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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 66 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anglo-American commission, (search)
United States Senators Fairbanks and Gray. Congressman Dingley ex-Seeretary of State Foster, and Reciprocity Commissioner Kasson: and the British members: Lord Herschell, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis H. Davies. and Mr. J. Charlton, a member of the Dominion Parliament. Of these commissioners. Congressman Dingley died Jan. 13. 1899, and Lord Herschell, March 1, 1899. The questions assigned to the commission for consideration were as follows: Seal-fisheries of Bering Sea; fisheries off Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Alaska-Canadian boundary: transportation of merchandise by land and water between the countries; transit of merchandise from one country to be delivered in the other beyond the frontier; alien labor laws; mining rights of citizens or subjects of each country within the territory of the other: readjustment and concession of customs duties; revision of agreement of 1817 respecting naval vessels on the lakes: definition and marking of frontier; conv
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bering sea. (search)
Bering sea. In 1725 Capt. Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in the service of Peter the Great, discovered rchase-price of the territory by $6,350,000. That Bering Sea, with its islands, was the exclusive property of he claim of Lord Salisbury, who had asserted that Bering Sea could not be mare clausum under any circumstances as follows: 1. What exclusive jurisdiction in Bering Sea did Russia exercise prior to the cession of Alaskst efforts to prohibit sealing by her subjects in Bering Sea until May, 1892. 2. That the United States shaed any claim of Russia to exclusive jurisdiction; Bering Sea was included in the Pacific Ocean in the treaty oclaiming a closed season from May 1 to July 31 in Bering Sea and the North Pacific; establishing a protected zom alleged illegal seizures of British vessels in Bering Sea. The United States denied the justice of this clall interested nations to a conference separately. See Anglo-American commission. Bering sea arbitration
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bering sea arbitration. (search)
Bering sea arbitration. The United States stands distinguished among the nations as the foremosng the fur-seals of the Pribyloff Islands in Bering Sea; and the impression seems to prevail with mahe herd, and with occasional incursions into Bering Sea. There was gradually developed a contentiondown by Secretary Bout-well did not apply to Bering Sea, because Russia had claimed and enforced excaters of Alaska embraced all that portion of Bering Sea east of the line designated in the Russian tute, the first seizure of British vessels in Bering Sea took place under instructions of the Secretarcised jurisdiction over all that portion of Bering Sea . . . and that claim had been tacitly recognlared to include and apply to, all waters of Bering Sea in Alaska embraced within the boundary linesminion of the United States in the waters of Bering Sea. The seizure and condemnation of vessels,ritish vessels engaged in pelagic sealing in Bering Sea. But this course had already been proposed [1 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blodgett, Henry Williams, 1821- (search)
Blodgett, Henry Williams, 1821- Jurist; born in Amherst, Mass., July 21, 1821: was educated at Amherst Academy; studied surveying and engineering, and later law, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1852-54; a State Senator in 1859-65, and United States district judge of the Northern District of Illinois in 1869-93. In 1892 he was appointed one of the counsel on the part of the United States before the arbitration tribunal created by treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the purpose of settling the dispute concerning the fur-seals in Bering Sea. He retired from the bench in 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cape Nome, (search)
Cape Nome, A cape extending from the southern part of the western peninsula of Alaska, which lies between Kotzebue Sound on the north, and Bering Sea on the south. It is about 2,500 miles northwest of Seattle, and 175 miles southeast of Siberia. In September, 1898, gold was first discovered here by a party of Swedes. Since then it has become the centre of a rich gold-mining region, which lies about the lower course of the Snake River, a winding stream emerging from a range of mountains not exceeding from 700 to 1,200 feet in altitude. In October, 1899, Nome City had a population of 5,000 inhabitants living in tents. It is believed that the rapid growth of this town has never been equalled. Early prospecting indicated that the Nome district would compare for richness with the celebrated Klondike (q. v.) region. In the short season of 1899 the yield in gold from this section alone was estimated at $1,500,000.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall, Asaph 1829- (search)
al courses in the University of Michigan, and afterwards entered the observatory of Harvard College, where he served as assistant in 1857-62. In August of the latter year he was made aide in the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, and in the following year was appointed Professor of Mathematics with the relative rank of captain. In 1895 he became Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. He has led many astronomical expeditions for the government, among them being that to Bering Sea, in 1869, to observe the solar eclipse, and that to Vladisvostok, Siberia, in 1874, to study the transit of Venus. His most important discovery, which won him great distinction, was that of the two moons of Mars, which he located in August, 1877, and which he named Deimos and Phobos (Terror and Fear). The Royal Astronomical Society of London awarded him its gold medal in 1879. In 1875 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was president in 1901. He has contr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Michael, (search)
St. Michael, The chief port of Alaska on Bering Sea; also the trading port of the Yukon Valley. It is on Norton Sound, in a region swampy and subject to inundations, and could be given an excellent harbor by extensive dredging and other im. provements. For many years it was an important station of the Russian Fur Company, and prior to the acquisition of Alaska by the United States was known as Mikhailovsk. See Alaska.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
mation of the President warning persons against entering Bering Sea for unlawful hunting of fur-bearing animals......March 2President by proclamation warns persons against entering Bering Sea for the purpose of unlawfully killing fur-bearing animal887 for violating United States laws, by taking seals in Bering Sea, and appealed to the Supreme Court, is entered on behalfx county, Va.......Aug. 5, 1891 Two vessels seized in Bering sea for unlawful sealing......Aug. 7, 1891 James Russell .....Feb. 9, 1892 France, Italy, and Sweden chosen as Bering Sea arbitrators......Feb. 10, 1892 Bland free-coinage sil and the Senate, May 4, and approved......May 5, 1892 Bering Sea arbitration treaty ratified......May 9, 1892 Act to e on his special mission to Hawaii......March 20, 1893 Bering Sea arbitration opened in Paris......March 23, 1893 PresiHawaii ratifies annexation treaty......Sept. 14, 1897 Bering Sea treaty signed at Washington......Nov. 8, 1897 Postal