ington....Governor Poynter, of Nebraska, appoints exSenator William V. Allen (Pop.) to take the seat of the late Senator-elect Hayward (Rep.).

December 15.-The Republican National Committee votes to hold the national convention of the party at Philadelphia on June 19, 1900.

December 18.-Secretary Gage offers to increase the Government's deposits in depository banks, with a view to a relief of the monetary stringency.

December 19.-The Virginia Legislature reëlects Sen. ator Thomas S. Martin.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-FOREIGN.

November 21.-The Emperor of Austria summons all the party leaders in the Reichsrath to confer with him on the crisis in the constitution.... The French Chamber begins. the discussion of the budget.

November 22.-The conspiracy trial in Paris is concluded.

November 23.-Obstructionists block all business in the Austrian Reichsrath.

November 27.-The French Chamber, by vote of 480 to 44, agrees to the special credit of 60,000,000 francs for the defense of the French coast and colonies; it also passes a credit for the embassy at the Vatican by 349 votes to 202.

November 28.-The Italian finance minister makes his budget statement in the Chamber at Rome.

December 2.-Gen. José Manuel Hernandez, leader of the revolt against the Castro government of Venezuela, takes the city of Maracaibo after a sixteen-hour battle....The Peruvian cabinet resigns.

December 5.-The German cabinet agrees to the repeal of the Prussian law forbidding the affiliation and coalition of political clubs and.societies.

December 6.-The Queensland ministry resigns. December 11.-Emperor William's new naval programme is introduced in the German Reichstag....The Spanish Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 131 to 83, rejects a motion demanding the withdrawal of the naval estimates.

December 13.-The Spanish Chamber of Deputies, by a close vote, rejects a motion demanding the abolition of the under-secretaryship of the navy.

December 14.-The Swiss Federal Assembly elects Walther Hauser, Radical, president for 1900.

December 18.-General Hernandez surrenders the principal part of the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, to the government troops.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

November 23.-The question of the French settlement at Shanghai is satisfactorily arranged on the conditions proposed by Lord Salisbury to the French ambassador last July.... The Egyptian troops under Colonel Wingate defeat a force of dervishes to the south of Omdurman.

November 25.-Colonel Wingate's column of AngloEgyptian troops comes up with the Khalifa on Om Debrikat, 170 miles south of Omdurman, and defeats him utterly; the Khalifa is killed and his whole camp taken.

November 29.-The British and German ambassadors at Washington hold conferences with Secretary Hay regarding Samoa.

December 2.-A treaty for the partition of Samoan territory between the United States and Germany is signed at Washington by Secretary Hay and the British and German ambassadors.

December 4.- A parcels-post treaty between the United States and Guatemala is signed at Washington.

December 9.-France demands the degradation of the viceroy of Canton, on the ground that the order to execute the Chinese magistrate responsible for the murder of the French officers at Montao has not been carried out.... The terms of the new reciprocity treaties negotiated by the United States with France and Great Britain, respectively, are made public.

December 15.-The German military attaché is withdrawn from Paris because of attacks made in the course of the Dreyfus trial.

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

November 21.-Communication with Estcourt is interrupted....The hospital ship Spartan lies in Durban harbor with the wounded....The New Zealand contingent arrives at East London.

November 22.-General French arrives with a force of 3,000 men at Hanover Road Station....The Boers control the railroad line between Mooi River and Estcourt; the telegraph wires are cut between Estcourt and Pietermaritzburg.

November 23.-Lord Methuen attacks the Boer position at Belmont and gains a complete victory....Sir Redvers Buller has left Cape Town for Natal....The Boers continue to shell the British camp on the Mooi River.

November 24.-It is reported that 400 Dutch joined the Boers at Barkly.

November 25.-Lord Methuen advances; there is a battle near Graspan, in which the Boer position is carried at the point of the bayonet....Communication with Estcourt is restored....It is reported that the Boers capture 350 rifles and 4,000 rounds of ammunition at Barkly.

A SORTIE WITH THE ARMORED TRAIN FROM LADYSMITH.

November 26.-The Boers occupy Stormberg; reënforcements arrive....The Boers between Estcourt and Mooi River retreat.

November 27.-General Gatacre occupies Bushmanshoek.

November 28.-Lord Methuen's force attacks a strong Boer position on the Modder River; Lord Methuen describes it as "one of the hardest and most trying fights in the annals of the British army;" the total British losses are 471 officers and men.

November 30.-Ladysmith is effectively shelled by the Boers from Lombard's Kop.

December 8.-A detachment of the British troops at Ladysmith successfully storms Lombard's Kop, capturing a Boer gun.

December 10.-General Gatacre attempts to surprise the Boer position at Stormberg, in Natal; the attempt results disastrously, his forces being raked by the Boers' rifle and artillery fire, without a possibility of replying; the total British losses are 687 officers and men and 2 guns; the Boer loss is slight.

December 11.-General Methuen, in attempting the relief of Kimberley, attacks the Boers' position at Magersfontein, north of the Modder River; the troops find it impossible to face the terrible fire of the Boers and are forced to retire; 15 British officers, including General Wauchope and the Marquis of Worcester, are killed, and 47 wounded, the total loss being 832.

December 13.-Boer troops advancing south in Cape Colony toward Naaupoort are driven back by General French with a loss of 40 killed and wounded, the British losing 10 men.

December 15.-The British forces in South Africa suffer their third serious reverse within a week; General Buller, in attempting to force the passage of the Tugela River at Colenso, is repulsed, with a loss of 1,097 officers and men and 11 guns.

December 18.-The British War Office announces that Lord Roberts will be sent to South Africa as commander-in-chief, with Lord Kitchener as second in command, and that 100,000 additional men will be sent.

THE FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES. November 24.-Bautista, president of the Filipino Congress, surrenders himself to General MacArthur. November 26.-At Pavia, island of Panay, the Eighteenth and Nineteeth Regiments drive the Filipinos out

of their trenches; a captain and 1 private of the Eighteenth are killed.... Marines landed from the Oregon capture Vigan.

November 28.-Colonel Bell disperses the insurgents on the divide between the Dagupan valley, in Luzon, and the ocean....Bayombong, in the province of Nueva Viscaya, defended by 800 armed Filipinos, surrenders to Lieutenant Monroe and 50 men of the Fourth Cavalry.

December 3.-Gen. Gregorio del Pilar, one of the Filipino insurgent leaders, is killed in a fight with the American troops near Cervantes, northern Luzon.

December 4.-Vigan, held by American troops under Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, is attacked by 800 Filipinos, who are driven off, leaving 40 killed and 32 prisoners; the American loss is 8 enlisted men.

December 11.-General Tierona, the Filipino insurgent commander in Cagayan, at the extreme northern end of Luzon, surrenders the entire province to Captain McCalla, of the Newark.

December 18.-General Lawton is shot and instantly killed near San Mateo, in Luzon.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH. November 28.-The publishing house of Harper & Brothers, New York, makes an assignment to the State Trust Company.

November 29.-A wreck occurs on a section of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, near Paterson, N. J., not protected by a block-signal system; € persons are killed and 22 injured.

November 30.-A steel mill costing $1,000,000 is put in operation in Birmingham, Ala.

December 2.-A tidal wave causes much damage on the Chilean coast.

December 4.-In a collision on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad near Salida, Colo., 6 persons are killed and several others seriously injured.

December 6.-A mob at Maysville, Ky., tortures and burns to death a self-confessed negro murderer about to be tried for his crime.

December 9.-An explosion of gas in the Carbon Hill coal mines at Carbonado, Wash., causes the loss of 32 lives.

December 10.-Fire in Augusta, Ga., causes a loss of more than $500,000.

December 11.-The fifteenth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor is opened in Detroit.

December 12.-A sugar company with a capital of $100,000,000 is organized to operate in Cuba, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as well as in the United States.

December 14.-The one hundredth anniversary of the death of George Washington is appropriately observed; President McKinley delivers an address at Mount Ver

non.

December 16.-The Broadway National Bank of Boston closes its doors.

December 18.-There are heavy declines in stock on the New York exchanges; the Produce Exchange Trust Company fails and the suspension of Henry Allen & Co. is announced; the banks come to the relief of the money market.

December 19.-The New York clearing-house banks pool $10,000,000 of loanable funds for the purpose of relieving the money stringency by loans.

OBITUARY.

November 21.-Vice-President Garret A. Hobart, 55....Dixon Kemp, the British yacht designer, 60.

November 23.-Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line, 63....James McManes, for many years the acknowledged Republican leader of Philadelphia, 78.

November 24.-Rev. Samuel May, a well-known abolitionist, 89.... Ex-Congressman A. J. Hosletter, of Indiana, 81.... Henry H. Hall, Assistant Treasurer of the United States in Lincoln's administration.

November 25.-Col. George R. Davis, director-general of the World's Fair of 1893, 60.... Rev. Dr. Robert Lowry, a prominent Baptist clergyman and author, 73. November 27.-Charles F. Coghlan, the actor, 58.... Ex.-Gov. Samuel H. Elbert, of Colorado.

November 28.-Ex-United States Senator Thomas W. Tipton, of Nebraska, 82....Calvin Dewolf, one of the earliest of the Illinois abolitionists, 84....Judge John R. Putnam, of Saratoga, N. Y., 70....James A. Scott, editor of the Irish Times, 67.

November 29.-Prince di Ruspoli, senator and mayor of Rome....Baron Karl F. W. von Wrangel, 87.... Rev. Dr. George Colfax Baldwin, Troy, N. Y., 82.

November 30.-Judge Henry Holliday Goldsborough, of Baltimore, 82.

December 1.-Col. Cadwallader Jones, of South Carolina, 86.

December 2.-John I. Blair, the railroad financier, 97. December 4.-Judge John A. Woolson, of the federal bench of Iowa, 57.

December 5.-Senator-elect Monroe L. Hayward, of Nebraska, 59....Sir Henry Tate, founder of the Tate Galleries at Westminster, 80....Rev. Father John B. Hespelein, of the Redemptorist Order, 78.

December 6.-James McConnell, editor of the Philadelphia Evening Star, 55.

December 7.-Commander Charles P. Howell, U. S. N., who was engineer of the Maine when that vessel was blown up in Havana harbor, 50.

December 8.-Joseph C. Hoagland, a well-known manufacturer of baking powder, 58....Judge E. K. Foster, of Florida, 58.

December 11.-Commander Edward Parker Wood, U. S. N., who commanded the gunboat Petrel in the battle of Manila....Baron Penzance (James Plaisted Wilde), a distinguished English lawyer, 83.....Maj.Gen. Andrew G. Wauchope.

THE LATE LIEUT. THOMAS M. BRUMBY.

(Admiral Dewey's flag lieutenant.)

December 12.-Sir George A. Kirkpatrick, formerly lieutenant-governor of Ontario.

December 13.-Col. Julius Walker Adams, the pioneer engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, 87....Lucius R. O'Brien, the Canadian landscape painter, 67.... Gen. Jasper Packard, a veteran of the Civil War, 67.

December 17.-Lieut. Thomas Mason Brumby, US.N., Admiral Dewey's flag lieutenant in the battle of Manila, 44....Lieut. F. H. S. Roberts, son of Field Marshal Baron Roberts, of the British army, 27.... William H. Carpenter, of the Baltimore Sun.

December 18.-Maj.-Gen. Henry W. Lawton, U. S. V., 57.... Bernard Quaritch, the well-known London book dealer, 82.