Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The large cotton manufactory in Saco, Me., was burned, the loss being $300,000. Napoleon controlled the entire military department of Holland. The Portuguese government ordered that all ships, prizes of the English, should quit Tagus, and that no such prizes should again be admitted. Napoleon received the foreign envoys, who presented letters of congratulation from their respective courts upon the birth of Prince Napoleon. The English government ordered that corn and other provisions from the United States should be admitted into all British possessions. The slave trade bill, presented to the House of Commons,’ provided that no negro slave should be admitted into any of the British colonies.

Seventy-five Years Ago. Peruvian diplomats arrived at Paris to solicit the recognition of their government. The Lyceum Theater of London was burned. The petition of English Jews for the removal of their civil disabilities was presented to Parliament. Fourteen hundred troops embarked from Spain for Manila and 3,000 for -Havana. Fifty Years Ago. An industrial exhibition opened in Paris. George W. Green, a rich banker of Chicago, who had been convicted of the murder of his wife, hanged himself in prison. All banks of San Francisco were closed and serious financial panic resulted. . " The two British houses of Parliament began to communicate by letter. The Russians Attacked Eupatoria, which was defended by the Turks, and were repulsed with a heavy loss. Forty Years Ago. The Union army took possession of Wilmington, N. C. Sherman’s cavalry were reported, on the North Carolina border, with communication between Charleston and Richmond cut off. \ Charleston, S. C., was in the possession of the Federal troops. The War Department announced the capture of Columbia, S. C., by Sherman. Lee took general command of the Confederate armies and recommended the enlistment of negroos. Announcement was made in the North that Mexico and the Confederacy had entered into a treaty by which Confederate deserters were returned. Thirty Years Ago. The survey of the canal route across the isthmus of Panama was being made. The Indemnity which Spain would pay for the Virginias affair was fixed at SSOO for each case. The Pennsylvania Company refused the use of its tracks in Philadelphia to the Baltimore & Ohio, an incident of a railway war. Sir Charles Lyell, the geologist, died in London. D». De Koven, against whose election there had been much opposition, accepted the Episcopal bishopric of Illinois. The Eads Mississippi improvement bill passed the House of Representatives. Twenty Years Ago. The police in the Southern Russian provinces made a large number of arrests in connection with a nihilist plot. A bill for the retirement of Gen. Grant was defeated in the House by the votes of Southern Democrats. Congress passed an anti foreign contract labor bill. Dispatches from.Korti to London dared Gen. Buller surrounded and closely hemmed in at Abu Klea. The Swiss authorities intercepted a plot to blow up the federal palace at Berne with dynamite. The Washington monument at Washington, D. C., was dedicated. Ten Years Ago. The National Council of Women opened its convention in Washington, D. C. More than ,a score of small coastwise vessels were reported to have been lost in a blizzard that swept the Atlantic coast. Field Marshal Oyama. in command of the Japanese at Weihalwei, announced the surrender of the Chinese on sea and land.