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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
CORPSE WINKED
AT UNDERTAKEN
Whereupon the EmbaImer Dropped
Everything and Beat II for
the Office.

DALTON, Ga, Feb. 2.---The witch
ing OF an eyelid saved Mrs. Chloe
Thaxter. an aged woman, from being
embalmed and inferred. Mrs. Thaxter,
who lived alone, was found apparent
ly dead by neighbor and an under
taker was notified, who sent an as
sistant to prepare the body for burial.
AS he began work on the body the
eyes of the supposed corpse twitched
and winked at him. The assistant
fled in horror and reported the mat
ter to the undertaken. The latter
went to Mrs Thaxter's home and
found the woman apparently dead
He decided to watch the body awhile
and soon discovered signs of life.
A physician was called and Mrs
Thaxter was soon restored to con
sciousness.
The aged woman says she fell into
a sort OF trance and knew the under
taker was preparing to embalm her
but was unable to speak.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
EDITOR. PARROTT
DEAD AT WATERLOO
Was Stricken With Heart Disease
Ten Days Ago At His
kopaa

WATERLOO, Iowa, Feb. 2.--Wed-
nesday morning at nine o'clock oc-
Cured the death of Louis G. PARROT,
editor of the Waterloo Daily Reporter.
He was stricken with heart disease
ten days ago but was much better and
able to be about the house Tuesday.
Wednesday morning the attack prov
ed fatal. Mr.. Parrott was AZ years old
and a son Of former Lieutenant Gov
ernor Matt Parrott, and brother OF
w. r. Parrott who was attending
meeting of the executive officers OF
the national editorial association in
Chicago and did not know OF MS
brothers death until he arrived home
He has another brother, j. 5. Par
rott, and is also survived by his mo
ther. wife and one daughter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
DOZEN DEAD
UNDER !; zER
Accident to Air Pumps Apparatus
Results in suffocation For
Twelve Negro Work
men.
FALL OF A BUCKET
Heavy Load Of Mud and Stone Fell
on tho Roof of caisson and Cut
Off The Air
Supply.

NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 2.-Trapped
in caisson, twelve workmen, all
negroes, were suffocated to death here
late last night in the Passaic river.
The victims constituted night
shift engaged in the erection of the
bridge between here and Harrison.
Shortly after II O'Clock and while
the entire night gang was in the bot
tom of the caisson the steam engine
broke down and the air supply to the
men was cut Off All were suffocated.
Hurry calls for assistance We're tele-
phoned by the men at work on the
bridge. There was an immediate re-
sponse, but the rescuers were pow
erless.
One man was lowered into the
mouth of the caisson and was able to
pass rope about the trapped men,
but the victims when hoisted out had
been dead for some time. 1t is un
derstood that the accident was due
to the dropping of huge metal buck
ct loaded with mud and stone. This
bucket struck the caisson on top
breaking the door and cutting off the
I air
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
PECULIAR CASE
OF SNEEZING
School Children Have Been At 1t FOR
Two Weeks and Cannot
Stop.

READING, Pa, Feb. 2.--The author
tiles and doctors continue to be puz-
lied as to the cause of the sneezing
epidemic in a school OF forty girls
taught by Miss Rosa Ernst IN the
northeastern section of the city.
1t was believed that with the clos
ing of the school several days ago.
and with the pupils remaining at
their individual homes, they would
quickly recover from the effects; but
such is not the case.
The sneezing fest in the schooi
lasted over two weeks, and since the
girls have been at their homes the
sneezing has continued in the cases
Of several until their condition IS
serious. Emma NJ. Dunkelberger is
one of them She is under doctors
care. and her condition is alarming
Her sneezing spells last an hour OF
more, with as much time intervening
between each attack. She sneezee
from 20 to 80 times minute. Ever,
relief SO far extended is only tempor
ary.
The conditions of many other girls
is equally bad, and they have lost con
siderable weight.
There is difference OF opinion a
To whether their ailment is due t.
nervousness of external causes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
MADE MAGAZINE
TAKE IT BACK
Hampton's Was Too Free in criticiz-
ing the Standard Oh
Company.

NEW YORK, Feb. Counsel for
the Standard Oil company, which re-
Gently began a damage suit for $780,
600 against Hampton's Magazine, as
publishers, and for 100000 against
Cleveland Moffett, the writer of an
alleged defamatory statement con
cerning the company, received writ
ten retractions from both. The art
icle referred to the manufacture and
sale of impure candies and said the
Standard Oil company manufactured
and sold impure materials which went
into these candies, and that when the
various dealers were arraigned and
fined the company paid the fines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
OLD COUPLE
HAD $4,000 HIDDEN
Money Found in Tin Cans and Other
Hiding Places in Their
Home.

WARRENsBURG, Mo-, Feb. q
Secreted in tin cans, old trunks and
closets. more than $4,000 in gold and
silver coin was found in house re-
.entiy occupied by ]. H. Ronemous
and his wife, aged recluses. six miles
southeast of here. Both died within
few hours of each other last week
and we're buried in the same grave.
They lived apart from their neighbors
and 1t was generally supposed the
couple had little money. No heirs
have appeared TO claim the estate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Chance for Singers.

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 2.--St. Louisians
aspiring to become grand opera sing
crs will be given try-out at the Cen
tury Theatre next Tuesday morning
by the management of the Aborn
English Opera Companf. Max Zach,
William John Hall, Mrs. Franklin
Knight, Clinton Elder, Nine. Netta
Karst and Nine. Harriet Downing
Maeklin and other st. Louis music
teachers and directors have induced
the Aborn advance agent to arrange
the voice trials. The audience will be
small. Milton Aborn, Edward M. Sim
monds, Carlo Nicosia. Frank Ranney
and several other ST. Louis instruc-
tors will be present.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Bon FIRE OF
HUMAN BODIES
Half Thousand Victims of Plague,
Soaked in Oil and Burned Today
In the stricken
Town.
100000 ARE SUFFERING
Famine, Fever and Plague WIpins
Out Thousands Of People in
Manchuria ard
Vicinity.

PEKIN, Feb. 2.-Five hundred vic
tins of the plague, their bodies soak
ed in oil, piled in a heap, were burn
ed today at harbin. The plague is
spreading all over Manchuria.
In the famine district 2,500,000 peo-
pie are suffering The famine fever
is killing many and bodies are lying
in the road.
Families are leaving the district
which had no crops on account Of the
floods of last year.
The famine is due to the flooding
of the valley of the Hwoai river. The
natives have sold their furnishing and
clothing and finally their homes. Now
the babies are being sold and also the
young girls who are sold as slaves.
Thousands of families are migrat
ing. Men are leaving their families
to face starvation while they wandei
in search Of employment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Mrs. schenk In Danger.

WHEELING, w. Va. Feb. Mrs.
Laura Farnsworth Schenk, whose
trial on the charge of poisoning her
husband recently ended in the dis
agreement of the jury had narrow
escape from death in the flood swol-
len Ohio river when a skiff, in which
she was rowing, upset and threw her
into the water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Want MEETINGS
OF BOTH PARTIES
St. Louis VIII Attempt to Land Re.
publican and Democratic Ma
tlonai Conventions
Of 1912.
CAMPAIGN IS STARTED
City viii Stand the Expenses and
Will Send Committees Out
to Start The.
Boom.

= ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2.-The Business
Mems League yesterday declared st.
Louis bidder for the national con-
vention of the republican and demo-
cratic parties in 1912. The formeal
entry of st. Louis into the field to an
mex both conventions was decided onl
at the first meeting Of the new Ey-t
ecutive Committee of the league yes-t
terday afternoon.
A. L. Shapleigh, who made the mo-
ton that the league begin the cam
paign to get the conventions, alluded
to the fact that President Rolla Wells
was chairman of the Business Mems
League committee which went to
Washington and wrested the demo-
cratic convention of 1904 from Chica-
go, and Mr. Wells probably will head
the committees when they go to Wash
ington to appear before the Republi-
can Natinal committee and the Demo
cratic National committee next De-
eember The league will stand spon-
sor for the willingness of st. Louis to
pay for both conventions.
The league yesterday telegraphed to
| the Kansas City Commercial Club
asking the support of Kansas City in
getting the conventions for st. Louis
and reminding the Kansas City or
ganization that st. Louis supported
Kansas City in its efforts to get the
republican convention of 1908.
w. r. Saunders was reelected sec
! retary and general manager of the
league and ]. A. Lewis was reelected
! treasurer.
! John E. Pitcher. chairman OF the
Finance Committee, made a report
which included an appropriation fol
/ factory development work under the
1 supervision of Forrest Ferguson anc
4 the committee of new industrial en-
! terprises. Theodore P. Bates viii
travel to get new factories and will
i be known as the industrial commits
sioner.
4 The proposed nonpartisan tarif
4 board was brought up through the re
quest of the National Tariff Commis
!, sion Association and the secretar.
was directed to telegraph to Senate
J, w. ]. Stone, asking him to support tn
. bill providing for this board.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
[OR|MER Vote
WITHIN WEEK
|j,sleations Point to Ballot Being
Taken in the Senate Before
a Great Many
Days.
ONLY FOUR WEEKS LEFT
Appropriation Bills win Not pc vot-
Cd on Unless Some Of the Other
Measures Are Con-
sIdered.

a WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.--Indications
mint to a vote on the Lorimer case
IN the senate within week Senator
burrows. chairman of the committed
on privileges and elections, has said
he expects a vote within a few days.
Senator Norris Brown OF Nebraska, In
openinv an anti-Lorimer speech, gave
notice that unless there was vote on
tha Iorimer case, as well as one on
several other important matters pend
ing before the senate. some OF the APP
propriation bills might be among
those left over at adjournment on
March 4.
Senator Brown said there must be
votes on the resolution pertaining to
the election of senators by the people.
the bill to create permanent tariff
board and a general service pension
bill. He said he had no quarred with
the rule" that appropriation acts
come first, but that he would object to
It's application in the light of the pres
ent emergency, unless it was agreed
in advance that there be votes on the
four propositions named before adj
journment.
"This is not said as threat, nor in
the course of an ultimatum,' said Sen
ator Brown. Il am stating simple
fact, and it is we'll, with only four
working weeks ahead of US, that we
understand now what the fact is in
Z that regard. # congress adjourns
without action on these measures. con.
gress will adjorn without action OF
some Of the appropriation bills.
Failure Of any one of the regular
appropriation bills would necessitate
an extra session of congress.
There will be vote at 2 o'clock to.
day on the ocean mail subsidy bill
which will remove one measure which
might be used in filibuster. Senator
Root of New York said he would ad
dress the senate on the Lorimer affail
Friday. While the New York senator
has not committed himself as to which
side he will take, he has been count
ed in opposition to the Illinoisan ant
the latter's friends have been holdint
Senator Bailey in reserve to reply.
Senator Cullom remains silent as K
how he will cast his vote when th'
motion to declare Lorimer's election
illegal is put. and he said that toda!
was the first time he had spoken Il
other senators about their attitude III
convarcad urifh txro copaforg To man
Illinoisans who have written to Ser
ator Cullom telling him how to vot
the senator has replied rather sharpl
that he will decide when all the al
guments are concluded and the que'
ton is put to the senate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Crank After Gaynor.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.--Just as May
or Gaynor arrived at the City Hall, a
man who was acting excitedly broke
into the mayors office and declared
he was sent by God to see the mayor.
Detectives Patrick Curry and Floyd
Horton, who have the detail to follow
the mayor to and from his office.
grabbed the man, and when they
searched him found an open knife in
his pocket. He said he was Charles
'Thile of Bayonne, n. J. Lieut. Walsh
concluded he was crank and sent
him to Bellevue Hospital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
SAYS PEARY
SAW MIRAGES
Or. Cook Breaks Loose Again and
Says He is Just as
Good.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2-In bitter
attack on the manner in which the
National Geographical Society o. K. d
the proofs OF commander Peary. Dr.
Cook criticizes the same. He says
that his own proofs were just as
good He said:
.Mirages turn things topsy turyy
and many explorers have seen the
arctic sun returning two or three days
before the actual time of its appear
ance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
HASHEESH FUMES
OVERPOWER SEVEN
Fire in Bag Factory Creates Gas
Which Knocks Over
Workmen.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2 Seven men were
overcome today by the deadly fumes
of hasheesh in slight fire in the
factory OF the Hartenfield Bag Co.
This famous drug Of the east is an
acrid gum resin in the hemp used to
make bags.
In slight fire in the hemp room
the men were overcome by the gas
The men were rescued and will re-
cover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Run,or Of indictments.

DANyIILE, H., Feb. At was
rumored today that the grand jury
has already drawn UP over 80 indict-
ments against prominent politicians
for buying votes. 1t is believed that
City Attorney Jones gave much in
formation to the grand jury. This was
strengthened by one of the jurors who
said the investigation would extend
over several weeks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
PRAIRIE FIRE
ALMOST QUENCHED
One Thousand Men and Boys Are
Fighting 1t to Save Their
Homes.

BARTLEsyILLE. Okla. Feb. q
With over thousand men and boys
fsgntnipg TO save their property and
homes. it was believed today that the
prairie fire sweeping over the coun-
try will be checked.
The oil waste on Taney river, which
spread the fire. has about burned out,
and no further damage is anticipated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
University Man Quits.

CHAMPAIGN. Feb. 2.-Professor
George D. Fairfield, professor of Span
ish and French at Beloit college and
formerly professor of romance and
dead languages at the University of
Illinois. has resigned his chair to be-
come manager of Chicago office
building.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
oats are Destroyed.

BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 2.-More
than 10000 bushels of oats we're de-
stroyed by fire when the Sibley ele-
vator burned to the ground here. The
loss is estimated to be about $4,000
with no insurance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
February Records Broken.

COLUMBIA, Mo, Feb. Wednes-
day was the warmest February day in
twenty years, according to George S.
Reede, head of the United States
weather bureau here. The mercury
reached II.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Eioht In AeropIane.

PAU, Feb. Eight passengers
whose combined weight was 1908
pounds, few today in a four seated
Bleriot monoplane, new record
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Records Broken at McAIester,

McALESTER, Okla. Feb. ALI
records for hot weather in February
we're broken here, the government
thermometer registering 80 degrees
above zero. The buds on the trees
are swelling and peach trees will soon
be in full bloom.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Hot Winds in Texas.

DALLAS. Texas, Feb. 2.--The south
west is enduring an unprecedented
heat wave. Yesterday afternoon tle
thermometer reached 93 degrees in
Fort Worth, while the average was
just under the 80 mark. Fruit trees
and violets are in bloom in east
Texas. Generally at this time of year
the "northers'' make zero weather at
points where grass now carpets the
earth.
Farmers fear fruit trees budding
now will go barren because there is
sure to be cold weather before the
advent OF real spring.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Washington Confirms Gable.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The evac-
uation of Puerto Cortez by the COVER
ment forces of Honduras was confirm
ed in dispatch received at the Navy
Department from Commander Cooper
of the American Gunboat Marietta.
The officer reported the revolutionary
army had not yet appeared at Puerto
Cortez, but that the government
troops had left the town.
The United States gunboat Wheel
ing has sailed from Guantanamo, Gu
ba, for Puerto Cortez, where it prob
ably will arrive on Saturday. This
will increase the American representa-
tion in Honduran waters to three yes
sells, the gunboats Marietta and Taco
ma already being at Puerto Cortez
Secretary of State Knox will be
asked to appear before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations be-
fore action is taken on the treaty
with Honduras respecting the f1nan-
cial affairs of that republic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Local Observations.
Bar .Ther. Wind Weather.

Mean temperature. Feb. I 81.
Highest temperature. II
Lowest temperature. 3s.
Lowest telpreratura last night, 1s
FRED. 2. GOsEw1scH
Obsaryer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
CHRISTMAS and
BONILLA WIN
Puerto cortez Has Fallen Before the
Revolutonists and is Waiting
To Be Cap
tured.
HAVE THE ENTIRE COAST
Atlantic Side Of Honduras is Now In
the Hands of the Rebels Who
Have Had Easy
Time Of 1t.

PUERTO CORTEZ. Honduras, Feb.
2.The forces of President Davilla
have evacuated Puerto Cortez, leav-'
ing the city easy prey for Gen. Bonil-
la and Gen. Lee Christmas, who are
leading the rebel forces.
Although the city is without de-
fense, the army of the revolutionists
has not appeared.
With the evacuation of Puerto Cor
tez by the government troops the fol-
lowers of Manuel Bonilla, leader Of
the revolutionists, gain control of the
ertire Atlantic Coast of Honduras.
American officers are in charge of the
city today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
THE WEATHER.
Weather Forecast.

For Keokuk and Vicinity CLOUDY to.
night and Friday. Not much change
in temperature.
For Illinois Probably cloudy to-
night and Friday Colder in east and
south portions tonight.
For Iowa Cloudy tonight and Fri
day. Slightly warmer in west portion
tonight
For Missouri Probably cloudy to-
night and Friday. Not much change
in temperature
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
First Day Of the Month Was One Of
the Warmest on Record and
Was Like Summer
Time.
TEXAS WAS PERsP1RING
Oklahoma and Missouri Weather Rec
ords Were Broken Yester.
day by the Warm
Wave.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. "A drop in
temperature at st. Louis. beginning
with the summer warmth of S4 de-
grees at Ais p. M, yesterday, gave a
temperature of 80 degrees by early
morning, and will end in a cold wave
with temperature Of 10 degrees to-
night. The drop OF 81 degrees in
eight hours is the most sudden of the
present remarkable winter. The night
forecast of the weather bureau was.
Fair and much colder Thursday,
cold wave by night; Friday, fair and
cold"
The summer weather of yesterday
broke all February records since the
weather bureau has had a station in
st. Louis. The highest temperature
in February previously was rs de-
grees, February 4, 1890. The year
1890, according to the weather bureau
4 statistics, also had the warmest tenn
perature in January of any year pre-
1 vious to 1911. This temperature, "a
! degrees, On January IL, was also brok-
en- by the record of January II, 1911,
when the temperature was 74.4 de-
grees.
st. Louis, according to Local Fore
caster Hayes, got its warm weather
yesterday from Central Texas, low
/ pressure area just west of St. Louis
4 bringing the warm air from the south
4 st. Louis warm weather was no
4 equalled by other places not far dis
tant, Chicagos.had a temperature o
40 degrees at p. m. as against ST
Louis 7S degrees. Kansas City hat
4S, ST. Joseph 40, Cairo 6s, Kansas A.
j to So, and Iowa 90 to 40.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Weather Conditions.

The western storm center has NOV
cd rapidly eastward and is central
Leaf Buffalo this morning.
rs passage was attended by high
dav temperature from the Missouri riv-
e.. IL the Upper Mississippi Valley.
followed by snow flurries, or rain, In
portions OF the Upper Mississippi val
Ieg. the Lake Region and Northeastern
states.
The crest of the northwestern field
OF high pressure has moved TO South
Dakota, leaving the pressure high IN
Montana, the temperature being be.
low zare in Montana and the Dakotas,
and it is decidedly colder from the
NortAern Mountain Region to the
'pper Mississippi Valley.
The temperature is rising in the
Central Mountain Region, where an
area of low pressure has formed
Conditions indicate cloudy weather,
with slight change of temperature for
this section tonight and Friday
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-10-07

The Saints Are Coming to Nevada

The Mormon church rarely hires a brass band to head its
procession when it starts a coonizng expedition. Many years ago
the church sent men out to spy southeastern Nevada and the re-
ports were SO favorable that several villages were started in Lincoln
County, which are in existence to-day.
While it was not advertised at that time, nor even to-day, that
these were strictly Mormon communities, it is nevertheless a fact
that few people reside in them who do not profess the faith of
Brigham Young.
Now comes the second invasion. White Pine and Elko Coun-
ties are being settled by Mormon faamers and their extensive
families. They are coming in quietly, and quietly going about
their own business.
Contrary to rather common belief these "Latter Day Saints, +"
do not wear horns. nor is their code of morals on the border line of
degeneracy. They are, as a class, a hardworking, apostle-fearing
people. The only thing wrong with them, outside of their poyg-
amy which still exists, is their hatred for the general Government,
although that is largely confined to the disappearing generation.
There is little to regret in the Mormon invasion-that is until
they begin to mix up in politics. which is nevitable Reno Gazette