POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-AMERICAN. August 21.-Delaware Republicans ("regular," or anti-Addicks faction) nominate Jonathan S. Willis for governor.

August 22.-Governor Shaw, of Iowa, appoints Representative J. P. Dolliver to succeed the late John H. Gear in the United States Senate.... Wisconsin Democrats nominate Louis H. Bohmrich for governor.

August 23.-Union Republicans (Addicks faction) in Delaware accept the Presidential electors named by the "regular" Republicans.... William J. Bryan accepts the Populist nomination for the Presidency at Topeka, Kan.

August 27.-The executive committee of the Populist party at Chicago nominates Adlai E. Stevenson for Vice-President on the ticket with William J. Bryan, to fill the vacancy caused by Charles A. Towne's declination of the nomination.

August 31.-The Government at Washington takes measures for the relief of destitute miners at Cape Nome, Alaska.

September 3.-Arkansas Democrats elect Jefferson Davis governor by a majority of more than 50,000.

September 4.-Vermont Republicans elect W. W. Stickney governor by a plurality of more than 31,000. ....United States Senator Wellington, of Maryland, elected as a Republican, declares in favor of the election of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency.

September 5.-New York Republicans nominate Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., for governor....Connecticut Republicans nominate George P. McLean for governor.... Montana Republicans nominate David E. Folsom for governor.... Utah Republicans renominate Heber M. Wells for governor... The National party, in convention at New York City, nominates Senator Donelson Caffery (Dem.), of Louisiana, for President, and Archibald M. Howe (Ind.), of Massachusetts, for Vice-President.

September 6.-Minnesota Democrats and Populists renominate John Lind for governor.... Utah Democrats nominate James H. Moyle for governor.

September 9.-President McKinley's letter accepting the Republican nomination for a second term is made public.

September 10.-Maine Republicans elect Dr. John F. Hill governor by a plurality of more than 34,000.

September 11.-New Hampshire Republicans nominate Chester B. Jordan for governor....Delaware Democrats nominate Peter J. Ford for governor.

September 12.-New York Democrats nominate John B. Stanchfield for governor.

September 14.-Four Republican mass meetings open the campaign in New York City.

September 15.-The election of delegates to the coming constitutional convention in Cuba results in an overwhelming triumph of the Nationalist party. There is

A GROUP OF DIPLOMATS AT PEKING.

(Reading from left to right: 1. Marquis Salvago Raggi [Italian minister, wounded siege of Peking]. 2. M. de Giers [Russian minister]. 3. Baron de Cartees [Belgian minister). 4. Late Baron von Ketteler [German minister, murdered).)

a total registered vote of 186,240, distributed among the provinces as follows: Province of Pinar del Rio, 18,072; province of Havana, outside of the city, 23,181; city of Havana, 26,478; province of Matanzas, 18,344; province of Santa Clara, 39,659; province of Puerto Principe, 11,122; and province of Santiago de Cuba, 49,384.

September 16.-Governor Roosevelt's letter accepting the Republican nomination for the Vice-Presidency is made public.

September 17.- Colorado Republicans nominate Frank C. Goudy for governor....Missouri Populists indorse the entire Democratic State ticket.... President McKinley's instructions to the Philippine Commission are made public.... William J. Bryan's letter accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency is made public.

September 18.-Texas Republicans nominate George W. Burkett for governor.

September 20.-The withdrawal of Senator Donelson Caffery from the Presidential ticket of the National party is announced.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-FOREIGN.

August 22.-The Indian Government is compelled to remove the Maharaja of Bharatpur from power owing to his vicious and intemperate habits....The trial of twenty-five prisoners concerned in the Cawnpore plague riots takes place at Allahabad....Earl Beauchamp resigns the governorship of New South Wales, in view of the proclamation of the commonwealth.

August 25.-The Marquis Ito issues a manifesto at Yokohama setting forth the aims of his new Japanese party.

August 29.-Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Humbert, is tried, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

September 5.-Lord Ampthill is appointed governor of Madras.

September 7.-The lower house of the Austrian Reichsrath is dissolved and a new election ordered.

September 10.-The triennial elections to the Norwegian Storthing are completed; the political complexion of the membership remains essentially unchanged. September 18.-The Netherlands States-General is reopened by Queen Wilhelmina.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

August 22.-King Oscar, of Sweden and Norway, consents to act as arbitrator of the claims for losses sustained by British and German subjects and American citizens in Samoa....It is announced that a treaty of amity, commerce, navigation, and general intercourse has been signed provisionally by the representatives of the United States and Spain.

ed; the cable between Chefu and Taku is working, but the line from Taku to Tientsin and beyond is not; the Japanese alone have an effective mail service.

August 23.-An important letter is addressed by Yang Yu, Chinese minister to Russia, to Baroness von Suttner on the question of missionaries in China.... The Japanese hold the wall round the

innermost part of the "Forbidden City" in Peking; they have not forced their way into the palace.

August 24.-Chinese villagers are flocking into Tientsin at the rate of 1,000 daily; food supply is bad; there is every prospect of a famine.... The Japanese protect the palace at Peking; the Japanese Government renews its assurances to protect the persons of the Emperor and Empress.

August 28.-The allied forces march through the "Forbidden City" in Peking.

August 30.-Three hundred men of the Sixth United States Cavalry defeat 600 Boxers at Hunting Park, 11 miles from Peking, killing 30 of the enemy and taking many prisoners.

September 1.-Russia denies any intention to make acquisitions of territory in China, and declares that the Russian troops will be withdrawn from Peking to Tientsin as soon as order is restored.

September 4.-Li Hung Chang, Yung Lu, Hsu Tung, and Prince Ching are appointed peace commissioners by imperial edict to negotiate with the powers. September 8.-An expedition consisting of 4,000 troops

of the allies leaves Peking for Pao-Ting-Fu, 80 miles Southwest.

September 10.-Italy proposes the evacuation of China by the powers and the reestablishment of the present dynasty.

September 12.-The United States War Department orders that supplies be not sent beyond Tientsin, in anticipation of the withdrawal of the troops from Peking ....Great Britain, replying to Russia's proposition for the withdrawal of troops by the powers, declines to evacuate Peking prior to receiving satisfactory guaranties from the Chinese authorities.

September 17.-Prince Ching requests the powers to instruct their ministers in Peking to begin peace negotiations immediately.

August 28.-General Buller's troops occupy Machadodorp, Krüger's latest capital.

August 30.-Major Leo Rassieur, of St. Louis, is elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. at Chicago. September 1.-The steamship Deutschland completes the run from Cherbourg to Sandy Hook in 5 days, 12 hours, and 29 minutes.

September 2.-Fifteen persons are killed and 42 injured by a collision on the Bethlehem (Pa.) branch of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway....A party of Russians ascends the Great Ararat Mountain in Armenia.

September 5.-The annual meeting of the British Association (Science) opens at Bradford.

Septemher 6.-The Duke of Abruzzi's polar expedi

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH. August 22.-A mob at Akron, Ohio, incensed by a negro's assault upon a little girl, burns the City Hall and other property.

August 24.-Lieut. Hans Cordua, the Boer officer convicted on the charge of conspiracy and violation of his parole at Pretoria, is shot by order of Lord Roberts. August 25.-The Grand Army of the Republic opens its annual encampment at Chicago.

August 26.-Gen. Bruce Hamilton captures General Olivier, of the Boer army, at Winburg.

August 27.-It is reported from India that the natives are dying from cholera at the rate of 3,000 a week.... Three cases of bubonic plague at Glasgow are taken in charge by the.medical authorities....General Buller's troops capture Bergendal, a strong position west of Damanutha Railway Station.

tion, on the Stellar Polare, passes Hammerfest, Norway, on its return, reporting that it reached a point 86.33 degrees north.

September 8.-A West Indian hurricane does frightful damage along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; the city of Galveston is inundated; 6,000 lives are lost; property to the value of $12,000,000 is destroyed; communication with the rest of the world is cut off for 30 hours 5,000 families are rendered shelterless and destitute; damage to the cotton crop is estimated at $3,000,000.

September 9.-The steamship Deutschland arrives at Plymouth, England, 5 days, 7 hours, and 38 minutes from the port of New York.

September 11.-President Krüger, of the South African Republic, arrives at Lourenzo Marques.

September 12.-A general strike of the miners in the