The Dickinson press., 1896-01-11

NeW 1Ork lnllCe IOFCe, WdS rctlfeU.
May %. Oscar Wilde was convicted
at London of crime. and sentenced to
two years at hard labor
May 26. Nalkyrie was launched at
Glasgow.
May %. Secretary of State Gres-
ham died at Washington.
May -. Lord Rosebery's colt. Sir
Visto, won the Derby.
May 30. n monument to the Confed-
crate dead was dedicated at Oakwood
cemetery, Chicago.
June .. Eugens v. Debs. the insti-
gator of the Chicago railroad riots Of
1894, was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment.
June 3. Gen. Primo Rivera. captain
general of Madrid was assinated.
June Z. Richard Olpey was appoint
ed secretary of state. and JudsOn Har-
mon attorney general of the United
States.
June 12. The president issued n
proclamation against Cuban tilibust-
ers.
June 13. The British government
announced a protectorate for Uganda,
Central Africa.
June 1G. The Worlds woman's
Christian conference began in Lon
don.
June II. Parlcm ship canal. New
York city. was opened with cercmo-
nies.
June 1S. The jury in the l.aidlaw-
Sage case. New York. returned ver-
dict for the plaintiff for S4O.OOO.
June Is. Chauncey NJ. Depew de-
ltvcred an address at Vanderbilt uni
vcrsity. Nashville. Tenn.
June 10. The opening of the Baltic
canal was celebrated by the Germans,
with the warships Of all maratime ma.
tions as guests.
June %. The Rosebery Liberal min
istry in England resigned. having been
defeated in the house Of commons on
the war estimates, by vote of 132 to
125.
June "a. The marquis of Salisbury
accepted the British premiership and
formed a Conservative ministry.
June %. Prince Emanuel of Aosta
(nephcw of dle king of Italy) and prin-
cess Helene of Orleans daughter of
the late count Of Paris We're married
in England.
June %. Yale crew won the varsity
boat race at New London, beating Har-
ward.
| 11lOl. I1uAlev uleu.
June 20. The attempt to launch the
yacht Defender at Bristol, Il. L., was
partial failure.
murderer. was elcctrOcuted at Sing
Sing, n. Y.
| July Z. A third daughter was born
to the president and Mrs. Cleveland at
Gray Gables.
July 10. The Cornell crew was de-
feated ut Henley by the Trinity Hall
eight.
July 12-Aug. TO- British parliament
ary elections. They resulted i'm the re-
turn of ::::'S Conservatives, III Liber-
ais 73 Unionists, 40 McCarthyites and
II Parnellites.
| July 15. NJ. Stambuloff, eX-premier
of Bulgaria, was assassinated at Sofia
| by political foes. He died July 1S.
July Is. The remains of the Pitezel
children, supposed to have been muir
dered by II. HI. Holmes, were discov-
cred at Toronto.
July 1S. Henry Irving, Walter Be-
SAINT and Lewis Morris were knighted
by the queen.
Aug. ]. English missionaries were
massacrcd by Chinese mt Whasang.
Aug. 4. Italian miners attacked and
drove away negro dwellers ut Spring
Valley. Ill.
Aug. s. Justice Howell Of the United
States supreme court died.
Aug. 1G. Viscount Wolseley succeed
ed the duke of Cambridge as comman-
der-in-chief Of the British army.
Aug. 10. A boiler explosion in
hotel at Denver, Col, destroyed twen-
ty-five lives.
Aug. 81. A revolution in Ecuador
terminated by the triumph of Gen.
Elvy Alfaro.
Sept. 5. An attempt was made to
blow up the Rothschild bank in Paris.
Sept. .7-13. The Observation-Disclosures
yacht races for the Americas cup took
place off Sandy Hook, N. j.
Sept. II. The South Carolina con.
vention to revise the state constitu-
tion began it's sessions at Columbia.
Sept. 1S. The cotton states and in
ternational exposition at Atlanta was
opened, President Cleveland setting
the machinery in motion by wire from
Gray Gables. The exposition closed
Dec. 81.
Sept. 49, The Observation-Disclosures
liner Edam was sunk by collision in
the English channel.
Sept. 10. The National Park ON the
site Of the Chickamauga battle-ground,
Tennessee, was dedicated by a great
gathering of Union and Confederate
veterans.
Sept. 90. The twenty-tifth anniver-
sary of the entry OF Garibaldi into
Rome was celebrated by the Italians.
A statue Of Garibaldi was unveiled ut
Rome.
Sept. 81. The Peary arctic relief ex-
pediti0n left st. Johns. n. f.. on its
return home.
Sept. %. Alleged Cuban filibusters
were acquitted by jury at Whining
Sept. 27. Irish national convention
at Chicago was organized to free Ire
land from Great Britain by physical
force.
Sept. q. The French army under
Gen. Duchesne captured Antanana,
rivo, Madagascar. The queen and her
husband fled.
Sept. %. Louis Pasteur died at
Paris.
Oct. 1. The queen of Corea was mur-
dered in her palace at Seoul.
Oct. 2. Riots at Constantinople and
arrests and killing of Armenians.
Oct. 2. The Texas legislature passed
a bill to prevent prize fighting in the
state, which stopped the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons match at Dallas.
Oct. 5. Maj. Gen. Miles assumed
command of the United States army,
succeeding Lieut.. Gen. Schotield, who
retired for age.
Oct. 16. Milwaukee. Wis, celebrat-
ed her semi-centennial.
| nnf Duncf1nrt md.
members of the cabinet visited the
Atlanta exposition.
Oct. %. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
was installed as co-pastor of the First
Presbyterian church at Washington.
Oct. 27. A part of the buildings OF
. the University Of Virginia at Char
lottesville was destroyed by fire.
! Oct. %. The Ribot ministry ir
France resigned. The Bourgeoise min
istry succeeded Nov. 1.
) Oct. %. Announcement was mad.