Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-27

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1908 London bridge carried away by
flood.
1503-James Tyrrel executed on the
charge of numbering Edward V.
1539-John s. Duranti. first president of
Parliament Of Toulouse, killed.
1912 Catherine Howard, fifth wife OF
Henry Will, beheaded.
1917 Edward VI, at the age of nine.
crowned King of England.
1554-Lady Jane Grey beheaded. .Fif-
ty-nine persons executed in London
for resisting the Spanish influence.
1566-David Rizzio murdered,
165S-Passage of Charles X. over the
great belt.
1667-Attack on Lancaster, Mass, by
Indians.
1674-New York surrendered by Dutch
to British House Of Commons re-
solved against a standing army.
1880 English Parliament chose William
and Mary of Orange king and
queen.
1696-Plot to assassinate William III.
discovered.
1733-First settlement in Georgia COM
menced by Gen. Oglethorpe.
17T6-Col. Gadsden presented Snake
Flag to American Congress for naval
use.
177S-Daniel Boone captured by French
and Indians Escaped ten days later
1791-Bank of United States ineorpo-
rated
1893 Salary of President of the United
States fixed at $4,000.
1797-Admiral Jarvis defeated Spanish
feet off Cape ST. Vincent.
179S- Occupation of Rome by the
French.
1SO7-British House OF Lords abolished
slave trade.
1S0S-Russia declared war against Swe-
den.
the Spanish Cortes.
1914 Massachusetts, prohibited mpris-
onment for debt.
1S10-Bill introduced in Congress for
admission of Missouri.
1S31-InsL ERECTION in Paris.
1882 Cholera made its appearance in
| London.
1S33-Henry Clay introduced the COM
promise tariff measure in the Senate.
1S40-Marriage of Queen Victoria and
Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
1914 London and Dover railroad OPEN
! ed.
| 1S47-U. S. Congress authorized addi-
tional regiments for regular army.
1S51-Gold discovered in Australia.
1S56-President Pierce warned all per-
sons against unlawful combination
in Kansas.
at Montgomery, Ala. Jefferson
| Davis chosen President.
1S62-EIizabeth City, n. c., occupied by
Federal troops.
1S65-Gen. Robert E. Lee appointed
commander-in-chief of Confederate
army.
1S67-Congress admitted Nebraska to
statehood over Presidents veto....
George Peabody announced gift of
$1,200,000 for educational purposes
-. Outbreak of Fenians in South
Ireland
Steamboat Nellie Stevens burned
on Red river; 63 lives lost. Pas
sage by the u. S. Senate of fifteenth
amendment bill.
1S72-Governor General of India assas-
sinated at Port Blair,
1873 Abdication Of King Amadeus of
Spain; republic proclaimed.
1874-Taylors Pantechnicon burned in
London; loss $1,50O,O0O.
1S75-Great Broadway fire in New York
City.
1S77-Prof Alexander Graham Bell ex-
hibited his telephone in Salem, Mass
187S-British fleet entered Dardanelles
against the Sul,an's protest
1SS4-Ohio river rose to II feet at Gin
cnnati.
1SS5-Town of Olta, Utah, destroyed by
an avalanche. . Martial law pro-
claimed in Panama.
/ 1SS6-Serious riots in London caused by
Socialist agitators.
| 1SS7-Veto of the dependent pensio bill.
| 1S89-The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture created Legislatures of
Western States investigated dressed
peef trust. a constitution for the
empire of Japan proclaimed. u.
S. Senate rejected British extradi-
ton treaty.
| 1S90-Oklahoma territorial bill passed
by the Senate. President Harrison
signed proclamation opening the
Sioux. reservation.
1S91-Strike involving 10000 miners be-
gun in Pennsylvania coke region.
| 1S92-United States millers contribute
100000 pounds of -four to relieve
starving peasants of Russia. -.
France, Italy and Sweden chosen as
Bering sea arbitrator. . Seventy
FIVE persisted in burning of Hotel
Royal in New York.
1S93-Proclamatio setting apart the
Sierra Forest Reserve IN Califor-
mia. i. Gladstone introduced Home
Rule bill in the House of Commons
Count de Lesseps and son found
guilty of swindling in Panama
1S95-Japanese sink Chinese ironclads
in battle of Wei-Hai-Wei.
1S97-Union of Greece and Crete pro-
claimed.
1S99-Great blizzard in Baltimore.
Executive mansion at Frankfort,
KY, burned. Nearly a score Of
women met death in burning Of in
SAGE asylum at Yankton.
1902-Great fire in Paterson, y. H..
German Emperor's yacht Hohenzol-
lern arrived at New York
1905-Great blizzard in Northwest. -.
Forty mfn executed at Warsaw for
participating in street demonstra-
tions.
New Upper Egypt Railway.
A new ink in the development OF
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