Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-07-26


siege.
1902 Jennings defeated the Count of
Artois at Contrary.
1450-Jack Cade, who raised an insur-
rection in Kent, killed.
7460-Henry VI. taken at Northampton
(War of the Roses).
1537-.Almagro defeated Alvarado at
Abancay.
.15s4-William, Prince of Orange, assas-
sinated.. ..S ir Walter Raleigh land
ed on the island of Wocokon and
naAed the country Virginia.
1609-Samuel Champlain discovered the
lake which bears his name.
1619-Tirst legislative body of English
men in America met at jamestown,
Virginia.
1675-Lord Culpeper appointed Governor
of Virginia for life.
16S5-Duke of Monmouth beheaded.
11O0-Swedish army under Charles NJ.
defeated the Russians under Peter
the Great at battle of Pultowa.
175S-F'rench victorious at battle of Ii
condsroga. r."
1776-British soldiers under Sir William
Howe landed on Staten ~Island....
Pennsylvania adopted a State con-
stitution.
177S-A1ticles of confederation signed by
the delegates from eight States.
17SO-Csunt de Rochambeau and 5000
French soldiers arrived at Newport
to aid Americans.
17S1-Coagress ratified the Articles Of
Confederation. .
17s2-Savannah evacuated by the Brit
ish.
.17s7-Savery abolished in the territory
north Of the Ohio river.
l79O-Congress decided to meet at Phila-
delphia for ten years, and thereafter
on the Potomac.
1SOS-Murat made King of Naples.
1s12-Gov. Hull of Michigan made un-
successful attempt to capture Fort
Maiden.
1s14-A British feet captured Eastport,
Maine.
1S15-Napoleon I. surrendered to the
captain of the Bellerophon at Roche
fort.
1s26-Lnther Martin, counsel for Aaron
Burr in the %latter's trial for trea-
son, died.
1S32-Tirst steamboat arrived at Chi
cago. . I. Henry NJ. Schoolcraft dis
covered the source of the Mississippi
river.
1S35-Liberty bell cracked while being
toled in memory of Chief Justice
Marshall.
1913 - Fremont's expedition sighted
Pixies Peak, Colorado.
1846-Commodore Sloat hoisted the
American flag at Monterey.
1S49-Restoration of the temporal power
of the Pope proclaimed.
1S56-United States Senate rejected bill
to admit Kansas as a free State.
British forces evacuated the Crimea.
lS57-Massacre at Cawnpore by Mana
Sahib..
1S63@Cincinnati proclaimed under mar
tial Indiana invaded by Gen.
Morgan's Confederate cavalry.
1S64-First organized national bank
opened in Philadelphia. .Rioting
of anti-draft mobs in New York
City.
1S65-Barnum's museum, at Ann street
and Broadway, New York, destroyed
by fire.
1S7S-British flag hoisted at Cyprus.
1SS2-Bombardment of Alexandria.
1SS3-"Gen. Tom Thumb e. H. STRAIT
ton), famous dwarf, died.
1SS4-National Democratic convention
at Chicago nominated Grover Cleve-
land for President.
tS9O-The President signed the Wyom-
ing admission bill The new Gro
ton aqueduct opened in New York
Idaho admitted to the Union.
Many lives lost by tornado in Min
nesotas
1S91-Attempted assassination of Presi-
dent Carnot of France.
1S92-Stewart Free Silver Coinage bill
defeated in the House of Represent
atives. 4. Ravachol, anarchist and
~dynamiter, guillotined in Paris. !.
st. Johns, Newfoundland, nearly
destroyed by fre....An avalanche
from Mount Blanc destroyed villages
and 200 lives.
1S94-Constantinople shaker by earth
quake over LOCO persons killed....
American Railway Union strike de-
claTed off.
1S95-Remains of the Pitezel children,
supposed to have been murdered by
FL. H. Holmes, discovered at To-
ronto.
1S9S-The Anglo-American League was
organized in London.
1OOO-Gen. Poririo Diaz reelected Pres
ident of Mexico.
1902-Gen. Kitchener received IN ova-
ton on his return to England from
South Africa.
19O4-Forty-fve thousand employees Of
the Chicago packing houses went on
strike !. =. Democratic national con-
vention nominated Henry G.. Davis
of West Virginia for Vice Presi-
dent. . . Democratic national conven-
ton nominated Alton B. Parker fer
President.
t9O6-Alfred Dreyfus vindicated by the
French court of last resort and re-
stored to the French army. Hos
Utilities broke out between Salvador
and Guatemala.
Phys;cian Of BlackweII's Island peni-
tentis1y says Abe Hummel, the d.sgraced
New York lawyer, is dying