The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-06-25

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16O7-English colonists began to build
at Jamestown, Va
1611-Sir Thomas Dale arrived at the
jamestown colony, with 500 PEG.
pie.
164O-ThOmas Dudley was chosen Gov
ernor of Massachusetts colony
1665-Connecticut and New Haven col
Onies united.
1731-Final settlement of boundary
dispute between New York and
Connecticut.
177O-Corner stone of Brown Univer-
sity laid at Providence
17S1-Benedict Arnold became COM
mander of the British forces in
Virginia. British force captured
at Orangeburg, S. C..
1784-Virginia voted a statue in honor
OF Washington to be placed in the
new capitol in Richmond.
1SO4-The Lewis and Clarke expedi-
ton left st. Louis to explore the
Northwest.
1811-Corner stone of Tammany Hall,
New York, laid.
1812-The remaining part of Florida
was annexed to the Mississippi ter
ritory.
1816-The American Bible Society or
gained.
1829-Several factories in Massachu-
sets shut down because of a de-
mand for higher wages by their
employees. :. Ship Alexander ar
rived at Baltimore from Liverpool
with equipment for the first rail-
road in the United States.
1836-A treaty was made by Mexico
with Texas, acknowledging it's in
dependence.
1837-All of the banks in New York
City stopped specie payments.
1S56-Second vigilance committee or
ganized in San Francisco.
1S57-The Agricultural College of
Michigan was opened to students
1858 Minnesota admitted as the thir.
ty-second state.
convention at Chi
cago nominated Abraham Lincoln
and Hannibal Hamlin.
1S61-Blockade of Charleston, S. c.,
established by the steamer Mag
ara. IA convention held at
Wheeling, w. Va, declared for the
Union.
1S62-The Confederate gunboat Ala
bama launched.
1863-Jackson, Miss, taken by the Fed
erals under Grant. Federals un-
der command of Gen. Sherman
took possession of Jackson, Miss.
Sherman made general attack
on Johnstons army at Resaca,
Ga.
tS65-Trial of President Lincoln's STAY
ers begun.
1867-Russia ratified the Alaskan ces-
sion treaty. Jefferson Davis adj
mitted to bail in 100000.
lS75-Charlotte Cushman took her
farewell of the stage at the Globe
Theater, Boston.
1S76-The Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia opened.
1879--Income tax bill defeated in the
lower house of Congress.
1SS0-Nashville, Tenn, celebrated the
centennial anniversary of it's set
Element.
1882-Lieut. Lockwood reached far
thest northern point. The SUI
preme Court overruled all excep.
lions in the Guiteau case.
1S87-Statue Of President Garfield un-
yelled in Washington, D. C.
1SS9-Six hundred houses destroyed in
the great fire in Quebec.
1890-Father Damien died at the leper
settlement in the Sandwich is
lands.
marking the center
of population unveiled twenty
miles east of Columbus, Ind.
1892-Union Printers Home at Colo
RADIO Springs dedicated
1S93-Earl of Aberdeen became Gov.
ernor General of Canada
disadvantages Tabernacle, in Brook
Ign, destroyed by fire. /. !. Monu-
ment to the mother of Washington
dedicated at Fredericksburg, Va.
1854 portion of Admiral Simpsons
fleet bombarded the batteries at
San Juan, Porto Rico.
1905-Many killed in tornado at Sny-
der, Okla.
t907-Isaac Stephenson elected Sena-
tor in Wisconsin, ending five
weeks deadlock.
l90S-Number of lives lost in lorna
T.