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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stratemeyer, Edward 1862- (search)
Stratemeyer, Edward 1862- Author; born in Elizabeth, N. J., Oct. 4, 1862; received a high school education; engaged in writing for juvenile periodicals. He is the author of Under Dewey at Manila; A young volunteer in Cuba; To Alaska for gold; The minute boys of Lexington, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
etherlands Indies7 891 Senegal, Africa—Dakar to Goree Island1 3 —————— Total1,141 19,883 On Sept. 23, 1901, the Commercial Pacific Company was incorporated in Albany, N. Y., for the purpose of laying a submarine cable from San Francisco to Manila, the line to touch Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific, which have been Types of cables used since 1858. acquired by the United States government. The entire length of the cable will be about 8,500 miles, the first part, from San Francisco 8,500 miles, the first part, from San Francisco to Hawaii, about 2,200 miles. The new cable will connect at Manila with the present one running thence to Japan, and also with the one running to China. This will insure direct telegraphic communication between the United States, the Philippine Islands, China, and Japan without, as heretofore required, transit across Europe. It was expected that the entire cable would be completed and in operation within two years from the time of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
G. Fitch, colonel......May 12-14, 1898 Twenty-second Kansas Volunteer Infantry mustered into United States service at Topeka, Henry C. Lindsey, colonel......May 11-17, 1898 Twenty-third Kansas Volunteer Infantry, composed entirely of colored men, mustered into the United States service at Topeka, James Beck, lieutenant-colonel......July 2-19, 1898 Twentieth Kansas Volunteer Infantry mustered into United States service at Topeka, Frederick Funston, colonel, May 9-13, and sails for Manila......October-November, 1898 Twenty-second Kansas, stationed at Camp Alger, Thoroughfare Gap, Va., and Camp Meade, near Middletown, Pa., May 28–Sept. 9, mustered out at Fort Leavenworth......Nov. 3, 1898 Twenty-first Kansas, stationed at Camp George H. Thomas, Lysle, Ga., and Camp Hamilton, Ky., May 20–Sept. 25, mustered out at Fort Leavenworth......Dec. 10, 1898 Repeal of police commissioner law......Jan. 4, 1899 Creation of Kansas travelling libraries commission in connection wi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ef of Police McCullagh......May 21, 1898 Thirty-nine Spaniards, prisoners of war, arrive in New York......June 3, 1898 First Regiment of New York starts for Manila......July 7, 1898 Secretary Alger orders torpedoes and mines removed from New York Harbor......July 15, 1898 State capitol at Albany officially completed; tice Wilmot M. Smith decides that the creation of the County of Nassau was constitutional......Oct. 11, 1898 Battle-ships Oregon and Iowa sail from New York for Manila......Oct. 12, 1898 George Edwin Waring, sanitary engineer, born 1833, dies at New York City......Oct. 29, 1898 Chauncey M. Depew, Republican, elected United of May 15, 1897......April 18, 1899 President McKinley visits Brooklyn navy-yard and cables Admiral Dewey congratulations on the anniversary of his victory at Manila......May 1, 1899 Ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower dies......May 12, 1899 Bronze bust of Thomas Paine unveiled at New Rochelle, N. Y.......May 30, 1899 Bronze s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Utah, (search)
tteries (A and B) of Utah's volunteer artillery are mustered into service at Fort Douglas......May 9, 1898 A troop of volunteer cavalry, subsequently known as Troop I of the 2d United States Cavalry, is organized in Salt Lake City, with John Q. Cannon captain......May 15, 1898 Willard Young, son of President Brigham Young, is appointed by President McKinley colonel of the 2d Regiment of United States volunteer engineers......May 31, 1898 The Utah batteries (A and B) sail for Manila, Philippines......June 15, 1898 A company of Utah United States volunteer engineers leave Salt Lake City for San Francisco en route to the Philippine Islands......July 10, 1898 Battery C (Utah volunteers) is organized and sworn into United States service......July 14, 1898 Memorial services are held in honor of the American sailors who lost their lives by the explosion of the Maine......July 24, 1898 President Wilford Woodruff, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies..
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wake Island, (search)
Wake Island, An island in the North Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Hong-Kong. On July 4, 1898, Gen. Francis V. Greene, with a few officers, while en route to Manila, went ashore on the island, made observations, found no traces of inhabitants, planted a record of possession, and raised the flag of the United States. On General Greene's report the United States government determined to take formal possession of the island, which was not known to have been inhabited for more than sixty years. Instructions were, accordingly, given to Commander Taussig, of the Bennington, and on Jan. 17, 1899, that officer and his crew made a landing and erected a flagstaff. When this was in place the sailors were formed in two ranks, facing seaward, and, having called all to witness that the island was not in the possession of any other nation, Commander Taussig ordered the American flag to be raised by Ensign Wettengell. Upon reaching the truck the flag was saluted by twenty-on
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whiting, William Henry 1843- (search)
Whiting, William Henry 1843- Naval officer; born in New York City, July 8, 1843; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1863; was with the West Gulf Squadron on the flag-ship Hartford in 1863-65; won distinction by burning the blockade-runner Ivanhoe, though defended by the guns of Fort Morgan, July 5, 1864; raised the American flag at the fall of Fort Gaines; was present during the action of Mobile Bay and at the capitulation of Fort Morgan; he was promoted captain, June 19, 1897; went to the Philippines in command of the Monadnock in 1898; was in command of the cruiser Charleston when the insurrection began in the islands; participated in the battles around Manila, and was present in the action at Caloocan. In May, 1899, he was placed in command of the Boston, which he took to San Francisco; and in March, 1900, took command of the receiving-ship Independence.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilde, George Francis Faxon 1845- (search)
845; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1864; was promoted commander in 1885 and captain in 1898. In the American-Spanish War he commanded the ram Katahdin in Cuban waters; afterwards was assigned to command the cruiser Boston; landed the first marines ever disembarked in China and forwarded them to Peking, where they guarded the American legation from November, 1898, till April, 1899; was ordered to the Philippines, where he captured the city of Iloilo, Feb. 11, 1899, and Vigan, Feb. 18, 1900; and commanded the battle-ship Oregon from May 29, 1899, till Jan. 16, 1901. He introduced gas buoys on the Great Lakes, the telephone to light vessels from shore, and the electric light vessel off Diamond Shoal, Cape Hatteras. While hastening the Oregon from Manila to Chinese waters during the Boxer troubles his vessel struck an uncharted ledge in the Gulf of Pechili, and was considerably injured; but he worked her off the rock and took her to a Japanese port 765 miles distant.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zionists, (search)
he assertion of Jewish consciousness, not for the purpose of greater gain or more extended power, but with the end in view of making us better men and women, in so far as we become Jews, ought to be at the bottom of all our work. Secretary Isador D. Morrison said in his report: This has been the most prosperous year in the history of the Zionist movement. The gains have been large, and there are now 151 organizations spread over twenty-seven States and eighty-nine cities, including Manila in the Philippines. These are all compact bodies and are all working for a common awakening of Jewish sentiment and national con- The Wailing-place of the Jews at Jerusalem. sciousness. We American Jews who have the good fortune to be citizens of a land of freedom and equal rights, have at last come to realize that our brethren living in lands of darkness and persecution are kinsmen bound to us by a common history, religion, and literature; and while we will always remain loyal citizens
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