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| ference, MIR. Walker subsequently re-
signing and President Andrews taking
his place; November Is, William Pot
ter, minister to Italy; David p. Thomp-
son, minister to Turkey; December IL
Person p. Cheney, minister to Switzcr-
land, and james w. McDill reappoint-
ed interstate commerce commissioner;
and December 81, Frederick j. Grant,
minister to Bolivia.
National Politics.
The presidential campaign has been
the exciting political event of the year.
The republican convention, June 10.
nominated Benjamin Harrison for
president on the first ballot and White
law Reid for vice president by accama-
ton. June 23 Grover Cleveland was
nominated for president and Adlai Il.
Stevenson for vice president by the
democratic convention. June so the
prohibitionists nominated John Bid
we'll for president and j. B. Cranfill for
vice president July the peoples
party nominated James B. Weaver
for president and James G.. Field
for vice president August 26
the socialist labor convention nom-
mated Simon Wing for president
and Charles II. Matchctt for vice presi-
dent. The lists were completed Sep
tember 22 by the farcical woman suf-
frage convention. which nominated
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff Martin for pres
ident and Mrs. Mary L. Stowe
for vice president. 1t is need
less to state the nature of the
platforms upon which the various can
didates stood. The issue was joined
Novem Der S and Cleveland and Steven
son were elected. AS closely as can
now be figured the popular vote for
Cleveland was 5,6l7,012; Harrison,
5,1s4,2 ,26l; Weaver, 1.O0l, sol; Bidwell,
26s,O17; Wing, 16, 400, in total of 12,-
probably will stand as follows,
assuming, as now seems likely, that
the vote of North Dakota will be di-
vided evenly between Cleveland, Har
rison, and Weaver: Cleveland, 2T6;
Harrison, 145; Weaver, %. The demo-
cratic majority in the house has been
reduced considerably. but it is proba-
BILE that by union with the populists
the democrats will have a ma aiority in
the senate also.
miscellaneous Events.
Other important events of the year
have been the blow dealt at the New
Orleans lottery by the decision of the
supreme court affirming the constitu-
tionality of the law excluding it from
the mails; the failure of the Can
adian reciprocity commission at Wash
ington; the three great strikes-July
9, that of the employees of the Carnegie
works at Homestead, accompanied 10y
fatal rioting and the attempted assas-
sination of Manager Fricll and in Au-
gust, the coal miners strike in Ten
nessee and the switchmcn's strike at
Buffalo-all of which have ended
in the discontinue of the work
men and great loss of time and
wages; the arrival of cholera steamers
at the New York quarantine from
Hamburg and the intervention of the
federal government to protect the coun-
try from the pestilence, entailing the
probability that measures will be taken
by congress for restricting immigration
and strengthening quarantine next
year; and, lastly, the alarming illness
of Mr. Blaine, which, however, in the
closing days of the year took more
favorable turn, giving the shadow of
hope that his life may yet be pro-
longed for some time to come.
Our Southern Neighbvrs.
On this continent Central and South
America have had their customary
share of revolutions. Honduras and
Costa Rica have both been the scene of
sanguinary encounters, ending in the
defeat.of the re bells, and at present there
is Il boundary quarrel between Costa
Rica and Nicaragua. The Chilians at
last have secured an apparently stable
form of government. A revolution
against the government of Venezuela
broke out in March which has been sue
cessfnl. Falacio was forced to re-
sign and is now fugitive in
France, and Gen. Crespo. the leader of
the insurgents, has been declared presi-
deut In Brazil, in January, President
PeiXotto was given unlimited power
by the legislature, but some of the
states are still in rebellion. Our
neighbor, Mexico, has elected Diaz
president for four years, and he is now
dealing with a small rebellion in the
northern part of the republic precipi-
tated by the Cara revolutionists. In
Canada the most cheering event is the
growth of annexation feeling.
The Distinguished Dead.
The neurology for 1891 was remarlsa-
BILE for the long list of distinguished
names it contained; that for 1892 is
hardly less remarkable. The most Gel
ebrated names in this country are
those of George b. Clarke, the tele-
scope-malier. who died January l; Gen.
M. c. Meiggs, the engineer, jan
nary :; Randolph Rogers. sculptor,
January 15; Judge Joseph p
Bradley of the United States supreme
court, January 22; DR.. Noah Porter,
ex-president of Yale college, March 4;
Max Strakosch, impresario. March 20;
DR.. ID. II. Agnew, surgeon, March %;
Walt Whitman, poet, March 2G; Cyrus
w. Field, financier, July ~; George
William Curtis, essayist and editor