Madagascar....The funeral of Sir John Thompson takes place at Halifax.

January 4.-Congress: The Senate passes the Military Academy appropriation bill with a few unimportant amendments (passed by House December 13, 1894); debate of Currency bill continued in the House.... The Illinois Southern Hospital, an insane asylum, at Anna, Ill., is partly destroyed by fire; the inmates are safely removed....A memorial meeting in honor of Robert Louis Stevenson is held in New York City....The government of Austria sends a protest against the discriminating sugar duty imposed by the new American tariff....The chief Peruvian revolutionists are made prisoners by the government.

January 5.-Congress: Senate not in session; House continues debate on Currency bill....Governor Markham, of California, appoints Moses Gunst, a well-known sporting man, Police Commissioner of San Francisco....Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded in Paris for selling French military secrets to foreign governments....The Italian parliament is dissolved.

January 6.-Large consignments of specie are received at St. John's, N. F... A fire in Toronto does damage to the extent of $1,000,000.....Hawaiian royalists rebel against the government; the uprising is put down with the loss of ten men killed and 150 prisoners; Charles L. Carter, annexation commissioner to the U. S. is shot and killed.

January 7.-Congress: Both branches take an early adjournment on account of the death of Representative Post, of Illinois; the House Democratic caucus declares in favor of the Carlisle Currency bill....Legislatures meet in California, Montana, and Tennessee.... An extraordinary grand jury is impaneled in New York City and charged with the investigation of corruption in the police department....Count Khuen Hodervary is commissioned to form the Hungarian Cabinet....The unemployed at

HON. ROBERT E. PATTISON,
Democratic Nominee for Mayor of Philadelphia

St. Johns, N. F., make a demand for work or bread....
Heavy earthquake shocks in Northern Sicily....Munici-
pal elections are held throughout Ontario....President
Dole proclaims martial law in Honolulu.

MR. CHARLES F. WARWICK, Republican Nominee for Mayor of Philadelphia.

January 8.-Congress: Mr. Lodge's Hawaiian resolution is discussed in the Senate; in the House debate on the Currency bill, Mr. Sibley (Dem., Pa.) makes an attack on President Cleveland....Legislatures meet in Kansas, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming....Eugene V. Debs and other officers of the A: R. U. begin serving their sentences for contempt of court.... Henri Brisson is re-elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies..... The German Reichstag reassembles ... The independence of Corea is formally declared.

January 9.-Congress: The Senate discusses the Nicaragua Canal bill; the House rejects an order to close debate on the Currency bill by a vote of 130 to 124, thus virtually shelving the bill; the House passes the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation bill ($1,565,118) and the Post Office appropriation bill ($89,442,952)....Legislatures meet in Connecticut, Illinois, North Corolina, West Virginia and Wisconsin....State Treasurer Taylor, of South Dakota, is found be a defaulter for a large amount of the 'state's funds.... Charles F. Warwick is nominated by the Republicans of Philadelphia for Mayor....A cotton-growcrs' convention meets in Jackson, Miss....The extraordinary grand jury begins its investigation of the New York police cases....The German Reichstag resumes debate of the Anti-Revolution bill....Premier Turner, of Victoria, resigns.

January 10.-Congress: The Senate begins a contest over the income tax in connection with the consideration of the Urgent Deficiency appropriation bill; the House passes the District of Columbia appropriation bill

($5,190,187)....The Indiana legislature meets....A modus vivendi is agreed on between the United States and Cuba. ....Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike....Toronto has a second million-dollar fire.... The fortress of Kaiping is taken from the Chinese by Japanese troops under General Nogi.

January 11.-Congress: In the Senate, Mr. Hill continues his attack on the income tax; the House devotes the day to private bills... The annual statements of the Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron companies show a deficit of nearly $2,000,000.... Baron Banffy is requested by Emperor Francis Joseph to form a Hungarian Cabinet. January 12.-Congress: Discussion of the income tax in the Senate; a bill against oleomargarine considered in the House.... Heavy snow storms extend over a number of Northwestern states....The Anti-Revolution bill in the German Reichstag is referred to a committee....A new Cabinet is formed in Hayti.

January 13.-Gov. McKinley takes measures to relieve the destitution among Ohio miners....M. Barthou, French Minister of Public Works, resigns. ...The Italian troops win a victory over the Abyssinians.

January 14.-Congress: In the Senate, the Urgent Deficiency bill is further discussed, Messrs. Gorman and Hill speaking; the House postpones a vote on the Oleomargarine bill....A strike of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) street car conductors and motormen ties up nearly fifty lines of electric surface road....The French Cabinet resigns office....A new Hungarian Cabinet is formed by Baron Banffy....A second battle is fought between the Italians and the Abyssinians at Messagero.

January 15.-Congress: In the Senate, debate of the income tax amendment to the Urgent Deficiency bill; in the House, consideration of the Indian appropriation bill and reporting of the Sundry Civil bill from the Appropriation Committee.... The following United States Senators are elected in their respective states: James McMillan, long term, and Julius C. Burrows, short term (Mich.); George F. Hoar (Mass.); William E. Chandler (N. H.); William P. Frye (Me.); John M. Thurston (Neb.)....The Tennessee legislature votes to postpone the inauguration of a Governor till after a canvass of the votes cast at the recent election....Governors Hastings, of Pennsylvania, and Marvil, of Delaware, are inaugurated. ....M. Casimir-Perier resigns the Presidency of France. The Prussian Landtag is opened by the Emperor in person....Governor Budd, of California, removes from office the Police Commissioner of San Francisco appointed by his predecessor and makes a new appointment.

January 16.-Congress: The Senate passes the Urgent Deficiency bill after further debate of the income tax provision; the House debates the Currency bill.... The following United States Senators are chosen : Edward O. Wolcott (Colorado); Thomas H. Carter, long term, and Lee Mantle, short term, (Montana); continued deadlocks in Delaware and Idaho Explosions of giant powder at Butte, Mont., cause the death of fifty-three persons, and the serious injury of about one hundred others.... Philadelphia Democrats nominate ex-Gov. Pattison for Mayor. .... The Italians are again victorious over the Abyssinians south of Coatit.

January 17.-Congress: In the Senate, Mr. Sherman introduces a new financial bill, and the pension appropriation bill ($140.000,000) is passed; the House considers the Indian appropriation bill ...The Ohio miners' strike is declared off.... M. François Félix Faure is elected President of France on the second ballot by a vote of 430 to

361 for M. Henri Brisson....The retirement of the Duke of Argyll from public life is announced. ..The Scandinavian Rigsdag is opened at Stockholm.

January 18.-Congress: The Senate passes the Army appropriation bill; the House debates the Indian appropriation bill in Committee of the Whole.... The Lexow committee's report on the New York City police department is presented to the State Senate at Albany.... The Mayor of Brooklyn, N. Y., asks for militia to guard the property of the street railway companies whose employees are striking.... Harvard defeats Yale in joint debate. ...M. Bourgeois consents to attempt the task of forming a French Cabinet....Mass-meetings are held in Greece to protest against increased taxation.

January 19.-Congress: Debate in both branches on the recent royalist uprising in Hawaii.... Militia in Brooklyn make a bayonet charge on rioters attacking street railway property.... President Cleveland orders the cruiser Philadelphia to proceed at once to Honolulu.... The Ohio River passenger steamer State of Missouri sinks near Alton, Ind., and thirty-seven passengers are drowned.... The Hungarian Premier, Banffy, declares that he will follow Dr. Wekerle's policy.... The British Government refuses assent to the removal of disabilities from the Whitewayites in Newfoundland.

January 20.-The First Brigade of the New York National Guard is called out by the Governor for service in Brooklyn; there are now 7,000 militia in that city guarding lives and property during the street railway strike. ....The cruiser Philadelphia leaves San Francisco for Honolulu.... The Armenian Commission of Inquiry is reported as nearing Sassoon.

OBITUARY.

December 20.-Rev. Dr. George Edward Ellis, President of the Massachusetts Historical Society....Douglas Putnam, of Marietta, Ohio, the oldest living descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam.

December 21.-Mr. A. W. M. Clark-Kennedy, the distinguished London naturalist....Joseph P. Thompson, of Newburg, N. Y., born a slave and in 1876 made a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in the United States.

December 22.-Col. J. B. Batchelder, official historian, of the battle of Gettysburg.... Ex-Congressman T. M. Marquette, of Nebraska ... Charles R. Street, a California pioneer....Mrs William Waldorf Astor.

December 23.-Charles Toppan, chemical inventor, of Salem, Mass.

December 24.-Rt. Rev. James Atlay, D.D., Bishop of Hereford....Lady Henry Grosvenor. Miss Frances

Buss, London educator... Col. Solomon Palmer, of St. Louis, the oldest telegraph line builder in the world.... Henry Korwin Kalusowski, Polish insurrectionist in exile at Washington, D. C.

December 25 - Baron Trevor....Vice Chancellor Abraham Van Fleet, of New Jersey....Selden Marvin, a leading lawyer of Erie, Pa....Judge Henry M. Seely, of Honesdale, Pa....Chief Detective Cornelius Markham, of Troy, N. Y.

December 26-James H. Gridley, a well-known patent attorney of Washington, D. C.... Rev. David Teese, a Presbyterian clergyman of Amherst County, Va., who is said to have officiated at the funeral of President Wm. Henry Harrison.... Miguel Salgar, of New York City, exConsul-General of the United States of Colombia.

December 27.-Ex-King Francis II of Naples....The Maharajah of Mysore.... Arthur Ellis, financial editor of the London Times....José Ellauri, twice President of Uruguay....Colonel Michael Frank, one of the founders of the Wisconsin free school system....Sim Coy, a wellknown Indiana politician.

December 28.-James Graham Fair, ex-United States Senator from Nevada.

December 29.-Christina Georgina Rosetti, sister of Dante Gabriel Rosetti.....Lieut.-Col. John B. Parke, U.S. A..... Charles W. Button, one of the oldest newspaper men in Virginia.

December 30.-John Fitzgerald, of Lincoln, Neb, expresident of the Irish National League of America.... Mrs. Amelia J. Bloomer, advocate of dress reform....George M. Stearns, a prominent Massachusetts lawyer.... Col. Thomas Benton Coulter, of Ohio, Sixth Auditor of the Treasury under President Harrison..... Miss Emily L. Gerry, of New Haven, Conn, last daughter of the statesman, Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts M. Decroix, Senator of France.

December 31 -Rt. Rev. David Buell Knickerbacker, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Indiana.... Susan Fenimore Cooper, author and philanthropist, daughter of the novelist.

January 1, 1895.-Adolph Phillippi, civil engineer, of Elizabeth, N. J.

January 2.-Dr. James Rhoades, ex-president of Bryn Mawr College for Women.... Colonel E. M. Heyl, Inspector-General Department of the Missouri, U. S. A.... Prof. Thomas Metcalf, of the Illinois State Normal School.... Alexandre Bida, the French artist.

January 3.-Dr. George Marx, a Washington entomologist....Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, president of the Michigan

THE LATE GEN. PHILIP SIDNEY POST, OF ILLINOIS. W. C. T. U.... John Newton Hyde, a well-known Boston illustrator. .... Rev. Dr. Julius M. Dashiell, of Anne Arundel County, Md....Marshal Pavia, Spanish revolutionist.

January 4.-The Crown Prince of Siam.... John Owen, water-color artist of Detroit, Mich.... Prof. Edward Hartsinck Day, of the New York Normal College.... Col. Charles S. Hill, a Washington statistician....Major A. D. Abraham, of La Grange, Ga.

January 5.-Prof. George Dudley Thomas, of Athens,

Ga.

January 6.-Congressman Philip Sidney Post, of the Tenth Illinois District....Jean Rathier, French radical Deputy for the Yonne....Louis Fatio, of Florida, a surviver of the Dade massacre in the Seminole War of 1835. January 7.-Sir William Loring, K.C.B., Admiral of the British Fleet..... Charles Alphonse Brot, the French novelist.

January 8.-Pay Director Richard Washington, U. S. N. January 9.-Rev. Dr. John Newton Waddell, formerly prominent in Southern educational institutions.... Archibald Gordon, New York newspaper writer and dramatist.

Robert Macoy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., prominent in Masonic circles.

January 10.-Sir John Summerfield Hawkins, commissioner for marking boundary between British and United States territories west of the Rocky Mountains, from 1858 to 1863 .Aaron L. Dennison, known as the "father of American watchmaking".... De Witt C. Hays, for twenty-nine years treasurer of the New York Stock Exchange.... William Sturgis, a retired New York merchant.

January 11.-Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, the French composer.... Hon. Michael J. Power, for eight years

Speaker of the Nova Scotia Assembly....Gen. Alfred W. Ellet, a veteran of the Marine Brigade.

January 12.-Capt. Alexander Fraser Warley, a Confederate naval officer.... Ex-Congressman John L. Merriam of Minnesota....Jacob D. Pohlman, the blind crier of the Supreme Court at Albany, N. Y.

January 13.-Charles C. Painter, of the U. S. Board of Indian Commissioners....Sir John R. Seeley, professor of modern history at Cambridge.... William G. Moorehead, ex-United States Consul to Valparaiso.

January 14.-Prof. Karl Haushofer, the mineralogist, of Munich.... Wilhelm Arndt, the historian, of Leipsic.... Charles C. Leigh, a well-known advocate of temperance legislation, Brooklyn, N. Y.

January 15.-Ex-Judge George Shea, of New York City....Robert N. Ely, for many years prominent in Georgia politics.... Most Rev. Lawrence Gillooly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin....Joseph Whitaker, one of

the editors of "Whitaker's Almanac.".... Ex.-Gov. S. F. Chadwick, of Oregon.

January 16.-Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson Coxe, of Utica, N. Y....John B. Smith, of Scranton, Pa., president of the Erie and Wyoming Valley R.R....Ex-Congressman Patrick Hamill, of Garrett County, Md.

January 17.-Prof. Hiram A. Hitchcock, of Hanover, N. H ...Gen. Isaac Newton Stiles, a prominent Chicago lawyer....Joseph Tasse, member of the Dominion Senate for the Montreal District....Captain Edward S. Huntington, of Quincy, Mass.

January 18.-Prof Henry B. Nason, a well-known man of science, of Troy, N. Y....Miss Mary L. Stevenson, eldest daughter of the Vice-President....Marcellus Strong, a veteran printer and publisher of Wisconsin.

January 19-Prof. Augustus C. Merriam, of Columbia College.... Moritz Carriere, German essayist. January 20.-Major Joseph W. Paddock, Government Director of the Union Pacific Railway.