Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
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1174-Henry II. paid penance at the
tomb of the murdered Archbishop Q
Beckett.
1191-Acre taken by Richard 1. and
other Crusaders after two years
siege.
13O2-Flemings defeated the Count OF
Artois at Courtray.
1450-Jack Cade, who raised an insur-
rection in Kent, killed.
1460-Henry VI. taken at Northampton
(War of the Roses).
15S7-Almagro defeated Alvarado al
Abancay.
15S4-William, Prince of Orange, assas-
sinated. -. Sir Walter Raleigh land
ed on the island Of Wocokon and
named the country Virginia.
1609-Samuel Champlain discovered the
lake which bears his name.
1619-First 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.
11O9-Swedish army under Charles XII.
defeated the Russians under Peter
the Great at battle of Pultowa.
175S-French victorious at battle Of Tt
conderoga.
1776-British soldiers under Sir William
Howe landed on Staten Island. -.
Pennsylvania adopted a State con
stitution.
177S-Articles of confederation signed by
the delegates from eight States.
1TS0-Count de Rochambeau and 5000
French soldiers arrived at Newport
to aid Americans.
17S1-Congress ratified the Articles of
Confederation.
17S2-Savannah evacuated by the Brit
ish.
17S7-Slavery abolished in the territory
north of the Ohio river.
1790-Congpess decided to meet at Phila-
delphia for ten years, and thereafter
Ou Tie OlOIudC.
1S0S-Murat made King of Naples.
1S12-Gov. Hull of Michigan made I'M
successful attempt to capture Fort
Maiden.
1SfEA British fleet captured Eastport,
Maine.
1S15-Napoleon l. surrendered to the
captain of the Bellerophon at Roche
fort
1S28-Luther Martin, counsel for Aaron
Burr in the latter's trial for trea-
son, died.
steamboat arrived at Chi
cago. Henry NJ. SchooIcraft dis
covered the source of the Mississippi
river.
1S35-Liberty bell cracked while being
tolled in memory of Chief Justice
Marshall.
1913 = Fremont's expedition sighted
Pixies Peak, Colorado.
1S46-Commodore Sloat hoisted the
American flag at Monterey.
1S49-Restoration of the temporal power
of the Pope proclaimed.
1S06-Unlted States Senate rejected Dill
to admit Kansas as a free State. -.
British forces evacuated the Crimea.
1S57-Massacre at Cawnpore by Mana
Sahib
1S63-Cincinnati proclaimed under mar
tial law Indiana invaded by Gen.
Morgan's Confederate cavalry.
1S6-First organized national bank
opened in Philadelphia. 4. 4. 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.
S2-Bombardment of Alexandria.
1SS3-"Gen. Tom Thumb" &C. Ii. STRAIT
tom, famous dwarf, died.
Institutional Democratic convention
at Chicago nominated Grover Cleye-
land for President.
1S9O-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
nesota.
1S91-Attempted assassination Of Presi-
dent Carnot of France.
lS92-Stewart Free Silver Coinage bill
defeated in the House of Represent
atives. =. =. Ravachol, anarchist and
dynamiter, guillotined in Paris....
st. Johns, Newfoundland, nearly
destroyed by fire. ;. An avalanche
from Mount Blanc destroyed villages
and 200 lives.
94-Constantinople shaken by earth
quake; over 1000 persons killed..
American Railway Union strike de-
clared off.
IS95-Remains of the Pitezel children,
supposed to have been murdered by
Fl. H. Holmes, discovered at To
ronto.
LS9S-The Anglo-American League was
organized in London.
I9OO-Gen Porfrio Diaz reelected Pres
ident of Mexico.
Kitchener received an ova-
ton on his return to England from
South Africa.
.9O-Forty-fve thousand employees of
the Chicago packing houses went on
strike. Democratic national con-
vention nomina ted Henry G. Davis
of West Virginia for Vice Presi-
dent. :. Democratic national conven-
ton nominated Alton 3. Parker for
President.
9O6-Alfred Dreyfus INDICATED by the
French court of last resort and re-
stored to the French army. =. > Hos
tilities broke out between Salvador
and Guatemala.
Physician Of Blackwelfs Island peni-
entiary says Abe Hummel, the disgraced
Sew York lawyer, is dying.
DR.. C. f. kked. pastor of John D.