Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1907 — THEWEEKLY HIDTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THEWEEKLY HIDTORIAN

1312—Suppression of the OrdeT of Knights Templar by a papal decree. 1421 —French defeated British at battle of Anjou. 1540 —Thomas Seymour, lord high Admiral of England, attainted and beheaded. 1678—Ypres, in Belgium, surrendered to the French after a siege of seven days. 1752 —First issue of The Halifax Gazette, first newspaper printed in Canada. 1765—The British stamp act became law. 1791 —British under Cornwallis took Bangalore, India, by storm. 1799—Princess of Furstenberg killed at the battle of Stoekache. ISO1 —Paul, Czar of Russia, assassinated.... Sir Ralph Abercromby mortally wounded at battle of Alexandria. 1807—Alexandria taken by the British under Fraser. . * 1810—Bonaparte issued a general amnesty to prisoners of state in France. 1815—Sloop of war Hornet captured British warship Penguin off Cape of Good Hope. 1820—Commodore Stephen Decatur mortally wounded in duel with Commodore James Barrow... .Jesuits banished from Russia by decree of Czar Alexander.

1831—Austrian troops entered Bologna and subdued Italian revolution. 1834 —First issue of the “New Yorker,” by Horace Greeley and two associates. 1836—C01. Fannin, Texas soldier, surrendered to the Mexicans with 500 men, who were massacred one week later. 1838—Sir George Arthur took office as lieutenant governor of upper Canada. .... Sir Francis Bond Head resigned office as lieutenant governor of upper Canada. 1841—Duke of Clarence defeated and killed by the Earl of Buchan. 1847—Bombardment of Vera Cruz, Mexico, began by American ships. 1849—Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, abdicated in favor of his son. 1852—“ Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in book form.

1854 Two shocks of earthquake felt at Macon. Ga. A 1855 — The Arabs defeated at Hasheon.. Unsuccessful attempt at revolution made in San Domingo .Ramon Pinto, eminent Cuban lawyer, garrotted at Havana for conspiracy against the government. 18G2 —Battle of Winchester. 1863 John Morgan, with 4,000 men, defeated near Milton, Tenn., by troops under Col. Hall. 1864 Battle of Henderson. 1865 Fort Stedman taken by the Confederates and retaken by.,the Union troops. 1877 —John D. Lee, convicted of complicity in the Mountain Meadow massacre, executed. ISBl—Opera house at Nice burned, sixty--T— two lives lost. 1882— Edmunds law. aimed at Mormonism in Utah, passed. 1883 — Chinese troops attacked the capital of Tonquin, in French possessions. 1801 —Prince Napoleon buried at Turin. 1892—C01. Barnaby crossed English channel in a balloon... .Standard Oil trust dissolved. 1803-—Mayor of Moscow assassinated. 1895 —Manitoba defied the Dominion government ter enforce its order to restore to Roman Catholics the separate schools. 1897 — Christian and Turks fought near Malaxa, Crete... .Fleets of the powers began the blockade, of Crete, 1898— Ten lives lost in hotel fire at Butte, Mont. .Forty-eight seal hunters perished on ice floe off Bay de Vgide, N. F. 1899 — Mrs. Place electrocuted at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter.... France and England signed agreement on Nile boundary question. 1890 —Great in South Carolina. 1900 — Canadian troops arrived at Cape Town to engage in war with the Boers. 1901 — Eighteen people killed in tornado at Birmingham, Ala. 1903—Irish land hill introduced into the British House of Commons.... Mississippi New Orleans reached height of 19.8 feet.