12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions. September 26 – The and the schooner barge Ironton collide and sink in Lake Huron. While the crew of the Ohio is rescued, five of the other craft's seven-member crew, including the captain, are lost. October–December October 1 Petrópolis becomes the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, until 1902. The Owl Club of Cape Town, South Africa, a dining club, has its first formal meeting. October 3 – Pomfret School is founded in Connecticut. October 15 – Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying. October 30 – Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. November 1 Emperor Alexander III of Russia is succeeded by his son, Nicholas II. The first issue of Billboard magazine is published in Cincinnati, Ohio by William Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known as Billboard Advertising. November 6 – Republicans win by a landslide in the United States House of Representatives elections, which sets the stage for the decisive presidential election of 1896. November 7 – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France. November 21 – First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lushunkou – Japanese troops secure a decisive victory over the Chinese, capture the port city of Lüshunkou, and begin the Port Arthur massacre, in which more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians die. November 26 – Wedding of Nicholas II of Russia and Alix of Hesse in the Grand Church of the Winter Palace at Saint Petersburg. December 6 – Kate Chopin's feminist short story "The Story of an Hour" is first published, in the American magazine Vogue. December 18 – Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and the first in the world with the right to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from 1895, after decades of activism. December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister. December 22 – Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason. Date unknown Grace Kimmins founds the Guild of the Poor Brave Things in England, for the education of crippled boys. The National College of Music, London, is founded by the Moss family. In the U.S., the Society of