Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAM

ONB HUNDRED TEARS AOO. Th* first power loom for weaving cloth, operated by on* person, was sat np in France. Th* Washington, D. 0., City Council appropriated 8200 far the salary of th* Ant chief of the capital police. The United States frigate Constitution, Commodore Preble commanding, captured several African gunboats off the Mediterranean coast M. Lombard, privy councilor to the King of Prussia, offered to mefiiatejrith Russia in the war then waging between France and England. Thirty-eight thousand Irishman published « manifesto in London urging rebellion against British rule, and a provisional government for their Island, Lord Russell being immediately arrested for writing it SEVENTY-FIVE TEARS AOO. Csar Nicholas of Russia visited Ms army, which was then besieging Verna, in Bulgaria. Two-thirds of the students of Tale College threatened to “strike" because of the unpalatable food served to them. Henry Olay reached Lexington, Ky., from Washington, the trip having been made by easy stages because of his failing health. The brig Suffolk was started from New York with a cargo of clothes and provision* bought by public subscription for th* captive Greek*. FIFTY YEARS AGO. The corner atone of the pilgrim monument at Plymouth, Maw., was laid. Five hundred deaths from yellow fever were reported for the week at New Orleans.. Patrick O’Douohue, the Irish patriot, waa arretted In Boston for accepting a challenge to a duel. The anniversary of the liberation of ■laves in the British West Indies waa celebrated at Flushing, L. 1., William Lloyd Garrison and other noted men delivering addresses. Edward Everett, former Secretary of State, published statistic* showing that $120,000,000 bad been apent for alcoholic beverages in the United States within ten years, “for which” 800,000 lives were lost, 260,000 person* imprisoned, and 100,000 children sent to the poorhonae. FORTY YEARS AOO. The Kentucky Unionists elected Bramlette Governor by 2,380 votes. Two thousand men were drafted into the Union army at Philadelphia. Over 600 negroes were drafted into the Union army at Washington, D. O. The Chicago City Council voted to construct the first water work* tunnel under Lake Michigan. Mall service between New Orleans and Cairo, 111., was resumed after having been stopped two years by th* Civil War. An a irti-Southern association was formed at Manchester, England, to counteract the efforts of the Confederate commissioners. The Sheriff of Keokuk- County, lowa, appealed for troops to suppress 4,000 so-called “copperheads,” who had risen against the draft and had engaged in a fight with Ifeion sympathizers. THIRTY YEARS AOO. New York stock prices slumped because of a rumor that Commodore Vanderbilt was iIL Three deaths from cholera were reported at Carml, 111., and two at Lagrange, Ky. A movement in favor of Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, ws* started by Caban revolutionists. Wheat was advanced to |1.82 a bushel so the Chicago Board of Trad* by means of a corner attributed to J. B. Lyon. The French troops were welcomed back hy the residents of Nancy, the Germans having evacuated tbs city a few days previously.

TWENTY TEAKS AGO. Mount Vssuriu* was In eruption end tit# town of Torre del Greco threatened with destruction. Scores of negroes were whipped or shot to death near Maysrill*, Ga., by memben of th* kuklux. Th* Southern Cotton Exposition wae opened at Louisville, Ky., by President Chester A. Arthur. Thom a* A. Edison announced that he bed given up inventing and had toned business man to make his inventions pay. James Carey, .the Irish Informer, was shot to death by a member of th* Invincible* while on shipboard near Cap* Town. TEN YEARS AGO. The Chicago World’* Fair finiebed Its first half with a- total Indebtedness us $6,881,000. Seven hundred thousand spindles were stoppW at Fall River, Mas*., because Jr., .f OU. - elected-chatanan of She great fine silver a^htafttamogh