Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-18

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l664-Tne first Assembly under the
Rhode Island charter met at New
port.
l6S2-William Penn published his
frame of government for the col
ony of Pennsylvania.
l690-First Colonial Congress met in
New York City.
100 The first general census of
Rhode Island was ordered by the
Assembly.
1765-The first medical school in Amer
lea founded.
776-Massachusetts expunged the
name of King from legal proceed
ings. Congress declared the au-
thority of England over the thir-
teen cNionies abolished.
l7S7-Federal convention assembled in
Philadelphia to adopt national
constitution.
179S-Harper' Ferry, Va, was select.
ed as the site for government
armory and mandatory Navy
department of the United States
established by act of Congress.
lS02-The people living in the North
west territory, north of the Ohio
river. were authorized to organize
themselves into State.
lS0S-France laid an embargo on
American shipping -. Charles ~.
of Spain abdicated in favor of
Bonaparte -. Theological Sem
mary at Andover, Mass, founded
1Sl5-Dedicatio of st. Patrick,s Ca
thedral III New York City.
1S35-First issue of the New York
Herald. !. One thousand lives lost
in great earthquake in Calabrla,
1S3S-Large section of Charleston, s.
c.. destroyed by fire.
1S44-Henry Clay nominated for Pres
ident by the Wing convention in
Baltimore.
1S47-Cornerstone of Smithsonian In
stitution laid.
1S54-United States announced its neu-
trality in the Crimean war.
1S55-Attempted assassination of Ma
poleon III. by Pianori.
1S6l-Three steamships seized at New
Orleans by order of Governor
Moore of Louisiana
1S64-Andersonville prison opened for
Federal prisoners.
1S73-Explosion and fire destroyed five
Touring mills in Minneapolis and
killed eighteen persons.
1S74-Tha first agreement to fix rail-
road rates in the East made at
New York.
1S76-Queen Victoria declared EN-
press Of Indial
1SS0-Gladstone ministry formed In
Great Britain.
lss1-Constructlon of khe Canadian
Pacific railroad began,
1Ss4-Iowa Republican convention de-
clared for James G. Blaine for
President
1SS6-Six policemen killed by anarch-
lists in the Haymarket riot in Chi
cago.
1SS8-Lord Stanley of Preston appoint
ed Governor General OF Canada.
1Ss9-Murder of DR.. Patrick II. Cron-
in in Chicago.
Oklahoma organized as 81 terri
tory.
1S91-The new Dominion Parliaiment
opened by Lord Stanley aftef the
general election.
1S94-The Vaughn library building at
Ashland, Wis. destroyed by fire...
st. Charles Hotel in New l0r-
leans destroyed by fire.
1S95-Theodore Roosevelt became
member Of the Board of Police
Commissioners Of New York City.
S96-Assassination OF the Shah pf
Persia-Gen. Baldlssera, Itaiifln
commander in Abyssinia, raised
the siege Of Adigrat. \
1S97-Disastron food In the Cotton-k
wood Valley Of Oklahoma :. "A
Good at Guthrie, Ok, resulted In
a great loss of life and property.
Foreclosure sale OF the Atlantic
& Pacific railroad at Gallup, N.
NJ. =. Sir Mackenzie Bowel re-
signed the premiership Of Canada.
1s9S-American squadron under Adj
miral Sampson bombarded Matan-
zas, Cuba.
1903-United States Supreme Court
sustained the clause In the Ala
bama constitution DISTINGUISHING
negroes.
1901-Ten-mil lion-dollar fire In Jack
sonville, Fla.
ton opened at ST. Louis.
1905 -American Ambassador Choate
given farewell dinner by the Lord
Mayor Of London. . Andrew Car
negio gave $1O,00O.000 as pen
sion raad for college, professors in
the United States and Canada.
19Os-Ferryboat on the River Dneiper,
Russia, capsized. with loss Of 40
lives.
Employers Talk Pront-sharing.