Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the Rough Riders, and 3d United States Cavalry land at Montauk Point... ..Aug. 15, 1898 Imposing naval parade in New York of Admiral Sampson's victorious Santiago fleet...... .....Aug. 20, 1898 James Samuel Thomas Stranahan," first citizen of Brooklyn," born 1808, dies at Saratoga, N. Y...... .Sept. 3, 1898 Admiral Cervera, Spanish naval officer, whose fleet was destroyed by Admiral Sampson, July 3, arrives in New York Sept. 8, 1898 Forty-seventh Regiment of New York ordered to Porto Rico for garrison duty Oct. 3, 1898 Abraham Oakey Hall, lawyer, born 1826, dies at New York City...............Oct. 7, 1898 Justice Wilmot M. Smith decides that the creation of the County of Nassau was constitutional...... ...Oct. 11, 1898 Battle-ships Oregon and Iowa sail from New York for Manila......Oct. 12, 1898 George Edwin Waring, sanitary engineer, born 1833, dies at New York City Oct. 29, 1898 Chauncey M. Depew, Republican, elected United States Senator from New York to succeed Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy Jan. 18, 1899 Heaviest day's business ever transacted on New York Stock Exchange Jan. 23, 1899 Fire at Brooklyn navy-yard destroys property valued at $1,500,000 Feb. 15, 1899 Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, R. N., addresses New York Chamber of Commerce.. . Feb. 24, 1899 Windsor Hotel burned with great loss of life..... .March 17, 1899 The Mazet investigation into charges of bribery in New York City begins Sept. 12, 1899 Great naval parade in honor of Admiral Dewey... ..Sept. 29, 1899 Shamrock defeated in the races for the America's cup.. .Oct. 20, 1899 Governor Roosevelt signs the grant of lands under water to the Astoria Light, Heat, and Power Company of New York City.... ...Dec. 26, 1899 Andrew Carnegie offers $300,000 to found a day school in connection with Cooper Union, New York....Jan. 1, 1900 Edward McGlynn, clergyman, born 1837, dies at Newburg... .Jan. 7, 1900 John D. Rockefeller gives $100,000 to Columbia University to found a chair of psychology.. .Jan. 8, 1900 Governor Roosevelt submits to the legislature the report of the special canal commission recommending the expenditure of $60,000,000 for a barge canal from Buffalo to Albany. .Jan. 25, 1900 Rapid transit tunnel contract awarded to J. B. McDonald..........Jan. 16, 1900 Contract for building the rapid transit tunnel in New York signed.. Feb. 24, 1900 Governor Roosevelt signs the bill for the preservation of the Palisades March 21, 1900 Ground broken at City Hall, New York, by Mayor Van Wyck, with silver spade, for the rapid transit tunnel, in the presence of 20,000 people......March 24, 1900 Governor Roosevelt orders several detachments of the national guard to Croton to quell a riot of Italian laborers on the aqueduct ...... ..... April 14, 1900 Governor Roosevelt appoints the New York tenement commission April 8, 1899 Governor Roosevelt signs the new civil service bill, which repeals the "starchless" law of May 15, 1897.. April 18, 1899 President McKinley visits Brooklyn navy-yard and cables Admiral Dewey congratulations on the anniversary of his victory at Manila. . . . . . . May 1, 1899 April 16, 1900 Ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower dies The remains of 110 prison-ship martyrs, May 12, 1899 recently found in the navy-yard, interred Bronze bust of Thomas Paine unveiled with military honors in the vault under at New Rochelle, N. Y..... May 30, 1899 Fort Greene.. ..June 16, 1900 Governor Roosevelt nominated for VicePresident by Republican National Convention which renominated President McKinley..... .June 21, 1900 Hoboken wharfs, opposite New York City, destroyed, with three North German Lloyd steamers, involving a loss of 250 lives and $10,000,000. . . . . . June 30, 1900 John Woodward Philip, naval officer, born 1840, dies at Brooklyn, N. Y. June 30, 1900 C. P. Huntington, capitalist, born 1821, dies near Raquette Lake...........Aug. 13, 1900 Hatch & Foote fail for $2,000,000 Sept. 18, 1900 Severe explosion in Tarrant's drug building at Greenwich and Warren streets, New York City, causes death of scores of persons, including firemen..Oct. 29, 1900 William L. Strong, merchant, and former mayor of New York, born 1827, dies at New York City..... ..... Nov. 2, 1900 Governor Roosevelt finishes his campaign tour in Oswego, N. Y., having travelled 21,209 miles in eight weeks, addressed audiences aggregating 3,000,000 persons in twenty-four States Nov. 2, 1900 Republicans' great sound-money parade in New York... .Nov. 3, 1900 Election of B. B. Odell, Republican, as governor of New York....... Nov. 6, 1900 Henry Villard, financier, born 1835, dies at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y... Nov. 11, 1900 Oswald Ottendorfer, journalist, born 1826, dies at New York City Dec. 16, 1900 Governor Roosevelt removes District Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner, of New York, on charges, and appoints Eugene A. Philbin as his successor........Dec. 21, 1900 Governor Odell transmits to the legis lature the report of the New York City charter revision with a message urging municipal economy.........Jan. 21, 1901 Sing Sing prison is condemned by the State board of health......Jan. 30, 1901 Mayor Van Wyck vetoes the New York Police Commission bill on the ground that the clause bestowing upon the governor the power of removal is unconstitutional Feb. 17, 1901 The legislature passes the Police Commission bill over the mayor's veto and the bill is signed by Governor Odell Feb. 20, 1901 The eight-hour-a-day law declared unconstitutional by the court of appeals Feb. 26, 1901 William Maxwell Evarts, lawyer, born at Boston, 1818, died at New York City Feb. 28, 1901 Official announcement of the billion-dollar United States Steel Corporation is announced by J. P. Morgan & Co. March 2, 1901 Andrew Carnegie offers to contribute $5,200,000 to build sixty-five branch libraries for New York City, provided the city will furnish sites and maintenance March 13, 1901 Governor Odell signs the bill creating a bi-partisan bureau of elections for New York City..... ...March 13, 1901 The legislature passes the bill for the repeal of the charter of the Ramapo Water Company (approved by the gov ernor, March 19)........March 14, 1901 Governor Odell transmits to the legislature a message advocating the submis sion to the people of the plan to complete the improvements of the canals at a cost of $25,000,000..... ....March 15, 1901 The New York City charter revision bill is passed by the legislature over the veto of Mayor Van Wyck, and is signed by Governor Odell........ April 22, 1901 Total sales on the New York Stock Exchange aggregate 3,300,000 shares April 22, 1901 Pan American exposition opened at Buffalo.... May 1, 1901 The Greater New York Democrats issue a declaration of principles.. May 10, 1901 Governor Odell vetoes the New York and New Jersey Bridge bill and the employers' liability bill... .....May 11, 1901 Five cadets dismissed and six suspended for insubordination at West Point Academy.............. ....May 22, 1901 Hall of Fame opened in New York City Announcement that John D. Rockefeller proposes to establish the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City... ..June 1, 1901 The United States Treasury Department interdicts the entrance of immigrants suffering with tuberculosis at the port of New York on the ground of its being a dangerous contagious disease June 4, 1901 Seventh National Bank of New York fails.... June 27, 1901 Jacob S. Rogers bequeaths his whole estate, amounting to $5,000,000, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.... ..July 5, 1901 President McKinley visits the PanAmerican exposition... Sept. 4, 1901 He makes an address on the grounds Sept. 5, 1901 The President is shot twice by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz; dies... Sept. 14, 1901 President Roosevelt takes the oath of office at Buffalo..... .Sept. 14, 1901 Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Monument unveiled in New York.. May 30, 1902 People ratify legislative bill to spend $101,000,000 on canals...... Nov. 3, 1903 Steamer General Slocum burned in Hell Gate; nearly 1,000 lives lost June 15, 1904 New York subway opened. .Oct. 27, 1904 New subways planned to cost $250,000,000 announced.. March 30, 1905 NORTH CAROLINA [This enlarged grant comprised all North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, part of Florida and Missouri, nearly all of Texas, and a large portion of northern Mexico.] North Carolina, one of the Atlantic Grant of March 20, 1663, enlarged and States of the United States, is bounded extended south to lat. 29° ..June 30, 1665 north by Virginia, east by the Atlantic Ocean, with a coast-line of over 400 miles, southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, south by South Carolina and Georgia, west by South Carolina and Tennessee. It lies between lat. 33° 50′ and 36° 33′ N., and between long. 75° 27' and 84° 20′ W. Area, 52,250 square miles, in ninety-six counties. Population, 1890, 1,617,947; 1900, 1,893,810. Capital, Raleigh. For first exploration of coast, see VIRGINIA, 1584-90. John Porey, secretary of the colony of Virginia, explores the country to the Chowan River.... ...1622 Charles I. grants a patent for all the territory between lat. 36° and 31° N. to Sir Robert Heath.... .....1629-30 Roger Green, with colonists from Virginia, settles on the Roanoke and the Chowan rivers..... ......July, 1653 Chief of the Yeopim Indians grants to George Durant land in Perquimans county 1662 Charles II. grants to the Earl of Clarendon and seven others territory extending westward from the Atlantic Ocean between lat. 31° and 36°, which they call Carolina..... . March 20, 1663 Berkeley, governor of Virginia, visits Carolina, organizes a government for the northern part, calling it Albemarle county, and appoints William Drummond governor 1663 Several hundred persons, under Sir John Yeamans, land at the junction of Cape Fear River and Old Town Creek, and lay out a village called Charlestown, near the present site of Wilmington..May 29, 1665 Governor Drummond dying, succeeded by Samuel Stephens... ...1667 Form of government for Carolina, known as fundamental constitutions, framed by John Locke, and amended by the Earl of Shaftesbury, partly put into operation, the first set bearing date....July 21, 1669 William Edmundson, a Quaker, sent out from Maryland by George Fox, preaches at the narrows of Perquimans River, where Hertford was afterwards built......1672 Governor Stephens dies and George Cartwright, speaker of the Assembly of Albemarle, succeeds in 1673, but resigns and is succeeded by Governor Eastchurch, represented by a secretary, one Miller, whom he appoints president of the council and acting governor.. ...July, 1673 People, tried by the extortion and tyranny of Miller, revolt under John Culpeper, imprison the president and six members of the council, call a legislature and assume control......December, 1677 Culpeper goes to England to explain to the lords proprietors, and John Harvey, president of the council, takes charge of the government, John Jenkins, being appointed governor by the proprietors, succeeding him.... ....June, 1680 Governor Jenkins dies and is succeeded by Henry Wilkinson......December, 1681 Seth Sothel, who had purchased the |