Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1907 — THE WEEK HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEK HISTORIAN

1495—French defeated the Italians a* Fornovo. 1540 —De Soto entered Alabama territory. 1630 —Fifteen hundred colonists arrived at Boston Bay. 1644 Prince Rupert defeated at Marston Moor. * 1645 Montrose defeated the Covenanters at Alford. 1758 —Lord Howe killed in ambuscade near Ticonderoga... .British embarked on expedition against Ticonderogaand Crown Point. 1775 — Gen. Washington assumed command of the Continental army at Cambridge. 1776 Continental Congress adopted resolution of independence. 1777 — Americans abandoned Fort Ticonderoga. 1779—New Haven captured by American force under Gov. Tyron of New York. 1785—Congress established the standard of the American dollar. 1812 —Captain David Porter, U. S. N, sailed on an expedition against ths British. 1814—-British surrendered Fort Erie.... Americans victorious over British at battle of Chippewa. 1830 —French took possession of Algiers. 1832 United States Congress passed a bill to recharter the national banks 1833 Reaping machines first publicly exhibited in Hamilton county, N. T. 1837 —Grand Junction railway from Liverpool to Birmingham opened. 1839—First normal school in America opened at Lexington, Mass. 1842 —Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by an insane youth named Bean. 1845 President requested to send an army for the protection of Texas. 1846 Buffalo connected by telegraph. 1856 —House of Representatives voted for the admission of Kansas with a > free soil constitution. / 1864—Sherman’s troops occupied Kenesaw mountain... .Congress chartered the Northern Pacific Railway Company. 1868—Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour for President. 1881—President Garfield assassinated at Washington by Charles Guiteau. 1890 — House of Representatives passed the Lodge Force bill. 1891— City Treasurer Bardsley of Philadelphia sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment.... Nineteen person* killed by collision of trains at Ravenna, Ohio. 1803 —Prince of Wales married to th* Princess Victoria of Teck.... Lieut. Peary’s expedition left New York for the Arctic regions. 1897 — Strike of coal miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 1898 — Chicago daily newspapers suspended publication on account of stereotypers’ strike. Spanish fleet destroyed off Santiago. 1900 — Democratic national convention at Kansas City nominated Bryan and Stevenson. 1901— Cornell won the intercollegiate boat race at Poughkeepsie. 1909 —Cuba ceded two naval stations to the United States. 1904 — People’s party national convention at Springfield, 111., nominated Thomas E. Watson of Georgia for President. 1905 Elibu Root appointed Secretary of State.