Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1153—Death of David 1., King of th* Scots, at Carlisle. 1402—Scots defeated at Nesblt, 1502—Columbus Bailed on his fourth voyage to the New World. 1534—Hessians defeated Austrians at Lauffen. 1568 —Mary Queen of Scots defeated at battle of Langside. 1607 —English colonists began to build at Jamestown.

1645—Montrose defeated the Covenanters at battle of Auldean. 1763 —The Indian chief Pontiac began his blockade of Detroit. 1670 Hudson Bay Company founded. 1671 Col. Thomas Blood made a daring attempt to steal the Crown jewels from the Tower of London. 1781 —The Spaniards captured Pensacola, Florida, from the British. 1783—Society of the Cincinnati organized.

1797—Walter Colton, who made the first public announcement of the discovery of gold in California, bom in Rutland, Vt. Died Jan. 22, 1851. 1800 —John Marshall of Virginia became Secretary of State. 1810—First agricultural exhibition in the United States opened at Georgetown, D. C. 1812—Mr. Perceval, British premier, assassinated by Bellingham. 1843—Hugh S. Legare of South Carolina became Secretary of State. 1846—Battle of Palo Alto, first engagement in the war with Mexico. 1848— Daniel Webster resigned as Secretary of State. 1849 Astor Place riots made by friends of Edwin Forrest to break up Macready’s acting at Astor Place Opera House.

1853—Jacob Burnet, one of the early Whig leaders in the Senate, died. Bora 1770 First transatlantic steamer arrived at Quebec. 1857—Outbreak of the Indian mutiny at Meerut... .Delhi captured by the Sepoys. 1861—Baltimore occupied by federal troops. 1864 Battle of Rrurys Bluff, Va.... Sheridan’s famous raid commenced. 1865 Capture of Jefferson Davis at Irwinvilie, Ga. 1871—Treaty of Washington signed, providing for the settlement of the Alabama claims. 1876 —Opening of the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. 1880 —Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt appointed first High Commissioner for Canada in London. 1882—Dominion government created the four provisional districts now comprising the western provinces of Al- — berjg and Saskatchewan. 1889 —Father Damien died at the leper settlement in the Sandwich Islands. 1891 —Cardinal Martinelli invested with the red berretta at Baltimore... .The Chilean steamer Itata escaped from the harbor of San Diego, Cal. 1893 — Earl of Aberdeen became governor general of Canada.... Carlyle W. Hams, the murderer <tf Helen Potts, executed at Sing Sing. 1894 — Several villages . destroyed and 11,000 lives lost by earthquake in Venezuela. 1895 Treaty of peace between Japan and China ratified at Chefoo. 1896 — H. H. Holmes, the multi-murderer, executed at Philadelphia. 1897 French steamship Ville de St. Nazaire foundered off Cape Hatteras, With loss of many lives... .The powintervened in the war between Turkey and Greece... .Turkish army occupied Volo....United States Supreme Court decided the Berliner patent case in favor of the Bell Telephone Company. 1898 — China paid the last of the war indemnity to Japan. 1899 Fatal collision on the Reading railroad ; 25 killed and many injured. 1902 —Eruption of Mont La Soufriere, St. Vincent’s; 2,000 lives 105 t.... Thirty thousand lives lost by ths eruption of Mont Pelee, Martinique. 1905 —Tornado at Snyder, Okla., killed 100 people, and injured many others. 1900— Anthracite miners In Pennsylvania accepted terms offered by ths operators.