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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
MRS. CHRISTY
WANTS A DIVORCE
Wife Of the Artist VIII Not Live in
GAINESVILLE Which Is Her Hus-
bands Choice.

GAINESVILLE, Ohios Dec. 6.-A
petition In divorce, which Is said to be
intended for either New York or
GAINESVILLE courts, is said to have been
prepared here for Mrs. Howard Chand-
Ter Christy, wife of the noted artist.
Her lawyers and those representing
Mr.. Christy met few days ago and
tried to find some means whereby the
couple could be reunited. But this Is
now said to be absolutely impossible.
Mrs Christy says she will never live
in GAINESVILLE, and Mr. Christy says its
GAINESVILLE or the hereafter for him
from this time on. This being the
case and neither side willing to agree
to residing In the others city, it looks
as though divorce is the only matter
left to them
The case of the possession of their
daugher will first come up and be set
tied in the courts here, and then the
divorce petition will be filed it is said.
Mr., Christy would not talk of the case,
but referred inquiries to his lawyers.
who could not be found.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Fuller is After Nicaragua and Intro
duced Resolution Which Con-
tained Fiery Pass
ages.
WANTS TO SEND ARMY
zeIaya is Called Dictator and II 10
Urged That he be Arrested
and Tried For
Murder.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.--Congress
convened at noon today.

WASHINGTON, Dec. G.Congress
convened at noon today.
After many formalities, OCCUPYING
nearly half an hour, Representative
Fulzer of New York took the floor
and declared war against Nicaragua,
in the shape of resolution introduce
cd In the house which proposes that
the president shall use the land and
naval forces to restore order, main
tain peace, and protect life and prop
erty in zelaya's republic. The resolu-
tion demands the arrest trial and
punishment of Zelaya for the muir
der of American prisoners and insists
on damages from Nicaragua and re-
publican form of government there.
The abhorrent conditions which exist
under the dictator Zelaya. the resolu-
tion recites "have shocked the moral
sense of the people of the United
States and are disgrace to civiliza-
tion, eliminating in the assassination
of American citizens and the destruc-
tior of property belonging to the citi-
zcns Of the United States"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
POULTRY SHOW
AT ST. LOUIS
Some of the Hens Were Very Much
Detected Because They Did
Not Win Ribbons.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. Cone of the
greatest conventions Of hens ever
held in the country was opened to-
Gay in the Coliseum 1t is not a ses-
sion Of suffragettes, but of real poul-
try, Missouri's greatest surplus pro-
duct, which has an annual value of
S44,000,000. Wednesday will be set
apart as Governors day, when Gov.
Hadley, other state officials and mem
bers of the legislature will come to
ST. Louis and will be given reception
by the poultry. Today was devoted to
the judges, and their awards produced
much dissatisfaction among the hens
which failed to land first prizes. On
Thursday the American Poultry Asso-
citation will be honored by special
day. Agricultural authorities from all
over the central west and southwest
will attend Friday. st. Louis day will
be Saturday, and will wind up the
biggest hen show ever attempted here.
Statistics just issued show that Mis-
souri, is the greatest poultry state in
the union.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Killed his Wife and Himself in Their
Home but Spared the Little
TWO Year Old Baby
Boy.
BABY CRIED ALL NIGHT
Neighbors Heard the Youngsters
WaiIIng and Entered the House
to Find the PitifuI
Scene.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 6.--Neigh-
bors entering the home of Joseph
Campbell, 1852 North Seventeenth
street, Kansas City, Kan, Sunday
morning found the bodies Of Mr..
Campbell and wife on the floor Of the
stuffy little room which served the
double purpose OF sleeping and living
room. Clasped in the right hand Of
the man was revolver. He evident
" had murdered his wife before he
committed suicide. Crouching down
against the bed in one corner Of the
room, benumbed with cold and fear,
was the little white-robed figure of a
boy, 2 years old, whose crying through
the night and early morning attracted
the attention of the neighbors and led
to the investigation which resulted in
the finding of the bodies.
Charles Phillips and c. R. Lums-
den. neighbors, discovered the boy.
They broke in the door OF the house
after receiving no response to repeat
Ell knocking.
The body of the woman was almost
against the door. She had remained
in kneeling posture. A bullet had
entered below the left breast, passing
entirely through the body. The man
lay in almost the same position
against the south wall OF the room
His arms were folded across his
breast and the revolver was helt
tightly against hts body. The bulle
had passed through the heart.
! Campbell was baker. He was 8.
years old That the murderer hat
been addicted to the use of morphine
Tor many years is known. In fact, sc
common was this knowledge that fol
many years he has been known al
Morphine joe" A bottle half filled
with the drug was found on chail
near the bed.
A scene of utter desolation wa:
witnessed by the men first enterins
the room. The little boy, Earl, criet
by the bed, where he had stood il
4 the cold during the entire night, ant
large dog which stood guard owe,
the dead body Of his mistress, wer,
the only living beings in the place
The child was hurried to the home o
a neighbor, but the dog growled say
agly at the intruders and would no
submit to be moved until petted by
nejghbor whom he knew.
Persons living in the neighborhoot
say that Campbell has made numer
oIs threats against his wife.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Last Weeks Storm Which Swept the
North Sea and English channeli,
Collected a Heavy
Toll.
DENMARK LOST HEAVILY
only Three q a F's ( Two Hun
d'sd Fishing a, Has Re-
ths 3 s,rm.

LONDON 3ec. all estimates of
the dead in the storm that swept the
English channel and North Sea last
week, were increased today when
telegraph communication was restor-
ed, revealing the fact that the death
list is much greater than first report
ed.
It is now believed that there were
400 drownings along the coast and
on tae high seas. Corpses are be-
ing washed UP on the beach and many
ships are reported today the picking
up of survivors. Comparatively few OF
the crews of the wrecked boat were
saved owing to the heavy seas which
smashed life boats in which escape
was attempted.
Dispatches from Denmark say three
Of the Escjergs fishing feet of zoe
vessels escaped. Little hope is held
out for the rest of the fishermen. Nc
bodies have as yet been discovered
from the steamer Ellavanin which
carried crew of twenty and IL pass
engers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Terre Haute Received Sunday Blow
ing up Which Was Not on the
Regular Program for
the Day.
NO ONE WAS INJURED
Wind unroofed Buildings and Blew
Newsboy Across the Street
Doing Considerable Prop
erty Damage.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. Ga
cyclone passed through twenty-five
blocks OF this city at noon Sunday,
causing $4,000 damage. No one was
injured but several persons had mar.
rev escapes.
A newsboy was lifted across the
street and a carriage containing three
persons was carried with the wind for
a block
Households We're set adrift. in the
Wabash river and many freight cars
in railroad yards were upset.
The Wabash distillery, the Peoples
brewery and the Goldsmith commits.
sion house were unroofed Plate
glass windows in Office buildings and
stores were blown in
The residences of w. r. sMcKeen,
Demas Denling and H. Huffman, three
/ o. the finest residences in the city,
were badly damaged
The cloud was seen lifting and dis
appearing at the eastern edge of the
city. 1t came from the southwest.
| Tie storm was followed by drop OF
80 degrees in temperature in three
hours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
ESCAPED FROM
THE HOLD OVER
Two Prisoners Who Were Being Held
for Iowa Authorities Got Away
From st. Louis.

II ST. LOUIS, Dec g. Edward Muir
ray, alias Edward Kelley, alias Patrick
Cunningham, one Of two yeggmen
whose incarceration in the holdover
at police headquarters was known
only to police officials, escaped at
$50 o'clock last night His pal,
Joseph Daniels, alias Joseph Martin
and Joseph Bliss, sprained his right
ankle in leading the way to liberty
and was recaptured
Both were being held for the author
tiles Of the Iowa state prison for
the criminal insane at Anamosa. Iowa,
whence they escaped November 10 by
cutting the bars of their eel with q
saw fashioned out Of caseknife.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
ECHOES OF THE
LYNCHING BEE
Cairo Court Now in Session to Try
Alexander and to Investigate
the Recent Mob Rule

CAIRO, ILL.,, Dec. Gas a result of
the recent race riots in Cairo. when
Judge Lynch presided the regular,
term of the circuit court, commenced
today, will be the most important in
Cairo history. Arthur Alexander, ac-
cused with the negro James. who was
lynched, Of having killed Miss Anna
Peily. will be tried during this term.
What investigation of the lynchers
was made will also come UP for a
legal review, but there is little pros
pect of securing the conviction OF the
men who led the mob. General SYM
pathy is with those who took the law
in their own hands, and the authori-
ties have found themselves up against
a stone wall of silence. While most
Of the citizens regret. the reign of
terror which was inaugurated by the
mob, majority now, consider 1t best
to let sleeping dogs lie and to forget
the whole matter as speedily as may
hn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Start Race War Against the Ameri-
cans and Kill One Man During
An All Night
Revel.
FIFTY ITALIANS DRUNK 4
Mrs. Newton and Children Escaped
From Home After a Hundred
Shots Were Fired
Into it.

MARION, Ill, Dec. 6.-One man is
dead, others who were fired up
on narrowly escaped injury. and
a mother and her children were
driven from their home In the
village of Scottsboro, this coun-
ty, when band of fifty Italian coal
miners, crazed by drink, rioted The
town was at the mercy of the Italians
throughout the night.
The finding Of the body of Luther
Williams of Marion, who was visiting
in Scottsboro, in public highway
near the town so enraged the Ameri-
can inhabitants of the town that they
are threatening war upon the Ital-
ians. States Attorney D. T. Hartwell,
Sheriff e. H. Bulliner and deputies,
who reached Scottsboro early and be-
gan an investigation of the trouble,
think a conflict can be averted, but
the mobs which have formed may give
the officers trouble If evidence is se-
cured fixing the crime upon any indi-
viduals.
It Is believed members of B ack
Hand gang were the organizers of the
rioting band. The first attack was
made on the home of Luke Newton
who has been aiding the officers in q
war upon on organization to which a
number Of crimes in this vicinity have
been ascribed.
The Italians left a house in whicl
they. had been carrying on a .reyelr.
about midnight. They first went tt
the home Of Newton. He was not a
home. They fired upon the house
over 100 shots being poured into the
building. Mrs. Newton gathered hel
frightened children about her ant
made her escape from the house
through rear door amid the fusil
Jade of bullets.
For the rest Of the night the village
was at the mercy of the foreigners
Patrolling the streets they repeated.
| opened fire on Americans.
Early in the morning. after the riot
ers had dispersed, the body of Luthe
Williams was found in the publ,
highway short distanGe from SCOTS
boro. Williams had been stabbed. HI
had also been shot number of times
His hands were cut showing that h'
struggled desperately for his life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
TO TEST WIRELESS
MOST EXTENSIVELY
Cruiser Salem Will Go on a 5000 Mile
Trip and Make Experiments
With Teiegraphy.

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 6.-The scout
cruiser Salem, which, with the Bir-
mingham. is equipped with the most
elaborate wireless outfit ever placed
aboard an American war vessel. sailed
from the Charlestown navy yard on a
cruise for thousands of miles through
tropic seas and Arctic ice foes for a
thorough and complete test of wire-
less telegraphy under all conditions.
The Birmingham is expected to fol-
low soon.
The tests will extend over four
months and the specifications call for
sending and receiving messages at
least 1000 miles under all conditions
and 5000 miles under favorable condi-
tions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
CALHOUN FOR
CHINESE MINISTER
Has Accepted the Post and China
Seems to be Pleased With
the Apnoinfnent
the Appointment.

WASHINGTON, Dec 6.-William ].
Calhoun of Chicago has accepted the
post as minister to China and the
Chinese government has expressed it's
satisfaction of the appointment.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-Beyond admit
ting that he had accepted the post and
stating that he would sail for China in
January, Wil'iamJ Calhoun, today de
clined to discuss his appointment. He
plunged into the work of his law office
with renewed vigor today in order to
get his affairs Strengthened out so that
he could sail to the Orient on sched
uled time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Waterways CONGRESS Soon.

WASHINGTON, Dec. e.--Many dele
gates are already in the city to take
part in the annual session of the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress.
to be held later in the week The Ma
tional Council of Commerce will also
hold session this week. With the
Southern Commercial Congress meet
ing today and tomorrow, and the usual
influx of visitors on account of the
opening of Congress. it is expected
that not less than 25,000 visitors will
be in the national capital during the
six days beginning today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
DIRECTOR GENERAL
OF THE CANAL
Proposed Job Which Was Being
Framed up for Roosevelt Will
Not be Created.


WASHINGTON Dec. Glow will
Roosevelt take the abolition of the
director generalship of the Panama
canal? This is the question polite
ians were asking each other
and the answer was that it will cut a
large figure in the next national cam
paign. The leader or generalship is
not present job. 1t is a place pro-
posed in a pending job, introduced by
Mann, chairman of the house commit
tee on interstate and foreign COM
merce. Mann's bill was designed to
abolish the seven handed rsthmian
canal commission and to create in
addition to director general a govern
or general of the canal zone and en-
gineer in chief. The bill passed the
house last session but failed in the
senate. The cause of the bills failure
in the upper house is SAID to have
been due to the fact that it was be-
lieved that Theo. Roosevelt would be
made director general as soon as the
bill was enacted.
II RooScFclt SHOuiu ue lHdue ui-
rector general of the canal," said one
senator rather peevishl>, sit would
not be very long before he would an
mex the United States and declare
himself emperor" Realizing that the
only way he could secure the passage
of his measure through the senate was
by the elimination OF the directors
job, Mann automatically announced
that he would amend it by striking
out the Objectionable Office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Wife of the Russian Ruler Has Nerv-
GUS Prostratlon and is Said to
Have Lost Her
Mind.
FAMILY IS SUMMONED
Is In a Critical Condition at the Black
Sea Estate and is Hysterlcal
Most Of The
Time.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. e.-Em.
press Alexandra is in critical condi-
tion today at Liviadia, the Imperial
estate on the Black Sea and several
members of the imperial family have
been summoned to her bedside in ex-
pectation of her death.
The czarina is suffering from nerv-
Gus breakdown, such that she is hys-
terical most of the time and it is be-
lieved her mind is hopelessly derang-
ed. Those who have seen her recent
ly say that she is the mere shadow OF
her former self
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Sunday at Joplin.

JOPLIN, Mo, Dec. 6.-In a sermon
on Chickens Come Home to Roost," ;"
Rev. Billy Sunday, the baseball evan
gelist, secured 165 conversions. Con-
sidering this to be only his third call
for christian volunteers since coming
here, he says his work in Joplin is
most encouraging. The sermon was
for men only, the big tabernacle, with
seating capacity of 5000, being fill
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
New Play by Conan Doyle.

CHICAGO Dec. 6.-Sir Arthur Con-
an Doyle, creator of Sherlock
Holmes" is the author of The Fires
of Fate" the new play which will
open at the Illinois Theatre this even
ing. Lionel Barrymore, elder brother
of Miss Ethel Barrymore, will be seen
in the performance in the role of an
Arab guide. His appearance will mark
a return to the stage after deserting
it for three years to study painting in
Paris.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
THE WEATHER.
Weather Forecast.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Snow to-
night and Tuesday. Slightly warmer
tonight
For Illinois: Increasing cloudiness
with rain or snow Tuesday and south
and west portions tonight. Slowly
rising temperature.
For Iowa Snow tonight AID Tues
day. Slightly warmer tonight.
For Missouri: Rain or snow tonight
and Tuesday. Warmer tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Astor's Yacht.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. e.
Col. John Jacob Astor and party on
his yacht, Nourmahal, reached port
from San Juan, Porto Rica The
party will leave for the north. Capt,
Roberts stated on the day of their
arrival in San Juan the cable was
broken, making it impossible for out
siders to locate the vessel when she
was reported lost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Kansas Poultry Show.

NEWTON, Kans.. Dec. 6.-Some of
the finest of the hens which lay the
eggs which add millions to the wealth
of the Sunfiower State, along with
their husbands, cousins, uncles and
aunts, of the poultry world, are on an
exhibition today at a show which has
atracted the attention of fanciers all
over Kansas
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Arts and Crafts show.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Dec. 6.--An
arts and crafts exhibition of a national
nature was installed here today and
will remain open to the public for ten
days. A loan exhibition of the finest
pictures in Kansas City is held in cons
nection.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Supreme Court Decided that Ice King
Morse Had Better 90 to Jail
and Take His Medi-
cine.
GoMPERs GETS RELIEF
Railroad Cases are Taken up and
Court Refuses to Consider the
One From the Far
West.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.--On the
ground that the judges of the circuit
court of the northern district
OF California, certified the
case without due regard to
the so-called expediting act, the
supreme court today refused at this
time to consider the famous case of
the Southern Pacific against the inter-
state commerce commission, envolving
tho right of that body to fix railroad
rates and sent the entire case back
to that court Exactly the same act
icn was taken by the court in the
complex litigation between the B. &
O. and the interstate commerce COM
mission, envolving illegality of an or
der Of that body for distribution of
cars in West Virginia.
The Gompers Case.
The decision Of Justice Wright of
the district court In ordering President
Gompers, Vice President Mitchell and
Secretary Morrision of the American
Federation of Labor for contempt of
court, will be reviewed by the supreme
court of the United States. Chief
Justice Fuller announced today the
court had granted the application for
a writ of certiorari.
4 Ice King Morse.
A Charles w. Morse, former ice king
!; and New York millionaire must serve
the fifteen year sentence in the peni
teRtiary, imposed 5y the circuit cour
for the alleged wrecking of the Bank
Of North America
This follows the refusal of the sll
preme court in denying rehearing.
The Pierce Case.
!. AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6.-The state
was sustained today in the trial o
II Clay Pierce, oil magnate and the
taking of evidence began. The objec
tions of the defense that the affidavit
made by Pierce on the readmissior
OF the Waters Pierce Co., to Texas
could not be introduced as a basis fol
| the charges made by the state, was
overruled The state began present
1 inc. its case at the afternoon session
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Weather Conditions

The pressure has increased rapidly.
anil much colder weather has followed
rain or snow from the mountain reg.
ion eastward to the Ohio valley and
lake region.
The crest Of high pressure remains
in northern Montana. where the tenn.
perature is twenty below zero, and
the pressure continues low in the
southern mountain region.
Conditions indicate snow for this
section tonight and Tuesday, becoming
slightly warmer tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06
Local observations.

Dec. Bar.Ther. Wind Weather.
5 Z p.m. 3017 10 SW Clear
c am. !. 3o.s4 IA w PIT Cldy
Rainfall for past "a hours 2 hum
dredths.
River above low water of 1864 9
feet tenths.
Change in "a hours rise 5 tenths.
Mean temperature, 80.
Maximum temperature. as.
Minimum temperature, 10.
FRED Q. GosEwISCH.
Observer,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-06

Tihs Daily osts City Rseslvss
M Fuil Afternoon umtsd
Prsss Report Best AStsrnoon
0ssvses In ths United statss.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-30
HolU Did M. Calhoun
Get Those Reportso

the copous efusion of lawyers patter by Calhoun and
his attorneys the single conspicuous feature that nowhere
denial made attempted of the fact that the goods found
in his possession The property of the city county Of San
francisco discovered under lock key United Rail
roads citizen has the right take his wherever he finds
IT. using to that end the process provided by municipal
other corporation has the right city have
simply seized certain public property municipal strong
boxes and purchased from the thieves Cahoun
The city recams that property by entirely procedure and
this statement covers the whole situation
Mr. Calhoun does anywhere either by mphca-
Railroads safes city property His public nothing
OF stolen goods If thieves appeal
his constitutional rights his position would differ
that assumed by Mr.. Calhoun.
The issue simple complex Were the seized papers
property OF the city and county they Mr. Calhoun
does not attempt deny that they public property He
can not Tor the papers speak for themselves
dence reinforced by the explicit confessions municipal
employees who sold the goods Mr.. CalIouns agents
80 much for that and for Mr. Calhoun plea incident
serves further binding light sincerity the pro-
tests frequent the mouths of Mr. press
against the employment of spies Mr. Calhoun appears
his employ sufficiently unscrupuou corps spies
stop bribery and the hire OF thieves Mr. Cahouns
spies for publication disasousy activities
Luther Brown the Banjo Eyed Kid and
reputables of his encourage.
In hne the single striking Characteristic Cahouns plea
nsncerty hecelebrated Mr. Fagn had appealed his
right to hold stolen had asserted
his freedom from disreputab parallel
houns astonishing defense would be asking
much perhaps Mr.. Calhoun might question: Where
and how, did he get those reports?