Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1194 —Emperor Frederick ll.', one of th® most remarkable historic figures of the Middle Ages, born. Mass., founded. ,—-a 1717—First pantomime produced in London, called “Harlequin Executed.”’ 1778—Savannah taken by the British. 1805—Treaty of Presburg, 1807 —Embargo laid by Congress on American ships. 3811—More than sixty persons perished in burning theater at Richmond, Va. .1812—Commodore Bainhridge, commanding the frigate Constitution, captured British frigate Java, off San Salvador. 1828 —Rowland Stephenson, English banker and member of Parliament, absconded with $1,000,000. 1831—Roger B. Taney of Maryland became Attorney General of United States. 1 I js IS32—John C. Calhoun resigned vie® presidency of the United States. 1835 —Dade’s massacre by the Seminoles. 1837—Admiral George Dewey, U. S. N., born. 1845 — Texas admitted to the Union. 1846 Gen. Taylor took possession of Victoria, capital of Tamaupilas.... Col. Doniphan, in command of 1,000 Missouri volunteers, defeated force of Mexicans at Braceti. 1847 — Arab chief, Abd-el-Kader, surrendered to the French. 1858—New Adelphi theater, London, opened. 1860 —John B. Floyd of Virginia resigned as Secretary of War. 1802—The Confederates attacked Gen. Sherman and drove him back to the first line of defense before Vicksburg. .. .Second attack on Vicksburg .... Gen. Sherman attacked Confederate works about six m<les frem Vicksburg. 1868—Mosby Clark, a Revolutionary soldier, died at Richmond, Va., at the advanced age of 121 years. 1874 —Gov. Warmouth stabbed and killed D. C. Beverly of the New Orleana Bulletin. 'B76 —Train wreck at Ashtabula, O. Eighty killed and sixty injured. 1889— Charles I. proclaimed King of Portugal. 1890— Captain Wallace and several soldiers killed by Sioux Indians in South Dakota. 1892—Corner stone laid for Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City."~ 1894—Forty persons perished by fire at a Christmas festival at Silver Lake, Oregon.