. A brief history of the United States . uring the same fall,wide-spread conflagrations raged in the forests of Wisconsin,Minnesota, and Michigan. Entire villages were ,500 people perished in Wisconsin alone. 3. An extensivefire occurred in Boston November 9, 1872. It swept oversixty acres in the center of the wholesale trade of that city,and destroyed 170,000,000 worth of property. Foreign Affairs.—Treaty of Washington.—The refusalof the English government to pay the damages to Americancommerce caused by the Alabama and other Confederatecruisers (p. 368) produced bitter feeling, and
. A brief history of the United States . uring the same fall,wide-spread conflagrations raged in the forests of Wisconsin,Minnesota, and Michigan. Entire villages were ,500 people perished in Wisconsin alone. 3. An extensivefire occurred in Boston November 9, 1872. It swept oversixty acres in the center of the wholesale trade of that city,and destroyed 170,000,000 worth of property. Foreign Affairs.—Treaty of Washington.—The refusalof the English government to pay the damages to Americancommerce caused by the Alabama and other Confederatecruisers (p. 368) produced bitter feeling, and even threatenedwar. A high commission, composed of distinguished states-men and jarists from both countries, accordingly met inWashington, and arranged the basis of a treaty between theUnited States and Great Britain, settling this and othercauses of dispute. According to its provisions, the claimfor losses was submitted to a board of arbitrators, who, hav-ing convened at Geneva, Switzerland, awarded the United 290 EPOCH VI. [ HON. HAMILTON FISH. JUSTICE NELSON. EARL GREY. PROF. BERNARD. OEN. SCHENCK. WILLIAMS. LORD TENTERDEN. SIR JOHN MACOONALD. THE HIGH JOINT COMMISSION IN SESSION. States $15,500,000 in gold. The difficulty with regard tothe Northwestern boundary between the United States andBritish America was submitted to the Emperor of Germany,and was decided in favor of the United States. Thus hap-pily all danger of war was averted, and the great principle ofthe settlement of disputes by peaceful arbitration rather thanby the sword was finally established. Proposed Annexatio7i of Santo Domingo.*—This republic, * The island of Santo Domingo is the New Worlds classic land. Here Colum-bus founded the first white colony on this side of the Atlantic, and transportinghither animals, trees, shrubs, vines, and grains, so to speak, grafted the old worldupon the new. Hither, also, flocked the bold, adventurous, ambitious Spanish mul-titude (see p. 26). Great
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