Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. The blockade of the Island of Martinique was lifted and American ships no longer were molested. James Boudoin of Massachusetts was appointed by the President r.s minister to Spain. A French frigate arrived at Annapolis, conveying the French minister to this country > Sir George Rumbold, British minister to Hamburg, Germany, was seized by a party of French infantry at bis home near the city and carried off. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. There were in Ireland over three million people who understood only the Irish language. The court of the king’s bench, Quebec, agreed that the rate of value of Spanish dollars received at the custom house should be 4 shillings and 4 pence sterling. The frigate Brandywine was ordered to Lisbon, with messages to Don Miguel, demanding reparation for the damage to American property at Terceira. FIFTY YEARS AGO. The allied commanders in the Crimea held a council of war on board tbe ship Magador, in order to settle on a day for a general assault on Sevastopol. Russia concluded a treaty with the United States, providing that the flag covered the cargo, and that neutral goods in enemy’s ships were exempt from spoliation unless contraband of war. FQRTY YEARS AGO. Nevada was admitted to tbe Union as a State. Secretary of State W. H. Seward issued a bulletin of a reported Confederate plan to set fire to the principal cities of the North on the day of the presidential election. Maryland was proclaimed a free State by Governor Bradford, the new constitution, with an anti-slavery clause, having been adopted. General Grant reported the completion of a reconuoissaneee below Petersburg, with a net gain of fifteen miles of territory, the capture of “00 prisoners, and giving an opportunity of operating on the enemy’s flank. Dispatches from Leavenworth, Kan., reported the Confederate general, Price, to have been driven thirty miles south of Fort Scott and his following demoralized. Details of a collision on the Indianapolis and Lafayete Railroad near Lafayette, Iml., in which twenty-three persons were killed and as many more injured on the previous evening, were made public. THIRTY YEARS AGO. Kullman, who attempted to assassinate Bismarck, was sentenced to fourteen years in a German prison. .• Emperor William in a speech at the opening of the Reichstag proposed the reorganization of the German army on a larger scale. Presklent Jewett of the Erie Railroad, with a salary of $40,000 a year, was reputed the highest paid official in the United States. .Secretary of the Treasury diileted trte -’lVyasurer to sell s.'<h),ooo in gold each ThufSdaY on M ;ui aggregate of .$2,1X30,000 bad been Tea cl bed. By an almost ui .itious vote.the Episcopal conference, in session at New York, adopted a resolution opposing ritualism in the church services. TWENTY YEARS AGO. It was reported that cholera had broken out in the French fleet in Chinese waters. From sixteen to twenty negroes were reported killed In ante-elect ion riots in Louisiana. Hi a wuiic caused by a false cry of lire sixacn persons were killed and scores itjured at the Star Theater, Glasgow, Scotland. A Paws newspaper undertook on Us own a fount' tin investigation of the Paimml canal to ascertain the truth of I)e tcssepVi excuses for delay in the fojplctioii of the work! TEN WARS AGO. Coil sold in Chicago at 53 cents, *s nJfinst- 51% for wheat. Thf Japanese were reported to have hlocaded Port Arthur, held by the Cliiime, and to have landed eonsidernhlelarces in the vicinity. T« arrest of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus of W' general staff on n charge of trefbii was the sensation ot the houi tajwrume. |