Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1403—Battle of Branham Moor. 1437—James I. of Scotland murdered. 1519 —Hernando Cortes sailed from Cuba to conquer Mexico. 1619—Lucilio Vanini burnt as an_atheist at Toulouse. —-.- —— 1656—Spain declared war against England. 1694—Bradford paid for printing first book in New York City. 1749—Riot in Haymarket, London, over failure of a man to jump into a quart bottle as promised. 1759—French siege of Madras raised. 1763—Seven years’ war ended. 1773 —First salute to American flag by a foreign government. . 1780—British under Gen. Clinton invaded South Carolina. 1792 American - Congress granted a bounty to fishing vessels. 1793 British flag raised on the island of Corsica. 1803 — Ohio admitted as the seventeenth State. 1804— U. S. frigate Philadelphia destroy- “ ed in harbor of Tripoli, 1807 —Aaron Burr arrested near Fort Stoddart, Alabama, 1812—Florida ceded to the United Stales by Spain.

1815—Frigate Constitution captured British sloops Cyane and Levant. 1818—Gen. Jackson took- the field against the Florida Indians. 1831 —Poles defeated Russians at Grochow. 1853—Ship Independence lost off Lower California ; 140 persons perished. 1856—Ship John Rutledge sunk by an iceberg. 1860— Ship Hungarian lost off Cape Sable I ;’persons perished. 1861 — Jefferson Davis inaugurated President of Confederate States.,. .Texas State troops seized U. S. arsenal and barracks at San Antonio. 1862 — Surrender of Fort Donelson. 1864 — First war. prisoners received at Andersonville prison. .First Knights of Pythias lodge organized in Washington, D. C.... Second Confederate Congress met at Richmond. 1865 — Columbia, S. C., surrendered to Gen. Sherman. 1867 — First passage of a ship through the Suez canal. ' 1868— Battle between Ruba and Martinez, near Mazatlan, Mexico. .American theater burned in San Francisco. 1869 Loans of money on United States notes by national banks forbidden. 1870 — Northern Pacific railroad begun at the Dalles of St. Louis, Minn. 1873 — Fernando Wood moved in the House for tne impeachment of Vice ' President Colfax. 1874 — Business section of city of Panama destroyed by fire. 1875 — Jesse Pomeroy, “boy murderer,” sentenced to death in Boston. 1876 Congress appropriated $1,500,000 for Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. 1878— Passage of the Bland silver bill in the U. S. Senate. 1879 — Women admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

1882 —Congress voted widow of President Garfield a pension of $5,000 a year. ... .Nihilists convicted of assassinating Alexander 11. of Russia. 1885 —New comet discovered by Prof. Bernard. 1887 —Congress passed a bill retiring tho trade d011ar.... Woman’s suffrage Became a law in Kansas.... U. S. Senate passed anti-polygamy bill. 1892 —Edward P. Deacon shot and killed M. Abeille at Cannes, France. 1805 —Madge York, actress, murdered In Philadelphia by James B. Gentry, an actor. 1898—Battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor. 1905—Five killed in mine explosion at Birmingham, Ala.