Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTOPIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTOPIAN

1355 —Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, executed. 1662 —Royal Society of England incorporated. " 1763 —Georgia. Savannah, first issued. 1775—Battle of Lexington, first engagement in the American Revolutionary war. 1806 —Admiral Villeneuve, Nelson’s antagonist at Trafalgar, commuted suicide while a prisoner in England. 1809 —Austrians defeated by Napoleon at Abensberg, Bavaria. 1841 — First handicap steeplechase race run in England. 1842 — Gen. Pollock entered Jellalabad with his troops. 1861—Virginia seceded from the Union. 1874 —Mad Lucas, the Hertfordshire hermit, immortalized by Dickens, found dead. 1880 —Afghans defeated by the British at Ahmed Khel. 1883 —Parliament buildings at Quebec burned. 1889 — Oklahoma land opened to settlement by presidential proclamation. 1890 — First Pan-American cppference closed at Washington. 1891— proclaimed the expulsion of the Jews from M05c0w..... - White Star steamship Teutonic broke transAtlantic record. 1893 — Australian Joint Stock bank failed for $65,000,000. 1894 — Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh married to Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. 1895 — Pefry, escaped train robber, captured at Weehawken, N. J. 1896 International Arbitration Congress met at Washington. 1897 — Attempt made to assassinate King Humbert of Italy at Rome.... Turkey declared war against Greece. 1898— Spurgeon’s Tabernacle in London destroyed by fire.... Gen. Joaquin Crespo, ex-president of Venezuela, killed in battle. 1899 — Resolutions introduced in Massachusetts Legislature revoking the order banishing Roger Williams in 1635. 1901 —Severe floods at Pittsburg and Cincinnati. 1903 -Massacre of Jews at Kishineff, Russia... .Andrew Carnegie gave $1,500,000 to erect Temple of Peace . at The Hague. 1904 — Fire in Toronto destroyed $lO,000,000 worth of property. 1606—rrof. Curie, discoverer of radium, killed by an accident in Paris.... Large part of San Francisco destroyed by earthquake and fire.