The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-10
CITY NEWS.
Jse a Gate city want.

If you want the best shoe repair
work, try Karle's union label shop.
| Mrs. X. Simmonds, hygienic CHR
opody, 529 N. 9th st. Phone Iowa, II
Black
The Chicago White Sox will play
game of ball with the Quincy team
on the fourth of April.
Bargains in blankets and lap
robes. Our big stock must go at great
| ly reduced prices. Sherwood.
Keokuk's population is growing
every day. The water power enter
prise is making itself felt in this COM
munity.
l.. E. Denmire has clean upper
level ice for sale by car lots. For
prices and rates enquire of A. c. Max
well. agent Burlington Route.
One of the surest and shortest
ways to success is via Gate City
wants. Use The Gate City on your
next want and notice the difference
in results.
A patron of The Gate City want
column using the same last evening
to locate lost article, got results.
The article was found by using lit
tie want ad in The Gate City.
/ Hannibal, Mo-, is making great
white way" of the business center
/ there. Merchants seeing the need Of
better lighting have banded together
and as fast as possible, the cluster
method of Illuminating the streets Is
teing employed.
lin the list OF patents granted
| Icwans, are mentioned the names Of
C. P. Ebersole and B. E. Suttlive OF
this city Mr.. Ebersole was granted
two patents on controller regulator
and Mr.. Sutlive has obtained patents
for an umbrella.
do not forget the public meeting
at the Grand opera house next Thurs
day evening at o'clock. The needs
Of keokuk will be discussed It will
be an important meeting and every
citizen interested in the welfare of
Keokuk should attend.
Ernest Crawford, formerly OF this
city, and member of the Gate City's
composing room staff. is now in Mem
phis, Tenn. Mr.. Crawford intends |
coming north in the spring. He, with
Hurley H. Edwards, left last Septem-
Der for Oklahoma City. where Mr..
Edwards is still employed.
Edward Murphy, aged 80 years.
died at the home of his mother, Mrs.
Maria Murphy, 52S South Sighth street /
on Sunday morning at 4 o'clock. The I
deceased had been i'll for the past two
years with stomach trouble. His con-
dition had been serious for the past |
eight weeks. He was born IN Keokuk, |
September 81, 1878. and was educated
in st. Peters Catholic school, and /
lived here until ten years ago. At
that time he went to Chicago and re-
NAMED eight or nine years until again |
forced to return here on account OF
ill health, Those who survive beside
the mother, are his sisters and broth !
ers: Thomas Of Chicago, William,
Martin, John and Joseph of Keokuk,
Mrs. L. E. Scott of LaBelle, Mo-, Mrs.
John Rovane, Jr.. Mrs. E. c. Keefe.
Mrs. William Dunnivan and Mrs Edw.
Monogue of Keokuk. Funeral services
were held this morning at O'Clock
from st. Peters Catholic church.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge. No. 5. knights of Pythias to-
night at 500 O'Clock at Castle hall.
Fifth and Blondeau. visiting knights
invited. Special business. Make ex-
ira effort to be present. C. Bruce
Lake c. c.
Quincy Journal: The lifeless re-
mains of William Richardson, resi-
dent of near Coatsburg. were found
this morning on his bed in his room
at the New Central hotel at Third and
Vermont street, and from all indica-
tons death had taken place some
time during the night, just at what
hour being impossible to determine.
On the floor was an empty bottle, and
near the bottle was wrapper, and
according to the wrapper, the bottle !
had contained sulphate of morphine /
As Richardson was without a cent in !
the world and as i was known that
he was addicted to the use of drugs,
It was plausible to assume that he
Han takel an OfeTuOSe OF tHc drug
and had died as the result OF his mis-.
take He was fully dressed, which led
those who found the remains to con-
clude that he had taken the overdose
shortly after retiring to his room for
the night, and that he had become
HELPLESS before he could remove his
clothing.
At Schumann-Heink's concert in
CHICAGO Sunday, Felix Hughes, son
OF Felix T. Hughes. of this city, sang
duets with the great singer. Felix
Barowski, music critic for the Record
Herald, writes: AT the close of the
concert the recitalist sang with Felix
Hughes, barytone, duets by Rubinstein
and Mendelssohn. The former com.
poser's work. "Die Engel,' enjoyed
much popularity in a day in which
duets We're greatly in vogue But
when Rubinstein's fame as composer
went into oblivion in company with
duets in general Die Engel, slnmber-