The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-01-04
ACROSS THE MAIN.

JANUARY.
10. NJ. Floquet elected president Of French cham
Der of deputies.
Plot TO assassinate the car discovered New
Years festivities suspended.
20. William O'Brien released from Tullamore jail
y. Socialists who were holding meeting in Lon
don dispersed by the police.
Louise Mchelshot by a crank at Havre, France.
"a John Bright wrote letter denouncing Glad
stone and his political methods
80. Bismarck refused to see Lord Randolph
Churchill, on the ground Of overwork.
3. Prince Bismarck made an emphatic statement
in favor of peace.
Callan and Harkins, dynamiters, convicted
and sentenced in London to fifteen years i'm
prisonment
l. Austro German treaty of 1879 published,
causing much excitement
g. Riot of miners at Rio Tinto, Spain.
s. military loan bill providing for an increase
Of 100000 men in the army and exchange of
2S0,OOoO0o marks passed the German reich,
stag.
Lord Landsdowne appointed governor general
of India. Lord Stanley appointed TO Canada
o. Operation of tracheotomy performed upon the
crown prince of Germany
TO- Verdict of the co:oner's jury in the Mitchels-
town, Ireland eviction case set aside.
Lord Dufferin resigned the vice royalty of
India
many wounded.
Is The English reported to have seized rich por-
ton of Venezuela.
Douglas Pyne, NJ. r., sentenced to three
months imprisonment
1s Memorial window in ST. Margaret's church
London, to John Milton, gift of George W.
Childs, unveiled
l. Daniel Wilson, son.in-law Of President Grcvy,
of France, convicted OF swindling in connec-
ton with the sale of decorations
r. Prince Oscar of Sweden and Miss Monck mar
ried at Bournemouth.
90 Gen. CaGTarel convicted and sentenced to pay
O fine for completely in the French decoration
scandal. Nine Limousin imprisoned.
% Trial of Gen. Boulanger by court martial de-
cided against him.
&C. NJ. Wilson won his case on appeal in connec-
ton with the French decoration frauds
80. H. Tirard, premier Of France, resigned
April.
q German frontier police increased precautions
and refused admittance to the AIsace.L Lorraine
of any persons not provided with authority.
New french cabinet officially announced NJ
Floquet, prime minister; N. Goblet, minister
of foreign affairs; NJ. de Freycinet, minister
of war.
6 Riots in Ireland at Kilrush Ennis and Lough-
rea, at meeting of the League which had been
proclaimed
0. Gen. Boulanger elected to the chamber Of
deputies from the department of the Dardogne
He declined to serve
10 Maletoa, king of Samoa, left prisoner at
Cameroons, Africa, by the Germans.
10 Boulanger elected to the chamber Of deputies
from the department Du Nord.
10. Instruction In Roumana. Peasants killed by
troops and villages burned.
Boulanger took his seat in the chamber Of
deputies.
90 Many strikes reported in Germany.
Demonstration by 1900 students In Paris
against Boulanger. Serious riot; many in
jured.
30 Much comment in England and Ireland over
tho popes decree against the plan of cam.
paign.
8. William O'Brien sentenced In Dublin to three
months Imprisonment for violating the crimes
act.
An uprising of Socialist Democrats feared in
Berlin
II. John Dillon, nj. r., sentenced to six m@eths'
imprisonment, without hard labor
II The Brazilian senate passed the bin abolishing
slavery which was passed by the chamber of
deputies the previous week.
Lord Wolseley having declared In the British
house of lords that If hostile army of 100000
men were to land In England, she would be at
its mercy Lord Salisbury replied censuring
Lord Woseley The discussion was caused by
the result of the British naval maneuvers
n. Irish Catholic members of the English parla-
mept issued a manifesto declining to recog-
nize the right of the Holy Sec to interfere
with tho Irish people In the management of
their political affairs
81 Anti Chinese agitation In New South Wales
and New Zealand assumed an alarming ten
dency,
% Much trouble from bandits reported from
Cuba
q. First train passed over Trans Caspian railroad
to Sanaracand causing serious riots.