Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1429 —English defeated by Joan of Aro Patay. 1497— -Cornish rebels defeated at Blackheath-. 1535—John Fisber beheaded for denying the supremacy of Henry VIII. 1043—Hampden killed at battle of Chal* grove. 1675—First stone laid for St. Paul’a qathedral in London . 1812— War between England and tha United States commenced. 1813 — Wellington defeated King Joseph of Spain at Vittoria. 1815—Power of Napoleon I. crushed at the battle of Waterloo. 1817 —Waterloo bridge, across tha Thames at London, formally opened. 1837 — Hanover separated from Great BritaiiTTly—the—accession of Queen Victoria. * 1838— James K. of New York became Secretary of the Navy. 1842 —Shanghai captured by the British. 1848— Isaac Toucey of Connecticut became Attorney. General of the United States. - 1849 Russians defeated the Hungarians at Pered. 1856 —-Republican national convention at Philadelphia nominated John C. Fremont of California and William L. Dayton of New Jersey. 1864 —The Alabama sunk by the federal gunboat Ivearsarge. 1887 —Steamer Champlain burned in Lake Michigan; 22 lives lost. ISB8 —Republican national convention a 4 A Chicago nominated Benjamin Harrison and Levi P.- Morton. 1890 —Mary Anderson, the actress, married to Antonio Navarro... .City ol Fort de France, Martinique, nearly k destroyed by fire.... England ceded Heligoland to Germany. 1893—Lizzie Borden acquitted of th« murder of her parents at Fall River, . Mass.

IS94—Many persons killed by an earthquake at Yokohama and Tokio* _Japan. 1895—Harlem ship canal, New York City, formally opened.... .Jury in the Laidlaw-Sage case returned verdict for the plaintiff for $40,000.... Baltic canal opened by Emperor Wll—liam.... The Rosebery Liberal ministry in England resigned. - 1897 — Queen Victoria began the celebration of her jubilee. 1898 — Thirty-seven spectators drowned at launching of the British battleship Albion. 1900 — Republican national convention at Philadelphia nominated McKinley and Roosevelt.... .First attack on the legations at Pekin by the Chinese. .. .Taku forts in China captured by the allies... .Baron von Ketteler, German minister to China, murdered by a mob in Pekin. 1901— Gen. Chaffee appointed military governor of the Philippines. 1902 — Serious riots at the strike of Silk dyers in Paterson, N. J. 1903 George White, a negro murderer, burned at the stake in Wilmington, De 1.... Great strike of textile operatives at Lowell, Mass., ended. 1905 —Eight persons killed in wreck of the Twentieth Century limited train in Ohio. 1006 —United States Senate approved of the lock canal for Panama.... King Haakon VII. and Queen Maud ol Norway crowned.