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September 2. —

Wilford Woodruff, the head of the Mormon church, died in San Francisco.

In the Soudan, the English forces captured Omdurman, and rescued Neufeld, who had been held in captivity eleven years by the dervishes.

September 3. —

Emperor William appointed Queen Wilhelmina of Holland honorary colonel of the Fifteenth Hanoverian hussars.

The French minister of war resigned, on account of the new complications that have arisen in the Dreyfus affair.

President McKinley visited Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point, New York.

September 5. —

Wilhelmina was crowned queen of Holland at Amsterdam.

September 6. —

The governor of Oregon calls a special session of the legislature, to meet on the 26th.

War breaks out again in the island of Crete. Hostilities are precipitated by an attack by the Mussulmans upon the British at Candia.

September 8. —

News was received to the effect that Li Hung Chang had been dismissed from the Chinese ministry. No reasons were given.

September 10. —

Commission to investigate the conduct of the war department was named by President McKinley.

It was reported that the French had occupied Fashoda, in the Upper Nile country.

The Empress of Austria was assassinated at Geneva.

September 11. —

The business portion of New Westminster, Vancouver, B. C, was destroyed by fire.

September 12. —

Rear Admiral Dewey asked for another warship and a cruiser. The request is taken as evidence that further trouble in the Philippines is imminent.

The Spanish senate adopted the Hispano-American protocol.

September 13. —

The "currency convention" opened at Omaha.

September 14. —

The president determined upon a Philippine policy, which was not given to the public.

The Barbadoes were swept by a terrific hurricane. Great loss of life and property.

September 15. —

The peace commissioners received their final instructions from the president.

September 16. —

The peace commission sailed from New York, in route for Paris.

September 17. —

Dr. John Hall, of New York, died at Bangor, County Down, Ireland.

September 18. —

The "Daughter of the Confederacy," Winnie Davis, died.

September 19. —

Aguinaldo sent a message to the Associated Press, denying his hostility to the Americans.

September 20. —

The republican convention met at Tacoma, Wash.

September 21. —

President McKinley informally received a delegation of the Roosevelt Rough Riders.

September 22. —

The empress dowager of China deposed her nephew, the emperor, on account of his fondness for reform.

September 23.—

The United States peace commission arrived at Queenstown.

Commission to investigate the war department announced complete.

September 24. —

The state organization of the Red Cross Society was effected at Portland, Or.

September 25.—

The remnant of the Khalifa's army was defeated, and its last stronghold captured by Egyptian forces under command of Colonel Parsons.

September 26. —

The investigation of the war department by the commission appointed by President McKinley began.

September 27. —

Oregon legislature convened at Salem.

Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for governor of New York by the republican convention.

September 28. —

Thomas F. Bayard, ex-ambassador to the court of St. James, died at Dedham, Mass., at the age of 70 years.

September 29. —

Queen Louise of Denmark died at Copenhagen.

September 30. —

Aguinaldo assumed the title of president of the revolutionary government of the Philippines.

President McKinley's Philippine policy in favor of holding the islands.