Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1521—Island of Guam discovered by Magellan. 156 G—David Rizzio, secretary to Mary Queen of Scots, murdered by Lord Darnley. 1678 —Ghent surrendered to Louis XIV. of Frances 1702—King William 111. died and Queen Anne came to the throne of England. 1732—Kouli Khan usurped the Persian throne. . 1765— The stamp act passed by the British House of Lords. 1792 —Gustavus 111. of Sweden assassinated. 1801—British naval and military expedition arrived in Aboukir Bay, Egypt. ... . British defeated the French at battle of Aboukir, Egypt. ...James Madison of Virginia became Secretary of State. 1811—British defeated French at battle of Barrosa, in Spain. 1814—-Lord"Wellington defeated the French and entered Bordeaux.... Battle of Laon, in which Napoleon was defeated by Marshal Blucher. 1822—President Monroe recommended recognition of independence of Mexico and the South American States. 1825—Henry Clay of Kentucky became , Secretary of State. . 1829 — Catholic emancipation proposed in England.... John McPherson Berrien of Georgia became Attorney Generab of United States. 1830 — -Petroleum discovered in Kentucky, bottled and sc<d as a medicine.... The “Book of Mormon,” written by Solomon Spaulding, published in New York.. First gold from Georgia mines received at United States mint. 1836 — Arkansas adopted a constitution. .... Massacre of the Alamo. 1837- —Bank of British North America opened its first office at Montreal. 1842 —Income tax proposed by Sir Robert Peel. 1844 John C. Calhoun of South Carolina became Secretary of State.... First issue of the Toronto Globe. 1845 Steamboat Swallow wrecked in Hudson river, with loss of many lives. 1847 —Battle of Vera Cruz. 1849 — Thomas Ewing of Ohio took office as first Secretary of the Interior. 1850— Robert Stephenson sent the first locomotive through the Britannia tubular bridge over the Menai straits. 1853 — Jefferson Davis of Mississippi became Secretary of War. 1854 — Election riots in Milwaukee ' be-, tween Germans and Irish. 1855 — First steam fire engine exhibited in Baltimore. 1856 — Co vent Garden theater, London, destroyed by fire. 1859—Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee became Postmaster General of the United States. 1861— Gen. Beauregard took command of the troops at Charleston. 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge... .Battle of the Merrimac and Monitor in Hampton Roads.... Gen. McClellan took command of the Army of the Potomac. 1863 — Princess Alexandra of Denmark arrived in England to become the bride of the Prince of Wales. 1864 — Reservoir near Sheffield, England, burst, and 270 persons drowned. 1866—Queen Victoria instituted the Albert medal as reward for heroic actions among mariners. 1868 —Impeachment court convened to try President Johnson; 1871 —Treaty of Washington, between the United States and England. 1874 —First meeting of the Prince Edward Island Legislature. 1878 — Steamer Sphinx burned and sunk on Island of Cyprus; 700 lives lost. 1879 — Peruvian port of Iquique blockaded by Chile. 1866—Knights of Labor strike on the Gould South Western railroad systern.

1889 —King Milan of Servia abdicated in favor of his son. 1891 —France consented to arbitration on Newfoundland fisheries question. 1895—Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt secured an absolute divorce from her husband... .Harry Hayward convicted in Minneapolis of the murder of Catherine Ging. 1897 — Queen Ranavalona 111. of Madagascar exiled by the French. 1898 — China leased Port Arthur to Russia for ninety-nine years. 1900 — Theater Francais in Paris destroyed by fire. 1901— Great Britain declined to accept Senate amendments to Hay-Paunce-fote treaty. *’ 1905 General strike of elevated railroad employes in New York City. 1906 American troops killed 600 Moros in battle near Jolo. Howard M. Shaw, now in custody at Brooklyn as an absconder with $5,000 from the Jenkins Trust Company, saved the life of his captor. President Tomlinson of the Empire State Surety Company, when be fell overboard from a boat In Chesapeake bay.

rAfr Tore Hi» Faee. After he stepped out of his machine at Ormond, Friflay, two miles beyond the finish. Marriott said: ' "The pressure of the air fairly tore my face. My eves felt as though they were melting, even 4 under my wind glasses. .... ._ “I gripped the steering wheel like the, last thread of life, croubhed so that nothing but my goggles were above the top of the hooded car, ami clung-there till I thought it was over. I- didp’t see the finish or hear the crack of the pistol. My ears w’ere stricken -•numb for the time being, and all senses but one—to hold the steering wheel, steady—left me. “Toward the end it seemed as though the top of my head would be taken away.”—New Y’ork World.