Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-02-26

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1G67-!ndians under Pocanoket attacked
Lancaster, Mass.
10TH Dutch surrender d the City Of
New York 20 the British.
l124-Ih" !tholn Island Assembly passed
an act requiring a property qualiti-
cation for becoming a freeman.
l763-Ilorida coded to England by the
treaty Of Paris.... France coded
Canada to Great Britain.
l7G9-Six negroes whipped by the Eng
fish in Boston for drumming for
the Americans.
l795-Tnivrrsity Of North Carolina
opened.
l7S1-St"phcn Heard became Governor
OF ';rorsia.
1S04-CongrcSs extended the boundary of
Mississippi Territory northwest to
the Both degree of Iatitude.. -.
Charles ". rcnounrcd his protest
against alienation by France of
Louisiana.
lS14-Richard Rush of Pennsylvania be-
came attorney general of the United
States.
1S15-Pcacc proclaimed by the President
of the United States. and a 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.
1S29-Andrew Jackson arrived in Wash.
ington in anticipation of his inaugu,
ration as President of the United
States.
1S51-Act establishing the University of
Minnesota passed.
1S52-Gold medal presented to Henry
Clay by New York friends.
1SJ7-Peabody Institute, Baltimore,
founded by George Peabody.
1SGf-Territorial governmental establish
ed in Colorado.
1SG2-Assault on Fort Donelson, Ten
nessee, began.
1S65-Charleston surrendered to the Fed
eral forces, after a siege lasting $50
days.
Establishments in Northern Mexico
proclaimed a new republic.
1S71-Congress passed an act creating
the commission of Fish and Fish
cries.
1S72-Cable communication established
between Jamaica and Porto Rico.
1S73-Four lives lost by the falling of a
bridge into the James River, Rich
mond, Va....King Amadeus OF
Spain abdicated.
1S75-The first train passed through the
Hoosac tunnel.
1SS3-Alexander II. Stephens delivered
the grafton in Savannah at the 15Oth
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.
1SSo-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-Proclamation setting apart the
Sierra forest reserve in California
1S95-Heavy snowstorm in Texas and
the Southwest.
19O1-Michigan Supreme Court held pub.
lie franchises to be taxable.
19O2-Eleven lives lost in burning of the
Empire Hotel in st. Louis.
19O3-United States Senate ratified the
Alaskan boundary treaty. -. Steam
er Olive sunk near Norfolk, Va.
with loss of eighteen lives.
19O5-Parcels post treaty with Great
Britain signed by the United States
Bodybuilding in the White House OF
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Represen.
tative Nicholas Longworth.
19OS-Turkish reserves called out an6
moved to the Persian frontier.
West Virginia rejected Prohibition
amendment to the State constitution
AN arbitration treaty between
France and the United States wa
signed at Washington The 1OOtt
anniversary of the discovery of thu
combustibility of anthracite coal cele
brated at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.