Meeting of 

 the joint high commission of Canada and the United 

 States. Geneva, Switzerland: The assassin of the 

 Empress of Austria sentenced to imprisonment for 

 life, capital punishment having been abolished. 

 Chinemfaga, Nicaragua, chosen as the permanent 

 capital of the United States of Central America. 



11. Africa: Thirteen native chiefs hanged for the 

 murder of English missionaries. Philippine insur- 

 gents capture the island of Negros from the 

 Spaniards. 



12. Quebec: Arrival of the Earl of Minto, the 

 new Governor General of Canada. Princeton defeats 

 Yale at football, 6 to nothing. 



13. St. Paul, Minn. : Convention of the Woman's 

 Christian Temperance Union. 



14. Marlborough, Mass.: Strike of 2,500 shoe- 

 makers against free shops. Cuba : Fight between 

 United States colored troops and Cubans in Santi- 

 ago province, several killed and wounded. 



15. Illinois : The Virdin Coal Company concedes 

 most of the points demanded by striking miners. 

 Crete : Prince George of Greece appointed High 

 Commissioner of the European powers to govern the 

 island. Russia orders the construction of 23 destroy- 

 ers for her navy. Brazil : Inauguration of Senhor 

 Ferraz de Campos Salles as President ; United States 

 steamships Oregon and Iowa participate in the cere- 

 monies. 



16. Italy : Opening of Parliament ; the King's 

 speech favors peace and general disarmament. 



19. Philippine Islands: Encounter between 

 American soldiers and natives, 1 killed, 3 wounded. 

 Harvard defeats Yale at football, score 17 to noth- 

 ing. 



20. Washington : Arrival of Jotura Komura, the 

 new Japanese minister. Pana, 111. : Additional 

 troops sent to maintain order. Russia : Hundreds 

 of students arrested, some of them banished to Si- 

 beria for socialistic conspiracy. 



21. Pennsylvania : Five true bills of indictment 

 found against Senator Quay and his son, Richard R. 

 Quay, and ex-State Treasurer Haywood ; charge, 

 misuse of State funds. Augusta, Ga. : Strike of 

 3,000 cotton-mill operatives against reduction of 

 wages. Savannah, Ga. : Seven hundred tons of pro- 

 visions shipped for starving Cubans by the War 

 Department. Hungary : Disorderly proceedings in 

 the Diet ; the Premier. Baron Banffy, stoned by the 

 mob at Buda-Pesth. Washington : Arrival of Pres- 

 ident Iglesias of Costa Rica: interchange of the 

 usual official courtesies. 



23. Russia : Anarchists attempt to wreck the 

 Czar's train. Korea: Political street fight in Seoul, 

 23 killed. 



24. Thanksgiving Day : The festival celebrated in 

 Manila, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. Augusta, Ga. : 

 Strike spreads among the cotton-mill operators, 

 6,000 stop work. Rome : All European nations 

 represented at the anti-anarchist conference. Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania defeats Cornell at football, 

 12 to 6. 



25. Africa: Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia re- 

 ported to be under arms to take a hand in the par- 

 tition of Africa. 



26. Launch of United States battle ship Wisconsin 

 at San Francisco. Cuba : Gen. Castellanos ap- 

 pointed Spanish Governor General in place of Gen. 

 Blanco, resigned. Germany: Frank Knach, an 

 American, arrested at Berlin on charge of leze 

 majesty. China: United States marines landed to 

 guard the American consulate. 



27. Turkey : The. Sultan for the first time grants 

 permits to travel in Asia Minor. Northern India: 



Fighting resumed between the British and native 

 tribes under the Mad Mullah. 



28. Spain accepts peace terms proposed by Amer- 

 ican commissioners. 



29. France : A bomb containing powder and nails 

 found in the Bourse at Marseilles. 



30. Disruption of the United States of Central 

 America, the three states concerned reassuming 

 their individual sovereignty. Spain : The Govern- 

 ment decides to continue the suspension of consti- 

 tutional rights. 



December 1. New York: George W. Aldrich, 

 State Superintendent of Public Works, suspended at 

 his own request pending investigation of the canal 

 fraud. France : The Senate adopts a motion forbid- 

 ding secret examination of accused persons prior to 

 trial by court-martial. 



2. Great Britain grants financial aid to Barba- 

 does and St. Vincent on account of recent disaster. 

 Austria : Fiftieth anniversary of the Emperor's ac- 

 cession to the throne ; a large number of convicts 

 pardoned in honor of the event. 



3. Havana : The work of cleaning the streets be- 

 gins under American management. 



4. Mexico promotes her representative at Wash- 

 ington to be an ambassador. 



5. Washington : Congress meets at noon. Paris : 

 Anti-Dreyfus riot, firearms used against the police. 



6. Ohio: The State Supreme Court orders the 

 Standard Oil Company to produce its books. Texas : 

 Meeting of the National Farmers' Congress at Fort 

 Worth. Argentine Republic : The Senate approves 

 an extradition treaty with the United States. 



7. St. Louis, Mo. : The street-railroad system sold 

 to a New York syndicate for $8,500,000. Pan* : 

 A Dreyfus fight occurs at the opening of the new 

 Theatre Comique. Sir E. J. Monson, the British 

 ambassador, gives great offense to the French in a 

 speech before the Chamber of Commerce (a con- 

 ciliatory explanation is afterward offered). 



8. Naval-Constructor Hobson ordered to the Asi- 

 atic station for duty in raising the sunken Spanish 

 war ships at Manila. Paris : Henri Lavedan elected 

 a member of the French Academy. China : The 

 new Russian minister declines to recognize the 

 Dowager Empress. 



10. Paris : A treaty of peace signed by the com- 

 missioners of America and Spain. Pennsylvania : 

 A stay of proceedings granted by the State Supreme 

 Court in the Quay case. Cuba : Mr. E. F. Rath- 

 bone, of Ohio, appointed Chief of the United States 

 Postal Service in the island. Hungary : Disorderly 

 scenes in the Diet during a speech of the Premier 

 Baron Banffy. 



11. It is announced that the young Queen of the 

 Netherlands and Prince William of Wied are be- 

 trothed. 



12. Col. William J. Bryan resigns his commission 

 in the volunteer service of the United States. Ha- 

 vana: A street riot occurs between Cubans and 

 Spaniards; several of the participants killed. 



13. England : Sir William Vernon Harcourt re- 

 signs the leadership of the Liberal party. Africa : 

 A party of Belgian traders murdered by natives in 

 the Congo region. Formosa: Six Japanese poli<v- 

 men and an inspector killed by natives. Havana : 

 Arrival of Gen. Fitz. Hugh Lee and staff. Wash- 

 ington : The President and a large party leave the 

 \Vhite House for a tour in the South. Yale Uni- 

 versity : Resignation of President Dwight accepted 

 by the corporation. 



14. London : Release of the Christian Scientists 

 indicted for the death of Harold Frederic. 



16. Washington: Col. William J. Bryan an- 

 nounces his policy regarding the Philippine Islands, 

 favoring rehnquishment after a stable government 

 is erected. 



