Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Napoleon threatened to exterminate the Portuguese nation unless it declared war against Great Britain. ' John Dalton made the first announce* ment of his atomic theory. The German universities of Rambeq&r Dilligen and Dttisberg were closed because of the threatening military outlook. Kara George, the hero of Seivia, organized an uprising which later expelled the Turks from hiskconnfry? The universities of Kazin and Kharkov were founded by order of the Czar of Russia. - _____ _ The military post at Natchez, Miss., was turned over to the Unitel States government by the Spanish officials there.

Seventy-five Years Ago. 75 YRS AGO . •.. Vincente Guerrero, afterwards deposed by Santa Ana, was elected pusident of Mexico. Gen. Andrew Jackson, then presidentelect of the United States, was burned iff effigy in the statehouse square at Hartford, Conn. A revolt against Spain was started by the Society of the Black Eagle in Cuba; The first ship built in ths new territory of Florida was launchei at St. Augustine. The anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was celebrated £t New York with a great public dinner in Tammany Hall.

fifty Years Ago. The Astor library was opened at New News of a Turkish victory over the Russians nt Citale on Jan. 0 was conveyed to the British, French embassies at Vienna. Messages were received from Honolulu indicating a strong sentiment there in favor of annexation to the United States. The American frigate President, captured during the war of 1812, arrived at Valparaiso flying the' British flag. The Irish process nnd practice act was put in operation in Ireland to stop the dishonesty of the courts and law officers. Two English warships appeared before Sevastopol and their commander notified the Russian admiral that the allied fleets had entered the Black sea.

forty Years Age,. Two Confederate prisoners who had escaped over the fence at Camp Douglas, Chicago, were found frozen to death on the prairie. Newspapers called attention to the wars and' insurrections in nearly every country of the globe, Mexico' and the South American republics being reported in a “chronic” state of revolution. A motion was made in the House of Representatives at Washington to expel Garrett Davis of Kentucky for alleged disloyalty. John Dean Caton resigned as chief ju»tice of the Illinois Supreme Court after twenty-two years’ continuous service on the Supreme Lench. President Lincoln ordered that S.Vgeon General William A. Hammond be tried by court martial for alleged mismanagement.

Thirty Years Ago. President U. S. Grant, angefed at the rejection of Attorney General Williams and the opposition to Caleb Cushing for chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, threatened to nominate Jeremiah 8. Black, who had been a member of Buchanan's cabinet. Attorney General Williams withdrew as a candidate tbr justice of the United States Supreme Court, President Grant, who had nominated him, being convinced that confirmation was impossible. Cardinal Pacia's edict forbidding the exporting of art objects from Rome war officially repudiated by the Italian government. "Remodeling” of the White House wae declared finished, nnd the east room was said to be the largest in the United States, excepting public halls. Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts, who had just been confirmed as minister to Spain, was nominated by President Grant for chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Serrano, the newly elected president of the (then) Spanish republic, announced that he would not convene Parliament for a year, but would devote* himself to suppressing the revolutionists.

Twenty Year* Ago. The class of IS2II of Hniyard Unb ( versify held its annual reunion at Cain-' bridge. Dr. Oliver. Wendell Holmes, the Iter. James Freeman Clarke and other famous members attending. French troops expelled the Chinese officials of Kontqy, in Tonquin, and took possession of tlie government there. Henry B. Payne, a Democrat, was elected United States Senator by th* Ohio Legislature, charges being mad* that the Standard Oil Company had contributed >250,000 to his campaign fnnd. Premiums totaling >22,011 were paid for a year’s sitting In Henry Ward Beecher's church at Brooklyn. N. Y.. I>esides the regular rental of >l2O each. IL B. Claflin, the dry gcoda merchant, heading the list with. a bonus of >575 tea first choic*.