Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01

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159S-The Marquis de Ia Roche was
given commission by Henry Nv. OF
France to conquer Canada.
1657--Attempted assassination of crOm-
well.
16S3-First regularly elected Assembly Of
Pennsylvania convened at Phiadel-
phia.
1776-Andrew Caldwell appointed COM
mander-in-chief Of the American fleet.
17S1-Americans defeated the British at
the battle of the Cowpens in South
Carolina.
17S4-American Congress ratified the
treaty of peace with Great Britain.
17SS-The Friends in Philadelphia eman-
cipated their slaves.
iS05--Joseph Anderson of Tennessee APP.
pointed president pro tem of United
States Senate. Michigan territory
formed from part Of Indiana.
1918 British frigate Narcissus captured
the United States schooner Viper.
1S14-Henry Clay resigned as Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
Peace treaty signed at Kiel by Eng
land and Denmark,
1S16-General thanksgiving in England
for peace, following end Of Napo-
leonic wars.
1S17-Ths ship Georgianna of Norfolk
experienced tremendous shock In
the gulf stream, supposed to be an
earthquake.
S2S-Boundary line between Mexico and
the United States settled by treaty.
1S33-Nearly 400 lives lost in the sink
ing of the Hamburg American steam
ship Cimbria.
1S39--Massachus Legislature re-
elected Daniel Webster to the United
States Senate.
1S49-vancouve Island ceded to the
Hudson's Bay Company.
1s5O-Faneuil Hall presented with
clock by the children of Boston.
1852 Trial by jury abolished in the Aus
trian empire.
1S54-Completion of the Great Western
railroad of Canada. William
Walker, the noted filbuster, proclaim
ed the independence OF Sonora, in
Guiding lower California.
1s55-Irish military companies in Boston
dsbnnded by order Of the Governor
of Massachusetts,.
1S5S-Divorce court Instituted in Eng
land. Attempted assassination OF
Nayoleon III. by Orsini.
ls61--virginia Legislature appropriated
$1000,0O0 for the defense of the
State. Georgia passed the ord-
nance Of secession.
a 1862 -Confederates defeated in the bat
tie of Mill Spring, Ky.
n lS63-Joseph Wheeler promoted major
general in the Confederate States
army.
/, lS65-United States Senate voted to alb
: rogate the reciprocity treaty with
= Canada I. /. Fort Fisher taken by the
- Union forces.
y 1S6S--State of Missouri took possession
u OF the Iron Mountain railroad....
~ Senate reinstated Secretary of War
II Edwin NJ. Stanton.
le 1s71--United States Supreme Court de-
,f clared the legal tender act OF 1862
II constitutional.
1S74-Morrison r. Waite of Ohio nomi-
d mated for chief justice Of United
States Supreme Court Natick,
al Mass, almost destroyed By fire.
is 1876 -Kalakaua King Of the Sandwich
10 Islands, visited Chicago.
10 lss3-Robert II. Pattison inaugurated
Governor of Pennsylvania.
n 1sS4-New State capitol building at Des
In Moines, Iowa, dedicated.
r. 1885 Seventeen patients burned to
IN death In the Kankakee (Ill.) insane
tol asylum.
- 1S05--rhe Texas cotton palace at Waco
burned Daniel II. Hastings in.
augurated Governor of Pennsylvania
Of 1907. Pierpont Morgan presented 81,
~ 100000 to the Lying-in hospital il
10 New York.
,v 1903 Hundreds Of persons killed By
- tidal wave that swept over South Sea
j. Islands.
- 1905 Thomas ii. Carter elected United
~ States Senator from Montana.
! 1906 Senator riilman, In yirulen
speech, denounced President Roose
~ welt for the Santo Domingo treaty.
=. ,s 1907 The Rt. Rev. Arthur Sweatman
- Bishop Of Toronto, elected Primat
cn OF All Canada An earthquake de
stroyed a large part Of Kingston
Jamaica. -. Dominion governmen
voted $4,000 for the relief of th
so Jamaica earthquake sufferers.
II l9OS-John X. Walsh found guilty o
les Misapplying funds of the Chicag
lfe National Bank. American battle
ship feet under command of Rea
be- Admiral Robley D. Evans arrived a
- Rio de Janeiro. Two hundred live