YEAR.

A. D. 1888.

Strikes among railway engineers.

EVENTS.

New Jersey passed a High-license Local Option bill.

Bell telephone trial decided in favor of the Bell company.

Two hundred lives lost by great storm in north-west.

Death of Roscoe Conkling.

Chinese Exclusion bill passed by congress.

Death of Chief-Justice Waite, and Melville W. Fuller appointed to the vacancy.
New York passes a bill to execute murderers by electricity.

Reunion of Federal and Confederate troops on field of Gettysburgh.

Death of General Philip H. Sheridan.

Mills Tariff bill passed by the house of representatives.

Yellow fever panic in the south.

President Cleveland signed the Chinese Exclusion bill.

Benjamin Harrison elected President of the United States, against Grover Cleve land, re-nominated and defeated.

1889. Direct Tax bill vetoed by President Cleveland.

1890.

1891.

Benjamin Harrison inaugurated President.
Opening of the Territory of Oklahoma.

Deaths of Justice Stanley Matthews, George H. Pendleton, Simon Cameron, S. S.
Cox and John Ericsson.

Near six thousand lives lost by bursting of a dam at Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Celebration in New York of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Washington's
Presidential inauguration.

Judge David S. Terry attacks Supreme-Justice Field and is killed by United States
Marshal Nagle.

Dr. P. H. Cronin murdered in Chicago by enemies of an opposing Irish faction.
Death of Jefferson Davis.

Meeting of the Pan-American congress at Washington.

Epidemic of La Grippe spreading through America.

South Dakota, North Dakota, Washington and Montana admitted to the Union.
Department of agriculture raised to a cabinet position, and Norman J. Coleman
appointed secretary.

David J. Brewer appointed to the supreme bench, vice Stanley Matthews.
Terrible loss of life and property by a cyclone in Louisville, Kentucky.

Celebration in New York city of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the United
States supreme court.

Dedication of the Garfield monument at Cleveland, Ohio.

Congress selects Chicago as the place for the Columbian World's Fair of 1892.
Passage of an anti-lottery law, and endeavors to close the Louisiana lottery.
United States census taken, showing the population to be over sixty-two millions.
The Farmers' Alliance makes it appearance, with marked effect upon the polit-
ical results in several sections of the country.

John Ericsson's body removed to Sweden, with honors, by the United States
government.

The McKinley Tariff bill passed.

Deaths of William D. Kelley, the "Father of the House:" Samuel J. Randall, General George Crook, John C. Fremont, John Jacob Astor, Samuel Miller, associate-justice of the United States supreme court; General Alfred H. Terry and General F. E. Spinner, ex-treasurer of the United States.

William Kemmler executed in New York by electricity, the first to suffer under the new electric law.

The "ghost dance," a religious ceremony of the Sioux Indians, threatens to pre-
cipitate a general war, and some blood is shed before quiet is secured.

The government completes a treaty with Samoa, and an extradition treaty with
England.

Judge Henry P. Brown appointed justice of the United States supreme court, vice
Justice Miller.

Introduction in congress of a bill for the supervision of elections, commonly
known as the "Force Bill."

Idaho and Wyoming admitted as states.

Oklahoma created a territory.

Pan-American Congress held.

A. D.

1888.

Strikes among railway engineers.

New Jersey passed a High-license Local Option bill.

Bell telephone trial decided in favor of the Bell company.

Two hundred lives lost by great storm in north-west.

Death of Roscoe Conkling.

Chinese Exclusion bill passed by congress.

Death of Chief-Justice Waite, and Melville W. Fuller appointed to the vacancy.
New York passes a bill to execute murderers by electricity.

Reunion of Federal and Confederate troops on field of Gettysburgh.

Death of General Philip H. Sheridan.

Mills Tariff bill passed by the house of representatives.

Yellow fever panic in the south.

President Cleveland signed the Chinese Exclusion bill.

Benjamin Harrison elected President of the United States, against Grover Cleve. land, re-nominated and defeated.

1889. Direct Tax bill vetoed by President Cleveland.

1890.

1891.

Benjamin Harrison inaugurated President.

Opening of the Territory of Oklahoma.

Deaths of Justice Stanley Matthews, George H. Pendleton, Simon Cameron, S. S.
Cox and John Ericsson.

Near six thousand lives lost by bursting of a dam at Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Celebration in New York of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Washington's
Presidential inauguration.

Judge David S. Terry attacks Supreme-Justice Field and is killed by United States
Marshal Nagle.

Dr. P. H. Cronin murdered in Chicago by enemies of an opposing Irish faction.
Death of Jefferson Davis.

Meeting of the Pan-American congress at Washington.

Epidemic of La Grippe spreading through America.

South Dakota, North Dakota, Washington and Montana admitted to the Union.
Department of agriculture raised to a cabinet position, and Norman J. Coleman
appointed secretary.

David J. Brewer appointed to the supreme bench, vice Stanley Matthews.
Terrible loss of life and property by a cyclone in Louisville, Kentucky.

Celebration in New York city of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the United
States supreme court.

Dedication of the Garfield monument at Cleveland, Ohio.

Congress selects Chicago as the place for the Columbian World's Fair of 1892.
Passage of an anti-lottery law, and endeavors to close the Louisiana lottery.
United States census taken, showing the population to be over sixty-two millions.
The Farmers' Alliance makes it appearance, with marked effect upon the polit-
ical results in several sections of the country.

John Ericsson's body removed to Sweden, with honors, by the United States

government.

The McKinley Tariff bill passed.

Deaths of William D. Kelley, the "Father of the House;" Samuel J. Randall, General George Crook, John C. Fremont, John Jacob Astor, Samuel Miller, associate justice of the United States supreme court; General Alfred H. Terry and General F. E. Spinner, ex-treasurer of the United States.

William Kemmler executed in New York by electricity, the first to suffer under the new electric law.

The ghost dance," a religious ceremony of the Sioux Indians, threatens to pre-
cipitate a general war, and some blood is shed before quiet is secured.

The government completes a treaty with Samoa, and an extradition treaty with
England.

Judge Henry P. Brown appointed justice of the United States supreme court, vice
Justice Miller.

Introduction in congress of a bill for the supervision of elections, commonly
known as the "Force Bill.”

Idaho and Wyoming admitted as states.
Oklahoma created a territory.

Pan-American Congress held.

1891.

1892.

1893.

1894.

Deaths of George Bancroft and General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Sudden death of William Windom, secretary of the United States treasury, at a
banquet table in New York.

Ex-Governor Charles Foster of Ohio appointed secretary of the treasury.
Reciprocity agreements made with Brazil and Venezuela.

Death of Admiral David D. Porter.

International difficulty with Italy because of the lynching of alleged Italian subjects by a mob at New Orleans.

Sailors of the United States war-ship Baltimore beaten and murdered by a mob in the streets of Valparaiso, Chili; our government demands an apology and indemnity, which, after a determined show of force on the part of the United States, are granted.

Completion of tunnel under St. Clair river.

International Copyright Law passed.

"Original Package" Law pronounced constitutional by Supreme Court.
Death of Joseph P. Bradley, associate justice of the supreme court.

A treaty of arbitration agreed upon between the United States and Great
Britain as to the right of the former to exclusive jurisdiction in Behring sea.
Supreme Court holds Anti-Lottery Bill constitutional.

Chili apologizes for the Valparaiso outrage.

Geary Chinese Exclusion Bill passed.

Riot at Homestead, Pa.

Cholera in New York.

Grand Columbian Day celebration in New York.

Dedication of World's Fair Buildings.

Death of Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President.

Election of President Cleveland and vice-President Stevenson.

Nicaraugua Canal Convention held at New Orleans.

The American yacht Vigilant defeated the British yacht Valkyrie for the America
cup.

Marshall Field of Chicago gave $1,000,000 for a memorial museum on the
World's Fair grounds.

Big strike of coal miners in Lehigh Valley.

Death of ex-President Hayes at Fremont, Ohio.

Death of James G. Blaine.

Inauguration of President Cleveland.

World's Fair held in Chicago.

Collapse of Ford Theatre building at Washington; twenty-one clerks killed.

A financial panic strikes the country. Extra session of Congress called, and the Sherman Purchase Bill repealed.

The Hawaiian affair.

California Mid-Winter Fair.

The Wilson Tariff Bill passed.

Death of George W. Childs.

The Federal Election Laws repealed.

Great strike of American Railway Union.

The march of the Commonweal Army.

Death of David Dudley Field.

Strike of coal miners in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Death of Andrew G. Curtin, war governor of Pennsylvania.