EVENTS OF 1883. ( AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.) 



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States. Destructive flood in Ontario, Canada. The 

 British Government accepts Lesseps's project for a 

 new Suez canal. 



12. Condemnation of Socialists in Posen. 



13. Death of Queen Ranavalo II of Madagascar. 

 News arrives of the death of M'tcsa, Emperor of 

 Uganda. 



1 4. Anniversary of the storming of the Bastile cele- 

 brated in Paris. 



15. Arrest of 15 students in St. Petersburg. 



16. The civil-service law goes into effect. 



17. Mining Exhibition in Denver, Col. Wadding- 

 ton appointed French Embassador to London. 



19. French victory over the Anameso in Tonquin in 

 a sortie from Namdinh. 



20. The Federal Government charges the Ameri- 

 can consuls in England with the duty of inspecting 

 vessels departing for the United States. Death of 

 Kin? Tuduc of Anam. International rifle-match at 

 Wimbledon, in England. 



21. Gladstone abandons the Lesseps arrangement. 

 The American rifle-team beaten by the British at 

 Wimbledon. 



23. The Arctic steamer Proteus crushed in the ice ; 

 the crew rescued. Wharf at North Point, Tivoli, 

 near Baltimore, breaks in and kills 65 people. 



24. Captain Webb drowned in the whirlpool at 

 Niagara. Defeat of Cetewayo. 



25. The Federal Government adopt sanitary pre- 

 cautions against yellow fever and cholera. 



26. Call of the last 3) per cent, bonds. 



27. Railroad collision at Albion, N. Y. Death of 

 Montgomery Blair. 



28. 'The defaulting State Treasurer of Tennessee 

 condemned to twenty years' imprisonment. 



29. The island of Ischia convulsed by an earthquake, 

 destroying the village of Casamicciola and killing 

 thousands. The judiciary reforms approved by the 

 French Senate. Suicide at New York of Senor Barca, 

 Spanish Minister to the United States. 



30. Carey, the approver, murdered by O'Donnell 

 before he disembarked at Cape Colony. End of tho 

 revolution in Ecuador. 



31. Mexico issues $15,000,000 of new bonds in pay- 

 ment to her creditors. 



August 1. Opening of the Southern Exhibition in 

 Louisville. Discovery of a widely ramified Nihilistio 

 conspiracy in Russia. 



2. A. F. Pike elected United States Senator from 

 New Hampshire. Session of the French Chambers 

 ended. Jewish persecutions in Ekaterinoslav, Rus- 

 sia. French Chamber adjourns. 



3. The accused in the Jewish trial at Tisza-Eslar 

 acquitted. 



4. Earthquake in Mexico. 



5. Military insurrectidn in Badajoz, Spain ; de- 

 mands for Zorilla as President and the restoration 

 of the Constitution of 1869 ; outbreaks also at Barce- 

 lona and other places. 



6. Proctor Knott elected Governor of Kentucky. 



7. National convention 01 iron and steel workers 

 in Philadelphia. 



8. American Forestry Convention in St. Paul. Meet- 

 ing of the German and Austrian Emperors at Ischl. 

 Anti-Semitic demonstrations in Hungary. 



9. The dynamite conspirator Featherstone and as- 

 sociates condemned at Liverpool to the penitentiary 

 for life. 



10. Labor riot in Vienna. 



11. Canon Bernard acquitted of the charge of em- 

 bezzlement at Tournay, Belgium. 



12. Fire in Atlanta ; the Kimball House destroyed. 



13. Municipal office-holders in Baltimore indicted. 

 The Pope summons American bishops to Rome. 



14 Railroad laborers' strike at Bethlehem, Pa., 

 ended. 



15. Storm in Switzerland. 



16. Fire in Chicago. Opening of the Electrical Ex- 

 hibition in Vienna. 



17. Petroleum discovered in Colorado. Deportation 



to Siberia of 22 Russian students. Strike of 8,000 

 weavers in Ashton-under-Lyne, England. 



18. Fight between Protestants and Catholics in 

 Scotland. 



19. Death of Judge Jeremiah S. Black. 



^ 21. Cyclone in Minnesota, which destroyed a por- 

 tion of the city of Rochester, and lifted a train from 

 the track, killing 30 persons and wounding 50. 

 22. Northern Pacihc railroad completed. 



24. Death at Frohsdorf of the Comte de Cbambord. 



25. Prorogation of British Parliament. Treaty of 

 Hue, in Anam, signed after the capture of the capital 

 by the French. Scaffold falls in the King of Bava- 

 ria's new palace on the Chiemsee, killing 23 work- 

 men. 



26. Fresh anti-Jewish outbreak in Russia. Steamer 

 Woodburn lost, with 18 of the crew, off Eddystone 

 Lighthouse. 



27. Spanish commercial treaty approved by Ger- 

 man Federal Council. The King of Roumania returns 

 from a visit to Vienna and Berlin. Anti-Magyar 

 demonstration in Croatia. Eruption of the volcano 

 of Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra. 



28. Explosion of the boilers of the steamer River- 

 dale, on the North River, New York. Resignation of 

 the Spanish Ministry. Volcanic eruptions in Java 

 cause a terrific tidal wave and sweeping destruction 

 of human lives in the Straits of Sunda. 



29. Zorilla expelled from France. 



30. Visit of the Czar and Czarina in Copenhagen. 



31. Departure of King Alfonso for Paris. 

 September 1. Defeat of the Black Flags between 



Hanoi and Sontay after a desperate engagement. 



2. Railroad accident at Steglitz, near 'Berlin. Arrest 

 of dynamite conspirators at Glasgow. 



3. Opening of the Boston Exhibition. Miners' 

 strike in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Death at Bougival, 

 in France, of Ivan Turgenieff. 



4. Railroad accident near Gray ville, 111., killing nine 

 militiamen. 



5. Chinese troops arrive in Tonquin. Sanguinary 

 riots in Croatia. 



6. Sulking of the steamer Canima off Newfoundland. 

 Acquittal of Frank James, the Missouri bandit. Labor 

 disturbance in Vienna. 



7. Alfonso, King of Spain, leaves Paris for Vienna. 



8. Corn-crop injured by frost. Opening of the 

 Northern Pacific railroad. Desperate battle before 

 Miraaroane in Hayti ; Government troops defeated. 



9. Demonstration of the Irish National League. 

 11. Architect Hill's official conduct reproved by the 



investigating committee. Chinese excesses against 

 Europeans in Canton. Celebration in Vienna of the 

 200th anniversary of deliverance from the Ottoman 

 yoke. Death in Paris of Henri Conscience. 



13. Luther anniversary in Wittemberg. 



14. The Black Flags beaten by the French in Ton- 

 quin. 



15. Arrival of the Corean embassy in Washington. 



17. Restoration of the Bulgarian Constitution. 



18. Gladstone's meeting with the Czar at Copen- 

 hagen. 



19. Resignation of Treasury Architect Hill. Re- 

 publican Convention of New York State. Massa- 

 chusetts Republicans nominate George D. Robinson 

 for Governor. Ministerial crisis in Servia. . 



20. Railroad war in the West. Autumn manoeuvres 

 of the German army near Merseburg. 



21. Direct telegraphic communications between the 

 United States and Brazil via Central America, opened. 



24. Colored Men's National Convention in Louisr 

 ville. 



25. Butler nominated by the Greenback party of 

 Massachusetts. 



26. The Massachusetts Democrats make General 

 Butler their candidate for Governor. 



27. The Colored Men's Convention issues an ad- 

 dress to the American people. Democratic State 

 ticket adopted at Buffalo. 



28. Unveiling of the German national . monument 



