Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

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1153-Death of David l., King of the
Scots, at Carlisle.
1402 Scots defeated at Nesbit.
1902 Columbus sailed on his fourth
voyage to the New World.
1884 Hessians defeated Austrians at
Laufen.
l56s--Mary Green of Scots defeated at
battle of I.angside.
1607-English colonists began to build at
jamestown.
1645 Montrose defeated the Covenant
ers at battle of Auldean.
1T63-The Indian chief Pontiac began
his blockade of Detroit.
16To-Hudson Bay Company founded.
1671-Col Thomas Blood made daring
attempt TO steal the Crown jewels
from the Tower of London.
17S1-The Spaniards captured Penta-
cola, Florida, from the British.
1888 Society of the Cincinnati organ
lied.
1797-Walter Cotton, who made the first
public announcement Of the diseov-
cry of gold in California. born in
Rutland, VT Died Jan. %, 1851.
1S00-John Marshall of Virginia became
Secretary of State.
1S10-First agricultural exhibition in
the United States opened at George
town, d. G.
1S12-Mr. Perceval, British premier, as
sassinated by Bellingham.
1S43-Hugh S. Legare of South Carolina
became Secretary of State.
1S46-Battle of Palo Alto, first engage
ment in the war with Mexico.
1S4S-Daniel Webster resigned as Secre-
tary of State.
1S49-Astor Plsee riots made by friends
of Edwin Forrest to break up Mae
ready's acting at Astor Place Opera
House
1S53--Jacob Burnett, one of the early
Wing leaders in the Senate, died
Born 1770. -. First transatlantic
steamer arrived at Quebec.
1S57-Outbreak of the Indian mutiny at
Meerut. Delhi captured by the
Sepoys.
Baltimore occupied by federal
troops.
1S64-Battle of Rrurys Bluff. Va.
Sheridan's famous reid commenced.
1S65-Capture of Jefferson Davis at r.
winville, Ga.
1S71-Treaty of Washington signed. pro-
vding for the settlement of the Ala
bama claims.
1ST6-Opening of the Centennial exhibit
ton at Philadelphia.
tSS0-Si Alexander Tilloch Gait APP
pointed first High Commissioner for
Canada in London.
1882 Dominion government created the
four provisional districts now COM
prising the western provinces of AL
berta and Saskatchewan.
1SS9-Father Damien died at the leper
settlement in the Sandwich Islands.
1S91-Cardinal Martineli invested with
the red berretta at Baltimore. The
Chilean steamer Itata escaped from
the harbor of San Diego, Cal,
1S93-Earl of Aberdeen became governor
general of Canada Carlyle w.
Harris, the murderer of Helen Potts,
executed at Sing Sing.
1894 Several villages destroyed and
1000 lives lost by earthquake in
Venezuela.
iS95-Treaty of peace between Japan
and China ratified at Chefoo.
.S96-H. II. Holmes, the multi-murderer,
executed at Philadelphia.
1S97-French steamship Vile de st.
Nazaire foundered off Cape Hatteras,
with loss of many lives The pow
ers interviewed in the war between
Turkey and Greece. Turkish army
occupied Volo. United States SUI
preme Court decided the Beriner
patent case in favor of the Bell
Telephone Company.
lS9S-China paid the last Of the war in
demnity to Japan.
lS99-Fatal collision on the Reading rail-
road % killed and many injured
1902 Eruption of Mont La Soufriere,
st. Yincent's; 1000 lives lost -
Thirty thousand lives lost by the
eruption Of Mont Pelee, Martinique.
1905-Tornado at Snyder Okla, killed
100 people, and injured many others.
1906-Anthracite miners in Pennsylva-
MIA accepted terms offered by the
operators.