Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. About one-half of the adult population of England was formed into a volunteer corps to resist the expected invasion by Napoleon’s army. After the revolution 60,000 trees were planted in France to use later as fuel, the prices of which had risen 100 per cent. War was declared between Russia and Persia. The Emperor of Germany established a new bank at Venice. Seventy-five Years Ago. In Montreal 66 grocers entered upon an agreement to prosecute all persons found retailing liquors without license. The iron used in the construction of the Schuylkill Valley railroad was imported from England at a much cheaper rate than it could have been manufactured In this country. President Jackson interfered In the case of a government clerk who was dismissed by the head of his department, raising the question as to what power was vested in the chiefs of departments. fifty Years Ago. The greater part of Memel, a Prussian seaport, was destroyed by fire with loss estimated at $3,750,000. The shores about the harbor of Vera Cruz were strewn with an Immense number of dead fish, supposed to have been killed by the gas evolved in some submarine eruption. A passenger steamer from San Francisco to Panama struck a reef outside the Golden Gate. Fifteen passengers and $153,000 in gold were lost. The Academy of Music, New York, opened with the opera of “Norma.” Austria defined her policy as more favorable to the allied forces against Russia. Sunday schools had been established by all of the churches in the country. forty Years Ago. A run was in progress upon every Chicago bank because of the suspension of one institution. The propeller Ogdensburg, which 12 years before on Lake Erie had collided with and sunk the steamer Atlanta with great loss of life, Itself was sunk in a collision off Cleveland, O. The citizens of Belleyille, 111., were preparing to resist a threatened in vasion by a detachment from General Price’s Confederate command. Drafting from the city of Chicago was commenced, the Sixth and Eighth Wards being first drawn upon. A sudden movement by Generals Grant, Ord and Bimey carried the Union lines to within four miles of Richmond, Va., on the south. Thirty Year# Ago. The engagement of tiie then Colonel Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Marie Honore was announced In Chicago. Henry Ward Beecher secured the indictment of Theodore Tilton and Francis D. Moulton by a Brooklyn grand jury on a charge of slander. The School Board of London occupied its new headquarters on the Victoria embankment. Maria Ewing Sherman, daughter of General W. T. Sherman, was married in Washington, D. C., to Thomas William Fitch of the navy. An insurrection in the Argentine, S. A., states had become formidable, the revolutionists having control of the navy. A four days* battle between Carllsts and Republicans In the Province of Navarre, Spain, ended. Twenty Years Ago. Hans Makart, the celebrated Austrian painter, died in Vienna. Both the American (or Gould) Atlantic cables were broken. Frank Chanfrau, the actor, died suddenly in New York. John McCullough, the actor, broke down in his lines at McVicker’s, Chicago, and then chided those in the audience who had hissed him. The outline of a plan to connect the Baltic and Black seas by canal from the Danube to the Oder River was announced from Vienna and Berlin.

ten Years Ago. Little Rock, Ark., was struck by a cyclone, killing four persona, Injuring thlrty-fonr, and destroying f 1,000,000 worth of property. The Illinois census figures were published showing that 08.28 per cent of the farmers owned the land they worked. Dr. David Swing, theologian and pastor of Central Church, Chicago, died.