. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ^^^©^ CHEYENNE INDIANS RECONNOITERING THE FIRST TRAIN ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. ily adjusted by peacetul methods, and not bythe sword. In 1870 the repubhc of St. Domingo, com-prising a large part of the island of Hayti,applied for annexation to the United Grant was very anxious to securethe annexation of this island, and to accom-plish it went to the very verge of his consti-tutional powers—going farther, indeed, thanmany of his friends belie
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ^^^©^ CHEYENNE INDIANS RECONNOITERING THE FIRST TRAIN ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. ily adjusted by peacetul methods, and not bythe sword. In 1870 the repubhc of St. Domingo, com-prising a large part of the island of Hayti,applied for annexation to the United Grant was very anxious to securethe annexation of this island, and to accom-plish it went to the very verge of his consti-tutional powers—going farther, indeed, thanmany of his friends believed he had the right. a fire broke out in the city of Chicago, andraged with tremendous violence for two daySplaying the greater part of the city in asheSoIt was the most destructive conflagration ofmodern times. The total area of the cityburned over was two thousand one hundredand twenty-four acres, or very nearly threeand one-third square miles. The number otbuildings destroyed was seventeen thousandfour hundred and fifty. About two hundred. ^oH ADMINISTRATION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. and fifty persons died from various causesdurin^^ the conflagration, and ninety-eightthousand persons were rendered homeless byit. Theentirc business quarter was actual loss will never be known. As faras it can be ascertained, it was about onehundred and ninety-six millions of dollars. Almost simultaneous with this disasterextensive forest fires swept over the woods of | sities of life was liberally extended to thesufferers in Chicago and the other afflictedcommunities. The telegraph flashed thenews across the Atlantic, and in an almostincredibly short time liberal contributions inmoney came pouring in from England andcontinental Europe, and even from the far-ofT,cities of India. On the twenty-ninth of May, 1872, Con-
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