Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

»e hundred Years Ago. c War was declared between England ?d Spain. as“ Six e;mlI »nls were named by the r pc to accompany his holiness to /**“?* for tho coronation of Na-poleon. t. • . IlL * nri - a Frenchman, was Jn Washington, engaged in translating iuo i- reach the life of George Washbgton. fn.n, papers in the possession ff Lush rod W.ishiing-ton. . I Emmet, the Irish patriot, arrived in T^ica. Ago, Seventy-five Yt - . vivod at PhilaTwo large mirrors tii. room delphia from France tort. of the While House at \VitKln.T?t|Wge A steam vessel made its first vtrVv

from Dublin to 80/Jeaux at the rate'' of ten miles per hour. Provision was made for the free navigation of the River Rhine, Germany. Angola, a Portuguese settlement in Africa, revolted against Don Miguel. fifty Years Ago. The royal Danish railroad was opened by the King, Two additional asteriods were discovered by M. M. Goldschmidt and Ohacerinan in Paris and named Pblymonia and Poinana. The famous “charge of the light brigade” took place at Balaklava. Pierre Soule, American minister to Spain, on landing at Calais from England, was stopped by the French police and obliged to return to London. Several detachments of British guards left London for. the Crimea to fill up casualties caused by the battle of Alma. The remains of the English exploring party under Sir John Franklin were discovered neip Great Fish River Buck, in the Arctic Ocean. The American clipper Lightning arrived at Liverpool, sixty-three days from Melbourne, Australia. forty Year* Ago. Delegates from the Canadian colonies at a meeting at Quebec agreed upon the basis of representation in the Canadian confederation. Gold in the New Y'ork market dropped from 218% to 213, and wheat from $1.73 to $1.03, In eight hours. The United States internal revenue report showed an income from that source of $500,000 a day. Confederate forces under Price were routed in an all day battle near Kansas City, Mo., and were driven southward.

Presun'VtW - "it Lincoln answered a protest

by the opponents o vse nca'ftor\JVLtit UiT in Tennessee, declining to interfere in the State fight. Petroleum discoveries were made at Dundee, Monroe County, Mich. Thirty Years Ago. General Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Marie Honore were married in Chicago. The Porte denied the joint request of Austria, Germany and 1 Russia to make commercial treaties with Roulnania. A gale swept the northern coast of England, doing great damage to shipping and costing many lives. After an eight days’ conference the Protestant Episcopal general convention at New York refused to confirm the election of Professor G. E. Seymour as bishop of Illinois. The Presbyterian synod of Illinois, north, sustained an appeal from the decision of the Chicago presbytery, which had acquitted Professor David Swing, and directed that the noted preacher’s name be erased from the roll of members. Twenty Years Ago. It was announced from Washington. D. C., that the rumored engagement of President Arthur and Miss Frellnghuysen was a fact. The reported massacre of Colonel Stewart and his party by Arabs at Merawl was confirmed by officials at Cairo. Tl)e seizure of a secret press by the 8L Petersburg police disclosed a plot against the Czar and many urrests followed. lea Year* Ago. Reports of a Chinese victory over the Japanese were sent out by the Chinese from Tientsin. James Anthony Fronde, the hdstor-