Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The first Trappist monks arrived in Lexington, Ky. William Hull was appointed the first governor of Michigan. Twelve ships of the line were completed in Spain for sea duty. Napoleon started on his second journey across the Alps into Italy. War was Inevitable, and Bonaparte’s policy was to strike the first blow. Commodore Preble, who so gallantly commanded the American fleet at Tripoli, arrived in New York. French troops began the march against the city of San Domingo. Italian ports were ordered closed to Englisu ships. General William Eaton, who had been with Commodore Barron at the bombardment of Tripoli, marched his men to Cairo, where he swept all before him and collected troops, camels, and stores for bis journey across the Libyan desert for Derne, and raised the American flag over that city. Seventy-five Years Ago. Grants of land were being made in India to Europeans, who would settle in the country. * The Russian government decreed that all Jesuits entering the country were to be seized and sent to Siberia. An extensive scheme of forgery was detected in Bengal, India. A great fire occurred at Bergen, Norway, and 200 houses were destroyed. Civil was was raging in Venezuela. The first one cent daily newspaper in the United States was issued in Philadelphia. Great freshets caused the rifer Danube to rise over twenty-three feet, causing much damage to property. It was announced that the white and Hottentot population at the Cape of Good Hope had doubled in tWenty-five years, the slave population remaining stationary.

Fifty Years Ago. Nicholas 1.. Emperor of Russia, died, aged 59 years. Several men were killed in a riot in ■saloon in New York City. ■l'Ue House passed a bill reducing the ■ties on imported goods. ■The Russians, after a battle of three Burs, were driven back from the ■ench lines to Sevastopol. ■Executions occurred almost daily in Hungary, the country having been in ■ unsettled state since a war with Bistria. ■One hundred and fifty thousand perBns were out of employment in LiverSol. ■ ’Die sword worn by General Jackson Bas presented to Congress. Btlu> Calcutta railroad opened for Bssenger traffic. Brty Years Ago. BgoIJ dropped to 199 U, In New York, ■fall of live points, on the news of the Bilmlngton occupation. “It was reported that Lee had gone South to operate against Bherman, leaving Joe Johnson in command at Richmond. . .. Governor Vance, of North Carolina, issued a war proclamation “that the struggle for freedom shall never be given up.’ The $690,000,000 loan bill passed the United States Senate. President Lincoln signed the law prohibiting officers or attaches of the army or navy from interfering with the elections in the several States. Much excitement was caused In the North by reports that army was preparing to evacuate Richmond. thirty Years Ago. London reported that European troops had been withdrawn from Yokohama. French correspondence to American newspapers declared that the prospect of a constitutional government in France was Imminent. The presidential electors bill, providing that no State could be disfranchised without the joint approval of both houses, passed the Senate. Tlie force bill was being fought over In the House, tlie habeas corpus clause being especially condemned by Republicans. Tlie United States Senate passed the civil rights bill and the House approved the force bill. Tho House adopted the so-called “Louisiana compromise’ resolutions. The United States Senate passed Colorado and New Mexico annexation bills, with amendments conditioning their effect. Twenty Years Ago. President-elect Cleveland and party unostentatiously left Albany for Washington.