Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-25

145o-French defeated the English az
Fortnight.
1512-Gaston de Folk killed at the bat.
tie of Ravenna.
1606-King James I. issued two land
patents for The First and Second
Colonies in North America.
1644-The parliamentary forces victori~
Gus at the battle of Selby.
1670-Staten Island bought for the
Duke of York
1709-First number of The Tattler ap.
peared
1713-Treaty of Utrecht, terminating the
wars OF Queen Anne.
1T41-PruSSians defeated the AuStrians
at the battle of Molwitz.
1747-Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat) exc
cuted for his part in the rebellion of
1745.
1T6S-One-Quarter of the city of Mon
treal destroyed by fire.
17S2-Admiral Rodney defeated De
West Indies. Naval battle between
Hyder Ali and Gen. Monk.
1S05-Alliance of st. Petersburg, :. Bey
of Algiers declared war against
Spain. " Aaron Burr arrived at
Blennerhassett's Island, in the Ohio
river.
1S13-Mobile captured from the Spanish
1S14-French defeated by Wellington at
battle of Toulouse. &. /. British army
entered Toulouse, France.
1S1S-King Christian TX. of Denmark
born. Died Jan. %, 1906.
1S30-Omnibus first used as q public
conveyance in New York. &. Presi-
dent Bustamente of Mexico forbade
further immigration from the United
States.
1S31-Russians defeated in battle near
Siedloe, in Poland.
city.
1S47-Present Houses of Parliament in
London first used by the Peers.
1S54-France and England signed a
treaty for the defense of the Ottoman
empire. ;. The town of San Saliva
dor destroyed by an earthquake.
1S65-Mobile, Ala, captured by the fed
erals. Gen. Lee surrendered to
Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court
house, Virginia. &. i. d. Raleigh, n. c.,
surrendered to the federal army. -.
Montgomery, Ala, surrendered to the
federals
1868 Magdala stormed by the British
under Sir Robert Napier.
1S74-Murat Halstead arrested in Gin
cinnati for publishing a lottery ad-
vertisement in his newspaper.
1S75-Paul Boynton made unsuccessful
attempt to swim the English chan
mel Martial law declared in the
Pennsylvania mining region.
1SS4-Gen. Gordon close pressed by the
Arabs near Khartoum.
1S91-First locomotive passed through
the st. Clair tunnel. Beginning of
the second century of patents in the
United States celebrated in Wash
ington.
1S92-Six thousand houses destroyed by
+. government paid $4,000 indemnity
to the families of the Italians lynch
ed at New Orleans.
1S93-Complete Syrian text Of the four
gospels of the New Testament dis
covered in the Mount Sinai convent
-. American prOtectorate in TawaiI
ended go. Japan seized the Pelew
islands in the North NPacifc
1S94-President Cleveland issued the
Boring sea proclamation.
1S95-American line steamship st. Paul
launched at Philadelphia.
1S97-Greater New York charter passed
by New York State Senate. E. Five
lives lost and S2,000000 in property
destroyed by fire in Knoxville, Tenn.
19OO-Charles II. Allen appointed Gov
ernor of Porto Rico.
19O1-Civil jurisdiction in the Trans
vaal inaugurated.
Convention signed at Pekin be-
tween China and Russia, the latter
agreeing 10 evacuate Manchuria.
19O3-Moro fort, at Bacalod, Philippines,
captured by American soldiers.
1904-German troops in Southwest AZ
RIGA defeated 5000 Hereros. An
drew Carnegie established his 3d.
100000 hero fund.-. Russian bat
tleship Petropavlovski sunk by mine
near Port Arthur. Anglo French
Colonial treaty signed in London.
1905-American Ambassador Joseph II.
Choate elected a Bencher Of the Mid
die Temple, London.
10O6-Greene and Gaynor found guilty
at Savannah, Ga.