davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
FOREIGN POLICEMEN
ARE NOT AS GOOD
American Chief Draws Comparison
Between Our Officials and 9th
err Ones.

LONDON, Oct. 27.-Chief of Police
Kohler, of Cleveland "the best chief
in the world according to Theodore
Rooseyelt--is not particularly inn
pressed by European police depart
ments, which he has been looking
over since July.
The London policemen are patient,
polite and admirably organized" he
says, but that's all They haven't
much on us. Tie Paris and Berlin po-
lice have still less The European po-
licemen has an easy job, anyhow. He
deals with public which has an in
herited fear of o uniform
I'm all the cities have visited
have found a system of espionage
which probably wouldn't be tolerated
in America, but which certainly
makes for efficiency. The man on the
beat is watched by other men whom
he doesn't know and who report his
movements to headquarters. Reports
are compared and his superiors know
If he is ccnceallng or misrepresenting
anything
The American crook is more dar
ing and original than the European
and the American detective has had
to sharpen his wits to deal with the
master craftsman"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Cousin of Dead Woman Physician
Promises to Tell Something To-
morrow Which VIII be
Interesting.
AFTER THE FUNERAL I
Detectives Now Think It Was Merely
Case Of Suicide With the
Weapon Taken by
Friends.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27.-Miss
Augusta Knabe, cousin of DR.. Helen
Knabe, found dead with her throat cut
IN her apartments here, today prom
ised to make a complete statement to
the police tomorrow which the latter
believe will lift the curtain from much
OF the mystery surrounding the death
OF the woman physician.
"I must wait until my poor cousin
is in her grave" said the dead wom-
ans only relative in this city. 81 can
say nothing more. ! believe that |
have valuable information for the
police that will aid them in removing
the mystery but under no conditions
will tell it until my dead cousin
sleeps in her grave"
With the failure to find the slight
est clue which would lead to mo-
tive for murder Detective Holts to-
day inclined to the theory Of suicide.
The absence of weapon when the
body was found by the police may be
explained by some of the dead WON.
ans friends who reached the body
first say the police.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
DE LA BARRA
TO SEE TAFT
Brother of Mexico's President to Hold
Conference With Nations
Head.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. 27-Bear-
ing message of good will for the
United States and assurance that con-
cientious attempts are being made to
settle internal strife, Louis De IaBar-
ra brother of Mexico's provisional
president, will leave here to meet
President Taft at some point before
he returns to Washington. The OBJ.
ject OF the proposed conference be-
tween De LaBarra and Mr.. Taft it is
said Is to secure from the American
executive assurance of the good will
of the administration toward the
new Madero government De La Bar.
ra came to San Antonio yesterday.
He had a long coference with Gen
Reyes, who has been accused OF
propagating opposition against the
Madero administration.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
NEW PLANET
HAS BEEN SIGHTED
Star is Sailing Toward the Earth and
Observers Are Much
Interested.

WILLIAMS BAY. Wis, Oct. ga
new planet is rapidly approaching the
earth. Astronomers have sighted 1t
twice and the Yerkes Observatory
scientists are maintaining constant
watch for it, The new heavenly body
BODIES no i'll for terrestrial conditions,
according to Professor Edwin K.
Frost of the observatory. but it will
be of much benefit to astronomers
providing it comes close enough to
the earth that it's proximity to the
sun may be measured. 1t is not large.
say the astronomers, but is one of the
some 600 similar small bodies called
asteroids.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
THROW PASTOR
OUT OF CHURCH
Denver Congregation Have Free-for.
all Fight Over Church
Policy.

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 27.-Rev. w.
s. Rudolph is nursing cuts and bruises,
and number of other members of the
Union Presbyterian church are using
soothing lotions today as result of
ten minutes of lively fisticuffs over
church affairs. During the melee the
pastor was thrown through the win
dow
DR.. Rudolph, with number of his
friends, were sitting quietly in the
rear of the auditorium of the church
while trustees, deacons and other
church workers arraigned the pastor
\ severe terms for attempting to re-
tain possession of the church after
he had resigned from the board of
governors.
Then motion was carried to go
into executive session in a room ad-
joining the church, and the pastor
and his friends inferentially were
invited to absent themselves.
DR.. Rudolph, however, led his
cohorts and went around to a back
door, entered the room. A fight immed-
lately started. Women in Mysteries
bolted from the room. while a dozen
or more men punched at each other
in grim earnestness, several of them
becoming engaged while attempting
to act as peacemakers.
DIR. Rudolph and his church are
prominent, and the affair has caused
a great stir throughout the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
EXPULSION
OF THE JEWS
Some Are Adopting Russian Faith Il
Avoid Being Sent Out of
Russia.

YUzOFKA, Russia, Oct. 27.-By an
order of the governor all Jews in the
province of Yekaterinoslav are sub
ject to expulsion with the exception
of those who have lived in the prov.
ince since May 16, and those who
have permits of residence.
Many Of these subjects to expulsion
are in critical position, as the sud
den expulsion prevents liquidation
of their affairs, and to avoid finan-
cial ruin some are adopting the Rus
sian faith. Special officials will be
sent through the province to control
the registration, and all laxity in
this matter will be punished by the
dismissal of the guilty ones.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
General Il Yu . uns Makes the An
nouneemef 'at He is Presi-
'.'E ~ ,s' s''''
FOREIGNERS Fed
New Regime Promises to Keep Faith.
erIy Eye on Foreign Devils
During Period of
Unrest.

SHANGHAI, Oct, 27.-Gen. LII Yuan
Hung today proclaimed himself pro-
visional president of the new republic
of China at Hankow. Notification OF
the generals action has been receiv-
ed by the foreign consuls who are as
sured that the provisional government
will do all in it's power to protect
foreign interests during the present
period of unrest
Ii Yuan Hung has commanded the
rebel forces about Hankow ever since
the outbreak of the present rebellion
1t is believed that his elevation OF
himself to the presidency will be &C
cepted by the revolutionists through
out the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Secret of Century is Revealed by
old Man Who is About to
Die In City of Phila-
delphIa.
CAME HERE IN 1861
Veteran of Civil War Tells Strange
Story Of Being an Heir to tho
First Emperor Of
France.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.--Lying
at deaths door. without money and
without relatives financially able to
care for him, his mind clear; although
his body was weak from the ravages
of tuberculosis, Andrus Johann Leib,
IS years old, declared that he is a
grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte,
first emperor Of France.
Much Of his strange story was cor
roborated by his half-sister, Mrs. So
fla Leib Nagel, 20 years old, with
whom he lived at 1916 Hope street,
when he was sent by the authorities
to hospital for treatment which he
could not afford in his poverty
stricken condition.
Leib declared his supposed grand
parents. who took his father in
charge when he was a baby, had en-.
tered oath never to reveal the iden-
tity Of his real father and that
through a century but few knew that
by Maria Louise of Austria Napoleon
had second son, whose name was
Johanna Daniel Bonaparte.
Il was born in Wertheim, on the
Main River. Sept. so, 1882" he said
Il do not remember very much about
my early life, but know that came
to America in 1861. enlisted in the
Union ranks in the civil war, in New
York City, and served four years.
Il know that my grandfather was
I nf
my grandmother was Marie Louise
whom the emperor married in 1910
after his divorce from Josephine. But
when my father was born, just after
the downfall of the empire, he was
hidden away and finally adopted by a
family named Leib in Germany.
Sometimes his mother came to see
him, but always when asked abou
his father the Leibs would not an
swer him. Some time later he Learned
from others that he was the son O
Napoleon, but did not make an,
claim for those were troublous times
After 1861, when | came to America
| do not know what became of m,
father. | wrote him, but he did no
answer me. guess the letter neve
reached him
My fathers name was johann
Daniel Leib, he having taken thi,
name from the family who adopte,
him. He married Barbara Kritzler.
know that my father was educated
on money that was given to the Leil
family by some unknown people ant
| suppose it was from the emperor
himself"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Issue Neutrality Proclamation.

WASHINGTON Oct 27-Officials OF
the state department issued a formal
proclamation declaring the neutrality
of the United States in the conflict be,
tween Italy and Turkey over Tripoli
One reason for the delay in issuing
the proclamation was the hope of of
ficials that the war would be of short
duration In as much as it has lasted
for weeks and promises to continue
for some time in the future, President
Taft pd members of his cabinet de.
cided to issue q formal proclamation
calling upon citizens of this country
everywhere to observe absolute neu.
trality during the continuance of the
war
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Weather Conditions.

The crest of the western field of
high pressure has moved from Mon
tana to Western Nebraska. its ad-
vance causing cooler weather from
the Northern Mountain Region to
the lakes, freezing temperature pre-,
vailing over the greater portion of
this territory, with scattered light
rain or snow.
The areas of low pressure remain
on both the southeastern and south
western coasts. and there has been
rain, with rising temperature in each
district
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to
night. Increasing cloudiness Satur-
day; probably becoming unsettled by
night.
For Illinois: Generally fair tonight
and Saturday except unsettled in the
north portion Frost tonight and freez
ing in the north portion.
For Iowa: Fair tonight Saturday
increasing cloudiness, probably be
coming unsettled by night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Hystericai Terror.

PEKIN, Oct 27-News of the procla.
nation of Chinese republic with
Gen. Ii Yung Hung as president, has
thrown the imperial court into al
most hysterical terror.
Manchu officials are leaving for
the north in great numbers and those
who remain are almost without
exception gathering their movable
property together in readiness to join
the rout at moments notice. There
are reports that the baby emperor
has already been smuggled from the
city but they are not generally be
lieved.
In official circles the common view
is that the dynasty is doomed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
For Moose Orphans Home.

TULSA, Okla, Oct 27-Charles
Page, millionaire oil operator has
proffered the Loyal Order of Moose
twenty acres of ground near here as
a site for the Moose Home for Or
phans, now maintained at Muncie,
Ind. Free fuel, water, pasture and use
of canning factory is included in the
offer. 1t is said that the present loca-
ton is unsatisfactory.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
AVIATOR DIES IN
SPECTACULAR FALL
Tumbled 700 Feet and the Machine
Turned over and Over
In Descent.

RHEIMS, Oct. 27.-Aviator Destar-
net, engaged in army aerial tests, fell
700 feet here today and was instantly
killed. His machine turned over and
over as it fell and landed 900 feet
from the aviator's body.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
WOULD BURY
CHILDREN ALIVE
Police Caught Crazy Mother Just in
Time to Prevent Fear

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27.-Announc-
ing her intention of burying alive her
three young sons, Mrs. Anna Covie,
aged sc, dug grave in vacant lot
and was preparing her children for
burial when apprehended by the po-
lice today She has been placed in
an insane asylum,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
MOVING PICTURE
OFFICE EXCITEMENT
Jap Gardner Ran Amuck, Killing One
Man and Wounding
Another.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27.-wm. c
Selig of Chicago, president of the Sc
lig Polyscope moving picture company
was shot and fatally wounded and
Francis Begg, general manager Of the
company, was killed by Frank Min,
niamatsau, Japanese gardner, who
ran amuck in the offices of the com
pany at Fdendale, suburb, today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Mo Endearments.

LONDON, Oct. 27-Amy Nash, a
parlor maid, was a witness in the
George and Maude Foster divorce
case. No." she said, II never saw
endearments between Thomas Beech
am and Mrs. Foster They merely
hugged and kissed one another"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Theory Is Shattered.

NEW YORK. Oct 27-Henry Will
liams theory that every seven years
ones luck changes got severe jolt
when he was sentenced to ten years
for burglary He ended his fifth term
seven years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Great Italian Victory.

LONDON, OCT. 27-Nechiat Bey,
commanding the Turkish force in
Tripoli and practically all his officers
were killed and two-thirds of his fol
lowers wiped out by the Italians in a
battle yesterday, according to dis
patch from Rome this morning The
message quotes official kilograms from
Tripoi to the Italian government
Another message says that the Ital.
ian battleship Napoli has sunk Turk
ish battleship and damaged second
one near the entrance to the Oar.
danells. The news is unconfirmed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Turkey to Flaht On.

BERLIN, Oct 27.-Advices from
Constantinople state that the reports
of recent battles, with italian losses, at
Tripoli, have ended for the present
any chance for meditation. The Turk
ish government, adopting the stand
point of the people, has swung over
to the idea of continuing the war Ger
many, accordingly, sees no opening
for intervention,
A dispatch 20 the Frankfurter zeit-
ung from Tripoli says 300 men were
killed in the battle at Tripoli on Mon
day The dispatch adds that Italian
re-enforcements are needed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Local Observations.

Rainfall for past "a hours, 6 hun
dredths
Mean temperature, Oct. 26th, 40.
Highest temperature, 45.
Lowest temperature, 35.
Lowest temperature last night, 33
FRED q. GOSEWISCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Greatest In World.


Greatest In World.
The United States Steel corporation,
the greatest combination OF capital
in the world, was organized in 1901
under the financial management of j..
P. Morgan & Co., and began its cor
porate existence under the laws of
New Jersey on April l that year.
Charles NJ. Schwab, formerly An
drew Carnegies right-hand man, and
first president of the corporation, is
said to have first uggested the idea,
having broachcd it, according to his
own testimony before the Stanley
Steel investigating committee, at a
dinner held in New York, at which j.
P. Morgan, Mr. Carnegie, H. C. Frick,
E. H. Hartman. Henry Phipps and
other prominent financiers and steel
men were present.
AS the sequence of this dinner, ae-
cording to Mr.. Schwab, negotiations
were opened between Mr.. Morgan and
different interests which controlled
the leading steel concerns of the coun-
try, including the largest, the Carneg-
lie company, to bring them together
under one control
other Concerns in the Trust
The other concerns were the Car
negie company, Federal Steel com
pany, National Tube company, Amer
ican Bridge company, Lake Superior
Consolidated Mines company, Ameri-
can Steel and Wire company, Nation
al Steel company. American Steel
Hoop company. American Tin Plate
company and American Sheet Steel
company, whose combined stock and
bond capitalization amounted to S911.-
100000 Each of these concerns was
in itself a combination of smaller
companies representing, as set forth
in the report of Commissioner of Cor
porations Herbert Knox Smith, more
than 200 originally independent com
panies.
The National Steel company, Amer
lean Tinplate company, American
Sheet Steel company and the Ameri-
can Steel Hoop company were con-
trolled by the William H. Moore in
terests, the American Steel and Wire
company by John W. Gates interests,
and the Lake Superior Consolidated
Mines company by Rockefeller inter
ests, while the Federal Stees, National
Tube and American Bridge companies
were known as the Morgan group.
Carnegie's Bonds Pay S16,ooo,ooo.
1t was testified before the Stanley
company that the Carnegie company
at that time was referred to as the
thorn in the flesh of the steel in
dustry," owing to the alleged policy
of Mr.. Carnegie in refusing to stand
by agreements, and it was Mr.. Car
negie's method, according to some wit
nesses, that really precip.tated the
proposal Of combination
In exchange for the stocks and
bonds Of these concerns there were
issued stocks and bonds of the United
States Steel corporation, aggregating
81, ,297 100000. Subsequently, in 1901
and 1902, there were taken in the
Shelby Steel Tube compAny, a com
bination of fourteen concerns. with
of $15,00o,000; the
Union Steel company, with capital
ization of s45,o0O,0oo, which had just
absorbed the Sharon Steel compan;
the Clarion Steel company, small
concern, and in 1907 the Tennessee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Two Thousand Of Them Arrested by
Italians and Put to Death in
Bunches Of Halt
"A Dozen.
PUBLIC EXECUTION
italy Notifies the Powers That She
Is Now at Home In North
Africa to All,
Corners.

TRIPoLI, Oct. 27-Two thousand
Arabs have been arrested and more
than thirty shot. Hundreds have been
caught redhanded in rioting and loot
ing in the capital and sentenced to
death by the war tribunal. They are
to be shot publicly.
A military tribunal is sitting per-
manently, trying Arabs who fired up
on the rear Of the italian forces from
within the lines In the course of the
attack on Monday A number have
already been shot in groups Of six in
the presence of thousands of natives.
Gen. Canevas' order that citizens
be disarmed has resulted in the dis
covery of large quantities Of arms and
huts full of ammunition. The ener-
getic repression is improving the sit
uation.
italy to Occupy Isles In Aegean.
ROME, Oct. 27--Italy has officially
notified the powers of the cessation
Of Turkish rule in North Africa. She
announces that her new possessions
will extend to the Egyptian frontier
on the east, the Tunisian frontier on
the west and south as far as the Brit
ish and French zones Of influence in
Central Africa.
The principal warships which par
| ticipated in the bombardment OF Trf-
poll and Bengazi reassembled here at
Augusta, Sicily, today, and are coalfng
and taking on supplies. Admiral Aub-
rey will soon take these ships to the
Aegean Sea and another squadron
will operate simultaneously from Bel
rut to Alexandretta, and occupy
number of islands, with the idea OF
demonstrating that opposition by the
Turks is useless.
The powers have been notified, 1t is
understood and have no objection to
the movement.
All reports concerning the possibili-
ty of an armistice between Italy and
4 Turkey are discredited in official cir
cles, which affirm, on the contrary,
/ that italy is determined not to cease
4 her military operations until Tripoli
is wholly conquered A partial arm
istice, limited to the naval force,
might be possible if such step would
help Turkey along the road to peace,
+ based on loss of her African province.
Another expedition is being made
ready to go to Tripoli
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Daily River Bulletin.
River Forecast.

The river will fall slowly from
Davenport southwark for several
days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Trusts Capital s1,4e4, 900, 900.


The United States Steel corpora
tion's present capital consists of $685.
C0J,Oo0 of common stock, 5000, 900
preferred stock and s596,0oO,oOO first
and second mortgage bonds. including
those of subsidiary companies, making
a total of s1,464, 100000.
1t has paid Z per cent dividends on
its preferred stock since organization
and per cent on it's common stock
since March of last year. 1t is esti-
mated that its stocks are held by
about 100000 shareholders.
The gross earnings of the corpora.
ton last year were more than $780,.
100000, and the net earnings in cx-
cess of s141, 100000. 1t produced in
that year about 25,0O0,00O tons OF
iron ore, nearly 100000 tons of pig
iron and more than 10,70o,0O0 tons OF
finished steel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27
Steel Trust Attacked
By u. S. Government

steel corporations Intentions in re-.
spect to this lease, but that cancella-
tion would not be effective until Jan
uary, 1915, and there is no limit upon
the amount Of ore that can be taken
out in the meantime.
Sensational allegations fairly topple
over each other in the governments
petition. which is an equity proceed.
ing praying for injunctions to stop
continuance of the alleged monopoly
and such other relief as the court may
grant.
The steel corporations acquisition
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com
pany during the panic of 1907 is de
clared Illegal and Is scathingly criti
cised. The petition declares that E
H. Gary and Henry c. Frick misled
former President Roosevelt when
they told him that but little benefit
will come to the steel corporation
from the purchase
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-27

(Contlnued on Page 7.-