Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One hundred Years Ago. A large number of Swiss immigrants arrived at Greensburg, Pa., where they established a settlement. The French National Almanac appeared, giving the year as z the thirteenth of the republic and first of the empire. The salt manufactories at New London, Conn., were doing a successful business. Spanish treasure ships with cargoes valued at $3,000,000 were seized by the English. * * Seventy-five Years Ago. The Choctaw Indians claimed land in the States of Alabama and Arkansas of 27,830,536 acres, which they were unwilling to give up. A British steamer put in at Charleston, S. C., for the purpose of obtaining vaccine, which was carried to Nassau, N. P., where the smallpox was raging among the blacks. The separation of Venezuela from Colombia occurred. The Chesapeake and Delaware canal was opened with elaborate ceremonies.

fifty Years Ago. Five allied steamers arrived at Constantinople with soldiers wounded in repelling the Russian sorties from Sevastopol. The grand conference of American ministers began at Osteqd. Between forty and fifty thousand dollars was being spent on the exterior and interior of the White House at Washington, D. C. The trading ship Triton, from Glasgow to Boston, was abandoned at sea. The allied armies began the bombardment both by sea and land of Sevastopol.

forty Years Ago. United States Treasurer Spinner authorized a denial of the anti-admlnis-tration report that President Lincoln drew his salary in gold. Sheridan defeated Longstreet at Cedar Creek, Ga., captured forty-three guns, and many prisoners, Including Ramesur, who was wounded and died a few days later. “Fighting Joe” Hooker visited Chicago and was given a reception at the Sherman House. Election returns sent out fronj Baltimore were that the “soldier vote” had carried the new constitution with an anti-slavery provision. Thirty Years Ago. As an anti-Carlist measure, France forbade Spaniards from living in the several French communities bordering on Spain. Julia Ward Howe, Frances E. Willard, Susan B. Anthony and many other nojed women were speakers before the congress of American women in Chicago. The Lincoln monument at Springfield, 111., was dedicated. Arguments in the divorce suit of Anna Eliza against Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, were completed at Salt Lake City. The Democrats carried Indiana and Ohio. James A. Garfield won a congressional seat in the latter State by 3,500 plurality. Several cars of a Fort Wayne train, crowded with 200 immigrants, went over a thirty-fcot embankment near Fort Wayne, Ind., without fatality.

Twenty Years Ago. The State and congressional election in Ohio was a Republican victory by a 12,500 plurality. The shooting of F. A. Burton at Ixi Crosse, Wls., by Nathaniel Mitchell during a Blaine and Logan parade was followed by .the lynching of Mitchell. On the occasion of the laying of the keels of a number of ironclads at Sevastopol, the • Czar telegraphed Grand Duke Alexis: “I rejoice at the new birth of the Black Sea fleet. God grant the spirit of the old .fleet may revive and render good service to the' fatherland.” The German theater and seventy-six other buildings In Moscow, Russia, were destroyed, with a loss of $3,000,000. len Years Ago. Four members of a mob that was trying to seize a negro prisoner were ' killed and a number of others wounded by militia at the La Salle County, Ohio, jail. The prisoner was saved. Investigation into alleged rebating by 1 the Santa Fe resulted in the indictment by a Federal grand jury of two recently resigned officials of tbe road and three Chicago and "Kansas City > packers.