Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. French troops were ordered into the Neapolitan provinces. The French fleet in the West Indies raptured Nevis, the town of Basse lerre. in St. Kitts. England ordered that vessels carrying corn should be allowed in the ports «*f Spain, provided they carried no Jims. The court of Lisbon declared itself an ally of Spain and not of England. The French fleet sailed from Toulon, with S.IKK) troops, to occupy the ports of Sicily and Naples. Seventy-five Years Ago. The Mormon church was organized at Manchester. N. Y,, by Joseph Smith. Daniel Webster made his great speech for the Union, in reply to Robert Y. Hayne, who was a radical upholder of State rights. The Spanish government failed to raise the loan from the French capitalists to tit out an expedition against South America. Ten thousand Mexicans were ordered to the borders of Texas to prevent the smuggling so largely carried on through Texas by Americans. Robert Y. Ilayne, of South Carolina, made his famous speech in Congress hi defense of State rights.

f ifty Years Ago. The French spoliation bill passed the House by a vote of 110 to 70 and went to tbe Senate. The United States surveying steamer Water Witch, in ascending the Paraguay, was fired on from the fort and one man killed. The British home ministers resigned mid Lord Palmerston later succeeded in forming a new ministry. The first train passed over the Panama railroad. The chapel aiul west wing of Rutledge College. South Carolina, was destroyed by tire.

forty Years Ago. " * Navigation in the Potomac river was blockaded by ice twelve inehes thick below Washington. F. I’. Blair returned to Washington from his second trip to Richmond, and all sorts of reports were current as to the hearing of his visit on the outcome of th,e war. The Illinois and. Maryland legislatures ratified the anti-slaverycoustitu-tional amendment passed by Congress. The constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery in the United* States was passed by the House of Representatives. The military court at Cincinnati sentenced S. B. Davis to be hanged as a Confederate spy,,

Thirty Years Ago. News of the death of Tsai Shun, Emperor of China, reached London. The constitutional commission of Maine turned down a woman’s suffrage plank. Day and night were spent in the national House of Representatives in repeated roll calls in an effort to take action on the civil rights bill. A lockout in the coal mines of South Wales threw 120.000 men out of work. An attempt to capture the James brothers at their home in Kearney, Mo., resulted in the killing of their young brother and the maiming of their mother, Mrs. Samuels, by a bomb. The court declared Ills evidence admissible, and Theodore Tilton told from the witness stand ill NeTv York bis charges against Henry Ward Beecher. Twenty Years Ago. The big dry goods house of Garry Bros, in New York was wrecked by dynamite, supposedly by striking clerks. John C, Spooner was elected United States Senator by the Wisconsin Legislature. The inauguration of Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, delayed' because of the death of his son, took place at Springfield. The New Haven, Conn., Savings ’Vank weathered a run in which $250,WO was paid out to depositors. lea Years Ago. After passing the lie, Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and Heard, of Missouri, came to blows on the floor of the llotlttc. Many persons perished and much damage was done to shipping by a •torai which swept the New England roast. The Brooklyn strike ended, the tea ay ■ were withdrawn, and peace