Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTRIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTRIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The chiefs of the Osage Indians gave a war dance for the entertainment of the President and members of the cabinet at Washington. A demand was made of his holiness the Pope to grant full power to Cardinal FOsch to crown, in his name, the emperor of the French. Russia positively refused to acknowledge Napoleon as emperor of France. Abolition societies began to dwindle as the value of the cotton gin became known.

Seventy-five Years Ago. Prussia sent an emissary to Constantinople to make every effort to bring about a peaceful ending to the conflict between Russia and Turkey. A treaty was concluded ' with the Winnebagos and the Pottawatdmies and purchase made of all lands south of the ©Wisconsin and between the upper Mississippi and Lake Michigan, Including all lands formerly held by the Indians. The Catholic emancipation act seemed to have little effect In quieting the disturbances In Ireland, as more outrages than ever were perpetrated.

fifty Years Ago. The Chinese insurgents attacked Canton. Albes Pacha, viceroy of Egypt, was found dead in bed by his officers of state. Tho first party sent out by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid, Society left Boston for the territory of Kansas. Three English and four French ships arrived in Honolulu. They mounted 198 guns and were destined to act against the Russian Pacific squadron. Three hundred pardons were ill of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba. Said Pasha entered and took possession of Alexandria in consequence of the death of Abbas Pasha, the former viceroy. Many vessels were lost in Table bay in a violent gale.

Forty Years Ago. Gen. Sherman’s army left intrenchments on the Ohattahooche and advanced upon Atlanta, and Johnston was said to be retiring. Gen. Sheridan started on flying expedition into Confederate territory to pay back for rMd into Maryland. Telegraphic communication out of Washington, D. C., was restored, and the Confederate raid into Maryland began to recede. President Lincoln, under act of July 5, 1864, Issued call for 500,000 more volunteers. Railway traffic between Washington .and Baltimore, which had been interrupted by Confederates cutting the line, was resumed. Six steamboats at the St. Louis wharf were burned, supposedly as part of a conspiracy to destroy all vessels in the harbor.

Thirty Years Ago. Goldsmith Maid broke all trotting records at Saginaw, Mich., making the final heat of three in 2:16. In a letter to the investigating Committee of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Theodore Tilton announced his intention of placing before it all the charges made by Mrs. Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher. Reciprocity treaty between Canada tnd United States was discussed by dominion board of trade and other commercial bodies at St Jahns, N. B. Twenty Years Ago. News reached Washington that Lieut Gneely and six companions on polar expedition were safe and that eighteen of party had died. Immense Blaine and Logan ratification meeting was held in New York City; Blaine’s letter of acceptance was made public two days later. Society composed wholly of noblemen formed in Germany for purpose of colonizing indigent members in Chill. Lace importing firm of Edmund Yard, Jr., & Co. of Neiw York failed for over $1,000,000. Gen. Porfirio Diaz was elected President of the republic of Mexico.

Ten Years Ago. Big strike on Chicago railroads practically broken and work resumed on many lines. Headed by Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee, the House refused to recede on the Wilson tariff bill and instructed conference committee to yield nothing to the Senate. Patrick Eugene Prendergast was hanged in Chicago for the assassination of Carter H. Harrison.