Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30


Beckett.
1191-Acre taken by Richard /. and
other Crusaders after two years
siege.
1302-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.
16I5-Lord Culpeper appointed Governor
of Virginia for life.
16S5-Duke of Monmouth beheaded.
1709-Swedish army under Charles XT.
defeated the Russians under Peter
the Great at battle of Pultowa.
1I5S-French victorious at battle OF I'll.
conderoga.
1776-British soldiers under Sir William
Howe landed on Staten Island. -.
Pennsylvania adopted 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.
1882 Savannah evacuated by the Brit
ish.
17S7-Slavery abolished in the territory
north of the Ohio river.
1790-Congpss decided to meet at Phila-
delphia for ten years, and thereafter
on the Potomac.
1S0S-Murat made King of Naples.
1S12-Gov. Hull of Michigan made UNI
successful attempt to capture Fort
Maiden.
tSr4-A British fleet captured Eastport,
Maine.
1S15-Napoleon l. surrendered to the
captain of the Bellerophon at Roche
fort.
| 1S26-Luther Martin, counsel for Aaron
Burr in the latter's trial for trea-
son, died.
1S32AEirst steamboat arrived at Chi
cago. Henry NJ. Schoolcfaft dis
covered the source Of the Mississippi
river.
1S35-Liberty bell cracked while being
toled in memory of Chief Justice
Marshall.
1s43 = Fremont's expedition sighted
Pixies Peak, Colorado.
Commodore Sloat hoisted the
American flag at Monterey.
1S49- Restoration of the temporal power
of the Pope proclaimed.
1S56-United States Senate rejected bill
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.
1864 First organized national bank
opened in Philadelphia. 4. +. /. Rioting
of anti-draft mobs in New York
City.
cfV.
and Broadway New York, destroyed
by fire.
1S7S-British flag hosted at Cyprus.
1882 Bombardment of Alexandria.
1SS3-"Gen. Tom Thumb" GO. H. STRAIT
toni, famous dwarf, died.
Institutional Democratic convention
at Chicago nominated Grover Cleve-
land for President
1S90-The President signed the Wyom
ing admission bill. The new Gro
ton aqueduct opened in New York
idaho admitted to tbe Union....
Many lives lost by tornado in Min
nesota.
1S91-Attempted assassination of Presi-
dent Carnot of France.
1S92-Stewart Free Silver Coinage bin
defeated in the House of Represents
atives. 4. . Ravachol, anarchist and
dynamiter, guillotined in Paris....
st. Johns, Newfoundland, nearly
destroyed by fire.. An avalanche
from Mount Blanc destroyed villages
and 200 lives.
-Constantinople shaken by earth
quake; over 1000 persons killed..
American Railway Union strike de-
clsred off.
1s95-Remains of the Pitezel children,
supposed to have been murdered by
H. II. Holmes, discovered at To-
ronto.
1S9s-The Anglo-American League was
organized in London.
19O0-Gen. Porfrio Diaz reelected Pres
ident Of Mexico.
19O2-Gen Kitchener received an oya-
ton on his return to England from
South Africa.
19O4-Forty- thousand employees Of
the Chicago packing houses went on
strike. Democratic national con-
vention nominated Henry G. Davis
Of West Virginia for Vice Presi-
dent. Democratic national conven-
ton nominated Alton =. Parker for
President.
1906-Alfred Dreyfus vindicated by the
French court Of last resort and re-
stored to the French army Hos
tilities broke out between Salvador
and Guatemala.
Physician Of BlackweIl's Island peni-
Tertiary says Abe Humme. the disgraced
New York lawyer, is dying.
Dr. G. r. Aked. pastor Of John D.
Rockefeller's New York church. has taken