Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Eighteen American vessels were at the port of Amsterdam. The French government passed a law granting pensions to all emigrants from Santo Domingo. Three thousand French troops were ordered to The Hague to.prevent an uprising which was daily expected. Re-enforcements of French troops arrived at Santo Domingo and effectually repulsed Emperor Dessalines’ army. Portugal purchased with the concurrence of England the sufferance of France to remain neutral in the war. Seventy-five Years Ago. Congress provided for a boundary line to be run lietween Louisiana and Arkansas territories. Petroleum was discovered in Kentucky, and as it was supposed to have healing properties it was bottled and sold throughout the United States and Europe for medicine. The first gold from Georgia mines was received at the United States mint. Fifty Years Ago. The Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad was leased to the Grand Trunk railroad for 999 years. Nassau hall at I’riiiecton university, built in 1756, was destroyed by fire. Several persons were killed by the falling in of the floor of the town hall at Meredith, N. H. The plenipotentiaries at Vienna exchanged powers and commenced proceedings toward agreeing upon the terms of Russo-Turkish peace. Forty Years Ago. Reports of Sheridan and Sherman’s successes scut gold down to 189V£>. A short time before it was quoted at 220 and over. News reached the North that the Confederate Congress had passed a bill to arm and equip the negroes as soldiers. Richmond (Va.) papers published an exposure of an alleged conspiracy to oust Davis aud Stephens, make Hunter president, and end the war. President Lincoln issued a proclamation ordering that all citizens or domiciled agents trafficking with Confederates be arrested and held as prisoners of war.

Thirty Years Ago. Moody and Sankey preached to a congregation of 18,000 in London. The Hawaiian treaty was being fought in the Semite by sugar interests. At a consistory held at the Vatican Archbishop McCloskey of New York was made a cardinal. The French Assembly passed the military reorganization bill, the constitution having been adopted several weeks previously. A tornado devastated the town of Rienzi, Miss. The river bottoms in the Northwest States were flooded. Quite a sensation was caused in England by the outcome of tlie Mordaunt divorce case in which Fatly Mordaunt was decreed guilty. Twenty Years Ago. London papers admitted that the relations between England and Russia were strained almost to the breaking [mint over the latter’s Afghan frontier aggression. President Cleveland Issued a proclamation barring the “boomers” from Oklahoma. Ten thousand of the 12,000 coal miners in the Pittsburg district struck for higher wages. The powers agreed to a conference to be held in Paris to determine the status of the Suez canal. The militia was mobilized at Sedalia and other points in Missouri to suppress riots incident to the railroad strike on the Gould system. The congressional act placing Gen. Grant on the retired list formally was carried out. The general, though 111. was able to drive. Schofield, Shurmer and Teagle, Cleveland oil refiners, in affidavits charged the Standard Oil Company with bribing their bookkeeper to divulge data of the business. Ten Years Ago. A total eclipse of the moon visible in the northern part of the United States occurred. Five Italian miners who had killed a sheriff were lynched by a miners’ mob at Walsenberg, Colo. The Marquis of Queeusberry was committed by a London magistrate for libeling Oscar Wilde. The Illinois Supreme Court held that the eight-hour law fee women was void.