Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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igh com-mission, composed of a number of dis-tinguished public men, appointed bythe American and British Governments,met at Washington, and arranged a set-tlement known as the treaty of Wash-ington, which was ratified bv hoth. 10: 102 FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO OUR WAR WITH SPAIN. Governments. This treaty was ratifiedby the Senate on the twenty-fourth ofMay, and provided for the .settlementnot only of the Alabama claims, but ofill other questions at issue between theiJnited States and Great Britain. The Alabama claims were referred bythe treaty of Washington to a board ofarbitration composed of five commis-sioners selected from the neutral na- On the night of Sunday, October 8,1871, a fire broke out in the city ofChicago, and raged with tremendousviolence for two days, laying the greaterpart of the city in ashes. It wasthe most destructive conflagration ofmodern times. The total area of thecity burned over was two thousandone hundred and twenty-four acres,or very nearly three and one-third
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CHICAGO AFTER THE FIRE. dons. This board met at Geneva, inSwitzerland, on the fifteenth day ofApril, 1872, and the American andEnglish representatives presented to ittheir respective cases, which had beenprepared by the most learned counselin both countries. On the twenty-seventh of June the board announcedits decision. The claims of the UnitedStates were admitted, and the damagesawarded our Government were $16,-250,000. These were paid in due time. square miles. The number of build-ings destroyed was seventeen thousandfour hundred and fifty. About twohundred and fifty persons died fromvarious causes during the conflagration,and ninety-eight thousand persons wererendered homeless by it. The entiiebusiness quarter was destroyed. Theactual loss will never be known. Asfar as it can be ascertained, it was aboutone hundred and ninety-six millions ofdollars. FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO OUR WAR WITH SPAIN 103 On the 29tli of May, 1872, Congresspassed an act removing the disabilitiesimposed upon th

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