Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1906 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1741 —Plot perfected for the Coup D’Etat of Elizabeth of Russia. 1755 —Massacre by Indians of Moravian _____ missionaries at Guadenhuetton, Pa. 1774 —Robert, Lord Clive, hero of Plassey, committed suicide. 1854 —Thomas Pym Cope, who established first line of packets between Philadelphia and-, Liverpool, died. 1861 —Federals bombarded Confederate fortifications at Pensacola... .U. S. ship Santee captured privateer Royal Yacht off Galveston. 1866 First national encampment of the G. A. R. assembled at Indianapolis. 1867 Allen, Larkin and O’Briep, the “Manchester martyrs,” hanged Jefferson Davis returned to Richmond, Va.

1869 —Henry Ward Beecher chosen president of National Woman Suffrage " Association. 1871 — Grand Duke Alexis of Russia formally received by President Grant .... Steambdat City of London burned near "Norwich, Conn.; 17 liven lost. 1872 Mrs. Fair prevented by mob from lecturing in San Francisco. 1889— Fire in Lynn, Mass., destroyed-$4,-000,000 in property.. . .Centennial celebration of the ratification of the Constitution of the United States by North Carolina begun at Fayetteville. A 1890— Charles Francis Adams 'resigned presidency of Union Pacific railway. 1891 — Revolution caused resignation of President Fonseca of Brazil. 1892 — The Amalgamated Association declared the Homestead strike at an end.... International monetary conference met in Brussels. 1893 U. S. Supreme Court decided the great lakes to be high seas. 1894 — Massacre of the Chinese by the Japanese troops at Port Arthur. 1898 — Marshal Blanco resigned the office of captain general of Cuba... .British officials at Manila celebrated American Thanksgiving.. .-.Hawaiian commission held its first meeting in Washington. . .Commercial bodies in Spain urged speedy conclusion of peace with United States. 1899 — German Emperor arrived at Windsor Castle on visit to England.... Lord Methuen routed Boers near Gras Pan.... Vice President Hobart died at Paterson, N. J.... British defeated Boers in bloody battle of Modder river. 1900 — Fifty lives lost in a hurricane in Tennessee... .President Kruger land- • ed at Marseilles and given enthusiastic reception. 1901 — Harvard defeated Yale at football by a score of 22 to 0. 1902 — Labor riots in Havana.... England and Germany united to press their claims upon Venezuela—. Frederick A) Krupp, great German —— gunmaker, died. ——'-t 1903 Yale defeated Harvard at football by a score of 16 to 0. 1904 Kuropatkin appointed to command the Russian army in the East.... President Roosevelt visitetj St. Louis world’s fair. 1905 Mutiny of soldiers and sailors at Sebastopol.