Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The rice crop of South Carolina was completely destroyed by the great hurricane which swept over the Southern States. -x Mr. Dearborn, son of the Secretary of War, left for Algiers with presents for the ruler of that country. Spain formally demanded America’s complete renunciation of east and west Florida. An American newspaper declared that It would be wisest to retain the island of New Orleans and sell the rest of the Louisiana purchase to Spain for what it would bring. Seventy-five Years Ago. The first public school in Baltimore was established. Col. Trumbull, the artist, recommended the application of beeswax to the bucks of the pictures in the Capitol at Washington to preserve them. Great preparations were commenced to celebrate the approaching marriage of Ferdinand, King of Spain. The first steam sawmill in Pittsburg began operations.

fifty Years Ago. The British consul to the Sandwich Islands presented his protest against the annexation of those islands by tiie United States. The French and English Baltic fleets left those waters homeward bound. Florence Nightingale, with other nurses, arrived at Scutari to care for the suffering among the Anglo-French army. The theater at Boulogne was burned and the Emperor acted as a fireman. forty Years Ago. The draft was being put Into force In nearly every Northern State. Corrections in the apportionment cut the draft for Illinois districts 50 per cent. The Cook county, 111., board of supervisors offered a bounty of $lO to brokers for each man secured for enlistment. An engagement between French and Mexican forces on the Rio Grando became a quadrangular fight In which the French and Confederates were routed by the Union and Mexican soldiers. New York was depressed over the reported blowing up of Admiral Farragut’s flagship, the Hartford, by accident off Mobile.

Thirty Years Ago. Gov. Kellogg, who was removed by the White League, was restored to the executive post of Louisiana, McEnery surrendering. The grand jury of the District of Columbia refused to Indict Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun for libel on charges made by “Boss” Shepherd. Theodore Tilton made a second and defailed public statement of his charges against Henry Ward Beecher, giving conversations and correspondence with Mrs. Tilton. A Chicago and Northwestern train went from Fulton, lowa, to Chicago, 133 miles, In 142 minutes. Forty young girls perished In the burning of a cotton mill at Fall River, Mass. The British claims awarded by the mixed commission under the Washington treaty of 1873, and amounting to $1,930,000, were paid by the United States. Twenty Years Ago. The Czar, the Emperor of Germany and the Emperor of Austria met at Skiernevlece. The sixteenth annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland opened In New York. Four hundred and ninety-two new cases of cholera developed in southern Italy and 169 deaths occurred. James G. Blaine, Republican presidential nominee, left Boston for New York on a tour of the middle West. Reports were sent out from Cairo, Egypt, that Gordon had raised the siege of Khartum. Earthquake shocks were felt in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. England had an army of 13,559 men in Egypt. Ten Years Ago. Forest fires raged around Bena, Algiers, with great loss of life. Judge Gibbons ordered judgment of ouster agaiust the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, the so-called “whisky trust.” ' Levi P. Morton was nominated for Governor by New York Republicans. Announcement was made at Toklo of the ratifi'-atlon of the British! aptness treaty.