In Porto Rico, about 70,000 votes are cast out of a total registration of 125,000, the Federal party refraining from voting.

November 12.-President McKinley orders a discontinuance of the military department of Porto Rico and a reduction of the force in the island....The policy of the Citizens' Union in the New York City mayoralty contest of 1901 is announced.

November 15.-The Alabama Legislature unanimously reëlects John T. Morgan to the United States Senate....Richard Croker orders a Tammany campaign against vice in New York City.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-FOREIGN.

October 21.-The Spanish cabinet resigns office. October 22.-General Azcarraga forms a new Spanish cabinet.... The Russian budget of 1899 passes the controller, with a surplus of 186,000,000 roubles....Ecuador arranges to pay its entire foreign debt.

October 24.-Baron von Richthofen succeeds Count von Bülow as German foreign secretary.... Ex-Premier Shreiner, of Cape Colony, resigns from the Cape Par liament, owing to the hostility of Afrikander extremists October 31.-Anti-tax riots take place in Roumania. November 1.-Queen Victoria approves the appointment of Lord Salisbury as premier and lord privy seal, the Marquis of Lansdowne as foreign secretary, William St. John Brodrick as secretary for war, the Earl of Selborne as first lord of the admiralty, and C. T. Ritchie as home secretary, in the new British ministry.

November 3.-Stern measures are taken in Spain against the Carlist agitation....Several changes are made in the Norwegian ministry.

November 6.-The French Parliament reassembles. November 7.-Queen Victoria approves additional appointments in the new British ministry....The Canadian general election results favorably to the present Liberal government; Sir Charles Tupper, leader of the Conservatives, is among those defeated for seats in Parliament; the Liberal majority in the House of Commons is estimated at 47.

November 8.-The Newfoundland elections are favorable to the Liberals, the party in power.... The French Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 329 to 222, adopts a resolution of confidence in the Waldeck-Rousseau ministry....The new lord mayor of London is inaugurated.

November 12. The Dutch cabinet submits to the States-General a proposition to drain the Zuyder Zee, at an estimated cost of $100,000,000....The reorganization of the British cabinet is completed.

November 14.-The German Reichstag reassembles. November 20.-In the German Reichstag severe criticisms are passed on the Emperor William's utterances.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

October 26.-The Transvaal is formally proclaimed a part of the British empire.

October 29.-All the mouths of the Orinoco River are declared open to international navigation.

October 30.-The British military authorities take stern measures to suppress guerrilla warfare in South Africa.

October 31.-Fighting is reported between AustroHungarians and Montenegrins over a boundary dispute. November 7.-A convention between the United States and Spain is signed at Washington, ceding the islands of Cagayan and Sibutu to the United States for $100,000.

November 8.-Lord Roberts reports an engagement near Bothaville, in which 23 Boers are killed, 30

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wounded, and a hundred taken prisoners, while 7 guns are captured by the British, who lose 3 officers and 4 men killed.

November 9.- Lord Salisbury expresses gratification at the result of the election in the United States.

November 10.-An His pano-American Congress, in which many of the South American States are represented, meets at Madrid.

November 12.-The Paris Exposition is closed.

November 15.-The

Hispano-American Congress at Madrid declares that acceptance of the decisions of the international tribunal of arbitration must have some guarantee other than an engagement of honor.

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

October 22.-The rebellion against the present dynasty is proceeding in the southern provinces successfully. October 23.-The allies occupy Pao-ting-fu without opposition.

October 24.-The death of Kang Yi is announced.

October 25.-Minister Conger is authorized to begin negotiations with the Chinese at once. Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang ask the foreign ministers to state explicitly what officials deserve punishment, and what degree of punishment they deserve.

October 29.-The diplomatic body at Peking hold a conference to consider the form which the negotiations should take.

November 1.-It is announced that all the interested

powers have signified their approval of the Anglo-German agreement as to China; the United States, France, and Russia make a reservation regarding the third clause.

November 10.-Russian troops capture an arsenal near Yang Tsun, killing 200 Chinese.

November 16.-A Chinese imperial decree orders the life imprisonment of Prince Tuan and Prince Chwang for their part in the Boxer outrages.

November 19.-Chancellor von Bülow makes a statement to the Reichstag regarding German policy in China.

November 20.-The French minister of foreign affairs makes a statement on the policy of his government in China.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH. October 21.-A second successful trial of Count Zep pelin's airship is made at Friedrichshafen.

October 23.-Announcement is made of the defalcation of a note-teller of the First National Bank of New York City, in the sum of $690,000.

October 25.-The 500th anniversary of the death of Chaucer is commemorated in London. The United

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wholesale drug house in New York City....Seven persons are killed in a Northern Pacific train-wreck in Montana....Work is resumed in most of the anthracite coal-mines of Pennsylvania, the companies conceding the demands of the striking miners.

October 31.-The Free and the United Presbyterian churches of Scotland are formally united.

November 1.-Iron manufacturers in Great Britain reduce prices to meet American and German competition.

November 2.-An explosion in a coal-mine at Berryville, W. Va., kills 13 men.

November 3.-The Canadian troops returned from South Africa are welcomed at Ottawa.

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Mine-Workers declare the Pennsylvania coal strike off at mines where the demands of the operatives have been granted....The funeral of John Sherman takes place at Mansfield, O.; President McKinley is one of the

mourners.

October 28.-A great peace demonstration, organized by the Labor party of France, takes place in Paris.

October 29.-In the demonstration of welcome on the return of the City Imperial Volunteers to London from the South African War, four persons are killed and many injured.... An earthquake at Caracas, Venezuela, causes the death of 15 persons and much damage to property....Several lives are lost, and a number of buildings wrecked, as the result of an explosion of chemicals in a

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November 4.-At Lyons, France, a monument to the late President Carnot is unveiled.

November 10.-The steamer City of Monticello founders at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy; 31 lives are lost.

October 28.-Prof. Max Müller, 77 (see page 703).... Ex-Judge James H. Brown, of West Virginia, 82.

October 29.-Prince Christian Victor, grandson of Queen Victoria, 33.

October 30.-Ex-Congressman James Buchanan, of New Jersey, 61.... William Watson Niles, a prominent member of the New York bar, 78.

November 2.-Ex-Mayor William L. Strong, of New York City, 73.

November 7.-Gen. Joseph W. Burke, collector of the port of Mobile, 70.

November 9.-Gen. Frederick Elsworth Mather, sole survivor of the founders of "Skull and Bones" at Yale, 91.

November 10.-Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown, rector of St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church, of New York City, 63.... Robert Graham Dun, head of the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co., 74.

November 12.-Henry Villard, the railroad financier, 65....Marcus Daly, the Montana millionaire coppermine owner, 60 (see page 707).... Prof. William H. Rosenstengel, of the University of Wisconsin, 58... Dr. Henry D. Noyes, a New York oculist and physician, 68.... Frank Jarvis Patten, inventor of the system of multiplex telegraphy now used by the Western Union Telegraph Company, 48....Thomas Arnold, son of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, 77.

November 13.-Capt. John D. Hart, of Cuban filibustering fame, 41.

November 15.-Señor J. F. Canevero, Peruvian minister to France.

November 16.-Ex-Gov. George A. Ramsdell, of New Hampshire, 66.... Rev. Alfred Pinney, a Baptist clergyman active in the antislavery agitation, 90.... William C. Ogden, a writer on mining and insurance law, 56.... Frederick W. Royce, a veteran telegraph operator and inventor, 61.

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November 18.-Martin Irons, the famous labor leader,

November 19.-Rear-Admiral Roger N. Stembel, U.S.N., retired, 90.