Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. David GHchell of Philadelphia waa seized by a Briaish warship’s crew while on board an American sloop between Philadelphia and Alexandria, Va. The blockade of the Elbe river was begun by England In the war against France. Lord Kilwarden, chief justice of the Court of King’s bench, was killed by Irish revolutionists at Dublin. Three Americans —Augustus Topham, Joseph Hudson and Thomas Hodgineon —were kidnaped from the American ship Charles Carter off Cape Henry by the British frigate Boston, Topham later escaping by swimming ashore. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Sam Patch made his famous jump from the high rocks at Passaic falls Into the basin below. A machine for printing figures on calico was exhibited for the first time to English cotton goods manufacturers. Over 77,000 slaves were reported to have been received at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, within two years, while 3,600 more died on shipboard. FIFTY YEARS AGO. Franklin Pierce visited the various government departments at Washington without previous announcement, supposedly to discover whether employee were doing their work properly. President Franklin Pierce refused to move out of the White House while repairs were being made, and thy affects of the late Vice-President King rere sold at auction. The Governor and Legislature of Mas. sachusetts donated one day's salary to« ward the Washington monument fund. FORTY YEARS AGO, Ewell’s rebel brigade was routed at Wapplngs Heights, Va., by the Third and Fourth Maine regiments under Gen. Splnola. The erection of the famous “Swamp Angel” battery at Charleston, S. 0., was begun by Union troops, a lieutenant being arrested for making a requisition for men “eighteen feet tall” to work In fibs deep mud. Gen. Morgan’s raiders burned the depot at Campbell, Ohio, tore up the railroad tracks, plundered citizens and killed their stock.

Rebel troops under Fegram defeated a body of Union soldiers near Lexington, Ky., and martial law was declared in that city and all able-bodied citizens ordered to enroll themselves for defense. Brutus J. Clay was nominated for United States Senator from Kentucky to succeed the famous John J. Crittenden, who had died a few days before. Gen. John Morgan and the commissioned officers of his rebel army were sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary until the Confederates should surrender Col. Straight and his men. THIRTY YKAR9 AGO, Thirty thousand Carlists were reported under nrma in Spain, and the French government refused to recognize them as belligerents. Mrs. Eliza Webb Young, seventeenth wife of Brigham Young, filed suit at Salt Lake City for divorce and $200,000 damages. A kuklux band raided and burned a farmhouse in Owen County, Ky., and killed a negro servant, while President Grant was asked to pardon members of that society convicted in North Carolina. A competition of reapers and mowing machines at the Vienna exposition was won by Americans, the British and French exhibitera declaring it useless to enter. A clique to ndvanee the price of gold to 125 was formed by Jay Gould, tha Treasury Department being short of tbs metal at that time. TWENTY YEARS AGO. A poem dedicated to the Union was read at a reunion of Gen. Morgan’s rebel raiders at Lexington, Ivy., at which Gen. Basil Duke and other Confederate leaders were present. The late President Garfield was accused by Senator DoSsey with nominating Stanley Matthews to the United States Supreme bench in return for a campaign contribution from Jay Gould and C. P. Huntington. A British syndicate started a campaign to shut borrowers from the Southern States out of the London money market until the repudiated Confederate bonds were paid. Nineteen persons, including ex-Mayor Thomas Hoyne of Chicago, were killed in a collision on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad near Albion, N. Y. . Gladstone withdrew his famous Sues canal resolution because oCWpposition la the British Parliament. TEN YEARS AGO. Thousands of unemployed silver miners -were fed at public expense in tha streets of Denver, Colo. France notified the powers that It had blockaded the coast of Siam. The Citisena’ National Bank of Conno rsrille, Ind., closed Us doors, the Louisville (Ky.) City National Bank, two Manchester (N. H.) banka and the bank of Bradford & Church of Chicago. France practically declared war oo 81am by blockading the latter's coast sad. breaking off diplomatic intercoms a.