Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-02

1G6I-Indians under Pocanoket attacked
Lancaster. Mass.
lo14-Dutch surrendered the City OF
New York TO the British.
lf24-The Rhode Island Assembly passed
an act requiring a property quali6-
cation for becoming a freeman.
l'oS-Fiorida eeded to England by the
treaty of Paris. =. France ceded
Canada to Great Britain.
lT69-Six negroes whipped by the Eng
llsh in Boston for drumming for
the Americans.
1T95-University of North Carolina
opened.
17Sl-Stephen Heard became Governor
of Georgia
lS4-Congress extended the boundary OF
Mississippi Territory northwest to
the 35th degree of latitude.
Charles ~. renowned his protest
against alienation by France of
Louisiana.
1S14-Richard Rush of Pennsylvania he
came attorney general of the United
States.
lSlo-Peace proclaimed by the President
OF the United States, and day of
Thanksgiving observed.
lSl0-United States Senate passed the
Missouri compromise bill.
lS2l-The Plymouth colonists chose
Miles Standish their captain.
1S26--The American Temperance So
ciety founded in Boston.
lS29-Andrew Jackson arrived in Wash
ington in antici:a ton of his inaugu-
ration as President of the United
States.
1Sol-Act establishing the University of
Minnesota passed.
1s52-Gold medal presented to Henry
Clay by New York friends.
lS51-Peabody Institute. Baltimore,
founded by George Peabody
1S61-Territoria government establish
ed in Colorado.
1S62-Assault on Fort Donelson, Ten
nessee, began.
lS65-Charleston surrendered to the Fed
eral forces, after a siege lasting 5S5
days.
lSIO-lnsurgents in Northern Mexico
proclaimed a new republic.
1S71-Congress passed an act creating
the commission of Fish and Fish
cries.
lS12-Cable communication established
between Jamaica and Porto Rico.
1S13-Four lives lost by the falling of
bridge into the James River. Rich
mond, Va. King Amadeus Of
Spain abdicated.
1s75-The first train passed through the
Hoosac tunnel.
1SS3-Aexander II. Stephens delivered
the Grafton ID Savannah at the 150th
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.
1SS9-The United States Department OF
Agriculture created.
1S90-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 Behrng sea dis
pute.
INSTRUMENTATION setting apart the
Sierra forest reserve in California.
1s05-Heavy snowstorm in Texas and
the Southwest.
1901-Michigan Supreme Court held pub
lie franchises to be taxable
1902-Eleven lives lost in burning of the
Empire Hotel in ST. Louis.
1903-J'nited States Senate ratified the
Alaskan boundary treaty. -. Steam
er Olive sunk near Norfolk, Va,
with loss of eighteen lives.
1905--Parcels post treaty with Great
Britain signed by the United States.
10p6-W Wedding in the White House OF
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Represen-
tative Nicholas Longworth.
190S-Turkish reserves called out and
moved to the Persian frontier. 80.
West Virginia rejected Prohibition
amendment to the State constitution
AN arbitration treaty between
France and the United States was
signed at Washington. The Tooth
anniversary Of the discovery Of tine
combustbility Of anthracite coal cele-
brated at Wilkcs-Bar Pa.