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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, 1891 [The Fifty-first Congress was nicknamed the Billion dollar Congress from the grand total of its appropriations.] Eleven Italians confined in the Parish prison, New Orleans, on charge of the murder of Chief Hennessy, six of whom had just been acquitted by jury trial, are massacred......March 14, 1891 Baron Fava, Italian minister at Washington, protests against the New Orleans lynching......March 15, 1891 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, born 1807, dies at Washington, D. C.......March 21, 1891 Italian minister Fava recalled......March 31, 1891 Gen. Albert Pike, born 1809, dies at Washington, D. C.......April 2, 1891 Senator George F. Edmunds resigns, to take effect Nov. 1......April 6, 1891 Phineas T. Barnum, born 1810, dies at Bridgeport, Conn.......April 7, 1891 Patent centennial opened in Washington by President Harrison......April 8, 1891 President Harrison and party leave Washington for an extended trip in the South and West......April 14, 1891 Resign
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
miles long, passes through Louisville. In Louisville 120 persons are killed; loss to the city, $2,500,000......March 27, 1890 Senator James B. Beck drops dead in a railway station in Washington, D. C.......May 3, 1890 United States Supreme Court decides in favor of the claim of Kentucky to the ownership of Green Island in the Ohio River......May 19, 1890 John G. Carlisle, elected United States Senator, qualifies......May 26, 1890 Hatfield-McCoy feud ended by a marriage......March 21, 1891 Constitutional convention adjourns to Sept. 2......April 11, 1891 New constitution ratified, 213,950 for, 74,446 against......Aug. 3, 1891 Constitutional convention reassembles Sept. 2, and, after amending the constitution adopted by the people, signs and publishes the result......Sept. 28, 1891 Governor signs the anti-lottery bill, which makes the dealing in lottery tickets a felony......March 15, 1892 One hundredth anniversary of the admission of Kentucky into the Union
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
he Woods jury law of 1872-73......1881 Act passed establishing a State board of health......June 11, 1881 West Virginia normal and classical academy at Buckhannon opened......1882 West Virginia Immigration and Development Association organized at Wheeling......Feb. 29, 1888 Returns of election for governor in November, 1888, were: Nathan Goff, Republican, 78,714; A. B. Fleming, Democrat, 78,604. Fleming contests for fraudulent returns, and is declared elected by a party vote of the legislature, 43 to 40......Feb. 4, 1890 Hatfield-McCoy feud ended by a marriage......March 21, 1891 First State board of agriculture meets at Charleston......May 4, 1891 Stephen B. Elkins qualifies as United States Secretary of War......Dec. 24, 1891 Coal miners went on strike July 2, 1897 [Ended by compromise, Sept. 11.] Ex-Senator W. T. Willey dies at Morgantown......May 2, 1900 Ex-Postmaster-General William L. Wilson dies at Lexington, Va......Oct. 17, 1900 Wisconsin