Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Both houses of Congress were at work to provide a Republican form of government for the new territory of Louisiana, the temporary appointments all being given to the President. In consequence of disturbances in the dancing assembly at New Orleans it was ordered that no one but the Governor and general officers should enter the room armed with swords or other weapons. It was admitted by the British authorities that they had greatly extended their territory in India by actual conquest. A Tammany society was formed at Alexandria, Va., for the purpose of controlling the national elections. The President and members of Congress united in eating a mammoth. Joaf of bread furnished in one of the committee rooms at the capitol by the baker who supplied bread for the navy. Congress established land offices at Kaskaskia, Ill.; Vincennes, Ind., and Detroit, Mich. A runaway negro was committed to jail at Baltimore and notice given that she would be sold according to law for the jail fees if not claimed by her owner. Seventy-five Years Ago. Four Penobscot Indians made their way in bark canoes to Portsmouth, N. C., to kill porpoises. A factory near Pittsburg, Pa., succeeded in manufacturing a good quality of Iron wire at the rate of one ton per week. Great alarm was created In Louisiana by an uprising of slaves on the coast plantations, which was suppressed and several of the ringleaders hanged. The largest stMtm vessel in western waters was launched at Pittsburg, and was calculated to carry 500 passengers and 350 tons of freight The treaties of commerce and friendship between the United States and Prussia and Brazil were formally ratified. An anti-dueling association was formed at Camden to suppress dueling in the State of New Jersey. Fifty Years Ago. A triple alliance was originated by the signature of a treaty at Constantinople between England, France and Turkey against Russia. The boiler of a steamboat at Cannelton, Ind., blew up and fifty passengere were killed. As the result of a great strike at Creston, England, over 14,000 persons were thrown out of employment and many were reported starving to death. There were found to be 14,065 on the rolls of the department in Washington is receiving money for military service. The Mexican government accepted the Gadsden treaty transferring a section of territory on the southern border of Arizona and New Mexico to the United States. Gen. Walker’s filibustering expedition to Lower California came to an end, and with 140 men he started for San Tomas. The allied powers of England, France and Turkey unsuccessfully attempted to bring Sweden to join in a declaration of war against Russia. Forty Years Ago. Gen. Rosecrans was exonerated by a United States government commission for his conduct of the battle of Chickamauga. The Duke of Edinburg and his bride entered London in a triumphal procession to Buckingham palace. Clement L. Vallandigham, exiled by President Lincoln for traitorous speeches, advised Confederate sympathizers in the North to begin warfare on those who criticised them. Workmen ehgaged in building Forte Tompkins and Hamilton at New York went on strike for higher pay. Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant was made commander-in-chief of the United States army, to succeed Gen. Halleck, relieved. President Lincoln issued a call for 200,000 men to bo drafted for the navy and to supply, a reserve army force. Thirty Years Ago. « Cuban revolutionists fired into a train containing Spanish volunteers near Neuvitas, killing twenty-seven of them. King of Asbantce paid 10,000 ounces of gold to Gen. Wolseley as part of Indemnity to Great Britain. United States Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, famous as an antislavCTy crusader, died suddenly in Washington. The first W. C. T. U. temperance crusade formally began in Chicago at a mass meeting addressed by the Rev. Dr. Thomas, the Rev. Arthur Edwards and others. Marshal Serrano and 34,000 Spanish government troops were drawn up for battle against 85,000 Carlists near Madrid. Twenty Years Ago. The Comte de Paris and his followers were Indirectly warned by President Grevy to cease plotting against Franc* The Mexican commercial treaty was ratified by the United States Senate. Osman Dlgna’s Arab forces began their retreat before Gen. Graham's English army in the Soudan.