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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

Herman Lodge, No. 116 Germany.
meets regularly every Wednesday
evening at o'clock. G. Loeffler, N
g., Albert Keifer, Rec. Sec.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

MODERN WoODMEN OF AMERICA.
Gibbons Hail.
Keokuk CAM No. 622-Meets every
Wednesday evening at 1880 p. m. Our
latch string is out to neighbors. ]. P.
Johnson, V. c.; j. A. Pollard, Clerk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
KNIGHTS OF HONOR

Hall over savings Bank.
KeokulS Lodge, No. 544-Meets reg.
ularly on the second and fourth Fri.
days of each month ]. w. Steiger,
Director; C. Loeffler, Reporter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF SECuk-
ITY. KEOKUK COUNCIL, No. 1899.
Meets the first and third Monday o.
each month, at A. o. U. w. han ~
s o'clock. E. E. Hawkes., pres1denr
Or. o. w. Rowe Financier; Mayma
c. Schenk, secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

Puckechetuck Encampment, No. T.
Meets first and third Tuesday evening
of each month. Otto Anschutz, Scribe.
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COURT OF HONOR

COURT OF HONOR.
A. o. U, w. Hall, Eighth and Main
Meets the first and thir Friday
nights of each month. Visiting mem
bers cordially invited. w. j Kessler
Chap.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
A. o. u. w.

Keokuk lodge, No 256-Meets
every Thursda. night at 7;3o o'cloct
at hall over Keokuk Savings bank
corner Fifth and Main streets. Visit
ing brethren cordially invited. c. W.
Trott. NJ, w; Ed. w. Moore, tie
corder.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
K. of P.

Morning Star Lodge, No. 5.-Meets
Fifth and Blondeau, X. of P. Building
Tuesday at 500 p m. w. e. Strlm-
back, Chancellor Commander; Edward
F. Carter. K. of R. and S. Visiting
Knights fraternally invited.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
ORDER OF ODD
FELLOWS.

Hall Seventh and Main Streets.
Keol1ull Lodge, No. 10, meets regu-
larly Monday evening at 1880 o'clock.
A. N. Matheny, N. g., A G. Hershey.
Recording Secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The third exhibit of the Appanoose
county farmers institute has begun at
Moulton and the prospects are aus
picious for the most successful gather.
ing ever held.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

C. R. Kluger. the Jeweler. 1860 Vir-
ginia Ave-, Indianapolis, Ind, writes:
Il was SO weak from kidney trouble
that could hardly walk hundred
feet. Four bottles of Foley's Kidney
Remedy cleared my complexion. cured
my backache and the irregularities
disappeared, and I can now attend to
business every day and recommend
Foley's Kidney Remedy to all suf-
ferers, as it cured me after the doc
tors and other remedies had failed
Wilkinson & Co., j. F. Kiedaisch &
Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
de. He will let them know that War

ade. He will let them know that War
saw is on the map, just below the
dam and will return with new ideas
for lettering, this pretty little city.
Warsaw is planning big crowds for
the Keokuk fair this week, especially
for Thursday, but there will not be as
many as heretofore because the cars
do not come UP the hill.
Thirty more machines are to be set
up this week in the button factory
This will make the full complement
of ninety machines and increase the
force to over 100 hands. This factory
is a great success, the men are MAX
ing better wages than some of them
could make at other work, and the
relations between employer and EN-,
poyees are most congenial.
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Mennonites, Founder.

The Mennonites take their name
from Memo Simons, born in Witmar.
sum, Holland, in 1892 He entered
the priesthood Of the Roman Catholic
church, renounced Catholicism early
in 1886. A severe persecution began
to make itself felt against his follow
ers, and having heard accounts of the
colony established in the new world
by William Penn, they began to emf
CRATE to Pennsylvania near the end
of the seventeenth century.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
Beef Trust Inquiry Is
Becoming More Pointed

Timmins will probably be the next wit
ness and the government hopes to force
him to tell everything he knows. If he
refuses he will know that when he leaves
the stand the young woman who has
been conducting his personal and business
correspondence will be summoned next
in effort to fill in the voids which
any lack of memory or outright refusal
to tell may leave.
The investigation is expected to pro-
gress rapidly now that Bowling has been
led through the devious and tedious ways
of the several thousand individual claims
which the company has collected from
various railroads His testimony has
stamped the claims as genuine transac-
tons and now the government will pro-
coed with his testimony as a base in an
effort to prove part of the payments to
have been illegal rebates.
If this fails the government will fall
back on an angle which has not hitherto
been disclosed. 1t was made known that
the government believes 1t has evidence
to show that the packers solicited a re-
bate agreement whether such an arrange
ment was carried out or not This Is
specific evidence without relation to
whether or not the rebates were actually
paid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
THE STATELY SHIPS MOVE ON
TO A HHv/EN ACROSS THE SEA

Washington, January 3.-In response to
the suggestion of the Italian Red Cross
society that a vessel might be loaded
at Genoa with provisions and sent to the
scene of the earthquake disaster, the
American National Red Cross tonight
cabled $15O,OOO with the suggestion that
it could be used by the Italian Red Cross
society to fit out a ship with provisions
and medical supplies. This amount is in
addition to the 100000 and the $4,000
previously sent by the American Red
Cross. BY sending the money instead of
undertaking to provide for the shipment
of supplies the American Red Cross
adopted what it regarded as the best
method of meeting the emergencies that
face the Italian Red Cross.
In order that the American Red Cross
society might have personal represen-
tative on the scene of the earthquake,
Vice Consul Bayard Cutting. at Milan, is
now In the earthquake region, having
been sent there by Ambassador Griscom.
cablegram received from Consul Bish-
op at Palmero today was the first infor-
nation that has come directly from Mr..
Bishop It was sent from Palmero, Sicily,
and besides confirming the previous In
formation concerning the death of Mr..
Cheney and wife, it reiterates that Con-
sui Lupton was unharmed and adds that
Lupton had sailed from Messina for a
point unknown.
The text of the message which President
Roosevelt tomorrow will submit to Con-
gress in behalf of the earthquake suf-
ferers was the subject of a conference
tonight at the White House between the
President, Secretary Root and Assistant
Secretary of State Bacon. The earth
quake situation generally was referred
to at tonights conference and it was de-
cided that the amount the Red Cross
should cable to the Italian Red Cross for
immediate fitting out of relief ship
should be 10000 instead of 100000 as had
been considered earlier in the day. This
amount was cabled tonight through AM
bassador Griscom at Rome.
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Experience OF Ships
Grew In E0rfhqH te

Another boat swept down upon us before
l could get the crew to their stations and
the Afonwen under control, but luckily
the bump was slight and not much dam
age resulted.
Now the sea became tremendously asi-
tated with waves and walls of water ris-
ing on every side The ship listed to her
beam ends. For 35 minutes 1t was touch
and go Once a great wall of water struck
us with such violence that l thought all
was over, but by a miracle we came
through it. 1t was like cyclone from all
points of the compass. The wind howled
and the waves battered and swept the
decks. Great holes opened in the S'a
itself and seemed to reach down 70 or 80
feet and some at lesser depths.
"As soon as the worst of the tidal wave
have passed I tried to see what had be-
fallen the town of Messina as the hrst
faint streaks of daylight appeared. l
could see at first only the outline OF the
hills and a vast cloud of dust which
speedily enveloped everything and settled
down over the ship like fog.
with Increasing daylight we could see
how Messina had been destroyed. Before
our eyes houses and palaces still We're
topping and falling to earth, with noises
like SO many exploding powder magazines.
The city itself was black with smoke
spljt by ominous red streaks of bursting
flame. Gradually the sea calmed down
and the roar of wind and waves de-
creased.
.'Then shrieks and groans reached our
aars and we could see hundreds of terror
stricken persons f1ocking down to the
waters edge Many of them plunged
into the sea.~and swan out toward our
ship.ssSVe took on board as many as coulo
he accommodated +"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
PEACE ENDANGERED
BY CHINESE REGENT
S15O,OOO Sent To Italy
Bv National Red Cross

To assist the American people in their
Italian earthquake sufferers, Secretary
Root has made public a cablegram re-
ceived today from Ambassador Griscom,
presenting the first feasible plan of meet
ing the present great emergency. There
is no time to spare in awaiting the ar
rival on the scene of distress of battle
ships now in the Suez canal. or of naval
supply ships crossing the Atlantic. The
need for help is immediate, and how that
help can be rendered is told in the ca
blegram dated at Rome, which follows:
January 2.
'I have today drawn on you for $50, 200
and paid equivalent to Italian Red Cross,
in two sums: $4,000 from American Red
Cross, and $4,000 from Christian Her.
aid.
II have today seen president of Italian
Red Cross who desires me to inform
American Red Cross as follows:
Problem of relief very vast. Includes
feeding, clothing destitute on scene i'm
mediately and quickly, removing nearly
whole surviving population from stricken
district to other parts of Italy. Trans
portation involves special difficulties
Much money is needed but If America
desires to offer practical aid Immediate
ly a shop could be chartered by tele-
graph at Marseiles or Genoa. and load
ed with blankets clothing, linen, pre-
served meats. condensed milk, medical
supplies and similar useful materials. One
or more such ships. under the direction
of the Italian Red Cross would be useful
as transports, and at the same time could
deposit stores where needed along the
coast. The italian Red Cross has not yet
clearly worked out how all the difficult
ties of relief are to be solved. Supplies
are now needed in Sicily and Calabria. but
in about two weeks when the destitute
have been removed, will be needed in
Naples, Rome, Florence and other cities
where the sufferers are being distributed.
II will be personally glad to cooper
ate with our Red Cross to carry out any
plans. There are many Americans in
Rome anxious to assist in relief meas
ures GRISCOM."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
NOBLE RESCUE WORK
BY QUEEN HELENA

Naples. January 3-(Special.) 1.-The first
calm and connected stories of the earth
quake disaster were brought here today
steamer Afonwen, whose Unconditional
temperament enabled them to relate in
detail their experiences.
During the night before the catastro-
phe," said the captain of the Afonwen,
1--WE lay at anchor in the harbor of Mes
sina under steam ready to leave early the
following day. 1t may have been about
o'clock in the morning when l heard a
low growing sound like thunder. Day.
light had not yet dawned, but I was on
deck and the crew was stirring. The PEI
culiar sound made me glance anxiously at
the sky, and then at the sloping town Of
Messina, neither of which afforded any
explanation.
Suddenly the Afonwen gave a terrific
leap. That is the only word I can use.
The ship seemed to rise up from the sur
face of the water as though lifted bodily
by some mighty power underneath. The
anchor chains snapped and we started to
drift shortward very fast.
From the land came sounds of tremen-
dous crashing and falling of buildings. All
the lights along shore went out in an in
stant. The darkness was intense.
"Instnctively 1 knew this was an earth
quake, and that tidal waves were dashing
MS about the straits. The first thing to
do was to save the ship, for other craft
were being thrown about on all sides, and
there was imminent danger of collision.
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ORDER BEING RESTORED
IN THE RUINED DISIRCl |

selected a committee of Americans here
to which will be entrusted the work OF
carrying out his plans. Mr.. Griscom nm
self will be president of the committee
and it's other members are George Page,
treasurer; Nelson Gay, secretary; sam
uel Parrish of New York. William Hooper
of Boston and Lieut.. Reginald r. Belk-
nap, naval attache to the American en-
bassv. DIR. Bastianelli the physician to
the royal household, will also act with
the committee ,oo
IL Mr. Grscom is provided with Sloo,ooo
the committee will be able to charter
large steamer, equip it with nurses, doc
tors and supplies of all kinds and Keep
IT running as a hospital for two weeks
between the stricken cities in the south
and those points where refugees can De
received and accommodated.
Italians who have heard of the plan
of the American ambassador pronounce
1T 4. most praiseworthy one and a practical
way Of showing the spirit OF charity and
sympathy of --mericans toward Italy.
Count Taverna, president of the Italian
Red Cross society, to whom Ambassador
Griscom presented $4,000 from the Amer
lean Red Cross, said the project was one
to be greatly commended and he ex-
pressed the most grateful sentiments to-
ward America and Americans for the aid
sent and still being sent.
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Rome. January S-Premier Giolitti to-
day received long telegraphic dispatch
from King Victor Emmanuel, dated Mes
sina. saying that he would leave TO-
night for Rome. AS to the conditions IN
the earthquake district, the King said:
To-day l visited the Calabrian coast
south of Reggie ! found Pellario lit
orally destroyed, but Melito seems to
have been but slightly damaged
"It has stopped raining. AT Messina
the municipal archives were burned.
Troops are arriving and little by little
order is being restored and the public
services re-established.
''As I have seen the worst damaged
points and have arranged for the work
of rescue and as the wounded requiring
attention are diminishing in numbers, 1
shall leave tonight for Rome. With me
came Minister of Marine Maribello and
ex-Minister of Public Instruction Or
lando.
81 again recommend to you the iso-
lated villages on the Calabrian coast
Mr. Griscom, the American ambassa-
dor. in order to be ready in case his
suggestion as to the manner of conduct
ing the American relief work for the
earthquake sufferers Is accepted, today
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04

Chicago, January 3.-(Special.)-
Charlotte Kinks, confidential stenog
rapher for II. A. Timmins, traffic man.
ager for Morris & Co., was subpoenaed
yesterday as witness in the beef trust
inquiry.
Her summons was regarded as the be-
ginning of a system of Checking which
the government proposes to institute in
this Investigation, upon the traffic de-
partment of the beef trust houses.
It is not proposed to test the employees
in minor capacities who have no strong
reasons for suppressing facts regarding
correspondence and entries in the books
such as might be expected of men of
large salaries and many years service.
The testimony of Harry C. Bowling,
head of Morris claim department, which
has consumed whole week and which is
intended for the groundwork of the sub
sequent testimony, is said to have been
far from satisfactory. Bowling is said
to have fallen back on alleged loss of
memory for all details save those which
appeared in black and white in the docu-
ments which he was commanded to bring
with him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
RESCUERS WORKING DAY
AND NIGHT IN THE RUINS

Catania, January S.-The system of res
cue work in Messina has been greatly
augmented by the arrival of troops, who
are to be seen all over the ruined city in
squads of 20 and 30, patrollng day and
night. Bodies of them are also working
in the ruins by day and night, under the
beams of the searchlights of ships in the
harbor and thus but little time is being
lost.
The movement of refugees from the viii
lagos nearby is daily increasing in vol
ume and large numbers of persons are
leaving the devastated region. OF the
victims buried under the ruins, few have
been rescued alive.
1t is now clear that the enormous num-
ber of casualties in Messina were due to
the suddenness with which the first shock
came, giving but little time to the people
to escape from their homes.
The tidal wave was not so high as was
at first reported and would have done lit
tie damage had 1t not been preceded by
the earthquake. The damage done by fire
was comparatively insignificant.
The first earth shock last Monday morn
ing literally threw down the city and
almost every street was completely buried
under the walls that had fallen. furniture
and other debris practically cutting off
every avenue of escape.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
RIpENING OF PLANS
TO UPBUILD SOUTH

Montgomery. January 3.-"rhe organi-
zaton of the Southern Commercial Con
gress has been proceeding satisfactorily
throughout the holiday season. said G.
Grosvenor Dave, managing director of
that body in an interview today.
"The following vice presidents for the
states named have already consented TO
act each working in his state to pro-
duce cooperative action by commercial
bodies in the southern propaganda
alabama, f. p Glass, Montgomery;
Arkansas, Clifton r. Breckenridge, Fort
Smith; Florida, John g. Christopher,
Jacksonville Georgia, T. s. Raworth, Au-
gusta; Kentucky, John B. Atkinson, Earl
ington; Mississippi, Charles Scott Rose
dale; North Carolina, A. E. Tate, High
Point; South Carolina. Lewis w. Parker,
Greenville; Tennessee, John W. Faxon,
Chattanooga; Texas, M. I4asker, Calves
ton; West Virginia, A. X. Thorn, Clark.;-
burg; Missouri. George W. Simmons.
ST. Louis.
THE following gentlemen have accepted
positions on the finance committees:
william j. Oliver, Knoxville, Tenn. !;
Gen. J. B. Castleman, Louisville, KY;
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
HITCHCOCK COMES
TO BIRMINGHAM

Augusta. Ga, January 3.-United States
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge left today for
Washington. In discussing his visit to-
night, Mr. Taft said that besides giving
him a general idea of the probable or
ganizaton of the Senate committee after
March 4, Mr.. Lodge had strongly urged
the retention in the Taft cabinet of Post
master General Meyer While no particu-
lar portfolio for Mr.. Meyer was men
toned, it is understood that if he is re-
tained 1t will be either as Secretary of
the Navy or Secretary of the Treasury,
with the navy department the most likely.
The Birmingham, Ala, delegation which
got here yesterday and obtained the
promise of a visit to their city from the
President-elect went away elated tonight
in their success in inducing Frank II.
Hitchcock to go with them for visit of
a day in Birmingham. Mr. Hitchcock
will return here from Birmingham be-
fore Senator Knox arrives The Senator
is expected Wednesday.
Henry w. Taft will play golf with the
President-elec tomorrow morning and
return to New York in the afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tart attended morning
services at the Church of the Good Shep-
herd, in Summerville. and drove in their
automobile to Grovetown, about 10 miles
distant, this afternoon.
Editor J. c. Hemphill of Charleston, 8.
c., has an appointment with Mr. Taft
tomorrow.
Judge Taft decided today that, in view
of his engagements and the work neces-
sary for him to do before sailing for
Panama. that it will be impossible for
him to go to New York on January to
attend the mass meeting in aid of the
sufferers in Italy. He made this decision
known to the committee of arrangements
in New York by telegraph.
John d. Rockefeller, whose custom it
has been for several years to spend some
time at the Bon Air hotel, has engaged
rooms there for January 7.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04

Then came the tidal wave to inundate
the city and the living and dying were
caught like rats and drowned or had their
brains dashed out by being thrown by the
rushing waters against piles of masonry
and rubbish. In many quarters of the
city the stencil from the decomposing
bodies hinders greatly the rescuers in
their work. Far greater havoc was
wrought in Messina than was believed
when the Associated Press correspondent
first passed around the outskirts with
Frank Perret of Brooklyn N. Y, assistant
director of the observatory on Mount We
srvius. Though no part of the city es-
capped. in some sections the work of de-
struction was more thorough than in 9TH
ers. During this tour a most careful eX-
animation was made of the American
consulate. 1t is completely ruined moth
ing but heap of crumbling and crushed
stones without semblance to its original
shape. 1t Is most doubtful If the res
cuers will be able to recover the bodies
buried beneath the debris for few days,
but every effort to do so will be made.
The French and Turkish consulates also
were razed completely, and it seems
almost impossible that any of their in
mates could have escaped.
The officials in NIessina say that the
original estimate of fatalities in the city
were not exaggerated. The lower part of
the city Is practically totally destroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04

Senator Duncan U. Fletcher. Jackson
Vile, Fla; G. w. Simmons, st. Louis,
Mo.
"Mr Simmons. in accepting a vice pres
idency under John M. Parker of New Or
leans, has written to the managing ed
itor as follows:
while | was in the east my office
wired me for an approval to be sent to
Mr. Parker. which l was very glad to do
without knowing what I was approving.
So great is my faith in Mr.. Parker that
I feel sure anything he does along the
line of the Southern Commercial Con-
gress would meet my hearty approval -
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Message to WI Ting FANG.

Washington, January 3.-News of the
succession of Liang Tun Yen. now a vice
president, to the ''acting presidency" of
the foreign board of China, replacing
Yuan Shi Kai, was officially announced
in dispatch received by Minister WI
Ting Fang at the legation today. The
message gave no details.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-04
BIRMINGHAM's GUEST.

Dearing. Ga, January g.
Especial birmingham has not
only succeeded in getting
promise from Judge Taft to visit
Birmingham. but it has with
the delegation tonight returning
Frank Fl. Hitchcock. the post
master general in the new cab
met, who is to speak tomorrow
in Birmingham. He will be en-
tertained at the Southern club
at lunch at 1880 o'clock tomor-
row and later will be given an
automobile ride over the city.
At 2:30 In the afternoon he Will
hold reception at J. o.
Thompson's Office in the federal
building He viii return to Au-
gusta at AIS p. m.
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italians Express Thanks.

,,,eetinp of the Italian chamber of COM
,,,erce Of New York resolution unan-
imously adopted asking the Associated
press to communicate to the newspapers
- +he limited States an expression of the
heartfelt gratitude of the organization
for the splendid support given and the
great sympathy shown to italy In the
present emergency.