Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Fifty cents reward was advertised by a Washington (D. p.) builder for the recovery of a runaway white apprentice. The Pennsylvania Legislature debated a proposed constitutional amendment changing the method of electing the President and Vice President of the United States, to make re-election of Thomas Jefferson secure. Admiral Nelson was being lionized la London because of his victories over the French and Spanish in the Mediterranean a few months before. Gas lighting was first attempted in London, an experiment being made with It at the Lyceum Theater. Mungo Park, the British explorer, began preparations for the expedition to Africa that cost him his life. Seventy-five Years Ago. Figures were published showing that the population of the United States trebled in forty years. New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania showing the greatest increase. Rowland Stephenson, member of th# British parliament, and a famous banker, was discovered to have embezzled sl,000,000. A shipload of free negroes sailed from Norfolk, Va., for Liberia, in a vessel chartered by the American Colonization Society. The French began preparations to evacuate Cadiz, which they had held since 1823. Abduhl Hahman, an African prince, paraded the streets of Philadelphia, Pa., at the head of a procession of free negroes, who were celebrating his departure for Liberia. Fifty Years Ago. The merchant marine of the United States was officially reported as larger than that Of Great Britain, while th# tonnage of New York City equaled that of Liverpool and London combined. President Franklin Pierce urged the ■urvey of the boundary line between the territory of Washington and British Columbia. Statistics showed that there had been 138 railroad accidents during the year, resulting in 234 deaths and 496 persons injured. The clipper ship, Great Republic, the largest sail vessel in the world, was burned at New York, with a great number of smaller craft. Over 6,400 workmen were employed on the new Crystal palace in London. Forty Years Ago. The Confederate Government refused to hold any iutercoures, or exphangA prisoners, with Col. Benjamin F. Butler, then commandant at Fortress Monroe, or to recognize a flag ot truce protecting him. The ways and means committee of the House at Washington split on the question of placing a heavy duty on petroleum. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was selected to succeed Bragg as Confederate commander. A great trades mass meeting was held In Chicago to express sympathy with the general strike in New York, John Wentworth being the principal speaker. Thirty Years Ago. The survivors of the steamer Virginius, who had been released from prison in Cuba, arrived at New York on th# United States sloop of war Juniata. Johns Hopkins, a wholesale grocer of Baltimore, Md., died at the age of 79 years, leaving $2,000,000 to found university in his name. The steamer Virginius, whose crew, had been either shot or imprisoned in Cuba, and which had been surrendered to the United States by Spain, was sunk off Cape Fear while being towed,to New York. Gov. Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana ordered the State militia to suppress striking locomotive engineers who were rioting at Indianapolis. Twenty Years Ago. Judge Thomas Mcl. Cooley of Michigan, the noted constitutional lawyer, declared in a speech at Chicago that the great problem of government is a maximum of protection with a minimum of interference. ; The Khedive of Egypt offered to sell concessions for a second Suez canal to raise funds for his campaign against El Mahdi. M. de I.esseps declared that control of the Suez canal should never be taken from France as loug as ho and his sons were alive. A bill was introduced in Congress to stop the coinage of silver dollars, so as to “force” Europe to recognize silver as a money metal. Tea Years Ago. Grand Master Workman John Sovereign of the Knights of Labor was enjoined at Milwaukee, Wis., from ordering a strike of Northern Pacific Railroad employes or expressing an opinion on such a strike. Ail representatives of foreign powers St Rio Janeiro, except the American and German, were reported secretly backing the Brazilian insurgents. The Carnegie Steel Company reduced the wages of its employes 40 per cant because of the bard times.

Marshal Field the well known Obicago merchant, is being mentioned as an available candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency. But Marshall declines, we understand, and says he is for Hearst.

The sympathy of the entire country will go out to ex-Presi-dent and Mrs. Cleveland in the death of their eldest daughter Ruth, who died Thursday after a few days sickness from diptheria.

Hon. David Turpie, former United States senator from this state, has written a book of 387 pages bearing the modest title, '‘Sketches of My Own Times,” which was placed on sale recently by the Bobbs-Merrill company at Indianapolis. The book deals with life in the early days and contains a number of sketches of men who have been prominent in the state.

Ed F. Newton, for the past few years editor and publisher of the Monticello Herald, retires from the management of same with this week’s issue and J. B. Van Buskirk, the owner, again takes up the editorial pen. Mr. Newton will assist his brother in the management of the Dailjr Journal at Monticello. The Democrat extends best wishes to Bro. Newton, also greeting to Bro. Van Buskirk in again assuming the editorial harness.

A dispatch from Lafayettee says that the republicans of Tippecanoe county a are disrupted by differences of the Hanley and antiHanley factions, and adds: “The district convention will be held at Hammond on Jan. 12, and it wilj be the occasion of one of the most bitter political fights in the Tenth Congressional District, for at that time a Lafayette man, who is thought to be Charles E. Thompson, present county chairman, will oppose T. J. McCoy, of Rensselaer, for the re-election as district chairman. However, should it transpire that the Hanly element iB deposed in Tippecanoe, Thompson, who is one of the Hanly henchmen, will not stand a ghost of a show for the place, and the opposing faction in this county will try to continue McCoy in office.”

Is this political party that is now supporting the Roosevelt Administration in aiding and abetting the dismemberment of the union of a South American Republio the same Republican party that expended tens of thousands of precious lives and billions of money to suppress rebellion and seocession in the United States? There must be some mistake about the matter. It cannot be the same party. By some strange freak of transmigration the soul has passed out of the Republican party and has been supplanted by a spirit of evil that has perfidiously perverted all its principles. History as well as human conscience will utterly fail to connect with the old Republican party that is now applauding the violent participation of President Roosevelt and his administration in breaking up the union of an American Republic.—Philadelphia Record.