Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-10-21
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+ l7lS-Mississipp company secured
!, charter for Louisiana
l. 1769-The first class graduated from
Rhode Island College.
. 1777-Stars and Stripes first carried
, into battle at battle of the Bran
: dywine
l7S1-A British force under Benedict
Arnold ravaged the coast of Con-
necticut.
lS6-Congress accepted the cession OF
Connecticut's Western lands.
17SS-Congress made New York the
capital city of the United States.
1SO4-The cotton crop of Georgia re-
ported ruined by caterpillars ..
Storm resulted in great loss of life
and property at Savannah. The
United States ship Intrepid"
blown up in the harbor of Tripoli.
lSl2-Fort Harrison, on the Wabash,
commanded by Capt Zachary Tay-
lor, was attacked by Indians.
lSl4-The Americans drove the British
into their entertainments at Fort
Erie. The British approached
within 700 yards of Fort Bowyer,
Mobile. and opened fire. British
captured Plattsburg, n. Y.
lS3S-Ferdinand l. of Austria crowned
at Milan.
1S39-Large section of Mobile, Ala.
destroyed by fire.
lS42-The Mexican army, 1900 strong,
| took possession of Texas, but soon
retreated.
| 1846-Telegrap completed between
New York City and Albany.
1S47-Americans under Gen. Scott de-
feated the Mexicans in battle of
Chapultepec.
'85O-She Fugitive Slave bill was pass
ed by the House of Representa-
tives
l855-The first Hebrew temple in the
Mississippi valley was consecrated
In st. Louis. -. Sebastopol fell, af-
ter undergoing a siege of eleven
months by the English and French
armies.
lS6O-Wiliam Walker, notorious fill
buster, shot by order of court mar
tial.
l862-Gen. Lee crossed the Potomac
and invaded Maryland.
1864-Gen. Sherman ordered all civil
ians to leave Atlanta and offered
them transportation. The Su-
preme Court of California decided
that San Francisco must issue S4,-
100000 bonds in aid of the Central
Pacific Railroad
lS66-Monument to the memory of Ste
phen A. Douglas dedicated in Chi
cago.
lS6S-A band of Cheyenne Indians raw
aged the towns of Sheridan and
Butler, Kansas.
1S69-The National Prohibition party
organized at a convention in Chi
cago.
1S70-French Republic declared and
flight of Empress Eugene.
lS73-Assassination of Gen. f. S Nc
Cook by p. p. Wintermate at
Yankton, Dakota.
lS74-Twenty persons killed and fifty
injured in fight between the New
Orleans police and a mob that was
clamoring 70 rthe abdicatfon Of
Gov. Kellogg.
statue unveiled in I'm
lon Square, New York City.
S79-The British Resident, Sir Louis
Cavagnari. murdered IN Cabul.
SS3-Last spike driven in the North
ern Pacific Railroad, near Gold
Creek, Montana.
Conn, began a celebra-
tion of it's 25Oth anniversary.
s9O-Wyoming Territory became a
State.
S93-Gov. William Mckinley of Ohio
opened his campaign for re-elec-
tion with q speech at Akron. :.
British House of Lords rejected
the Irish Home Rule bill =. The
Parliament of Religions began it's
sessions in Chicago.
S95-The South Carolina convention
to revise the State constitution be-
gan It's sessions at Columbia, S. C.
80. .Thirty-five miners were en-
tombed by fire in the Osceola COP
per mine at Houghton; Mich.
'97-A railroad wreck on the Santa
Fe line near Emporia, Kan, killed
and injured thirty persons
at Galveston destroyed
10000 lives and about $50. 1000
in property.
01-President Mckinley shot at tho
Buffalo exposition. William Nc
Kinley, twenty fifth President Of
the United States, died in Buffalo.
O3-A hurricane on the Florida gulf
coast caused much property loss on
shore and to shipping e.. The
Queensland government resigned.
04-The cruiser Milwaukee launch.
ed at San Francisco.
0s-Count Tolstors eightieth birth.
day was celebrated.
FROM FAR AND NEAR.