Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-02

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1893 The Marquis de la Roche was
given a commission by Henry ~. Of
France TO conquer Canada,
1G57-Attempted assassination of Crom-
well.
16SS-First regularly elected Assembly of
PENNSYLVANIA convened at Philadel-
phia.
17T6-Andrew Caldwell appointed COM
mander-in-c chief of the American feet.
l1S1-Americans defeated the British at
the battle of the Cowpens in South
Carolina.
1TS4-American Congress ratified the
treaty of peace with Great Britain.
1TSs-The Friends in Philadelphia eman-
cipated their slaves.
05-Joseph Anderson of tennessee APP
pointed president pro tenn. of United
States Senate. Michigan territory
formed from part of Indiana
1Sl3-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.
1Sl6-General Thanksgiving in England
for peace. following End OF Napo-
leonic wars.
1S17-The sap Georgianna of Norfolk
i. -
the gulf stream supposed to be an
earthquake.
1925 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 Cimhria.
Massachusetts Legislature re-
elected Daniel Webster to the United
States Senate.
Vancouver Island coded to the
Hudson's Bay Company.
1SJ0-Faneuil Hall presented with
clock by the children of Bston.
1S52-Trial by jury abolished in She AUS
trian empire.
Completion of the Great Western
railroad of Canada. William
Walker, the noted filibuster. proclaim
ed the independence of Sonora, in
Guiding lower California.
1Sj5-Irish military companies in Boston
disbanded by order of the Governor
of Massachusetts,.
1S5S-Divorce court instituted in Eng
land. -. Attempted assassination Of
Napoleon III. by 0rsini.
1S61-virginia Legislature appropriated
$1,000000 for the defense of the
State. :. Georgia passed the ordi-
nance of secession.
1892 onfederates defeated in the bat
tie of Mill Spring, Ky.
S63-Joseph Wheeler promoted major
general in the Confederate States
army.
1S65-United States Senate voted to alb
rogate the reciprocity treaty with
Canada. Fort Fisher taken by the
Union forces.
1S6S-State of Missouri took possession
of the Iron Mountain railroad.
Senate reinstated Secretary of War
Edwin NJ. Stanton.
1S71-United States Supreme Court de-
clared the legal tender act of 1862
constitutional.
1874 Morrison r. Waite of Ohio. nomi-
mated for chief justice of United
States Supreme Court. Natick,
Mass, almost destroyed by fire.
Kalakaua, King of the Sandwich
Islands, visited Chicago.
1888 Robert +. Pattson inauaurated
Governor of Pennsylvania.
1SS4-New State capitol building at Des
Moines, Iowa, dedicated.
death in the Kankakee tIll) insane
asylum.
1S95-The Texas cotton palace at Waco
burned. Daniel III. Hastings in
augurated Governor of Pennsylvania.
1871. Pierpont Morgan presented ST.
100000 to the I.ying-in hospital in
New York.
1903-Hundreds of persons killed by
tidal wave that swept over South Sea
Islands.
1905-Thomas ii. Carter elected United
States Senator from Montana.
19OG-Senator Tilman. in virulent
speech, denounced President Roose-
welt for the Santo Domingo treaty.
19O7-The Rt. Rev Arthur Sweatman.
Bishop of Toronto. elected Primate
Of All Canada. /. An earthquake de-
stroyed a large part Of Kingston,
Jamaica. -. .Don.inion government
voted $4,000 for the relief of the
Jamaica earthquake sufferers.
190S-John II. Walsh found guilty Of
Misapplying funds Of the Chicago
National Bank. American battle
ship feet under command Of Rear
Admiral Robley u. Evans arrived at
Rio de Janeiro. Two hundred lives
lost in theater fire in Boyerstowu,
ia