were thought necessary were finally made effective by the British Government. Many of the cordons had been established to protect places which were either infected at the time or subsequently became infected, were then abolished, they being no longer of any use, and the British Government directed the enforcement of sanitary measures by the troops then in Egypt. The following extract from a report to the State Department, by United States ConsulGeneral G. P. Pomeroy, stationed at Cairo, under date of August 16th, will show the energetic measures adopted: At a recent interview with Surgeon-General Hunter, who was sent to Egypt by the English Foreign Office as medical adviser to the Egyptian Government, I learned a few facts, which I will here recount. This gentleman, with medical assistants, has just returned to Cairo from a tour of inspection of the infected districts in Lower Egypt, of which the most important towns are Damietta, Mansourah, Samanoud, Zagazig, Kafr-Zayat, Mahala-Kybir, Tanta, and Benha. Sur geon-General Hunter remarked that, with the aid of Sir Edward Malet, he communicated to the Minister of the Interior a decided wish to see promptly executed in Cairo, and throughout all the infected districts, the cleaning of the mosques, streets, and cemeteries, of filth and foul matter, to bury the corpses at least one metre under the ground, to cover them with quicklime, and to destroy by fire the small houses tainted with the malady, and the pestilential or noxious air by which it is produced. In this matter, it is necessary to state, the Arab people all through the country here, from a religious impulse, have offered a considerable opposition, which was fortunately silenced by naming, as delegates for executing these measures, notables, Arab doctors, and employés of the different government local administrations. Surgcon-General Hunter also informed me that the Engfish Government, with acquiescence of the Egyptian native authorities, has concluded to form here, as in India, a permanent Sanitary Commission, which will be composed, in the beginning, of eight officers and forty assistants, belonging to the Indian Medical Board (intendancy), who are experienced in the study and practice of this disease, and who will have complete charge and management, in this land, of all public sanitary measures. Consul-General Pomeroy expressed his opinion that the chief cause of the "present" cessation of cholera in Cairo, and some other towns, is to be attributed to the very high rise of the Nile, which has very lately filled with fresh water the canals of the infected districts, and thereby cleaned out the poisonous matter and filth which was the direct origin of the development of cholera. Apart from the cholera epidemic, there is at present a great deal of typhoid fever in the country, and we have just got over an epidemic of spotted typhus fever." While the epidemic lasted, great alarm was felt in Europe, not only among the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, but in Russia, which quarantined her Black sea ports, and later those in the Baltic, and all Europe quarantined against arrivals of persons and goods from Egypt, in view of the danger of importation of cholera. England departed from her usual conservatism against quarantine, by laying the responsibility upon customs officers to make special investigation of the importation of cargoes from Egypt and of passengers; and it is probable that the failure of the cholera to spread to Europe is due, first, to the early quarantine measures instituted against it, and, second, to the energetic policy of the British Government when it was discovered that the Egyptians were either powerless or incompetent to institute proper sanitary measures themselves. Owing to the large quantities of rags annually exported from Egypt to the United States by way of England, it was felt by our Government that great danger existed in the unrestricted importation of infected rags, and sanitary inspectors were appointed in Liverpool and London, to inspect the cargoes of vessels departing for the United States, and to give notification by telegraph of the departure of infected goods. Collectors of customs were forbidden to allow the entry of Egyptian rags until the municipal health officer of the port where the entry was to be made should give a certificate that in his opinion no danger need be apprehended from so doing. This almost stopped the importation of Egyptian rags for some months, and steamships declined to receive suspected rags as freight. It is now proposed that American shippers of rags shall have them properly disinfected before shipment, and to that end a sanitary inspector, acting under the direction of the United States consul, has been appointed, and stationed at Alexandria, whose duty it is to see that the rags have been thoroughly boiled before baling. Machinery on a large scale has been shipped to Alexandria by of the United States, whereby the boiling and one of the principal paper-manufacturing firms subsequent drying may be accomplished with but little loss of time. From a scientific point of view, the cholera epidemic in Egypt does not appear to have afforded any permanent lesson. The early cordons were too inefficiently conducted to be of material service in settling the question as to the prevention of its spread, and the several commissions sent by France and Germany respectively do not appear to have conclusively settled the causation of the disease. The German Commission, headed by Prof. Koch, announced the discovery of a microbe and bacillus, found principally in the walls of the lower intestines. The French Commission was nominally headed by Prof. Pasteur, but was really headed by M. Thuillier, who died at Alexandria, a martyr to his scientific zeal. This commission reported that a micro-organism was found in the blood, located in the spaces between the blood-globules. Further experiments are necessary in order to demonstrate the truth of these propositions. In the mean time nothing has been discovered which in any way modifies the treatment of previous years. The "Fyers' treatment," which consists in the administration of emetics and purgatives, has again been brought forward. This treatment, it will be remembered, originated in Mauritius in 1856. A commission was appointed by the German Government in 1873 for the purpose of investigating the causes of cholera, and their report was made early in 1883. Prof. Hirsch, of the commission, announced his adherence to the doctrine that "from the cholera-patient an infectious substance is actually thrown off, which, however, is not yet capable of acting directly as a cholera-poison, but only obtains its specific infecting influence after it has undergone a certain change, outside the system of the patient himself, and under the afore-mentioned external circumstances, either upon or in the soil or a succedaneum of the soil." Prof. Pettenkofer announced as his opinion, that "the reproduction of the cholera-poison takes place quite independently of the cholerastricken individual (as such), seeing that it may attach itself to persons, sick or well, or to other objects, through the instrumentality of which it may be carried from place to place, and wherever it finds appropriate conditions for its reproduction it may light up an epidemic." The recommendations of this commission for the prevention of the disease are as follow: Of all the measures which may be applied to the prevention and combating of cholera, those take the first place which have for their aim the improvement of general sanitary conditions; all specific measures against cholera will prove unavailing unless we pay the strictest attention in inhabited places to the purifying of the soil from organic and easily putrefying refuse, to the drainage of the soil, to the constant flushing of the sewers, to the frequent emptying of cess-pits, to the careful inspection of dwellings and closing those that are really hurtful, the provision of pure water both for drinking and other domestic purposes, and the like. Speaking of the endemic character of the yellow fever at Vera Cruz, a local tradition has it (Padre Alegre) that yellow fever was introduced there in 1699, by an English ship, which arrived with a cargo of negro slaves from the west coast of Africa; but there does not appear to be much contemporaneous historical evidence to support the tradition. Yellow fever appeared on the west coast of Mexico, principally in the cities on the coast bordering on the Gulf of California. The disease appeared at Mazatlan early in September, and is now believed to have been introduced by a vessel from Panama. It spread rapidly to Guaymas, Hermosillo, and Manzanillo. The city of Acapulco inaugurated a rigid quarantine against vessels from the other western coast ports, and escaped the infection. La Paz, in Lower California, Mexico, was also infected with the fever, which reached the highest pitch of malignancy in September, and deaths in that town reached 114. The acting United States consul at La Paz, Mr. Viosca, was himself affected with the disease, as was also Mr. Willard, United States consul at Guaymas. Mr. Willard estimates that only about 200 persons died at Guaymas of yellow fever, out of 3,500 attacked. He estimated that in the capital of sick from the disease at one time. The effect the State (Hermosillo), over 2,000 persons were of this scourge on those towns was to paralyze all business and create a general panic in the interior. As usual, on its first appearance, there was much discrepancy of opinion as to whether the disease was really yellow fever, or simply the ordinary coast bilious fever; but as the epidemic progressed, it became impossible either to conceal the fact that yellow fever was present, or to deny it so effectually as to prevent adjacent towns from quarantining against them. The American steamer Newbern, which left Guaymas on the 19th of September, arrived in San Francisco on the 29th, with five of her crew sick with yellow fever. Fortunately, the disease was not communicated to the city. The United States Government took early precautions against the admission of yellow fever by keeping inspectors at Havana and Vera Cruz to report by telegraph the departure of infected ships. Inspectors were stationed in Arizona at Fort Yuma and Benson, to prevent the entrance of persons sick with yellow fever, or of infected baggage from the Mexican cities. An inspector was also stationed at Brownsville, Texas, for the same purpose. The Government maintained a quarantine at Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico; a quarantine at Pensacola; Sapelo Sound, on the Atlantic coast, and near Cape Charles in Chesapeake Bay. The local authorities of the United States ports maintained their quarantines as usual. The Revenue Cutter Service was instructed to patrol the Gulf-coast for the 42 42 purpose of inspecting vessels, and to forbid the entrance into any port of persons infected, or of vessels having infected cargoes, and to order Yellow fever prevailed during the year in its native home on the island of Cuba; on the Mexican shores of the Gulf; in a less degree in Brazil, and to a very serious extent on the western shores of Mexico. There is always danger to the Gulf-ports of the United States from the admission of yellow fever from Havana, Cuba, and from Rio de Janeiro, but this year it was threatened from a city where the shipping has hitherto been measurably exempt-Vera Cruz, Mexico. No other city on the Gulf-coast of Mexico suffered severely from yellow fever, but on the west coast the disease appeared with unusual virulence. Vera Cruz, like Havana, has cases of yellow fever the year round. The following table of mortality from yellow fever, at the Hospital de Sebastian, was compiled by Assistant Surgeon Guitéras, of the Marine-Hospital Service: PATIENTS. 1882. Up to Feb. 15, 1883. Total. 302 1,756 302 1,756 them directly to quarantine. These energetic measures prevented the entrance of yellow fever into any port of the United States. As in the previous year, all matters of quarantine administration were managed by the MarineHospital Service, a Bureau of the Treasury Department, of which the Surgeon-General is the chief officer, who is responsible to the Secretary of the Treasury. On the 16th of August a local outbreak of the disease occurred in the Pensacola navy-yard, and the outlying villages of Warrington and Woolsey on the naval reservation, the origin of which is still in doubt. The Secretary of the Navy ordered a board of inquiry to ascertain the cause of the fever, and they reported as the probable cause that infected ballast was used in building the jetties at Fort McRae, workmen on which lived in the village of Warrington, and went immediately from the jetties to their homes. The board, however, declined to give any positive opinion, but simply regarded it as probable that this was the source of infection. Other causes of infection are enumerated and given as possible, among them the possibility of the hibernation of the germs in infected goods left over from the previous year's epidemic in the city of Pensacola. A sanitary cordon was early established against the naval reservation, which prevented travel to or from the reservation during the prevalence of the epidemic. The efficacy of an efficient cordon sanitaire was once more demonstrated, for no case of the disease appeared outside the limits of the reservation. There were a few separate cases of yellow fever in the city of Pensacola, evidently developed from infected bedding left over from the previous year, when a serious epidemic prevailed. As to the causation of yellow fever in general, nothing has been developed within the year, except the investigation of Dr. Domingos Freize, of Brazil, who reports having discovcred the microbion of the disease; that it is developed in the corpses of the deceased; and that it flourishes to a great extent in the earth of cemeteries. Dr. Freize has recognized in the blood of yellow-fever patients the cryptococcus, to which he has attached the name of zanthogenicus. The color of the black-vomit he considers due to this cryptococcus. He has produced the disease in Guinea-pigs and rabbits by injecting the C. zanthogenicus. He advises, as the best means of extermination, the building of public crematories, and that all persons dying of yellow fever shall be cremated. The Brazilian Government has approved his recommendation, and a crematory has been erected by order of the Imperial Government. Dr. Carmona Del Valle, of Mexico, also claims to have discovered the germ of the disease, and has named it Peronospera lutea. He finds its mycelium in the black - vomit, and claims to have observed its development in the urine. ERYSIPELAS. See SURGERY. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. The statistical reports presented to the General Conference of the Evangelical Association, at its meeting in October, 1883, gave the following items: Whole number of members, 120,231; increase during four years, 10,458; number of preachers, 1,671; of churches, 1,622, of which the value was $3,577,883; number of parsonages, 501, having a value of $307,205; number of Sunday-schools, 2,131, with 135,795 pupils. General Conference.-The General Conference met at Allentown, Pa., October 4th. An account of the present condition of the Church, and a review of its progress during the past four years, were given in the address of the bishop. The net gain in members had been about 8 per cent., or 5 per cent. less than the gain during the preceding four years, and 12 per cent. less than the gain during the four years from 1871 to 1875. The gain in the number of ministers (itinerant and local) had been about 8 per cent., the increase in the number of churches a little more than 3 per cent., and that in the number of Sunday-schools about 9 per cent. Much improvement was remarked in the substitution of new church-buildings for old ones; and debts resting against churches had been paid off to such an extent that all the churches in some of the conferences were free from such debts, and nearly all the others were in an easy condition. The receipts of the Missionary Society during four years had been $384,086, or $103,404 more than those of the previous four years. The work of home missions had been extended to Texas, where missions had been organized in Galveston, San Antonio, and Temple, and to Denver, Col. The receipts of the Publishing House at Cleveland, O., during four years, had been $767,007, or $169,097 more than those of the previous four years; and those of the Publishing House in Stuttgart, Germany, had been $64,359. The Missionary Society employed 420 missionaries and supplied 427 mission charges, with which were connected 35,767 members; it also sustained 775 mission Sunday-schools, with 6,910 officers and teachers and 47,230 pupils. Abroad the society sustained missions in Europe, in aid of the conferences in Germany and Switzerland, and in Japan. The two European conferences employed 67 preachers besides theological students, and included fifty stations with about 700 preaching appointments, and an enrollment of 8,400 members, and 268 Sunday-schools, with 16,950 pupils. Three periodicals were published at Stuttgart. The net increase in members in Europe was small, though the additions to the churches had been many, because a large proportion of the converts had emigrated to the United States. The German churches had suffered much from the opposition of the state churches. The mission in Japan returned 2 American preachers, 4 American woman missionaries, 3 native preachers, 4 student helpers, 3 native Bible women, a number of teachers in day-schools, 3 day-schools with 132 pupils, and 4 Sundayschools, with 191. The Committee on High Schools and Education reported on the condition of Northwestern College, Naperville, Ill.; the Biblical Institute; Union Seminary for young men and young women (with which a theological course is connected); Schuylkill Seminary, Reading, Pa., a new institution; and the Theological Seminary at Reutlingen, Germany, where nineteen young men had received instruction during the quadrennium, The attention of the conference was largely given to matters of detail in discipline and the management of the business affairs and benevolent enterprises of the Church. A report expressing the sentiments of the body on various questions of public morals recommended the legal prohibition of the traffic in intoxicating liquors; advised a strict observance of the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath; and condemned loose divorce legislation and speculations in stock and produce. The speedy publication of a series of normal class textbooks, and the formation of classes for the regular study of a course of instruction covered by them, with certificates of graduation to be given to those who complete the same, were recommended. Provision was made for the formation of a woman's missionary society auxiliary to the Missionary Society of the Church, for the organization of local branches to co-operate with it. EVENTS OF 1883. The year 1883 was comparatively devoid of striking political events, but with peace assured in Europe it was a year of legislative discussion and activity. The popular unrest in Europe, heightened by the growing acuteness of the economical struggle for life, manifested itself in characteristic ways. The same circumstances impelled governments to make commercial restrictions, and, in conjunction with the absence of military dangers at home, to seek acquisitions in the outlying regions of the earth. There were constitutional struggles and revolutionary attempts in many lands, revealing the instability of their political institutions. There was a more abundant harvest in most countries. The year was chiefly remarkable for extraordinary natural calamities. A volcanic outburst devastated one of the most populous and productive regions of the world, the cholera mowed down the population of another, earthquakes demolished whole towns, freshets ravaged the valleys of Central Europe, and tornadoes spread desolation in the United States. The minor catastrophes and accidents by land and sea, when aggregated, present an appalling sum of destruction, suffering, and death. The following chronicle recounts the noteworthy events of 1883 in the order of their occurrence: January 1. Inauguration of Governor Cleveland at Albany. Floods at Vienna and on the Rhine; 500 houses destroyed at Worms. 2. Meeting of New York Legislature. Inundations VOL. XXIII.-21 A extend in the valley of the Rhine and its tributaries, causing great damage and suffering at Düsseldorf, Mayence, Worms, Mannheim, and Ludwigshaven. 3. Railroad communications between Switzerland, France, and Italy, interrupted by high water. Plot against the Austrian Crown Prince discovered at Pesth. Senate. House of Representatives pass Pendleton's 4. Sherman's bonded whisky bill passed in the civil-service reform bill. Presburg, in Hungary, flooded. Spanish Minister of Finance declares the necessity of retrenchment. 5. State Treasurer of Tennessee absconds, leaving foods recede. Death of Gen. Chanzy. defalcations to the amount of over $400,000. Rhine 6. Funeral of Gambetta, at Paris, amid manifestations of public sorrow. 7. Spanish Cabinet resigns. Sinking of the steamer City of Brussels, run into in a fog by the Kirby Hall, near Liverpool. 8. Sagasta forms a new Ministry in Spain. 9. Presidential succession bill passed in Congress. English ship British Empire burned on the high seas. German Emperor subscribes 600,000 marks for the Rhine sufferers. The Opposition attack the GovernSpanish Ministry formed under the presidency of ment on the question of prohibiting American pork. Sagasta. 10. Burning of the Newhall House in Milwaukee; nearly 100 lives lost. Prussian Diet votes 3,000,000 marks for the relief of the inundated. Flood devastates the town of Raab, in Hungary; many persons drowned. 11. Bill to restore Gen. Fitz-John Porter to his rank in the army, without back pay, carried in the Senate. Death of ex-Senator Lott M. Morrill, in Augusta, Me. Histrionic triumph of Edwin Booth at Berlin. German Reichstag rejects a motion to repeal the anti-Socialist laws, the May laws, and all exceptional legislation. 12. Shipping bill, with drawback and free-ship clauses struck out, passed by the House of Representatives. Arrest of Phoenix Park murderers in Dublin. The Czar and imperial family take up their residence in St. Petersburg in the Anitchkoff Palace. 13. Fire in a circus in Berdichev, Russian Poland; 300 persons burned to death. 15. Arrest of Prince Napoleon in Paris for issuing a manifesto. The British ship Pride of the Ocean destroyed by dynamite. 16. Floquet proposal to expel members of royal families voted urgent in the French Chamber. Terto the west coast of Africa. mination of Portuguese treaty with England relating 17. Execution of two agrarian murderers in Ireland. Swedish Parliament opened. 18. Prohibition amendment in Iowa adjudged invalid. Vote of thanks in the Reichstag for American subscriptions to relief fund. The village of Marais in Savoy destroyed by an earthquake.. 19. Disaster on Southern Pacific railway near Tehichipa, Cal.; 15 lives lost. Sinking of the Hamburg steamer Cimbria; 353 drowned out of 420 on board. The Russian city Kherson destroyed by fire. 20. Gen. Iglesias proclaimed President in Peru by a Congress sitting at Catamarca, and accepts on condition that the people are willing to make peace with Chili. Skuptchina (of Servia) approve German commercial treaty. 21. Explosion of giant powder near Oakland, Cal., killing over 30 Chinamen. Explosion of a gasometer in Glasgow. Death of Prince Frederick Charles Alexander of Prussia. 22. A clause of the Ku-klux law of 1871 decided to be unconstitutional. Arrest in Germany of the officers of the English steamer Sultan, which collided with and sank the Cimbria. The insurgents in Ecuador gain a victory. 23. John E. Kenna elected Senator for West Virginia, and Richard Coke for Texas. A number of deaths from starvation in Ireland. Belgian Chamber sanctions the introduction of the Flemish language in the intermediate schools of Flanders. Closure of Servian Skuptchina. Death of Gustave Doré. 24. Senatorial elections in New Jersey and Kansas, return of McPherson and Plumb. In New Guinea 16 sailors are slaughtered by cannibals. 25. Audience of the Russian minister De Giers with the Austrian Emperor. Naval appropriation bill passed in the House. 26. Embezzlements in the Municipal Gas-Works of Philadelphia discovered. 27. Bowen and Tabor elected to represent Colorado in the Senate. New York State Senate confirms the Governor's appointments of Railroad Commissioners. The German bark Admiral Prince Adalbert wrecked off the coast of Wales. 28. The French Cabinet resigns. Mutiny of convicts in Cork Harbor. Hungarian Chamber rejects a proposition to repeal the emancipation of the Jews. 29. French Ministry newly organized with Fallières for Premier. Wrecks on the English coast. Duration of International Tribunals in Egypt prolonged till Feb. 1, 1884. 30. Fatal snow-slide in Colorado. Switzerland rejects the naturalization treaty proposed by the United States. 31. Gen. Manderson elected Senator for Nebraska. Strike of 3,500 workmen in Limoges, France. Gen. Thibaudin appointed French Minister of War. Restoration of King Cetewayo in Zululand. February 1. Election of D. M. Sabin to the United States Senate in Minnesota. 2. Resolution in favor of the preservation of forests adopted by New York Legislature. French Chamber passes the expulsion bill against royal families. Steamer Kenmure Castle foundered in the Bay of Biscay. 3. Inundations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. 4. Severe earthquake at Agram. Spanish Cortes refuse to abolish parliamentary oaths. 5. Colvin nominated Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government. 7. Arrest of Payne, organizer of the Oklahama raids. 8. The Spanish Government emancipate 40,000 slaves in Cuba. Opening of Danube Conference at London. 9. Death of William E. Dodge. Government proposal of biennial budgets rejected by the German Reichstag. 10. Death of Marshall Jewell. 11. Breaking of a dam in Louisville, and destruction of life and property. 12. Prince Jerome Napoleon released from confinement. Coronation of King Kalakaua in Honolulu. 13. Minister Fallières proffers the resignation of the French interim ministry. Death of Richard Wagner. 14. Death of E. D. Morgan. 15. British Parliament meets. French Chamber adopts the pretenders' bill of Barbey. 16. Bill to return Japanese indemnity passed by the Senate. The New York Legislature passes the tenement-house cigar bill, and the bill to reduce elevated-railroad fares. A mining accident in Illinois causes the loss of 80 lives. Ukase of the Czar on amending laws relating to the Jews. 17. The Legislature of Pennsylvania rejects the prohibition amendment. The Jeannette investigation ends in the adoption of a report approving the conduct of all members of the expedition. Carey appears as a witness for the crown in the Dublin criminal investigation. French Senate rejects the expulsion bill. Norwegian Storthing meets. 18. The tariff bill passed by the United States Senate. Adverse vote on the measure in the House of Representatives. Appointment by the President of the Civil-Service Commission. President Grévy accepts the resignation of the Cabinet, and charges Jules Ferry with the formation of a Ministry. 20. Panic in a German Catholic school in New York; 15 children killed. Count Corti demands of the Porte satisfaction for insults to Italian consul in Tripoli, under threat of naval action. 21. Army appropriation bill passes the Senate. Burning of the steamer Morro Castle in Charleston Harbor. Loss of United States steamer Ashuelot; 11 drowned. The German Federal Council adopt the resolution prohibiting the importation of American pork. New French Cabinet constituted by Ferry. 23. Mutiny of prisoners, and burning of the Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Mo. Prof. Swift, of Rochester, N. Y., discovers a new comet. 24. The Senate adopts revenue bill intended to reduce customs and taxes $25,000,000. John W. Foster, of Indiana, appointed Minister to Spain. Escape of 20 prisoners from the Arkansas State Prison. Decree of Servian King on new organization of the army. 25. The Orleans princes in the French army are retired from active service. 26. Bankruptcy of a Roman Catholic church in Lawrence, Mass., and loss of trust-funds. Bill 27. Senate bill of revenue reform referred by the House of Representatives to a commission. against the adulteration of teas passed in Congress. 28. The Secretary of State informs the Senate that the Government disapproves the attitude taken at Lima by Mr. Partridge, in joining the representatives of England, France, and Italy in a friendly intervention between Chili and Peru. Silver wedding of the German Crown Prince. Edhem Pasha appointed Turkish Minister of the Interior. March 1. Belgian Chamber refuses to cut down the bishops' salaries. Decree of resumption of specie payments signed by King of Italy. Resignation of Dutch Ministry. 2. Veto of the five-cent elevated railroad fare bill by Governor Cleveland. 3. Retirement of David Davis from the presidency of the Senate; Senator Edmunds chosen his successor. Passage of the tariff act. Senate tables river and harbor appropriation bill. 4. Tariff act signed by the President. Adjournment of Congress. Steamboat Yazoo sunk in the Mississippi, and 16 lives lost. Death of Governor A. H. Stephens at Atlanta. 5. Decision by the United States Supreme Court that a State can not be sued by another State for claims assigned to it by citizens. James S. Boynton, President of the Georgia State Senate, sworn in as Governor in the place of Alexander H. Stephens, deceased. Resignation of the Prussian Minister of War, Von Kameke. 6. Revision of the Constitution negatived by the French Chamber. Gale on British coast, 135 fishermen lost. 7. Coalition of Democrats and Greenbackers in Michigan declare for free trade. Bronsard von Schellendorf appointed Prussian Minister of War. 8. Retirement of the German Naval Minister, Von Stosch. 9. Louise Michel leads a demonstration of unemployed working-men in Paris, and instigates a bread riot. The steamer Navarre, sailing between Copenhagen and Leith, goes down with 65 persons on board. In Andalusia 1,200 persons are arrested on the charge of conspiracy as members of the Black Hand Association. 10. Danube Convention signed in London. Death of Coumoundouros, Greek ex-Minister. 11. Death of Prince Gortchakoff. 12. Turkish Government gives notice of termination of treaties of commerce with the United States, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark. 14. The murderer Dukes acquitted by a jury in Uniontown, Pa. Parnell's amendment to the land act rejected by the British Parliament. Discovery in St. Petersburg of defalcations by officials amounting to 11,000,000 rubles. |