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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
at New York, leaving a vast fortune......Feb. 22, 1890 Vote in the House of Representatives on a site for the World's Columbian Exposition results: Chicago, 157; New York, 107; St. Louis, 26; Washington, D. C., 18; necessary to a choice, 155......Feb. 24, 1890 United States steamer Enterprise arrives at New York with the body of George H. Pendleton, who died at Brussels, Nov. 24, 1889......Feb. 27, 1890 North American Commercial Company secures the Alaskan fur-seal rights......Feb. 28, 1890 National league of Republican clubs meets at Nashville, Tenn......March 4, 1890 Act authorizing an assistant Secretary of War at a salary of $4,500.March 5, 1890 Owing to British seal-poaching in American waters, and refusal of Great Britain to recognize a close season, the President by proclamation warns persons against entering Bering Sea for the purpose of unlawfully killing fur-bearing animals......March 15, 1890 Large number of boomers invade the Cherokee strip......Marc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alaska, (search)
n Jackson appointed general agent of education for the Territory......April, 1885 A. P. Swineford arrives at Sitka as governor......Sept. 15, 1885 Gold first discovered at Silver Bay, near Sitka, in......1887 Expedition sent by the United States coast and geodetic survey, under J. E. McGrath, to determine the exact boundary between Alaska and the British possessions......June, 1889 The North American Commercial Company secures the Alaskan fur-seal rights for twenty years......Feb. 28, 1890 Population reported by the census agent, 31,000, consisting of 900 Aleuts, 5,000 Indians, 18,000 Eskimos, 2,300 Chinese, and 4,800 whites......Aug. 29, 1891 Great excitement created by the Klondike gold discoveries in the summer of......1897 Avalanche in the Chilkoot Pass, nearly 200 persons killed......April 3, 1898 Temporary boundary-line of Alaska agreed upon with England......Oct. 12, 1899 Civil government for the District of Alaska enacted......June 6, 1900 Relief
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
n convention ever held in Louisiana meets at Shreveport......Aug. 19, 1885 North, Central, and South American exposition opens......Nov. 10, 1885 Legislature grants relief to wounded and disabled Confederate soldiers of the State, and to the widows of the Confederate soldiers killed or wounded in the war......1886 Charter of the Louisiana State lottery expiring in 1894, the anti-lottery people, in convention at New Orleans, found an anti-lottery league to oppose its renewal......Feb. 28, 1890 Louisiana Lottery Company offers the State $1,000,000 per year, double its former offer, for the privilege of maintaining a lottery......May 13, 1890 House of Delegates passes a bill amending the State constitution, by granting a recharter to the Louisiana State Lottery Company for twenty-five years for $1,000,000 per annum......June 25, 1890 State legislature settles the lottery question conditionally by accepting $1,250,000 per year for the lottery privilege......July 1, 1890