Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. The invention of steel pens by “Mr. Wise," an Englishman, was announced. Great Britain took possession of Guiana. A copper plate engraving machine was invented by Turrel, a native of London, England. A steam printing press was invented by two Germans, Kotiig and Bauer. Napoleon visited Antwerp and decided to spend $10,000,000 in dock construction there. War between Brazil and Argentina was brought to an end by creating the independent State of Banda Oriental from the territory over which they had fought. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Treating diseares by the water cure method was proposed by Vineez Priessnitz of Grafenburg, Austria. The walls of the Brunswick Theater in London fell during a rehearsal and killed a large number of persons. Henry Clay, referred to nt that time as tiie "traveling secretary,” succeeded in raising SIO,OOO at Philadelphia for a Kentucky election fund. Francis Smith gave at New York what was declared to be a successful demonstration of a Hying machine. The recently discovered lead mines in Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin were said to l)« producing nt the rate of 12,000 tons yearly. FIFTY YEARS AGO. One-nineteenth of the island of Cuba was reported tinder cultivation. All French vessels in English ports were seized by the latter government, ami Napoleon retaliated by making all Engli.-hmen in France prisoners of war. The second relief expedition left New York to search for Sir John Franklin’s arctic exploring party. * FORTY YEARS AGO. A large number of women were arrested at Demassvillc and Williainstown, Ky., for expressing sympathy with the rebels, and were ordered deported south. Two companies of infantry from Camp Douglas took possession of the Chicago Times office and destroyed, part of its morning edition. A peace convention at Cooper institute,'New York, adopted resolutions denouncing the Civil War as unconstitutional. The London Times predicted that the American Civil War never would end, except through the failure of men or of enthusiasm. The national convention to urge a ship canal between the great lakes and the Mississippi was opened in a tent at Chicago, with Hnnnibnl Hamlin, Vice-Pres-ident of the United States, presiding. The Illinois House of Representatives adopted resolutions denouncing Gen. Burnside for violating a “God given given right" in suppressing the publication of tin* Chicago Times. Gen. Payne inaugurated a system of hiring ex-slaves to,their former masters, the latter contracting to pay the men $8 monthly and the women $5.

THIRTY YEARS AGO. The Massachusetts labor reform party appealed to the workingmen of the country for support, on the ground that one of the old parties belonged to the “past,” and the oilier existed only for “spoils.” Mansfield T. Walworth, the novelist, was shot to death by kts 19-year-old son in the Sturtevant House at New York. The 1-ridge accident at Dixon, 111., by which over twenty persons were killed while watching a baptism, was attributed by the United Presbyterian of Philadelphia to an “unnecessary use” of the Lord's day, and attention was called to the death of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase shortly after he returned from a Sunday ride. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Li Hung Chang, premier of China, threatened war against France unless the latter recognized the Chinese claims to Aunam. Samuel J. Tilden was pronounced by ex-Gov. Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana to lie “one of the greate-'-t men in America,” who insisted on doing thoroughly everything lie undertook. The national free trade convention opened at Detroit with Ausou Phelps Stokes, Charles Francis Adains, Jr., and J. Sterling Morton among the delegates. England annexed the vast African territory of the Becluiaiias, north of the Orange Free State, because of the frequent wars of that tribe with the Boers. The Bartholdi statue committee at New York’appealed to the country for $150,000 with which to complete the pedestal of the statue of Liberty. Twelve persons were killed and twentysix injured ia a panic on the newly opened Brooklyn bridge. TEN YEARS AGO. Ignatius Donnelly arrival in Chicago with plans for “reducing the suffering brought about through the infamous trust system.” The Plaultlntni) bank failed at Milwaukee. with estimated liabilities of sl,100.000. Over $00,000,000 in gold wti raid to hare been exported from New York since the preceding Jan. 1. R The Chicago World’s Fair yai temporarily enjoined by Judge Stein from dosing on Sundays.