Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISIORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISIORIAN

1305 —Sir , William Wallace executed at ■ Smithfield. 1185—Richard 111. killed on Bosworth field. ;7 :< 7 1372—5U8 a rtholomcw's Massa ere. 1630-*-Court of Assistants first held at Charlestown, Mass. :IfffsaAmwican raid from New Jersey into Staten Island. - . 1789—Liberty of the French press decreed.... Mary Washington, mother of George Washington, died. 1814—City of Washington burned by tha British.1828—Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, founder of phrenology, died. 1830- -Insurrection of Belgians commenced at Brussels. 1848— American ship Ocean Monarch burned in Irish Channel; 170 lives lost. 1849 Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, escaped from Austria. 1851—Great riot in New Orleans, growing out of the Cuban expedition. 1854 —Japanese announced new policy of commercial intercourse... .City of .almost destroyed by. fire. 1856—The historic Charter Oak, Hartford, Conn., fell during a storm. 4863—Gen. Roseerans arrived in front of Chattanooga, Tenn. 1864 Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, surrendered to Farragut. 1870—Proclamation by the President of neutrality in the Franco-Prussian war. 1877 —Canal around the Des Moine* rapids on Mississippi river opened. 1882 —British occupied Port Said and closed Suez canal. 18S3 —Completion of the Northern Pacific railroad to the Pacific coast. 1884—Foochow, China, bombarded by the French. 1888 — Storm and flood created great damage in West Virginia.——- : 1889 — Mrs. Maybriek’s sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. IS9O Interest on money in New York ran up to 12 per cent a month. 1893 — Attempt to assassinate President Crespo of Venezuela. 1894 Japanese minister to Korea assassinated. 1895 — Attack made on American mission school at Foochow, China. 1897—President Borda of Uruguay assassinated. 1903 Lord Salisbury, prime minister of England, died. 1904 Mrs. Maybrick, after release from English prison, arrived in United States.... Great battle of Liaoyang, between Russians and Japanese.