Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — THE WEEKLY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY

1066—Harold 11., last Saxon King of England, killed at the Battle of Hastings. 1354 —Cola di Rienzi, who thrice became ruler of Rome, assassinated. 1399 —Order of the Bath instituted by Henry IV. 1492—Columbus discovered America. 1514—Marriage of Louis XII. of France and Princess Mary of England. 1531—Zwinglius slain at Oappel. 1571—Dan Juan defeated the Turks at Lepanto, 1575—Guise defeated the Huguenots at Dormans. 1612 —De Spissons, first Viceroy of New France, appointed to office. 1614 —Charter granted the New Netherlands Company. TW—navigation act. 1655—Massachusetts passed an act prohibiting the immigration of Quakers. 1668—Bishop Laval founded the seminary at Quebec. 1682 —La Barre appointed Governor of Canada. 1689 —Frontenac arrived at Quebec to become for the second time governor of Canada. s ■ 1691—King William granted a new charter to Massachusetts. 1709 —Mons taken by the Allies. 1735 — John and Charles Wesley sailed from England for America. 1736 — New Hampshire’s first newspaper issued at Portsmouth. 1759—Eddystone lighthouse completed. 1765—Anti-Stamp act Congress met in New York City. 1774 — Virginians defeated the Shawnee* at battle of Point Pleasant, on the , Ohio. 1775 — British vessels fired on Bristol. ' R. L 1776 — Americans defeated by British in battle on Lake Champlain. 1780 —Four thousand perished In a great hurricane in the Barbadoes. 1782 —John Adams concluded a treatywith Holland. . 1806 —French defeated th* Prussians at battle of Jena. 1812 —Defeat of the American force at Queenstown... .Drury Lane theater in London rebuilt and opened. 1817 —John C. Calhoun of North Carolina became Secretary of War. 1826 —First horse power railway in th* United States completed at Quincy, Mass. 1836 — United States bank at Philadelphia failed as result of cotton specnlation. 1837 — Steamer Home, New York for Charleston, wrecked with loss of 100 lives. 1840 — William I. of Holland abdicated. 1841— John C. Spencer of New York became Secretary of War... .Alex-; ander MacLeod, implicated in th* burning of the Caroline in 1837, tried • for murder and arson at Utica, N. Y., and acquitted. 1854—Abraham Lincoln challenged Ste-, phen A. Douglas to debate. » 1858—First overland mail arrived in St. Louis from San Francisco. • 1860 —Chinese war brought to a clos*» by the surrender of Pekin to Lord < Elgin... .Prince of Wales received, in New York. 1867 —Russia transferred Alaska to th* United States. 1870— Rome incorporated with Italy by royal decree. 1871 — President Grant issued a proclamation against the Ku-Klux-Klan in South Carolina. » , 1877 —First locomotive entered WinnL - peg, Manitoba. 1883— Two-cent letter postage went into effect in the United States... .John . Laurence Smith, American scientist who taught the farmers of Turkey . how to raise cotton, died at Louisville. 1884 — New Parliament buildings in Quebec wrecked by dynamite. 1885 — Flood Rock, Hell Gate, New York harbor, destroyed by dynamite. 1886— Many persons perished in a gal* that swept Texas and the Southwest' 1898—Atlantic transport steamer Mohegan wrecked with loss of 108 live*. .... Naval board decided the battl* of Santiago was fought on the plana of Admiral Sampson.