Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. A complete change took place in the government of the Batavian republic. The cotton crop of Georgia was ruined by caterpillars. The American squadron captured near Tripoli two vessels laden with wheat for that city. The Governor of New Brunswick was forced to order out the troop# to quell a riot among oyster strikers at Amboy. —~:' • - . » Seventy-five Years Ago. The Spanish army, under General Barrados, surrendered to the Mexicans under Santa Anna at Tampico. An exciting debate took place in the French Chamber of Deputies on the subject of the slave trade. The anniversary of Perry’s victory on Lake Erie was celebrated by a public ball and parade at Newport, R. I. The peace of Adrianople was declared. Turkey agreed to recognize the independence of Greece and relinquish to Russia the northeast coast land of the Black Sea. . fifty Years Ago. The People’s Provident Assurance Society of England was established. The allied French and English forces were suffering much from disease and insufficient accommodations. “Sevastopol,” Count Tolstoi’s first book, was issued. Fifteen hundred deaths occurred of cholera in London. Commodore Perry sailed from Hongkong for the United States. English and French forces were landed in the Crimea.

forty Years Ago. In accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States General George B. McClellan said anent the “peace platform” of the party tlrat “the re-establishment of the union In all its integrity was an indispensable factor of settlement.” General Sherman ordered all civilians to leave Atlanta and offered them transportation. General Grant, from Virginia, and General Sherman, from Atlanta, wrote open letters urging the* North to fill the quota of volunteers called for. Secretary Stanton announced that a draft would be put Into effect in all States and districts in which the quota had not been filled.

thirty Years Ago. Colorado for the first time went Democratic, the territory sending a delegate of that party to Congress. A call was Issued for a convention of the Republicans of the reconstructed States to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn. Twenty persons were killed and fifty injured In a wreck on the Great Eastern Railway, near Norwich, England. Twenty persons were killed and half a hundred wounded In a tight between the New Orleans police and a mob that was clamoring for the abdication of Governor Kellogg. Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, eminent French statesman and writer, died in Paris. Seventy-four cotton mills in England were closed by a strike of 13,000 employes. twenty Years Ago. Parisians were excitedly demanding that the government declare war on China. The resignation of the Marquis of Ripon as Viceroy of India and the promotion of the Earl of Dufferin to th® post were announced by the British government. A number of Ilves were lost and much property was destroyed by floods on the Chippewa aud tributary rivers in Wisconsin. The Illinois State fair closed at Chicago with a deficit of 110,000 for the week. Antagonism between clericals and liberals In Belgium threatened to result In civil war. ‘ Tammany Hall, In an exciting meeting, Indorsed the nomination of Grover Cleveland, Democratic candidate for President

len Years Ago. The Republicans carried the Maine State election by a plurality of 38,000. A fatal wreck on the Chicago and Northwestern line near Barrington, 111., was caused by a cyclone blowing freight cars into the main line, ovefi which a passenger train was pass>g. At a fruit celebration at Grand Junction, Colo., the 8,000 participants were declared to bare eaten fifteen tons of fruit