April 9.—After a fight covering twenty years and costing millions of dollars, the Bell Telephone Company has been whipped by the rural lines in Iowa and forced to connect with them. Several hundred sailors belonging to the North Atlantic squadron desert at Pensacola. April 10.—J. H. Hyde and W. H. McIntyre, of the Equitable Insurance Company, are seeking to intervene in the suit of Franklin B. Lord, a stockholder, for an injunction to restrain the officers of the company from carrying out the mutualization plan. April 11.—The Grand Jury of Franklin County, Ky., returns four hundred true bills against the Standard Oil Company for failing to procure peddlers’ license as required by the Kentucky statutes. The Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions formally accepts the gift of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller and issues a statement explaining its action. April 13.—Father Schell, a young Catholic priest who has done much to put a stop to dishonest land agents swindling the Winnebago Indians, is assaulted and severely beaten. April 14.—“General” Jacob S. Coxey, of “Coxey’s Army,” declared a bankrupt. April 15.—J. H. Hyde admits using Equitable funds for underwriting purposes, but declares that President Alexander was a party to such transactions. April 18.—Beef Trust again raises the prices of meats. April 19.—General Managers and Agents of the Equitable meet in New York and ask Vice-President Hyde to withdraw from the society in the interest of harmony. April 20.—Unloading 5,000,000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago market breaks the corner, and John W. Gates is supposed to have lost $2,000,000. Mrs. Donald McLean, of New York, is elected President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. April 21.—Eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty-five immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in one day, establishing a new record. Hyde refuses agents’ request to resign from the Equitable. Policyholders in the Equitable ask the Circuit Court in Chicago for a receiver and an accounting. April 24.—Frank Bigelow, President of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, embezzles $2,400,000 of the bank’s funds. April 26.—D. Le Roy Dresser sues the promoters of the United States Shipbuilding Company for $3,000,000, alleging fraud in its formation. April 27.—Andrew Carnegie gives $10,000,000 to pension retired college professors. April 28.—The strike of the teamsters in Chicago has developed into the worst since the famous Debs strike eleven years ago. Judge Kohlsaat, in the Federal Court, grants a temporary injunction against the strikers on the request of the Employers’ Teaming Association. April 29.—Laredo, Tex., wiped off the map by a cyclone. May 3.—The American Railway Appliance Exhibition is formally opened at Washington. The strike in Chicago continues.