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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
Men WHO FIRED LAST
SHOTS OF The WAR
AFTERWARD MET

A COLUMBUS (Ohio) man
~ claims to have fired the last
~ shot Of the war Of Seces-
sion-David N. Osyor, the
Columbus Dispatch states. He was q
member Of Company f, Ninth Ohio
cavalry. On the morning Of April II,
1865, that command was near Dur
ham Station, N. G. 1t was keeping
close watch on Gen. Joe Wheeler's
cavalry, which was on the opposite
side of an extensive swamp. Part of
the Union cavalry was ordered to dis
mount and wade across the swamp to
distract the Confederates, while the
rest constructed q corduroy bridge.
They used their carbines so vigorously
that the Confederates surmised that
very considerable force was coming at
them, and the road builders got along
fine with their bridge.
Near the other edge of the swamp
Osyor says Confederate bullet just
clipped his sergeant's chevron and the
skin on his arm. Looking for the
source Of the bullet, he spied the long
barrel Of a gun and the gray legs Of a
Confederate soldier in the forks Of
tree in front of him, and he fired at
them. He saw the legs withdrawn
and the owner Of them crawl slowly
away.
Just then a flag of truce came in
sight and the Union men were ordered
to cease firing. The occurrence, OsyOr
said, did not impress him at the time,
but that flag Of truce was really the
sign Of the end Of the Civil war, for
the general surrender came soon and
the troops were sent home.
A strange part of the story Is that
long after the war Osyor met at Bir-
mingham, Ala, a man named Amos
Thompson, who was lame-said he
had been wounded In the Confederate
service and, comparing notes, they es-
tablished to the satisfaction Of both
that Thompson was the man who was
In the tree on the edge of the Durham
swamp back in 1865, had shot at Osyor
and been shot in turn by him. Osyor's
bullet struck Thompson in the knee
and made him a cripple for life. They
agreed that they had fired the very
last shot on each side in the Civil war.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
FIRST ENGAGEMENT OF
CIVIL WAR WAS ON
MAY "a, 1861

l"HE war proper may be said to
have opened on the twenty
fourth of May, 1861. The en-
gagement was at Bethel
| Church, where Gen. B. f. Butler was
| in command, and in western Virginia,
Gen. George B. Mcclellan began to be
a conspicuous figure. In the latter
part of May General Morris won an
engagement at Philippi, and on the
eleventh of July General Mcclellan
gained victory at Rich mountain.
On the tenth of August, General Rose
Grams drove out a detachment of the
enemy at Carnifax Ferry. On the
eleventh of June, Col. Lewis Wallace
made q successful onset at ROmney.
These, and other minor engagements
occurred up to the sixteenth of July,
when began the first battle of Bull
Run. On that day the Federal army
moved forward and an important en-
gagement took place between Center
Vile and Bull Run. They pressed for
ward and on the twenty-frst day Of
July found the enemy strongly posted
between Bull Run and Manassas juno
ton. General Mcdowell, successful at
| first, was driven back by the re-en-
| fOrcements.
Missouri now became battlefield
| for the contending armies. Captain
Nathaniel Lyon acted promptly at
Camp Jackson, near st. Louis, and
saved the arms and stores. Later,
| General Lyon gained q decided adj
vantage at Bonneville and on the fifth
of July the Federal troops under Col.
Franz Sigel were again successful at
! Carthage. On the tenth of August
the hardest battle fought thus far in
| the West occurred at Wilson's creek,
where General Lyon was killed. Gen.
John G. Fremont followed the enemy
as far as Springfield, ILL.,, and was
The enemy led a strong detachment
| into the state of Kentucky and cap
| tured the town of Columbus, where
they planted batteries SO as to COM
mand the Mississippi and the Missouri.
In order to dislodge them, Col. Ulysses
S. Grant was sent with a brigade of
three thousand Illinois troops, by way
of Cairo into Missouri, where he made
vigorous and successful attack at
Belmont. Thus closed military opera
lions in the West for 1861.
General Scott was unable to bear
longer the burden resting upon him
and Gen. George B. Mcclellan was
brought from West Virginia to take
command of the Army of the Potomac.
AS an organizer and disciplinarian the
young commander had no superior.
From the first it was seen by the Fed
eral government that the command of
the seacoast was an essential of sue
cess and q close blockade was placed
upon all Southern ports.
At the beginning of 1862 the Federal
forces numbered about 100000 men.
General Mcclellan, commanding 2OO,-
OOO and General Buell., who command
ed another army at Louisville, KY, be-
gan the first Of the colossal military
movements.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
WAS OPENING SHOT OF
WAR THAT FIRED AT
LAWRENCE, KAN.7
w YHEN Lawrence was first
M sacked on May p, 1856, by
Missourians and prOslav

y
\A/ sacked on May q, 1856, by
Missourians and proslav-
cry men directed by terri
tOrial officials, David A. AtchisOn, at
one time United States senator from
Missouri, figured prominently in the
work of melting the mob to its
rash deeds. Atchison had at one time
served as vice president of the United
States, but during the Kansas, trouble
he lowered about the border towns of
Kansas and Missouri helping greatly
to incite the lower classes Of Mis-
sourians to violence toward the free
state settlers, especially those IN Law
renee.
When Sheriff Jones and his allies
came to Lawrence on May Fl, 1856, to
abate the Free State hotel and the two
newspaper offices as nuisances-tech-
nically they were charged with "con-
structive treason'-Atchison was in
the front ranks, says the Lawrence
Journal World, and incidentally slight
ly tipsy. He made a famous speech
that day, to the effect that "By G.,
boys, I'm a KickapoO ranger" and
among other things urged his men to
shoot down women and children If it
seemed at all necessary. 1t is a mel
ancholy fact that many helpless per-
sons were slaughtered.
But it was not until the work Of de-
stroying the Free State hotel COM
| menced that Atchison really did him
self justice The offices Of the Her
aid and Freedom and the Kansas Free
State had already been sacked and de-
molished, and then the mob turned
on the Free State hotel. First the
hotel was bombarded with cannon, but
with little success; the shot simply
made holes in the walls, and the
actual work Of destruction was finally
accomplished by blowing the building
up with kegs of powder and firing it
with paper from the newspaper offices.
Not to be kept out Of the public eye,
Atchison insisted on firing the first
shot at the hotel. A small howitzer
was dragged out into the street east
of the hotel and slightly nOrth-abOut
where the car track now turns east, or
possibly a few yards farther east
and Atchison went about aiming the
gun at the hotel. The howitzer used
was not loaded with the customary
round cannon ball, but with shell
set in brass jacket-the only one
of the kind the company had.
Atchison sighted down the gun bar
rel, but his good right eye told him the
gun was not properly aimed.
Lower her a little bit higher, boys;
lower her a little bit higher" he COM
manded.
That done, he touched the cannon
off-and completely missed the hotel!
The shell went screaming over into
the west of the town and was heard
distinctly by many people, who de-
scribed it's passage as being accom-
panied by a peculiar whistling sound
unlike that Of any other shot fired that
day.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
Duty Before Men OF To-Day.

In an address at the Homewood GEM
etery, Pittsburgh, Rev. J. e. Norcross
of the Shady Avenue Baptist church
said: ave are living in the best period
Of the worlds history. In spite of war
and rumors of war humanity is adj
vancing. The rise and fall Of nations
form stages in the evolution of the
race. National crises are not mere
happenings; they are the meeting
places of broken laws. God waits for
nations to move, but God moves while
we wait. Nations, as well as fndivid
uals, reap their harvests. Much will
be required of us. To falter will be
reckoned cOwardice. Our strength
will be equal to omnipotence If we are
aligned with God. It is our specific
mission to help America fulfill her
unique Destiny"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
his hand retained it's grasp of it.

his hand retained it's grasp of it.
That's it," he complained. "Don't
femme be happy for a minute! Throw
1t all up to me ~
"You give me that for the Resented
boy, and I'll go out with YOU"
IF | give you all that, won't have
any money to go out within
But his eyes were wavering. She
could see victory.
"Take off enough for the evening""
But he drew himself up.
TITS my lucky day." he said thickly.
"Plenty more where this came from.
Do anything for you. Give it to the lit
tie devil. L" He yawned.
His head dropped back on his chair !;
he propped his sagging legs on stool.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
~
|Ess;I7aS5T
0Mhtlnn lNs1RQ euRtWVoZ

Much of the most important knOwl
edge we have of human life has been
gained by study of the lives of lower
and simple animal creatures. Students
of complex modern community life
have been aided by study of less adj
vanced civilizations. l believe / OBJ
tanned a better idea of rural Wiscon-
sin health problems by visiting
more primitive state, recently, than |
would have formed in a much greater
length of time spent within our own
borders.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
region l visited is several hundred
years older than Wisconsin, there are
few localities left in our state which
present such clear pictures of pio-
neer days as are to be seen there in
connection with relics of our earliest
national history.
From the car windows forests, hun
dreds of acres in extent were seen, in
which, perhaps, not a-single blow of
an axe has ever been heard Here and
there were little clearings with rough
board cabins and rather miserable
attempts at primitive agriculture.
The people are so poor that they
haven't the time nor money to provide
themselves with the luxury of a deep
well of unpolluted drinking water.
Privies are open to swarms of flies.
Not even netting, much less wire
screening, checks their flight into the
cabins at meal times.
The faces and figures of the people
show the endless chain of poverty and
sickness. They are sick because they
are poverty stricken and poverty
stricken because they are sick.
We who live in Wisconsin are we'll
situated. We can see an end to biting
poverty and bread hunger. The day
when we shall be free of the simpler
forms of preventable disease, at
least, is not so very remote. Our cold
winters and springs may irritate us,
but they do not rob us of the ability
to work profitably. And profitable
work in a few years provides the
means b which we may prevent dis
ease or secure proper treatment and
care if it should overtake us.
People should not postpone for too
long the spending of due proportion
Of their savings to secure life and
health protection. For, after all, health
really does constitute the greatest
wealth.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
Remember Source of Blessings.

Through all our consideration Of
great national and international ques-
tons this Memorial day, we will re-
member him who in mercy watches
over US as people, realizing that the
blessings that are ours as a nation
come from him, and from him alone
will come the strength to permit US to
play our part among the nations of the
earth in behalf Of the highest in.
terests of humanity. We are the
friend of man in proportion as we are
the friend of God.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
One Great. United People.

The South does not celebrate the
same Memorial day with the North !;
it has it's own days for paying tribute
to it's soldier dead. Yet the South has
no reason after the lapse of fifty years
to regret the triumph Of that cause for
which so many Union soldiers per-
ished. South and North, we are one
people; our interests are mutual and
common, and could only thrive so long
HON LipcOln's vision was true the peo-
pie of the South are today willing to
concede.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04

A COLUMBUS (Ohio) man
~ claims to have fired the last
N shot Of the war of Seces-
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN
South.

SOuCns
*Chicago passenger---- $40 a. M
*ChicagO enger--------11:0 5 a. m
*Chicago assenger------ 1870 p. M
GAINESVILLE passenger-- 7:15 p. M.
500 a. m. train makes close con-
nectiOns for the west at Jefferson
Junction and also for Milwaukee.
Both 11:O5 a. m. and 7:15 p. m.
trains make close connections at JEFF
ferson Junction for Madison and all
points west
North.
Screen Bay pasSenger----7:5 5 a. M
Green Bay, Sundays only---S:10 a. M.
Screen Bay passenger 43 p. m.
*NOrthern Michigan p. m.
Rockford passenger arrives at Wa
tertown at $40 a. NJ. and goes no
farther.
The 1856 a. m. train makes connec-
ton at Clyman Junction for trains
east.
A tran goes west from Clyman
Junction at 100 p. m.
*These trains leave daily except
Sunday
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-04

She knew him-knew that he would
sleep almost all night. She would have
to make up something to tell the other
to that later
She paused, in pinning on her hat,
to count the bills. She had never had
a thousand dollars in her hands before
Continued Wednesday,
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11

The English government has issued
a proclamation prohibiting the cNpor.
tation to Sweden, Norway, Denmark
and the Netherlands Of all articles eA
cept printed matter of all descriptions
and personal effects accompanied by
their owners.
In their offensive in the Ypres sec.
tor the British gained all their OBJ.
jectfves on front of 10000 yards and
to depth Of $500 yards. Sixteen thou.
sand yards would mean battle front
OF more than nine miles. A penetra-
ton of $500 yards would mean more
than mile gain into the German.hcld
territory by the British forces.
Eleven British merchantmen Of
more than 1000 tons each and two
vessels under 1000 tons were sunk by
mines or submarines last week
England's impending retaliation for
the German air raids Is the main fca-
ture now occupying the space OF the
British newspapers
The British cruiser Drake has been
torpcdocd and sunk. The Drake was
tOrpcdocd Off the north coast OF Ire
land. giy3jslA 3A
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
LAST DAY OCCUPIED IN DEFENSE
AND CRITICISM OF Ia
TOILETTE.
SESSION BEGAN APRIL 2ND
Seheraily Regarded as Most Mo,nen-
t'ous In American History--eal.
leries Were Packed to Capacity
During Last Hours,

washington In the midst OF a.
days thrilling debate on alleged dis.
loyalty Of Senator LaFollette, Of Wis
consin, the extraordinary sesdon III
Congress, which began April Q and
generally regarded as the most mo
mentous in American history, was sd.
journed sine die at 3 p. M.
vehement criticism OF the Wjsrnn
sin senator and his own defense oocu-.
pying virtually the entire day, mark
ed the close OF the war session. with
other customary adjournment anu
legislative procedure, including Pros
ident Wilson'S attendance at tho
capitol. The usual eleventh hour grist
Of legislation was put through. Fol,
lowing six months Of important war
action. and most Of the members who
had remained for the flnal days were
en- route home to await the call OF
the next session, December g.
With galleries crowded to thei, ga
pacity. the senate chamber was the
scene Of five hours stirring discussion
Of Senator LaFollette's attitude, hut
in the house there was little to mark
the occasion except submission Of q
committee report mildly censuring
Representative Heflin OF Alabama for
fellow members in connec-
ton with Count Won Bernstorff's re
quest for Berlin to furnish funds to
influence Congress.
Speaks Three Hours.
The day began with three hcure
SDeech by Senator I,aFOlletto IN do
tense Of his criticisms OF war cues
ttons. Without mentioning his recent
address before the NonPartisan
league at ST Paul, for investigation
OF which arrangements were com,
pleted by senate subcommittee OF
naming any Of his critics. Mr.. r.a~
FolleHe read a carefully prepnya'
defense Of his course and declared
his intention to follow it in the ~
ture. He was interrupted only opce
and was applauded by the galleries
when he closed
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
DESTROYER IN
CLASH WITH A SUBMARINE

Washington Making public an 3ac
count OF an action between an An1efi.
can destroyer in European wafer
ard a German submarine, the itayy
department avoided any claim fiat
the U.boat had been destroyed. al.
though all indications pointed to tlHs
result. The report on which the 8t1
partments statement was fodna
was made by Vice Admiral Sims. IN
command OF American destroyers in
The war zone.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
czernIn Warns the Allies.

III me way Of peace movements, the
most important event OF the week was
ne speech VI Count Czcrnln, Austro.
i"hsarian minister Of foreign affairs,
III "hich he threatened that unless tho
aiiies speedily consented to a peace
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
REiCHSTAG TO DISCUSS
WAR AIMS THIS WEEK

Amsterdam. The Cologne Gazette
copy OF which has been received
here, in its report OF tho address Of
DR.. Karl Heiffcrich German minister
OF the interior. In the reichstag Satuc.
day, represents him as saying: THE
question Of war aims will be discuss.
ed in the course OF big debate next
week" The Rheinische Westfalischn
Zeitung in its version says the be
debate will take place Monday"
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
European.


Naval aircraft bombed St. Denis
Wcstrcm the Zeebrugge lock gates,
The Bruges docks and other targets
and Thourout railway junction, and
thus began French and English repris.
al against the Tcutons for their air
raids on French and English cities.
Some think that this is the beginning
or the battle Of the air" about which
the world has talked for 1000 years.
Franktorton-thc Main was bombed
by airships and f,vr people are report.
cd TO have been killed
Iele. in eastern Flanders, has been
lined 10000 marks for the giving of
food and cigarettes to passing English
prisoners.
London announces that the Austria
Han force at tho front numbers 3OG 600
men.
The German minister to Argentina
has been forced to leave Argentina
Ihihgs got so hot for hfm. that his
friends spirited him out and placed
him aboard a Spanish steamer.
The British in Flanders. ii is report
ed, are getting ready for another hack
at the German lines
The best hghting, accompanied with
the most consistent gains. thus far
in the war, has been done by tho Ital.
ians. Not since they entered the war
have they been on tho defensive. and
their campaign has been one long ad
vance. They now practically control
the Adriatic sea, and 1t is only a ques
ton of few weeks till they will have
taken the greatest port at the head
OF that sea, Trieste
An Austrian officer was killed in a
naval battle in the Adratic between
an Austrian warship and an Italian de.
stroyer The warship got away, how
ever.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
5000 RUSSIAN TROOPS
REFUSE TO GO TO FRONT

Petrograd.- Eight thousand soldiers
at Gomel in the province OF Mofitlev
after a meeting. refused to go to52fha
front. says telegram from Gomel.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
ANOTHER NATION TAKES UP
ARMS AGAINST GERMANY
Uruguay Follows Peru in Seves q nce
of Relations.

Uruguay Follows Peru in Severance
of Relations.
Germany has still another nation
arrayed against her in the world war.
Following closely the action Of Peru.
the republic Of Uruguay has severed
diplomatic relations with the imperial
government and the German minister
has been handed his passports. Al.
though Germany had committed no
direct act of hostility against uru-
quay the president of the republic IN
his message to parliament said l, was
necessary for Uruguay "to espouse
the cause Of the defenders Of justise,
democracy and small nationalities
Montevideo, Uruguay. Uruguay
has severed diplomatic relations with
Germany. A presidential decree an
nounced the rupture in vote in IA
vor OF it by the chamber OF deputies.
IA to 23. The German minister ilas
been sent his passports. The vote
in the chamber was taken at 9 O'Clock
this morning.
President Viera in his message to
the parliament declared that tie
Uruguayan government had not se.
ceived any direct offense from ser.
many, but that it was necessary IL
espouse the cause OF the defenders ot
Justice, democracy and small nation.
alities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-04

BUT THE GREAT EVIL TO FIGHT is POVERTY.
BY failure relieve brgands. Money
is the most important thing in the world all evils
have to struggle against the fact that children
not taught that from their earliest
hear bishops recommending the people of East Lon
don to be thrifty The bishops who do that commit a
crime. II single farthng he is belav-
OF his children, and under circumstances
scoundrel The poorer people important
is to spend ALL they have.
Our would work IL only people died. If
unemployed could be the
y that he would die shortly would all right
not die He becomes factor drink other infectious
which most of catch.
If prime minister l should start with very simple
beginnings and bring bill for the communication
This old idea EHabethian
pie nowadays proud to take advantage Of it. Friends
OF mine who have been that the best bread
Is baked by the the poorhouse bread There
would be big rush for it at first and much waste but after
little there would be waste neither would hungry
as under the present social system.
The next item of ministerial would be that
would then build their themselves WITHOUT SLUMS.
The landlords would their the
rents removed from the ovebudened THEN,
would tax of SO cents IS the $3135 900
earned increment and would reduce
comes to cents in So.
But to return: What makes the year hopeful
for Americans?
The immigration that is being killed off; the educa
ton they may build up
The modern education tremendous hypocrisy
child is cruel noisy dirty inquisitive being in
discreet to the point telling the truth regardless the feel
ings of others Persons who live with their children do be-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-04
BERNARD SHAW PENS A NEW YEARS MESSAGE FOR
AMERICA; SAYS FIGHT POVERTY; REFORM SCHOOLS

they cannot afford them boarding
good point about boarding that children
from the demoralizing influences the STILL
know CHASTITY children
ing a lesson and forced to sit it
All this must be altered. England money
change the anomalies educational
but AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD TO OTHERWISE.
The teacher must be taught say the child,
while Interested, stay; when bored,
out and play"
Teach the children to read then their educa
far the school concerneds complete learned
practically nothing at school, but result
eminenty satisfactory wife, expensive educa
ton to when she wants the housekeeping books
added up!
The goes I Christian than
gentle reader yet after contemplating world human
misery but the which would have been found by Chrst
statesman.
The moneyed respectable capable world has been steadily
since the Christian began The mention of God
has out of fashion, You hear about God in paa
ment and only occasionally in the law courts
We neither bgoted each others throats
religious respect and understand anothers
beliefs.
The religious man not person who does or does not
belong who constant knowledge
that he is here the instrument of the universal force
The main truth that God not hands but hands
brains but brains; for God is nothing but Will
believe that the Higher Power the Almighty Force call God
do the work of the world without help Hence this
benevolent will God has been working through evo
ton to get men and women to do His work.