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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18
Hurricane Has Done Great
Damage in the West
Indies.
NO FACTS ARE KNOWN
Cuba'S Loss Perhaps Greater
Than That Ever Done by
Any Other Storm.

st. Augustine, Fla, Oct. 1s.-Scores
of persons were driven from their
homes today by the rising tide. Sew
eral hotels on the water front were
flooded in the lower floors.
Large Area Cut on.
Jacksonville, Fla, Oct 18.-The en-
tire Florida peninsula south of a line
from Tamisa to st. Augustine was cut
off from communication of any kind
with the outside world since o'clock
last night, and is still isolated. I'm
mense damage has undoubtedly been
done to property.
Storm Growing Worse.
The last detailed message from Key
West reported that the barometer read
ing was $3.50 and the storm was un-
abated.
Telephone lines there are ont Of com
mission and the northeast land lines
are disabled A rush Of water on the
grade between Key West and Boca-
chica carried away a grade train which
had been working TO stop the flow.
The government wireless outfit was
carried away yesterday The last news
heard was the Mallory line steamer
Concha and the Ward line Esperanza
calling New Orleans and Havana re-
spectively.
Worst Cuba Has Seen.
Havana. Oct. 1S.-The island OF Cuba
has probably sustained the greatest
material disaster in all her history in
the practically continuous cyclone
which began with light rains Thursday
morning, developing into torrential
floods and devastating hurricanes and
continuing until last evening The
western half Of the island suffered
more severely than the east.
II is impossible 10 estimate even
roughly the amount of the damage
which doubtless will aggregate many
millions of dollars. In addition TO the
great destruction to sugar and tobacco
plantations many thousands Of peas
ants In the three western provinces
have been rendered homeless and des-
titutc. losing their homes and the food
crops. especially plantations and corn.
II now seems probable that the repub-
lie may be compelled to request inter
national aid for the relief Of these suf-
ferers, whose condition is most deplor.
able.
Loss Heavy nj Havana.
In the city of Havana the losses
probably will exceed 81. .OO0, 900. mainly
due to the destruction Of the customs
house sheds. which were filled with
perishable goods, the sinking Of scores
Of lighters. many Of them containing
valuable cargoes which had been un-
loaded from steamers, and the sub
merging of about one square mile OF
the residential section of the city, fac
ing the sea.
\ barge containing all the outfit Of
the divers working on the wreck Of
the old battleship Maine was carried
away and stranded on the rocks OF
MORO castle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18
MRS. SAYLER LOCKED
UP PENDING APPEAL

Springfield, ILL.,. Oct. 1s.-The SUI
preme court today declined to allow
Mrs Lucy Sayler, now serving a pris-
on sentence for manslaughter in con-
uection with the murder of her hus-
band by William H Miller, her liberty,
pending a decision on the appeal from
the verdict Of the trial court
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18
Fatal Runaway at Waterloo.

Waterloo. Iowa, Oct. 1S.-In a run
away accident near Fairbanks, Iowa.
yesterday Arthur Bentley was killed
and his brother George fatally hurt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18
RIVER BULLETIN.

Nearly stationary stages will con-
tinue in the Mississippi river from be-
low Dubuque to Muscatine
JIM. sHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18
BALLOONS FLY
FAR TO NORTH
Participants in International
Contests Strung Out Over
Great Lakes.
GENERAL DIRECTION SAME
st. Louis Craft Million Population
First Reported Down, Having
Flown 300 Miles.

St. Louis. Mo, Oct. 1S.-The 10 bal
looms which left here late yesterday
afternoon in the international race are
believed to be over Lake Michigan
this morning. Reports received show
seven passed over northern Illinois
and southeastern Wisconsin this morn
ing at heights varying from 400 to
$500 feet.
Feared TO Cross Lake.
Balloon No. dropped a message at
Springfield, Wis, saying that at 5:3S
the aeronauts were approaching Lake
Michigan and were in doubt as to their
ability to cross. Early this morning
three balloons passed over Janesville
Wis, going northeasterly.
"IIiIIion Population" Down.
Racine, Wis. oct. 1S.-The balloon
Million Population" landed six miles
north of Racine at 1925 this morning.
At Vernon. Ill. it reached a height Of
4,5OO feet and Travelled $50 miles in
an air line from St. Louis.
One Across Lake.
Muskegon. Mich. Oct 1S.-One bal
loon crossed Lake Michigan and
passed North Muskegon at 1915 this
morning
Sailed Toward North.
St. Louis. Mo. Oct 1S.-The fifth
international balloon race was launch
cd here yesterday afternoon, when 10
monster gas bags. representing four
countries of the eastern and western
hemispheres, ascended amid the plaud-
its of thousands of enthusiasts. They
sailed toward the north and northwest,
and were out of sight within a few
minutes after the words "let go" were
given by the pilots.
Under ideal atmospheric conditions.
amply provisioned for 80 hours or
more in the air, and ballasted with
the utmost care, the balloons arose
gracefully and sped away. There was
not a hitch in the arrangements,
though the Harburg III. of Germany.
Lieutenant Vogt pilot. got a false
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Temperature at z a. m, So. Maxi
mum in "a hours, SO; minimum in II
hours, So. Precipitation in "a hours,
none. Wind velocity at a. m, 3
miles. Relative humidity, last evening
46, this morning SO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18

NEARLY WHOLE FLORIDA
PENINSULA IS CUT OFF
FROM communication
THE WEATHER

Showers tonight or Wednesday
Cooler.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18

All day and night yesterday wireless
Stations along the seaboard tried to
pierce the ghostly fog and pick up in
telligence of the air craft. With in
visible fingers, the antennae at the
masts of the wireless stations groped
in the mists, vainly trying to pick up
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18

st. Augustine, Fla, Oct. 1s.-Scores
of persons were driven from their
homes today by the rising tide. Sew.
eral hotels on the water front were
flooded in the lower floors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-18

Muskegon, Mich. Oct 1S.-One bal
loon crossed Lake Michigan and
passed North Muskegon at 1915 this
morning
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
GOOSE MODEL
FOR AEROPLANE
Missouri Inventor Watched the Birds
Until He Mastered the
Secret.

MONTGOMERY, Mo, Jan, 20-Wil-
liam Gordon of the east end of this
county announces that he has in
vented an aeroplane that will rev.
olutionize aviation. He declares that
he has discovered perfect equilibri-
UNI or automatic balance" and that
he can construct machine 500 feet
long, embodying these principles, as
the small model he is now exhibiting
must have a string attached to it to
keep it from flying away.
He claims to have discovered the
secret of perfect balance by watching
the flight of wild geese and he is
now working on large machine for
practical purposes. Gordon is a poor
man and has been struggling to get
finances to demonstrate and perfect
his invention.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
The ICE GORGE
in The Ohio
Still Makes Spectacular Showing as
it crunches and Floats Down
Stream Along Indiana
Shore.
THE PEOPLE LOST LIVES
Boy Fell From Raft Into the Water
and Boat With Three passens-
ers is Thought to Have
Been Sunk.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 2o.-With
many of its largest and highest tow
ering pieces we'll demolished in the
13o mile sweep down the river, the
Wolf Creek ice gorge. which broke
Tuesday morning, reached here.
Luckily. all local boats were in safe
winter harbors nine miles above this
city.
Sylvester Schmitt. aged 16, while
standing on raft of logs at the
mouth Of Pigeon creek was drowned.
A fishboat in which were three men
and one woman passed in the ice.
They were waving the flag of distress.
and the boat was unable to and. 1t
was impossible to go to their relief
A telephone message was sent to
Henderson, KY, twelve miles below
here, asking If arrangements could not
be made to let strong ropes down from
the Louisville and Nashville bridge
to rescue the imperiled ones.
| 1t is believed the three men and
the woman who passed here lost their
| lives. After Henderson, KY, had
been notified. men decided there to
rescue the occupants of the boat,
which passed Henderson later, but
with the occupants me. It is believ-
ed they have been drowned.
Leonard Williams, aged II, living at
| Howell, Ind. was fatally injured by
the gorge. He was standing on an in-
cline extending down into the river.
Ice cakes striking against the in
cline knocked it over and the boy was
fatally crushed.
The ice from the gorge is clinging
4 to the shore Of the river at the bend
below here and it is feared the heavy
ice coming from above will gorge at
that point during the night.
The steamer John r. Lowrey pass
ed Shelteville on its way up the river
with freight and passengers. There
is no place into which the boat can
turn on this side of the Tennessee
river
The Ohio river here is now "a feet,
/ foot under the danger line, and
rising.
The large whistle at the waterworks
plant on the river bank mile above
the city announced the approach OF
the gorge, and thousands of people
lined the front of the river. Some OF
them remained most of the day
j. C. Budd of the Budd Coal com
pany of Pittsburg, Pa, arrived during
the day to be on the lookout for six
teen large coal barges that we're car
ried away by the ice. Several of the
barges passed here and did not seen
to be seriously damaged.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
BABY BLISS is
IN THE ASYLUM
Happy Through Crazy and Tips the
Beam at 525 on the Coal
Wagon Scales.

PEORIA. Jan. 20-Leonard Bliss,
known all over the country as Baby
Bliss. was brought to the Peoria
general hospital for the insane by
Deputy Sheriff Kennedy of Blooming
ton. Bliss was weighed on a coal
scales near the asylum and tipped the
beam at 525 pounds. With Bliss the
deputy sheriff brought a little fellow,
Louis Allen, who weighs but SO
pounds and the contrast between their
forms of insanity is just as great as
between their physical shapes. Bliss
is eternally happy, always singing and
waving his hands in ecstacy. On the
other hand Allen is troubled with mel
ancholia and when searched in the
asylum a number of cartridges were
found on him although no gun.
Because of his size it was neces.
sary to fix up a special room for
Bliss. Allen, however, fitted very
nicely into regular ward.
Bliss was formerly know as q
great bicycle rider and his picture
on wheels was used all over the
country as an advertisement for the
durability of certain kinds of wheels
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
WHEN ROOSEVELT
RETURNS HOME
Plans for Him to Cross Country and
be Given an Ovation Along
the Line.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 20.-No
one has yet started to Africa to meet
Roosevelt. Some weeks ago move
ment was started by the owDers of a
Kansas City and Denver paper to
have Theodore Roosevelt return from
Africa by way of the Pacific. Express
sions were asked from cities of the
west as to what they thought of the
movement.
Up to date the commercial bodies
of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seat
tie, Tacoma, Denver, Salt Lake, Kan
sas City and many other western
cities have indorsed the plan. The
Chicago Chamber of Commerce has
also gone on record as favoring 1t.
Some time in February F. G. Bon
fills, principal owner of the Denver
Post and Kansas City Post, will go
to Africa and meet former President
Roosevelt as he emerges from the
jungle at KEartoum
The newspaper man will present to
Mr.. Roosevelt, copies of the resolu-
ftons, passed by it is expected practi-
cally every city of Importance in the
west, urging Mr.. Roosevelt to return
to his home in Oyster Bay via the Pa
cific. The plans are to make the trip
of Mr.. Roosevelt across the country a
continued ovation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
Miners Convention is Marked by
Opposition to the Present Ad-
ministration Of the Or
eanization.
MoYER rs ATTENDING
Head of Western Miners is Present
and Spoke in Favor Of Unity
of the Two Fedora
tions.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 2O.-The
anti-administration faction in the
United Mine Workers convention is
expected today to clinch the victory
of yesterday by amending the consti-
tuition to prevent international organ
izers from attending the convention
as delegates at the expense of the
national organization. Since the
organization is ruled by precedent,
Yesterdays action will stand until un-
done by future convention even
though the constitution is not amend
ed, delegates declare today.
Charles Moyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, attend
ed the convention today and spoke III
favor of more closely uniting the west.
ern federation with the United Mine
Workers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
ELECTRICITY AS THE
PERFECT ANAESTHETIC
Experiments Show That It Can be
Used in Surgical Cases to the
Best Advantage.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 20.-Years of
investigation by noted surgeons for
perfect anaesthetic which would have
no detrimental effect on the heart or
other vital organs of the patient have
apparently been rewarded. Electricity
has come to the relief of the surgeon,
and investigation going on here and
abroad, the results of which have just
been made public, shows that electri-
CITY is far superior to any of the drugs
now used. 1t produces state of in
sensibility called electric sleep by
acting on the nerve centers of the
brain. The sleep is not fatal and
when the electric current is opened
the influence is Immediately lost and
the patient becomes conscious without
feeling any of the after-effects COM
mon with drug anaesthetics.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
Only Cost s55a.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 20
The action taken by the treasury de-
partment to discover the whereabouts
of the Nourmahal, the sea going yacht
of John Jacob Astor," reported Mr..
Hills, representative of the treasury,
consisted of an unsuccessful attempt
to direct the revenue cutter Algonquin
at San Juan, P. r., to search for the
Yacht and the dispatch of the revenue
cutter Yamacraw in West Indian
waters, to search for any vessels that
might be in distress between Porto
Rico San Domingo and Jamaica" He
says that the only additional expense
incurred by this cruise was about S559
for fuel, oil and water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
TEACHING GIRLS
THE BABY SCIENCE
New Branch of Education in Missouri
University VIII Prove Valuable
Some Day.

COLUMBIA, Mo, Jan. 20.-Classes
in the care and rearing of children
will be conducted for the co-eds in
the home economies department Of
Missouri University. The new course
was announced by DR.. Edna ID. Day,
head professor of that department.
She will take clas II fi"ty girls 20
the Parker Hospit Il Friday to wit
ness the washing and dressing Of o
baby. A day nurs,' ls 10 hn "stah,
lished to furnish the future teachers
with laboratory W ,ril in child rearing.
The girls will taAe s.rc of bah;e; lef,
there during the day by mothers in
tent on shopping md social duties.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
TAILOR ELOPES
WITH YOUNG GIRL
Leaves His Wife and Six Children
Behind to Get Along as
Best They Can.

GALESBURG, Ill, Jan. 20.-Authori-
ties in this city are seeking Godfrey
Thorngren, formerly tailor in the
Model dye works, who, it is alleged
by his wife, has fed in company with
an affinity in the person of Iva Foster,
the pretty manageress of the estab-
lishment in which he was employed.
Thorngren left wife and six small
children in destitute circumstances
and Monday the wronged wife ap-
reared in the court of Justice, t. L..
Rowe and swore out state warrant
against her faithless spouse, charging
him with desertion.
In addition to caring for family
Of six small children, the eldest four
teen years of age and the youngest
but one year, Mrs. Thorngren alleges
that she had formerly contributed to
the support of the family by keeping
boarders. Some months ago, however,
her husband forbade her to engage in
such employment further. Later
when she asked for money to dis
charge certain debts she was Informed
that he had none, and she was obliged
to borrow money to pay the rent and
to work out of debt by taking in wash
ing.
Thorngren is said to be man oi
middle age, while the young woman
with whom he has been on terms OF
intimacy, is much younger than him
self
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
BRUTAL MURDER
AND MUTILATION
Girls Head Hacked to Pieces in Chi
cago Resort and Parts Of 1t
are Lost

CHICAGO, Jan. 2o,-Annie Furlong,
aged 25, an inmate of a south side
resort, was found murdered in her
room today. The body had been mutt
lated, evidentally with a d''ll knife
and parts of the head were missing.
The scalp and one ear was all that
remained of the head. The victim
was in night dress. Furniture in the
room was covered with the blood. The
police have no clue but Tillie Taylor,
proprietress of the resort and an
other inmate are being detained
pending further investigation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
Hauling Passengers Around in His
AeropIane as Though he Was
Conducting an Omnibus
Line.
HE FLIES ovEP THE SEA
French Aviator Takes His Wife for
a Ride in the sky and Thrills
Spectators With His Dar-
ing.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20.-By carry
ing one passenger in his biplane on
twenty-two-mile cross-country trip
from Aviation field to point hall
mile out over the ocean; by taking an
other passenger on twelve-mile
fight over the fields, and by taking
three other passengers, one at time,
on short flights, Louis Paulsan es-
tablished new worlds record for
heavier-than-air machines.
No other aviator has taken UP so
many passengers in one day, and nG
other aviator has taken woman for
a high flight over fields and woods
and villages and surf for more than
twenty miles.
Paulhan sailed at an altitude of from
500 to 1000 feet over Redondo beach,
Venice-by-the-Sea and other resorts
toward Point Fermin. There wele no
life bouys tied to the machine to save
them from death in tie waves should
they fall He made this trip and 9TH
er perilons flights with the ease OF a
run in a taxicab.
The passenger-carrying record Is
held by orville Wright, who fiew with
Captain Engelhardt for one hour and
thirty-five minutes at Berlin last fall,
but Wright did not leave the course,
where he could land at will.
Paulhan was gone thirty-three min
utes on his twenty-two-nlile trip. He
had as d passenger Shis wife. His
twelve-miie trip was made with Clif
ford 3. Harmon, Of New York. Be
sides these, he took up Mrs. Cortlandt
+. Bishop, wife of President Bishop OF
the Aero Club of America; Lieut.. Paul
Beck, of the United States army signal
corps; William Randolph Hearst. a
newspaper publisher, and another
newspaper man.
The other aviators did not accom-.
plish much. Charles K. Hamilton
made three starts in an attempt to
lower Paulhan's altitude record OF
1850 feet. On his first fight Hamilton
rose 455 feet, on his second 800 feet
and on his third approximately 70C
feet. Paulhan, on the seashore, ex
ceeded this without any effort at rec
ord breaking. Hamiton's machine
was not working well enough to en-
courage him TO go higher on the spira
pathway.
Glenn H. Curtiss made two appear
ances. The first time he went around
the course three times, and the sec
ond he tried for speed record. Hi!
last lap was 2:19, seven seconds from
the record Today is the last day Q
the meet
Curtiss, Immediately after TIE meet
will go to Hammondsport, n. Y, t
start work on model biplane. hea'
Ter one than he has used here. H
claims that he will demonstrate wit
this new machine that he can ge
along without the Wright patent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
Roads Refused to Agree to the Raise
in Salary of Nearly Quarter
Million Employ.
ees.
CONFERENCE PROPOSED
Employees Are to Set the Date When
Compromise Will be Made
and Strike
Avoided.

NEW YORK. Jan. 20.-The 80 rail
roads centering in New York today
refused the demands made by their
100000 trainmen and conductors for
an increase in wages and shorter
day. They asked for a conference,
giving the union men the right to
name the dates of the conference. AS
yet no date has been announced. A
compromise without the necessity of
strike, it is believed, will be the
outcome of future conferences.
The trainmen and conductors it is
said, asked for from 10 to 100 per cent
increase and for a standard 10 hour
day for all union employees with extra
paw for overtime.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
Madame Thebes, the Noted seeress,
Predicts Some Horrible calami-
ties For This Country
During 1910.
RED AND BLACK SIDES
The Roulette Wheel of Fate for the
United States, Stops Only on
the Two colors for the
Current Year.

PARIS, Jan. 20.-The year of 1910
will be one for Americans to look back
to with horror, in the opinion of Ma
dame Thebes, the seeress, credited
with having foreseen more events
than any other member of her tribe.
The madame was sought out by the
United Press correspondent to get her
opinion on the wave of crime which Is
now sweeping over France.
"The earth is under the strain of a
terrific planet revolution" She de-
clared. Human destiny is red, that
means blood. Political events are
black Terrible changes are imminent
and America is placed under the worst
zone of ALL
Madame was only too glad for the
opportunity of delivering herself of
her warning 81 am glad you came,' :
she said, "for / have message for
your country, an important message
Until the last of March, the earth
will be swept by wave of murder
suicide and tragedies of all descrip
| tions FraIce, every day is witness
! ing the most atrocious murders. The
| influence of form changes in Other
/ planets is affecting us, but the strair
will be more severely felt in America
sYou will pay dearly there for youl
riches and your prosperity. A finan
cial crash is impending, to be FOLLOWED
by a long string of suicides. Tht
times are swaying toVaT degenera
/ tion. Black ruling us. young men vii
marry old women for money. Youns
4 girls will marry old men.
I'VE are out of the orbit. Our souls
/ have lost their proper places. dare
not say all that is revealed to me. |
would be too terrible. 1t would fright
en- the people. out read well what
have told you"
Madame rested a while after he
mental excitement and then declared
Il am very fond of America. She i
one of the greatest of countries, bu
like all youth, she is too much life
4 Age will temper her"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
THE NEW COMET
HAS BEEN SEEN
Professor Frost Was Able to Find il
North of the Sun With a
Yellow Tall.

GENEVA, Wis, Jan. 2o.-With the
naked eye Professor Frost of the
.Yerkes Observatory just after sunset
last night saw the new comet re-
ported as having been seen recently
from johannesburg, South Africa.
He says it is to the north OF the
sun and has a yellowish tail.
1t is in the constellation capricornus,
and easily visible without instruments.
1t is expected that it will be more
easily seen today about 10 degrees
above the sun, soon after sunset.