Nation & World
Last Union widow dies at age 93
The last widow of a Union veteran from the Civil War died Friday at the age of 93. Gerturde Janeway passed away in her three-room logcabin where she lived most of her life.
Mrs. Janeway was 18-years-old when she married John Janeway, 81-years-old, in 1927 in Blaine, Tenn. Mr. Janeway enlisted in the Union Army in 1864 at the age of 19. He died in 1937.
Mrs. Janeway received a $70 check each month from the Veterans Administration. She was also an honorary member of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
There is only one widow of a Confederate solider left from the Civil War, Alberta Martin, 95, of Elba, Ala.
Chess champion takes his time to win
Latvian-born Grandmaster Alexander Shabalov of Pittsburgh, Penn., defeated an up-and-coming rival to win the U.S. Chess Championship, Saturday night in Seattle, Wash.
Shabalov took only 61 moves in over six hours to beat 19-year-old Varuzhan Akobian, an Armenian who lives in Glendale, Calif., for the $25,000 prize, the biggest in the tournament's history.
Shabalov, 35, had twice tied for the title both in 1993 and 2000. This was Shabalov's first outright championship.
In the women's category, 26-year-old Anna Hahn of Jersey City, N.J., beat last year's top female finisher, 22-year-old Jennifer Shahade of New York City, and 19-year-old New York University student Irina Krush in a tie-breaking round of speed chess. Hahn took home the $12,500 women's championship.
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