Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. • Congress provided that an equivalent of malt liquors or wine should be substituted for a ration of spirits at such seasons of the year as, In the opinion of the President, it would be advisable to make the change in order to promote the health of the soldiers. Russian troop ships were in the Bosporus, to protect Turkish and Greek provinces from the French. Seventy-five Years Ago. In political circled of Paris an alliance between England, Russia and Austria was talked of, to be opposed by another between France and Prussia. The purchase of Texas by the United States was the subject of much discussion by the Amprlcan and foreign press. President Jackson ordered the naval the United States to the coast of Mexico to aid American citizens residing there. Fifty Years Ago. Grand opera was produced in Castle Garden, New York, by Giulia Grisl and Sig. Mario. King Leopold of Belgium arrived at on a visit to Napoleon. '' The allied French and English ' forces made an attack by sea and land on Petropaulovskl. The allied Pacific squadron buried their dead at Tarenski, and in a crippled condition left Petropaulovskl for San Francisco. Jerome Bonaparte, formerly of the United States army, was made a lieutenant of French dragoons. forty Years Ago. John Morgan, the Confederate raider, was reported by Secretary Stanton to have beeq killed at Greenville, Tenn. General Sherman had broken his communications at Nashville and was on his way toward Atlanta. Sherman, having taken Atlanta, had pushed his campaign twenty-seven miles to the southward in pursuit of General Hood. President Lincoln issued a proclamation of thanksgiving because of the successes of Fnrragut at Mobile and Sherman at Atlanta. General Richard Oglesby, then candidate for Governor of Illinois, addressed a union mass meeting of more than 15,000 at Freeport. The Supreme Court of California decided that San Francisco must issue $4,000,000 bonds in aid of the Central Pacific Railroad. Ihirtv Years Ago, Governor W. P. Kellogg, of Louisiana, placed n price of $5,000 on the heads of the participants in the “Cousliatta affair,” in which a number of Republican oliiee-holilers were killed by a molt. The reported discovery of gold near Carroll, Mont., started hundreds of fortune hunters in that direction. The discovery of a ledge of gold bearing rock in Montgomery County, was announced. Shanghai dispatches reported the settlement of the controversy between France and Japan over Formosa. Professor King’s balloon, Buffalo, with n party of newspaper men, made an ascent at Cleveland, Ohio, and, after twenty-four hours’ voyage, landed near Port Huron, Midi., nearly 500 miles away. twenty Years Ago. Because of the prevalence of pleuropneumonia among entile, a quarantine was declared on Cass. Kane, I)u Page. Peoria, Whiteside, Morgan and Schuyler comities, Illinois. Henry. E. Abbey was reported to have paid $10,0(0 for no Interest in the Porte• Ht. Martins Theater, Parts, in order to secure Sarah Bernhardt for au American tour. Fifty acres of lumber yard and frame- buildings in Cleveland, Ohio, were burned over with a loss of $2,0011.000. '> It was the gossip of Wall street that the Vanderbilt family had lost |50,000,. COO in. unfortunate speculation within n few months. len Years Ago. George W. Peek was nominated a third "time by the Democrats of Wisconsin for Governor. Imlmr day was observed for the first time ns a legal holiday throughout the country. One hundred and thirty-four unidentified dead, victims of the forest fire, were buried at Hinckley, Minn. Fires were threatening Ashland and Wash burne. Wlx