hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for October 2nd, 1889 AD or search for October 2nd, 1889 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pan-American conference. (search)
Pan-American conference. By act of the United States Congress in 1888 arrangements were made for a conference at Washington between representatives of the United States and other countries in America. The conference assembled accordingly, Oct. 2, 1889, and was attended by envoys from Brazil and from Spanish America generally, as well as from the United States. Secretary of State Blaine presided. The delegates made a tour through the country, and settled down to work at Washington in November. Such subjects as banking, monetary union, commercial extension, and arbitration were discussed. In April, 1890, ten of the nations signed an international arbitration treaty. Secretary Blaine, who was deeply interested in the matter and in the extension southward of the United States' interests, recommended an intercontinental railway. President McKinley, in his message to Congress in 1899, suggested that the various American republics, constituting the International Union, be invite
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
a (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 begun on the Nicaragua Canal......Oct. 22, 1889 North and South Dakota admitted into the Union as States (thirty-ninth and fortieth in order), by proclamation of the President......Nov. 2, 1889 Maritime exhibition opens in Boston, Mass......Nov. 4, 1889 Montana (forty-first State in order) admitted into the Union by proclamation of the President......Nov. 8, 1889 Washington (forty