The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-06-28

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1853 Death of David l., King of thu !,
Scots, at Carlisle.
1402-Scots defeated at Nesbit.
1902 Columbus sailed on his fourth |
voyage 10 the New World.
-TIessians defeated Austrians at
Laufen.
1868 Mary Queen of Scots defeated at
battle of Langside.
1907 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.
1670-Hudson Bay Company founded.
1G71-Col Thomas Blood made a daring
attempt to steal the Grown jewels
from the Tower of London.
17S1-The Spaniards captured Pensa-
COLA Florida, from the British.
1888 Society of the Cincinnati organ
ized. ost
1797--Walter Cotton, who made the first
public announcement of the discov-
cry Of gold in California born, in
Rutland, VT. Died JAN %, 1851.
1S0O-John Marshall of Virginia became
Secretary of State. ut
.1S10-First agricultural exhibition in
the United States opened at George
town, d. G.
1S12-Mr. Perceval, British premier, as.
sassinated by Bellingham.
1913 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 Place riots made by friends
of Edwin Forrest to break up Mac
readys acting at Astor Place Opera
House.
1858 Jacob Burnet, one of the early
Whig leaders in the Senate, died.
Born 17T0.. First transatlantic
steamer arrived at Quebec.
1857 Outbreak of the Indian mutiny at
/ Meerut. !. Delhi captured by the
Sepoys.
Baltimore occHpied by federal
troops.
1SG4-Battle Of Rrurys Bluff, Va...-
i Sheridan's famous raid commenced.
1S61--Capture of Jefferson Davis at Irs
winville, Ga.
1S71-Treaty Of Washington signed pro-
viding for the settlement Of the Ala
i bama claims.
ST6-Opening of the Centennial exhibi-t
tion at Philadelphia.
1SS0--Sir Alexander Tilloch Gait ap-,
i pointed first High Commissioner for
Canada in London. IA
1SS2-Dominion government created the
| four provisional districts now COM
prising the western provinces of All
! berta and Saskatchewan.
1880 Father Damien died at the leper
/ settlement in the Sandwich Islands.
1S91-Cardinal Martinelli invested with
the red berretta at Baltimore. The
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the harbor of San Diego, Cal.
1893 Earl of Aberdeen became governor
general o. Canada Carlyle w,
Harris, the murderer Of Helen Potts,
executed at Sing Sing.
iS94-Several villages destroyed and
1900 lives lost by earthquake in
Venezuela.
1S95-Treaty of peace between Japan
and China ratified at Chefoo.
1896 H. II. Holmes, the mult-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 Su.
preme Court decided the Beriner
patent case in favor of the Bell
Telephone Company.
1S9S-China paid the last Of the war In.
demnity to Japan.
1S99--Fatal collision on the Reading rail-
road % killed and many injured.
1902--Eruption OF Mont La Soufriere,
st. Vincent'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 Pennsylva4
MIA accepted terms offered by the
operators.