Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1120 —Prince William, son of Henry I. of England, drowned in the White Ship. 1237 —Frederick IT. defeated the Milanese at Corte Nuova. 1382—French defeated the Flemings at Rogbeeque. 1499 —Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, beheaded.' 7; 1520—'Magellan enter the Pacific ocean. 1628—John Felton, assassin of the Duke of Buckingham, executed. 1691 —The French retook Acadia. 1703—England visited by one of the worst storms ever recorded. 1706 —Colonial assembly of North Carolina repealed acts of intolerance. 1765—The landing of revenue stamps at— Brunswick, N. C., resisted. 1776 —Washington’s army occupied Trenton. ..... ■ ; 1778—Washington'went into winter quarters at Middlebreok, N. J. 1782—Franklin and his colleague* signed a preliminary -treaty of-peace with Z Great Britain. 1802—Ohio admitted to the Union by authority of Congress. 1801—Impeachment trial began of Justice Samuel Chase of the United States Supreme Court. 1808 —Sir Francis Nathaniel Burton took office as Lieutenant Governor ot, upper Canada. 1814 —Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at Autosse, Ala... The London Times used the first rotary steam press. 1824 —Henrc Fauntleroy, a banker, executed in London for forgery. 1830—Beginning of the Polish revolution. 1832—First street railway car exhibited and operated. 1845—British Parliament passed the Aberdeen act, to enforce the observU* p convention jmade with Brazil - f h* alay * trade.. . .Famous Fleet prison, London, demolished, after nearly eight hundred centuries’ existence. 1854 Railway communication established between Montreal and Point Levis, Quebec. 1855 Kars surrendered to the Russians under Mouravieff. IS62—Gen. Grant started on his expedition into Mississippi. 1863 —Gen. Burnside defeated Gen. Longstreet in an action south of the Hoiston river... .Gen. Longstreet made a gallant but unsuccessful attack on Fort Sanders, 1808 —Gen. Custer defeated the rebellious Indians on the W’ichita river. 1873—The Hoosac tunnel completed. 1878 —Gov. Jackson -sent troops into Breathitt county. Kentucky, to suppress feud troubles. 1885 —Hostilities ceased between Servia and Bulgaria. 1889 —Welland canal opened. 1898— Marshal Blanco resigned the office of captain general of Cuba. 1899 Battle of Modder river. 1906 —Samuel Spencer, president of tho Southern railway, killed in a wreck.