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ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when SyTup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- til need, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its nany excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is • for/5 sale in 50c nnd 61 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. • CAN FRANCISCO, CAL. • LOUISVILLE. XY. NEW YORK. N.Y. Notable Events of the Past Twelvemonth. J’HF BUSY IIANI) OF DEATH. Fire ttiul Flood Slave Done Their Direful \^ork—A Year of Political Change*. Ixing L4nt of Strike*—MiaccIlancMma Mat- tern at Home and Abroad. Eere is the record of 1890: The year was ushered iu by la grippe. The base ball season was not a success. Pacing^ running and team racing records were lowered. Football had a Ixxmi. Mary Anderson married. The McKinley trill was passed. Boulanger fell. The Dem ocrats won the congress elections. The Parnell matter dealt a severe blow to the Irish causo. The financial world narrowly escaped disaster. Stanley’s revelations of the 1 horrors of the rear guard convulsed the civilized world. Tornadoes 4e1 enormous damage in parts of Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana; at Ixhim Tills *00 buildings were demolished, and bo- teveu 75 and >00 lives lost; Bowling Green, Ky., was practically wiped out of existence, witli many fatalities; total loss of life about TOO URtL 2. Kme explosion at Nantiooke, Pa.; 5 Idllod, 6 hmt. 6. 42 buildings burned at Theresa, N. Y.; loss $150,000. 9. Tornado in Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Virginia; 12 killed; enormous damage. MAY. 6. 3,TOO people thrown out of employment by fire in Uie Ringer sewing machine works at ! Elizabeth, X. J.; loss tncs-o tlian $1,000,0X1. , Salt Creek, Tex., wrecked by tornado; many i killed. Insane asylum burned at Longue Point, Quo- j bee; 91 killed; loss $100,000. 8. Chenango county poorbousc burned at Pres 1 ton, N. Y.; 10 billed. 1L 19 dwelling homes destroyed by a storm at Akron, O. Farm houses wrecked and 4 killed by a Kan sas tornado. Government storehouses at Willett's Point, N. Y-, burned; loss, $.500,000. 15. Mine accident at Ashley, l’a.; SI killed. Btt Fh.ll of a train thrmigli a drawbridge at Oak land, Cal.; 29 killed. JUNE. 4. Tornado at Bradshaw, Neb.; 15 killed; great damage t« jn-operty. 15 Expiosibn In Farm Hill eeal mine at Dunbar, l'a.; 39 killed. 19. dcudlmrst and tcruado In Potter County, R. I).; IS killed; mormons damage to property; disastrous sterms In Kentucky and Maine. 30. Allen-Dmdiey Distillery company's works at 1 /mixville, Ky, burned; kies, $150,000; also Standard Oil company's refinery, same city; seroral employes fatally hurt. JULY. 7. Storm at Fargo, N. V.; 9 Lined; much prop erty destroyed. 11. Explosion of steamboat Tioga's boiler at Chi- eago; IX) killed. , Collapse of a ferry landing at Dartmouth, N. S.; 12 killed. 15 Tornado capsized un excursion Bteamor on Lake Pepin, SOmi.; 1C drowned; great dam age to property in St. I'anl. Wall paper factory of Carey Jtrxia. w4th a hren- ber yard and pianiug Brill, homed ot Ihila- doipftia; loss, $800,000, M. Otttimsn on tbe Mpuvu mflroad, near Spring- ville, Ilia: X) trilled. Firs started in tierCkxrid btoeb at Gohvwton, Tex.; konn, $1,000,000. 1ft. tWnrKy exopanyf* warehouse «t Mtnneapetts burned; Visa, IkkXttCO E.wploaien of Stag's powder mi9a, 29 miles fresu < VuvnMft; 10 MDed, 000 tn$urdO, ft) aerieesiy. M. hnwkbKV, Hohk., almost -ecsapletefy hurte-d. 18 Five In ttaWo««^Uukn bufMing, New Ytrk city; loss, $l,0SftnuO 01 Itwendiary lire siCflaneVails. Wash.; toss, $160,000 (ft Ternedo at South Law retire. Mast.; 9 kOtrd, 10 seriously injurudaM lightly Injured, 600 rendered hnrmdaaa: loss, $200,003 *7. Waftao-, tunbr, BnrneXr, Ions, $C!3,»TOO; TOO botmtaas. 88. Bxrursion ikmnui Lrwdaa onllided with the Bay Lfne irfeamer Vl^takt near Tolehester, Vs.; 14-kfned. 80 Injured. 80. Ihurimra feus of Seneca FXtflh, N. Y., tmrned; k*s, $itri.«CXl Doola, lumber yards «nd rnllroed property burned tn Oiiongo; Ins, $300,0*0. ATWW7BT. 3 Storm m Mmeeeato; damage at New Rich mond. $150,00*; at Sioux Ftdls, $15,003. 71. Explosion of natural gas tore np ten acres of land near Wstdeei, Shelby county, Ind.; jricccr of t!io rfrer flat rock thrown half a mile. 74. Keatucky distillery lit Louisville, Ky., burned; loss, $3,000,000. 4C business houses burned at Austin, Potter county, l'a.; loss, $500,000. 15. Storm at Colorado Springs; 2 killed; loss, $200,000. 19. Express train wrecked on the Old Colony rail road, near Quincy, Mass.; 20 killed, 3 fa- , tally, and 25 seriously Injured. A tornado doitrsyod900 houses at Wflkcsbarre, Pa., and vicinity; 10 killed, 11 fatally in juretl and many badly hurt; loss, $1,000,000. All the luost important dates of the 21 • Web winds at Philadelphia; 4 killed; great * x, t • . a . t .. iliimApQ at Baltimore. Wofcliimrton and year follow under appropriate headings. FIRES AND DISASTERS. JANUARY. & Snowaliil** in Sierra City, Cal.; 7 killed; ln- teixso cold m tho southwest. D 1C drowno<l iu a sinking caisson at I/>uiHvi!le, Ky 12. A storm at St. Ixniis killed 3, Injured many and did enormous damage to pn»pt».rty; simi lar storms mfivhig eastward, did great havoc in^ther states. Stables of Macey Bros., nt Versailles, Ky., bunie«l with forty blooded horses, among them Bell Boy; lorn, $350,009. lft An elevator in Baltimore bufued; loss, $800,- 000; also the British steamship Socrobusco, lying alongside; 3 killed; loss, $150,000. Tornado at Clinton, Ky., killed lOund injured 65; damage by storms in Syracuse, Roches* iter, Oswego, Buffalo and other New York state cities; heavy snow in Kansas. 27 Oi&iiin, Coburn & Co.'s building in Boston burned; loss, $vfl0,000i Tl Reported that u storm In Washington killed 10 people and thousands of cattle. 22 Terrible storms on American, French and En glish coasts Natural gas explosion at Coluiabua, O , killed , 10 and injured many; several hufldings Vi recked. 27 Accident ou the Louisville, New Albany And Chicago railroad near Indianapolis killed % and injured many FEBRUARY. 1. Explosion nt Plymouth, Pa.; killed six and injured others. 2. Tenement house fire iu Boston; eleven killed; loss $175, U00 Fire in Danbury, Conn.; loss $300,000. 2. A fti*e in the Washington house of Benjamin F. Tracy, secretary of the United Btate* j navy, resulted in the deuth of Mrs. 'Tracy, a 1 daughter and a woman servant. Mr. And , Mrs WLlmerding, daughUw and grand* j daughter of r the secr»»tory, jump«ed from a window and were sovendy iujurinL The eecretaiy was unconscious when removed, and was with difficulty restored. 4. A railroad feculent at The Dalles, Ore., killed 10 and injured 15. t Floods in Oregou.. >2 FTre iu the dry goods lionto of J. V. For well A C#., Chicago; loss $500,000 74. University of Toronto burned. -22 A storage reservoir dam gave way in Hasa- yarn pa. Am.; 50 killed and $1,000,000 dam age done to proj>erty HABCB 1. Floods along the Ohio riser. 2 Mine fire ut Wilkesbarre, Pa.; ^ killed. V. Accident ou the l>tke Shore railroad at Ham burg, near Buffalo, N. Y.; 0 killed, 15 in jured 8. Alarming rise of rivers hi the Mississippi val ley; tliis was the beginning of a series of disastrous floods lasting fatly two months; nearly every day levees were swept away; at out: time New Orleans was in danger; March HO the Yazoo delta was overflowed; March 30 but one house was left unharmed at Skipwith, Miss.; April 13 Sims Port, La., was overflowed, April 25 the river reached the highest point on record at Vicksburg. 21. The oiothing bouse of Stern, Meyer & Oo n Cincinnati, burned; loss $500,000. 2ft. Fire at Kirksvflie, Mo.; loss $200,000. 17. Fall ot burning walls at Indianapolis; lOkfUed, 15 injured; March 10 more walls ot same budding fell; 2 killed. Fire at Peoria, Ilia; loss, $250,000. Mine Or© at Hurley, Wia.; 7 kfiled. ■ %. Floods along the Monoagahela and Alleghany rivers iu Pennsylvania. 27. Explosion in a Chicago sugar reflnery; 9 damage at Baltimore, Washington and other places. Fire at Thousand Island park, N. Y.; 1 killed; loss, $180,000. 22 Accident on Mount Penn Gravity railroad, at Reading, Pa.; 4 kifltxi, 21 injured. 20. MoVicker's tbeatro burned in Cliicago; loss, $200,000. snpTRMinKt. C. Prematuro explosion of a blast at Spokane Falls, Wash.; 1$killed, 27 injured. 19. Pottsville express on the Heading railroad wrecked near Shocmakersville, Pa.; 23 killed, 40 injured. 24. Explosion on a steamer at Newcastle, Pa.; 12 killed. 28. Fire in Fowler Tiros’, packing house, Chicago; loss, $700,000. OCTDDXIL 7. Explosion at the Imiwnt P«rwder works, ntiar Wilmington, Del.; 12 killed. 9. Explosion in a gold mine at Rosario, Cal.; 10 killed lft. Leland house In Syracuse, N. Y., burned; 5 killed, 15 injured; loss, $2Jfi,0(X). 90. Dry goods store of Frank Bros, at St. I^ouis, Mo., burned; loss, $425,000. 21. P ire at East Pepperell, Mass.; loss, $300,000. 26. Mills, warehouses, cotton, steamboats, cars, coal and wood yanla, wharves and a freight depot, burned in Mobile, Ala.; loss, $650,000. 27. Storms and high tides did great damage on the Atlantic coast. 80. Collision between steamship Vizcaya and schooner Cornelius Hargraves off Barncgat, N. J.; 65 drowned. XOVBMBE&. I. Business portion of Chillicofho, Ills., burned; loss, $200,000. 8. Burlington hotel, Grand hotel and several business buildings burned in Ban Francisco; loss, $1,500,000. 4. Ware house stored with valuables burned at New Rochelle, N. Y.; loss, $250,000. ft. C. J. Wells’ elevator burned in Buffalo, N. Y.; loss, $250, CVX>. St. Elmo hotel and other buddings 1 Aimed in Denver; 1 killed; loss, $109,000. Business portion of Trnckee, Cal., burned; loss, $110,000. 7. Rndd house and other buddings burned at Owenifiwro, Ky.; 8 killed, many hurt; loss, $250,000. II. Fifty-five drowned by an Australian ferryboat disaster. TSL Wreck ot ttfe British cruiser Serpent on the Spamcftj esast; 97B drowwed. K H. Dutanl, comnMoi msrcdiaot. and others bumed out in San Fvoocasco; kies, jGIfiOjXXI. 82, Si Hi mtti and oftker buiktrags-burned at Pater Bon, aN. J.iioss, fdOCMWX 85. IjUu^hm yards burned at Cheboygan, Mich.; loss, $400,000. 87. Fire in the Powers Dry Goods Oo.’s buildings at St. Pauh loss, $KG;0U0. D^CVMBKR. 1. Campbell Manufacturing company's mill Inirninl at Mouayunk^ Pa,; ioes, $280,000. ft. Fire in Scollop's tobacco works at Detroit; loss, $800,lkKJ. 4. A bloat furnace feU at Johet, Ills.; 5 killed. to be minister to thd Thifief States of~Bra- I xil, sad Wir.Lxm H. Taft, at Ohio, to be so- I lidtor (crocral. ntpROARY. 8. A statement was prepared !»y Mr. Carlisle and signed by nil the Democrats in the house at j Washhkgton, stating their side of the dis pute wer the quest km of certifying a quo- 1 rum. 4. Homing declared governor of West Virginia by a vote in the legislature of 43 to 40. Tho senate ratified tl*o Samoan treaty with 12 dissenting votes. 10. Tlie president signed the proclamation open ing theffioux reservation. Tbo president nominated Charles Emory Smith to be minister to Russia. 13. The Oklahoma bill passed In tho senate, with amendment including No Man's Land. 14. The house nriopted the new rode of rules. 15. The house ;massed the mortgage indebtedness hill after amendment. Secretary Wlndom ternilnate<l tho govern ment contract with the New York commis si oners of immigration. i 18. John K. liayborn eiecbrd to snreerfd the hito Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, in congress. The senate ratiflr<l the British extradition treaty with two slight amendments. 24. The house at Washington voted for Chicago as the site for the World's fair, tho eighth ballot standing—Chicago, 157; New York, 107; St. Louis, 25; Washington, IS; Cum berland Gap, 1. 25. nie president nominated Harold M. Sewnfl, of Maine, to bo consul general at Apia, Samoa. 27. Hkj president nominated Henry C. Caldwell, of Arkansas, to succeed Jndgo Brewer on tho circuit bench. 28. Secretary Wtndom awarded tbo contract for taking fur seals In Alaska to tho North American Commercial company. KAROO. 4. William B. Allison re-dcoted United States senator by tho Iowa legislature. 20. Tbo Blair education bill defeated In tho senate by a vote of 37 to 31. ^ . . . | APRIL. ' 8. Tbo Idaho admission bill pawed by the house; passed by tho senate July 1; signed by presi- ; dent J«)y 8. ft. Tho senate passed the anti trust bill. 9. The Canadian government doekksi to rooew the modus vrvendl for another year 19. Tho Pan-American congress adjourned sine die at Washington. 28. Joint resolutions passed by congress and signed by thepvonMrat appropriating $Wd, 680f or relief of Itkariiisippl flood Bo/Terem. | 28. The United States supremo eowrt (Wciared the Iowa Jaw for the seizure of Ikjaor ht “orqp- nal porkspa" to be iiwrewrits ttonai. Tbowri>ftnsriou treaty m»c»*d by representa- Mves <4 ten American rvpwbttss. ka^t. t Governor FMfl, of Mew York, stgiM thaboi- 1st reform bill. fuSernational syywgiit WW lest In the hcm»i aClVashbigten. 80. Bloii&rtl Vanx rieated to flrsm Cho Tbinl ParmHyKmnia dmrioeto tmooeed ft. J. RsndaH. 81. TTi© bouse passed th% tariff bill. mc». 81. Worth Dickerson elected to congress from tho Sixth Kentucky district to mtoooed John O. j Oarilrto. 86. IAewt. CoL Richard nwuiuated by the presi dent to bo quar%«TTia.wer gworal of tho United fttatmarmy. 27. Tivrsenafe^vtsod tkehtil admitting Wyoming hitotlurUskm; sign-d hy pryakie»$t Jnty K). The ysvtfiidoMt approved the depeedent peti tion Mil. jm.v. 2. The hotwo at Washington posnod tho Ixxlge % fodurd riocUene bffl by a vote of 155 to 149. ft. The president nominated Adnm King, «»f Mary land, to bn consul general at Paris, f. Governor Nieholle, of Ijoaislana, vetoed tho bill passed by the legislature amending the state constttrrtion and rechartering tho 1 Am- | IMana lottery for 25 years at $1,000,800 a year; passed oser his veto next day. K president nominated Gen. A B. Nettleton, of Minnesota, to ho assist tnt secretary of the treasury, and Professor James Russell Sotey, of MassachT»‘tts, to l»e assistant sec retary of thexiavy. AUGUST. R, Tlio president approved tho “original pack- i age” bill. 16. Elver and harbor hill passed by tho senate; it appropriated $26,000,000. The honso passed the anti-lottery hid. 18. The Chalmors-Morgan election contest set tled by tho house iu favor of Mr. Morgan. Mensrs. Beckwith, of Now Jersey, and Wilson, of Washington, came to blows on th»* floor i of the house during a heated discussion, and muoh excib^menfc was caused hy a re mark by Mr. Cannon concerning Mr. Me- Adoo. 30. 'Hie president approved tho meat inspection ; and agricultural colleges bill. SEPTEMBKlt. 5. C. It. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, unseated in the house by a vote of 105 to 62. 10. The senato passed tho tariff bill by a vote of 40 to 29. 16. The senate j»asscd tho anti-lottery bill. 19. The president signed tho river and harbor and anti-lottery bills. 26. Tho president nominated E. Burd Onibb, of : New Jersey, for tho Spdnish mission, and i Edwin II. Conger, of Iowa, for tho Brazilian ! mission. 27. The house adopted tho conference report on the tariff bfll-152 to 81. 29. The president approved the land grant for- I foitupi bill. The president nominated for members of tho 1 continental railroad commission A. J. Cas satt, of Pennsylvania; George M. Pullman, | of Illinois, and llenry G. Davia of West : Virginia; also Smith A. Whiteflem, of Ohio, 1 to be first assistant postmaster general; James Lowrio Bell, second assistant post- I master general; Serrrpronius II. Boyd, min ister to Siam; John N. Irwin, of Iowa, gov ernor of Arizona; Alfred A. Freeman, of j Tennessee, associate justice for New Mexico. 80. George S. Batcheiler, assistant* secretary of ! the treasury, appointed by tho president ! minister to I*ortugal. The senate passed tho conference report on I the tariff bill, three Republieaus roting with | the Democrats against it. OCTOBER. 1. Congress adjourned sin© die. 6. TUb new tariff law went into effect. 14. Jastin S. Morrill elected to the United Rfcates I senate from Vermont for the fifth time. KOVKtfBER. 4. Election day in thirty-nine states. 15. Delaaato Carey rioeted tJuifted States senator from Wyoming. 18. Gen. John B. Gordon elected United States ; senator from Georgia Governor Francis E. Warren elected United j Slates senator from Wyoming. 28. Janies L. Posh re-elected to S»e United States senate from Alabama. BHCflnCR. 1. Opening of oongress. 8. InU‘rnational copyright bfil passed by tfca j house; vote, 180 to 25. M. Cfis Dnfce of -Cbsia, ex king of Spain, at Tu rin, aged 46. ». Ortow W. Choptnan, solicitor general of tha United States treasury, at Washiiygton, aged 66. ) Gen. M. G. Vallejo, at Sonoma, Cal., aged 81. 22. Jonathan Lena, junior trustee of the Econo mic society, at Economy, Ta., afjed 90 years. 84. .Ex-Senator H. II. Riddlebergvr, at Woodsttjck, Va., aged 46. Adam Forepo«gh, tho famous showman, at I’biladtilphiA aged 59. 88. Ex-Governor Bross, of Illinois, at Chicago. FEBRUARY. 2. Mrs. Alice R. Copping^r, at the home of her father, James G. Blaine, at Washington, *ged 20. Nathan C. Burnett, a^eretary of state ot Georgia, at Atlanta, aged 90. 4. Rear Admiral Stephen P. Quackenbnsh, U. S. N\, retired, at Washington, aged 67. 8. Cardinal Pucci, tho pope's brother, at Rome, aged 83. 22. John Jacob Astor. the head of the A<*tor fam ily, at New York, aged 7S. If ARCH. 2. Ex-Governor J K. English, of Connecticut, at New Haven, aged 78. 4. E<lwln Cowles, e<litor ot Tho Cleveland Leader, at Cleveland, a god 63. 5. Aliralmm Lincoln, son of the IT. S. minister to England, at l-^ndon, aged 17. 21. Maj. Gen. George Crook, at Chicago, aged 61 23. Gen. It C. Sehenck. at Washington, aged 81, 26. James V Campbell, aasoefate justice of tho stTpremo court of Michigan, at Detroit, aged G? Archbishop rictes, of Milwaukee, at Iw Crosse, Wis., aged 72. 30. David Dows, financier, at Now York, aged 77. Vico Admiral Rowan, at Washington, aged 85. 81. Hon. Charles Danforth, jjiMtic© of tho supremo court of Maine, at Gardiner, Me., aged 74. AFniL. Tl. George Hay Stuart, at Philadelphia, aged 74. 13. United Stales Representative ftainoel J. Ran dall, at hLn homo in Washington, age<l 62. 20. James Pollock, ex governor of Pennsylvania, at Lock Haven. William Warner Hoppla, ex-governor of Rhode Lsland, at Provklence, aged 82. 26. Crowfoot, chief of the Black feet Indians. MAT. 8. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, at Washington, aged 68. 4. Bishop Borgren, at Kata memo, Mich., aged 65. 6. Kx-Gknvrnor Andrew ftbrernaan, at Chicago. 12, Gen. Julius White, ex-UbUM Stetes minister to tbe /Vrgenrine Republic, at Evanston, nUi_ aged 54. 27. James CTCotmer, Ronmxi CHtbello bl^hep of Nebraska# at Omaha, aged 6ft jvwn. 8. den. Lindsay Walker, at O^sbMjv, Va., aged Vi. SeCT^kary Wladom announced tiiat be would buy $16,000,000 4 per cent, bonds and prepay the interest on the 6s In order to relieve financial stringency. OrJT/BR R. 7. Second flnoi>cial jMinic at Buenos Ayres. 14. F. H. Hogorty & Co., bankers at Aberdeen, 8. Dak., assigned; liabilities, $240,0O>; $240,CW0 f&wniiio. ft 1^00 cotton min weaverx struck at Kashas, N. IK, against reduction; ended March 7. Freestone cutters in Boston struck; lost Oct. 30. MARCH. 10. 2,000 shtrttnakere struck in New York city; won Mmrch 12. 12. 1,000 employes of the Lorrio iron mine struck nt Ashland, Wis.; compromised. 80. Isaac L Kalk & Co., New York clothiers, ns- ls - 0.000 miners struck at Nottiugham, England, signed; liabilities, $280,000. Isidore Rosenthal, New York clonk manu facturer, assigned; liabilities, $150,00); as \ sets, ^'.flOO. 31. Leopold Bros. & Co., Chicago clothiers, ns-1 signed; liabilities, $325,000; assets, $325,000. | NOVEMBER. 11. Great excitement in Wall street, New York, ] and fears of n panic; three failures an nounced: Charles M. Whitney & Co., David Richmond, and Decker, Howell & Co., with liabilities of $10,000,000; assets moro. John T. Walker & Sons, New York, import ers, assigned; liabilities, $1,100,000; assets, $1,300,000. 12. The NYn lh Itiver hank, of New York, closed Its doors, and there were two small failures on tho Stock Exchange. 15. Financial panic in England, and probably in America, averted by tho Bank of England and others guaranteeing £9,000,000 for the firm of Baring Bros., embarrassed by drop in foreign securities. 16. Tho Kansas City Backing and Refrigerator com pony assigned; liabilities, $750,000. TO. Barker Bros. & Co., Philadelphia bankers, sits pended. 22. United States Rolling Stock company, of Illi nois, Alabama and Ohio, liquidated; Uablli ties, $3,818,0TO; assets, $8,058,000. 24. Thomas Fawcett & Co., coal dealers of Pitts burg, assigned; liabilities, $300,000; assets, $600,000. 15. Richard H. Allen & Co., bankers and commis sion merchants. New York, assigned, liabili ties $1,000,000; Thomas H. Allen & (>)., Memphis correspondents of tlie New York firm, also went under; liabilities, $750,000; as sets, $1,500,000. Receiver appointed In New York for tho Ore gon Improvement company, Henry Y inartTs pet uShtsne; liabilities, $2,000,000; assets mtxfc larger, *0. Beil & Byster, bankers, assigned at Duluth, Mhm.; liabilities, $5.283,211; assets, $4,124, 110. 2R. B. K. Jamison & Co., Philadelphia bankers, as- Mg oed. use s mum ft Baak erf Com niwee. at West Uupertov, Wla, LEQtSt-ATlVE AND POLITICAL. NSUlf. ft T. C. Power Macted Uultad States senator from Montana. 8. Ouogretd reoonvenad. 14. Cahrhi 8. llrieo alsottd to ttM United Eke tea senate from Ohio. E. K. Wftaoo re-etooted Unitad States swmtor from Maryland. «. Beginnkig af a bitter psrtiaaentary struggle In tlie house of reprawBtattvca; cnowsi by Speaker Reed eeautiag a quorum from members jrosent, hot act vetlug. SO Tbe sreafttpt mjmjpattd ISobct* M<nj». Jr., THE HANO OF DEATH. JiSClRY. 2. George II. Doker, irwt, ex-minister to Russia 1 and to Turkey and president of tho Fair- j mount Park commission, ut lTiiladelphia, I a*r®d W. * 7. Dowager Empress of ftermeuy, Augusta, at Berlin, aged 7». . I 8. Ex Senator Ebridgo (1 Lartlmm, at New York, j aged 76. Bear Admiral WIftmrn Radford, at Wauhiog- tao, aged B). ft Ocmgraiwuaa William D. KeBoy, of Pennsylva nia, tha "Father of tho House," at Wash tagton, aged T4. JO. Dr. Boltingcr, hood of the “Old Catholic" movement in aodthem Germany, at Uerltu. 14. Lord Napier of Magdala, aged 80. 15, toniker Blaine, son of the secretary of state and examiner of claims in tho state depart ment, at Washington, aged 35. M. BlfcopPeter Nbnely, of tho Mennonlte church. l^ojedW,. 84. IS. Hon. FVanrin W. Hlfl, NMewHfl candidate tor fprvrmor of Matrm, ut ftbretor, ajed 7l. 26. iJlwrr^vwmt (Vrvmror Archibald Vietnam, ot Nova Scotia JVWt. 3. Ofn. Oflbcrt at E*oter. N. Of^od 80. 8. P. O. Wtesmton, tho American party's can- dKatfi for tho fMirmfVwy daring t>ho cam- prrfyn of S3, at OfUthutd, Gal. 0. Gon. Cflnton B. Fhih, Ctwnoos probibitiorrist, at New York, affed tft. 18. Maj G<m. John C. Premoot, at New York, lyred 78. 18. ftehnykpr, A meric—ooswi geneml at Cairo, at Cairo. Aeowrp. lft. John Boyle OTtoflly, Irish rwtric^; and port, and editor of The Boston Pilot, aft Uni), Maas. !1. CnriThiu-1 Jdhn Henry Ikwrata, in Eo^laud, aped 90. 4. Es-Gcrvcrnor Notts, of OMo, jnd^e of the bo- errart of Ctarinztftd, at CmHnnati. ft. Hon. Isaac Christiancy, ox-emator, ex-U. S. minister and ecc-jod^ tn Mlehlgtin. IS. Maj. A. B. Thompson, secretary of state of New Hampshire. 14. Newstoonived of tho drowning of Robert Ray Hamilton, of Now York, In Idaho. lft Dton Botieicank., actor and playwright, New York, aged 68. OCTOBER. 2. Ex-(>rr»'riior ami ex-Secretary of the Treasury lTifl Francis Thomas, In Maryland, uged 80. 13. G<». Wnium W. Belknap, ex-secretory of war, nt Washington, ftfred 01. Assof'iate Justice Samuel F. Miller, of tho Umtefl States enpremo court, at Washing ton, aged 74. NOVE3TB15R. 7. Oen. E. A. O'Neil, ex-governor of Alabama, nt Florence, .Via. 13. Daniel Appleton, publisher, at Ne^v York. • Rear Admiral dairies Steedraan (retired), at Washington, aged 79. 23. R. M. Tobin, national vice commander G. A. R., at Boston. 23. Right Rev. John Watrous Beckwith, IVotest- ant Episcopal bishop of Georgia, at Atlanta, ageil 00. The king of Holland, %t tho Hague, aged 78. 21. August Belmont, banker and horse brooder, at New York, aged 14. 25. Benjamin P. Shlfiaber ("Mrs. Partington”), at Chelsea, Maas., age<l 76. Jamca Milton Smith, ex-governor of Georgia, at ColunVbus, Ga. DBOUMBim. 5. Oen. J. Carnua Wilcox, at Washington. 4. Dr. Gedediah H. Baxter, surgeon general of the army, at Washington, aged 58. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. JANUARY. 12. Bank of South Dakota at Madison assigned; assets, $150,000; liabilities not sfcafcxj; aa a result tho I a Belle Ranch Horse Importing company assigned; liabilities, $60,000; as sets, $150,000. 16. L. II. Ston»\ S;in FrancLsco harness dealer, as signed; liabilities, $2i>4,4)00; assets small. 28. John B. Lolande, cotton factor, assigned in New Oriefins; liabilities, $561,000; assets, $5 44,ODO. 80. Tho First National bank, the Lenox Hill bank, and tho Equitable bank, all in New York, closed by order of tlw United States bank examiner; George H. Pell, a broker, and P. J. Claasseu, president of the Sixth National, arreste<l. MARCO. 7. Monroe Eckstein and Leopold Wertheimer, Nbw York brewers, assigned; liabilities, $600,000. Bolloe freres, bankers, San Francisco, failed; liabilities largo. 10. John F. Plummer A Co~, one of tho largest dry goods commission firms hs the business, as signed In New York; IlabfMtiea, $1,000,000; assets about the same. Apart.. ft Manhattan bank, of Manhattan, Kan., failed; Mobilities, $000,000. 17. Lento Franck© A Co., nifk tmixwterH, assigned In New York; Itnbfltttea, $900,000. 30. The Bank ef America, a state tnstftntien, aft rtrOadelpiria, a ns pended. MAY. 1. The Gloucester Otov N«t4ona>l hank nt Glouces ter City, N. J., earned under by failure of Bank of America. Fechhriraor, Rau <fc Co., shirt makers, failed in New York; liabilities $300,000; assets, $2^5},- 000. t. T^>© Fidelity, Surety, Trust and Safe Deposit company of Camden, N. J., the Port Morris bank, the Merchant#* t>ank of Atlantic, city and Che Merchants’ bank of PleaeanCville, N. J., suspemled pay meat; said to have been Lweee^t by fafittre <*f Bank of America. 14. The bmtoerag** firm of Borun & Wright, of New York, with branches in the principal clUes, sn»i>rtided for $400,0061 JULY. 9ft. J. K. Tygort A 05.. manpfactw a of fer- tfltwrs, lTifladelpWa, failed; ItoMfitles. $WT,ftOO. irooR. tL Ftnanrial partie In Buenos Ayres. anypBt ft Htrle & MelVr, Imnber deaftora at OnGgo, Wll., failed; fiaWhri.ss fBfftOOO. 4. Poftfter. Lcrvril-t Cb., pubttehers at Boston, sus- Wvt Tfwdonzi hank ef Trxarkana, Axk^ pended; ftabOTttw, $180,006; assets, $2*0,000 5. Detamater A Co., bankers, MwutvfUp, Pa* as signed. V. A A Meyer, of Now Ortemis, assigned; teiMUttos, $1.300,006; oeacts, $5; 600,000. WDTWIJV VA*, JAJWHBIIVU3 peodadi; hablttWes, $3j00,«00. 8w;«, Wallaoe A Oil, eomudalan mer- Aanta at Kbw Tort, Mgoedi'Batatfea, HtJMAN NATURE’S DANK SIDE. JAWUAKY. ?1. Two masked robbers held up a train on the Southern Pacific road in California and se mred $25,000; a tramp was shot and killed 24. G»g0 G. IjomtHberry, for many j-earn treas urer ef tbo New York eity poetofftee, shot bimneff at hto home In Hackeneiek, N. J.; a Shoring© of $97,090 was found in his ac count©. FEBRUARY. 17. F. C Benwefl, a young EngTrshman, was mur dered ky Reginald Blrdhall for purposes of robbery tn a swamp npar Woodstock, Out. 57. Seamen made serious chic-pea at New York against Commander MeOnTta., of tho U. S. S!oop-of -w«r Eaterpriae; McOr.fia court mar- • tialed and snspended from rank and duty for three years May 15. 28. Ex-Congressman Taolbee was shot in tho Cap itol at Washington by Oar>o.s Kincaid, a newspaper correspondent; died JDu-ch 11. MARCH. 4. William E. Pope, paying teller of the Louis viJJe City National hank, obsconded with $60,005. 27. Stcto Tnaairw Stevenson Archer, of Mary land, defaulted m aboat $127,000. APRIL. 7. A defalcation by Douglas nilclter, amounting to $3<X),OOiX caused the suspension of bis firm, which had headquarters tn Now York uik] branches In several other cities. 8. Frederick Kimball, teller of tbe Peopled Sav lngs bank, of Worcester, MasC, vras report ed mtering with $^1,500 of tho bank’s funds 25. George B. Ives, cx-assistant district attorney at Salem, Mass., arrestee^ charged with for geries Amounting to $.70^000. MAY. lb, George P. Whitney, bookkeeper in tho Albany (N. Y.) 09y National hank, arrested on too charge of stealing $100,iXK) from the bank. 20. City Treasurer Peake, of Kansas City, de faulted in $50,000. 21. Mlgnel Eyraud, who killed Notary Gouffe in Paris in July, 1889, captured in Havana, Cuba. 29. Gerhard Thaden and J. B. Toll, principals m the great real estate forgery, sentenced each to ton years’ imprisonment at St Paul AUGUST. 6. William Kemmler executed by electricity in the state prison at Auburn, N. Y.; the af fair was buaglingly conducted and pre sented a horrible spectacle; it was too first execution under the New Yorlr state law requiring criminals condemned to death to be kffltxl by electricity. 17. The limited Kansas express on the Missouri Pacifio stopped by robliers, who secured $90,000. 22. The teller of the Capital City bank, Nashville, Tetin., confessed a defalcation of $41,000. SEPTEMBER. 5. ITie Montreal express on the Now York Cen tral railroad deraileil by train wreckers near Greenbu&h, N. Y.; six persons injured. 15. Messrs. Potter and Ix>vell, of tho s»isi)ended firm of Potter, Lovell & Co., arrested in Bos ton charged with embezzlement. OCTOBER. 9. Maiy Anderson's crazy lover, Jom*\s Dougher ty, murdered Dr. George W. Lloyd, of the Ftothnsh, L. L, Insane asylum. 15. David C. Hexmessy, chief of New Orleans po lice, murdered by order of an Italian secret society; a reign of terror lasting for more than a month resulted. 20. A. B. MuUott, ex-sapervising architect of the United States treasury, killed himself at Washington, aged 56. 20. Charles W. Rcfotason, banker and broker in New York, confessed forgeries amounting to $100,000. NOVEMBER. 4. Rollins Bingham disappeared from Kansas City after forgeries aggregating $35,000. M. Regixwdd Birr-hall hanged at Woodstock, Onft, for the murder of F. C. Benwell. 16. Albert- H. Smith, of New York, confessed for geries aggregating $350,000. Harrison H. Weotworth, bookkeeper of the Llm<i Rock National bank, Provkleoce, It. I., charged with embezzling $32,000. 20. Morris Marks, an erx-employe of a Rochester (N. Y.) bank, stole a package of $25,000 from the United State's Expi-ess company; he was am«tcd next day. Dtsnyix-nrurfeo fmm Ran Francisco of Toon Yoong & Co., Chinese merchants with 6C0 000. 25. Eva Hamilton, llobert Ray Hamilton's widow, pmvlonod and released from Jail at Camden^ N. J. MOBOB. 4. Joseph B. Abbott, booftkoeper for Henry W Sap? & On., ef Albany, N. Y., defaulted la $80,000 an^ eommltted suicida. $10,000 in dJaraxxta, bclonglag to JIrs. Kirk B. Anncvrr, stolen In Kansas City. LABOR TROUBLES. JAjrCABY. 6. Strike ou tho Martsay railroad system ended. 1L 0 shoo manufacturers at Havertilll, Mass. kicked outthdr wurlcmen; ended Jan. 17 M. Cloalrmskcn struck In New York city; won lltrch tft 81. COD Sew York cttydcaroiakers struck araimt redoettoo; wou Fob, p. for an Increase of wages; won next day. 25. Tho Glasgow doclcmen's strike collapsed. 27. 14,000 workmen of 1 laredonastruek for higher wages and shorter hours. APRIL. 1. 1,000 plumbers struck at Cliicago; arbitrated. 7. 7,000 carpenters struck nt Chicago; arbitrated May 5. Carpenters struck at New York; won May 4- these strikes preceded others in nearly every large city of the Union, embracing almost every branch of tho building trade. In which the men were generally successful 14. 5,000 dock hi borers, seamen and firemen struck at Southampton ami Liverpool; won Sept, 13. 11AY. 1. The May day labor demonstration passed oft without bloodshed in (he United States; enormous parades of workingmen occurred in Chicago, New York, Boston and other cities, and hundreds of strikes were inau gurated; in Enropo tho demonstration was general, and minor disturbances took place 1 A lu l'aris and Teeth. ' 10,000 employes of sash and blind factories struck nt Chicago; lost May 6. IrrmmaMersstruck at Chicago; compromised. 9. Strike of 15,000 coal miners in northern Illi nois ended, men losing. • 14. ft800 men Idle from strikes at tho National Tube works at McKeesport, Fa.; compro mised May 23. 19. General strike among cool miners of the Peo ria and Canton sub-districts in Illinois; lost June lft JOltE. 13. ftOOO cutters and cloak makers locked out in New York city. 10. 13,000 dock laborers at Swansea, Wales? struck for higher wages. 23. l,E00cigarmftkersstrtick at Binghamton, N.Y.J strike declared oft Oct. 6. 24. 1,400 men struck on the Illinois Central rail road ; compromised June 27. 26. 1.200 miners struck at the Spring Hill mines. Nova Scotia. JULY. lft 4,000 employes of the National Tube works, at McKeesport, l'a., locked out; compromised Aug. 1. 87. ftMO journeyman bakers struck at Chicago; compromised. AUGUST. ft The New York Osotrol and Hudson Itiver rnflroad temporarily paralyzed by a strike ofthe Knights of Labor in its employ st switchmen, trainmen and station agents; strike declared off Sept. 17. 29. Writes In the Shipping trades in Australia sad New Zealand; continued Intermittently for months with varying results. tncFTEKSUl. 1. 8,600 union carpenters struck in Chioago; lost bept. 3. 12. Istbor troubles involving 1,000 men at tho H. C. Frick company’s coke works, at Pitts burg, compromised. xovmiBxH. 1. Latx>r troubles closed all the coal mines In the Morris, Ills., district. 18. ft000 girl hat trimmers locked out at Danbury, Conn. 30. 2,000 men struck lu the Block coal mines at Brazil, Ind. 80. Rochester, N. Y., shoo manufacturers locked out 3,000 employe*. DECEMBER. ft ft000 coal miuers in Alabama struck. IN OTHER LANDS. JANUARY. 2. Mr. Parimll received citation as Co-respond ent iu divorce suit brought by Capt. O'Shea. FEBRUARY. 3. rarnell's suit against Tho Times, of London, compromised by jiayraent of £509 by Tho Times. 7. The Duke of Orleans, son of tha Count of Paris, arrested iu Paris for violating the ex pulsion law hy returning to Franca; in his pocket was the abdication of his father of proteiisiou.s to the French throne in tho son's favor. llARCH. 14. Tlie French cabinet resigned; now French ministry formed with 31. do Freycinet as president of tho council and minister of war, and M. Coustans os minister of tho interim-, ou tho lGth. 17. Prince Bismarck and Count Herbert Bismarck tendered their resignations to Emperor Will iam. Prince Bismarck’s resignation was ac cepted. 19. Gen. Von Caprivi appointed hy Emperor Will iam to succeed Prince Bismarck as chan cellor of the German empire. 91. The English house ef lords adopted tho report of tho Parnell commission. 26. Tho annual English university boat race on the Thames won by Oxford. KAY. 8ft An American named Pottltt won tho world’s championship at tennis from Saunders, the Englishman. JUNK. ft President Carnot pardoned tbo Duke of Or leans. 4 Sainfoin won the Englkth Derby. 14. Cholera appeared In tho Spanish province of Valencia. 17. MtaTiago of Mias Mary Anderson to Antonio Navarro at Hampstead, near London. England ceded the island of Heligoland tc Germany. 98. News received of tho death of President Fran cisco Menedez, of Salvador, and of result ing riots and panic iu which several officers were killed. JULY. 12. Marriage of Honry 31. Stanley to 3Uss Dorothy Tennawt at Westminster Abbey. 24. 0 battles between Salvador and Guatemala re- liorted to hove resulted in favor of Salvador. ACOUBT. ft^Iore than 400 deaths from cholera In 31ecca In one day; on Aug. 4 500 died. 7. The warlike disturbances In South America continued; several great battles fought, of which but little was learned in the outside world; President Crtman, of Argentine, forced to resign; Miranda defeated In Sal vador by Kzeto. Paris Figaro began publication of the Boulan ger exposure. 13. Cholera abated in Spain and Mecca, but ap peared on the Black Sea and caused a paaio at Cairo. 28. Agreement of peace signed by Salvador and Guatemala. eBETKMBKR. B. Tbe Irish potato crop a failure and famine feared. 18 John Dillon and William O’Brien arrested in Ireland charged with conspiracy and incit ing tenants not to pay rents. otTOBEn. K>. Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien escaped from Ire land, starting for America via Frauco. 81. First announcement of cures by Professor Koch's system of inoculation for consump tion at Berlin. NOT KM BEIL 17. Capt. O'Shea granted a divorce on the grounds of criminal intimacy of his wife with Charles Stewart Darnell. 19. John Dillon, William O’Brien and other Irish leaders convicted, and each sentenced to six months in ju.1l 20. Parnell declared his Intention ot remaining at the head of the Irish National party. 25. TTie Irish National party decided fn favor ot Darnell Gladstone protesting. 28 Parnell issued an address to tbe Irish peop^* saying that ho woukl not voluntarily abdi cate tbe leadership. ft Emin Pasha reached Lake Victoria Nyanxa. Dr. Hassell of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, announced that he had discovered the can - cer parasite. _