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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
kling, statesman, born 1829, dies at New York......April 18, 1888 Convention of delegates from nearly all the Southern States east of the Mississippi meets at Hot Springs, N. C., to promote immigration......April 25, 1888 Belva A. Lockwood, nominated for President by Equal Rights Convention at Des Moines, Ia.......May 15, 1888 Alson J. Streeter, of Illinois, nominated for President, and C. E. Cunningham, of Arkansas, for Vice-President, by Union Labor party at Cincinnati, O.......May 16, 1888 Robert H. Cowdrey, of Illinois, nominated for President, and W. H. T. Wakefield, of Kansas, for Vice-President, by United Labor Convention at Cincinnati, O.......May 17, 1888 Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, nominated for President, and John A. Brooks, of Missouri, for Vice-President, by Prohibition National Convention at Indianapolis......May 31, 1888 Grade of lieutenant-general in the army merged into grade of general, and President authorized to appoint a general of the army by
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
ter Rio Grande City, break open the jail, release two notorious criminals, Esproneda and Garza, and escape with them to Mexico......Aug. 12, 1877 Mob of Mexicans and Texan citizens of Mexican birth attack State troops at San Elizario and six persons are killed......Dec. 13, 1877 State capitol destroyed by fire......Nov. 9, 1881 University of Texas at Austin, chartered 1881, opened......1883 Corner-stone of new capitol laid......March 2, 1885 New State capitol dedicated......May 16, 1888 State reformatory near Gatesville opened......Jan. 1, 1889 Convention of delegates from fifteen States and Territories assembles at Topeka, Kan., to devise means for securing a deep harbor on the coast of Texas......Oct. 1, 1889 Act passed designating Feb. 22 as Arbor Day......1889 John T. Dickinson appointed secretary of the National World's Columbian commission......June 27, 1890 Congress appropriates $500,000 to improve Galveston Harbor, and authorizes the Secretary of W