Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-06-10

ony Of Pennsylvania.
169O-First Colonial Congress met in
New York City.
17OO-The first general census OF
Rhode Island was ordered by the
Assembly.
1765-The first medical school in Amer
lea founded.
l776-Massac chusetts expunged the
name of King from legal proceed
ings. Congress declared the au-
thority Of England over the thir-
teen colonies abolished
i787-Federal convention assembled in
Philadelphia to adopt national
constitution.
179S-Harper's Ferry, Va, was select
ed as the site for a government
armory and mandatory -. Navy
department of the United States
established by act of Congress.
1SO2-The people living in the North
west territory, north of the OHIO
river, were authorized to organize
themselves into a State.
1SOS-France laid an embargo on
American shipping. Charles 1V.
of Spain abdicated in favor Of
Bonaparte -. Theological Sem.
mary at Andover, Mass, founded.
1S15-Dedication of st. Patrick's Ca
thedral In New York City.
1S35-First issue Of the New York
Herald. One thousand lives lost
in great earthquake in Calabria.
1S3S-Large section of Charleston, 8.
c., destroyed by fire.
1844EHenry Clay nominated for Pres
ident by the Whig convention in
Baltimore.
1S47-Cornerstone of Smithsonian In.
sttution laid.
lS54-United States announced its neu-
trality in the Crimean war.
1S55-Attempted assassination Of Ma
poleon III. by Pianori.
1861-Three steamships seized at New
oIlcduS ny pIhtl VI oo'SAhoA
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-The first agreement to fix rail-
road rates in the East made at
New York.
1S76-Queen Victoria declared En-
press Of India.
1SSO-Gladstone ministry formed in
Great Britain.
1SS1-Construction Of the Canadian
Pacific railroad begun.
1SS4-Iowa Republican convention de-
clared for James G. Blaine for
President.
1SS6-Six policemen killed by anarcl-
lists in the Haymarket riot in Chi
cago.
18SS-Lord Stanley of Preston appoint
ed Governor General of Canada.
1SS9-Murder of DIR. Patrick II. Cron-
in in Chicago.
1S9O-Oklahom organized as terri
tory.
1S91-The new Dominion Parliament
opened by Lord Stanley after the
general election.
1S94-The Vaughn library building at
Ashland, Wis, destroyed by fire..
st. Charles Hotel in New Or
leans destroyed by fire.
1S95-Theodore Roosevelt became a
member of the Board of Police
Commissioners of New York City.
MISREPRESENTATION of the Shah OF
Persia-Gen. Baldissera, Italian
commander in Ahyssinia, raised
the siege of Adigrat
lS97-Disastrou food in the Cotton
wood Valley Of oklahoma. "A
flood 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.
l9O3-United States Supreme Court
sustained the clause in the Ala
bama constitution DISTINGUISHING
negroes.
l9O1-Ten-mi million-dollar fire in jack
sonville, Fla.
I9O4-The Observation-Disclosures Exposi.
ton opened at st. Louis.
loO5-American Ambassador Choate
given farewell dinner by the Lord
Mayor Of London. d.. Andrew Car
negie gave SlO.oOO,OOO as a PEN
sion fund for college professors in
the United States and Canada.
1oOS-Ferryboat on the River Dneiper.
Russia, capslzed, with loss of 120
lives.