Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-23

17ec-Henry Ellis. the retiring COVER
nor of Georgia. took his departure
for England.
1772-First town meeting held in Bos-
ton
1774-Declaration OF Rights by the
American Congress.
l7S5-Last session OF the old Continen-
tai Congress opened in New York
1791-Thomas johnson Of Maryland ap-
pointed an associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
1S0S-President Jefferson notified Con-
gress of the war with Morocco.
1s11-An encounter with the Indians
took place near Terre Haute, Ind.
1S15-Ionian islands placed under the
protection of Great Britain.
1sS2-A convention at Columbia, s. c.,
passed resolutions to nulIify the
tariff acts of Congress.
lS42-Marriage of Abraham Lincoln
and Mary Todd at Springfield, III.
1S52-Franklin Pierce elected President
OF the United States.
1S54-Russians attacked the British at
Inkerman.
1S55-First railroad wreck in Missouri
occurred on the Missouri Pacific at
the Gasconade River.
1S6o-Abraham Lincoln elected Presi-
dent OF the United States.
1S61-The Confederate schooner Der
muda' ran the blockade at Savan-
nah. Gen. Mcclellan succeeded
Gen, Scott as commander of the
United States army.
1S62-ien. Burnside succeeded Gen.
Mcclellan in command of the army
of the Potomac
1S63-The Federals took possession of
Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of
the Rio Grande.
1S64-Horace Hefferod, a witness in the
treason trials at Indianapolis, ex-
posed the workings of the Order of
American Knights.
1S67-First womens suffrage society
formed in England.
1S6S-A bequest for a public library
was left to Chicago by Walter L.
Newberry =. Gen. u. S. Grant
elected President of the United
States.
1S74-Massach usetts elected a Demo-
cratic Governor for the first time
in twenty years.
1S77-Dennis Kearney, the San Fran
cisco agitator, arrested and con-
fined in Jail.
18S0-Sarah Bernhard made her
American debut at Booths Thea
ter New York.
1SS5-Canadian Pacific Railroad opened
between Montreal and Winnipeg.
1SS6-Cyrus G. Luce elected Governor
of Michigan.
1SSS-Gen. Benjamin Harrison of In
diana elected President of the Uni
ted States.
1SS9-North and South Dakota admit
ted to the Union. Montana de-
clared a State of the Union by the
Presidents proclamation.
1S95-Forty lives lost in the wreck of
the Detroit Journal building,
caused by the explosion of boil
err. Theodore Durant convicted
in San Francisco of the murder of
Blanche Lamont
1S9S-Church of the Redeemer in Jeru-
salem dedicated by the German
Emperor =. Theodore Roosevelt
elected Governor of New York.
Memorial to Miss Winnie Davis
unveiled at Richmond, Va.
19O1-The South Carolina and West
Indian Exposition opened at
Charleston.
1908 New Irish land act went into eff
feet.
19O4-Liberals victorious in the Cana
dian elections.
l9O5-British fleet in command OF
Prince Louis of Battenberg arrived
at Annapolis. Md.
190S-Gen. Antoine Simon assumed the
provisional presidency of Hayti...
Charles w. Morse of New York
found guilty of fraudulent banking
practices. President Eliot, of
Harvard University resigned. :.
William II. Taft of Ohio elected
President of the United States.
Features OF Pure Food Congress.
DR.. Edward p. ShaffteI, of the Uni
ted States Agricultural Department,
the american representative to the
Pure Food Congress, which has closed
at Paris, said, upon his return, that the
Congress had done great work in
arousing world interest in the subject,
in spite of most active lobbying on
the part of private interests. The
work done was of a technical nature,
much time having been spent upon de-
fning what pure food is. DR.. Shaffter
says that this country leads in the
fight for pure food. and that foreign
experts were loath to believe that we
spend 100000 yearly on government
inspection of foods