The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . everalparts of the United States. See Chelifer, underArachnida, Vol. II, p. 282. BOOM, city of the province of Antwerp, northernBelgium, on the river Rupel, 10 miles S. of Ant-werp, with good railroad connections and tradingfacilities, also on the Brussels canal. It has a gym-nasium, extensive brick and tile works, tanneries,ropewalks, and sail-cloth factories. Population in1890, 14,080. BOONE, a city, and the capital of Boone County,?central Iowa, two miles from the Des Moines River,on the Chicago and Nort
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . everalparts of the United States. See Chelifer, underArachnida, Vol. II, p. 282. BOOM, city of the province of Antwerp, northernBelgium, on the river Rupel, 10 miles S. of Ant-werp, with good railroad connections and tradingfacilities, also on the Brussels canal. It has a gym-nasium, extensive brick and tile works, tanneries,ropewalks, and sail-cloth factories. Population in1890, 14,080. BOONE, a city, and the capital of Boone County,?central Iowa, two miles from the Des Moines River,on the Chicago and Northwestern and the DesMoines, Northern and Western railroads, about 40miles of Des Moines. It is an importantshipping-point for coal, immense quantities of whichare mined in the vicinity. Good water-power issupplied by the river. It has extensive brick andtile works, four flour-mills, foundries and machine-shops, and the car-shops of the Chicago and North-western railroad. Population 1890, 6,520; 1900,8,880. BOONE, Daniel, pioneer;•County, Pennsylvania, Feb. 11,_ rette, was born in Bucks 1735; died in Cha- Missouri, Sept. 26, His grandfather. DANIEL BOONE. George Boone, emigratedfrom Bradninch, near Ex-eter, in Devonshire, Eng-land, to Bucks County,Pennsylvania, where hejoined the Society of^^ Friends, and his Boone, removed toHolmans Ford, on theYadkin, South Carolina,about 1748. Inspired byJohn Finlays accounts ofthe wilds of what is now Kentucky, Daniel Booneset out to explore that country, with a partv of I, 1769. He was captured by Indians, butescaped twice, and returned to his home in March,1771. In 1773 he started for Kentucky with sixfamilies, including his own, and erected a fort atBoonesboro, where he settled with his December, 1777, he went on an expedition tothe celebrated Blue Licks to procure salt for the gar-rison, but on his return he was captured by theIndians. He and his party were taken to men were given
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