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EVENTS OF 1883. (JUNE, JULY.) 



19. Destructive flood in Dakota. Entry of the Czar 

 and Czarina into Moscow. 



20. Tumultuous Labor Congress in Paris. 



21. President Arthur appoints Walter Evans, of 

 Louisville, to succeed Gen. Raum as Commissioner 

 of Internal Revenue. 



21. Administrative regulations of the new tariff an- 

 nounced by the Government. The Italian Ministers 



Zose Depretis and resign. Death of Suleiman Pa- 

 in Constantinople. 



22. Nomination of the Marquis of Lansdowne as 

 Lord Lome's successor in the governor-generalship 

 of Canada. Reorganization of Italian Cabinet an- 

 nounced by Depretis. King and Queen of Portugal 

 visit Madrid. Solemn entrance of the Czar into Mos- 

 cow. The Swedish First Chamber rejects the mea- 

 sure to alter the formation and mode of recruiting the 

 army. 



23. Opening of the National Railroad Exhibition 

 in Chicago. "John Jay appointed New York State 

 Civil-Service Commissioner. 



24. Formal opening of East Eiver Bridge between 

 New York and Brooklyn. Miners' riot in Illinois. 

 French belligerent action in Madagascar. 



25. Steamer accident in California. Jewish per- 

 secutions in Rossow, Russia. Changes made in the 

 Italian Cabinet. Prorogation of Dominion Parlia- 

 ment. Swedish Ministry resign in consequence of 

 the vote on the reorganization of the army. Repulse 

 of French troops in Tonquin ; death of Riviere. Re- 

 tirement of the Swedish Ministry. Death of Abd- 

 el-Kader. 



27. Coronation of the Czar in Moscow, in the Krem- 

 lin Cathedral. 



28. Tornadoes in Indiana ; twenty persons killed. 

 Popular vote in a referendum vetoes the law of com- 

 pulsory vaccination in the Swiss Canton of Zurich. 



29. Close of the Star Route trial. Tornado in In- 

 diana, Ohio, and Arkansas. 



30. Panic on the East River Bridge during a block- 

 ade of the foot-path ; twelve persons trampled to death. 

 Mineral exhibition opened by the King at Madrid in 

 presence of the King of Portugal. 



31. Sick-fund bill passed in German Reichstag. 

 June 1. Tariff reformers issue a declaration of 



principles. Prussian negotiations with Rome again 

 broken off. The French bombard two seaports in 

 Madagascar. 



2. Flood in Council Bluffs, la. Hanging of Thomas 

 Caffrey in Dublin. The Italian Chamber resolves to 

 build a national monument to Garibaldi. 



3. Change in the Brazilian Cabinet. Members ol 

 the Black Hand Society condemned in Spain. 



4. Bill prohibiting political assessments passed by 

 Pennsylvania Senate. Assassination conspiracy un- 

 earthed in Tipperary, Ireland. Carey expelled from 

 Ireland. _ Proposal of a second Suez canal. 



5. Suspicious cases of poisoning in Ireland. 



6. Foraker nominated by Ohio Republicans for Gov- 

 ernor. Judge Kinne chosen as Democratic candidate 

 for Governor of Iowa. Thyselius intrusted with the 

 formation of a Ministry in Sweden. 



7. Smking of the steamer Claudius on the British 

 coast. 



8. Preparations for war against France in China. 



9. Timothy Kelly, the last of the Phoenix Park mur- 

 derers, hanged. Execution of Suleiman Daoud in 

 Alexandria. 



10. Return of the Czar to St. Petersburg after the 

 coronation festivities. 



11. Fight of strikers in Troy, N. Y. Bennigs^n, 

 the German party leader, retires from political life. 



12. The German Reichstag closes its session after 

 passing the budget for 1884-'85. The French capture 

 Tamatave in Madagascar. 



13. Acquittal of the Star Route prisoners. Success- 

 ful termination of Gen. Crook's expedition against 

 the Indians. Nutt shoots his father's murderer in 

 Umontown, Pa. Earthquake in the Bukovina. Ad- 

 miral Pierre bombards and occupies Tamatave, in 



Madagascar, and destroys also Toule Point, Moham- 

 bo, and Tenerive. 



14. A Federal Judge in Texas declares the Civil- 

 Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. Dr. Gallagher, 

 the dynamite conspirator, and his accomplices con- 

 demned to imprisonment for life in London. Swed- 

 ish Parliament closes its sessions. 



15. The Prohibitionists of Ohio set up a separate 

 ticket. The high-license bill goes into operation in 

 Illinois. 



16. Failure of the lard firm of McGeoch & Co. in 

 Chicago. Kraszevski, Polish poet, arrested for high 

 treason in Germany. Channel Tunnel reported dan- 

 gerous by Parliamentary Commission. 



18. Theatre panic in Cumberland, England ; 197 

 children trampled to death. 



19. Inundation in Silesia. 



20. Deaths of Archbishop Wood and Gen. Ewing, 

 and of Bishop Colenso of Natal. 



21. Judge Hoadley nominated by the Democrats 

 in Ohio for Governor. The Pope complains to Presi- 

 dent Grevy of the treatment of the clergy in France. 



22. S. L. Phclps appointed by President Arthur 

 Minister to Peru, and Richard Gibbs Minister to Bo- 

 livia. Floods in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Nebras- 

 ka ? and Arkansas. Anti-Jewish demonstration in 

 Saint Gallen, Switzerland. Marine collision off Port- 

 land, England ; 25 lives lost. 



23. Irish citizens protest to the President against 

 pauper immigration ; measures against the "abuse 

 taken by New York. Stormy debate in the Spanish 

 Cortes over a court scandal. 



24. Louise Michel condemned in Paris ,to six years' 

 imprisonment. The cholera breaks out in Egypt at 

 Damietta. 



25. Reduction of the number of internal revenue 

 districts from 126 to 82. Passage of the new ecclesi- 

 astical law in Prussia. Fatal fire in a puppet show at 

 Dervio, in Italy. 



26. Supreme court of Ohio declares the Scott law 

 constitutional. Accident on Northern Pacific Rail- 

 road in Montana, killing 18 Chinamen. Understand- 

 ing arrived at between Russia and the Vatican. 



27. The Republicans of Iowa renominate Governor 

 Sherman, and declare in favor of prohibition and pro- 

 tection. Republicans of Minnesota renominate Gov- 

 ernor Hubbard. Success of the Slavs in elections to 

 the Bohemian and Galician Diets. 



28. Rejection by the British House of Lords of the 

 bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister. 



29. The Kiistrin fortress converted into an ar- 

 senal. 



30. Count de Chambord taken ill. Spread of the 

 cholera epidemic in Egypt; quarantine measures 

 adopted in Europe. 



July 1. The new tariff comes into operation. 



2. Santa Fe celebrates the 333d year of its exist- 

 ence. 



3. Validity of the Downing license law affirmed by 

 the Supreme Court of Missouri. A steamer at Glas- 

 gow careens upon launching, and sinks, with 100 per- 

 sons in her hold. 



4. Anti-Monopolist Convention in Chicago. The 

 Dutch Arctic steamer Varna lost in the Kara sea. 



5. Fatal boiler-explosion at Huntsville, Texas. 

 England promises to use precautions against the send- 

 ing of paupers to the United States. 



6. Resolution in favor of woman suffrage rejected 

 in British Parliament by 130 to 114 majority. 



7. The captive Apaches taken by Gen. Crook or- 

 dered to be placed on the San Carlos Reservation. 



9. Bradlaugh again refused admission to the House 

 of Commons. Capture of Guayaquil by the revolu- 

 tionists in Ecuador, and flight of Veintemilla. 



10. New pension frauds detected and arrest of 

 clerks. Chinamen, smuggled into British Columbia, 

 are expelled. 



11. Resolution adopted by the Pennsylvania Repub- 

 licans in convention, which proposes to distribute the 

 surplus revenues of the Government among the 



