Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1322 Edward 111. defeated the Barons ■at Boroughbridge. - 1369 —Peter of Castile defeated at Montiel. 1470 Lancastrians defeated at battle of Stamford (War of the Roses). 1471 Edward IV. of England returned from exile. 1507—Ceesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI., assassinated. 1614 —Bartholomew Legat burned at Smithfield for heresy. 1644 —Charter granted Rhode Island uniting it with Providence plantation. 1660 —The Long Parliament dissolved by its own act. 1744—The French and Indian war began in Canada. 1757 —Admiral John Byng of the English navy shot for failing to do his duty. .1780—Don Galvez, Spanish governor of New Orleans, captured Mobile from the English. 1781—Battle of Guilford Courthouse. 1802—Congress reduced the army to the peace establishment of 1796. 1804—United States land offices established at Kaskaskia,. 111., Vincennes, Ind., and Detroit. 1809—Gustavus Adolphus IV., King of Sweden, dethroned; succeeded by Charles XIII. 1820 — Maine admitted to the Union. 1821— Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia abdicated. 1823 —John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent, one of England’s greatest admirals, died. 1830 — Yucatan declared itself independent.... Congress provided for a boundary line between Louisiana and Arkansas. 1831 — Parliamentary reform bill introduced in the British House of Commons. 1843 The city of Victoria, B. C., founded by Gov. Douglas. 1844 — John Y. Mason of Virginia became Secretary of the Navy. 1854 —England, France and Turkey formed triple alliance against Russia. 1856 Ferry boat between Philadelphia and Camden sunk; 30 lives lost. 1857 — Railway suspension bridge between Toronto and Hamilton gave way; 77 lives lost. 1858— Orsini and Pietri guillotined for attempted assassination of Napoleon 111. 1861 — Island No. 10 bombarded. 1862 — Commodore Dupont took possession of Jacksonville, F1a.... Gen. Burnside attacked the Confederate fortifications at New Berne, N. C. 1863 — Unsuccessful attempt of Farragut’s fleet to pass Confederate bat teries at Port Hudson. 1865 Battle of Averysborough, N .0. 1866 — Georgia appropriated $200,000 to buy corn for the indigent poor of the State. 1871 —First legislative assembly of Province of Manitoba opened. 1875 —Archbishop McCloskey of New York created a Cardinal.... Gold discovered in Deadwood and Whitewood gulches, South Dakota. 1878 — England declared war on the Kaffirs in South Africa. 1879 Duke of Connaught married to Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. 1881 —Alexander 11. of Russia assassinated. - 1884 —Osman Digna’s forces began their retreat before the English army in the Soudan.... System of standard time adopted throughout America First through train over Mexican Central railroad. 1886 —Gen. Pope of United States army retired after fifty years’ service. 1891 —New Orleans mob lynched eleven Italians accused of murder of Chief of Police Hennessy. 1894 — Bland coinage bill passed the Senate... .British House of Commons adopted resolution advising abolition of the House of Lords. 1895 Negroes killed in ’longshoremen riots at New Orleans... .Illinois Supreme Court declared eight-hour law for women invalid. 1898—Eleven lives lost by the burning of the Bowery mission lodging bouse in New York. 1900 —Bloemfontein taken.... President McKinley signed the Gold Standard currency bill. 1904 —United States Supreme Court decided Northern Securities Company was illegal. 1906—Supreme Court decided witnesse* in anti-trust proceedings cannot be excused from testifying against their corporations.