Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The situation of the negroes in the West Indies was said to be superior to that of the laboring classes in England. Napoleon ordered that the beautiful palace of Versailles be fitted for his use. The ex-bashaw of Tripoli wrote to the President of the United States requesting a loan of $40,000 to enable him to regain his position, promising, if successful, to release all American prisoners and to repay the loan. Most Russians had left Paris, notwithstanding the assurances of the emperor that even in case of war between the nations they had nothing to fear. Seventy-five Years Ago. The Secretary of the Treasury issued a notice to the attorney and marshal of the United States requiring their vigilance in the detection of persons engaged in the manufacture of or Who had passed spurious money In Imitation of silver. Varna, in Bulgaria, was restored by the Russians, and the fortification dismantled. The Cherokee Indians of Georgia were leaving their native State for the country west of the Mississippi river. fifty Years Ago. Telegraphic communications were completed between Dover and Ostend. The Missouri compromise bill of 1820 was repealed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, permitting slavery In those two territories. Kansas and Nebraska were admitted as territories to the United States. The Turks mado a sortie from Sllistrla, killing 8,000 Russians In the trenches. Indignation meetings were held In Boston and buildings draped in mourning on the return of a “Fugitive Slave” to the South. Owing to the great floods in northern Europe that section was experiencing almost a famine, grain being particularly scarce and high. Forty Years-Ago. Capt. Samuel Fiske, known to the literary world as “Lunn Browne,” died at Fredericksburg, Va., from wounds received in the battle of the Wlldernerr.

The records of Libby prison showed that 97,000 Union prisoners of war had been received there since the battle of Bull Run. Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, the abolitionist, died at Montreal, to which city he was United States Consul General. At a mass convention (antl-Lfincoln) held at Cleveland, 0., John C. Fremont was nominated for President and John Cochran for Vice President of the United States. Thirty Years Ago. Henri Rochefort, the communist, exiled from France, visited Chicago, and was ignored by resident Frenchmen. The Mayor of New Orleans Issued an appeal to the country for relief of 45,000 victims of the Louisiana floods. A Michigan Central express train was held up near Three Oaks, Mich., by robbers, one of whom was killed, and $2,700 taken. President Grant issued a proclamation extending to Newfoundland the provisions of the treaty of Washington by which the products of her fisheries were to be admitted to the United States free. Twenty Years Ago. Bicyclists from all parts of Illinois met in Chicago and organized a State division of the League of American Wheelmen. ■» The national greenback labor convention at Indianapolis nominated Ben Butler for President of the United States. After a three weeks’ trial in a courtroom crowded dally Neal McKeague was acquitted of the murder of James L. Wilson and wife. William McKinley was unseated by the Democrats In the National House of Representatives on a contest from the Seventeenth Ohio district Building In Buffalo was tied up by * strike of bricklayers and masons. Ten Years Ago. A monument to the memory of tho private soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy was unveiled at Richmond. Va. Six health officers were Injured by a mob that tried to prevent the removal of a smallpox patient from lolj Troy street Chicago. Severe frost following a hall storm ruined grain and fruits In tho lowar peninsula of Michigan.