Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE UUNURKD TEARS AGO. An election for members of the Washington (D. C.> City Couaeil showed a total vote of only 230. Du Bue Marentelli, a French scientist, astonished New York citizens by exhibiting his “insubmersible and iaversibie” boat, the pioneer of the modern lifeboat. Bids were asked for carrying the United States mails once a week in Indiana territory, leaving Louisville, Ky., at 6 n. in. Thursday and reaching Vincennes it 4 p. m. Saturday. 4 Gov. Tiffin of Ohio reported that constant vigilance was needed to prevent an Indian outbreak in that State because of the imprudence of white settlers. bkvknty-fivß years ago. The Emperor of Chins issued an edict censuring sheriffs for frequently executing the wrong prisoners, and urging them to exercise more care thereafter. A cargo of provisions worth $50,000 was dispatched from New York to the starving people of Greece. A grant of 800,000 acres of land was made to the State of Ohio to aid the extension of the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie. Settlement of American claims amounting to 250,000 rubles was obtained from Russia by Henry Clay, Secretary of State. FIFTY YEARS AGO. New gold mines were discovered ia Peru which it was predicted would outrival those of California and Australia. „ The United States pension office reported that warrants had been issued for 9,935,320 acres of public land. The New York Legislature made an excursion over the new railroad between Albany and Niagara Falls, the distance of 31)5 miles being covered in seven and one-fourth hours. FORTY YEARS AGO. A mass meeting of 10,000 persons was held at Sheffield, England, and the government was. urged to recognise the Confederate State* of America. Richmond (Va.) newspapers urged that Gen. Grant’s army be driven from around Vicksburg so that a treaty might be made with the Northwestern States, and the latter induced to secede and form another confederacy. New York editors, headed by Horace Greeley, adopted, resolution* asserting the right of the press to criticise the national administration and military authorities. The Illinois House of Representatives refused to appropriate money for the relief of wounded Illinois soldiers in Gen. Grant's army. St. Louis newspapers reported a reign of terror in Missouri, Uuion soldiers being shot by bushwrackers and farmers murdered in their fields by guerrillas. THIRTY YEARS AGO. President Grant was nrged by a committee of Guatemala citizens to annex that country to the United States. The Alexandra palace waa burned near London with the loss of seven lives. Bishop Whipple appealed to the government in behalf of captured Modoc Indians, declaring that “we are dealing with God, not with a handful of aavages.“ Magin Diaz and twenty-two Cuban revolutionists were killed by Spanish troops. Italian monks were reported emigrating to Bolivia and Chili as the result of government proscription similar to that how being enforced in France. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Suleiman Daoud and Mahmoud Sami, former Egyptian government officials, were sentenced to death for setting fire to the city of Alexandria during the British bombardment. Gen. Crook reached Silver City, N. M., with 250 Apache prisoners captured during his Mexican campaign. The body of John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home,” waa buried at Washington with military honors, thirty one years after his death in Europe. The Ohio Republican State convention met at Columbus and. appointed “William McKinley, Jr.,” of Canton a member of the resolutions committee. The famous Harper high license bill waa passed by the Illinois House of Representatives and sent to the Governor for signature. Admirers Of Gen. Phil Sheridan paid $43,000 for a Washington residence, which was to be presented to him. TKM TEARS AGO. Fargo, N. D., was nearly wiped oat by fire. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller granted a writ of supersedeas allowing the opening of the Chicago world’s fair on Sunday. William McKinley was renominated for Governor of Ohio, President Cleveland being criticised by him in his speech of acceptance for doing nothing and announcing no policy to allay the growing distrust of the business world. Ford’s Theater in Washington, where President Lincoln waa shot, partly collapsed, hilling twenty-one pension clerks who were at work there and Injuring fifty others. Gov. Altgeld ordered the Second and Third Illinois regiments to Lomoat to gnell a riot of striking quarry men and drainage canal employes.