Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — THE WEEKLY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY

1460—Lancastrians victorious at Wakofield. (War of the Roses.) 1600—British East India Company chartered. 1766—James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the throne of England, died in Rome. 1775—Gen. Montgomery killed before Quebec. „ 1777—Washington surprised and defeat* ed the British at Princeton, N. J. 1780 — Benedict Arnold appointed a brigadier general in the British army. 1781— Congress chartered the Bank of North America. 1700 —Second session Of the first Congress opened in New York. 1793—Treaty between Russia and Prussia for the second partition of Poland.... Thomas Jefferson resigned as Secretary of State. 1813—British burned Black Rock and Buffalo. 1825—Parliament buildings in Toronto burned. 1851—Louis Kossuth, Hungarian patriot, spoke before Congress at Washington. 1853 —Gadsden purchase made by treaty. 1857 — Canada adopted the decimal system of public accounts. 1858— The Lecompton constitution in Kansas submitted to the popular vote and rejected. 1861— E. G. Spaulding of New York introduced in the House the original legal tender bill. 1862 — Ericsson’s Monitor foundered off Cape Hatteras in a storm, with loss of sixteen lives. 1872 —Brigham Young, leader of the Mormons, surrendered himself for triiL 1877 —Cornelius Vanderbilt, Americas financier, died Queen Victoria instituted the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, for ladies, i 1885—Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia invested with the pallium. 1887—Five million dollars in property destroyed by fire in Rome, Italy. 1889 —Horatio Allen, who ran the first railroad locomotive In America, died in New Jersey. 1892 Women admitted to diplomas at the British Royal College of Surgeons. 1893 President Harrison issued a proclamation of amnesty to Mormons liable to prosecution for polygamy who will refrain from polygamous marriage. 1894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, originator of the “bloomer” costume for women, died at Council Bluffs, lowa. 1895 Public degradation of Dreyfus a* Paris. 1897 —Gen. Sir Henry Havelock Alias killed by Afridis on the Indian frontier. 1903 —Iroquois theater, Chicago, burned. With loss of 587 lives.