Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1322 —Bavarians defeated the Austrian* at Muhldorf. 1396—Turks defeated the GUristians at Nicopolis. 1459 — Yorkists victorious at Bkxreheath. (War of the Roses.) 1493 —Columbus sailed from Cadiz ap ■ . his second expedition to America. 1513 —Balboa discovered the Pacific ocean. 1565—-Menedez, the Spanish conqueror of Florida, murdered 200 shipwrecked French. 1597—City of Amieiis taken by Spanish and English. 1630 —Death of Ambrosia, Marquis of _l. Spinola, the great Spanish captain. 1664—-The French In America made their first treaty with the Iroquois Indians. 1690 —“Publick Occurrences,” first newspaper printed in America, issued at j - Boston. —— » 1692 —Martha Cory hanged at Salem, Mass., for witchcraft. >: 1732 —First issue of The Rhode Island Gazette. 1743—G0v. Clinton dissolved the New York Legislature.

1759 —The Tilbury wrecked eff St. Meprit, Cape Breton, with loss of 200 lives... .Military force irons Carolina attacked the Cherekees 4r» Tennessee and destroyed many of their towns. d 'i. at.'- .'-M 1763 —Montagu Wilmot succeeded Jonathan Belcher as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. 1774 -Massachusetts Legislature dinsolved by the [royalist governor. 1775 — The Americans made an unsuo- = ceesful attack on MontrenL 1779 — Savannah, Ga., besieged by the -French fleet and a part of • the Southern army.... John Jay chosen aw the American commissioner to Spain... .Paul Jones, with the Bonbomme Richard, defeated the British frigate Serapis off the coast of SW?" land.. 1780 — Major Andre, who plotted with Benedict Arnold for the betrayal of West Point, captured near Tarrytown .... Benedict Arnold fled to thn British sloop Vulture. 1781 — Washington’s army and the French allies arrived at Yorktown and began the siege. 1789 —Thomas Jefferson of Virginia became Secretary of State. 1803 — Wellington’s victory at Ajmaye. 1804 — The remodeling of the Whits House at Washington spaa started. 1813 — Gen. William Henry Harrison invaded Canada from Detroit. 1814 — James Monroe of Virginia became acting Secretary of War. 1815 — The Holy Alliance ratified at Paris. 1829 —Thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified by a two-thirds vote A mill for * cleaning rice was invented by Karen el of South Carolina. 1831 —Anti-Masons nominated a national ticket at Baltimore. 1843— Fremont’s expedition reached tha Columbia river, in Oregon. 1846 —The planet Neptune discovered.... Monterey, Mexico, surrendered to the Americans. 1854 —Russians closed the harbor of Sevastopol by sinking ships in the entrance.... Allies advanced upon Balaklava... .Over 300 lives lost by collision of a British at earner and a French bark near Cape Race. I860— "Black Friday," financial panic an result of attempt to corner gold. 1871 —Joint high commission organised at Washington to afljuot private claims against Great Britain and the United States growing out of the Civil War.

1874 —Typhoon at Ilongkong resulted in loss of over 1,000 live*. 1881—National fast day appointed for the death of President •arfield. 1884 — ifcq/ ihon colony hi Wilma county, Tenu., ordered by regulators to lea to the State. 1802 —Nancy Hanks trotted a mile In 2:04 at Terre Haute, Ind. 1805 —Alleged Cuban filibusters acquitted by a jury at Wilmington, Del. 1808 —Chile and Argentina agreed to submit- their boundary dispute to arbitration. 1004 —Don Jose Pardo proclaimed Proat*Bt flt