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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
eature.) 1849 Inman line founded by William Inman, and the first vessel, an iron screw steamer, City of Glasgow, put in commission1850 Emigrants first carried in steamships of the Inman line1850 Allan line organized1852 First trip around the world by a merchant steamer, the English screw steamship Argo1854 Hamburg-American and Anchor lines established1856 Great Western broken up for firewood at Vauxhall1857 North German Lloyd line established1857 Great Eastern launched, Nov. 3, 1857-Jan. 31,1858 Iron-clad steamships introduced1860 French line established1862 Far East, with two screw-propellers, launched at MillwallOct. 31, 1863 Guion line established1864 Trial trip of the Nautilus, with a hydraulic propeller (Ruthven's patent, 1849) worked by steam and no paddles or screwMarch 24, 1866 White Star line begins with the Oceanic, with saloons and state-rooms amidships instead of in the stern1870 Netherlands line established, 1872; Red Star line1873 Steamship Faraday, 5,000
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
of Iowa, elected United States Senator......Jan. 16, 1894 Secretary Carlisle announces an issue of $50,000,000 ten-year 5-per-cent. bonds, payable in coin......Jan. 17, 1894 United States Senator Edward C. Walthall from Mississippi resigns......Jan. 18, 1894 United States flag fired on in Rio de Janeiro by the insurgents. Admiral Benham returned the fire and exacted prompt satisfaction......Jan. 30, 1894 Income-tax clause attached to the tariff bill in the House by 175 to 56, Jan. 31, and the bill amended passed by 204 to 140; not voting, eight......Feb. 1, 1894 Old corvette Kearsarge, which fought and sank the Alabama off Cherbourg, France, during the Civil War, is wrecked on Roncardo Reef, about 200 miles northeast from Bluefields, Nicaragua; no lives lost......Feb. 2, 1894 Bland silver bill, providing for the coinage of seigniorage to the amount of $55,000,000, introduced in the House......Feb. 7, 1894 McCreary resolutions on Hawaii, upholding the administr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ed 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 until April 13, when John W. Goff appeared as counsel. At the end of June the committee adjourned until Sept. 10, and continued with one or two short intermissions until Dec. 29. The evidence confirmed the charges. The committee submitted its report to the legislature at Albany, Jan. 18, 1895. The examination
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oklahoma, (search)
encamp at Stillwater on the Cimmaron River and defy the military......December, 1884 Couch and his forces surrender to the United States troops, and are marched across the Kansas line and arrested under federal warrants......Jan. 27, 1885 Inhabitants of No Man's Land organize the Territory of Cimmaron, not recognized by Congress......1886 Delegates of Creek nation meet in Washington Jan. 19, and cede the western half of their ___domain for $2,280,857.10; ratified by the Creek council Jan. 31, by Congress......March 1, 1889 Seminoles execute a release and conveyance of their lands ceded by treaty in 1866......March 16, 1889 Oklahoma opened for settlement by proclamation of President Harrison, March 27, to take effect at noon, April 22. During the afternoon of this day 50,000 or more settlers, encamped on the borders of the Territory, enter and locate......April 22, 1889 First bank in Guthrie opened in a tent with a capital of $50,000......April 22, 1889 An attempt t