Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1827 —Edward 11. of England compelled to resign the crown. 1564—Pope confirmed by a bull the decrees of the Council of-Trent. 1579 —Dutch Republic proclaimed. 1641—Union of Catalonia with France. 1738—First stone laid of Westminster bridge, over the Thames river. 1777—Americans under Gen. Maxwell capture Elizabethtown, N. J. 1788—First settlement in Australia. 1796—James McHenry became Secretary of War of the United States Prince of W’ales attacked in his carriage by the populace of London. 1807 —Pall Mall lighted by gas; first city street to be thus lighted. 1814 — Battle of Enotochopoeo Creek. 1815— Congress purchased Thomas Jefferson’s library for $25,000 * Thanksgiving in New Orleans over Gen. Jackson’s victory. 1830—Robert Haynes’ great speech in defense of the Foote resolution. 1833 —First Reformed Parliament of the United Kingdom opened. 1837 —Michigan admitted into the Union. 1841—First conviction of a woman In Philadelphia for murder. 1843 —Edward Drummond assassinated In London. 1847 —Battle of Canada. 1850 —Henry Clay introduced resolution for compromise on slavery question. 1854 Many perished in burning of steamer Georgia at New-Orleans. 1855 — Rutledge College, South Carolina,/^ destroyed by fire.... First train from ocean to ocean passed over Panama railroad. ~— 1850 —Steamship Pacific lost between Liverpool and New York; 156 lives lost. 1801 —Kansas admitted to the Union.... U. S. arsenal at Augusta, Ga., seized by Georgia State troops.... Louisiana adopted the ordinance of secession. 1803—Maj. Gen. Burnside relieved by Maj. Gen. Hooker. 18GG—Freedman Bureau bill passed tbs United States Senate. 1867 —The President vetoed the Colorado admission bi 11.... East river bridged by ice. Thousands of persons cross on foot, 1870r—Massacre of the Piegan Indians by Col. Baker’s force. 1871 —Paris capitulated to the Germans. 1874 —Olympic theater, Philadelphia, destroyed by fire. 1882 —Guiteau convicted of the murder of President Garfield. 1885 —Parliament buildings and London Tower damaged by dynamite explosions, .. .Fall of Khartoum and assassination of Gen. Charles Gordon. 1880 —Senator Sherman introduced a bill to suspend silver coinage. 1887 —U. S. Senate passed Canada retaliation bill. 1889 —Pensacola, Fla., had second snowfall in twenty-two years.... Riot in New York City over street car strike. 1893 — Eighty miners killed in fire-damp explosion at Dux, Bohemia. 1894 — James J. Corbett defeated Charley Mitchell in fight at Jacksonville, Fla. 1895 Steamer City of Macon wrecked in Delaware bay. 1896 — Large loss by fire at Lewiston, Me. 1904 —Mrs. Agnes Soffel arrested at Connellsville, Pa., for aiding the release of the Biddle brothers from the Pittaburg jail... .Mrs. Florence Maybrick released from prison.... Col. Lynch, leader of the Irish brigade In the Boer war, released from English prison. 1900 —Largest diamond ever known in history found in the Transvaal.... Great blizzard along the Atlantia coast of North America.