Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The Governor of New Hampshire refused to sign the bill the Legislature had passed agreeing to the amendment to the constitution, adopted by twothirds of the States. At a meeting of the chiefs of the Seneca Indians at Buffalo, N. Y., one of the tribe was accused of the practice of witchcraft and executed. The Legislature of Massachusetts offered a bounty for the encouragement of the cultivation of hemp in that State. Seventy-five Years Ago. The Board of Aldermen of Boston refused to allow the Tremont Theater to be open on the Fourth of July, that day being Saturday. Commercial affairs In Turkey were in a distressed state owing to the seizure by the Sultan’s order of all camels bringing produce to market and oonveyliig supplies to the people of Constantinople. The courts of Georgia, in order to prevent gambling in the State, ordered that heavy fines should be imposed for such offence.

Fifty Years Ago. The law forbidding the intermarriage of blacks and whites was abrogated. The Sioux war began. The American Geographical Society, founded in 1852, was chartered. A military insurrection broke out in Spain. Madrid Was declared in a state of siege. Eight Russian ships sailed out of Sevastopol and attacked the allied naval forces. The estimated distance of the sun was reduced by Hansen.

Forty Years Ago. The arrest of two mall drivers at Mankato, Minn., disclosed that extensive pilfering from the mails had been carried on for a long time in that State. On the Chicago Board 370,000 bushels of wheat sold for prices ranging from $1.83 to $1.93 per bushel. The constitutional convention of Maryland passed a measure freeing all slaves and prohibiting slavery in the future. - Kentucky, along the Ohio River In the vicinity of Lexington, was overrun with Confederate guerrillas. Major General W. S. Rosecrans directed the people of Missouri to organize home guards for protection against Confederate guerrilla raida

Thirty Years Ago. The corner stone of the Chicago postoffice and custom house was laid. Fourteen persons were killed and 100 injured when the floor of-the Central Baptist Church of Syracuse, N. Y., In which a strawberry festival was in progress, gave way. The postal convention bet wee a France and tbe United States was promulgated. A two days’ battle at Cheloa, Spain, resulted in the defeat of 10,000 Carllsts by ,• Republican force half as large. General Concha, Republican, killed. Contracts were closed at Milan Cor equipping the railways of upper Italy with American made palace cars. A jury of prominent physicians la New York was gotten together to determine how far blood poison contributed to death from hydrophobia. Twenty Years Ago. The Builders and Traders’ Exchange of Chicago opened, with headquarters at 159 La Salle street. The heirs of Richard Wagner refused an offer of $250,000 from au American for the exclusive rights to “Parsifal.” A bill to incorporate the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was introduced In the National Senate. The grounds of the Washington Park Driving Club were opened to the public for the first time. The third general council of the reformed churches (pan-Presbyterian) opened in Belfast, Ireland.

Ten Years Ago. Francois Sadl-Carnot, President of tbe French Republic, was assassinated in Lyons by Cesare Giovanni Sunto. The strike ordered by the American Railway Union against the Illinois Central spread to other roads running into Chicago, and the greatest railway tleup In American history was oil M. Caslmlr-Perler was elected President of the Republic of France to sacteed the murdered Carnot