Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-31
HAIL AND FAREWELL.
Good Bye to the Old Year, Hello to
the New.

Good Bye to the Old Year, Hello to
the New.
WHAT 1889 BROUGHT Us To2 GOOD OR EvII,--THE
THIRTEEN GREATER EVENTS OF THE FULL RoUSI
YEAR-A SKIP THROUGH THE LESSER HAPPEN
MOS OF AN EvESTFUL TwELvEMoSru
1t isnot easy to remember what happens in a
! day. And the events OF year simply multiply
Difficulties when we undertake to think of what
has happened since Christmas and New Year )
! came and went year ago. Il is better to let
somebody else do your remembering for you
and give the result of the years do.ngs. The
twelve round months that will be packed down
! in history and labeled 1899 have been for the
most part pretty lively. great deal has hap
pened in them-much that wish had not
happened, if that does any good. and perhaps
quite rs mach that has sent the world bowling
on through space happier, WISER better
world than it has ever been before. There are
few great events of the year 1899 that we all
remember easily. They will be found in few
years in every child's history in our public
schools. We can afford to run over them here:
l. President Harrison's Inauguration.
:. The centennial of President George Wash
| ington's inauguration and the beginning of the
United States government.
8. The Johnstown Hood.
4. The murder of DR.. Cronin.
6. The Paris exposition and the building of
the Eiffel tower. the highest structure ever made
by man.
6. The purchase by Americans of Millets
"AuSelus" for the highest price ever paid for a
picture.
Z. The completion OF Henry NJ. SANKEY'S
journey across Africa from west to east and the
rescue of Emia pasha.
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canal.
9. The overthrow of the Brazilian monarchy,
the last absolute government on the American
continent.
10. The pan-American congress.
II. Tho meeting at Baltimore OF the first
Catholic lay congress i'll America.
II. The admission of the four new states of
North and South Dakota. Montana and Wash
ington.
10. The grippe"
II OF other events of lesser importance but n
brief running review can be given here, and
they are grouped for convenience under a few
special heads.
THINGS POLITICAL.
In the politics of the world it has been an
active and memorable year. In January Diaz
was for third time inaugurated president of
Mexico. Gen. Boulanger was elected to the
chamber Of deputies from Paris by over sc. 600
majority. Anthony Higgins elected Sena-
tor from Rhode Island, the first republican to
represent that state for Il quarter of a century,
Emperor Joseph of Austria completed the for
tieth year OF his reign. The United States Sem
ate. on the Odd, pass its tariff bill. In Febru-
AIRY there was something OF an upheaval in our
own country when President Cleveland re-
moved Civil Service Commissioner A.
u. Edgerton and nominated i'll his
stead Hugh S. Thompson, whom the
Senate failed to confirm. In this month,
too, the cabinet was increased by making
the agricultural bureau a department.
and Norman j. Colman was nominated by the
President for Secretary OF Agriculture. The
electoral vote was counted in Congress and
Harrison and Morton respectively declared
elected President and Vice President The
Floquet ministry in France was overthrow on
the 18th of March by an adverse vote on the
proposed revision of the constitution. On the
2lst NJ. Tlrard formed a new ministry. On the
I'D President Cleveland signed the bill pro-
viding for the admission of Montana, Washing
ton, South Dakota and North Dakota into the
union as states. On March Pigott made Par
neiLsm triumphant over the tories i'll England
by blowing out his brains at Madrid. King
Milan of Servia abdcated in favor of his son
Alexander. Benjamin Harrison was inaugu-
rated President and Levi p. Morton Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. The United
States Senate caused a very small tempest
in teapot by rejecting Murat Halsteads nom
nation for the German mission. In April
new empire was opened to settlers in Okla
homa. Massachusetts, defeated proposed
prohibition constitutional amendment by
so, 900 majority. The centennial of Washing
toms first Inauguration as President celebrated
in New York. In May the Berlin conference
was held and Germany consented to the Ameri-
can demand for the restoration of MalietOa as
king OF Samoa. In June Calvin Brice was
elected Chairman of the national democratic
convention. On the 18th Pennsylvania
by $4,000 majority, went against prohibition
In July Parnell withdrew from all participation
in the Times commissions proceedings On
the 28th Boulanger was badly beaten in the
French elections for the councils general. On
the 18th of August following he was convicted
at Paris by the senate court of conspiracy,
treason and embezzlement and sentenced to
deportation On the 2ith Legitime abdIcated
as president of Hayti and Hyppolite and his
forces took possession of Port-au-Prince, ending
the war. September II was memorable day
Commissioner Tanner resigned. October the
Pan-Amercan congress met. That day. Also
elections for state and federal officials wore
held for the first time in Montana, North Da-
kOta, South Dakota and Washington. On the
18th Connecticut defeated constitutional pro-
hibitory amendment by $1,000 majority. On
the 18th the car visited Emperor Wilhelm at
Berlin. In November came the democratic vic
tories in Ohio and Iowa by which James f.
Campbell was elected governor of the former
state and Horace Boies of the latter. Virginia
elected Capt. Mckinney governor over ex-Sen-
/
| ton occurred i'll Brazil, by which Emperor
Dom Pedro was exiled and "a republic set up in
| place of an empire, with Deodoro Da Fonseca
| as provisional president. Dom Pedro and his
family were sent 10 Portugal under promise
! that the pensions of the royal family would be
maintained. December the Fifty-firs Con-
| gress met and Mr.. Reed was elected Speaker.
/ The Senators from North and South Dakota
and the state of Washington were sworn in and
took Turing the first fifteen days of the session
( their seats. The seat made vacant Oh the Su-
| preme Bench by the death OF SLanIey Matthews
was filled by the appointment of Judge Brewer
OF Kansas, for six years judge of eighth United
! States circuit
HOW THINGS WENT wrong.
| The casualties of the year have been appall-
ing. the most stupcndous being the terrible
! flood at Johnstown. In January a cyclone
| swept across Pennsylvania, demolishing much
! property and causing considerable loss of life.
/ At Reading. Pa, silk mill was blown down
nineteen people killed and 100 injured Fifty
| children were killed by collision of sections
| of a Sunday school excursion train between
| Armagh and Warren Point. Ireland The
| 1allmadge, Ohio, collision in the same month
! killed eight and injured sixteen people The
Buffalo fire in February caused loss of over
| Sl.00O,O0O. Twenty-one lives were lost by the
! explosion of boiler i'll the Park Central hotel
Hartford, Conn. In March came the Samoan
! disaster, wrecking the American and German
fleets there and causing a loss of l46 lives. The