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

"a A papal encycllcaI under this date reiterated
the former decree against boycotting and the
plan OF campaign.
JULY.
O. The jury In the oDonnelLondon Times libel
suit returned verdict in favor of The Times
2. Alliance reported between Germany and Bel.
GUM.
0. The electors chosen June %, formally elected
Gen. Porfirio Diaz as president of Mexico.
12. Gen Boulanger, In the French chamber Of
deputies, told the premier he lied, and left be-
foro no could be censured
10 Boulangcr and Floquet fought duel Bou-
hanger stuck through the neck
% Dr. Ridley who attended mir Vaudeville, NJ
p, u Tullamore Jail committed suicide.
20. Ninth centennial Of Russa's Contamination
celebrated at Kief.
81. Mr. Parnell charged that Mr.. Chamberlain di.
vulged state secrets In 1885 Lively row in
the house Of commons In consequence.
Great strike on In Parls
Q. Italy notified the powers that she had taken
possession of Massowah and surrounding dis
tricts
2. Riots between French strikers and police at
Amiens and Paris.
II. Parnen took steps to sue The London Times
for libel In Scotland.
IL Strike among glass workers In Lyons, France.
ID Count Won Moltke retired as chief Of the staff
y
Won Wadersee
H. Two thousand cotton mill carders at Black.
burn, England, on strike
Steel works at Landau, Wales, shut down.
Thousands of men out of work.
10 Revolution reported in Hayti. President Salo-
mon left the island
10 Boulanger riots at Amgns and Abbeville,
France.
Emperor William at a banquet at Frankn-on-
Oder, said &c, 600, 900 Germans void die rather
than give up Alsace- Lorraine
II Close of the Paris strike.
% Honors conferred on all the British members
of the fisheries commission, excepting Joseph
Chamberlain
1. Diary of the late Emperor Frederick OF Ger
many published
l. Gladstone Missed at Wrexham, Wales.
H. News received OF the murdero OF Mai Barttelot,
leader Of the Stanley relief expedition.
90 Publication of further extracts from Emperor
Frederick's diary forbidden by tho German
government
a. Semoans rebelled against King Tamassee, de
feated his army and declared Aata!fa king.
OCTOBER
Is. DR. Mackeuzios book ordered seized by the
German government
%. Great excitement in Wurtemburg over alleged
control of the king by Hendry aud Woodcock,
American favorites.
"a The marriage of King Milan and Queen Ma
thalie dissolved in a pastoral of the servian
metropolitan
%. Accident to the cars train The car and his
family narrowly escaped death.
NOVEMBER.
II. Rioting In Madrid Premier Canovas mobbed
IA. Prado the murderer OF Marie Agaetan. con
victed and sentenced 20 death in Paris
10. Empress Frederick arrived in England
"a. Arrest of DR. Tunblety On American, in Lon
don suspected of being the Whitechapcl mur
derer.
DECEMBER
I. The jubilee of Emperor Francis Joseph cele
GRATED 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 lSS9,.the estimates
being fiXed at l3S, 600 francs.
ID. The German reichstag passed the resolution
for the suppression of the East African slave
trade.
N. Clemenceau, the French statesman, IN
jured in 4 duel with NJ Maurel
AdSiceS received from Cairo that Stanley and
Enin Pasha are the prisoners OF ths Mahii
who demands the release of Suakim by the
British as their ransom.