The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
CITY NEWS.

Smoke Moeller's Silver Ash cigar.
There will be meeting of the
fire committee and special meeting
OF the council this evening.
Rev. Thomas Hines Of Warsaw,
Ill, was the preacher at the church of
st. Mary. the Virgin, Sunday.
Rally Day was observed yesterday
morning at the Westminster Presby-
terrain church, there being large at
tendance at the Sabbath School and
an interesting special program given.
Each one who attended received a
souvenir of the occasion.
The skeleton of the new ice house
on the canal is up and work at tle
present time is being pushed 1t will
be remembered that this ice house
| burned down a short time ago and was
one of the heavy fire losses of the
!! year.
| Several more spools of the large
cables now being placed in by the
Mississippi Valley Telephone Co., have
been ordered and will arrive shortly.
| A large force of linemen are stringing
and placing them In the conduits.
Rev. F. l.. Smith, D. D., of Quincy
will assist Rev. G. D. Sanders of the
Pilgrims Rest Baptist church in his
revival services this week. The pub
| lie is cordially invited to attend these
services.
! Many Keokuk people have read
with interest and satisfaction Half
Chance new novel by Isham and
published by the Bobbs-M Merrill Co.. of
Indianapolis. This book is on sale at
the Keokuk book stores. 1t is decid-
eddy interesting all the way through.
] City Marshal Henry Kesselring
! who has been confined to his home
/, for few days, was able to be about
this morning and giving the careful
and conscientious attention to his du-
! ties that is characteristic of him. His
/ numerous friends were pleased to see
him again.
Rev. E. B. Newcomb left this af-
ternoon for Dubuque to attend the
meeting of the Board of Iowa Presby-
terrain Home Missions tomorrow, and
the Synod of Iowa beginning tomorrow
evening and continuing in session un-
til Friday afternoon. Dr. Newcomb is
president of the Mission Board and
will also deliver the sermon at the
opening of Synod, as the retiring Mod
orator.
/ After announcing that pellagra
has already been found in seventeen
states of the union and has thus as
sumed the proportions of national
health problem, the South Carolina
state board of health has called a
conference of physicians at the state
hospital for the insane at Columbia
on Nov. and a. There are many
cases of pellagra in this hospital, and
4 the physicians in attendance will have
an excellent opportunity for studying
the disease in its various phases. The
South Carolina board of health has
requested the appointment of COM
mittees from the several states.
4 Corydon Democrat: Leroy Ware,
| through his attorney, w. L. Livington,
yesterday fled papers in the Office of
the clerk of the district court in a
suit for an injunction to prevent Coun-
ty Attorney Sallman from prosecuting
him On the indictments yet untried in
the district court. Mr.. Ware sets up
in his petition that the court agreed
and entered the agreement on the rec
ord, that none of the other indict-
ments should be called up during the
term for which he was sentenced
five years and that he was being har-
assed and injured by the action of
the county attorney In having him
arrested and confined on these indict-
ments. The case will be heard at the
October term of court, when 1t will
be decided whether the court order is
to stand or whether the county at
torney can go ahead and violate an
agreement made by the court.
The freight traffic record through
Burlington was broken Saturday, the
following from the Gazette Of Satur-
day evening telling of the fact: All
records for single days run of
freight through Burlington to the west
were broken today, or will be before
daylight tomorrow. Seventy-five
thousands tons of freight, an enor-
nous amount, requiring hundreds OF
cars to haul IT, were started out of
Galesburg, Aurora and Chicago today,
and are now en- route for the west.
The long freight trains began moving
through here this morning and will
keep up at intervals all day and night.
The congestion of freight has been
unavoidable, owing to the unusual
heavy rush at the present time, the
lack of cars and above all. the lack OF
men. In order to supply crews Tor
the extra freight trains, the engine
men and trainmen who have been
working upon construction have been
called in and are being sent out on
the road Construction work must
wait until the present rush is over
unless it is of an imperative nature.