Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-01-07
FOREIGN.

Jan. INSTRUMENTATION president of
France, resigns
Jan. iS.-Hawailan revolutionlsts start
battle In which several are killed, but no
Jan. Fat London, Lord Randolph
Jan. s0.-Ip>Nor sea, steamer Elbe
Jan. S1.HWei-Hai-wei, Chinese strong
hold, captured by Japanese forces.
Feb. 6-Queen Liliuokalani formally alb
Mar i2.-Off Cuba, a Spanish man-of-
war fires upon American mail steamer AL
Mar. ls-Great Britain sends Nicaragua
ultimatum demanding $4,000 for expulsion
of Minister Hatch.
Apr. l0-Cuban revolutionary party de-
clares independence of Cuba.
Apr. 15.-Treaty of peace between China
and Japan signed; 1t provides for Corea's
Independence; Japan's retention OF con
mosa to Japan and indemnity OF 500 COO 600.
Apr. A.-Russia intimatee to japan that
various conditions In China Japan treaty
which Russia could not allow to be ex-
Apr. 27.-At Is2nzey, France. bursting
tests against Britain's military occupation
Apr. aS.-Great Britain promises with
drawal OF ships from Corinto on Mica
raguas agreement to pay $4,000 smart
money in Is days.
Apr. 5O.-NlcaraSua scceues 10 hnBldhu
May 6Non advice of France, Russia and
Germany, Japan renounces claim 70 per-
manent cesslon of Llau Tung peninsula.
Jun. 4.-Spain apologies for gunboat fir
Jun. 2S."LoTd Rosebery, British premier
and cabinet resign, because of adverse vote
in house of commons. Lord Salisbury SUM
moned to form new cabinet
Jun, 2s.-Thomas Henry Huxley. scien-
Jul. 1S.-Stefan NJ. Stambuloff, EXPIRE,
mier of Bulgaria, died of wounds inflicted
by assassins at Sofia.
new parliament to be made up as folloWS:
Conservatives. 341; liberal unionists, %:
government total, u liberals. Ia NC
Sep. 9.-Cubans defeat Spaniards in bat
Sep. ii,-.Near Camaguey, Cuba, insur-
gents kill over 100 Spaniards.
Sep. 2S.-At Paris, Prof. Louis Pasteur'
Oct 2.-Over $50 killed in riot between
Turks and Armenians in Constantinople.
Oct. l6--Japan complies with Russlas
Taio Tung = Brazil recognizes Cubans as
Oct. 2S'NFrench cabinet resigns because
of government defeat In chamber of depu-
ties during debate on, Southern railway
scandal. In Baiburt district, Turkey, $50
Oct. 2s.~Aifred Austin chosen poet lau-
reate of Great Britain.
Nov, 12--Villages OF Zeitoun, Bell and
Narl attacked and plundered by Armeni- |
ans; many inhabitants killed.
Nov. Standardization agitation has ex- |
tended throughout northern Syria; many |
murdered at Aleppo.
Nov. H-Alexandre Dumas, novelist and |
playwright, died in Paris, aged n.
Dec. Mrs. Bliss, of Memphis, Tenn, |
missionary In Armenia, writes that over |
100000 Armenians have been butchered, and
that there can be no doubt that outrages |
had sultan's sanction. George Augustus
Sala, well-known journalist, died at Brigh-
ton, Eng; aged 67.
Dec. 10--Sultan grants the powers hr,
mans permitting passage OF q second
guardship through the Dardanelles. Ar
menian patriarch at Constantinople says
eastern vilayets or Asia Minor Is nearly
500. GOO. :. AT Trebizond the bishop and b
ecclesiastics burned alive by Turks; fresh
outrages also In other parts or Asia Minor
Chloera raging again in Russia.
Dec, 12-British and Italian gunpoata
Dryad and Archimede passed straits of the
because of disorder at Stam-
boul. M Adrien Lachenal elected pres
ident of Swiss republic.
Dec IA Madrid dispatch announces
of Gen Martinez Campos from
Weyler to succeed him.
Dec. 1e--Over 1000 killed by attack OF
Dfassais followers on a caravan near Ell
dora, Africa.
Dec. 2O-Sultan orders troops to lombard
and destroy Zeitoun, and massacre Its H.
600 Armenian inhabitants.
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