Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. By treaty at Vincennes the Delaware and Piankeshaw ceded their 4 <*laim to all.lands between the Wabash ,q.nd Qhiq rivers and.<south of the road from to the falls of the Ohio. . Margaret fihippen, wife of Benedict Arnold, died in London. England took possession of Cape Nicholas Mole, Port-au-Prince,, mounted guns on the fort and fired on American vessels which passed. Seventy-five Years Ago. The Queen of Portugal and her mother-in-law left England for Mexico. Educators from all of' the States met at Boston to consult on' public school work throughout the couritty. A new asteroid, named Euphrosjne,, was -? .(liscoyered at the Washington*bb■ervatory,’, ■ An entire change, of ministry occurred in the Buenos Ayres government. I •• •• : ■ . ‘ ~ •■. . .- x fifty Years Ago. * - , The United States-minister at Madrid left that city in consequence of the' feeling against him, as he was accused of general connivance in* l ‘ail the trouiw. '' •. • -*: •••■ '-f Mafia Christina,queen mother of Spain, left Madrid for Portugal, Under an escort ,of government troops, but against the wisli of the people,’ as she was indebted to. the State $8,875,000. Napoleon 111. left Paris'in order to take command of the army of the north at Boulogne. The fortress of Hango, Boinersund, was bombarded by the allied troops. * The Queen of Spain with her husband and children was banished from "Madrid. Cadiz, having been made a free port, Gibraltar was reported to have lost much of its trade.

forty Years Ago. Indians were on the warpath on the upper Arkansas river, massacring families and running off catfte.Indians of six tribes were reported to be massacring settlers and stealing cattle in the Platte valley, and to be menacing and Council Bluffs. The Democratic national convention which nominated George B. MeClellan for President and G. H. Pendleton for Vice President wfls held in Chicago. _ A report of the surrender to Admiral Farragut of Fort Morgan, at the entrance of Mobile bay, was confirmed by a bulletin from Secretary of War Stanton. Secretary of War Stanton issued a bulletin telling of the fighting at Ream’s statipp.,.between Gen. Hancock’s forces and the Confederates. It contained a statement from Gen. Grant estimating the Confederate losses of the weak at that point to be 19,000 dead and captured.

Thirty Years Ago. Russia sent a circular note to the powers declining to recognize the republic of Spain. Six leaders of a negro mob that had thrsatenedito sack I’ickettsville, Tenn., were taken from jail at Trenton and lynched. Three negroes were lynched by a mob at Brookhaven, Miss. The investigating committee of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn,, made a report acquitting“ Henry Ward Beecher of the charges made against him by Theodpre Tilton. - ■ Gen. Custer’s exploring party, returning from the Black Hills, reached Lincoln, Neb., with tales of the fertile land and the gold deposits found there.

Twenty Years Ago. Gov. Hoadly of Ohio ordered troops into flocking county to suppress riots at tho coal mines. % Ten men were cremated in the burning of a circus train at .Greeley, Colo. •Fifteen persons were drowned by tbe overturning of the steamer Belmont-in the Ohio river near Henderson, Ky. England closed a contract with a Chicago firm for 300,000 pounds of compressed beef for the Gordon relief expedition to Khartum. A report that. Queen Victoria had died suddenly threw .London into a panic until canard was disproved. jen Years Ago. ■j Duties aggregating nearly SIOO,OOO were collected at the custom house in Chicago, because of the rush to release bonded goods under the Brtce' :: Gorman act. which had become a law. ■ The Brtce-Wilson tariff bill becamo a law without the signature of President 'Cleveland. A thousand persons were killed and much property destroyed by a storm that swept over the sea of Azov.