Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1913 — Page 2

The CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

•January 27, 1863. j Bloomfield, Mo., was visited by the Sixty-Eighth Missouri militia, and • large number of'Confederate partisans driven from the town, with a loss of fifty-two prisoners, seventy horses with their trappings, and a hundred stands of arms. The Unionists met with no loss. Port McAllister, on Genesis Point, ■Great Ogeecbee river, FJa.,was attacked by the monitor Montauk, under the command of Captain John L. "Worden, three gunboats, and a mortar schooner. The attack was repulsed after a bombardment of many hours, which failed to reduce the defenses appreciably. A. D. Boileau, proprietor of the (Philadelphia Evening Journal, was arrested by order of the National government and taken to Washington. Captain Williamson of General Weitsel’s brigade had a fight with a small body of Confederate troops at Indian Village, on the Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana, and succeeded in ’routhig them without great loss to the Union force. January 28, 1863. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at St Louis, Mo., to ratify the emancipation proclamation. The National Brigadier General tSchofleld sent the following message tq General Curtis from his headquartetrs at Springfield, Mo.: “Colonel Harrison telegraphs from Fayettesville the success of a scout Just returned from Van Buren, Mo., having captured the steamer Julia Rean and 300 prisoners, about 200 of whom were paroled. The scout consisted of 130 men of the first Arkansas cavalry and Tenth Illinois cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Stewart No losses on our side. On that of the enemy, two killed and several wounded.” 1 A heavy snow storm prevailed on the Rappahannock river, in Virginia, which, melting as it fell, put the roads in a wretched condition. January 29, 1863. The British iron steamer Princess Royal, laden with rifled guns, arms, ammunition, Bteam engines,. and so C., while attempting to run the blockade. The senate of Missouri passed a resolution asking the national congress to appropriate $25,000,000 to their state emancipation purposes. General Banks issued an ordef at New Orleans promulgating the emancipation proclamation. The first decision under President Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation waß delivered by Judge Glover, in St. Louis, holding it to be constitutional. The decision was handed down in the case of a slave that had been arrested under a state law for escaping from , his master. The slave was discharged. General McCleland’s National force landed on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi rives, five miles below the mouth of the Yazoo, and in full view of the city of Vicksburg. The Emancipation society of London, meeting in Exeter hall, passed resolutions commending President T Jncnln expressing sympathy with the north in the fight in America. January 30, 1863. The United States gunboat Isaac Smith, in command of Acting Lieutenant Connover, while reconnoitering on the Stone River, in South Carolina, was fired on by three masked batteries of Confederates, driven aground, and captured. A party of National troops, under the command of Colonel Wood of the Twenty-second Ohio, left Trenton, Tenn., and proceeded to Dyersburg, where they broke up a camp of Confederate irregulars under the leadership of Captain Dawson. Thirty-four of Dawson’s men were killed or captured, but he escaped. Three hundred Confederate conscript soldiers went into Murfreesboro and voluntarily surrendered themselves to the National troops, asserting their loyalty to the Union, and requesting the privilege of taking the oath of allegiance. One hundred had aimilarly come the day before. The schooner Hanover, of Provincetown, Mass., was captured off the south side of San Domingo by the Confederate privateer schooner Retribution. A fight took place at a point nine miles south of Suffolk, Va., known as the "Deserted House,” between equal forces of Federate and Confederates, resulting, after several hours of hard fighting, in the withdrawal of the Confederates. The loss was even. General Grant, having joined the Union army at Young’s Point, Ark., assumed command in person. January 31, 1863. A detachment of the First Carolina Colored Union regiment returned from an expedition up Crooker river to destroy salt works. The Confederate Ironclad steamers Palmetto and Chicora, accompanied by three small steamers, the General Clinch, Fttlwan and Chesterfield, attanked tb« • United States blockading flpet off Charleston, S. C., and disabled two Union vesesls. Kennett ■ National cavalry ran coun-

ter of a Confederate cavalry body under Wheefler on the Shelbyvllle and Nelensville road, near Nashville, while the Southerners were being paid off. The result of the attack, Which took the Confederates by surprise and in confusion, was a sharp defeat of the southerners, with* considerable loss. The arrest or deserters in Morgan county, Indiana, being resisted, Colonel Carrington, commander of the National forces in Indianapolis, sent a squadron of cavalry to oppose the resistance. The cavalry were met and fired upon by a mob, but dispersed them by a charge. Six citizens and a deserter were captured. The senate of the United States tendered a vote of thanks to Commander John L Worden for gallant conduct in the fight between the Merrimac and the Monitor in March, 1863. Worden was in command of the National vesA body of National troops, under (jten. Jeff C. Davis entered Shelbyvllle, Tenn. February 1, 1863. The second attack on the Confederate Fort McAlißter, at Genesis Point, Ga„ was made, resulting in the retire* ment of the Union fleet without damage to the works. Maj. John B. Gallie, commander of the Confederate forces, was killed. The National ironclad monitor Montauk. under command of Captain Worden, which wag in the van of the attacking fleet, received sixtyone shots, but was not injured, and lost no men. Franklin, Tenn., was occupied by a National force under Col. Robert Johnson. The Confederate General Forrest narrowly escaped Capture. One of his captains and two men were taken. The legislature of North Carolina passed a series of resolutions, vindicating the loyalty of the state to the Confederate government, and protesting against any settlement of the struggle which would not secure the independence of the Confederate States of America. A. D. Boileau, proprietor of the Philadelphia Evening Journal, was re* leased from Fort McHenry. He had been imprisoned by order of the war department. The Confederates made a night attack on Island Number Ten, in the Mississippi river, capturing a Federal transport. They were subsequently driven off by the National gunboat New Era, which fired 100 rounds into their position, defended only by three six pounders. The Quakers of Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Delaware, memorialized congress, asking exemption from the draft and the procurement ty, invoking the right of conscience against the shedding of blood. Colonel Stokes’ regiment of loyal Tennessee cavalry and a regiment of Kentucky volunteers dispersed a camp of Confederates at Middleton, Tenn., by a brilliant sabre charge. February 2, 1863.

A bill permitting the enlistment of 300,000 free negroes passed the house. A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from Indianapolis said: “On Friday a small squad of soldiers was sent to a village named Waverly, In an adjoining counts', to arrest some deserters. Upon their arrival they were fired upon by some of the citizens and informed that the deserters would be protected, and under no circumstances would they be surrendered. The squad, being too- small to effect the arrests, returned to this city and reported the facts to Colonel Carringtion, who sent twenty-five cavalry after the offenders, with orders to arrest them,-dead or alive; —The cavalry arrived there about noon on Sunday, and were fired upon by about forty mounted men. The cavalry immediately charged upon them, when they fled in all directions, throwing away their arms. The cavalry captured nine of the cowardly rascals with two of the deserters, and marched them to this city, where they are now in close confinement.” A brisk engagement between a Confederate force with three heavy cannon and the Federal gunboat New Era, lying off Island No. 10, which commenced at eleven o’clock the night before, was brought to a conclusion early in the morning by the withdrawal of the Confederates. The attack, which was sudden, was made from the Tennessee shore. (Copyright, 1913, by W. O. Chapman.)

High Winds In Ireland.

The West and South Clare Light railway, in Western Ireland, has occasionally had its trains derailed by high winds from the Atlantic ocean. In order to obtain timely notice of the occurrence of such winds the company has borrowed from the British meteorological office a pressure tube anemometer, which is installed at Quilty station in charge of the station master. This anemometer is fitted with an electrical attachment, devised in the meteorological office, which gives a signal when the wind reaches a certain strength. The first signal is given for a wind velocity of 65 miles an hour. Uftder such conditions ballast lh placed on the trains to increase their stability. If the wind rises to 85 miles an hour a second signal 1b given, and traffic is then suspended.—Scientific American. The first thing his satanic majesty says when he sees a man coming to take up his abode with him is: “I told you so!” , ' Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely gives them little. —Samuel Johnson.

GOTCH WRESTS CHAMPIONSHIP FROM JENKINS

Gotch Gets Bar Arm and Head Lock Hold.

FRANK GOTCH became champion wrestler of America January 27, 1904, after one of the roughest battles in all the annals of this ancient sport. Tom Jenkins, a rough and ready wrestler of the slam-bang variety, had held the title for six years. He had suppressed all challengers by his rough-house tactics, including Gotch at Cleveland the year previous. The sting of that defeat and its gruelling punishment spurred the young farmer lad to secure a return battle. Jenkins at this time was considered invincible and Gotch, well aware that he could not hope for success except at the price of supreme effort, trained night and day. He ran thirty mile# across country every afternoon. Joe Carroll was his handler. Emil Klank, Farmer Burns, Duncan McMillan, Tom Davis and George Kennedy were hi# trainers and wrestling partners. The pavilion at Bellingham, Washington, where the match was staged the largest on the Pacific coast at that time, was packed to the doors and Borne fans were hanging on the rafters. Seats sold as high as $25 each. Jenkins, seeing the size of the “gate,” held the crowd for an hour, demanding $250 more in addition to his guarantee of SI,OOO, win or lose, “This match wasn’t a scientific grappling contest,” said Klank, one of Gotch’s seconds and later manager of the world’s champion. “It was a rough and tumble encounter. It was the bloodiest battle in wrestling history. If I live to be a hundred years old, I never expect to see a mat struggle the like of that one between Gotch and Jenkins at Bellingham.” When Tom Davis, the referee, yelled “time,” Jenkins flew at Gotch like an anger-crazed tiger in an African jungle. Gotch, outweighed by twentysix pounds, stood his ground and went into the referee hold with the champion. It was Jenkins’ campaign to rush Gotch off his feet And win in a hurry. He knew the young Hawkeye farmer had trained for endurance. So he bored in and put Gotch to the mat, but the youngster went to a sitting posture and-was up in a flash. Jenkins charged again and put him down, but try as he might he could not hold the athlete from Humboldt Up and down the pair fought and struggled like mad. Gotch had the endurance and the terrific pace began to tell on Jenkins. The champion put Gotch down and tried for a half nelson, then a head lock and other holds. He tried to break Gotch’s arm by one of his old tricks, but Gotch was up in a flash. Maddened at the champion’s rough tactics, and tearing into him like fury, Gotch picked Jenkins off his feet and hurled him to the mat. Jenkins rose and Gotch repeated, putting the champion heavily to the mat mid giving him a taste of his own medicine. Jenkins wanted to quit, contending Gotch had fouled him. Jenkins had punished Gotch when the farmer lad was on tfi&jnat by pretending to secure a further arm hold and in the motion of doing so striking the nose violently. He also tried to injure Qotch’s elbow. Gotch”showed wonderful speed in sidestepping the lunges of Jenkins and the champion tired himself out. Gotch finally rushed In and slammed him to the mat for the first fall, with the half-nelson and crotch. Jenkins’ seconds had to carry him to his corner and administer restoratives. In the second bout, preferring to lose on a foul rather than go down, Jenkins apparently deliberately placed a strangle hold on Gotch. When Gotch extricated himself, Jenkins deliberately aimed a vicious swing at him which, had it landed, might have knocked him out. The referee Jumped between them but they kept Ringing at each other until the ring was cleared. It was the laßt despairing effort of a beaten tiger of the mat Gotch was declared the winner, the champion of America, and hauled down $4,000 in a purse and side bet Gotch weighed 184 pounds and Jenkins 210. (Copyright, 1912, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

OLDFIELD LOSES HIS TITLE

Track Speed Champion Loaes Last Two Heats After Setting World’s Record in -First Event.

There’s a new world’s track Bpeed champion. Teddy Tetzlaff now holds the title which for years was the exclusive property of Barney Oldfield. Before 10,000 persons at Los Angeles Tetzlaff won the two remaining heats of the championship match with Oldfield, who had captured the

Teddy Tetzlaff.

first heat the day previous And established a world’s mark of 36 1-5 seconds in doing it. Tetzlaff’s time for the two last laps was 38 seconds for the first and 41 for the second. The marked difference in time of the Oldfield record < made the previous day was largely' due, officials explained, to the comparative slowness of the latter day’s starts. . , f

MANAGERS OF THE BIG LEAGUE TEAMS FOR 1913

NATIONAL LEAGUE. Cincinnati—Joe Tinker. New York—Johnny McGraw. Chicago—Johnny Evers. Pittsburg—Fred Clarke. St. Louis—Miller Huggins. Philadelphia—Charley Dooin. Boston—George Stallings. Brooklyn—Bill Dahlen. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston—Jake Stahl. New York —Frank Chance. Cleveland—Joe Birmingham. Chicago—Jimmy Callahan. Washington—Clark Griffith. St. Louis —George Stovall. Detroit—Hughie Jennings. Athletics—Connie Mack.

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Joe Cantillon had Ty Cobb and Rube Waddell as guests at hiß hunting camp recently. If Tinker gets Kling, Brown and a few more former Cubs he may feel safer at Cincinnati. Bill Demetral has an idea that he can defeat Zbyszko and is out scouting for the big Pole’s scalp. Luther McCarty’s championship doesn't seem to be as remunerative as he thought it was going to be. Frank Gotch wears the crown all right, but his head does not rest uneasy over challenges from Zbyszko. McCarty has a monkey for a mascot. Then he goes out and tries to make monkeys out of his opponents. Ice hockey Is a noble game. It used to be played with a tin can, the battered edges of which cut like a knife. The training quarters of the Detroit Tigers will be at Gulfport, Miss. They will leave for that spot about Feb. 20. Muggsy McGraw clamors that the Reds will not finish lower than third next season providing they get a good catcher. Bobby Byrne of the Pirates and Larry Doyle of the Giants, two great pals, got into a friendly quarrel which wound up with a wager on the 1913 race. It’s for an overcoat, suit, shoes and hat

HOBO’S CLOSE SHAVE

TRAMP ACKNOWLEDGES OWING LIFE TO BLIGHT MIBHAP. Had His Hat Not Blown Off at Just That Moment He Would Have Gone to Death With Hia Fellow Wanderer. “I have had some very narrow escapes in my life,” said the reformed hobo, “but none of them can . hold a candle to one that happened down in Texas. “It was the endup of a very strenuous week which began with a fire in a lodging house in San Antonio, where I had to gel out with less than half of my then very scanty wardrobe, i had to get out of a window on the fourth floor at that, and the fire ladder was a trifle short I had to hang by my hands from the'window sill, and as I dropped a fireman caught me between the ladder and the building and then half carried file down to safety. “Two days later I was one of the last they .dug out from under the trucks and debris of a baggage car and with no bones broken and few bruises worth mentioning. The next day I got arrested for walking across a railroad bridge, but they let me go when I explained I wasn’t trying to* avoid paying toll on the highway bridge, but had to take the railroad bridge because I was broke. "After being released I started out on foot until I came to a water tank There I was hailed by another hobo, who happened to be a big black fellow, bigger I imagine than Jack Johnson. He said he was waiting for the 10 p. m. express, was to ride the blind baggage and wanted me to go with him for company. It was full 60 miles before the next stop, he said, and I would be a fool to walk. “It had cleared up a little from a' very heavy rain, but there were still some very black clouds on the horizon and it looked like another storm to come later. I consented to wait for the express, and shortly before it arrived at the tank the wind began to blow terribly. The express arrived and the black fellow made it all right, but my hat blew off in my rush to make the blind baggage and it was a case of losing the hat or the train and I chose the latter. “The storm that broke loose a few minutes later was the worst I ever saw, and it lasted for half an hour. The water tank was no protection, so I got soaked through, and after the storm was over I started to walk the to do it to keep from becoming completely numbed. The moon came up a little later in a clear sky. “After I had walked about five miles in the moonlight my foottripped over something that gave me the horrors. It was the negro’s body. He had undoubtedly been unable to retain his hold and had "been blown off the train in the midst of that terrible storm. If my hat hadn’t blown off as it did when I was about to join the negro on the blind baggage I certainly would have been blown to Kingdom Come, too.”

English Boys Trained for Chefs.

With the general complaint of the high cost of living the Universal Cooking and Food exhibition which was recently held in London attracted more than usual attention. Demonstrations were given each day by continental experts in foreign household cooking. The London county councH-is training a number of English boys just out of school to become chefs and waiters. That the experimentls proving a suecess was shown by a luncheon, attended by more than 100 guests, which was both cooked and served by boys who are being thus trained. The feature which distinguished the exhibition from all those previously held was the effort to give a practical demonstration of the low cost at which nutritious food, properly prepared, could be placed on the workingman’s table. It was shown, for example* that a good soup for fifty people could be obtained for 58 cents, German pie for fifty people for $1.09, and many other nourishing dishes were exhibited which were made from what, in the ordinary household, is thrown away as scraps or waste through Ignorance of how it can be utilized.

Ancient Asbestos.

There was a winding sheet of amianthus in the Vatican library, soft and pliable in the hand, and showing indications of Ignition upon one corner. The cloth, however, did not suffer. This burning Is taken as showing that some combustible fiber had been Intermingled. Marco Polo, in the thirteenth century, reported & cloth which the natives of territory now included in Russian Siberia claimed as having been made of salamander skin. Mateo Polo satisfied himself, so it seems, that he had to do with a mineral substance. In fact, he found out something as to its manufacture. In this same general region of country asbestos is today known to exist. We are not to regard asbestos as a single, definite mineral. Nor are we to understand that there is a fixed chemical constitution. Certain forms of hornblende and serpentine, if fibrous, are regarded as asbestos. —Cassier’s Magazine.

Worse and More of It.

Bill—Do you believe the world is growing better? Jill —I do not. Listen to this: To enable a person ignorant of music to' play an accordion an Inventor has equipped an instrument with mechanism operating a perforated music roll, like that of a piano player.”

WHEN MRS. JONES GAVE UP

\ Ills' Knows Now, Though Bhe Didn’t Before, That Real Antique Lover Can Never Be Cured. ' Beverly Jones had a passion for antiques and having money enough to in dulge it, he spent his time haunting second hand furniture ships, where he managed to pick up wonderful bargains. That is, he thoitght they were wonderful, but his wife did not always agree with him. Mrs. Beverly Jones did not share her husband’s craze. She had it in a modified form when she first married, but as the house began to fill with all kinds of old furniture, Mrs. Jones’ love for old pieces began to* cool, and she net her wits to work to solve the problem of how to cure niture in the attic,, but still it accumulated. Once, without consulting Mr. Jones, she called in a dealer, and sold a lot of what she considered the least valuable stuff. She calculated that her husband would not remember that ha had them, much less miss them. And the event proved that she was right. The next night he came home in high spirits. “Hurrah, Mary,” he cried, ‘T struck a wonderful piece of luck today. I found such a charming old sideboard, the exact duplicate of one I bought years ago. They will make a grand pair.” His wife’s smile grew faint. “Yes?” “Yes, and some beautiful chairs, almost the same "pattern. I always wanted some of the sort They will just match. It was a fine piece of good luck’’ “Yes?” "Yes. And the dearest little work table. I’m sure you’ll be delighted with it. I’ve always meant to get something of the kind for you, but. somehow, I never could find anything I specially liked. I’ve bought work tables before, but nothing as well built as this piece.” "Beverly Jones,” asked his wife solemnly, “Where did you buy those pieces of furniture?" Mr. Jones looked alarmed at his wife’s tone. “Why—” he hesitated. “It was at Walker & Hoyt’s—l think — he knew his wife disliked the place, from her expression—“ Yes, it was at Walker & Hoyt’s. What’s the matter, Mary?” “Do you know what you have been buying, ,at some outrageous price, Beverly Jones?” demanded his wife. - “But what’s the use? The real antique lover is never cured, and of course Beverly Jones wasn’t.

To Make Hatpins Safe.

While the many victims in all parts of the country of the woman’s hatpin, may no longer take much interest in the matter, those of us who have so far escaped injury will be glad to hear of the invention of a hatpin guard. With all that has been dona by women’s clubs and other agencies to denounce the use of the long hatpin,” with all the laws and local regulations against it, and despite the continuing recurrence of accidents —frequently as serious as the losb of an eye—the hatpin is still popular, and women persist in wearing them in crowded street cars and theaters and similar places, they are most dangerous. But if they cannot be abolished by law, perhaps it will be possible to enforce the covering of their points. That is what this hatpin guard does. It is simple, easy to put on or off, and quite inconspicuous. As seen from the accompanying illustration, it consists of a little knob on the end of aHhollow cylinder, which Blips over the point of the pin and holds fast by a spring. The inventor of this device is Louis Lasson, the pianist, of this city, who says he was moved to think of the matter by reading of the many serious accidents caused by the hatpin.

He Meant the Historian.

Comptroller Prendergast, hale and, robust, with his old world air of stateliness blended with vivacity, was guiding a group of distinguished visitors through the marble splendors of the New York public library. “Some odd incidents happen here,” the comptroller said, pausing in one of the reading rooms, with its ceiling painted to represent white clouds afloat in a blue sky. “An odd incident happened yesterday. “A young lady, after searching the card catalogue, went to the desk and said: “ ‘Can you tell me where I can find the details of the Jewish rebellion of A. D. 60?’ “ ‘Consult Josephus, misß,’ the attendant answered. “ ‘Oh, thank you,’ said the young lady, and, turning to a little old man who was approaching, Bhe began: “‘I have a question for you, Mr. Josephus!’” I,

Bomb Explodes After 58 Years.

A citizen of this town was wont to show his friends a bomb which was thrown into the town when the British attacked it during the Crimean war, and to remarks that English bombs are not' mnch good, as this one failed to explode. The rello was kept in the bathroom. A servant put it lnto'tbe empty Russian stove of huge size. Suddenly the bomb burst the other day, wrecking the house, but causing no casualties. It had the best of the joke after fifty-eight years. The amusement has caused mnch amusement here, one local wag remarking that the English bomb burst to seal the Anglo-Rnssian friendship.— Petropavlovsk Corr. Pall Mall Gazette. ■ ,