large reduction of railroad freight and passenger rates, estimated at £ E. 200,000 a year, and the poorer classes everywhere have been benefited by the reduction of 50 per cent. in the price of salt, which forms a state monopoly, the annual loss to the treasury being £ E. 100,000. In Upper and Middle Egypt the land tax has been reduced to the extent of £ E. 240,000. Land brought under cultivation for the first time is not taxed until it yields the first remunerative crop, and then for two years it pays only half the regular rate. In spite of these ameliorations, according to the budget report of the Legislative Council, the sum total of the indebtedness of the fellaheen is steadily increasing, and the land is passing with fatal rapidity out of their hands into those of foreign creditors. There are 13,000,000 feddans mortgaged, and the amount of mortgage indebtedness recorded is £20,000,000, having nearly doubled in ten years. This is attributed to the fact that the land tax, fixed at a period when the prices of produce were high, has not been reduced though prices have greatly declined. The corvée has not been entirely abolished, 86,615 peasants having been forced in 1893, at the time of the Nile flood, to give 6,001,886 days' labor in the aggregate without receiving pay or food. Session of the General Assembly.-The General Assembly was opened by the Khedive on Feb. 6. It recommended the Government to reduce the municipal electoral qualification in Alexandria to a yearly rental of £15, one fifth of the former property qualification, and to place no limit on the number of members from each nationality, instead of allowing only 3 members to one nationality. The session was closed on the second day, no important action being accomplished. Change of Ministry.-On April 14 the Riaz ministry placed its resignation in the hands of the Khedive, who, after consultation with Lord Cromer, accepted it at once. After the frontier incident the Cabinet possessed neither the confidence of the Khedive nor the respect of the public. Nubar Pasha was intrusted with the formation of a new Cabinet, which was constituted on April 15 as follows: Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Nubar Pasha; Minister of War. Mustafa Fehmy Pasha; Minister of Public Works and Instruction, Fakhry Pasha; Minister of Finance, Mazlum Pasha: Minister of Justice, Ibrahim Fuad Pasha; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Boutros Pasha. The sale of a block of land of the Daira Sanieh estate worth £300,000 to a European company almost broke up the new ministry at the start. Nubar threatened to resign because his colleagues insisted on rejecting a higher bid made by a native syndicate. The matter was compromised by giving this land to the Europeans and another block of equal value to the syndicate of Egyptians. The Premier, who in the last reign had been an antagonist of Lord Cromer and the British, pursued a policy of conciliation. His first act was to warn the editor of the "Journal Egyptien," a violent anti-English sheet. This editor, an Italian named Guarneri, was subsequently expelled from Egypt by order of the Italian consul-general. Slavery Trial.-On Aug. 28 Ali Pasha Sherif, President of the Legislative Council, Shawarbi Pasha, a prominent member of the same body, and Hussein Pasha Wacyf, a retired general, were arrested, with 4 slave dealers and 2 brokers, on the charge of dealing in slaves in contravention of Egyptian law. The dealers had smuggled 6 Soudanese negresses into Cairo and sold them to the pashas. Shawarbi admitted that his wife had purchased one of the negresses, and that he had two other slaves in his house. Ali Pasha succeeded in postponing his trial by claiming to be an Italian subject, but his claim of naturalization was disallowed by the Italian Government. The two other pashas were tried by court-martial. Nubar Pasha and the Khedive, who was then absent on a tour in Europe, both protested against the abrupt arrest of Egyptians of high rank. The trial was before Egyptian officers, who acquitted the pashas because they had merely bought, not traded, in slaves. The sellers were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. Sir Horatio Kitchener refused to recognize the acquittal of the two pashas, but took no further proceedings against them. Ali Pasha having resigned his office as President of the Legislative Council and National Assembly, made a confession of the purchase of 3 slaves, and sued for clemency, the proceedings against him were quashed. Project of Nile Reservoirs. - The European engineers, who have performed a great service to Egypt by completing the barrage and cleaning out the canals, are urging the Government to undertake a more important work, viz., the construction of immense reservoirs in Upper Egypt for the storage of the Nile waters on such a scale as not only to increase vastly the area available for cultivation, but to develop enormously the fertility of land already_cultivated, especially in Upper and Middle Egypt, and to secure permanently the whole country against the calamity resulting from a partial failure of the Nile. W. Willcocks, the Inspector-General of Reservoirs, after studying the subject for four years, recommended a dam on the Assouan cataract in preference to one at Kalabsha or Philæ, or one at Silsila, or Cope Whitehouse's project of flooding the natural depression of Wady Rayan, in the province of Fayoum. The proposed reservoir would supply Upper and Middle Egypt as well as Lower Egypt. A technical commission, consisting of Sir Benjamin Baker, Signor Torricelli, and M. Boule examined the ground early in 1894 and approved the Willcocks project, the French member dissenting. The anticipated danger to the sanitary condition of the country, the risk from earthquake, the supposed insuperable engineering obstacles, and the alleged destructive power of a flood in case the dam should break were dismissed as unreal. If the dam should give way in all parts at once the valley would be swept by an inundation for 100 miles south of Esneh, but at Cairo and farther down the rise of water would be no greater than Nile floods that have occurred. Higher dams than now exist are capable of causing greater damage. The dam should be built up from the solid rock, of massive granite blocks laid in hydraulic cement, which would make them as strong and lasting as the natural rock. The proposed height is 22 metres, and the breadth 16 metres. Mr. Willcocks's estimate of cost is £ E. 1,900,000. The state is expected to get a direct annual return of £ E. 850,000. The increased value of land, it is calculated, will be £ E. 46,198,180, the increased annual produce MODEL VILLAGE OF KOOBEH, EGYPT. £ E. 12,612,900, and the increased annual rent £ E. 5,390,000. W. E. Garstin, the Under Secretary of the Department of Public Works, estimates the cost of the dam and reservoir at £ E. 1,695,000 and of works for the utilization of the water at £ E. 3,001,000. The Society for the Preservation of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt, and other groups of archæologists, artists, and historians, protested against the project on the ground that it would ruin the remains of towns, cemeteries, and temples of Debod, Tafeh. Dakkeh, and other interesting places in Nubia, and especially the temples of Philæ, which would be submerged during several months of the year. M. Boule objected to the project chiefly on account of the ruins on the island of Philæ, and his English colleague suggested that the temples could be raised bodily on their present site at a cost of £ E. 150,000. The land companies that caused Nubar Pasha's perplexity and other speculators have bought many thousands of acres in anticipation of their being made valuable by the new scheme of irrigation. M. Boule and others considered that the welfare of the people would be better promoted, and the ancient monuments preserved at the same time, by the gradual construction of a series of lower dams to increase the water supply in proportion to the expansion of agricultural requirements. The Egyptian Government in the summer of 1894 decided to adopt the larger scheme, and to begin the work as soon as a detailed plan can be made. A Model Village.-The Khedive has recently given considerable attention to the subject of village reform, and has caused the remodeling of the village of Koobeh, near one of his residences, a short distance northeast of Cairo. The illustration shows some of the old houses in the foreground and a street of the new ones above and beyond. Each door is the entrance to a small square yard and a two-roomed house, with complete arrangements for cooking and washing. The buildings are of sun-dried bricks, and are said to be neat and comfortable. There is a fire department with modern appliances, and water works with pumping machinery to lift the water from the canals. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. This body has, for 1894, according to the report of the statistical secretary, 1,227 preachers, 2,112 churches, and 142,353 members, with 1,800 Sunday schools, having 163,000 pupils, and 898 young people's alliances, organized into 15 conference branches, and returning, after an existence of three years, 21,620 members. The year's contributions for home and foreign missions were nearly $150,000. A decision given by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Oct. 1, in the case known as the Reading church case, was regarded as settling the status of all the churches of the Evangelical Association in that State. The case was a suit by the majority party for the possession of Immanuel Church, in Reading, Pa., the large majority of the members of which being attached to the minority was held by that party. It had been before the court for several years. A preliminary opinion had been given, in view of the merits in favor of the minority party in possession by Master-in-Chancery Richards, and this opinion had been confirmed by a local court. The present decision of the Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the master in chancery, and gave the church to the majority party. As the points involved are identical in application to all the churches of the denomination in Pennsylvania, the decision may be made good for all of them. The court summarized its conclusions as to the general points in question as follows: 1. The General Conference that met at Indianapolis in 1891 was the regular successor of that of 1887, and was the General Conference of the Evangelical Association of North America. 2. The alleged General Conference that met in Philadelphia in 1891 was an unauthorized body, and its assumption of ecclesiastical authority was an act of rebellion against the organization with which its members had been connected, and whose name was adopted. 3. Those annual conferences, congregations, and individual church members that adhere to the General Conference constitute the Evangelical Association. 4. Those annual conferences, congregations, and individual church members that adhere to the Philadelphia body are not within the Evangelical Association, but have become by their own acts an independent and hostile association. 5. The property which prior to 1891 belonged to the Evangelical Association now belongs to and must be controlled by those who still constitute that organization. The court further held that the question at issue was not, Where is the majority of Immanuel Church of the East Pennsylvania Conference? but. Which of the parties to this litigation adheres to the General Conference. Ecclesiastical standing, and not numbers, determines the title to and the right of control over property held for the use of the Evangelical Association. Immediately on the publication of this decision, a general convention of the East Pennsylvania (minority) Conference, within the bounds of which the Reading church is situated, was called to meet at Reading, Oct. 10, to be composed of all the ministers of the conference and one layman from each pastoral charge. At this convention resolutions were passed adhering to the acts of the Philadelphia General Conference and recognizing the officers chosen by it, and declaring that the time had come for the conference to accept the dissolution that had been forced upon it by the majority party and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and to declare all connection with the Evangelical Association dissolved. The name United Evangelical Church" was adopted, to serve until a general conference to be called for all the minority conferences should decide finally upon a name; and a call was made for a General Conference to meet at Naperville, Ill., on the last Thursday in November, 1894. The Central Pennsylvania Conference met in extra session at Lewisburg, Pa., Oct. 16, and took similar action. 66 [For the proceedings of the General Conference thus called, see the article UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH.] ceeded the Louisiana Lottery. Sicily: Encounter between the rioters and the troops, 40 killed. Africa: Encounter between English and French troops in Sierra Leone, the French having mistaken the Englishmen for natives. 6. Santo Domingo: Official notice that the insurrection is ended, and that the shooting of American sailors was a mistake. Buffalo: Arrest of a United States pension attorney and his office staff, charged with frauds said to aggregate about $1,000.000. all gambling houses in the city closed. France: 7. Chicago: By order of the newly elected mayor, General election of Senators. 8. Hawaii News arrives that the United States minister has formally demanded the restoration of the Queen. 9. New Jersey: Separate State Senates organized by Democrats and Republicans at Trenton; the Governor recognizes the Democratic Senate. Germany: Troops called out in Berlin to disperse a riotous mob of the unemployed. Italy: Ruvo, one of the ancient cities, in the possession of the mob. 10. New Jersey: Republican Senators force an entrance into the Senate chamber. France: Conviction and sentence to death of the anarchist who threw a bomb in the French Chamber of Deputies on Dec. 9. Italy: Troops fire upon a mob at Corapo, 7 killed, many hurt. 11. Washington: Meeting of the Republican National Committee, Joseph H. Manly chosen chairman of the executive committee. Florida: A prize fight announced between Corbett and Mitchell; the Governor prohibits it. 12. Ohio: A colored man lynched for murder at West Union, not far from Cincinnati. England: Adjournment of the House of Commons after passing the Parish Councils bill. 13. Africa: British troops defeat a force of 4,000 natives in Sierra Leone. 14. Brazil: Engagement between the insurgent and Government forces in Rio harbor; no decisive result. Sicily: Fatal conflict between troops and working men. 15. Washington: Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle announces his intention to issue bonds under the Act of 1875. 16. New Jersey: The rival senatorial bodies appoint conference committees. New York: Meeting of the State Bar Association at Albany. Italy: Fighting between troops and anarchists at Carrara, 10 killed, many hurt. Prussia: Opening of the Diet by the Emperor. Austria: The Government decides to build and operate the Vienna City Railway. 17. Washington: The Secretary of the Treasury offers a $50,000,000 loan for public subscription, according to his announced intention. A brother of exPresident Harrison, nominated for a surveyorship of customs at Kansas City, is rejected by the Senate. Kansas: Mrs. Anna Austen elected Mayor of Pleas EVENTS OF 1894. As recorded in the following pages the story of the year seems made up largely of trifles. Strikes, riots, and crimes that are well-nigh forgotten, meetings of societies of which one never heard before-all these seem trivial when compared with the great events of history and yet probably the most insignificant item in these paragraphs is a marked event for several thousand persons. Such conspicuous occurrences as the Oriental and Brazilian wars, the great strike of the summer months, and the Armenian atrocities, must be sought under their respective headings in the body of the "Annual." So, too, with DISASTERS, which will be found recorded under that head; so also with the more important of the athletic contests and the interesting series of yacht races between the anton. Britannia" and the "Vigilant," which in their day occupied a large share of the attention of the English-speaking world. While, from the nature of the sources of information, such a summary as this can neither be absolutely complete nor infallibly accurate, it presents upon the whole a very suggestive record of the world's daily life. January 1. Chili: The Government declines an extention of time for the United States Claims Commission. England: Formal opening of the Manchester Ship Canal. 2. Homestead, Pa.: The Carnegie Steel Works reopen, employing 2,500 men. Scotland: A conference of the Scottish Labor party adopts a resolution favoring woman suffrage. 3, 4. Sicily: Serious antitax disturbances; 40,000 Italian troops called out; a general state of siege declared in consequence. 5. New Orleans: The Antilottery League vigorously engaged in opposing the schemes that have sucVOL. XXXIV.-17 A New York city: Annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Italy: A state of siege proclaimed at Carrara. 18. Official trial of United States cruiser Olympia; she attains a speed of 21-69 knots, earning a premium of $300,000. New York city: Annual meeting of the American Protective Tariff League, Cornelius N. Bliss re-elected president. Germany: Rioting in Berlin, and encounters between the police and the mob. Spain: Destitute workingmen and anarchists commit depredations in various provinces. 19. Chicago: Annual convention of the National Farmers' Alliance. Officers of the Knights of Labor begin proceedings to enjoin the Secretary of the Treasury from issuing bonds. Africa: Another defeat of natives by the British in Sierra Leone. 21. Florida: Troops ordered to Jacksonville by the Governor, to prevent the Mitchell-Corbett prize fight. Brazil: The insurgent forces receive large accessions from the South. 22. Italy: Arrest of 300 anarchists in the Carrara district; general disarmament of workingmen and peasants. Germany: Large meetings of the unemployed in Berlin. 23. New Jersey: The Republican Senate rejects the Governor's proposition to settle the controversy. Washington: Twenty-fourth annual convention of the National Board of Trade. Chicago: Convention of the National Brick Manufacturers' Association. 24. Tennessee: Escape of 50 convicts from the prison at Cold Creek; several were shot by the guards. Ohio: Strike of 10,000 miners. 25. Florida: The prize fight takes place at Jacksonville without interference, Corbett winning; both men arrested after the fight. Africa: French troops occupy Timbuctoo, in the western Soudan. 26. Capture of a large counterfeiting outfit by United States detectives in New York city. Germany: Prince Bismarck visits Berlin after a long absence, and is received with great enthusiasm both by the Emperor and the populace. Egypt: The Khe dive agrees to apologize for having criticised the military appearance of British soldiers. France: The Government pays to the Italian ambassador 80,000 franes indemnity for the recent massacre of Italian workingmen. 27. Pennsylvania: A mob of striking miners, all foreigners, destroy property at Brantville and elsewhere. California: Formal opening of the Midwinter Fair at San Francisco. France: Fifty socialist deputies cheer for the Commune, and are forcibly ejected from the House. 29. Italy: Burglars break into the American legation at Rome and attempt to set fire to the premises. 30. Washington: Judge Cox denies the application of the Knights of Labor for an injunction restraining the new issue of bonds. Pennsylvania: 20 riotous coal miners held for trial at Mansfield. Brazil: American merchant vessels fired upon by insurgent war ships in the harbor of Rio; Admiral Benton returns the fire and compels the insurgent admiral to ask for quarter. Canada: Opening of the winter carnival at Quebec. February 1. Washington: Bids for the new bond issue aggregate more than $58,000,000. 2. Vermont: Consecration of the Rev. Dr. C. A. Hall as bishop, at Bennington. England: The Parnellites issue a manifesto declaring that the rule of the Liberal Government in Ireland is a failure. 3. Brazil: Seizure of an English tugboat loaded with dynamite in the harbor of Rio. 5. Washington: Adjournment for one month of the Supreme Court. France: Execution of the anarchist bomb thrower in Paris. 6. Egypt: The Khedive opens the session of the General Assembly. Canada: A large majority votes for prohibition in Ontario. 7. France: Opening of an International Sanitary Conference in Paris. 8. Washington: The President signs a bill repealing the laws for Federal control of Federal elections. 9. Brazil: Discovery of a plot to assassinate President Peixoto; the conspirators summarily arrested, tried, and shot. 10. Washington: Representatives of Brazil and the Argentine Republic submit the case of the international boundary dispute to President Cleveland, who will act as arbitrator. Ohio: The striking coal miners, in convention at Columbus, agree by a large vote to accept a compromise. Germany: The RussoGerman commercial treaty signed at Berlin. Africa: News received in London of the death of King Lobengula, who has made such a protracted fight against the English. 11. South America: War has broken out between Peru and Ecuador. 12. Pennsylvania: The trial begun of 58 foreigners charged with rioting in the Mansfield valley. England: Mr. Gladstone announces his intention of appealing to the country; the House of Commons resumes its sessions. France: A young anarchist throws a bomb in a Parisian café, the explosion injuring 20 persons. 13. San Francisco: Meeting of the Trans Mississippi Congress. Boston: Annual convention of the National Association of Master Builders. 14. England: The National Liberal Federation at Portsmouth adopts strong resolutions condemning the House of Lords. Poland: A widespread conspiracy to establish the freedom of Poland discovered by the police in Warsaw. 15. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Conviction of John Y. MeKane for violation of the election laws. England: A foreigner, a presumed anarchist, killed at Greenwich by a bomb with which it is supposed he intended to destroy the observatory. France: Dr. Herz sentenced to pay a fine of 600,000 francs in consequence of his Panama speculations. 16. California: Southern Pacific express train robbed, 2 trainmen killed, 2 others hurt. New York city: Many large silk factories closed on account of the strike. Pittsburg, Pa.: Thirty-two of the Mansfield rioters found guilty. 18. Ohio: All the mines in the Massillon district closed by a strike. Germany: A convention of farmers at Berlin denounces Caprivi's tariff policy. England: A large meeting in Trafalgar Square adopts a resolution for the abolition of the House of Lords; 3 members of Parliament spoke. 19. Brooklyn: John Y. McKane sentenced to six years' imprisonment. Germany: Chancellor von Caprivi announces the conclusion of a boundary agreement with France; the Emperor William visits Prince Bismarck. 20. Boston: A riotous assemblage of unemployed workmen dispersed by the police. Pennsylvania: The Hon. Galusha A. Grow elected congressman at large by 188,000 plurality. California: Chris Evans, a notorious bandit, sentenced to life imprisonment. England: Mr. Gladstone makes a speech in the House of Commons, abandoning the Employers' Liability bill. 21. New York: Arrest of Erastus Wiman, a wellknown business man, on charge of forgery. Cornell University: An interclass feud between sophomores and freshmen results in the death of one hired attendant and the serious illness of several students. New York: Annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. 22. Washington: Congress of the Association of the Daughters of the Anierican Revolution. 23. St. Louis, Mo.: The National Executive Committee of the Populists adopts resolutions favoring an income tax. 24. Michigan: Several State officials indicted for felony and misdemeanor. Nicaragua: The capital of Honduras surrendered. 26. A naval court of inquiry convenes at Brooklyn Navy Yard to investigate the loss of the Kearsarge. Pittsburg, Pa.: Four Roman Catholic sisters assume their duties as teachers in the public schools. 27. Ex-President Harrison makes numerous addresses on his way to California. Washington: Annual convention of the National Electric Light Association. Nebraska: The chief of police orders the closing of all gambling houses at Omaha. 28. Washington: Judge Cox declines to issue an order restraining the pension commissioner from reducing the pension of Judge Long. Iowa: The Senate rejects the woman suffrage amendment by a vote of 26 to 20. Baltimore: Conviction of the author of a threatening postal card; sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. London: The Lords refuse to accept the Commons' rejection of Lord Salisbury's amendment to the Parish Council's bill. March 1. Nebraska City: A fine of $200 and costs imposed for the hanging in effigy of a Government official. London: Mr. Gladstone delivers a speech that is regarded as distinctly hostile to the House of Lords. Brazil: Señors Moraes and Pereira elected President and Vice-President of the republic. 2. Ohio: 6,000 miners out of work in Jackson County. Paterson, N. J.: General strike among the silk weavers. England: Mr. Gladstone gives notice of his retirement, and declines a peerage; he recommends Lord Rosebery as his political successor. Nicaragua: Landing of a British force at Bluefields to support the independence of the reigning chief. Rome: The Pope celebrates his 84th birthday. 3. It is announced that in January the President assessed heavy damages against the Carnegie Steel Company for failure to furnish armor plates of sufficient excellence. West Virginia: Striking miners burn the railroad bridge and commit other lawless acts. England: The Queen accepts Mr. Gladstone's resignation, and Lord Rosebery is installed as Premier. Italy: The Chamber of Deputies, after a long and stormy session concerning the revolt in Sicily, votes confidence in the Government by 342 to 45. 4. The Attorney-General gives an opinion to the effect that the Commissioner of Pensions can not, under any circumstances, suspend a pension without thirty days' notice. New York: Annual Convention of the Independent Order B'nai Brith opens its sessions. 5. Washington: Reopening of the United States Supreme Court. 6. Toledo, Ohio: Annual convention of the Supreme Council of the Patrons of Industry. Philadelphia: The new battle ship Indiana starts on her trial trip. Stanford University, California: Ex-President Harrison begins his course of lectures on American law. Troy, N. Y.: Two men killed in a disturbance at the polls. England: Lord Rosebery formally installed in the office of Prime Minister. 7. Virginia: The Australian ballot bill becomes a law. Ohio: An agreement is reached at Beleaire whereby 7,000 coal miners will resume work. Africa: Renewed hostilities between the English and the Portuguese on the Zambesi river. Sumatra: Fighting between the Dutch and the native tribes. 8. Washington: Beginning of the BreckinridgePollard trial for breach of promise. Italy: Anarchists explode a bomb in front of the Italian Chamber of Deputies; 8 persons hurt. England: The Parnellites issue a manifesto denouncing the new English Cabinet. Spain: The Cabinet resigns. China: Anti-missionary riots at Huchow. 9. Africa: A British force of 34 men surrounded and killed by tribesmen in Assan, after a gallant resistance of two days and nights. Brazil: British merchant vessels accept the protection of American men-of-war, although an English fleet is present in the harbor. 10. West Virginia: One of the riotous miners held for murder, and 19 admitted to bail. France: The international yacht race off Cannes results in a vietory for the Prince of Wales's cutter Britannia. Spain: Two ecclesiastics killed by the explosion of a dynamite bomb. France: A new project is announced to undertake the completion of the Panama Canal. 11. The Emperor of Japan celebrates his silver wedding. 12. Paris: An anarchist explodes a bomb in a hotel, 20 persons hurt. Washington: The PostmasterGeneral has signed a parcels-post convention with Newfoundland. Chicago: Navigation opens on the Great Lakes. Brazil: Admiral Dana, the insurgent commander, opens negotiations for surrender. England: Parliament reassembles; Mr. Justin McCarthy is re-elected chairman of the Irish party. Spain: A new Cabinet organized by the Premier, Señor Sagasta. 13. Pittsburg: The order of American Mechanics applies for an injunction to prevent uniformed nuns from teaching in the public schools. Paterson: Riotous proceedings on the part of the striking silk weavers. Ohio: The Legislature adopts a resolution favoring biennial sessions. Washington: The cigarmakers of the United States form a national association. Brazil: The negotiations for surrender fail, and hostilities are resumed. 14. New Jersey: Six of the rioters at Paterson sentenced to imprisonment. Brazil: The officers of the insurgent fleet escape to sea on a French steamer, deserting their ships. 15. Colorado: Gov. Waite calls out the militia to enforce the removal from office of the Board of Fire and Police at Denver; a conflict ensues between the troops and the police, and United States regulars are called upon to quell the disturbance. Paris: An anarchist explodes a bomb at the entrance of the Church of the Madeleine, several bystanders hurt, the anarchist himself killed. Canada: Opening of the Dominion Parliament; the Governor-General promises a revision of customs duties; general elections in Nova Scotia return 24 Liberals and 14 Conservatives. Great Britain: The Government appropriates more than £17,000,000 for the navy. 16. Birmingham, Ala.: The leaders of the Farmers' Alliance hold a conference for reorganization. Iowa: The local-option bill defeated in the Legislature. 17. Colorado: Gov. Waite orders State troops to Cripple Creek for the suppression of mining troubles. England: Annual university boat race on the Thames; Oxford wins. 18. Colorado: Arrests made by State troops at Cripple Creek. London: A mass meeting in Trafalgar Square demands the abolition of the House of Lords. 19. New York: The State Board of Charities prefers grave charges against the superintendent of the Reformatory at Elmira. Colorado: Under compulsion, the Cripple Creek miners agree to arbitrate, and the State troops are ordered home. 20. Pennsylvania: Election of Galusha A. Grow, congressman at large; 188,000 Republican plurality. Boston: A large body of unemployed workingmen march to the State House and demand employment. Holland Owing to political disagreements the StatesGeneral is dissolved and a new election ordered. Belgium: Rejection of the new representation measures, and resignation of the Cabinet in consequence. Germany: Ratifications of the commercial treaty with Russia exchanged, Iowa: 21. The New Jersey Supreme Court decides that the so-called "Republican Senate" is the lawful representative assemblage. Nebraska: Meeting of the Interstate Irrigation Congress at Omaha. Conference of the Bimetalist League at Des Moines. Florida: Annual meeting of the railway passenger agents of America at Palm Beach. 22. The Republican Senators take possession of the New Jersey Senate chamber in accordance with the decision of the court; no opposition offered. Iowa: The House of Representatives grants municipal suffrage to women by a vote of 51 to 44. Brazil: President Peixoto revives the decrees authorizing the execution without trial of all rebels and their abettors. 23. Hungarian students engage in riotous demonstrations against all who do not display emblems of mourning in memory of Kossuth. 24. Washington: Publication of the text of a new treaty between the United States and China. A movement inaugurated in various parts of the Northern States, known variously as the "Army of the Commonweal," the "Industrial Army," "Coxeyites," etc., their purpose being to march upon Washington and demand help at the hands of Congress. Mr. T. V. Powderly, lately Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, sues the order for his back pay. 25. The striking miners of the Kanawha valley, Va., resume work. 27. New Jersey: The race-track repeal bill passed over the Governor's veto. 28. Washington: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee open headquarters in the city. 29. England: A bill introduced in the House of Commons to carry out the purpose of the Bering Sea Tribunal. Brazil: The insurrection, having practically failed in the vicinity of Rio, is still prosecuted by Admiral de Mello in the south. 30. South Carolina: Three counties in open rebellion against the State authorities on account of the liquor law. The President vetoes the Bland Seigniorage bill. |