. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. esame fall, wide-spread conflagrations raged in the forests of Wisconsin,Minnesota, and Michigan. Entire villages were consumed. In Wis-consin alone, 1,500 people perished. (3.) An extensive fire occurred inBoston, November 9, 1872. It swept over sixty acres in the centre ofthe wholesale trade of that city, and destroyed $70,000,000 worth ofproperty. 5. Treaty of Washington.—The refusal of theEnglish government to pay the damages to American com-merce caused by the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers,produced bi
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. esame fall, wide-spread conflagrations raged in the forests of Wisconsin,Minnesota, and Michigan. Entire villages were consumed. In Wis-consin alone, 1,500 people perished. (3.) An extensive fire occurred inBoston, November 9, 1872. It swept over sixty acres in the centre ofthe wholesale trade of that city, and destroyed $70,000,000 worth ofproperty. 5. Treaty of Washington.—The refusal of theEnglish government to pay the damages to American com-merce caused by the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers,produced bitter feeling, and even threatened war. A HighCommission, composed of distinguished statesmen and juristsfrom both countries, accordingly met in Washington, andarranged the basis of a treaty between the United States andGreat Britain, settling this and other causes of to its provisions, the claim for losses was submit-ted to a board of arlitrafors. This body having convened atGeneva, Switzerland, awarded the United States $15,500,000 352 EXCELSTOR HON. HAMILTON FISH. JUSTICE NELSON. EARL GREY. PROF. BERNARD-. •3EN. SCHENCK. WILLIAMS. LORD TENTERDEN. SIR JOHN MACDONAL C THE HIGH JOINT COMMISSION EN SESSION. in gold, (1877). The difficulty with regard to the North-western boundary between tlie United States and BritishAmerica was submitted to the Emperor of Germany, andwas decided in favor of the United States. All danger ofwar was thus happily averted, and the great principle of thesettlement of disputes by peaceful arbitration rather than bythe sword was finally established. 6. Proposed Annexation of Santo Doniing-o.* —This republic, comprising a large part of the island of * The island of Santo Domingo is the Neio Worlds classic land. Here Colum-bus founded the first white colony on this side of the Atlantic, and transportinghither animals, trees, shnihs, vines, and grains, grafted, so to speak, the old worldTipon the new. Hither, al
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