The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-15

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condition became SO serious that he
was removed from his prison at Sal
onica to Constantinople.
LAoNA. Mindanao. P. IA detach-
ment OF American scouts surprised a
party of Moro outlaws and kill
ed forty-two of them. None Of the
American soldiers were injured.
PEORIA, Ill.-The Illinois Grange
reelected Master Robert Eaton, of Ell
wood. Other officers were chosen as
follows: Overseer, T. A. Denny, Rock
ford; lecturer, l.. B. Eidman, Mas
coutah; steward, A. T. Pickard, Rock
ford; assistant steward, F. "A. Jones
Alta; chaplain, Florence E. Given,
McNabb; treasurer, D. @. Trotter,
Jerseyville. The sessions closed af.
ter the election of five minor officers
and the selection of the next conven-
ton city. The grange went on record
for woman suffrage and the initiative
and referendum.
WAUPUN, visa bit OF the real
Christmas spirit was exhibited by a.
convict in the Wisconsin state prison
here when he asked Warden Wood
ward to send 500 Of his scant funds
to make some family happy on Christ
mas day. The warden sent the mon
ey to Chicago. The prisoner, whose
name cannot be given, under the pris-
on rules, asked that the money be
used for Christmas tree and big
dinner and presents for the children.
ELGIN. Ill.-Fifty dollars in cash
was all the booty band of yeggmen
secured after wrecking the safe at
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
depot here.
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-A jury in the
federal court here awarded the Hail
ey-Olo Coal Co. $S0,507.72 damages
against the Globe Oil Company of
Cleveland, for losses occasioned in
mine explosion in Haileyville, Okla,
Aug. rs, 1908. The verdict, according
to attorneys places the damage for "a
men killed at $500 each and for mules
killed In the same mine at $3.50 each.
The coal company alleged that the oil
concern had furnished inflammable
oils and therefore was responsible for
the explosion.
PEORIA, Ill.-After concealing her
whereabouts for nearly year, pref
ty Bertha Ward, college graduate AMI
daughter of w. H. Wead, well-to-do
fruit dealer, of Fenville, Michigan.
is with her father on their way home.
She was found here by her father,
who said she left home owing to
slight misunderstanding which was
explained satisfactorily upon his ar
rival. She consented when told her
mother was stricken with grief.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. details of
railroads controlled by the u. S..
Steel corporation was explained to
the Stanley Steel committee by Addi-
son Smith. third vice president of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad.
Smith declared the Birmingham
Southern railway short line owned
by the steel trust, was collecting an
enormous percentage of all through
shipments passing over 1t.
BOONvILLE, Ind.--The trial of
William Lee, accused OF the murder
of his father, mother and brother. to
begin here Dec. Is, was postponed
until the January term.
WASHINGTON-No official con-
firmation of the reported dismissal OF
w. Morgan Shuster as treasurer-gen-
eral of Persia was received at the
state department
WASHINGTON.-Dr. Wiley's pure
food board put the ban on absinthe
and after the first of next month i'm
portation to the United States of the
seductive drink will be prohibited on
the ground that it is menace to
health.
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