March 20.—Governor Miasoredeff, of Viborg, one of the Russian provinces of Finland, is shot and seriously wounded by a fifteen-year-old boy who proclaims himself a “revolutionist.”
March 21.—After a great debate in the French Chamber of Deputies, a motion to postpone the bill separating church and state is defeated by a vote of 363 to 40.
March 22.—Many peasants are killed and wounded by Russian troops in the provinces of Kutno and Ostrow.
The British House of Commons condemns the proposal of a protective tariff by a vote of 254 to 2.
March 23.—It is announced in the British Parliament that up to March 11 of this year there have been 346,000 deaths from the plague in India.
President Morales of Santo Domingo declares that unless the treaty with the United States is ratified there will be a revolution in that country.
March 24.—President Castro of Venezuela curtly declines to arbitrate the asphalt controversy with the United States.
March 25.—Under a tentative arrangement made with President Morales of Santo Domingo, the revenues of that country will be collected by an agent named by President Roosevelt.
March 26.—Baron von Molken, chief of the Warsaw police, is severely wounded by a bomb which destroyed his carriage.