The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-09
TODAY IN HISTORY.
Service by American Press-News

Washington, D. C.)
 Name Day: Job. Sun rises at 4;js; sets at 7:10.
 15O4-columbus sailed from Cadiz, with four vessels and 140 men and boys, in search of & passage to the South Sea, being his fourth voyage across the Atlantic. It was disast- rous expedition for the Admiral, again st joined his countrymen to complete the ruin of his fortunes.
 1657--WilIfam Bradford. second Gov ernor of Pennsylvania, died. He re- moved to America with the first set tiers of the colony, and was their Gov ernor thirty years. He wrote a history of the colony from 1902 to 1646, which was deposited in the library of the old South Church, where 1t fell a sacrifice to the fury of the British, 1775.
 17s6-The French began war against the Chickasas and are defeated.
 17S1-British Generals Arnold and Phillips took Wilmington. Va.
 17S1-spaniards took Pensacola and all Florida
 1791-Frnncis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, died. He was born in Phil adelphia in 173S and in 1776 he was a delegate to Congress from Bordentown, N. J. He was also judge of the Ad- miralty Court of Pennsylvania, and an author.
 17s4-Charles Henry d'Estaing, a French Admiral. guillotined. He was also Lieutenant General of the French armies before the breaking out of the revolution; was the descendant of a noble French family and commenced his career in the West Indies. He was twice taken prisoner by the English and was Vfce-Admiral in the American Rev. olutionary War. In 17S9 he was ap- pointed commander of the National Guards and at the Revolution in France became member of the Assembly of Not ables.
 1So4-Owing to the large emigration to America. Ireland was said to have suffered a severe decline of its linen trade.
 1s1s-The siege of Fort Meigs rais- ed. It had continued thirteen days. and 1t was computed that 1,760 cannon balls which seventeen were killed and sixty six wounded.
 1s29-An epidemic of smallpox breaks out in New Orleans, La.
 1S32-Israel Thorndike, a wealthy Boston merchant. died, In 1918 he pur- chased the valuable library of Profes- sor Eveling of Hamburg, Germany. 1000 volumes. and presented it to liar yard University.
 1SS5-Caleb P. Bennett. Governor of Delaware, died, aged 7S. He was the last surviving officer of the Delaware regiment in the Revolutionary Army.
 1S37-All the banks in the United States suspended specie payment dur
  rassed the Government: the President called an extra session of Congress which passed an act to issue $10.000. .000 Treasury notes as a measure of relief.
 1s46-Battle of Resaca de la Palma, Mexico
 1Ss2-The Confederates evacuated Pensacola and destroyed the navy yard
 1S63-Colouel Jacobs. with Kentucky cavalry. attacked and routed q guerilla force near Horse Shoe Bend, on the Cumberland River. killed a number took eight prisoners and destroyed their camp
 1S64-After three days hard fighting Lees forces r4treated, leaving 5000 killed and l1.000 wounded on the field
 After the battle of Spottsylvanih Court House, Grant telegraphed to Lin- coin that he proposes "to fight 1t out on this line if it takes all summer"
 The Union General SedRwick killed in skirmish preliminary to the battle of SpottsYlNanla. Va.
 1sGj-Confedorate General Forrest disbanded his troops and advised them to go home peaceably. 1S73-Information received by the President that a portion of the crew of tha U. $. Arctic Expedition under Captain Hall. which sailed from New York In August, 1871, in the ship Po- laris, together with five Fsquimaux arrived at Ray Roberts, Newfoundland being rescued from a floating Ice fio' on which they had remained 197 days
 1s7s-Nashville convention of colored men adopted address favoring migration from the South.
 19O5-Tornado struck Marquette Kas.. twentY-six killed. forty-four se- riously injured; residence section de- molished entirely.