Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1388 —Douglas slain at battle of Chevy Chase, England. 1514 —Peace concluded among England, France and Scotland. 1540-—htnry VIII. of England martial Catherine Howard. 1673 —New York surrendered to the Dutch. 1675 — Greenwich Observatory established. 1757—Fort _ Montcalm. 1792 —The Swiss Guard killed in an attack on th Tuilleries in Paris. 1809 —Non importation act proclaimed by President Madison. 1813 —Battle of Stonington, Conn. 1815—Napoleon embarked” for St Helena. 1821 —Missouri admitted as a State. 1827—George Canning, English statesman, died, 1830 — Louis Philippe proclaimed King oi France. 1841 —Steamer Erie burned on Lake Eriei; 175 lives lost. 1846— David Wilmot introduced his proviso in Congress..... Smithsonian Institution at Washington founded. 1852— Permission granted to M. Thiera and other political exiles to return to France. li___ 1858—Ottawa made the capital of Canada. —— 1861— Hampton, .Va., burned... .Battle Wilson’s Creek. Mo. 1862 — President Lincoln called for 300,000 men for nine months. 1870 — Paris declared in a state of siega Franco-German war. 1871 — Celebration of the Sir Waltei Scott centenary at Edinburgh. 1873 —Steamer Wawasset burned on Potomac river; thirty-five lives lost. 187T —-Marshal Bazaine escaped from th< Isle of Ste. Marguerite. 1878 — International monetary confer ence opened at Paris... .Beginning oi the Austro-Bosian war. 1880 — Dr. Tanner successfully complete! a fast of forty daya. 1881 — Transvaal ceded to the Boers. Republic proclaimed. 1883—Dynamite conspirators at Liver pool sentenced to penal servitude fol life.

1884 — Oklahoma “boomers” ousted from Indian Territory by United State! troops.... Severe earthquake fell along Atlantic coast. 1885— -Imposing funeral of Gen. Grant li New York. 1887 — Hawaii adopted a new constitutioi ....One hundred excursionists killed in railroad wreck at Forest, 111. 1888— -Maxwell, the murderer of Charlei A. Preller, hanged in St. Louis.... Larry Donovan, American bridgt jumper, leaped from Hungerford bridge, London, and was drowned. 1889 — Mrs. Florence Maybrick , found guilty of murdering her husband ii Liverpool. 1891—United States vessels ordered ti China because of disturbance. 1893 — Geary act enforced. First China'. man deported from San Francisco... Forty-third Congress convened in extraordinary session. Subject, Sherman act..... . Severe earthquak! shocks in California. 1894 The yacht Britannia beat the Vig ilant at Cowes.. .Earthquake shock! felt in Memphis, Tenn... .ttreat 'Britain declared neutrality in tht Korean war. 1895 — British steamer Cliattertimn foundered near Sydney, N. S. M/; fiftyfour lives lost. 1899—Retrial of Dreyfus begun at Rennes... .Hurricane in West I» dies; 2,000 drowned. 1903 — Pope Plus X. crowned. ~ , Lieut Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., ro tired. 1904 — Seventy-six persons killed ii wreck on Rio Grande railroad neai Pueblo, C 010... .British force, undei Col. Younghusband, entered Lnssa. 1905 — President Roosevelt addl-ehsed largt meeting es miners at Pa.... St. Thomas P. E. church, New York City, destroyed by fire.