Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Spanish and French citizens in Louisiana displayed great animosity to the American occupation, necessitating great exertion on the part of troops in New Orleans to preserve peace. Several Americans tvere imprisoned in France on suspicion of being dangerously unfriendly to Napoleon. There was a great tide of immigration across the Allegheny mountains into Ohio and up the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. The last company of French troops in Louisiana left New Orleans for Pensacola, whence they embarked for Franca. The Emperor of Germany ordered that no French refugee should be permitted to reside within fifty miles of the French territory. Bonaparte’s preparations for the proposed invasion of England were stopped. Seventy-five "Years Ago. President Andrew Jackson ordered a set of glassware from a Pittsburg manufacturer so that the service of th# White House might be exclusively American. Indian tribes of the Northwest wera reported discontented nnd 4,000 Sioux threatened to descend the Mississippi to join the Sacs and Foxes. Dantzig, Prussia, was inundated by the Vistula, the flood destroying many lives, in addition to 10,000 heafl of cattle and 4,000 houses. The House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing a government loan of $3,200,000, which Was criticised as being too large an addition to the public debt. News reached Washington of the acceptance by the King of the Netherlands of the position of umpire between the United States and Great Britain in the dispute over the northeastern boundary. The Legislature of South Carolina donated SIO,OOO to the heirs of Thomas Jefferson in appreciation of his greut service to the country. fifty Years Ago. The first railroad in Brazil was opened. A terrible tire at Salonica, Greece, destroyed more than 600 buildings with serious loss of life. The Ganges canal, one of the first great public works in India, was opened. English and French warships on the coast of Thessaly were instructed to search nil merchantmen nnd seize those carrying munitions of war. France and England signed n specific treaty for the joint defense of the Ottoman empire. The town of San Salvador was destroyed by an earthquake. forty Years Ago. President Lincoln held a levee at the White House for Gen. U. S. Grant, the new commanding general of the army. Senator Snulsbury and the chaplain of the United States Senate interrupted the session by quarreling over the former’s use of scriptural quotations to support slavery. Stock speculation In New York became such a mania that doors and windows were broken by a crowd trying to subscribe for shares in a new gold mining oompnny. Chicago merchants held a mass meeting, at which Banker Coolbaugh protested at the Board of Trade’s efforts to suppress wildcat currency. Schuyler Colfax offered a resolution to expel Representative Long of Ohio from the national House of Representatives, because Long had declared he would rather recognize the Confederacy than continue the “subjugation of the South.” The Nebraska statehood bill was introduced in the House at Washington by Wade of Ohio. Thirty Years Ago. Chief Justice Waite of the United States Supreme Court was installed in office. Gen. Concha, the Spanish captain gem oral. Issued a proclamation to the people of Cuba forbidding the existence of political parties. A sensation was caused at Cincinnati by tbe arrest of Murat Halstead for publishing n lottery advertisement. • Members of the Vanderbilt family proposed what was called an "audacious” scheme for a railroad on iron columns above New York streets. Twenty Years Ago. .All business houses In Mexico were closed beenuse the niercbautß refused to pay the stnmp tax. * The names of James O. Blaine for President nnd Robert T. Lincoln for Vice President were urged at the Republican county convention at Ottawa, 111., while First congressional district delegates were instructed for John A. Logan. Theodore Roosevelt, then head of the commission which was Investigating the New York police department, enused excitement by ordering Anthony Comstock, a witness, to stop personalities. Tea Years Ago. A movement for the organization of a free silver party wns started by Senators Stewart and Peffer. The Central Building League of Chicago voted to lock out 75,000 of Ita employes to “end" the interference of walking delegatee.