EVENTS OF 1883. (APRIL, MAT.) 



15. Affray in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Dy- 

 namite explosion in the Government Buildings in 

 London. Servian Ministry resign ; reconstituted un- 

 der the presidency of Sobolett. Swiss commercial 

 treaty with Spain signed. 



16. Adjournment of the Austrian Keichsrath. Death 

 of Carl Marx. 



17. Arrests of citizens of South Carolina by reve- 

 nue officers. 



20. The repudiation act goes into force in Tennessee. 



21. Sitting Bull located in the Standing Rock Res- 

 ervation. Conviction of three Socialists charged with 

 robbery in Vienna. 



22. Death of Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls. 



23. In Armagh, Ireland, 19 persons found guilty of 

 conspiracy to murder. 



25. Death at Kenosha, Wis., of Postmaster-General 

 T. O. Howe. 



26. Destruction of the village of St. Anton, in Tyrol, 

 by a conflagration. 



27. The Washington Grand Jury finds indictments 

 against Brady and ex-Senator Kellogg. Strike of 

 tobacco operatives in Lynchburg, Va. Death of John 

 Brown, the Queen's gillie. 



28. Count Majlath von Szechely, Hungarian judge, 

 murdered in Ofen. French take possession of Porta 

 Negra and Loango on the Congo ; protest of Portu- 

 guese naval officers. 



29. Terrific storm on the coast of England. Louise 

 Michel gives herself up to the Paris police. 



30. Loss of 53 lives by a railroad accident on the 

 Cincinnati Southern Railroad, near Mason's Station, 

 in Ohio. Arrest of 40 Socialists in Spain. 



81. A band of Nihilists broken up in St. Petersburg. 

 Albanians attacked and killed by Montenegrins. 



April 2. Democratic success in the St. Louis mu- 

 nicipal elections. 



3. The President appoints United States Judge 

 Gresham, of Indiana, Postmaster- General. Illinois 

 Democratic State ticket adopted in Chicago. Arrest 

 of the Socialist deputies, Vollmar and Frohme, at 

 Kiel, Germany, on their return from a Socialist Con- 

 gress in Copenhagen. 



4. Death of Peter Cooper in New York. Success 

 of the Republicans in Rhode Island ; defeat of Sprague. 

 The Ohio Legislature adopts two temperance amend- 

 ments. First public announcement of the triple alli- 

 ance. 



5. Discovery of a dynamite factory in Birming- 

 ham, England, and arrest of several conspirators. 

 Powder factory near Rome explodes, killing 40 per- 

 sons. 



6. Hotel in Greenville, Texas, falls in, killing 13 

 people. 



7. Death of Louis Veuillot. 



9. Bei 

 sins 

 Parliament. 



10. Prairie-fire in Nebraska. Strike of 7,000 dock 

 laborers in Marseilles, France. 



11. Labor-strikes in Reading and Boston. Healy's 

 scheme for local self-government in Ireland rejected 

 by the House of Commons. 



12. The Left in the Danish Folkething propose an 

 address to the King, expressing want of confidence in 

 the Ministry. 



13. Cigar-makers win a strike in Cincinnati. 



_ 14. Queensland Government proclaims the annexa- 

 tion of New Guinea. Swiss Federal Council remove 

 decree expelling Bishop Mermillod. Rescript of the 

 German Emperor on social reform and biennial budg- 

 ets. Arrest of 2,000 persons in Moscow. Tisza's an- 

 swer in the Hungarian Parliament on the subject of 

 the triple alliance. Danish Folkething pass the vote 

 of censure. 



16. Danish Landsthing pass a vote of confidence in 

 the Ministry. 



17. Charges brought against the Government Su- 

 pervising Architect Bill. The Scott liquor law goes 

 into operation in Ohio. House of Commons postpone 



. 



Beginning of the trial of the Phoenix Park assas- 

 in Dublin. Explosives bill enacted by British 



local tax reform until the consideration of the whole 

 subject of local government. 



18. Illinois adopts the license system. Gov. But- 

 ler, of Massachusetts, publishes charges against the 

 administration of the Tewkesbury poor-house. Visit 

 of the Prince of Bulgaria to the Sultan. The King of 

 Denmark accepts the addresses of both Chambers 

 and reproves the Folkething for not passing ministe- 

 rial measures. 



19. Summing up in the Star Route trial. Grants to 

 Lords Wolseley and Alcester voted by British Com- 

 mons. Conviction of 19 Nihilists at St. Petersburg. 



20. Act relating to the reorganization of the Emi- 

 gration Department goes into force. Conflagration in 

 Delhi, India 2 ? 000 buildings burned. 



21. Final decision against the validity of the Iowa 

 prohibition amendment. 



22. Tornado in Mississippi ; 50 dead and 300 in- 

 jured. Executions and arrests in St. Petersburg. 

 Dutch Ministry finally formed by Heems Kerks. 



24. Henry D. McDaniel elected Governor of Georgia. 

 Tornadoes in Louisiana and Texas. Strike of Berlin 

 cab-drivers. French Chamber adopt the measure to 

 convert the rentes from 5 per cent, into 4i per cent, 

 bonds. Proposition to impeach the Ministry thrown 

 out by Norwegian Odelsthmg. 



25. Ship British Commerce wrecked off" Owner's 

 Light-house. Mine-explosion in Besseges, France ; 

 over 100 lives lost. 



26. Organization of the Irish National League of 

 America. 



28. Austrian Chamber of Deputies passes the school 

 act. 



29. Victory of Egyptian troops over followers of the 

 False Prophet. Riot between Arabs and Greeks at 

 Port Said. 



30. Prohibition of American pork in Greece. Nomi- 

 nation of 12 Polish bishops by the Pope. 



May 1. Opening of the Colonial Exhibition in Am- 

 sterdam. Due de Broglie's interpellation on the triple 

 alliance. 



2. Burning of a steamer on. the coast of British Co- 

 lumbia ; 70 lives lost. Conviction of the Phoenix Park 

 murderers Caffry and Delaney. 



3. Trial of twenty-six Socialists in Lemberg. Par- 

 liamentary oaths bill defeated in the House of Com- 

 mons. Bradlaugh tries again to take his seat. Steam- 

 er Grapples, running between Puget Sound and Alas- 

 ka, burned and 70 lives lost. 



5. Bakers' strike in Vienna. Earthquake in Ta- 

 briz, Persia, and loss of many lives. 



6. The town of Koniginhof, in Bohemia, burned. 



7. Navigation on Erie canal opened. The biennial 

 budget rejected in the German Reichstag. 



9. Defeat of the Apaches by Mexican troops. 



10. Oil-tanks at Communipaw, N. J., fired by light- 

 ning. 



12. Opening of the Fishery Exhibition in London, 

 and of the Hygienic Exhibition in Berlin. 



13. Devastating hurricane in Kansas, Missouri, 

 Ohio, and Indiana; town of Oronogo, Mo., demol- 

 ished. 



14. Mahone accused of violating the civil-service 

 law. Execution of Brady in Dublin. The Pope in- 

 terdicts political agitation by the Irish clergy. 



15. Tonquin credit votes by French Assembly. 

 Lock-out of 4,000 shoemakers in Cincinnati. Prince 

 of Montenegro visits Vienna. 



16. Treaty of peace between Chili and Peru. Na- 

 tional association of coal-miners formed in a conven- 

 tion at Pittsburg. French naval vessels bombard 

 ports on the northwest coast of Madagascar. 



17. Denver and Rio Grande railroad completed. 

 Prussian proposals relative to the announcement of 

 ecclesiastical appointments rejected by the Vatican. 

 Swedish Second Chamber pass a bill to change the 

 organic law of the army. 



18. Severe storms in Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, 

 Missouri, and Texas. Execution of Daniel Curly in 

 Dublin. 



