Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-25

166I-Indians under Pocanoket attacked
Lancaster. Mass.
l6'HDutch surrendered the City of
New York to the British
1'24-The Rhode Island Assembly passed
an act requiring a property qualif-
cation for becoming freeman.
l'63-Florida ceded to England by the
treaty of Paris f.. France ceded
Canada to Great Britain.
1IG9-Six negroes whipped by the Eng
hsh in Boston for drumming for
the Americans.
1795-University of North Carolina
opened.
11S1-Stephen Heard became Governor
of Georgia.
IoO4-CongreSs extended the boundary of
Mississippi Territory northwest to
the Both degree of latitude.
Charles ". renowned his protest
against alienation by France of
louisiana
lSlfRichard Rush of Pennsylvania be-
came attorney general of the United
States.
lSlo-Peace proclaimed by the President
OF the United States, and day of
Thanksgiving observed
1S1O-United States Senate passed the
Missouri compromise bill.
1S21-The Plymouth colonists chose
Miles Standish their captain.
1S26-The American Temperance So
ciety founded in Boston.
1900
ington in. antici. alton of his naugu-
ration as President of the United
States.
1So1-Act establishing the University of
Minnesota passed.
1S52-Gold medal presented to Henry
Clay by New York friends.
1S57-Peabody Institute. Baltimore
founded by George Peabody
1S6l-Territorial government establish
ed in Colorado.
1S62-Assault on Fort Donelson, Ten
nessee, began.
1S6J-Charleston surrendered to the Fed
eral forces, after a siege lasting 5S5
days.
1SIO-Iusurgents in Northern Mexico
pAOtitllhICh a hCN ltpuullC
1S71-Congress passed an act creating
the commission of Fish and Fish
cries
1S12-Cable communication established
between Jamaica and Porto Rico.
1ST3-Four lives lost by the falling of
bridge into the James River, Rich
mond, Va. King Amadeus of
Spain abdicated.
1ST5-The first train passed through the
Hoosac tunnel.
1SS3-Alexander II. Stephens delivered
the Grafton in Savannah at the 150th
anniversary celebration of the settle
ment of Georgia.
1SS4-A large number of prisoners es-
capped from Libby prison.
1SS7-United States Senate passed an
anti-polygamy bill.
1SS9-The United States Department Of
Agriculture created.
1S9O-Oklahoma Territorial bill passed
by the Senate. President Harrison
signed a proclamation opening the
Sioux reservation.
1S92-France, Italy and Sweden chosen
as arbitrators in the Behring sea dis
pute.
1S93-Proclamati setting apart the
Sierra forest reserve in California.
1SGJ-Hcavy snowstorm in Texas ana
the Southwest
901-Michigan Supreme Court held pub
lie franchises to be taxable.
1902-Eleven lives lost in burning of the
Empire Hotel in st. Louis.
1903-United States Senate ratified the
Alaskan boundary treaty. =. Steam
er Olive sunk near Norfolk, Va.y
with loss of eighteen lives.
190j-Parcels post treaty with Great
Britain signed by the United States.
19O6-Wedding in the White House Of
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Represen-
tative Nicholas Longworth.
190S-Turkish reserves called out and
moved to the Persian frontier
West Virginia rejected Prohibition
amendment TO the State constitution
An arbitration treaty between
France and the United States was
signed at Washington. 49,. The Tooth
anniversary Of the discovery of the
combustibility of anthracite coal cele-
brated at Wikes-Barre, Pa.