The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-14
CITY NEWS.
City maps at Westcott's.

City maps at WeStcOtt'S.
Roll mop herring at Immegarts'.
A Tale of the Backwoods, at the
Majestic tonight.
All plain knee pants suits and
plain knee pants at half price. Ewers,
Mccarthy Co.
John Agnew who has been in the
employe of the Street Car Company
as section foreman has resigned his
position with the Keokuk and West.
ern Illinois Electric company, to work
OH the water power dam.
The funeral of the late Reverend
Johnson, of Belfast, was held this af-
tornoon, from his late residence, at 1
o'clock. Burial was made in the old
family graveyard of the Johnsons.
A number of tramps 1--we applied
/ for free transportation across the
Keokuk and Hamilton bridge in the
past few days. Many of the fellows
have enough to pay their bridge toll
and there are some who are pennile- s.
The bridge company has made it q
rule-''no pay, no go over"
City maps at Westcotts.
The body of the late Miss Sue
Hornisil, of Ottumwa, arrived in the
city at o'clock this afternoon and
services were held from the Rock ISL
and train. The following gentlemen
assisted as pallbearers Dr. Scroggs,
! w. J. Fulton, James Fulton, John E.
| Craig, Henry Stricken, e. M. Majors.
There will be an interesting bowl
ing match this evening on the Olym-
| plan alleys. when the Olympian and
/ Hannibal, Mo-, teams clash. This will
1 be the second match game of the sea-
son with an out-of-town club and 1t Is
hoped that the home club will repeat
the victory of several weeks ago over
the Quincy club.
/ Maggie Johnson today brought
| silt for divorce against Joseph John
son, on the grounds of cruel and in.
| human treatment. The petitioner al
/ leges that her husband assaulted her
and dragged her about by the hair
beating and attempting to kill her
Several days ago the plaintiff filed an
information against her husband in
the justice court of John Leindecker
in which she charged him with at
tempted murder. The defendant es
i capped upon the payment Of costs. The
parties to this action are colored.
Entire change at tho Majestic to
night
i Nothing hsC been done yet in re
gard to securing a new location fol
the Mills-Ellsworth bending works es
tablishment on the canal. }. I'll. ELS
worth. treasurer and manager of the
company, stated this morning that ru
mors that the works has secured q
location On the south side OF the city
were untrue and that the company
was awaiting proposition from The
water power company before acting
The annual meeting OF the Carni
val City Packet company was held IN
Davenport and all of the old direc
tors and officers elected for the en-
suing year They are: directors-Geo
NJ Becht>l, l.. NJ. Fisher Major NJ
l.. Marks, g. w Smith, Walter A
blair; president, Capt Walter A. Blair
vice president, Frederick Daut; score
tary J. B. Phillips: treasurer, M. l.
Marks. The four boats of the com
pany, the Helen Blair, Columbia. Win
ona and Keokuk, carried 114,S57 pas
sengers and IS, 500 tons of freight. M
carload freight is handled by the ,on1
pany, everything being in less tai
carload lots. In fact, one-third ofstGF
freight business of the company con
sists of 25-cent shipments. The n
steamer Black Hawk will be in thu
trade between Burlington and Keok'il
during the coming summer and thu
Winona. which has been running be
tween these two points, vii be uset
l in the local excursion business an UNI
the tri-cities