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 The eight-hour-a-day law declared un constitutional 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 submission 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 Pan American Buffalo...... April 22, 1901 exposition opened at ...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 May 30, 1901 Announcement that John D. Rockefeller proposes to establish the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City.... ..June 1, 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 The United States Treasury DepartFeb. 17, 1901 ment interdicts the entrance of immiThe legislature passes the Police Com- grants suffering with tuberculosis at the mission bill over the mayor's veto and port of New York on the ground of its the bill is signed by Governor Odell being a dangerous contagious disease Feb. 20, 1901 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,- Governor Drummond dying, succeeded 250 square miles, in ninety-six counties. by Samuel Stephens.... 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 ...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 rights of Lord Clarendon, arrives as gov- eighth interest retained by Lord Gran ville..... ....1729 Carolina, on becoming the property of the crown, is divided into two provinces, and George Burrington is appointed governor of North Carolina.. April 30, 1730 Commissioners run the boundary-line between North and South Carolina...1738 One-eighth interest in the proprietary charter retained by John, Lord Carteret, heir of Lord Granville, is laid off for him, being bounded on the north by the Virginia line, south by lat. 35° 34′, and extending from the Atlantic to the Pacifie 1743 War having been declared by England against France, Fort Johnston on the south bank of Cape Fear is built....1745 Large accession to the settlement near Cross Creek is made by Scotch Highlanders exiled to America.. ..1747 James Davis, at Newbern, issues the first newspaper in the State, the North Carolina Gazette..... ....1749 Moravians purchase from Lord Gran ville 100,000 acres between the Dan and Yadkin, which they name Wachovia..1750 First edition of the laws of North Carolina by Samuel Swann, published by James Davis at Newbern.......... ....1752 Act passed to erect a school-house at Newbern..... .....1764 December, 1710 One hundred and twelve persons, principally settlers on the Roanoke and Chowan, are massacred by the Tuscaroras and other allied Indian tribes........ Sept. 22, 1711 Militia of North and South Carolina and friendly Indians attack the Tuscaroras on the banks of the Neuse, in the present county of Craven, and more than 300 savages are killed and 100 made prisoners... ....Jan. 28, 1712 Troops under Col. James Moore, of South Carolina, capture Fort Nahucke, a stronghold of the Tuscaroras in Greene county, with 800 prisoners...March, 1713 Bills of credit for £800 issued by the A sloop-of-war, the Diligence, arrives in colony to pay Indian war debt. First the Cape Fear River with stamped paper issue of paper money in North Carolina for use in the colony, Sept 28, 1765. 1713 Colonels Ashe and Waddell, with an Edenton, on the Chowan River, founded armed force, so terrify the captain that 1715 no attempt is made to land the paper, Tuscarora Indians enter into a treaty, and seizing James Houston, stamp disand a tract of land on the Roanoke, in tributer, they compel him to take an oath the present county of Bertie, is ceded to not to distribute the stamped paper..1765 them by Governor Eden....June 5, 1718 Pirate Edward Teach, commonly called Black Beard, long a terror to North Carolina, is attacked by Lieutenant Maynard near Ocracoke, with two small coasters; he is killed, and Maynard carries off his head hung to the bowsprit Nov. 21, 1718 Boundary-line between North and South Carolina established..... .1727 Last Assembly under proprietary government at Edenton; issues £40,000 more in paper money.... .Nov. 27, 1728 Lords proprietors surrender the government to King George II. except one British ship-of-war Viper, Jacob Lobb captain, lying at anchor off Brunswick, seizes two merchant vessels, the Dobbs and Patience, from Philadelphia, showing clearance papers without stamps. Five hundred and eighty men under Col. Hugh Waddell, having secured the clearance papers from the collector of the port, proceed from Wilmington to Brunswick, and compel the release of the two vessels... . Feb. 21, 1766 George A. Selwyn obtains from the crown large grants of land in Mecklenburg county, but the people prevent their survey.... .1766 |