Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1492—Columbus discovered the island now called San Domingo and Hayti. 1512 —The British admiralty office established* by Henry VIII. IGSo—Penn, colonists met at Chester to organize the territory; — - 1754—Prussians defeated the Austrians and Saxons at battle of Lissa. 1775—American force appeared before Quebec. 1777—-New Jersey’s first newspaper issued at Burlington. 1780 —Gen. Nathaniel - Greene assumed command of the Southern army. 1783—Washington took leave of the officers of the army. 1787 —Delaware, the first State, ratified the constitution. 1796 —Washington delivered his last address to Congress. 1804 —Napoleon I. crowned in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris. 1810 —Mauritius taken by the English. 1814 —Gen. Jackson took command of American forces at New Orleans. 1829—'Suttee, the' Hindu rite of burning a widow on the funeral pyre of her husband, abolished in India. 1838 —French evacuated Vera Cruz. 1850 —Gen. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, arrived in New York. 1855*—Railway communication opened between Hamilton and Toronto, On-

Jtario.__ 1859 —John Brown executed.... Province of Queensland, Australia, established. ISGl—Secretary of the Treasury Chase recommended a rearrangement of the national banking system. 1863 —Gen. Longstreet raised the siege of Knoxville. 1565-—United States protested against the French occupation of Mexico. 1866 —Great reform demonstrations bj London trades unions. ISGS—Disraeli ministry resigned and Gladstone became premier. 1873 —Serious riots at Vicksburg, Miss. 1870 —President — Grant recommended non-sectarian and compulsory education in his message to Congress. 1876 —Daniel H. Chamberlain sworn in as Governor o£ South Carolina.... Several hurijred lives lost in the burning of the Brooklyn theater. ISBl—Electric street lights introduced in Philadelphia. 1882 —Royal Courts of Justice opened by Queen Victoria. 1886 —Panic on the Stock Exchange in San Francisco. 1889 —Henry M. Stanley arrived at Zanzibar on his return from an exploring expedition to central Africa—. John J. Ingalls introduced the Chicago World’s Fair bill in Congress. 1891 —Great damage by forest fires in California. 1893 -Senate called upon President Cleveland for all correspondence in the Hawaiian matter. 1894 — U.-S. Treasury reserve reached its highest mark in years, standing at ?111,142,000. 1896 — Defeat of the Cuban insurgents and death of the rebel leader, Maceo. 1897 — German marines took possession of Kiao Clian, China. 1905—Massacre of Jews at Kiev, Russia.