Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The London institute for the advancement of literature vas founded by Sir Francis Baring. French soldiers sold at public auction the cargoes of English manufactured goods which they had confiscated at Amsterdam. The Emperor of Russia ordered that the city of Keif should be the residence of his Majesty, Louis XVIII. of France. Charles Manners Sutton was elected Archbishop of Canterbury. Seventy-five Years Ago. The Episcopal diocese of Alabama was orgailized ut Mobile. A large tire at Constantinople was extinguished by the crew from an English ship. The Emperor of Morocco demanded an annual tribute from the towns of Bremen and Hamburg. General Bolivar resigned all of his military and political offices. The Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada opened at Quebec. Father Mathew, an Irish priest, announced he had administered the total abstinence pledge to 2,C00,000 people. fifty Years Ago. A riot occurred on the Buffalo -and Brantford Railroad between Irish laborers and men employed by the company to protect the road. Seventeen locomotives were frozen In and buried in snow on the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad. Violent earthquake occurred near Wellington, New Zealand, the land being raised between three and four feet. forty fears Ago. The House of Representatives voted to repeal tlie duty on paper. rJßold fcJLdwb points, wheat 15 cents i oushel, andjiork .$2 a barrel because of Union > . -esses in the South. The Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. was partly destroyed by lire. The Illinois Senate voted to repeal the so-called ‘•black laws." prohibitive of negro immigration and placing other restrictions on the privileges of the colored man. The King of Sweden, through his minister, assured President Lincoln of bls sympathy with the cause of the Union. The War Department reported 43,900 Union prisoners in Confederate hands and 78,000 Confederate prisoners in Union custody. thirty Years Ago. Garibaldi, traveling through Italy, was feted by the authorities and cheered by the’ laborers. " Francis M. Cockrell was elected United States Senator by the Missouri Legislature. Eleven other States elected Senators. President Grant’s message asking for additional appropriations for fortifications revived a belief that a break with Spain was impending. • Witness Irving told the Pacific Mail (Investigators how he distributed "corruption money." The trial of the Tilton-Beecher suit to New York attracted great crowds to the court room. One hundred and forty-eight sisters of charity. expelled from Mexico, found refuge in Cuba. Twenty Years Ago. Two deaths occurred in St. Louis from what the health department believed to be Asiatic cholera. Committees were being formed in Paris and Berlin to honor Bismarck on his seventieth birthday. England was under a great strain awaiting definite news from General Stewart in Africa, concerning Whom dire reports had been spread and contradicted. A conflict seemed imminent between Oklahoma boomers under Captain Couch and the United States soldiers. London was in a state of great excitement over two dynamite explosions in the Parliament house and one. in "•tee tower. The Eastern railways were engaged ta a freight rate war. utarted by the Pennsylvania lines, lea Years Ago. The House, by a vote of 197 to 51. recommended a new postofficr building for Chicago. Wreckage from the missing steamer Chicora was found In quantities off Booth Haven, Mich., and fte fate of craft was certain. The packet State ’of Missouri, with «v*w and passengers, numbering twen-fip-tva, went down In the Ohio near Mptovme.