Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1905 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The Jewish oath bill, sewrai times passed by the Commons, was thrown out by tlie House of Lords. About 500 Indians held a council of war at the mouth of the Wabash. Emanuel Lisa founded the first trading post in Nebraska, at” Bellevue. New Hampshire passed a law dividing its towns into school districts. The United States government was negotiating for 2,000,000 acres of Indian land west of tlie Wo bash, opposite Vincennes. The Spanish consul at Philadelphia informed tlie merchants of the United States that the port of St. Augustine, Fla., was opened for importation of provisions. Russian troops were assembling at Corfu and adjacent islands. Seventy-five Years Ago. Uprisings in Belgium were daily occurrences, the country being oil the verge of a revolution. The Legislature of Georgia annulled all laws made by Cherokee Indians. The State road from Lake Michigan to Madison, on the Ohio, was begun. Tlie parish prison at New Orleans was erected at a cost of $200,000. East Tennessee was swept by a cyclone. Work was begun by the surveyors for the laying out of the city of Chicago. France addressed its ultimatum to the Dey of Algiers, demanding a public reparation and $10,000,000 indemnity for the expenses of tlie war.

Fifty Years Ago. Butler University at Irvington, Ind., was opened. Charlotte Bronte, the English novelist, died. England signed a treaty of peace with Mohammed of Cabul, India. Sir George Gore left St. Louis with forty men to explore the head waters of the Powder River in Montana. The bronze equestrian statue of General Jackson was unveiled in the Place d’Armes, New Orleans. Four sons of John Brown, abolitionist, settled on the Pottawatomie River, eight miles from Osawntomie, Ark. Was election day in Kansas and the polls were Invaded by “emigrants” from Missouri, who carried the State.

Forty Years Ago. Sheridan overtook Lee’s army at Sailor's Creek and defeated it after a day’s fighting. A new stringent tariff law went Into operation. RiAmond and Petersburg were evacuated by the Confederates and occupied by-Union forces. Peace rumors based on President Lincoln's visit to the army at City Point were over the North. The Wisconsin Legislature memoralized the Postoflice Department to establish railway distributing stations in that State. Municipal elections held in many cities throughout the North showed great strength of the Union party. Dispatches from President Lincoln at City Point announced., that the Union army, after three Says’ fighting, succeeded in breaking the Confederate center at Petersburg and flanking Lee on the left.

Thirty Years Ago. The Illinois Legislature pnssed tha municipal incorporation act. Charles It. Ingersoll, Democrat, was elected Governor of Connecticut. The monument to the late Emperor Maximilian at Trlcst, Austria, was unveiled. Through a telegraph operator's blunder two trains came together at Burlington, lowa, killing several unit injuring many persons. Archbishop Manning was created a cardinal,, the ceremony taking place before many English and American pilgrims at Home. The Tope Issued an eneycilcnl renewing the excommunication of the old Catholics of Switzerland. Henry Ward Beecher began his testimony in bis own defense In the Brooklyn court which was hearing the Tllton-Beeclier ease.

Twenty Years Ago. The British forces under General Graham captured and burned the Arab village Tatnal. General Grant's condition was such thnt the end appeared to be near. A Cabinet meeting decided that while this nation was not concerned with the internal affairs of Colombia, then In a atate of revolution, it waa responsible for free and uninterrupted transit scraas the Isthmus.