Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1450 —French defeated the English at Formigni. 1512—GastondeF at the battle of Ravenna. 1606—King James I. issued two land patents for “The First and Second Colonies” in North America. ieS— -The parliamentary forces victori- i ous at the battle of Selby. 1670 —Staten Island bought for the Duke of York. 1709 —First number of The Tattler appeared. 1713—Treaty of Utrecht, terminating the wars of Queen Anne. 1741—Prussians defeated the Austrians at the battle of Molwitz. 1747—Simon Fraser (Lord Lovat) executed for his part in the rebellion of 1745. 1768—One-quarter of the city of Montreal destroyed by fire. 1782 —Admiral Rodney defeated De Grasse and the French fleet in the West Indies.. .Naval battle between Hyder Ali and Gen. Monk. 1805 —Alliance of St. Petersburg... .Bey of Algiers declared war against Spain... .... Aaron Burr arrived at Blennerhassett’S Island, in the Ohio river. 1813 — Mobile captured from the Spanish. 1814 — French defeated by Wellington at battle of Toulouse.—British army entered Toulouse, France. 1818 —King Christian IX. of Denmark born. Died Jan. 29, 1906. 1830 — Omnibus first used as a public conveyance in New York... .President Bustamente of Mexico forbade further immigration from the United States. 1831 — Russians defeated in battle near Siedloe, in Poland. 1841 —Halifax, N. S., incorporated as a city. 1847 —Present Houses of Parliament in London first used by the Peers. 1854 —France and England signed a treaty for the defense of the Ottoman empire.... The town of San Salvador destroyed by an earthquake. 1865—Mobile, Ala., captured by the federals.. ..Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court house, Virginia... .Raleigh, N. G., surrendered to the federal army.... Montgomery, Ala., surrendered to the federals. 1868—Magdala stormed by the British under Sir Robert Napier. 1874 Murat Halstead arrested in Cincinnati for publishing a lottery advertisement in his newspaper. 1875 Paul Boynton made unsuccessful attempt to swim the English channel.... Martial law declared in the Pennsylvania mining region. 1884 —Gen. Gordon close pressed by the" Arabs near Khartoum. 1891 — First locomotive passed through the St. Clair tunnel... .Beginning of the second century of patents in the United States celebrated in Washington. 1892 Six thousand houses destroyed by fire in Tokio, Japan.. .United States government paid $25,000 indemnity to the families of the Italians lynched at New Orleans. 1893 — Complete Syrian text of the four gospels of the New Testament discovered in the Mount Sinai convent .... American protectorate in Tawaii ended Japan seized the Pellew islands in the North Pacific. 1894 — President Cleveland issued the Bering sea proclamation. 1895 American itttc steamship St. Paul launched at Philadelphia. 1897—Greater New York charter passed by New York State Senate... .Five lives lost and $2,000,000 in property destroyed by fire in Knoxville, Tenn. 1900 — Charles U. Allen appointed Governor of. Tor to Rico. 1901— Civil jurisdiction in the Transvaal inaugurated. 1902 — Convention signed at Pekin between China and Russia, the latter agreeing to evacuate Manchuria. 1903 — Moro tart, at Bncalod, Philippines, captured by American soldiers. 1904 — German troops In Southwest Africa defeated 3,000 Hereros.... .Andrew Carnegie established his $5,000,000 “hero fund"... .Russian battleship Pctropavlovski sunk by mine near Tort Arthur... .Anglo-French Colonial treaty signed in London. 1005 —American Ambassador Joseph H. Choate elccted'a Bencher of the Middle Temple, London. 1906 —Greene and Gaynor found guilty at Savannah, Ga.