Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated for the second time President of the Uniled States. M'mne.-ata, east of the Mississippi, was made a part of Michigan territory.. The month of the Cuyahoga river, where the city’ of Cleveland now stands, was made a port of entry on Lake Erie. Nine French gunboats, attempting to get into Brest, were captured by British frigates. Seventy-five Years Ago. Bread riots occurred in Liverpool. The French Chamber of Peers and Deputies met at Paris. The "Book of Mormon," written,by Solomon Spaulding, was published in New Yorff. William Cramp established his famous shipyards at Philadelphia. The Indiana State road from Lake Michigan to Madison, on the Ohio, was begun. Abraham Lincoln's father moved with his family from Indiana to Macon comity. 111. The first regular news boat to intercept packet ships for foreign intelligence was put in commission in New York.

fifty Years Ago*— President Pierce* vetoed the French spoliation bill, and it failed in the House of the requisite vote to pass over the veto. The House of Representatives received President Pierce's veto of the ocean steamer bill and attempted to pass it over the veto, but failed. Ratifications ol the treaty of alliance between Sardinia and the western powers were exchanged. Sardinia transmitted to -other governments the declaration of war against Russia. The first steain tire engine built for the city of Boston was exhibited in Baltimore. forty Years Ago. Confederate deserters to the Union lines at Richmond brought report of the capture of Waynesboro by Sheridan. Gov. Oglesby of Illinois issued a proclamation urging the citizens to respond in tilling a deficiency of 14,000 in the. State's quota of troops. Reports from Washington, D. C., stated that 2,000 deserters from the Confederate lines had reported ami taken the oath of allegiance within a month. Forty of these were officers.

Thirty Years Ago, Fifty lives weredost by the burning of a factory in Gottenburg, Sweden. Tlie Forty-third Congress adjourned after putting a damper on the Jjarce bill. Ot an original population of 52.000 in one district in Asia Minor, 20,000 had died of the famine then prevailing. The German government issued a decree prohibiting the importation of American potatoes. A snow storm with a precipitation ranging from two to eight inches occurred along.the Ohio river. A bill to admit Colorado as a State was approved, and a similar measure concerning New Mexico was defeated in Congress. The Pope ordered the Austrian bishops to comply with the civil law requiring reports to be made to the State of the roster of priesthood. It was taken as an unusually conciliatory move. Twenty Years Ago. Grover Cleveland was inaugurated President of the United States. President Cleveland signed the order placing Gen. Grant on the retired list with pay. There were 900 armed boomers in Arkansas City, under Capt. Couch, ready to start into Oklahoma. President Cleveland sent to the Senate his cabinet nominations. Objection was made to Bayard for Secretary of State and the confirmation vote went over. News reached the Occident that French re-enforcements from Tonquin had raised the siege at Tuyen Kwan and driven tlie Chinese besiegers away in confusion. Ten Years Ago. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt in New York secured an absolute divorce and tlie custody of their three children. The marriage of Anna Gould to Count do Castellane took place in New York. In a battle between bank robbers and citizens at Ade), lowa, one robber was killed, six citizens wounded, afid the other robber captured.