Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-31

! uproar. President Carnot maintained policy
Of frmness tempered with mercy, and peace at
length prevailed. France has been engaged
during the year in campaign against the
King of Dahomey in retaliation for outrages
on French subjects. The expedition has been
uniformly successful.
Russian crops were bad last year and the win
Contradictory stories were told about the ex-
| tent OF their suffering, so that relief did not
come from other countries at once, but when
America realized the state of things ship after
ship was dispatched to Russia filed with grain
for the peasants. The vessels were received by
the Russians with tears and the most profuse
professions Of gratitude, in which the car him
self was pleased to Join.
One of the most important though fruitless
events Of the year was the mission Of Sir Charles
Euan Smith to Tangier in order to establish
commercial relations between the country and
Europe. in particular to bave the export duties
removed Sir Charles was met by the sultan
ut Fee with evasion and finally attempted
bribery. He thereupon withdrew in disgust.
His efforts we're watched by all Europe. for his
success would have been fraught with impor-
tant results As 1t is the country is probably
shut out from commerce for many years.
Germany has been agitated by the anarchists
and the more violent socialists, but no serious
outbreak has occurred. The car and kaiser
met at Kiel and affectionate greetings were ex-
Berlin and were cordially treated and the kaiser
made q trip to Vienna, where Francis Joseph
warmly greeted him In only one direction
has the kaiser had an opportunity to cast an
apprehensive glsnce-at France. 1t is with
French enmity in view that the kaiser and his
chancellor have set to work to increase the
army's strength. He wishes to decrease the
length Of service required but to increase the
number OF soldiers In this attempt Caprivi
is not meeting with the success that formerly
crowned the efforts of Bismarck. Many need
less encounters between the soldiers and citi-
zens have occurred and this has led to an order
that hereafter sentries are to be armed only
with blank cartridges. Bismarck seems daily
to grow in popularity. He made a trip to
Vienna in June to see his con married to Coun-
tess Hoyos and was welcomed by cheers at every
German town on his wav. The kaiser grows
more and more self-reliant and petulant and
the breach between him and the old chancellor
grows wider.
Denmark has begun a vast work-the reclaim
alton Of the Zuyder Zee. Thousands of acres
will be reclaimed by dykes from the sea and
canal will be cut to the Rhine. On MAY "a the
king and queen celebrated their golden we'd
ding amid the acclaims Of their subjects.
In Belgium the struggle for universal suf
frage. as yet in vain, has been the one i'm
portant event.
conference and has electedDr. Chas. Z. Schenck
president.
There have been the usual disturbances in
southeast Europe and in the Pamirs, on the
way to India, due, it is asserted, to Russian in
trigue.
Norway has been making fresh efforts to se-
cure national parliament and the right to
send representatives to other countries, but in
vain.
DISASTERS,
The burning of the Hotel Royal in New York,
opposite Bryant Park. on February Z, was one
of the most terrible of the many sad events of
the year. The hotel was a regular death trap.
The fire caught in the lower stories and shot
upward. 1t was about midnight and the board
ers who almost universally were registered
under assumed names had sc tiled into their first
deep sleep when the fire broke out. 1t was
old house and burned rapidly. How MANY lives
were lost will never be known. New Orleans
had two disastrous fires. Milwaukee lost IS, OC0,-
coo, 10 lives. and Geo persons were left home
less. st. Johns. n F., was nearly destroyed
In July; $4,000 were made homeless
and S28, 600 were lost in the
flames. st. Louis, Baltimore, Jersey City,
Brooklyn and Bay City, Mich. were visited by
fires that each caused nearly a million dollars
damage. Abroad Christiansand, Norway, was
damaged on July 9 to the extent of over three
milhons thousands were burned out in Toxic
on April 10. The most appalling disaster
the destruction by an avalanche of ST. Gervais-
les-bains, in Switzerland. Two hundred bodies
were taKeh OUT In the depris' mount Etna was
unusually violent ana laVa overwneimeo sew
erai oioa , 'iiases aho cost many h'es IN
July. Inc most disastrous ocean dlsaster was
the wreck OF the hoamania on the portuguese
coast on octoper 20 us hVes were losI. Inc
LouVe was wrecked IN the same gaze on RMS
terre ana II were crowned In June the west
ern rivers were hlsn ana many lives In the
MISSISSIPPI 'aiey ana much loss was caused
oy nood. over ;ll.oooooU damage In and about
81 LOUIS was oohe. Elgh' thousand persons
were orl'en from tnelr homes at sioux City.
cyclones ioho"ea the noous IN the pralrie
states ana unusually severe storms prevailed ON
the great lakes, IN one storm IN november 70
seamen were lost, Mine disas'ers nave been
unusually frequent, the worst IN TINS country
Delng an explosion IN coIhery IN washington
on may IL wheh tnirty-n'e miners perlshed
ihis was oa'aohe oy an explosion III Welsh
mine on august 70 when 100 lost their lives.
lhere nave been the uSuHi number OF casualties
causeo by Workmen trylpg TO tnaw out dyna-
mite the most recent Delng the one In BROOK
lyn December rs: Grade crossings have counted
thelr victims by aundreds, and the trolley wire
has loved SHINING mark
DOMESTIC POLITICS.
y1bo., A.. 60 1900 :. It'll. o,:.;.,
INC opeA0N IA A'i'no, poii'''ai
parry olo the lhdicalions point strongly enough
in one direction for one to predict who would be
the nominee President Harrison had won the
esteem Of the country. but the friends o, Mr.