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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
estroyed by fire; 30 acres burned over; loss, $5,000,000......June 6, 1889 Simon Cameron, statesman, born 1799, dies at Donegal, Lancaster co., Pa.......June 26, 1889 Maria Mitchell, astronomer, born 1818, dies at Lynn, Mass.......June 28, 1889 Theodore Dwight Woolsey, ex-president of Yale College, born 1801, dies at New Haven, Conn.......July 1, 1889 Sioux reservation in Dakota (11,000,000 acres) ceded to the United States......Aug. 6, 1889 David S. Terry, assaulting Judge Stephen Field at Lathrop, Cal., is shot dead by United States Marshal Nagle......Aug. 14, 1889 Cronin murder trial begins in Chicago......Aug. 30, 1889 Deep Harbor Convention, with delegates from fifteen States and Territories, meets at Topeka, Kan., to consider the security of a harbor on the Texas coast......Oct. 1, 1889 Pan-American congress organizes in Washington, D. C.......Oct. 2, 1889 International marine conference meets in Washington, D. C.......Oct. 16, 1889 Work formally
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
e Park to Francis S. Key, for which James Lick, who died Oct. 1, 1876, bequeathed $60,000......1888 Acts passed establishing the South California State Hospital for the Insane, the Mendocino Insane Asylum at Ukiah, and a State reform school for juvenile offenders at Los Angeles......1889 Act passed recognizing the veterans' home at Yountville as a State home for disabled veterans and as a beneficiary under the act of Congress providing aid......1889 David S. Terry, assaulting Judge Stephen Field at Lathrop, is shot dead by United States Marshal Nagle......Aug. 14, 1889 Pioneer woollen mills close; the last of the large woollen manufactories in the State......1889 Gabriel, the famous mission Indian, dies at Salinas, Monterey county, aged 151 years......March 16, 1890 Twenty-nine persons drowned in a train which falls through a drawbridge at Oakland......May 30, 1890 Fortieth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union, celebrated Sept. 6, 8, and 9, th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nebraska, (search)
5, 1891 Ex-Gov. David Butler dies near Pawnee City......May 25, 1891 Eight-hour law goes into effect......Aug. 1, 1891 United States Supreme Court declares James E. Boyd to be the rightful governor of the State......Feb. 1, 1892 Public demonstration in honor of inauguration of Governor Boyd takes place at Lincoln......Feb. 15, 1892 Silver anniversary of Nebraska celebrated at Lincoln......May 25, 1892 First National Convention of People's party at Omaha nominate Weaver and Field for President and Vice-President......July 4-5, 1892 Members of the State board of public lands and buildings impeached......April, 1893 [Acquitted June 5, 1893.] Newberry law, establishing maximum railroad rates, takes effect......Aug. 1, 1893 United States Senator Allen makes the longest continuous speech (on the silverpurchase repeal bill) ever delivered in the United States Senate, speaking fourteen and three-quarter hours......Oct. 13, 1893 Inter-State irrigation congres