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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-17
Another Attempt to Break Jail.

Will Leer, the notorious negro crimi-
nal, has made another attempt 20 break
Jail since his recent capture, is now
shackled and in the dark cell at the
Paris Jail in solitary confinement.
Leer, who is Is years of age. has
served two terms in the State peniten-
tiary. He was recently arrested for
forgery, and while the officer had him
at Jail door he broke for liberty and
got away. BefoSe the officers could
again lay hands on him he Taylaid
young Davis Hutchcraft, knocked him
in the head with a blackjack and rob-
bed him. Fer this latter crime he vas
landed in jail, being arrested at Fall
mouth. A few days later be knocked
Turnkey A. M. Kiser in the shead and
escaped with two other negro prison
ers.
Leer was again captured near Cow
lngtors, he and one of his companions
be ing secreted on a car loaded with
lumber. He was brought to Paris and
again placed in Jail.
Saturday when Jailer Geo. w. Judy
was making the rounds of the jail he
concluded TO investigate the cell Oc-
cupied by Leer, found that he had Sc
cured steel Stat from the iron bed on
which ne slept, and had almost disludg-
ed one of the large stones over the
window and in addition had in some
way secured long knife. the blade
of which he had converted into saw
by the use of a three cornered file.
The precaution now taken by placing
Lee- in solitary confinement. shackled
in such a manner as to preclude any
possible chance of escape or communi-
cation with any visitor or other pris-
oner of the institution. insures the
presence of Leer for trial at the
November term of the Bourbon Cir
cult Court.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-17
PARIS. KENTUCKY FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER II. 19O9I

Miss Anna c. Thornton will
insure your property against
fire and wind. Your tobacco
insurance solicited. Office,
Court House, both phones.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-17

Seems light as feather if it has been
made with our PURITY FLOUR. Note
also how golden brown the crust, how
big the loaf is. If you want to be
known as a first-class baker, use our
Purity Flour. 1t will make your
bread, biscuits, cake and pies SO much
better that your friends will think
you have been taking cooking lessons.
The Paris Milling Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Wild half HOUR
/. in The STOCK PIT
Rock Island Went Jumping From so
70 81 Points but Fell Down
Again With "a Dull
Thud.
THE REASON FOR IT AL
Railway offiela's Say = is Wa,
Not of Their Doin ssnd Only
speculatine 'urry That
WA On.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-There was a
wild half hour in the stock exchange
beginning at the tap of the gong, when
a bull movement sent Rock Island up
from 50% to 81, where the bears
smashed the price back to 81
During that half hour $4,000 shares
were bought and sold. The wild furry
in Rock Island is said to have been
occasioned by the calls for stock
which had been sold short and which
the sellers could not deliver.
London SPECTATORS are said to have
disposed Of large amount of stock
of stock short and when forced to de-
liver were compelled to go into the
market and buy at whatever price the
stock could be obtained.
Rock Island officials declare there
is nothing doing in the internal at
fairs of the company that would war
rant the sensational rise and fall
Judge William H. Moore is in Chicago
and Daniel G. Reid declares he did
not put up the price.
These two men virtually own and
control the Rock Island system. The
entire movement 1t is said, was moi
engineered by the Rock Island inter
est.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
colored PugIist Presents His Mother
With a New $1,000 Home
As Christmas
Gift.
NOTHING BUT MONEY
Gave His Wife $500 Set Of Earrings
and Had Turkey Cooked in
New $3.50 Gas
Range.

CHICAGO, Dec. 27-Jack Johnson,
worlds champion heavyweight pugi-
list, the only colored man who has
ever attained that honor, the man
who on July newt is to fight James
Jeffries for the richest purse ever
hung UP for battle in the squared
circle arrived in Chicago yesterday
to spend the Christmas holidays with
his aged mother, Mrs. Tina Johnson,
whom he had not seen in seven years.
Those who think the life of the
pugilist is nothing but solar plexus
punches and hard knocks would have
been disillusioned yesterday had they
witnessed Mr.. Johnson's arrival. This
is what happened:
Mr.. Johnson drove up to his moth.
er's home, at 3344 Wabash avenue, in
his new $4,000 automobile.
He got out of his machine and walk
ed into the mahogany vestibule of his
mothers $1,000 home.
He removed his mink-lined overcoat
and sealskin cap, embraced his parent
duu MluSiCu WIFI hCtS q ~" 's5 49,
! tears.
He stepped out into the living-room
and kissed his 6-year-old son, who was
playing with $40 toy automobile
under beautiful decorated Christmas
tree.
He walked out into the kitchen,
opened the door of the new $3.50 gas
range and took a sniff of the twenty
pound turkey and the canvasback duck
that were being roasted in expecta'
ton Of the event.
He walked up the walnut stairway
/ to his wife's room and presented her
1 with a set of diamond earrings that
didn't cost cent less than $780,
He walked down into the reception
room and opened bottle of Pommery
Sec with his manager, while they dis
cussed Mr. Johnson's $1,000 week
| theatrical engagement.
He received a delegation of news
paper men and posed for number o.
/ photographs
He sat down to table laden will
silver and cut glass and ate bount
eous turkey dinner
And following this Jack Johnson
worlds champion pugilist, stretched
his six feet and 220 pounds Of solit
sinew and bone down on his mothers
new $500 davenport and took well
earned nap.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
new ENGLAND
COAST STORM
Christmas Snow and Wind Carried
Death and Destruction Along
With il For Many
Miles.
TIDAL WAVE ROLLED IN
Hugh Waves Were Beaten Along the
Rugged Coast and Houses
Were Flooded With
Sea Water.

BOSTON, Dec. 27.-News drifting
into Boston today is that at least a
dozen lives were lost and million
dollars Of property loss by the great
fall of snow and wind on Christmas
day. Two thousand we're made home
less b va tidal wave at Clesea. Wich-
ael Callihan died of shock while being
taken from the second story of his
home. Halt a dozen people are miss
ing and it is believed several have
perished.
Never In the history Of Massachu-
setts, has a more severe storm struck
coast. The gale along Cape Cod, rag
ed at "a miles speed and hugh waves
the coast. The gale along Cape Cod
to any vessel out Of shelter What
the total loss along the coast will
be, no one can at present estimate.
| From Portland, Maine, down tc
Rode Island, every village and town
has its tale of ruin. Hundreds oi
people have lost their homes. Driven
by terrific winds, huge waves broke
down the dyke and flooded the city
In every section, families were taker
from the upper stories of their houses
and in boats and wagons were convey
! ed to places OF refuge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Assassin Fired From Ambush With Z
Shot Gun and Wounded the
Man Severely In the
Shoulder.
STRIKE WAS THE CAUSE
Since the Strike, Deputy Sheriff Had
Received Threatening Let
ters and is Now In
the Hospital.

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 27-As the result
OF an attempt by assassins lying in am
bush to take his life as he was making
his grounds guarding the mine of the
Kolb Coal Company at Mascoutah. ten
miles east Of Belleville, H., at 10:30
Saturday night. Deputy Sheriff John
II. Anderson Of Mascoutah yesterday
was taken to ST. Vincents Hospital
at Bellville, suffering from gunshot
wound in the left shoulder, which may,
prove fatal.
Anderson had received two letters
threatening his life because of his
work during a strike at the mine. dur
ing which an injunction was procured
by the company against the United
Mine Workers Of America, the Mas
coutah local and the officers and menu
bers of the unions. Although the
strike was called Off several months
ago, some of the men refused to go
. back to work. and the company main
tanned guards at the mine every night.
An hour previous to the firing Of
the shot on Anderson at the mine,
George Deuser, said to have been en-
I gagged from st. Louis detective
agency. the regular night watchman
at the mine, whom Anderson had re-
! lieved for the. night, was viciously as
! ~aulted with a poker In saloon at
Mascoutah. Deuser and Philip Kolb, q
member of the mining firm, were in
the saloon of Louis Glaeser about $3.50
4 Saturday night. when Henry Barth, ac-
cording to the stories of the two men,
! brushed up against Deuser, Kolb re-
sented the interference and trouble
| followed.
4 Deuser went to Kolb's aid and was
floored with blow on the head with
an iron poker in the hands Of Barth,
Kolb and Deuser declare. While on
the floor Deuser drew his revolver and
attempted to shoot Bar-th His hand
was seized just as he was In the act
of pulling the trigger, and the bullec
went into the ceiling. Deuser Is said
to be in serious condition at his
boarding house in Mascoutah,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Noted Painter of Horses and West
ern Scenes, Has Welded the
Brush for the Last
Time.
SUDDEN END OF HIS LIFE
Was Taken Sick at His Country Home
on Thursday and Was Dead
an Sunday Morn.
ing.

NEW YORK, Dec 27.-Frederic
Reming N, the artist, died at his
country home at Ridgefeld. Conn, at
8 o'clock Sunday morning He had
been i'll only since Thursday night,
when he was seized with pains which
led to an operation for appendicitis
Friday morning. Mrs. Remington was
with him when he died. They had no
children. The body will be taken 40
Canton, N. Y, for burial.
In Ills earlier years as an illustrator
and painter Frederic Remington used
to say that when he died he wanted
some one to carve on his tombstone
He knew the horse" Probably he
long ago formed other views as to
suitable synopsis of his career yet
it is as a painter of horses that most
people know and first think of him.
Remington was known as an illus
traitor. writer, painter and a
sculptor. He had been a clerk, cow
boy and football player He was
born in Canton, N Y, October 4. 1861
his lalHer Hdu DeeH distinguished
civil wa veteran and editor of the
Ogdensburg IN. Y) Journal. Young
Remington took a lively interest In
athletics while at Yale, later becom.
ing cowboy and ranchman. He was
an artist from childhood and his ex
periences in the west awakened to
him possibilities in that direction
Leaving the ranch, he walked into the
office of a New York magazine and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Was Snowbound for TWO Hours But
Got Home Last Night After
His Annual Visit over
the World.
A BIG BANQUET TONIGHT
Was Met at the City Gates by the
Citizens end viii be Wined
and Dined This Even
ing.

NORTH POLE. Dec. 81 Santa
Claus arrive home last night at S:32,
after being snowbound 700 miles south
of here for two hours, during which
time he was compelled to build a fire
with part of his whiskers In order to
thaw outsthe sled runners.
He reports having visited all of the
countries Of the civilized world on Sat
urday and having distributed all of the
toys and gifts which were made uring
the summer at his factory on Stick
Candy Avenue. His team OF reindeers
were in good condition after the long
trip. excepting the whip leader Blixten,
who sprained one leg in leaping across
an open lead just out Of Etah.
Santa Claus reports that he was un-
able on his visit to the civilized world,
to find anything Of the Mr.. Cook, who
visited here two years ago. He saw
Mr.. Peary, who was near here last
summer and left him in good spirits.
Work in the toy factory will not
start until after the first of the new
year. when large force of men will
start getting the 1910 stock ready.
Santa Claus reports numerous mar
row escapes on the trip, from being
seen and captured by children, but he
manage to get away all right. He
was met here at the gates OF the city
by a great crowd OF people and vel
coined home again ia grand style. To
night at the Ice palace. banquet viii
be given in his honor, 1t being an an
nual custom among the citizens oi
Christmastreetown to have an annual
spread upon the return of their dis
tinguished townsman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
SPANISH FLOODS
DID MUCH DAMAGE
Rivers Rose Is Feet and the shep.
herds Has To Climb Into the
Trees.

MADRID. Dec. 27.-Official reports
received here indicate that the situa-
tion in the regions recently swept by
storms and floods is improving. The
cabinet decided to grant financial re-
lief to the sufferers
Related dispatches give details of tire
destruction caused by the overhowing
of rivers in the Northwest. The Esla
and Orbidge, in the northern part OF
Leon. rose Is feet, destroying several
hamlets. A large number of shepherds,
surprised by the food. took refuge in
tree tops, where they remained with
out food, in the drenching rain, fo1
three days.
Many persons are missing, and it is
believed they have drowned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Snow Storm in New York City Tied
up Traffic and Covered tho
City with Mantle of
Snow.
STORM CAME SUDDENLY
The City Was Almost Cut OF From
the World by the snowdrifts
Which Blocked the
Trains.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The terrific
wind and snow storm which began
at IL o'clock Saturday forenoon and
continued all of Saturday afternoon
and Saturday night, increasing in vio-
lence after midnight Saturday, con-
tinued until about noon Sunday. The
storm gradually wore itself out and
in the afternoon the skies cleared and
the temperature took drop at night.
In the meantime the city lies under
a mantle of snow more than foot
deep in places and the wind is stiM
high. The storm was general through
out the state.
Trains from the south and west
we're hit hardest by the storm. ser
vice in these directions being practic-
ally cut off all day. while the upstate
and Canadian trains were from one
to three hours behind their schedules.
The two eighteen-hour Chicago
trains were delayed to an almost re-
cord-breaking limit, the Pennsylvania
due here at 9:45 a. M, having failed
the New York Central's Chicago fly
er due her at 1920 a. M, being over
seven hours late.
There were many unique features
in connection with the storm. A
four-car train on the Bath Beach line
OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, up from
| 'Coney Island. bucked a snowdrift ear
| ly in the morning with it's hundred pas
sengers, for nine hours and half
Brooklyn Rapid Transit men did their
best to help the stalled cars, but what
trains they were able to send In re-
! lief, got stuck in the same snow bank
| The passengers managed to keer
| themselves warm.
| The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany was hit harder by the storm than
at any time in recent years The
young blizzard came so suddenly ant
viciously that the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit people were caught unprepar
| ed to handle the problem.
With ten thousand men. aiding the
regular force of 300 white wings IL
cleaning up the streets and sidewalks
New York is today rapidly recovering
from the snow storm and blizzard O
! Christmas and Sunday.
Street commissioner Edwards I.
5000 short of the number of men hi
wants to clean UP the town. He esti
mates that it will cost 100000 t.
! clean the streets
AS a result OF the blizzard. it !!
announced by the police today that Il
Hives were lost in New York ant
great suffering was intailed No trains
| arrive on time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Mob Of One Hundred Citizens Took
Law in Their own Hands and
Lynch Man From the
Jail.
rs TAKEN TO THE MILL
Posse overpowered the Guard and
Took Their Victim to the En-
sine Room of the Saw
Mill.

HURLEY, Va, Dec. Following
the killing here on Christmas Eve of
Samuel Baker and tie serious wound
ing of his wife and two children by
the formers old enemy, Henry Pen
nington. a mob of a hundred citizens
took Pennington from Jail, where he
had been incarcerated under heavy
guard, and hanged him to a steam
pipe.
Pennington, who had been drinking,
picked quarrel with Baker and shot
him while the latter was on his way
20 Sunday School Christmas tree
with his wife, his two children and a
friend, Wyatt Meadows.
Seeing that he had killed Baker,
Pennington started to run away. Mrs.
Baker called after Pennington and i'm
plored him to help her take the body
home.
The ruse worked, and Pennington
went back to the spot where his vic
tim lay dead. Bent upon avenging the
deed, Mrs. Baker grabbed Penning.
tons pistol from his pocket and shot
twice at him. Her aim was bad and
he was not hurt. Pennington recov-
cred possession of the pistol and then
shot the woman and attempted 70
kill Meadows and the two children.
Pennington was captureed by a
posse on the outskirts of the town
after an exchange of shots with the
officers, who badly wounded him. Sat
urday night band of aboua 100 citi
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Rockford Snowbound.

ROCKFORD, H., ! &c. 27.-Rock-
ford is facing the prospect of being
deprived of light, heat and transpor-
tation within the next twenty-four
hours, penned in by the storm. The
Rockford Electric Co., which furnishes
power for the lighting system has
only enough fuel to last one day,
while the same condition exists in
the plant which operates the interur-
lines. Freight trains long overdue,
crawled through here today. but none
of them brought coal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
BANKER SHOT
HIMSELF DEAD
Was Found at His Desk With a
Bullet Hole Through His
Temple.

WINTERSET, Iowa. Dec. 27.-J. H.
Winterode, president of the Citizens
National bank, suicided. Ill health is
said to be the cause. The janitor and
bookkeeper left Winterode in the bank
at noon. Half an hour later w. J.
Cornell. the cashier, entered and
found the president sitting at his desk
with a bullet hole through his temple
He is survived by a wife and three
children.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
FEBRUARY FIFTH
is THE DATE
Examinations to Be Held Which VIII
Not Be Very Diff
cult,

4 WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. 27.-Any
person of good judgment, who has re.
ceived an ordinary common school edu.
cation, can readily and easily pass the
test to be given applicants for Census
enumerators' places on Saturday Feb.
9Th, the date finally set by U. S. Cen
sus Director Durand, according to an
announcement from the Census Bur.
eau today. This will be comforting
assurance to the several hundred
thousand who are believed to be con-
templating application for the places.
It was emphatica'ly stated at the
bureau that the test will be an emil
nently reasonable and practical one,
similar to that applied to applicants at
the Twelfth Census. It will consis OF
filling-out sample schedule of popula-
tion from description, in narrative
form, of typical families; and in the
case Of enumerators whose work will
be in the rural districts, they will be
called upon to fill out an additional
sample schedule of agriculture, from
information furnished by the Census
4 Bureau.
All persons. whether women or men,
who may desire to become Census
enumerators must be citizens of the
United States; residents of the super
visors district for which they wish to
be appointed; must be not less than
eighteen nor more than seventy years
of age; must be physically able to do
the work must be trustworthy, honest
and OF good habits; must nave at least
an ordinary education and must be
able to write plainly and with reason.
able rapidity.
Those who can comply with these
requirements are invited to put In
their applications, as there will be at
least $4,000 enumerators' places to be
filled by the middle of March in prep
aration for the enumeration beginning
April 18th.
Application forms with full instruc-
tions for filling-in, and. complete in.
formation concerning the test and the
method Of appointment, can be secur
ed by writing to the supervisor of cen
sus for the supervisors district in
which the APPLICANT lives. All appli
cations, properly filled in must be filed
with the supervisors not later than
January 25th as any received after
that date cannot be considered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Mexico and the United States are
Said to Have Agreed That
zelaya Shall Live in
Mexico.
TO HAVE FULL FREEDOM
State Department Does Not Have
Much Faith in the New Presi-
dent Of Nicara-
qua.

MEXICO CITY, Dec. Pit is said
in government circles that the MeXi-
can foreign office has a full under
standing with the United States re-
garding Mexicos harboring former
President Zelaya of Nicaragua, who
aboard the Mexican gun boat Gen.
Gurrara, arrived at Salina Cruz last
night.
No definite statements concerning
negotiations which have been had
with the United States Is obtainable.
The general opinion is that Mexico
would not have gone to 'such extreme
measures without a complete under
standing with the United States
Zelaya will be allowed his full free
dom in Mexico and will be furnished
with any protection necessary. Amer
lean diplomats here profess ignorance
of Zelayas movements and have re-
ceived no instructions to protest
against Mexico's alleged friendliness
to the former president.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Fire chief Dead.

LOUISVILLE, KY, December 27.-
Benjamin Dillon, chief of the Louis
vile fire department, died last night
as the result of injuries sustained
last Tuesday while making fast run
to fire. The CHI 'ef's automobile was
overturned and the four occupants
seriously injured, the other three, how.
ever, being out of danger. Chief Dill
lon took charge of the department less
than six weeks ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not
much change in temperature.
For Illinois: Partly cloudy tonight
and Tuesday. Not much change in
temperature.
For Iowa. Partly cloudy tonight
and Tuesday Warmer east portion
tonight.
For Missouri Generally fair to-
night and Tuesday Not much change
in temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
FIRED BULLET
AT THE EDITOR
Cairo Newspaper Life Has Become
Most Thrilling Ex-
istence.

CAIRO. Dec. 27-Somebody fred a
shot through window of the Bulle-
tin, barely missing the head of E. w.
Thielecke, editor of that paper.
The Bulletin has been aggressive in
charging graft against the police. No
arrests were made.
The Bulletin company offered a re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and con
viction Of the person who fired upon
the editor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Saved His Life.

ST. LOUIS. Dec 27.-Police Of
ficer George Keck Of the Fifth district
probably saved the life of John
Eichmeyer, a whitewasher, whose
throat was but by an unknown man
in a saloon at Eleventh street and
Cass avenue last night. Keck found
the man stumbling across the street
with a deep wound in his neck and
hurried him to doctors office a
block away The doctor was not in.
and while he waited Tor an ambulance
Officer Keck roughly bandaged the
mans neck with antiseptic gauze he
found in the Office to check the bleed
ing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Successor Named.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27.Col.
Won Ketten, chief OF the secret police
Of Moscow, has been appointed to
succeed Col. Karnoff, chief Of the
secret polica of st. Petersburg, who
was assassinated December %. Sew
eral attempts have been made against
the life of Col. Won Ketten, who for
many years has been hunting the
revolutionaries without mercy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Mad pou at Dinner.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Dec. 27.--While
Ramsey Leavitt, his fhmily and sew
eral friends at Athens we're enjoying
a Christmas dinner mad bulldog
dashed into the house. The men
fought the dog back and the women
climbed upon a table. Before Pier
son Roll killed the dog with shot
gun the animal bit both Leavitt and
Roll.