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ward Schuyler to be assistant secretary Of
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state Withdrawn.
90 F. D. Grant named minister TO Austria; John
c. New made consul general to London.
81, Miles Seymour nominated for governor Of
Washington Territory.
g. James Tanner nominated commissioner Of
pensions
o. Francis T.. Warren made governor of Wyo-
ming and Benjamin +. White governor Of
| Montana.
e.. r. T. Lincoln named minister to England,
Mrat Halstead 10 Germany, Allen Thorn.
dixie Rice TO Russia, George b. Loring to
Portugal Patrick Egan TO Chill and Thomas
| Ryan TO Mexico.
o. Senate rejected Murat Halstead for minister
| 20 Germany.
60 Robert Adams, Jr, Of Pennsylvania, nomi
mated minister 10 Brazil; l.. b Mizener OF
| California, 10 the Central American states;
| William l.. Scruggs OF Georgia, 10 Vene-
Zucla; W o. Bradley, Of Kentucky TO Ko-
rra and George L. Shoup to be governor Of
Idaho
| 90 John Talbot, OF New Hampshire, made minis
ter 10 Colombia, and d. H. Terrell Of Texas
| TO Belgium.
l. John NJ Huston, Of Indiana, made treasurer
OF the United States
! g United States senate adjourned.
| g. Cornelius Van Colt made postmaster at New
York and Joel b. Erhardt collector of Gus
| TO- Nathan f. Dixon elected to the United States
senate, in place Of Jonathan Chace, Of
Rhode Island, resigned
r. Lyman Z. Knapp, of Vermont, appointed
| governor OF Alaska.
| 49, William 7. Hepburn of Iowa, made solicitor
! Of the United States treasury.
| II. L. G. Lacey, Of Michigan, made comptroller
| Of the currency.
Robert + Porter of New York, appointed sI-
pcrucndcnt of the census
| % Prohibition defeated in Massachusetts.
MAY
T. Frank W Palmer, of Illinois, appointed public
printer; Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur s.
Thompson, OF South Carolina, civil service
commissioners; Arthur l.. Thomas governor
of Utah.
IT, Elections in both Dakotas won by Republ
cans.
iG. Solomon Hirsch of Oregon, made minister TO
Turkey; Clark T., Carr, Of Illinois, to Den
mark; Henry w Severance, of California
consul general at Honolulu; John Jarrett,
of Pennsylvania, consul ut Birmingham;
Thomas II. Shearman, of District of Column
bia, at Liverpool
"a. s. Is. Holiday, Of Pennsylvania, made com
missioner of customs
q Beverly Tucker and Lew Wallace appointed
special ENJOYS to Hayti; appointments
afterwards withdrawn
JUNE.
9.
United States army.
TO- Thomas J. Morgan, OF Rhode Island, appoint
ed commissioner of Indian affairs
u. Calvin S, Brice elected chairman OF the ma
tional Democratic committee.
49, Prohibition defeated in Pennsylvania.
49, William T.. Chandler elected United States
senator from New Hampshire
20 Rhode Island repealed prohibition.
~. John L. Stevens Of Maine, appointed minister
to the Hawaiian Islands; George Mooney,
of Tennessee, TO Paraguay and Uruguay
j. NJ. Crawford, Of Ohio, to be consul gen
erul at st. Petersburg
20. w. W. Phelps, Of New Jersey, appointed min
lister to Germany.
~. Frederick Douglass appointed minister to
Hayti
Capt Meredith made chief of the bureau Of
the engraving and printing.
JULY.
/ A. l.. Snowden, of Pennsylvania, made minis
ter To Roumana, Servia and Greece; w. III.
Edwards, of Ohio. consul general to Berlin;
a. o. Bourn, Of Rhode Island, to Rome Eu-
gene Schuyler, Of New York, consul general
to Cairo.
o. H. A. Taylor, of Wisconsin, made commits
sioncr Of railroads, and T. G. Mendenhall,
Indiana, superintendent of coast survey.
AUGUST.
3. J. r. G.. Ptkin, of Louisiana, appointed min
lister to the Argentine Confederation.
O. Professor William T. Harris appointed COM
missioner of education,
81 w. G. Vcazey, of Vermont. appointed a mem
Der of the interstate commerce commission
SEPTEMBER,
g. Thomas H. Anderson, Of Ohio, appointed
United States minister to the United States
of Bolivia.
T. Pension Commissioner Tanner resigned res
ignaton accepted.
lC l.. A. Croft of Omaha, appointed commits
siouer Of the general land office.
OCTOBER
l. Elections in North and South Dakota and Mon
tana The Republicans carried the first two
named In the last named tho result was
very close. Prohibition won in North Da-
LOta.
Z. Prohibition defeated in Connecticut.
49, Gen. Green b. Raum appointed United States
commissioner of pensions.
Commodore Ramsay appointed chief of the
bureau of navigation
30. John Field appointed postmaster at Philadel-
phia.
81. Postmaster General Wanamaker made public
an order fixing government telegraph rates
for the current official year.
NOVEMBER.
T. State canyassing board of Montana gave the
state TO the Republicans, save in the case OF
the governor; senate tie; house small Re-
publican majority.
q, Elections held in the various states for state
officers.
81 Gilbert A. Pierce elected United States senator
from North Dakota.
DECEMBER
. First session OF the Fifty first congress begun:
Thomas b Reed, of Maine, made speaker OF
the house; Rev Mr., Milburn, the blind
preacher Democratic candidate elected
chaplain of the house.
4. David j. Brewer appointed associate justice OF
the supreme court of the United States.
B. Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, reelected president
pro ten.
O. Speaker Reed appointed Mr.. Mckinley chair
man OF ways and means committee Mr.. Can
non of appropriations and judge Kelley Of
manufactures
THE HAND OF DEATH.
JANUARY
z In California, owen Brown, only survivor OF
the famous raid at Iarpers Ferry, aged n.
10 In New York, Helen b. Gould. wife of Jay
Gould, aged 81.
Rev. DR.. Alexander T. McGill, of Princeton,
n. j.
Is In Munich, hi Murska prima donna, aged IS;