Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

IGo4—Conference at Hampton Court , palace, leading to new translation of the Bible. IGO1 —Seventeen Anabaptist leaders executed in London. IG7o—Claude Duval, the highwayman, _—executed. - ~ 1746—Jacobites victorious at Falkirk Moor. 1759r—Brit!!;h museum opened. 177^—Queen Matilda of Denmark condemned to imprisonment for life. 1793 —Louis XVI. of France guillotined. 1806—John Breckinridge of Kentucky became Attorney* General of United States. 1809 —Sir John Moore killed at the battle of Corunna. 1812-—•Ciudad Rodrigo taken by Wellington. 1815—Lady Hamilton, Nelson’s “Guardian Angel,”, died in poverty at Calais. ISIG —General thanksgiving in England for reace, following end of NapolconurmTU's. ■■■'■- ~ —- 1828 —Count Capo d’lstria chosen President of Greece. 1839- City of Aden captured by the British. '■*> 1852—Trial by jury abolished in Austrian -empire. 1351 Emigrant ship Tayleur wrecked on Irish coast near Dublin; 290 lives lost. 1858 —Attempted assassination of Napoleon 111. by Onini. ISGo—Capt. Harrison of the Great Eastern drowned at Southampton by capsizing of small boat. 1561 Juarez entered City of Mexico, and re-elected president. 1562 — Two hundred buried aiive in Hartley colliery disaster. 1864 — Society for promoting aerial navigati'dti fdfined at Paris. IS65 —Capture of Fort. Fisher.... Emperor Maximilian instituted the order of the Mexican Eagle. 1867 —Forty-one persons drowned in Regent’s Park ice calamity. 1865 Gen. Pope assigned to command of department <jf the lakes, with headquarters at Detroit. 1873 — Funeral of Napoleon 111. at Chislehurst. 1874 Eng and Chang, the famous Siamese twins, died. 1879 —E. M. YVard, member of the Royal Academy, committed suicide at Windsor. 18S5—Messrs. Cameron and Herbert, war correspondents, killed in the Soudan. 1886 — Order of presidential succession determined. 1887— Interstate commerce bill became a law. 1891 — Sioux submitted, ending Indian war in the Northwest. 1892 Nineteen lives lost in burning of surgical institute at Indianapolis. 1893 — Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii dethroned by revolutionists. 1894 Sixteen killed in railroad disaster in Province of Matanzas, Cuba. 1895 — Francois Felix Faure became President of France. 1896 — Gen. Martinez Campos resigned the captain generalship of Cuba. 1897 Spanish gunboat Reiampago destroyed by Cuban torpedoes. 1900 — U. S,. Senate ratified Samoan treaty with Germany. 1901 — United States government surrendered the defaulter, Neely, to Cuban authorities.... Hazing abolished at United States Military Academy at West Point. 1903 —German gunboat Panther bombarded a Venezuelan fort.... Congress suspended coal duties for one year. 1964—Joseph Chamberlain’s tariff commission met in London. 1905 —Attempt on the life of the Czar at the ceremony of the Blessing of the Neva.... Great Fall River strike ended.