May 5.—Mr. Choate, the American Ambassador to England, is given a farewell dinner at the Mansion House in London.
Zemstvo Congress opens in St. Petersburg.
May 6.—A plot discovered in Madrid, Spain, to make an independent state out of the territory of Cunani, Brazil.
Police break up congress of engineers in St. Petersburg.
May 7.—Tokio papers make bitter attack on France, alleging that France is violating her pledges of neutrality.
Despatch from Moscow states zemstvos have split over universal suffrage.
Obituary
April 7.—Edward Floyd DeLancey, a New York lawyer and historian, dies, aged 83.
General Cullen A. Battle, of the Confederate army, aged 76.
April 9.—Miss Sarah Chauncey Wadsworth (“Susan Coolidge”), aged 60.