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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ervation formally incorporated with Nicaragua......Dec. 17, 1894 Brigadier-General Swaim, judge advocate-general retired......Dec. 24, 1894 Philological congress in the United States opens at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia......Dec. 27, 1894 Act to establish a national military park at the battle-field of Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, approved......Dec. 28, 1894 James G. Fair, United States ex-Senator from California, dies at San Francisco, aged sixty-three......Dec. 29, 1894 [Estate estimated at $40,000,000.] President nominates Col. G. N. Lieber to be judge advocate-general in place of Brig.-Gen. D. G. Swaim, retired......Jan. 3, 1895 Royalist uprising at Waikiki Beach, about 5 miles from Honolulu, for the purpose of overthrowing the government (easily suppressed)......Jan. 6, 1895 Brooklyn street-car strike, attended with great loss of property and several lives, without beneficial results to the strikers......Jan. 10, 1895 Senate passes the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
s dies at Palatine Bridge, N. Y., aged fifty-three......Dec. 8, 1891 Senator Wilkinson Call seated in United States Senate......Dec. 8, 1891 Large beds of yellow and red ochre found in Levy and Dade counties......1893 Fuller's earth in large quantities found in a number of counties in the State......April and May, 1893 Disastrous freeze; temperature at Tallahassee fell to 18 degrees; fruit frozen on the trees as far south as Bartow; the vegetable crop a total loss......Dec. 28-29, 1894 Freezing weather all over the State, northwest blizzard causing mercury to fall to 10 degrees at Tallahassee. Orange and other tropical fruit trees killed to the ground as far south as lat. 27 1/2 N. Loss estimated at $200,000,000......1895 Florida East Coast Railway completed from Jacksonville to Miami, on Biscayne Bay, 366 miles......1896 Platform breaks at a Bryan meeting in St. Augustine, 200 injured......April 8, 1897 General Shafter embarked his army for the invasion of C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
-boat Ericsson, first United States war-vessel built in inland waters, arrives at Brooklyn navy-yard from Iowa......Aug. 30, 1894 Levi P. Morton elected governor......Nov. 6, 1894 Court of appeals confirms conviction of John Y. McKane......Nov. 27, 1894 Police Captain Creeden, of New York City, confessed to having paid $15,000 for his captaincy......Dec. 14, 1894 Lexow committee, investigating the methods of the police department of New York City, holds its last session......Dec. 29, 1894 [This committee was appointed under a resolution offered by Clarence Lexow in the Senate of New York, Jan. 24, 1894, and passed unanimously, charges against the police of the city of New York having been made publicly by the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of that city. The committee was appointed Jan. 31, with Senator Lexow chairman. Investigation commenced on March 9, at the court-room of the county court-house in New York, with William A. Sutherland as counsel for the committee unt
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
enbackers, American party men, Knights of Labor, Union Labor, and Woman Suffragists, under the title Union party, to oppose the Republicans and Democrats......Sept. 14, 1889 Australian ballot law enacted, and State board of charities and corrections established at the session......Jan. 12–Feb. 20, 1891 Women over twenty-one years of age made eligible to all educational offices......1893 State capitol completed......1893 Fire at Silver Lake in which forty persons perished......Dec. 29, 1894 Departure of 2d Oregon Volunteers for Philippine Islands......May 25, 1898 Return of 2d Oregon Volunteers from Philippine Islands......July 12, 1899 Five proposed constitutional amendments rejected......November, 1900 Erection of a monument at Champoeg on the fifty-eighth anniversary of a meeting at which a majority of those present voted for Oregon Territory to become a part of the United States......May 2, 1901 Adoption of text-books for public schools of Oregon for a pe