Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

109S-London bridge carried away by a
food.
l503-James Tyrrel executed on the
charge of numbering Edward V.
l539-John S. Duranti, first president of
Parliament of Toulouse, killed.
1o42-Catherine Howard fifth wife of
Henry VIII, beheaded.
lo41-Edward VI, at the age of nine.
crowned King of England.
1554-Lady Jane Grey beheaded. Eff
ty-nine persons executed in London
for resisting the Spanish influence.
1566-David Rizzio murdered
165S-Passage of Charles y. over the
great belt.
166T-Attack on Lancaster, Mass, by
Indians.
1674-New York surrendered by Dutch
to British. -. House of Commons re-
solved against a standing army.
16S9-English Parliament chose William
and Mary of Orange king and
queen.
169G-Plot to assassinate William III.
discovered.
menced by Gen. Ogethorpe.
1776-Col. Gadsden presented Snake
Flag TO American Congress for naval
use.
1T1S-Daniel Boone captured by French
and Indians. Escaped ten days later.
1791-Bank of United States incorpo-
rated
1903 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.
1S07-British House of Lords abolished
slave trade.
1SOS-Russia declared war against Swe-
den.
1S13-Aboition of the inquisition by
the Spanish Cortes.
Massachusetts prohibited impris-
Onment for debt.
1S19-Bll introduced in Congress for
admission of Missouri.
INSTRUMENTATION in Paris.
1S32-Cholera made its appearance in
London.
1898 Henry Clay introduced the COM
promise tariff measure in the Senate.
1S40-Marriage of Queen Victoria and
Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
1S44-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.
1S61-Confederate government formed
at Montgomery, Ala. Jefferson
Davis chosen President.
1S62-Elizabeth City, n. c., occupied by
Federal troops
1S65-Gen. Robert E. Lee appointed
commander-in-chief of Confederate
arrly.
1S67-Congress admitted Nebraska 20
statehood over Presidents veto. -.
George Peabody announced gift of
$1,20O0O0 for educational purposes
Outbreak OF Fenians in South
Ireland.
Steamboat Nellie Stevens burned
on Red river; 60 lives lost. Pas
sage by the q. S. Senate of fifteenth
amendment bill.
1S72-Governor General Of India assas-
sinated at Port Blair
1S73-Abdication of King Amadeus of
Spain; a republic proclaimed.
1S7LTaylor's Pantechnicon burned in
London; loss $1,50O,O00.
1S75-Great Broadway fire in New York
City.
1S77-Prof. Alexander Graham Bell ex-
hibited his telephone in Salem, Mass.
181S-British fleet entered Dardanelles
against the Sultan's protest.
1SS4-Ohio river rose to II feet at Gin
cinnati.
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 pension bill.
1SS9-The. U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture created. 80. Legislatures of
Western States investigated dressed
empire of Japan proclaimed. u.
S. Senate rejected British extradi-
ton treaty.
1S9O-Oklahoma territorial bill passed
by the Sen; 60. President Harrison
signed proclamation opening the
Sioux reservation.
1S91-Strike involving 10000 miners be-
gun in Pennsylvania coke region.
1892-United States millers contribute
100000 pounds of -four to relieve
starving peasants of Russia
France, Italy and Sweden chosen as
Bering sea arbitrators. . . Seventy
FIVE persisted in burning of Hotel
Royal in New York.
S93-Proclamation setting apart the
Sierra Forest Reserve in Califor-
mia. Gladstone introduced Home
Rule bill in the House Of Commons
80. Count de Lesseps and son found
guilty of swindling in Panama
1S95-Japanese sink Chinese ironcIads
in battle of Wei-Hai-Wei.
1S97-Union of Greece and Crete pro-
claimed.
1899 Great blizzard in Baltimoie....
Executive mansion at Frankfort,
Ky, burned. Nearly score Of
women met death in burning of in
sane asylum at Yankton.
1902-Great fire in Paterson, y. L..
German Emperor's yacht Hohenzol-
lern arrived at New York.
19O5-Great blizzard in Northwest. -.
Forty mhn executed at Warsaw for
participating in street demonstra-
tions.
New Upper Egypt Railway.