The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-01-04
RLOOMSBURG. PA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1889.
:. a'v1th the french'decoratlon frauds.

nw1Ih the French decoration frauds
%. NJ Tirard premier Of France. resigned.
APRIL
q German frontier police increased precautions
and refused admttance TO the Alsace- Lorraine
of any persons not provided with authority
New French cabinet officially announced NJ.
Fioquet, prime minister; M. Goblet minister
Of foreign affairs; NJ de Freycinet minister
of war.
8 Riots In Ireland at Kilrllsh, Ennis and Lough.
rea, at meeting Of the League which had been
proclaimed
O. Gen Boulanger elected TO the chamber Of
deputies from the department OF the Dardogne.
Hedeclined to serve.
10 Malietoa, king Of Samoa left prisoner at
Cameroons Africa, by the Germans.
IS Boulanger elected to the chamber Of deputies
from the department Du Nord
10 Insurrection In Rounnania- Peasants killed by
troops and villages burned
Boulanger took his scat In the chamber Of
deputies
20 Many strikes reported in Germany.
Demonstration by 1900 students IN Paris
against Boulanger Serious riot; many In
jured
90 Much comment in England and ireland over
the pope's decree against the plan Of cam.
paign.
q 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, M. p, sentenced to six months
imprisonment, without hard labor.
IL The Brazilian senate passed the bill aboishing
slavery which was passed by the chamber Of
deputies the previous week.
Lord Wolseley having declared In the British
house Of lords that II hostile army Of 10000
men were to land In England, she would be at
It's mercy Lord Salisbury replied censuring
Lord W olseey. Tho discussion caused by
the result of the British paval maneuvers
Catholic q parii
ment issued a manifesto declining to recog
nize the right Of the Holy See to Interfere
with the Irish people In the management Of
their political affairs
81. Anti-Chinese agitation In New South Wales
and New Zealand assumed an alarming ten
deDcy.
% Much trouble from bandits reported from
Cuba
a. First train passed over Trans Caspian railroad
to Samaracand, causing serious riots
JUNE.
15 Dom Pedro Of Brazil reported recovered
% Two French journalists expelled from Berlin
for lbeling the royal family
French senate passed a credit of 40, 900
francs for war preparations.
"a papai encyclical under this date reiterated
the former decree against boycotting and the
plan Of campaign.
& The jury In the o'Donnell- London Times libel
suis returned verdict in favor of The Times.
= Allias.e reported between Germany and Bel
GUM
O. The electors chosen June 25, formally elected
Cen. Porflrio Diaz as president Of Mexico
r. Gen Boulanger. In the French chamber of
deputies, told the premier he led and left be-
fore he could be censured.
ia Boulanger and Floquet fought duel Bou
langer stuck through the neck.
90 DR.. Ridley. who attended Mr. Vaudeville, NJ.
F.. in Tuamore jail committed suicide
90. Ninth centennial of Russia's Christianzatiou
celebrated at Kef.
vulged state secrets In 1885 Lively row In
the house of COMMONS In consequence.
Great strike on In Paris
AUGUST
& Italy notified the powers that she had taken
possession Of Masxowah and surrounding dis
tricts.
:. Riots between French strikers and police at
Amens and Paris
II. Parnel took steps to sue The London Times
for libel In Scotland
IL Strike among glass workers In Lyons, France
ID Count Won Moltke retired chief of the STAFF
Of Germany. and was succeeded by che Count
Won Waldersee
II Two thousand cotton mill carders at Black.
burn, England. on strike
Steel works at Landaur, Wales. shut down.
Thousands of men out of work.
IS Revolution reported in Hayti President Salo-
mon left the island.
10. Boulanger riots at Amiens and Abbevile,
France.
Oder. said 46, ,0OO, 900 Germans would die rather
than give up Alsace- Lorraine
II, Close OF the Paris strike.
20. Honors conferred on all the British members
of the fisheries commission, excepting Joseph
ChSinherlaln-
| sEPTEMBER.
!. Diary Of the late Emperor Frederick Of Ger
many published -....
4 Gladstone hlssed at Wrexham, Wales.
| IL News received Of the murder of Maj. Bartteot
| lpaia of ha rail- az
| 20, Publication OF further extracts from Emperor
Frederick's diary forbidden by the German
| government.
n. samoans rebeled against King Tamassee, de-
feated his army and declared Matalfa king.
| OCTOBER.
| l5..Dr Mackenzie's book ordered seized by the
German government
"a Great excitement In wurtemburg over alleged
control of the king by Hendry and woodcock,
| American favcrites.
2& The marriage of King Milan and Queen Ma
thalie dissolved in a pastoral of the Serviap
| metropolitan
90 Accident to the cars train The czar and his
family narrowly escaped death
NOVEMBER
H. Rotng In Madrid Premier Canovas mobbed
| II Prado, the murderer of Marie Agaetan, con
| victed and sentenced to death In Paris
| 10. Empress Frederick arrived In England
"a. Arrest of DIR. Tumblety. an American, in Lon
don, suspected Of being the whitechapel mur
derer
| DECEMBER
I. The jubilee of Emperor Francis Joseph cele
| orated In Austria and by Hungarians an Bo
hemians throughout the United States and
Canada
10, A new Spanish cabinet formed
II. The French chamber Of deputies adopted the
extraordinary budgets for 1880 the estimates
| being nxed at 1873, 800, 900 francs
IL The German rechstag passed the resolution
| for the suppression Of the East African slav,
| trade.
| M Clemenceau the French statesman, In
| tured In duel with NJ. Maure
Advices received from Cairo that Stanley anC
| Emin Pasha are the prisoners of tbs Mah1i
| who demands the release Of Suakim by tn,