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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Sea arbitra-tion respecting the seal fisheries was also organ-ized between Great Britain and the UnitedStates. The Samoan difficulties were adjusted:and the Chile affair, concerned with an attackon American sailors either connived at or per-mitted by Chilean authorities, was promptly andsatisfactorily settled by enforced reparation onthe part of Chile. At the Minneapolis conven-tion of 1892 Harrison was renominated withoutserious opposition. He was a second time op-posed by Cleveland, and his defeat by 276 elec-toral votes to 145 was an occasion for somesurprise. Upon his retirement from office, hereturned to the practice of law, and in 1893-4delivered a course of lectures on constitutionallaw at Stanford University. In 1899 he ap-peared as council for Venezuela in the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary arbitration commission.He was appointed a member for the UnitedStates of the Peace Conference held at TheHague in 1899. and became one of the Interna-tional Board of Arbitration. He wrote This
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BENJAMIN HARRISON, TWENTY-THIRD PRESIDE!*! Of 1111. UNITED STATES. HARRISON Country of Our-. i 1X117). A complete collec-tion of Ins public addresses from 1888 to 1892was edited I>> Hedges (1892). A posthumous collection of articles, Views of an Ex-Presi-dent. was published in 1901. Consult thecampaign life by lew Wallace (1888), and Wil-li (editor), The Presidents of the UnitedStates (1894). Geokce Edwin Rines, Editorial Stuff. Encyclopedia Americana. Harrison, Burton Norville, American law-yer: b. Xew Orleans 183b; d. Washington,D. C, 29 March 1904. He was graduated fromYale in 1859, shortly afterward became professorof mathematics and astronomy in the Universityof Mississippi, and at the outbreak of the CivilWar was appointed private secretary to Jeffer-son Davis, president of the Confederate States.Captured with Davis, he remained in imprison-ment until January 1866, when his release waseffected by the intervention of F. P. Blair andPresident Johnson. Subsequent to the war h

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