Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-28
17iS-Mississippi company secured
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charter for Louisiana.
l76s-The first class graduated from
Rhode Island College.
l777-Stars and Stripes first carried
into battle at battle of the Bran
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lisa British force under Benedict
Arnold ravaged the coast of Con-
nectieut.
lfS6-Congress accepted the cession OF
Connecticuts Western lands.
17SS-Congress made New York the
capital city of the United States.
lSot-The cotton crop of Georgia re-
ported ruined by caterpiliars.
Storm resulted in great loss of life
and property at Savannah. i. The
United States ship Intrepid"
blown up in the harbor of Tripoli.
lS12-Fort Harrison on the Wabash,
commanded by Capt Zachary Tay-
Tor, was attacked by Indians.
lSl4-The Americans drove the British
into their entertainments at Fort
Erie. The British approached
within zoo yards of Fort Bowyer.
Mobile, and opened fire :. British
captured Plattsburg, N "
1s3S-Ferdinand l. of Austria crowned
at Milan.
1S29-Large section of Mobile, Ala.
destroyed by fire.
1S42-The Mexican army, 1900 strons.
took possession of Texas, but soon
retreated.
1S46-Telegraph completed between
New York City and Albany.
1S47-Americans under Gen. Scott de-
feated the Mexicans in battle of
Chapultepec.
1S5O-She Fugitive Slave bill was pass
ed by the House of Representa-
tWes
1S55-The first Hebrew temple in the
Mississippi valley was consecrated
in st. Louis. Sebastopol fell, af-
ter undergoing siege of eleven
months by the English and French
armies.
1S60-William Walker, notorious fill
buster, shot by order of court mar
tial.
IS62-Gen. Lee crossed the Potomac
and invaded Maryland.
1S64-Gen. Sherman ordered all civil
ians to leave Atlanta and offered
them transportation. The SUI
preme Court of California decided
that San Francisco must issue s4.-
100000 bonds in aid of the Central
Pacific Railroad.
1S66-Monument to the memory of Ste
phen A. Douglas dedicated in Chi
cago.
1s6s-A band of Cheyenne Indians raw
aged the towns of Sheridan and
Butler, Kansas.
1s69-The National Prohibition party
organized at a convention in Cha.
cago.
1S70-French Republic declared and
fight of Empress Eugene.
S73-Assassination OF Gen. Il. S. Me-
Cook by p, P. Wintermate at
Yankton, Dakota.
1S74-Twenty persons killed and fifty
injured in a fight between the New
Orleans police and a mob that was
elamoring 70 rthe abdication OF
Gov. Kellogg.
1876-Lafayette statue unveiled in I'm
ion Square, New York City.
1S79-The British Resident. Sir Louis
Cavagnari, murdered in Cabul
1Ss8-Last spike driven in the North
ern Pacific Railroad, near Gold
Creek, Montana.
1SS9-Guilford, Conn, began a celebra-
ton of it's 250th anniversary.
1SsO-wyoming Territory became
State.
1s9s-Gov. william Mckinley of Ohio
opened his campaign for re-elec-
ton with speech at Akron
British House Of Lords rejected
the Irish Home Rule bill The
Parliament of Religions began its
sessions in Chicago.
1995-The South Carolina convention
to revise the State constitution be-
gan its sessions at Columbia, S. c.
Thirty-hve miners were en-
tombed by fire in the Osceola cop
per mine at Houghton, Mich.
1874 railroad wreck en- the Santa
Fe line near EmporiG, Kan. killed
and injured thirty persons.
19OO-Tornado at Galveston destroyed
10000 lives and about $30,000.000
in property,
1901-President Mckinley shot at the
Buffalo exposition William Nc
Kinley. twenty fifth President OF
the United States, died in Buffalo.
19O3-A hurricane on the Florida gulf
coast caused much property loss on
shore and to shipping The
Queensland government resigned.
1904-The cruiser Milwaukee launch
ed at San Francisco.
19os-Count ToIstors eightieth birth
dav was celebrated.