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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-05

DR.. EATON JOHNSTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Tho only physician practicing oste
opathy IN tho county. The SmitheonL
az truss fitted and guaranteed, the
only truss that holds. Office. North
side OF Main street, third door above
Fifth. Phone SO. Residence. Ninth and
Webster. Phone 4s4. ?. o. Lock Boz
Al. Warsaw. Ill
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-05

DR.. BRUCE =. oILFlLLAN.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
once. 621M Main street, oye,
Crooks & Cox Millinery store. Bel
Phone 100 Black.
Residence BIT North Fourth stree.
Bell Phone 1880 Red.
Hours: 1912 .. M; - ,. M: "a
p. m. Sunday By appointment
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-05
REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND cHIlp.

MIS-. WINsLows SOOTHING SYRUP has been
nsea Ior over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS Of
IEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS, It
sQQIHES the CHILD, SoFTENS tho Guns
hf 4. 4. all PAIN CURES WIND collie, and
sso,utely harmless. BE sure and ask for Mrs.
WILSON'S Soothing Syrup and take no other
KING. Twenty-Five cents bottle Z
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-05
Kidney Diseases Are durable

Kidney Diseases Are curable
under certain conditions. The right
medicine must be taken before the
disease has progressed too far. Mr..
Perry A. Pitman, Dale, Tex. saws.
was down in bed for four months
with kidney and bladder trouble and
gan stones. One bottle OF Foleys
Kidney Remedy cured me well and
sound" Ask for 1t. Wilkinson =
Cor J. r, Kiedaisch 6 Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-05
PROFESSIONAL Cams
PHYSICIANS.
DR.. w p sAEn, -

Or. W. P. SHERLOCK,
PHYSICAL AND sURGnon
Office. 18 North Fifth strsa. !.
Howell building.
ONCE hours-1o to IL a. M. ) !.
?. M: evenings. Z to s: SUNDAY. Z !,
to ! p. m.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-05
Pollyooly
and the Lump
THE SIEGE
By Edgar Jepson

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Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
Norfolk Snake Story

A dispatch from Norfolk, dated Aug. IS, said: While picking huckleberries on the old Higgins place in the eastern part of the township, Monday, George, the 15 year. old son of Charles Nash, was discovered unconscious as the re- salt of an encounter with a gigantic blacksnake which coiled itself about the lads body and squeezed him into in- sensibility.
 Attracted by his cries, the boys em- ployer, John Mahoney, who was in an adjacent field, hurried to the place. At his approach the reptile crept into d clump of bushes and disappeared, a careful search for over two hours failing to locate it.
 Nash, who soon regalned conscious. ness says that he failed to notice the rep tile until it had begun to coil around his legs. Mahoney reports the animal to have been entirely black with the ex- ception of ap indlstinct ring about it's neck and estimates it's size as approxi mately that of a man s arm. Local na- ture students declare that Nash's ex- perience is not unparalleled and that a blacksnake will invariably attempt the same thing when cornered.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
UPSET WAGON
Lively Experience of Roll" Rood and
 Passengers

Lively Experience of Roll" Rood and
 Passengers
 As Rolhn M. Rood, of Man hester, was driving into the village yesterday forenoon with his daughter Mildred and his niece, Olive Rood, his horse became frightened by a locomotive on the c. N. E., and matters were made worse by an automobile that came up suddenly on the other side.
 The animal suddenly jumped sideways up the bank infront of the s. c. Beck ley place. The buggy was turned bot tom-side up as quick as wink, pinning MT Rood under it and throwing all the occupants out.
 Mir. Rood chung to the reins and pre- vented the horse from running away. He was somewhat bruised about the shoulder but not seriously injured. and the young ladies escaped with slight bruises and violent shaking up.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
SENSATIONAL RUMOR
 OF STEAM ROAD CHANGE
Depot May Be Abandoned and Main Line Run on West Side of Village
 Doing Away With Crossings.

Depot May Be Abandoned and Main
 Line Run on West Side of Village
 Doing Away With Crossings.
 Here's a railroad layout which that nosey dame, Madam Rumor is retailing on the quiet, and which, while it may strike the average innocent bystander as improbable, may indicate plan on the part of the railroad company that is not, after all, whit more unreasonable than number of other railroad changes that have been actually made at various places along the line of the road. in the way of abolishing curves and grade crossings.
 This latest rumor, which blows in on north wind, is to the effect that it is the purpose of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad to abandon its present main line from a point near Ashley Falls to another point near Frank Hitohcook's farm running an en- tirely new stretch. from the state line, west of the Williams woods and the Hyde pasture, through land of Fred Gillette, and so on to the point of inter section with the old line north of the Lower Cemetery.
 By this layout the road would avoid the Hoag crossing, Pease crossing, liar denbergh crossing, and the Main street crossing near the Humphrey drug store, and leave the village center several hundred feet off the line, to the east. The old layout is to be utilized by the trolley, which furnishes practical so- lution of that problem. A new union depot will have to be constructed at a point not far from the present Church street crossing, and that street will be crossed overhead.
 The feasibility of this plan will be apparent to anyone who will note the wide sweeping circle described by the present track between the points desig- hated, and observe that the land he. tween. to be secured by purchase or con. demnatlon proceedings, offers no ob- struction in the way of buildings or insurtnountable elevations, and as a means of shortening distance and elimin- ating grade crossings it would be pTac- ticable and effective, and would be even less radical than some of the transfor nations wrought by the company in other places. The present law requires the elimination of certain number of grade crossings, according to mileage each year, and the plan outlined would eliminate four crossings, besides making straighter course, which means a shortening of time in travel.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
CARLETON's LETTER

Legislative Writer Writes Interestingly
 on State Financing.
 Hartford, August 22.-Now that Gov ernor Baldwin has vetoed the soldiers state pension bill, there is every reason to think that the financial affairs of the state for the next two years will be so adjusted by the present general assem- bly, that there will be no need of state tax tor 1919 and 1918. Not that this hinged on the soldiers pension act ex- actly, but the necessity for the state to pay out the S75o, 900 this would entail was to make a lot of difference. To di- gress for a moment, there is no reason to doubt that the veto will hurt Cover nor Baldwin in the next campaign- when he will be the candidate of the Democratic party if alive and possessing his present degree of health-but the Springfield Republican S assumption that this was put up to him by Republican leaders to get him in a hole has nothing whatever back of it.
 To continue, Senate Chairman Peck and the rest of the Appropriations com mittee have been doing their level best to avoid state tax, which the last legis- ature was obliged to lay, No Approp- riations committee ever worked harder to pare the appropriations down to. the bare bone and because of the difficulty of the task this time the committee of 1911 is entitled to great deal of credit and more distinction than usually falls to its lot. If the final result is that the state can get along without state tax. there will belaurel wreaths for the eleven members of the committee.
 The fact is, however, that Connecticut has suffered from a mode of financing in recent years which is not to the credit of those concerned and has resulted in the prevalence of. wrong ideas about our fi- nancial condition, the latter due in no small measure to the jugglery which state treasurers' statements. In a pri- vate business one would hardly get the heads of departments together and ask each to name what new expenditure he would recommend and make up bud get on those figures and then show Q deficit because the total exceeded the probable revenues, but that is what the last state treasurer did.
 His statement showed a deficit of
 early $4,ooO,o00, which was almost en- 
 0Oontinpad op nage60
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
School Board Meeting

Monday afternoon the town school committee met at the office of A. P. Freeman to organize for the coming year.
 MT E. 8. Roberts was elected chair man; G. w. Parsons secretary, in place of A P. Freeman. who had so efficiently filled the position for the past two years but who declined a reelection.
 E. s. Roberts, Dr. F. H. Lee and A. P. Freeman were elected acting school visitors for the coming year.
 The fall term of school opens on the first Tuesday i'll September, the 9th.
 When you saw that beastly COW, why didn't you drive her out of my gar den ?'
 "Well. you see. sir. your garden was n the COW. w."-Philadelphi Times.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
TROLLEY ENTERS VILLAGE
 BY ORIGINAL LAYOUT
Will Parallel Steam Tracks Clear to Terminus, Between Hotel and Rail-
 road. as Stated in The News.

Will Parallel Steam Tracks Clear to
 Terminus, Between Hotel and Rail-
 road, as Stated in The News.
 2 In The News of Nov. >24 the following was printed on the authority of the infor- nation bureau of the New York, New Haven 6 Hartford Railroad:
 1.-The trolley line has been definitely To- cated immiatly adjacant to the N. Y., N. H. 6 H. R. R. tracks, paralleling them from the hotel in Canaan to the state hne."
 This layout, running close beside the steam railway tracks from the Hoag crossing straight down through to Main street in the center of the village, has always seemed to The News not only the most feasible but the most likely to be finally selected by the electric rail- way company, and this paper has stead fastly held to the belief that the route indicated would be the trolley's ultimate course into the village.
 It appears now that this opinion was correct. On Monday of this week the Company filed with Town Clerk B. D. Norton, the blueprint plans and profile of the proposed tracks, which correspond, Tn the minutest particular to the above route, the terminus being on the west side of the Hotel Canield, and between the hotel and the steam tracks.
 Options on all property required by the company, from the state line to the end of the route, have been secured, in- cluding land belonging to Ed. McCarty, Mrs. Mary McGinnis, the Misses Granger, Mrs. D. W. Hardenbergh, Albert A. Hubbard and others. Only strip few feet wide has been required of each owner, to give the needed width of right of way, and the work of grading will be pushed to speedy completion.
 The Company yesterday purchased of B. A. Peirce the entire tract on which the old creamery building is located, near the Hardenbergh crossing. It is said the building will be used as car barn.
 Three carloads of rails have been un. loaded at the Barnes turnout; large numbers of ties are being deposited along the lower section of the line, and Engineer Towne gives assurance that the work will be vigorously prosecuted to finish, and cars will be running to Canaan by the time the Great Barring ton fair opens.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
ROB '" MARVIN DEAD ?
Report of His Death in Chicago is Not
 Authenticated

Report of His Death in Chicago is Not
 Authenticated.
 It was rel orted by a Chicago travelling man that Robert s. Marvin had died in that city short time previous, but no confirmation of the report has been received by any of Marvin's friends here His aunt Mrs. Sabra Humphrey, how ever is inclined to credit the report, as the last letter she received from hlm stated that he was in poor health. He was the only member of the family liv. ing in Chicago and lived alone
 He was son of the late Robert Mar, win. who died in Canaan some twenty years ago. Tho family lived here for a time, during the late '70's, and ran a restaurant and ice cream parlor Tn the rear of the present Dr. Ross premises There are two sisters, Clara and Ella, both of whom are married and living somewhere in the West. A brother, Charles H., lived here nearly all his life, with his aunt, Mrs. Humphrey. He was for a long time telegraph operator at the Union Station, and is now living in Stamford, where he has wife and grown-up son.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
Vacation House Guests.

Among the arrivals at Vacation House thls week are, Miss Sadie Fellow and Miss Gilbert. of Ridgefield; Misses Bro- mage and Moore of Thompsonville; Ed ma and Charlotte Smith, Edith Dyson, Emma and Isabel Heap, Florence Ame- luxen, Catherine Manhire, of Warehouse Point; Mildred and Olive Searles, Lil- lian Johnson, Florence Smith, Charlotte Henze, Mildred Powers, of New Haven Misses Dunlap, Clara Moore, Frelan Hollander, Freda KOnitshek, Freda and Beda Aronsen, Lottie Lloyd, of Hart ford; Miss Harris, Pennington; Marie Ball, Miss Pollard, Easthampton; Miss Thorpe, New Milford; Miss Malkin and Mrs. White, Norwalk; Miss Forbush, Middletown.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH

Played With Matches~in Pig-pen Con-
 taining Hay ana Straw
 Playing with matches in a pig-pen filled with loose hay and straw, the i've year-old son of Fredrico Montezelini, of East Canaan, set the building on fire and was roasted alive before he was missed by his parents.
 The distressing affair occurred about 12:3o o'clock. A neighbor, Nick Tazzel- lia, discovered that the little building was on fire at about the time the mother started to search for the child, and on rushing to investigate, found the boys body inside. burned to crisp. It was taken out, and word was immediately sent to Dr. Camp. medical examiner, who went to officially examine the case.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
HOSE co. DECLINES
Votes Not to Attend Labor Day Tour
 nament in Amenia.

Votes Not to Attend Labor Day Tour
 nament in Armenia.
 Canaan Hose Company held a short business meeting Thursday evening and voted to decline with thanks the invita- tion to be the guests of the Amenia fire company at the field day exercises of the Harlem Valley Firemen's Assoc1a- tion at Amenia. on Labor day, It. was agreed that as the members have no uni form as yet, it would be inadvisable to participate in the affair.
 Work on the hose carriage is pro- gressing. The large carriage has been cut in two, making two two-wheeIed carts of it, and second hose reel is to be adjusted to the extra cart. The work of sandpapering the vehicles is finished, and Assistant Foreman Al Higgins will be in charge of the repainting and deco rating of both carts,
 The badges for the members of the company are now on the way here, from the manufacturers.
 There will be no more regular meet ings until the first Thursday in Sep tember.
 Probably among the first of the social and dramatic events of the coming sea- son will be a minstrel show by mem- bers of the fire company.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
RHOADES ALMOST GOT HIM
Alvah Briggs, Alleged Degenerate, Went -- Through Canaan.

Alvah Briggs, Alleged Degenerate, Went Through Canaan.
 Deputy Sheriff Rhoades missed the capture of an alleged degenerate and brutal criminal by about a minute, early Thursday morning, as the O. N. E.. freight train going east, pulled out just before he arrived at the station after re- ceiving telephone message from the authorities at, Mcintyre, N. Y, to search the train for the scamp, who had board ed it after committing 8 felonious assault on a seven-years-old girl, Ethel Daley; a child of George Daley. of Clinton, N. Y.
 The fugitive's name is Alvah Briggs, and the crime with which he is charged is said to have been one of the most shocking in the history of Duchess county. The child is now in serious condition. According to the story, Briggs picked the child up as she was playing with other children, beside the road, and carried her into the house of her older sister, Mrs. Andrew Dennis, where she was visiting, in Mcintyre Mrs. Dennis, who was at work near by. and who missed the little girl from among her playInates, went to the house and found the door locked. She called her husband, who broke a window to gain access, just as Briggs came down stars. MT. Dennis tackled and fight ensured, but Briggs broke away and ran for the railroad station, where he board ed the east-bound freight which passed Canaan at 9 o'clock in the morning.
 Sheriff Rhoades was called out of bed while the train was at this station, and hurried to the depot, but the call had come just too late to enable him to hold the train for search. The culprit was arrested in Winsted by Chief of Police Wheeler. When arrested he admitted that he was the man for whom the of fcers were searching, but denied having committed the crime, although he owned up to having had fight with Dennis. He was taken to Poughkeepsie, by auto. Friday afternoon.
 After being placed in jail in Pough- keepsie he confessed his crime, pleading that he had been drinking when he com mitted the fiendish act. He was arraign- ed for trial before County Judge Has brouck Tuesday morning.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
CHAUTAUQUA ASSEMBLY
Interesting Exerises at Pine Grove this g Week.

g Week.
 The Pine Grove assembly opened Thursday evening the 18th with very fine concert by The Danbury Quartette.
 Beginning Friday daily sessions have been held, devoted to Physical Culture, with Mrs. K. M. Holton as director l; Domestic Science under Miss A. A. Cooke. Dr. J. L. Hurlbut, the veteran Sunday school worker, has conducted the Bible study classes and school of methods.
 Tuesday, which was Rally Day for the Sunday schools, brought large audiences, many of the churches ln the vicinity be- ing represented, Canaan Methodist send ing by far the largest delegation.
 Rev. E. R.Naftzger is interesting both old and young with his singings and magic for the children, the o'clock hour being given to them each day. This morning the Camp Meeting proper begins with sermons at 1:30, 200 and 7:30.
 . Sunday afternoon at 900 Mrs. Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer, will speak.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
CANAAN. CONN. THURSDAY. AUGUST A. 1911.
MILLER BUG FLEW
 INTO DALTON'S EAR
Insect Works Its Way Past Ear Drum lnfictIng Excruciating Pain-Hos-
 pitaI Operation Necessary.

Insect Works Its Way Past Ear Drum
 lnflictIng Excruciating Pain-Hos-
 pitaI Operation Necessary.
 An unusual and painful experience fell to the lot of Tommy" Dalton, employed at the local Borden plant, last Thursday night.
 He attended the dance in Odd Fellows Hall, and during all intermission went outdoors to get a bite ~of fresh air. While standing near the entrance to the Hall a miller" flew into his right ear. Tommy tried to pull the intruder out, but the little varmlnt had a good start and kept wriggling and fluttering ahead, and couldn't he reached. Its struggles caused such intense pain that the victim went to Dr. Lee to have the miller ev1ct- ed by summary process. Dr. Lee went in after it with his tongs and succeeded in extracting 8 wing, which didn't relieve the situation much, but 1t was all he could get.
 The pain by this time was so excruciat- ing that Dalton went to Pittsfield Fri day and consulted another doctor, who tried, unsuccessfully to extract the mil Ter, which had worked itself in back of the ear-drum and seemed determined to explore the interior of Dalton's cran- ium and find reuteN to the other side of it. The Pittsfield doctor suggested that an operation be performed at the hos pitaI, and Dalton promptly agreed. At the House of Mercy the sufferer was placed under the influence of an anesthe- tic and the miller removed with an in- strument, after which the pain subsided and Dalton has since suffered no distress ing effects or inconvenience from his painful and novel experience.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
No Boat Parade

High winds baked the plans of the Twin Lakes contingent for holding the annual illuminated boat parade last Sat. urday night. It would have been i'm possible to keep the lantern lights go- ing.
 The affair may eventuate next Satur- day night in connection with the shore front Examinations.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24

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Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24

"A political party" said Uncle Eben, ''is sumpin like de ohuch choir. De man dat make de mos noise in it ain't allus de one dat is most promotions of hahmony. ."-T Washington Star.
The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-20
LUMBER MILLS
 CLOSING DOWN
l 8 oUTH ERIN MANUFACTURERS
 MAKE STRENUOUS FIGHT ON LABOR UNION.
Some Big Louisiana MiTs Have Clos ed Down Until Labor Trouble
 Is Settled.

New Orleans, La. Aug. 19.-Ad. vices from the lumber district in western Louisiana indicate that sew eral of the lumber mills have decided to remain closed as result of the labor troubles but reports from the entire twenty-two mills was not avail able tonight. Among the mills clos ed are the Industrial Lumber Com pany's two mills at Oakdale and Car. son, and the Hudson River Lumber Company's mills at De Ridder, La.
 s. Woodring, superintendent of inc Calcasieu Lumber Company Of Lake Charles, said the officials of that company attended the Chi>sgo con ference and that instructions to close down were expected daily. lie de. clared that the pohcy of that con- cern and the Long Bell Company y.. operate four days per weeS for the benefit of the employees had gained them nothing as the market was so slack that they had $25O,90o more stock on hand now than on June I
 Sam Park, president of the Indus. trial Lumber Company of Houston, in a telegram today confirmed the re port that he had purchased the in terest of J. M. West and associates because of disagreement as to the policy to be pursued toward the un- ions He admitted the mills were operating but denied that he had rec. .ognized the union. saving "taeir lodge has disbanded.
The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-20
zAPATA WILL FIGHT.
Rebel Leader Goes Back on Promise
 to Madero.

Quautla. Morelos. Mex, Aug. l9 .-- Instead Of surrendering his arms as yesterday, he assured Madero he was willing to do. zapata. the Morelos rebel, went on the war path again to- day. Upon learning from his scouts that a detachment of federals under General Casse Lopez had advanced tu Jonacatepee, eighteen miles to the southeast, he ordered 500 horsemeh and 300 of his unmounted followers to go out and oppose them.
 Madero believing that the advance Of the federals was a mistake dis. patched an aide pcste haste to Cen eral Lopez to snow him a dispatch which he received from the minister of war stating that the advance or the sederals would be stopped.
 Tonight the rebel forces were camp. led midway between this city and the state line, awaiting orders rom Zap ata. who declared that ne reared treachery on ths part of the fedei als
The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-20
MADERo MAKES CHARGES.
Says Reyes Supporters Are Foster
 ing Disorders.

Cuautla, Mex, Aug. lJ. .--ln teie gram to President De La Barra to night Francisco 1. Madeio asserted Ithat General Huerta, in charge of the fec eral forces proceeding t> tanei na,aca to enforce the aisoaa iinS ol Zapata's men, is working in conjune- ten with General Reyes to aggravatt the disorders in the state of -Sioreios with unpatriotic motives
 He declared the disarmlng of tGc rebels had been begun and WAS inter rupted by news that Haerta's detacn ment was marching on Yuatepec, mid way between this city and Cuerna vaca, whereupon great excItstD sn spread through the rebel ran.5 anc they imcdiately resumed their warliks spirit. He declared that Huerta u le |Colonel Blanquet, the latter an oic time enemy of Zapata, were not prop or officers to carry out a mission ol peace requested that the federals D, ordered to return to Cuernayaca.
 General Casso Lopez. with his -ou- erals from Puebla, has indicated tt Madero that ahe will remain at Jan acatepec until he receives further or ders from the waf Department.