The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-01

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Dec. Is, 1851. March2-Act to com.
pei railroads to use automatic coupleu
and air brakes on all cars approved.
April 12-American Railway union organ
lied at Chicago.
May words Columbian exposition
opened at Chicago.
Aug. 1~5-Behring sea court Of arbitration
reported. Right of U. s. to a closed sea
Oct. obstructive storm on Gulf of Mex.
leo caused loss of over 1000 lives.
Oct. 30-World's Columbian exposition
s closed SEQ Total number Of admissions H.
Nov. 1-Act repeating silver purchase law
approved.
March 25-J. s. Coxey's army Of the com.
monweal started from Massillon, o. if
Washington.
April 23-General strike OF mine workers
throughout the country against a redle,
ton OF wages. 1t involved nearly NNW
men. n was partially successful al Inc
end of two months.
June 26-Sympathetic strike ordered on all
western railroads by American Railway
union. II lasted two months. a.,
Tune 2S-Act creating Labor Day. nrs'
Oct. 7-Oiiver Wendell Holmes died at Bo''
ton, aged Sc.
May 20-Supreme court decided income tax
law unconstitutional:
| May Zs-CtCTttdTl I" oldNc 'N
| Oct 7@Wm' Wetmore Story, American
sculptor and author, died in ltaly' asea
Dec. 2e-New tariff bill passed.
| March 2-Cuban Insurgents recognized y
belligerents by concurrent RESOLUTION 81"
house and senate.
June 1s-United States and England asl Ss
to arbitrate Venezuelan bouhdar! u'
nufa
July MRS. Harriet Beecher Stowe died
Aug. i7-Gold discovered in Yukon di''f'''
Of Alaska by Geo. McCormack .ia,.
Nov. 3-Twenty-eighth presidennei i, gS ~
ton. William Mckinley received ,,i W.
popular and 271 electoral votes WnIi N
Jennings Bryan. ~6.5ll,O7s popular anu
electoral votes.
Ian. u-Arbitration treaty between United
States and England signed.
July 7-Dingley tariff bill ,passeo, o,gnd
June 16-Hawaiian annexation treaty slsYsS
at Washington. Islands formally ahhsA''
July 7. .o
Feb. l5-Battleship Maine DESTROYED N y
vana harbor by explosion; 2So omee
men killed. psrrade,
April 20-Spanish minister. Polo De De'"
Srxen s,hMsinisfer Woodford left Madra'
Aprii 22-BIockade OF Cuban ports De N
April 23-President calls Tor low"
Nav l-spanish squadron DESTROYED y c M
Mia by American squadron ariran loss
Dewey. Spanish loss, 400; America"
June 22-Gen. Shafter with 6'w ""r
June so-Ladrone Islands seized by ~
Juiv i-SMBattles of Ell Caney, El Pas0 s \,
San Juan fought. Spanish driven
Santiago and siege began. roved Of
July 3-Spanish squadron e gs ir,iHlied, 81
Santiago. Spanish loss ."
July s~Philipplne republic prOclai"s' :
july I7~santiago surrendered to A"e'''
Jaiv 3-Gen. Miles landed in Porto NV
with American m
July 26-Spain sued for peace;
Aug. 12-Peace protocol signeu,. hv Amer
Aug. i3-City OF Manila captured
leans.
Jan. 1-Island of Cuba transierieu
,s ed states by t spaty' between United sis's' 4
and Spain ratified by senatsi I'M govern.
march 5o- -MaIolos, seat OF Filipino vupdsf
ment, captured by American uO
Dec Cen lea Mas1r Gem. Henry W. Lawt0n S''
in Philippines.
Iura-Twelfth census taken; pop'A'
Sent. S-Galveston. Tex, praetcyssne; ls
stroyed by West Indian hIia o and SO.
OF life estimated at betweSn coal mins'
Sept; l7-strike Of an,nra''' IN.
Nov, e-Twenty-ninth presluensd 9,er
fion. William Mckinley rtctpjrvsn iEi
toral votes n william y