Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Emperor Alexander of Russia offered to mediate between England and which were then at war. James Monroe, United States minister to England, and afterwards President, Was presented to the King at a levee ia London. Theodore T. Tucker, treasurer of the United States, reported that the firet $50,000 in. cents and half cents bad been minted. Because of constant uprisings the city of Dublin was divided into fifty districts, all citizens were ordered to remain indoors after 9 p. m., and a full list of inmates w.as ordered posted on the door of each house. The building of Fort Dearborn was begun on the present site of Chicago by United States troops under Lieut. Swearingen, who came from Detroit under orders from Secretary of War Henry Dearborn, after whom the new post vu. named. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Striking weavers engaged in a riot at Philadelphia, were attacked by militia, end several were killed, English newspapers protested against the new steam automobile coaches just Introduced on the highways there. FIFTY TEARS AGO. Postage on pamphlets and magazines In the United States was reduced from 2 cents to 1 cent an ounce. The Secretary of the United States Navy was ridiculed for issuing an order regulating the cut of beard to be worn by members of the service. President Pierce was censured by the newspapers for placing the United States steamer Michigan at the disposal of Mgr. Bedinl, the papal nuncio, for a tour of the great lakes, made at the Pope’s dictation.

FORTY YEARS AGO. The first negro regiment raised In Pennsylvania started for the South. United States troops were sent to Edagainst tlhe draft officers. Gen. Sibley’s expedition against the Minnesota Indians ended with a battle In which fifty redskin* were killed. The bombardment of Fort Sumter was begun by twelve Union batteries under Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgfen’s squadron. Mexican newspapers announced that the empire Just established there by France probably would recognise the American Confederacy. Three rebels were publicly whipped at Springfield, 111., one by a soldier and the othera by citizens, a collection for the soldier being taken up in the publio square. Gen. Dlx issued an address to the people of New York City announcing that the draft would be resumed, and that further rioting would ba suppressed by troops. A letter from ex-Gov. Reynolds of Illinois to Jefferson Davis was discovered, in which the South and the “Northern slave States” were urged to secede, and the South was advised to arm for defense. The federal draft, which had resulted in disastrous riots a month before, was resumed in New York City under protection of federal troops, and with the State militia in readiuess at all the armories. Two hundred Knights of the Golden Circle were attacked near Havana, IIL, by United States cavalry, ten being captured and several killed, and residents of Havana armed themselves to prevent the burning of the town in revenge. Clement I. Vallandigham, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, announced that he would conduct hie campaign from Niagara Falls, Windsor and Quebec, as President Lincoln refused to let him enter the country because of Ms traitorous speeches.

TTfYRTT YEARS AGO. The Spanish cgrtee Toted tp call OTit 50,000 reaerTea to suppress the Carlist uprising. Thirty-one Spanish soldiers were killed Bear Puerto Principe by Cuban insurgents under Maximo Gomes. Jefferson Darla, in a speech at Richmond, Va., declared that the South had been “more cheated than conquered,” and that it never would hare surrendered if it had foreseen reconstruction. Congressman (now senator) George F. Hoar issued an open letter to Gen. Benjamin F. Butler attacking him for hia ehare in the congressional salary grab, which, he declared, placed American legislator in the category of those who served their country only for hirst A royal commission was appointed te investigate the Canadian Pacific Railroad scandal, in which it was'claimed Sir John A. Macdonald was In inyolvad. TWENTY TEARS AGO. Bdmund Qaiecre Stedman, the pool banker of Wall street, made an aaaigpswt because of reckless tpeeplatioa by Me sen, aftsr rejecting ai* from scores of friends. The general strike of telegraphese fct