The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28

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1555-John Philpot, Archdeacon oil
Westminster, convicted of heresy
and burned.
i5S2-The Gregorian calendar adopted
at Paris, emitting 10 days.
1642-New Zealand discovered by Tas
man.
1644-Christina assumed government Of
Sweden.
1G4S-Oliver Cromwell ordered all stage
plays stopped in England.
1G53-Oliver Cromwell declared lore
protector of England.
16S3-Isaac Walton, author Of the
Complete Angler" died.
1145-Dresden surrendered to Frederick
III. of Prussia.
1754EMahomet V. of Turkey died.
1764-T. II. Perkins, owner of the frs
railroad in the United States
born.
177O-Beethoven, the great musician
born.
1774-North Carolina adopted a consti
tuition.
1I10-American Congress first deter
mined to bufld a navy.
1U1General Howe ordered the meet
ing houses in Boston torn dow
and used for fire wood.
11I6-Congress adjourned from Phila
delphia to Baltimore.
17S2-The British troops evacuated
Charleston, S. G.
1IS7-New. Jersey and Pennsylvani;
ratified the Constitution of tn,
United States.
1796-General Anthony Wayne died.
1799-General George Washington died
1S04-British Consul in Honduras for
bid mahogany to be exported oil
American vessels. ...Spain de
clared war against Great Britain
1S09-Divorce of Empress Josephine.
1S10-Lucien Bonaparte and famil!
place themselves under protection
of England.
1S16-First savings bank in the United
States opened in Boston.
1S29-Outbreak of Civil War in Chill.
1S32-Treaty of navigation and com
merce concluded between Unitel
States and Russia.
1S36-Patent office and postofice a
Washington. d. c., burned.
1S3S-Chartists meetings declared lille
gal in England.
1S40NRemains of Bonaparte, remove,
from Cherbourg TO Paris.
1S4S-Postal convention concluded be
tween Great Britain and Unite'
States. Destruction of the Parl
Theater, New York City, by fire
1350-Many killed and injured in tn
explosion of the steamboat Angl
Norman at New Orleans.
1S54LSt. Lawrence River opened t
American vessels. .SeventeeI
lives lost in sinking Of steame
Westmoreland in Lake Michigan
1S61-Prince Albert, husband of Queei
Victoria, died.
1S62-Fredericksburg, Va, captured.
1S64-Fort McAllister captured by Un
ion forces.
1S65-Thirteenth Amendment to q. s
Constitution proclaimed.
1S71-Alabama arbitration commissio
meets at Geneva. William NJ
Tweed, the Tammany Boss" re
arrested.
1S74-Edwin Booth made his first az
~ A. +ovo fo1r0rn
his retirement after the assassina
ton of President Lincoln.
1SS4-World's Fair opened in New o.
leans. Attempt made to bloy
London Bridge up with dynamit,
1S91-violent earthquake in Sicily.
United States concludes arrange
ments for reciprocity with Japar
1S94-Great loss of life in a volcani
eruption in the New Hebrides. -.
Eugene v. Debs sentenced to ia
for contempt of court.
1S95-Samuel Gompers elected presider
of the American Federation Q
Labor.
1S97-Attorney-G General McKenna al
pointed justice of the Unite
States Supreme Court.
1S99-Major General Wood made mil
tary governor of Cuba. -. Gener;
Henry w. Lawton, U. s. A., xii
ed in the Philippines.
19O1-Philippine tariff bill passe
House of Representatives.
M~arconi signalled across the A
lantic by means of wireless teIe:
raphy.
| 19O3-The Cuban reciprocity bill b.
comes a law....W. J. Buchana
appointed United States ministe
to the republic of Panama.
| 19O4-Three killed in explosion on Uni
ed States battleship Massachr
setts... ..Ex-Mayor Ames of Mil
neapolis, charged with malfeal
ance in office, set free after a dil
agreement of the jury at his thir
trial.
Brief News Items.
Charles L. Yerkes has appealed to tn