Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1673 Sir Edmund Andros assumed the x government of New York. 1674 New York City evacuated by the Batch; 1075—Carteret resumed the government from which he bad been expelled in East Jersey. 1685—La Salle and Wfa followers left the Lavaca river on the Gulf coast in search of the Mississippi. 1687 —Gov. Andros of New York arrived at Hartford and demanded the sorter. 1764 Massachusetts appointed Dennis Deberdt its agent in London. 1765 Governors of all the Colonies except Rhode Island took oath to execute the Stamp act. tf9S--=Mine; Rirfand guillotined... .First newspaper Issued 1& Ohio, e«H«d = “Sentinel of the Northwest Territory,” and published at Cincinnati. 1803—Frigate Philadelphia ran on a reef and officers and crew made prisoner* by the Moors. 1806 —Revolutionary outbreak in San Domingo. 1814 —Gen. Andrew Jackson appeared before Pensacola, Fla., to drive out th* British. 1830—Political panic in England, resulting in the downfall of the Wellington ministry. 1834 —Construction work commenced on tee New York and Erie railroad. 1836 —Green’s fomarkable balloon trip from ..London to Nassau in eighteen 5 hours. 1840 —Disastrous earthquake at Zante. 1840 —Prince of Wales (King Edward VII.) made first public appearance at the opening of the new coal exchange in London. 1855—Jeddo, Japan, destroyed by an earthquake. 1857—Failure of the Western Bank of •Scotland. 1860 — Abraham Lincoln elected Ppresident of the United States. 1861 — General election held m the Confederate States under the permanent constitution.... Mason and Slidell, the Confederate commissioners, taken from the steamer Trent. 1862 — French government proposed that England and Russia mediate between the North and South. 1864 —Austria and Denmark signed a peace treaty.... Nevada admitted to the Union as the thirty-sixth State .... Gen. George B. McClellan resigned his commission in the United States army. hM 1872 Beginning of the great Boston fire. 1873 Alexander Mackenzie formed his government in Canada.... Winnipeg, Manitoba, incorporated as a city.... Last execution at Tyburn, when John Austen was hanged for robbery. 1882 —Grover Cleveland elected Governor of New York. 1885—Steamer Algoma wrecked on Lake Superior with loss of thirty-seven lives. 1386 —Over 10,000 packing house employes went on strike against increase of hours. 1887-r-Four of the Haymarket Anarchists executed at Chicago. 1889 —Washington admitted to statehood by proclamation of President Harrison Montana admitted as a State of the Union... .Free mail delivery extended to all cities in the United States having 5,000 inhabitants. 1893 —Extradition treaty between the United States and Norway ratified. 1893 —Largest grain elevator in the world completed at Buffalo. 1899 —British victory at Ladysmith.