Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-04-13

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Of Plymouth colony.
l6S4-Lord Baltimores first colony land
ed in Maryland.
l6SS-Rhode Island purchased from the
Indians for forty fathoms of beads
l655-Battle at Annapolis. Nd, between
Puritans and RoyalstS
l66S-Albemarle Colony. North Carolina,
founded by emigrantS from Virginia
l694-Bank of England Incorporated.
l1OS-Baron John Lovelace appointed
Governor of New lork.
l744-Lotteries were authorized by law
in Massachusetts.
ff75-Pa Patrick Henry made his famous
speech at Richmond, Va. urging re-
sistance to England.
lI76- South Carolina adopted consti.
tuition.
l1S5-Spain recognized the independence
OF the United States. "a
lI90-Benjamin Franklin petiuoned Con.
gress to abolish slavery.
lI9S-Ireland declared to be in state
of rebellion.
lI99-The New York Legislature passed
law for the gradual abolition of
slavery in that State
lS04-The navy yard and marine bar
racks at Washington established.
lSl4-Gen. Jackson defeated the Creek
Indians at battle of Horseshoe Bend
=. British repulSed an American
force under Gen. Wilkinson at Lake
Cole, Lower Canada
1S15-Sloop-of-war Hornet captured the
British warship Penguin of the Cape
of Good Hope.
ISIS Congress awarded gold medal to
Gen. William Henry Harrison.
Territorial government established
in Florida
lS25-The University of Virginia was
opened for students.
lSS5-The Nashville Union" first APP
peared in Nashville.
1S43-Sr Charles Metcalfe appointed
Governor of Canada
lS49-Charles Albert of Sardinia abd-
Gated.
lS50-More than 100 persons persisted in
the wreck of the steamer Royal AIDE
laide off Margate, England.
1S54-Oakland, California, incorporated
a city.
1S55-Twenty-three lives LOST in the burn
ing of the steamer Bulletin near
AtgiF .b1trrv frho at
Nashville Tenn, destroyed by FIRE.
1S56--England signed peace preliminaries
with Russia. The first street rail
way in New England, from Boston to
Cambridge, was opened
1S5S-Kansas State constitutional con.
vention met at Mineola, and adjourn
el to Leavenworth.
1S6l-First State Legislature of Kansas
met.
1862 The Peninsula campaign began in
Virginia.
National Theater, Boston, destroy
ed by FIRE
1864 Confederate force took Paducah,
Ky.
1S67-Booth's Winter Garden Theater In
New York destroyed by fire.
1S70-A bill re-admitting Texas to rep
resentation in Congress was APP
proved
1872 First issue of the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
1SSl-King Charles Of Roumania ascend
ed the throne.
1sS2-Eleven persons killed in powder
explosion AZ Oakland. Cal -. Steam
er Golden Gate burned near Mem
phis. with loss Of twenty lives
1884 Rioters attacked and burned the
court house in Cincinnati. :. Twelve
persons killed by cyclone in Ken
lucky.
1SS5-Northwes rebellion in Canada be-
gan.
1SSS-Four thousand persons killed by
earthquake at Yunnan, China
1891 Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pleted from Montreal to Vancouver.
1897 President Cleveland vetoed the
Bland silver bill
lS95-Great fire in Milwaukee, involving
loss of 100000. -. St. James
Hotel in Denver burned ..One hun
bred families made homeless by fire
in st. Augustine, Fla.
l90O-P hiletus Sawyer, ex-United States
Senator from Wisconsin. died.
I903-Statue to William T. Gladstone
erected in Westminster Abbey. -.
Revolutionary outbreaks in San Do
raingo and Nicaragua.
1905 First session Of the first Legisla-
tuTe of Saskatchewan opened
90T Industrial Peace Foundation or
gSnized with Chief Justice Fuller as
President. :. The Russian Duma
adopted a resolution providing for
the abolition of drum-head courts
mfftial.
IoG6- Earthquake in Southern Mexico
destroyed Chilapa and several other
towns. United States Supreme
Court declared the railroad rate laws
of Minnesota and North Carolina