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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

Woodrow Wilson says he IS tvo
kinds Of Democrat. This leaves him
ffty-fye varieties short.
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

Secretary Fisher hnds that N Alas-
ka one neither walks nor hikes.
There one mushes.
To Alex Miller fly at five o'clock
in the morning is bigger than a swarm
of bees in the afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

From the numbers of old soldiers
meetings and country picnics and the
prosperity of the large
crowds which attend, there seems to
the Quincy Herald to be no shortage
of wealth in western Illinois.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

no variation or change in the mark
ings OF the fingers since birth. And
yet all the Investigations have failed
to show any two persons in the world
yet whose finger markings were pre-
cisely alike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

IF the copies OF the famed paint
ing, Mona Lisa, are fair samples Of
the original, we refuse to have hydro
phobia over the beauty of it." says the
Waterloo Courier.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

A Colorado professor took finger
prints from the fingers of his daughter
when she was born, 16 years ago, and
has taken them every year since. A
comparison of these prints by experts
shows that there has been absolutely
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

Wherever the primary system has
been adopted, crooked politics has
been INDUCED in, and will continue to
be, so long as that system is invoked,
and these thoughts the reformers
ought to fully consider. says the Ce-
dar Rapids Optimus.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

An Irishman met young man lead
ing a large dog. That's foine look,
ing dog ye hav' with yez,' he said.
What brade is it?' Its cross be-
tween skunk and an Irishman, was
the sneering reply. Sure, thin, it's
related to both of US, was Pats quick
retort.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31

The Thirtieth Iowa Infantry sur
viyors viii hold reunion at Fairfield
Sept. 20 and 81, and all old soldiers
of whatever regiment they may be,
are invited to participate. Maj. R. D..
Cramer, of Memphis, Mo-. will be pres
ent and deliver an address.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
100000 CHINESE
ARE DESTITUTE
HANK0W SWEPT BY FIRE-PROP.
ERTY LOSS $50, 900, o0o.
Dead Bodies Clog Streets-Both Impe.
rialists and Rebels Blamed for
Conflagration.

Hankow, via WI Hu.-The city OF
Hankow has been destroyed by fire over
two-thirds of the extent. The lowest
estimate of the loss is $50, 1000, O0O. Four
hundred thousand people are destitute.
Hundreds of half-burned bodies lie
among the ruins. Many of them are
the bodies Of women and children.
The customs house, the p~ostoffice and
the American missions have been spared.
The city has been looted, the im~perialist
officers tried to check this work and
executed a number of the soldiers. Ref
ugees were deprived of their loot on en-
tering the British concession, cart loads
OF valuable furs, silks and jewelry being
seized. 1t is suggested that the Red
Cross receive the proceeds.
On Friday afternoon the consuls APP
pealed to the imperialists to cease burn
ing the town. A proclamation, which
was issued Immediately, declared that
the rebels were responsible for the fires
and ordered that these be checked. The
following day new fires started in va
rious quarters.
The David Hill Memorial School for
the Blind, connected with the Western
Mission, has been looted, while, in con.
trast, all the mission property in WI
Chang, which is held by the revolution.
aries, has been protected.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
APPROVE DISSOLUTION PLAN
Notifications Are Ordered by United
States Circuit Court.

New York.-The litigation which the
federal government began four and a
half years ago to break up the Amer
lean Tobacco Company as a monopoly
in restraint of trade approached the
stage of completion Wednesday by judi
cial acceptance, with a few notifications,
of the much discussed plan which the
tobacco company itself drew up for dis
solution of the combine in accordance
with a mandate of the United States
supreme court.
The decision of approval was filed by
Judge Lacombe of the United States cir
cult court and supplementary opinions
were filed by Judges Coke and Noyes,
concurring generally with Judge La
combe No n of the judges regarded
the plan as perfect, but all declared
that the ideal was beyond attainment
and that as a practical, substantial COM
pliance with the law, the plan, as slight
ly modified, appeared the best attain
able.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
NANNNG A SLAUGHTER PEN
Manchus Stay Chinese of All Rank, Age
and Sex,

Marking. -China.-Histori Marking
is the shambles of the Manchu 'slaught-
er. The sun set upon a scene of fire,
desolation and butchery unrecOrded in
modern history.
Innocent Chinese, destitute, are flee.
ing, terror-stricken, to the shelter at the
rea of the reform forces. The latter,
numbering between 10000 and 10000,
are impotent to check the slaughter or
avenge the slain because of their lack
Of ammunition.
Foreigners are receiving utmost con-
sideration.
Since the night of November s, when
the first attack was made by the revolu-
t%ionists, the Tartar general has tried
to terrorize the inhabitants by wholesale
executions. Those whose queues had been
cut off were beheaded, but when the or
der for a general slaughter was given
the whole native city was invaded by
the Manchu soldiers, who massacred men,
women and children. Even the aged
and babes in arms were shown no mercy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
INCREASE IN POPULATION
Whites Gain in United States 22.3 Pei
Cent; Negroes, 11.3.

MISUNDERSTANDING to the re.
turns of the thirteenth census, the pop
ulation of the United States, which was
91,972,266 in 1910, is subdivided as to
color, as follows: White, s1,732, 6S7, or
sS.9 per cent; negro, 9,s2s,294, OF 10.7
per cent; Indians, Chinese, Japanese,
etc, 411,2S5, or 0.4 per cent.
At each succeeding federal census con-
sidered, the white population has consti-
tuted a somewhat larger percentage Of
the total population, with a correspond
ing decrease in the percentage for the
negro population. The whites now con-
stitute SS.9 per cent of the total pop
u%lation, as compared with $685. per cent
in 1880, whereas the negroes now con-
stitute only 1917 per cent of the total
population, as compared with 1871 per
cent in 1880.
There has been an increase in white
population since 1900 of 14,923, 941, or
1913 per cent, as compared with an in
crease in negro population of 994 300,
or 11.3 per cent.
In every Southern state, with the ex-
ception of West Virginia, Arkansas and
Oklahoma, the whites had a higher
rate of increase than the negroes.
In Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee
there has been since 1900 an actual de-
crease in the number of negroes; and in
Delaware and Virginia there has beer
only a slight increase in negroes, namely,
is per cent in each case.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
WOMAN FALLS
EIGHT STORIES
70YEAR-OLD WOMAN ALIGHTED
UPON HEAD.
Her Husband Says Death Was Acct
dental-Tragedy Occurred on
Crowded Avenue.

New York.-Several persons who were
passing the northwest corner Of Seventy
ninth street and West End avenue Tues
day afternoon were startled to sec what
they believed to be a bundle Of clothing
fall from the eighth floor Of a lofty
apartment house and drop at th4ir rect.
When the braycst OF them made a
closer investigation they found it was
the body Of an aged which had
dropped from the high window. A few
minutes later it developed that the vic
tim was Mrs. James Hayemeycr, wife OF
a millionaire retired merchant, whose
father, William Frederick Ilavemeyer
was three times mayor Of New York,
and was a second cousin to Horace Have.
meyer, the present head of the sugar
trust.
Mrs. Hayemeyer, who was 10 years
old, had either fallen or thrown herself
from her dining room window in the
next to the highest floor of the New
Century apartments, during a brief space
Of time while her trained nurse was in
another room preparing some medicine
for her. She had been seriously i'll of
neurasthenia for more than fifteen years
and under constant attention of a nurse.
She alighted upon her head and was
instantly killed when she struck the side
walk on the Seventy-ninth street side of
the house. The fall was about 1870 feet.
1t was a woman passerby who was
Drawer than the rest of the spectators
and went to examine the corpse. Find
ing the victim dead, the woman called a
policeman, who summoned an ambulance.
James Havemeyer, the husband of the
victim, was downtown with his only son,
}. Craig Havemeyer, when the tragedy
occurred. The husband, who is IS years
old, was Frustrated when he heard of it.
Mr.. Havemeyer met the reporters,
and said:
ut was purely a case of accidental
death. My mother had been i'll for many
years. Apparently she opened a window
the absence OF the nurse to get a
breath of fresh air, and stumbled over a
radiator, which is directly in front
Of the easement"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
PRESIDENT TAFT
AT CHICKAMAUCA
VIEWS BATTLE GROUNDS-vtSIT
NOT A POLITICAL ONE.
Col. Gorgas, Head of Sanitary Work in
Canal Zone, Comes in for Executive
Commentator.

Chattanooga.-After a day spent in
travelling through Tennessee, President
Taft Friday afternoon was driven for
IS miles over the battlefield of Chicka.
manga, where historians conceded one
OF the bloodiest conflicts of the civil war
was fought. More than two hours the
president motored over the hills and
through the valleys where Gen. Bragg,
at the head of the Confederate army.
and Gen. Rosecrans on the Union side
fought AZ years ago, with Il total loss OF
more than $4,000 men. With the presi-
dent rode former Congressman Grosvenor
of Ohio, wso was lieutenant-colonel of
the Eighteenth Ohio battery, and who is
now II member of the Chickamauga Ma
tional Park commission, and cx-United
States Senator Frazier of Tennessee.
Immediately behind him rode many
men who fought IN one side or the other
in that great battle. The president was
whirled by scores of monuments that
bore testimony to the valor of the thou
sands who fought at Chickamauga, and
paused more than once to read the in.
scriptions on shafts of stone and granite
to the men who died on the field around
him.
Mr.. Taft's second day in Tennessee
came to an end here. He began his trip
across the state at Nashville early Fri
day, addressed tthe students at the Uni
versity of the South at Sewanee q few
hurs later and wound up the days jour
ney with an address in the auditorium
here.
The president declared that his visit
to Tennessee was not political, and to
the students of Chattanooga University
he defended his appointments to the
United States supreme court.
Before speaking of the treaties, the
president discussed the Panama canal.
He praised Col. Gorgas, an alumnus of
the University of the South, who is now
at the head of the sanitary work in the
canal zone. Without Col. Gorgas, the
President said, the great canal could
hardly have been completed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
DYING, he GETS FORTUNE
Aged Kansan Frightened by Bequest of
$3.50, 900.

Watervillc, Kas.-Old and poor, a
victim of a disease which is slowly TAX
ing his life, Peter Odell learned with
out joy that he is heir to one-half of the
half million dollar estate of his brother,
A. II. Odell, who was found dead in Los
Angeles.
After having lived in poverty eighty
one years the prospect of being the
owner of II quarter of million dollars
was terrifying to Peter Odell. When
he was told of the good fortune that
had come to him, coupled with the sad
news OF his brothers death, he cried
out: My God. Why could he not live to
enjoy it and not leave it to me? l do
not know what to do with so much
money. | am afraid of it,"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
Better Breeding Needed.

New lork.-"Doesn't it seem strange
that this nation doesn't do a thing to
conserve its citizenship? Forests are
protected, lands redeemed, higher stand
ards are forever being raised in the
animal kingdom with Ae one excep-
tion-the human animal" With this
statement Robert c, Aud, originator of
human welfare as a science, in an inter
view prefaced Il plea that some great
philanthropist or the government 60
scientifically into the question of better
breeding in of the human race.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
100000 ARE DEAD
IN NANKIN STREETS
REBELS SAY THEY WILL AvENGE
cRURLTIES OF MANCHUS.
Robbers Are Burning Foo chOw-Peking
in : State Of Panic-Ameriean
Missionaries Safe.

Nanking.-With 100000 people, Of
half the population of the city, lying
dead in the streets and the houses that
escaped the fire, Marking is q vast area
of lifeless ruin, following a night of
horrible butchery without a parallel in
modern history, if, indeed, it has q
parallel in the history of all time.
What life remained within the city's
walls when the Manchus sheathed their
swords and returned to Purple Hill was
stamped out by a detachment of the inn
perial army left at the scene for that
purpose. Those inhabitants who es-
capped the butchery of Friday and the
summary executions of Thursday were
hunted down among the charred ruins
and put to death.
The walls of Marking surround an UNI
covered grave.
The Manchu army of $4,000 men, their
work of carnage complete, are resting
in their entertainments on Purple Hill,
which overlooks the blood-stained pile
that was once a city. The rebels, at
least $4,000 strong, are encamped within
a few miles of the walls, without am
munition with which to avenge the mas
sacre.
All foreigners at Marking are believed
to have escaped with their lives. They
were notified by the Tartar general to
flee in advance of the slaughter which he
later ordered, and the Manchu soldiers
were instructed to show the foreigners
every consideration.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
TELLS OF TEXAS LYNCHlNG
Boy Is Dragged by Chain at Heels of
Galloping Horse.

Cameron, Textile first description
of the lynehing at Cameron, Tex, of Fer
nando Gomez, Il Mexican boy, was given
by Alfred Wilson, the first witnes in
the trial of z. T. Gore, Jr., charged with
murder.
The witness said while he was guard
ing the boy after his arrest for stab
bing Charles Zeitung to death, Gore and
three others, whom he recognized in the
darkness by their voices, took the lad
from him by force and one OF them on
horseback galloped away, dragging the
boy after him by a trace chain which
had been placed around the lads neck
when he was arrested.
Later he was hanged to a telephone
pole, after he had been kicked in the
head as he lay gasping in the street.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
FOUND DEAD on TOP OF CAR
Mystery Surrounds Demise of Atlanta
Newspaper Socilitor.

Savannah, Ga.-A brick thrown at the
iecumbent body of n man apparently
asleep on top of a freight ear that had
Just arrived from the south failed to
arouse the man and led to the discov-
cry that he was dead, apparently hay
ing come to a violent death.
The head, which appeared to be bad.
ly battered, was resting in a pool of
blood. II was not clear, however, wheth-
er the man had been murdered and his
body placed on top Of the car or whether
his head had struck an obstruction while
he was riding.
Papers found in the mans pockets in.
dicated that he was George r. Boat
wright, a solicitor in the employ of the
Atlanta Constitution.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

The courts are to be called upon to
decide whether the pearl belongs to
the man who finds 1t in the clam he
has bought or to the proprietor of the
restaurant in which the clam is served.
Meanwhile there is still some doubt as
to whether the egg belongs to the
man In whose barn 1t was laid or to
the proprietor OF the hen that did the
laying.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
CONSERVATIVES CURED
Good Results Attained at Wisconsin
State Sanitariums.

Madison. Wis.-Benefits accomplished
by the treatment of consumption at the
Wisconsin State tuberculosis SANTA
rum are strikingly illustrated in the re-
port of that institution. 1t shows that
"a per cent of the patients reared in all
stages are improved and that As per cent
OF the incipient sufferers are apparently
cured. In four years 665 patients have
been treated.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
REFUSES TO EAT WITH NEGRO
Former Mississippi Senator Leaves Ban.
quet Hall.

Chicago.-Hernando D. Money, foremr
senator from Mississippi, and one of the
four members of the national monetary
commission, in attendance at the ban.
quet given by the Western Economic
Society in the Auditorium Hotel, hur.
ried from the speakers table a few min.
utes after the banqueters were seated.
One story was to the effect that when
the former Mississippi senator saw q
negro sitting directly in front of him
with the b~anqeuters he grew angry and
demanded why the negro was sitting
with white persons. When told that
the man was a member of the society
Mr.. Money left the banquet hall.
When seen in his room four floors
below the banquet hall an hour later,
Mr.. Money said that he had left the
banquet because he was troubled with
neuralgia.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Or. Eliot says that a classical edu,
cation helps a man to solve every
problem OF life, and yet In spite of the
classical educations that abound what
q lot OF problems still remain un.
solved!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
BOY KILLS THREE GIRLS
Twelve Year.0ld Uses Shotgun With
Telling Effect.

Nowata, Okla.-Fred Stanart, IL wears
old, son OF Il wellto-do farmer, playfully
pointed a shotgun at three of his little
girl companions Wednesday, and as a
result Bergie Nicholas and Madge Ste
vens are dead and Edith Fisher was
fatally wounded. All three girls were I
years old.
Bergie Nicholas and Madge Stevens
were killed instantly,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
Keep Trial Out of Politics.

Lincoln Center, Kan,-Petitions were
circulated here asking that newspaper
reporting of the "Tar and Feather"
case, which goes to trial here next We'd
nesday, be prohibited for the sake of
the honor of the community. The trial
OF fourteen men, charged with the tar
ring OF Miss Mary Mary Chamberlain, a
school teacher of Shady Bend, Kans., last
summer will take place in the district
court.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
BEATTIE IN DEATH WARD
Wife Murderer's Cell Adjoins Electrocu.
ton Chamber,

Richmond, Va.-Henry Clay Beattie,
Jr, condemned to die November "a, for
the murder of his young wife, was re.
moved early Wednesday from the city
Jail to the p%enitentiary to await his
execution. He was locked in a cell in
the condemned ward adjoining the cleo.
trocution chamber.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
COST $3.50 TO PULL NOSE.
Judge Moss Fined for Indignity to Judge
Dodd.

Kansas City, MOTOR pulling the
nose of Judge George ]. Dodd, a jury in
the circuit court decided Wednesday that
Judge Charles Z, Moss must pay $3.50
Judge Dodd asked $4,000, but the iny
believed $40 actual and $40 punitive
damages enough.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

New Jersey mule drank a gallon Of
whisky and then kicked himself to
death. Evidently he realized that he
had lowered himself to the level of a
human being and decided that he
would be better of dead.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Postal savings banks Of the country
already contain four million dollars.
For purposes of safety they are better
than the old stocking with a hole In
the toe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

An Arkansas coon hunter complains
that the timber has been so thinned
that hunting is far from what It used
TO be, and he declares that he keeps
only five dogs now, Can anyone doubt
the nee1 Of scientific forestry?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Chinese revolutionists want a re.
public. but we fear the time will not
be ripe until Chinese spelling Is sim.
pliHed, Think OF trying TO mark a
Chinese ballot!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

A New Yorker heard a joke the
other day and laughed himself to
death, but 1t is not likely that joke
sters will be arrested for carrying
concealed weapons.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Vaccination for typhoid Is doubtless
all right, but at the same time It is
Just as well to continue TO swat the
fly and to refrain from drinking faint.
ed water.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Preacher person tells us that there
are more temptations in America than
Europe, but up to date there has been
no movement for the conservation OF
our national temptations.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

A man In New York has brought suit
for damages for breach OF promise Of
marriage. Some men would do any.
thing rather than work.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
so to 70 Change at Hoxie.

HoNle, Ark.-The mercury fell in
twelve hours from so to 10 degrees.
The sudden change anne in heavy rain
ana windStorm, turning to sleet and
snow.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Last year Russia exported zoos, 000,.
600 eggs. II Is evident that the Rus
sian hen doesn't spend her time
studying explosives.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

A New York woman Is being sued
for $40 worth OF monogrammed Gig
arettes. II they smoke EN- they ought
TO pay for 'em.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Prof. Lowell's new canal on Mars Is
a thousand miles long. Provided. OF
course, that he has not made q mis-.
take In the measurement.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

An Atlantic City clergyman tells US
that hobble skirts are worse than
beer. Quite true. No sensible
man ever wears n hobble skirt.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

Statisticians tell us that there IL a
birth in New York every four min.
utes-but not In the vicinity OF Fifth
avenue.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

A Connecticut m Is said to
have read the Bible through sixty
times. But did sho love her neigh.
bOrs?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

II IL predicted that Chicago will
soon lead tho world in the production
of French bulldogs. II Is New York's
next move.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17

While the boy emperor Of China Ia
busy learning history his subjects are
quite mr. busy making II.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-17
BURNING AND LOOTING.
Manchus Defeated at Marking Concen.
trate at Palace.

Foo Chow.-The Manchus who were
defeated have concentrated at the gov
eminent palace. Robbers are burning
and looting. The whole city is in dis
order.