June 4.-In the Oregon elections, the Republicans carry both branches of the legislature and elect both members of Congress, together with State officers.

June 5.-Maryland Democrats refuse to instruct for Bryan, but recognize his strength in their platform. ....New York Democrats instruct for Bryan, but refuse to reaffirm the Chicago platform of 1896; Richard Croker, David B. Hill, Edward Murphy, Jr., and Augustus Van Wyck are chosen delegates-at-large to Kansas City.

June 6.-North Dakota and South Dakota Democrats instruct for Bryan....Indiana Democrats instruct for Bryan, and nominate

June 7.-Connecticut Democrats instruct their delegates to support Bryan. June 8.-Colorado Democrats instruct for Bryan. June 9.-Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, admits in court his ownership of 4,000 shares of stock in the American Ice Company.

June 12.-Wisconsin Democrats instruct for Bryan, and reaffirm the Chicago platform.... The Rhode Island Legislature reëlects United States Senator Wetmore.

June 13.-Ohio Democrats instruct for Bryan, and nominate a State ticket....Governor Mount, of Indiana, refuses to honor the requisition of Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, for the return to that State of ex-Gov. W. S. Taylor, under indictment for complicity in the alleged plot resulting in the assassination of William E. Goebel.

June 14.-California and Kentucky Democrats instruct for Bryan....Vermont Democrats nominate a State ticket, headed by John H. Senter for governor, and declare for Bryan.

June 16.-Good order prevails in the Cuban municipal elections; Gen. Alejandro Rodriguez, Nationalist, is elected mayor of Havana, receiving 13,073 votes, against 6.534 cast for Señor Estrada Mora, the Independent candidate.

June 18.-A bulletin of the Porto Rican census, issued by the War Department at Washington, gives the population of the island as 953,243....Governor Roosevelt, of New York, issues a statement declining the Republican nomination for Vice-President at Philadelphia.

June 19.-The Republican National Convention meets at Philadelphia.

June 20.-The Republican National Convention adopts a platform....Minnesota Democrats declare for the nomination of Charles A. Towne for Vice President on the Bryan ticket at Kansas City....Florida Democrats declare for Bryan.

June 21.-President McKinley is renominated by unanimous vote in the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, and Governor Roosevelt, of New York, is nominated for Vice-President.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-FOREIGN. May 21.-The Australian federation bill passes its second reading in the British House of Commons.

May 22.-The French Chamber of Deputies reassembles....The Chinese authorities send troops to put down the "Boxer" movement.

May 23.-The German Reichstag passes the meat inspection bill by a vote of 163 to 123.

May 25.-The three men charged with an attempt to blow up the Welland Canal with dynamite, at Thorold, Ont., are found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

May 28. By a vote of 293 to 246, the French Chamber of Deputies declares confidence in the government.

May 29.-The Marquis de Galliffet resigns his post as French Minister of War, and is succeeded by General André.

June 2.-By a vote of 283 to 34, the French Senate passes the Dreyfus case amnesty bill.

June 3.-In the general elections for the Italian Parliament, the Constitu

tionalists secure a majority of the seats.

June 6.-The resignation of the Japanese Cabinet is reported.

June 7.-The German Reichstag passes the naval bill on second reading.

June 8.-Emperor Francis Joseph orders the session of the Austrian Reichsrath closed.

June 9.-The Chinese Government orders the withdrawal of the imperial troops opposing the "Boxers."

June 12.-The German Reichstag passes the naval bill....Premier Schreiner, of Cape Colony, resigns office.

HON. MURPHY J. FOSTER. (Newly elected U. S. Senator from Louisiana.)

June 16.-In view of the threatening Chinese situation, the Marquis Yamagata consents to retain the premiership of Japan.

June 19.-A convention of Irish Nationalists opens in Dublin.

June 20.-Lieutenant-Governor McInnes, of British Columbia, is dismissed from office by the Dominion Government, and Sir Henri Joly is appointed in his place.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

May 21.-Secretary Hay informs the Boer delegates that the United States cannot interfere in the South African war.

May 22.-The Queen Regent of Spain signs the postal convention with the United States.

May 23.-The United States makes a more peremptory demand on Turkey for the prompt settlement of the missionary indemnity claims.

May 24.-The European powers demand of the Chinese Government the immediate suppression of the "Boxers."

May 25.-Secretary Hay instructs Minister Conger, at Pekin, to inform the Chinese Government that the United States expects it to suppress the "Boxer" society without delay, and to provide guarantees for the protection of the lives and property of Americans in China.

May 30.-American, British, German, Italian, French, Russian, and Japanese troops are ordered to guard the legations at Pekin.

June 11.-The Chinese Emperor appeals to the powers for the deposition of the Dowager Empress and the establishment of a protectorate.

June 12.-President McKinley issues a proclamation of a reciprocal commercial agreement between the United States and Portugal under the Dingley tariff law.

June 16.-An arrangement for the arbitration of claims of American sealers against Russia for illegal seizures off the Siberian coast is announced.

June 17.-The Chinese forts at Taku, at the mouth of the Peiho River, fire on the foreign warships, which forthwith bombard the forts and compel their surrender.

June 18.-United States troops are ordered from Manila to China; Admiral Kempff is directed to coöperate with the naval commanders of other powers in the protection of American interests in China.

June 19.-It is announced the French Government will dispatch a cruiser and 4,200 troops to China. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

May 21.-A squadron of Colonel Bethune's Horse is surprised on its way to Newcastle, six miles southwest of Vryheid; total casualties about 66.

May 22.-General Hamilton reaches Heilbron, after a series of engagements with the Boers under Commandant De Wet.

(Newly elected bishops of the M. E. Church.

May 23.-General French reaches Prospect, about five miles to the north of Rhenoster River; the Boers leave their positions south of the Vaal and trek north.

May 24.-General Hunter reaches Vryburg, and the railway is repaired to that town.

May 25.-The Boers reoccupy Heilbron; General Hamilton occupies Vredeport; Taungs is garrisoned by the British.

May 26.-Lord Roberts' advance force crosses the Vaal near Parys, General Hamilton's column being at Boschbank; General Rundle occupies Senekal without opposition; Ficksburg is occupied by Brabant; General French crosses the Vaal at Lindigue's Drift.

May 27.-The main body under Lord Roberts crosses the Vaal at Vereeniging; Lord Roberts announces the annexation of the Orange Free State; British positions at Ingogo shelled by the Boers.

May 28.-Lord Roberts' force reaches the Klip River, eighteen miles from Johannesburg; General French pushes northward toward Johannesburg; the British occupy Zeerust (thirty-five miles northeast of Mafeking), and move in force on Lichtenburgh; Orange Free State formally annexed; in heavy fighting at Senekal, in the Orange River Colony (new name for the Free State), General Rundle loses 32 men killed and 150 wounded.

May 29.-Lord Roberts arrives at Elandsfontein Junction, and announces the capture of some rolling-stock.

May 30.-The British enter Johannesburg; President Krüger leaves Pretoria; the burgomaster is authorized to receive the British.

May 31.-The British flag is raised over the public buildings at Johannesburg....The Thirteenth Battalion (Irish) Imperial Yeomanry is compelled to surrender to a superior force of Boers near Lindley, Orange River Colony.

June 4.-The Boers resist Lord Roberts' advance on Pretoria at Six Miles Spruit, but are finally repulsed.

June 5.-Lord Roberts enters Pretoria, the town being formally surrendered by the Boers.

June 6.-General Buller's troops capture a mountain

west of Laing's Nek.... The Boers cut General Roberts' communications north of Kroonstad.

June 7.-At Roodeval the British lose 117 men killed and 69 wounded of the Derbyshire and Cape Pioneer Railway Regiments, the remaining force of the Derbyshires being made prisoners.

June 8.-General Buller's troops succeed in forcing Botha's Pass.

June 11.-General Buller forces Almond's Nek, and the Boers retire from Laing's Nek and Majuba; British cas-· ualties about 100.

June 12.-The Boers under Botha are defeated 15 miles east of Pretoria; Generals Kitchener and Methuen defeat the Boers under De Wet on the Rhenoster River; communication is restored between Pretoria and Bloemfontein.

June 15.-President Krüger transfers the Transvaal seat of government to Alkmaar.

June 18.-General Hunter occupies Krügersdorp. June 19.-General Methuen defeats the Boers under De Wet at Heilbron, Orange River Colony.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH. May 22.-The Methodist General Conference at Chicago elects the Rev. Drs. D. H. Moore and J. W. Hamilton bishops.... The Boer envoys to the United States are unofficially received by President McKinley, and informed that this government cannot intervene in the South African war....Two companies of Filipinos surrender to the American troops at Tarlac.

May 23. The Methodist General Conference, by a vote of 433 to 238, abolishes the pastoral time limit, now fixed at five years.... The Presbyterian General Assembly refers the question of creed revision to a committee of fifteen.

May 24.-Queen Victoria's birthday is celebrated with unusual enthusiasm throughout Great Britain....The brokerage firm of Price, McCormick & Co., New York City, fails with liabilities estimated at $13,000,000.

May 28.-The total eclipse of the sun is observed under extremely favorable conditions along the whole line of totality both in Europe and America.

May 29.-Filipino insurgents rush the town of San Miguel de Mayamo, north of Manila, killing 5 of the American garrison, wounding 7, and taking Capt. Charles D. Roberts prisoner.

May 30.-The Confederate reunion is begun at Louisville....President McKinley and Secretary Root speak at the unveiling of the monument on the battlefield of Antietam, Md.

June 8.-Gen. Pio del Pilar, the Filipino leader, is captured at San Pedro Macati, near Manila.

June 10.-In a St. Louis street-car strike riot, 4 persons are killed, 1 fatally wounded, and several others severely injured.

June 12.-General Grant reports the capture of a Fili pino insurgent stronghold in the mountains east of Samiguet, Luzon.

June 15.-A parade and dinner in honor of Gen Elwell S. Otis take place at Rochester, N. Y.

June 21.-General MacArthur issues a proclamation of amnesty with unconditional pardon for Filipino rebels who renounce insurrection within ninety days.

OBITUARY.

May. 21.-Col. Wickham Hoffmann, United States Minister to Denmark in President Arthur's administration, 79.

May 22.-Ex-United States Senator Nathaniel Peter Hill, of Colorado, 68.... Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., 60.... Rev. Alexander Burns, D.D., President of Wesleyan Ladies' College, Hamilton, Ont., 66.

May 23.-Jonas Gilman Clark, founder of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 85....Francis Bicknell Carpenter, the portrait painter, 70.... Rev. John Scudder, D.D., of the Reformed Church's Arcot Mission in India, 64.

May 24.-Dr. Fessenden Nott Otis, surgeon and author, 75.

May 25.-Signor Giuseppe Puente, the famous operatic barytone, 60.

May 28.-Sir George Grove, the famous English musician, 80....Lewis W. Clark, late chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, 72.... Ex-Judge John P. Rea, of Minneapolis, 60.

May 29.-William Adams Cobb, a well-known journalist of Lockport, N. Y., 58........ David Ward, a leading Michigan capitalist, 78.... Col. C. P. Atmore, general passenger agent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 66.

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June 2.-Clarence Cook, art critic and writer, 72. June 3.-Mrs. Alzina Parsons Stevens, an active participant in social reform movements, 51.

June 4.-Prof. Edwards A. Park, the distinguished Andover theologian, 91.

June 5.-Rev. Richard Salter Storrs, D.D., the eminent Brooklyn clergyman, 79....Stephen Crane, the novelist and newspaper correspondent, 30....Miss Mary H. Kingsley, the African explorer and writer....Mrs. John Sherman, wife of ex-Secretary Sherman, of Ohio. June 8.-Henry Wellesley, third Duke of Wellington,

54.

June 10.-Rev. John Braden, D.D., president of the Central Tennessee College, 72.

June 12.-Mme. Augusta Lehmann, once a singer of international reputation, 80....Lucretia Peabody Hale, a Boston writer, 80.

June 13.-Nicholas Frederick Peter, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, 73....Dr. Edward Maris, a well-known collector of coins and autographs, 69.

June 14.-Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer, of Alabama, 84.... Mrs. Gladstone, widow of the late William E. Gladstone, the British statesman.

June 16.-Prince de Joinville, son of King Louis Philippe, of France, 82.

June 18.-Henry Walter Webb, for many years identified with the New York Central Railroad, 48.

June 20.-Baron Loch (Henry Brougham Loch), formerly governor of Cape Colony and British High Commissioner for South Africa, 73.

June 21.-Count Muravieff, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 55.

HE following conventions have been announced for the coming month: The Democratic National Convention, at Kansas City, on July 4; the National Silver Republican Convention, at Kansas City, on July 4; the United States Monetary League, at Kansas City, on July 4; The National League of Republican Clubs, at St. Paul, on July 17; the American Political League, at Boston, on July 4; the National Educational Association, at Charleston, S. C., on July 7-13; the American Institute of Instruction, at Halifax, N. S., on July 7-11; the German Music Teachers' Association, at Philadelphia, on July 5-9; the American Fisheries Society, at Woods Holl, Mass., on July 18-20; the American Association for the Advancement of Osteopathy, at Chattanooga, Tenn., on July 5-7; the American Philological Association, at Madison, Wis., on July 3-5; the United Society of Christian Endeavor, at London, on July 1418; the Baptist's Young People's Union of America, at Cincinnati, on July 12-15; the United Society of Free Baptist Young People, at Lewiston, Me., on July 5-8 ; the Young People's Christian Union of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, at Denver, on July 25-30; the Young People's Christian Union of the Universalist Church, at Atlanta, Ga., on July 11-18; the National Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor Statistics, at Milwaukee, on July 10-14; the Pan-American Conference, at Westminster Town Hall, London, on July 22 the National Good-Roads Convention, at Port Huron, Mich., on July 2-5; the National Farmers' Convention, at Topeka, Kan., on July 2-3;

the Commercial Law League of America, at Milwau kee, on July 23-28; the United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations, at Indianapolis, on July 25 the Sons of Temperance, National Division, at Dalton, Mass., on July 10-14; the National Dental Association, at Old Point Comfort, Va., on July 10-13; the National Dental Examiners' Association, at Old Point Comfort, on July 10; the National Association of Photo-Engravers, at Cleveland, Ohio, on July 16-21; the Photographers' Association of America, at Milwaukee, on July 23; the National and United Amateur Press Association, at Boston, on July 2-4; the National Bookkeepers' Association, at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on July 20-23; the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, at Wheeling, W. Va., on July 9; the National Theatrical Stage Employees' Alliance, at New York, on July 9; the American Association of General Baggage Agents, at Boston, on July 18; the National Association of Local Freight Agents' Associations, at Boston, on July 12; the Railway Transportation Association, at Detroit, on July 18; the National Railway Agents' Association, at Detroit, on July 24-27; the National Union Senate, at Alexandria Bay, N. Y., on July 17; the International 'Longshoremen's Convention, at Duluth, Minn., on July 10; Roosevelt's Rough Riders' Reunion, at Oklahoma City, on July 1-4; the American Whist League, at Niagara Falls, on July 9; the League of American Wheelmen, at Milwaukee, on July 10-15; and the National Amateur Oarsmen's Association, at New York, on July 19-21.

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IS HE SETTING THE SWITCH FOR THE ROOSEVELT FLYER? From the Tribune (New York).

HE practice of using car

toons in the daily papers has increased enormously, even since the last Presidential campaign. There is now not a town of any size in the country that has not a paper utilizing the service of a cartoonist, whose best efforts are, of course, called forth by the opportunities of a political campaign. While this has, of course, greatly augmented the number of forceful and striking cartoons, it has operated to do away with the striking preeminence of any one cartoonist or group of cartoonists, such as was seen in the days of Keppler and Nast. In the present campaign, the very striking physical, mental, and moral characteristics of Mr. Roosevelt, together with the picturesque situation which the Republican Vice-Presidential question created, has been a boon to the political caricaturists, and they have made the most of the occasion. Indeed, the fact that the Presidential nominees were, for all practical purposes, known

in advance to the public has made the Vice-Presidency the important theme for editors, reporters, and cartoonists on the Democratic side as well as on the Republican, so far as the personal side of the present political campaign is concerned. A marked change in the direction of mildness is seen on all sides in the treatment of Mr. Bryan, personally, by the cartoonists, though those wearing the Republican colors are as fierce as ever in their caricaturing of Bryanism. Indeed, to judge from present appearances, the principals in the campaign of 1900 will receive in the personal caricatures of the struggle but little annoyance from really vulgar and bitter flings, as compared with the pictorial denunciations of Mr. Blaine and Mr. Cleveland, and of Mr. Bryan in 1896. We may hope that this is due to a growth in good taste, as well as to the fact that President Mc. Kinley and Mr. Bryan are men who have not made personal enemies.