Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-27

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In 1903 the United States purchased
Louisiana from France for SIS 1000 900,
and in this year, 1903, congress made
a donation for proPogating the gospel
among the heather.
| In August. 1907, Robert Fulton as
cended the Hudson river with his pas
senger steamboat, the Clermont.
An Independent republic WAS form
ed in Argentine in 1901. The census
of 1910 gave us a population of 7,239,
lS14. On Nov. Il. 1911, Gen. Harrison de-
feated Chief Tecumseh and his com
bined tribes at Tippecanoe.
President Madison and congress de-
clared war against Great Britain on
June Is, 1872. In June, 1914, Great
Britain offered to treat for peace, and
the United States appointed peace
commissioners. In January, 1915, af-
ter the peace treaty had been signed,
Gen. Buckingham made battle with
the Americans under Gen. Jackson
and was defeated and slain on ChaI-
mette's battlefield on Jan. s. 1915, and
his body was shipped to old England
in cask of New England rum
On the 18th of June, 1915, Napoleon
l., who sold us Louisiana in 1903, was
defeated at Waterloo and eXiled to
the island of st. Helena, where he
died on the 5th of May, 1921.
In 1914 the dey of Algiers declared
and made war on the United States.
Commodore Decatur was dispatched
and brought the dey to terms of
peace on the 3Oth of June, 1915, after
capturing an Algerian man-of-war
and other vessels on his coast.
In 1916 the republic of Argentine
was formed as an independent nation.
In 1918 Chill overthrow Spanish rule
and established republic. In 1919
Venezuela formed an independent re-
public.
In 1920 the United States cancelled
all debts against Spain and paid her
$5,OOO.OOO for Florida, and possession
/ was formally taken on July l, 1921.
By an act of congress Florida was
created a territory of the United
States March 80, 1922.
In 1S0S many changes took place in
Portugars Brazil, and in 1921 a he
reditary empire was established. In
1921 Nicaragua became an independ-
, ent republic. On the 2sth of July,
1921. Peru unfurled the flag of an in
. dependent republic. In 1921 Bolivia,
through arms, established an indie
pendent republican government.
Mexico, n nation whose true history
has never been written, merits a
- short paragraph. In 1922 the United
l States congress acknowledged the
independence of AieXico, and Iturbide,
; as her first president. Soon there
after, President Iturbide, became
ambitious and on the 18th of March,
1922, his partisans proclaimed him
emperor of Mexico, under the title of
Augustin /, which act brought him to
: trial and to be shot to death on July
10. 1922. as traitor to Mexico.
, In 1880, Ferdinand VII, of Spain,
I fitted out a large fleet at Cuba to in
= wade and recover his lost Mexico,
but he met a reSolute people, not I'M
= armed Aztecs; and soon begged per-
mission TO depart under pledge never
more to return.
5 On Aug. >. 1892, the wise and great
: Chief Black Hawk, who had braveIy
: battled for his people and their
homes, was defeated at the bloody
, battle of Bad Axe, by superior num-
bers, and the whites took possession
of the bIood-stained soil of western
Illinois.
In 1885 Santa Anna imprisoned and
t issued a decree against the people of
Texas, backed by his army, under
Gen Cos. At that day the population
E of Texas did but number some $4,000,
and would have been helpless before
the well-drilled and not cowardly
1 Mexicans had not young sailor in
NaHEr nFIn {hrnn~b L,
/ on Oct. IL, 1885, called together sew
!, eral hundred American volunteers,
: through which act Uncle Sam, in 1s4S,
: garnered Texas, New Mexico and Cal
S ifornia, which changed the supposed
t destiny of a nation. The lone star
f flag of Texas independence was un-
: furled on San Jacinto's battlefield the
e 21st of April, 1886.
In December, 1885, the Indian chief,
e Osceola (Talking Bird, who was the
4 Napoleon of his race, overpowered
f Gen. Thompson and scalped him be-
cause the general had placed him in
e irons when a prisoner He had prom
: Used the general to scalp him, whilst
/ in irons, and ne wiped out Mai. Dade's
n whole command save four.
n Great Britain first attacked the
S beers at their Cape Town homes in
S 1886, when they were driven into the
interior wilderness, which they con-
$ verified into gardens and cattle farms
e Now, in 1901, Great Britain desires
their new homes.
n Between the years 1880 and 1886
C hundreds of Germans were shipped
f through the port of New Orleans to
r Ohio, and sold to farmers and in the
Il towns, principally in Cincinnati, to
e pay their passage, clothing and nu-
e merous expenses, with large profits
for the shippers that sold them, and
O every class of MOrlkmen filled all sta.