Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10

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1322-Bavari afeated the Austrians
at Mut
1396-Turks efeated the Christians at
Nicopolis.
1459-Yorkists victorious at Bloreheath.
(War of the Roses.)
1493-Columbus sailed from Cadiz On
his second expedition to America.
1513-Balboa discovered the Pacific
ocean.
1565-Menedez, the Spanish conqueror
of Florida, murdered 200 ship
wrecked French.
1597-City of Amiens taken by Spanish
and English.
1630-Death of Ambrosia, Marqui, OF
Spinola, the great Spanish captain.
1664-The French in America made their
first treaty with the Iroquois In
dams.
1690-'Publick Occurrences" first news
paper printed in America, issued at
Boston.
1692-Martha Cory hanged at Salem,
Mass, for witchcraft.
1732-First issue of The Rhode Island
Gazette.
1743-Gov. Clinton dissolved the New
York Legislature.
1159-The Tilbury wrecked off st. Es-
prit, Cape Breton, with loss of 200
lives. Military force from Caro-
lima attacked the Cherokees in Ten
nessee and destroyed many of their
towns.
1763-Montagu Wilmot succeeded Jona-
than Belcher as Lieutenant Governor
of Nova Scotia.
774-Massachusetts Legislature dis
solved by the royalist governor.
1775-The Americans made an unsuo-
cessful attack on Montreal.
79-Savannah, Ga, besieged by tho
French fleet and a part of the
Southern army. John Jay chosen
as the American commissioner to
Spain. i. Paul Jones, with the Bon
homme Richard, defeated the British
frigate Scraps off the coast Of Scot
land.
17SO-Major Andre, who plotted with
Benedict Arnold for the betrayal OF
West Point, captured near Tarry-
town. J.. . Benedict Arnold fled to the
British sloop Vulture.
17S1-Washington's army and the
oil ut
and began the siege.
17S9-Thomas Jefferson of Virginia be-
came Secretary of State.
victory at Assaye.
1SO4-The remodelng of the White
House at Washington was started.
1S13-Gen. William Henry Harrison in
vaded Canada from Detroit.
1S14-James Monroe of Virginia became
acting Secretary of War.
1S15-The Holy Alliance ratified at
Paris
Thirteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States ratified
by a two-thirds vote. "A mill for
cleaning rice was invented by Raw
eDei Ol IoOuJu NdlOllul'
1S31-Anti- Masons nominated national
ticket at Baltimore.
1S43-Fremonts expedition reached tho
Columbia river, in Oregon.
1S46-The planet Neptune discovered. ...
Monterey, Mexico, surrendered to the
Americans.
1S54-Russians closed the harbor of
Sevastopol by sinking ships in the
entrance. g. . Allies advanced upon
Balaklava Over 800 lives lost by
collision of British steamer and a
French bark near Cape Race.
1S69-"Black Friday" financial panic as
result Of attempt to corner gold.
1S71-Joint high commission organized
at Washington to adjust private
claims against Great Britain and the
United States growing out of the
Civil War.
1S74-Typhoon at Hongkong resulted in
loss Of over 1000 lives.
1SS1-National fast day appointed for
the death of President Garfield.
1884 Mormon colony in Wilson county,
Tenn, ordered by regulators to leave
the State.
1S92-Nancy Hanks trotted mile in
2:04 at Terre Haute Ind.
1S95-AlIeged Cuban flibusters acquit-
ted by jury at Wilmington, Del.
1S9S-Chile and Argentina agreed to
submit their boundary dispute to ar
bitration.
19O4-Don Jose Pardo proclaimed Presi-
dent of Peru.
$4,000 Now in Shoe Strike.
The general executive board of tho