The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-11-30

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1171-Henry II. landed in Ireland and
styled himself King of All Hibernia.
144S-Turks defeated the Hungarians at
battle of Cossovo.
1520-Magellan discovered and entered
the strait which bears his name.
154O-De Soto and his force engaged in
battle with the Mobile Indians In
Alabama.
i582-The Gregorian calendar introduced.
1912 Champlain arrived in Canada to
take up his work as governor of the
country.
1880 First general court in America
held at Boston.
1631-Massachusetts Puritans limited
suffrage to members of the church.
1668-Jean Talon resigned his Office as
Intendant Of New France.
1675-Hatfeld, Mass, repulsed an at
tack of Indians under King Philip.
90-Massachusetts invaders retired
AAO4u OCAOAC EuODCS WALAVuC AAoNAAo
an attack. AN English feet from
Massachusetts attacked Quebec.
1692-British government took away
William PENIS proprietary rights in
Pennsylvania.
1710-Port Royal, s. c., captured by an
English feet.
1720-First issue of the New York Ga
zette, first newspaper in that city.
1746-Bill introduced in the New York
Assembly to raise money for the erec-
ton of Columbia college.
1775-Town of Falmouth (Portland) /,
Maine, burned. American troops
captured Chambly, Quebec. .Pey-
ton Randolph, first president of the
Continental Congress, died.
1777-Americans repulsed British attack
on Fort Mercer, Red Bank, N. j.
17S1-Lord CORVALLIS surrendered at
Yorktown, Va.
17SS-President Washington started on
tour of the Northern States.
1793-Marie Antoinette guillotined.
1SOO-Spain coded the territory of
Louisiana to France.
18O3-Congress assembled in extra ses-
sion to act on the Louisiana Purchase
treaty.
1SO5-Horatio Lord Nelson killed at the
battle of Trafalgar.
1812-American sloop Wasp defeated the
British brig Frolic off the coast of
Virginia.
1S13-Napoleon defeated at the battle
of Leipsic.
1926 The last Estate Lottery" drawing
held in England.
1828-The Delaware and Chesapeake
canal opened.
1S31-Arms' bill passed for the repres-
sion of crime and instruction in Ire
land
1S3EBritish Parliament houses, West
minister, destroyed by fire.
1S39-Charles Edward Poulett Thomson
succeeded Sir John Colborne as gov
ernor of Canada.
1S42-First submarine telegraph in Amer
lea laid between Governors Island
and New York.
1S45-Mme. Sarah Bernhard, French
tragedienne, born.
1846-Nathan Clifford of Maine became
Attorney General of United States
1840- Chopin, the great musical COM
poser, died in Paris.
1852 Abd-el-Kaedir, deposed ruler of Al
giers, released from his confinement
by Louis Napoleon.
1858 Filibusters, under Col. William
Walker, sailed from San Francisco
to establish a pro-slavery colony in
lower California.
1S56tSeven persons killed in panic in
London while Mr.. Spurgeon was
preaching.
1859 Col. Robert e. Lee captured John
Brown and his men at Harper
Ferry.
1S61-Col. Baker, friend of Lincoln, kill
ed at battle of Balls Bluff. i. STRAIT
ford-on-Avon purchased the birth
place of Shakespeare.
1863 Gen. Grant appointed to the COM
mand Of the western armies.
1S64-Gen. Sheridan turned defeat into
victory at Cedar Greek.
1866-Austria evacuated Lombardy.
1872 Steamship Missouri burned at sea
with loss of 81 lives.
1883 Cetewayo, king of the Zulus, sur
rendered to the British.
lSS4-Marquis OF Lansdowne sworn IN
as governor general Of Canada.
1889 -King Carlos of Portugal ascended
the throne.
1892 Columbian Exposition ct
Chicago formally dedicated.
1904 -Frederick Augustus Ill. ascended
the throne of Saxony.
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A Floating Trout Pond.
One of the novel features Of the steam
ship America Of the Hamburg American
line Is tank in which fish, principally
trout and carp, are kept alive and served
to customers in the restaurant when or
dered. The tanks are Of zinc, and the
water is supplied with Oxygen BY pump
ing air through perforated pipes extend