House; the Senate rejects Mr. Hill's motion to strike out the income tax sections from the tariff bill, yeas, 23; nays, 40.... Yale is victorious in the boat races at New London....Bowdoin College celebrates its centennial.... Michigan Democrats nominate Spencer O. Fisher for Governor.... President Casimir-Pé ier accepts the resignation of the Dupuy Cabinet, and asks M. Burdeau to form a new government....The Intercolonial Conference at Ottawa is opened.

June 29.-Operations of Western railroads are further crippled by additions to the ranks of the strikers....Tariff bill reported to the Senate by Committee of the Whole. ....The State Senate's committee charged with the investigation of the New York City police department adjourns till September 10, after eliciting a mass of testimony as to police blackmail levied on all classes of citizens....Financial proposals of the Italian government passed by the Chamber of Deputies....M. Burdeau declines the French Premiership.

June 30.-Three passenger trains equipped with Pullman cars are wrecked at Chicago by strikers....Premier Dupuy decides to remain at the head of the French Cabinet....Emperor William, of Germany, and the French Ambassador discuss a plan for international action against Anarchists.... Twelve cases of cholera reported at Cronstadt....Opening of the Tower Bridge, London, by the Prince of Wales....Lord Russell, of Killowen, better known as Sir Charles Russell, appointed Lord Chief Justice of England.

July 1. The government at Washington takes steps to enforce the laws relating to the carrying of mails on Western railroads, appointing special counsel for the pur-. pose; seven strike leaders are under arrest in Chicago, and nine in Hammond, Ind....The funeral of President Carnot takes place in Paris; services are held in other European capitals and at Washington, D. C.......Bandi, an editor, is fatally stabbed at Leghorn, it is believed by an Anarchist.

July 2.-The United States Courts in Chicago issue a sweeping injunction against the railway strikers; Illinois militia go into active service; Federal troops are ordered out in Colorado....Further disturbances in the coke region....The sugar schedule of the Senate tariff bill is amended so as to put it in effect immediately on the approval of the bill, instead of in 1895.... The British budget bill passes the committee stage in the House of Com

mons.

July 3.-Judge Woods, of the United States Court, grants a restraining or er to every railroad in Indiana.

.The Senate tariff bill is passed by a vote of 39 to 34, Mr. Hill being the only Democrat who votes in the negative....Prendergast, the murderer of Carter Harrison, is declared sane by a jury at Chicago.... Two men are killed and many injured in an attack by a mob of strikers at Ironwood, Mich., on 200 deputy sheriffs and a gang of non-union men.... "Bat" hea is found guilty of the murder of Robert Ross at the spring election in Troy, N. Y....The inaugural address of President CasimirPérier is read in the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies

July 4.-Some trains in Chicago are moved under the protection of United States troops; Attorney-General Olney issues instructions to have a special grand jury summoned to indict President Debs, of the American Railway Union.... The day is celebrated by Americans in European cities by receptions on the part of official representatives of the United States and by banquets.

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The new Hawaiian Republic is proclaimed, with Sanford B. Dole as President.

July 5.-Rioting and arson in and about Chicago in connection with the railroad strike; the U. S. troops are hooted, but trains are moved without shots being fired; reinforcements of troops are sent to aid General Miles in suppressing rioting; the tie-up prevents shipments of fresh meat to the seaboard cities from Chicago....Six of the World's Fair buildings are destroyed by fire....The Britannia beats the Vigilant in the race for the Muir Memorial Cup; the Valkyrie sinks after collision with the Satanita....M. Auguste Burdeau, Republican, is elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 259 to 157.

July 6.-A Chicago mob burns many cars along the line of the Pan Handle road; warrants are sworn out for the arrest of the officers of the American Railway Union; Governor Altgeld protests against interference by the President, and orders out two brigades of Illinois militia. ....Lord Salisbury introduces a bill in the House of Lords giving the Government power to deal with Anarchists and alien paupers.

July 7.-General Schofield orders United States troops to take control of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads; regulars fire on a mob at Chicago, wounding a dozen persons....A motion to non-concur in the Senate tariff bill amendments is carried in the House, and a conference committee is appointed ...The Britannia defeats the Vigilant in the race for the Queen's Cup on the Clyde....The Falcon, with the members of the Peary auxiliary expedition on board, sails from St. John's, N. F., for Greenland.

July 8.-President Cleveland issues a proclamation calling on Chicago rioters to disperse; in a pitched battle between regulars and a mob at Hammond, Ind., one man is killed and four are wounded; the Buffalo members of the American Railway Union are ordered to strike ... Severe anti-Anarchist measures are passed by the Italian Chamber....There are 29 fresh cases of cholera at St. Petersburg.

July 9. Cessation of rioting and disorder in Chicago; the Pullman Company refuses to arbitrate; several roads at Toledo are tied up; the President issues a second proclamation, covering the far West....The Britannia wins in the race with the Vigilant on the Clyde....One person killed and several injured by a bomb explosion in Pilsen....The German Bundesrath rejects the bill passed by the Reichstag to repeal the anti-Jesuit laws.

July 10.-Debs, Howard, and several other American Railway Union leaders at Chicago are indicted by the federal grand jury for conspiracy to obstruct the mails and hinder the execution of the laws; men in various trades in Chicago strike, and Sovereign issues a strike order to the Knights of Labor.... The National Educational Association meets at Asbury Park, N. J....The convention to revise the judiciary system of New Jersey meets at Trenton.... The Britannia defeats the Vigilant in the race for the Corinthian Cup on the Clyde....Violent earthquake shocks in Constantinople, causing panic and great loss of life....Anarchist arrested in Spain charged with plotting to kill President Casimir-Périer, of France.

July 11.-Sovereign's appeal to the Knights of Labor to strike meets with but feeble response in Chicago, and is unheeded in other cities; U. S. troops occupy the Sacramento (Cal.) railway station, which has been in the hands of strikers for twelve days; the first train which is sent out from Sacramento is wrecked by strikers, the engineer

and three soldiers being killed....In the Senate a resolution indorsing the action of President Cleveland in regard to the railway strike is unanimously adopted.... The National Convention of the Young People's Societies of Christian Endeavor opens at Cleveland.... Minnesota Republicans renominate Governor Knute Nelson....Earthquake shocks continue in and about Constantinople; many lives are lost, and buildings destroyed....The Britannia defeats the Vigilant on the Clyde again.... The Intercolonial Conference at Ottawa adjourns after voting in favor of a colonial customs union.

July 12.-Trains are moved freely; the general strike by trades unions proves a failure; the strike by railway employees breaks all along the line; Warden, an American Railway Union official, is arrested near Sacramento, Cal., as a ringleader of the train-wreckers in that vicinity.... The Britannia defeats the Vigilant for the sixth time on the Clyde.... The French Chamber of Deputies rejects M. Cavaignac's proposal for an income tax, and votes confidence in the Ministry.... Germany declares a tariff war against Spain.... Fifty-four deaths from cholera in St. Petersburg.

July 13.-President Debs, of the American Railway Union, offers to declare the strike off if the Railway General Managers' Association will take back the strikers to work, but the managers refuse to consider his proposition; regulars fire into a mob at Sacramento (Cal.) and mortally wound two men; George M. Pullman makes public a statement describing the relations between his company and its employees, and answering charges against the management of the town of Pullman.... Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Carter Harrison, is hanged at Chicago... More earthquake shocks in Constantinople, serving to increase the panic among the people.

July 14.-The striking members of the American Railway Union return to work in large numbers; the blockade is broken on the Pacific coast....The cruiser Minneapolis proves herself the fastest warship afloat, making a maximum speed of 25.20 knots and an average of 23.20 knots on her official trial.... Britons resident on Corn Island, Mosquito Territory, whip the Nicaraguan troops stationed there and seize the government offices....The anniversary of the fall of the Bastile is celebrated throughout France.

July 15.-One hundred armed men are ordered to McKeesport, Pa., to protect the National Tube Works from strikers.... Nicaragua sends troops from various points toward the Mosquito coast.

July 16.-A mob of strikers attack a freight train in West Oakland, Cal., and are repulsed by troops; twentyone strikers are captured and several injured; a Grand Trunk train is wrecked near Battle Creek, Mich., it is believed by strikers; one man is killed.... Four U. S. soldiers are killed and several other persons wounded by the explosion of an ammunition wagon in Chicago....... Strikers attack negro miners near Birmingham, Ala.; six deaths result ... Pennsylvania coke workers vote to continue their strike.....The House of Representatives adopts a resolution indorsing President Cleveland's action in the recent railway strike....The Yale team is defeated in the athletic contest in England; Oxford winning five contests, Yale three, and one being a tie.... The Britannia defeats the Vigilant in the race for the County Down Cup at Bangor, Ireland....The Italian Senate passes the anti-anarchist bill without debate.

July 17.-President Debs and three other officers of the American Railway Union are lodged in jail (having declined bail) on the charge of having violated an injunction

of the Federal Court....Eight miners killed by an explosion of giant powder near Hazleton, Pa....President Cleveland signs the enabling act making Utah a State. ....The House passes the Uniform Bankruptcy bill ... The Vigilant wins the race with the Britannia for the Rear Commodore's Cup on Belfast Lough.... Bitter debate on the anti-anarchist bill in the French Chamber of Deputies; Radicals make violent attacks on the Ministry. ....The budget bill is passed in the British House of Commons....Seventy-nine deaths from cholera in St.

Petersburg.

July 18.-One hundred and fifty track ballasters return to work at Pullman....The strike at the National Tube Works, at McKeesport, Pa., is declared off....Mgr. Satolli confirms the decision of an Ohio bishop regarding the expulsion of liquor dealers from Roman Catholic societies....The Suffrage Committee of the New York Constitutional Convention decides against all womansuffrage propositions except that to permit women to vote for School Commissioners....Light earthquake shocks are felt in parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri....Another slight shock of earthquake at Constantinople which does little damage.

July 19.-The House conferrees on the tariff bill report disagreement with the Senate amendments in toto, and a letter is made public from President Cleveland to Chairman Wilson, of the Ways and Means Committee, deprecating a surrender of Democratic tariff reform pledges, especially as regards raw materials; the House insists on disagreement, and reappoints its conferrees.... The President nominates Clifton R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, as Minister to Russia to succeed Andrew D. White....The United States troops and a part of the Illinois militia leave Chicago; a number of indictments are returned by the special grand jury....The Education Committee of the New York Constitutional Convention decides to report a section to prevent sectarian school appropriations.

The annual Wagner musical festival is opened at Baireuth with a performance of "Parsifal," conducted by Hermann Levi, of Munich.... The Anarchist who shot at Premier Crispi in Rome is sentenced to twenty years' solitary confinement.

July 20.-An explosion of powder at Fort Pulaski, Ga., fatally injures the sergeant in charge, badly burns a woman, and sets fire to the fort.... President Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson is the subject of sharp debate in the Senate....The appointment of Percy Sanderson as British Consul-General at New York, to succeed Sir William Lane Booker, resigned, is announced in London. ....Cholera is abating in St. Petersburg....The Britannia defeats the Vigilant in a race over the Dublin Bay course....The quarter-centenary of submarine telegraphy to the far east is celebrated at London.

OBITUARY.

June 20.-Ex-Senator Bishop W. Perkins, of Kansas.... Col. Virgil Powers, State Railway Commissioner of Georgia.

June 21.-Herbert Tuttle, Professor of Modern History in Cornell University, author of a history of Prussia.

June 22.-Lord Forester, Canon of York.... Alfred Post Burbank, reader and actor....John W. Hall, treasurer of the Richmond and Danville R.R....Archbishop Taché, of St. Boniface, Canada.

June 23.-Madam Marietta Alboni, the celebrated contralto singer.... Prince Ladislas Czartoryski....James Reid, Lord Dean of Guild, Glasgow.

June 24.-M. Sadi Carnot, President of France....

George P. A. Healey, the portrait painter, of Chicago.... Col. Wm. F. Wheeler, a Minnesota pioneer.... Rev. Luther Clapp, a pioneer preacher of Wisconsin.

June 25.-Egisto P. Fabbri, a well-known Italian banker of New York City....Judge John D. Finney, of St. Louis, founder of the Society of the Knights of St. Patrick....Nicholas B. Kittell, portrait painter.

THE LATE MR. C. H. PEARSON, LL.D., Author of "National Life and Character." June 26.-John Egan, ex-Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly.

June 28.-Rear-Admiral William Grenville Temple, U. S. N. (retired), a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars. ....Major Francis H. Fleming, of North Adams, Mass., who served in the navy during the Mexican War and commanded cavalry in the Civil War....The Rev. Dr. Henry Carrington Alexander, a Presbyterian theologian. June 29.-Lord Charles James Fox Russell, son of the

sixth Duke of Bedford.... Mrs. Sallie Chapman Gordon Law, known throughout the South as the "Mother of the Confederacy," prominent in hospital work during the war. July 1.-William G. Greene, of Illinois, an associate of Lincoln and Yates.... Peter Butler, a well-known Boston merchant.

July 2.-M. François Augustine Henri Aubepin, exPresident Tribunal of the Seine.

July 4.-Ex-Governor Edwin B. Winans, of Michigan. ....James Sullivan, of the Chicago Tribune, President of the Chicago Press Club.

July 5.-Sir Austen Henry Layard, the Orientalist.

July 6.-Representative Marcus C. Lisle, of the tenth Kentucky district.

July 7.-George M. McComas, for many years deputy collector of the port of Baltimore.

July 10.-Col. Thornton A. Washington, a great-grandson of the oldest brother of the first President of the United States.

July 11.-General James B. Fry, Provost-Marshal-General during the Civil War.

July 12.-George H. Williams, Professor of Organic Geology at Johns Hopkins University.

July 13.-George Rex Graham, a pioneer publisher of American magazine literature.

July 14. Francis A. Crook, a well-known citizen of Baltimore.

July 15.-Herr Piglheim, a conspicuous South German painter....Dr. Joseph Pagani, a distinguished Boston physician.

July 16.-Princess Marcelline Czartoryska, of Cracow, pupil and friend of Chopin.

July 17.-Baron Beyens, Belgian Minister to France.... Herr Joseph Hyrtl, the distinguished Austrian anatomist. .... Charles M. R. Leconte de Lisle, poet and member of the French Academy.

July 18.-Warren Nichols, a well-known, organist of Baltimore.

July 20.-Edmond Jean Baptiste Guillaume, of Paris, a noted architect.

Important Occasions of the Month.

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HE leading scientific gathering of the year for Americans will be the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Brooklyn, N. Y., August 16-23. Many excursions to points near and remote have been arranged; free excursions to Long Branch are offered the members. The meetings of the affiliated societies, beginning with the Geological and Microscopical Societies, will be held before and during the Association meetings.

The American Bar Association meets this year, as usual, at Saratoga, August 22-24. The Hon. Thomas M. Cooley will deliver the President's address, reviewing important legislation of the past twelve months.

The annual convention of the National Temperance Society will be held at Ocean Grove, N. J., August 1-5. General O. O. Howard is expected to preside. attractive speakers are announced.

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At Long Beach, Long Island, N. Y., a "Congress of Religions" will be conducted under the auspices of the American Society of Comparative Religion, August 5-11. At the same place, during the following week, a temperance convention will be held, Secretary Stearns, of the National Temperance Society, acting as director. This

will in turn give place to a "Forum of Reforms," under the direction of Wilbur F. Crafts, in which Samuel Gompers, Booker T. Washington, and other well-known speakers will participate, during the week of August 19-25.

At Chautauqua and at various other summer schools, whose announcements have already appeared in the REVIEW OF REVIEWS, lectures will be given during the month, and in many cases regular class work will be done.

Interesting exercises commemorating the centenary of William Cullen Bryant's birth will take place at Cummington, Mass., on August 16. Mr. Parke Godwin, Bryant's son-in-law, will preside, and among the invited speakers are Dr. Holmes, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Charles Dudley Warner, Joseph H. Choate and George W. Cable. The annual encampment of the Commandery-in-Chief of the Sons of Veterans will be held at Davenport, Iowa, August 20-24.

The Supreme Lodge of the World, Knights of Pythias, will meet at Washington, D. C., August 28.

At Denver, Colorado, August 13-18, will occur the national meet of the League of American Wheelmen, an organization whose membership includes bicyclists in every part of the country.