Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-15

141G-Jerome of Prague burnt at Con
stance.
1431-Joan of Arc burne! as a hereto
in Rome.
1453-Fall of the Eastern Empire.
1492-Granada surrendered; end of do
minion of Moors in Spain.
l49S-Columbus sailed on his third voy-
age to America.
1521-Siege of Mexico begun by Cortez.
~153G-John of Leyden tortured and put
to death.
1539-De Soto landed on the west coast
of Florida.
1j4G-Cardinal Beaton assass,nated at
St. Andrews.
1561-St. Paul's church, London, burned.
1j72-Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, exc
~15S1-James Douglas. Earl Of Morton,
beheaded at Edinburgh.
15SS-The Spanish Armada sailed from
Lisbon.
1G09-Sir Thomas Gates and party of
c~olcnists sailed from England for
Virginia.
16GO-Charles II. made his entry into
London. 90. Execution of Mary Dyer,
a Quakeress, on Boston Common.
1G72-Union between colonies of Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut and Plymouth.
175i-Thousands killed IN earthquake al
Cairo. Egypt.
1763-Indian massacre at Fort Mack1-
nav, Mich.
1779-Stony Point evacuated by the
Americans.
179O-Copyrisht law passed by Amcri-
can Congress. Rhode Island adopt
ed the fedora! constitution. ...inae-
pendence declared by Belgian prov
inces.
l792-Kentucky admitted to the Union.
1793-Democratic society formed in
Philadelphia.
1794+Lord Howe defeated and almost
destroyed the French fleet.
1796-Tennessee admitted to the Union
...Bonaparte dissolved the Great
Council and took possession of Ven
ice.
1sO1-Embargo of Great britain re-
moved.
1SO2-Charles Emanuel ". OF Sardinia
abdicated n favor CT his brother,
Victor Emmanuel.
1SO4-Jefferson issued proclamation erect
ing district of Mobile.
1S95-Treaty of peace between United
States and Tripoli.
| 1S13-Battle between shannon and
Chesapeake off Massachusetts bay.
| 1S14-Peace between Great Britain and
France proclaimed in London.
900 MI 1.1. &c Oh I1oy1., -
United States organized at Balti'
more.
1S32-James Macintosh, English states.
man, died.
1S3333-Louis Mclean of Delaware APP
pointed Secretary of State.
1S4O-Canton ransomed from the British
for $4,000, OO0.
1S4S-Wisconsin admitted as a State.
1S54-Kansas and Nebraska territories
formed.
1S5S-Donati's comet first observed by
DR.. Donati, Florence.
1S61-U. S. mail service discontinued in
seeding States.
1S62-Fort Pillow, Tenn, evacuated by
Gen. Beauregard. go. Battle of Seven
Pines and Fair Oaks, Va. -. .Beaure-
Salu SNoSiatcu Ooliilh, IISo
1SG4-Grant repulsed by Lee at battle
of Cold Harbor, Va. MACMILLAN
arrived at Vera Cruz. Mexico.
I 1S65-Proclamation of President John
son stating conditions of amnesty....
Gems. Kirby Smith and Magruder
formally surrendered their forces at
Galveston.
1S70-Civil rights bill approved.
1S75-Steamship Vicksburg sunk by an
iceberg off Cape Race; Go lives lost
Paul Boynton floated across the
British channel.
lS7S-German naval vessel Grosser
Kurfuerst sunk in English channel;
300 lost. Wreck of the steamer Idaho
on the coast of Ireland.
| 1S79-Prince Louis Napoleon killed by
Zulus in Africa.
1SS3-Ten persons killed in panic on
Brooklyn bridge. 49,, h.,
| 1SS5-World's Exposition at New Or
leans closed.
1SS6-Hon. Grover Cleveland married to
Miss Frances Folsom.
1SS7-Earthquake shock in City Of
Mexico. /. . Island of Cyprus ceded to
England.
| ISSJ-tO rJy lives lOSL III HOCuS ut Ie-
tersburg, Va, and Washington. D.
Co.. Johnstown food; $500 lives
lost.
1S92-The tHigh-Water Mark" monu-
ment at Gettysburg dedicated.
1393-Trial of DR.. Briggs for heresy by
Presbyterian general assembly. -.
Body of Jefferson Davis placed in
Holyrood cemetery, Richmond.
1S94-Field Columbian Museum at Chi
cago dedicated.
| 1S95rEugene V. Debs. leader of the
Chicago railway strike, sentenced TO
six months imprisonment
l9O5-President Roosevelt's peace offer
to Russia and Japau.. Lewis and
Clark exposition opened in Portland,
Oregon.
The Growth of P-atcrnaIfsm.
Representative Tawney of Minnesota
of the House appropriations committee
said that he had no conception of the
| raDidity with which federal noticing and