The Western news., 1907-12-18


styled himself King of All Hibernis.
144S-Turks defeated the Hungarians at
battle Of Cossovo.
1520-Magellan discovered and entered
the strait which bears his name.
164o-De Soto and his force engaged In
battle with the Mobile Indians in
Alabama.
l5S2-The Gregorian calendar introduced.
1612-Champlain arrived in Canada to
take up his work a. governor Of the
country.
1o3O-First general court In America
held at Boston.
1631-Massachusetts Puritans limited
suffrage to members Of the church.
le68-Jean Talon resigned his Office as
Intendant of New France.
le75-Hatfield, Mass, repulsed an at
tack Of Indians under King Philip.
1oo0-Massachusetts invaders retired
from before Quebec without making
an attack. :. @. An English feet from
Massachusetts, attacked Quebec.
Io92-British government took away
William PENIS proprietary rights in
Pennsylvania.
171o-Port Royal, 8. c., captured by an
English feet.
1725-First issue of the New York Ga
zette, first newspaper in that city.
1746-Bill introduced in the New York
Assembly to raise money for the erec-
ton of Columbia college.
1775-Town of Falmouth (Portland),
Maine, burned. >. American troops
captured Chambly, Quebec. .Pey-
ton Randolph, first president of the
Continental Congress, died,
l777-Americans repulsed British attack
on Fort Mercer, Red Bank, n. J.
17S1-Lord CORVALLIS surrendered at
Yorktown, Va.
17SS-President Washington started on
tour of the Northern States.
1793-Marie Antoinette guillotined.
1SO0-Spain ceded the territory of
Louisiana to France.
1S03-Congress assembled in extra ses-
sion to act on the Louisiana Purchase
treaty.
1SO5-Horatio Lord Nelson killed at the
battle of II Tlafalgar.
1S12-Amercan sloop Wasp defeated the
British brig Frolic off the coast of
Virginia.
1S13-Napoleon defeated at the battle
of Leipsic.
1S26-The last Estate Lottery drawing
held in England.
1S2S-The Delaware and Chesapeake
canal opened.
1S31-Arms' bill passed for the repres
sion of crime and nsurrection in Ire
land.
1S34-British Parliament houses, West
minister, destroyed by fire.
1S39-Charles Edward Poulett Thomson
succeeded Sir John Coborne as gov
ernor of Canada.
1S42-First submarine telegraph in Amer
ica laid between Governors Island
and New York.
1S45-Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, French
tragedienne, born.
1S46-Nathan Clifford of Maine became
Attorney General of United States.
1S49-Chopin, the great musical COM
poser, died in Paris.
1S52-Abd-elKa deposed ruler of AL
giers, released from his confinement
by Louis Napoleon.
1S53-Filibusters, under Col. William
Walker, sailed from San Francisco
to establish a pro-slavery colony in
lower California.
1S56-Seven persons killed in panic in
London while Mr.. Spurgeon was
preaching.
1S59-Col. Robert e. Lee captured John
Brown and his men at Harper's
Ferry.
1S61-Col. Baker, friend of Lincoln, kill
ed at battle Of Balls Bluff. STRAIT
ford-on-Avon purchased the birth
place of Shakespeare.
1s63-Gen. Grant appointed to the COM
mand Of the western armies.
1S64-Gen. Sheridan turned defeat into
victory at Cedar Creek.
1S68-Austria evacuated Lombardy.
1S72-Steamship Missouri burned at sea
with loss of 81 lives.
1SS3-Cetewayo, king of the Zulus, sur
rendered to the British.
1SS4-Marquis Of Lansdowne sworn in
as governor general of Canada. y
1Ss9-King Carlos Of Portugal ascended
the throne.
1892-Worlds Columbian Exposition at
Chicago formally dedicated.
l9O4-Frederick Augustus III, ascended
the throne of Saxony.
A Floating Trout Pond.