Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1569—First English lottery took place. 1610—Galileo discovered Jupiter’s satellites. *l644*—Archbishop Laud beheaded. 1806 —Cape of Good Hope surrendered by the 'Dutch to the British.... Vienna evacuated by the French. 1813 —William Jones of Pennsylvania became Secretary of thq Navy. 1815—Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated British at Battle of New Orleans. 1840 — Penny Post introduced in England by Rowland Hi 11... .Chartist riding at Sheffield, England. 1841 — Samuel Scott, daring American diver, accidentally hanged himself on Waterloo bridge, London, while giving iglgftltJWE’"' «.. -—— 1842 — Francois Coppee, French poet, born. 1844—Sir Hudson Lowe, governor of St. Helena during Napoleon’s captivity, died. 1854 —Astor library, New York, opened. 1861—Steamer Star of the West fired upon at Charleston... .Jacob Thompson of Mississippi resigned as Secretary of the Interior... .Philip F. Thomas of Maryland resigned as Secretary of the Treasury. 1863 —Metropolitan Underground Railway, in London, ceremoniously opened. 1866 —Steamer London, from England to - Australia, foundered in Bay of Biscay; 220 lost. 1868 —Chinese government appointed Burlingame its special envoy to all the treaty powers. 1871 —Paris bombarded. —Prince Frederick Charles gained victory oven Chanzy at Le Mans. 1889—Upper suspension bridge at Niagara Falls destroyed by wind storm .... Thirty-three persons killed and scores injured in whirlwind at Reading, Pa. 1893 —Princess Marie of Edinburgh married to Crown Prince of Roumania. 1895—Royalist outbreak at Honolulu suppressed by Dole government.... Great street railway strike in Brooklyn. 1897 —Count Muravieff appointed Russian minister of foreign affairs Anglo-American arbitration treaty signed at Washington... .National? monetary conference met at Indianapolis. 1899 —Railroad wreck at West Dunellen,. N. J.; seventeen lives lost. 1960 —Chicago drainage canal opened. 1901 —Twenty-six lives lost in orphan asylum fire at Rochester, N. Y. tpo2 —Seventeen lives lost in Park avenue tunnel wreck in New York City Lewis Nixon chosen nominal leader of Tammany Hall. 1904 Chinese Emperor ratified commercial treaty with the United States. 1905 Five killed in railroad collision near Ripon, N. M.