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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-29
WANTED

Good Creamery Butter, and 8
pound caddies, Cairo Boat Store.
Both Phones 100.
WANTED-A job of general office
cleaning. Mrss. Matte L. Green, 80
9th street
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-29
HELP WANTED MALE.

WANTED-For u. s.. army: Ablo
todied unmarried men between the
ages Of Is and So; citizens of United
States. of good character and tenn
rerate habits, who can speak, res
and write the English language Fo'
Information apply Recruiting ofticer
al Ohio St.eet, Cairo. Ill.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-29
MISS HARRIET CAREY

STUDENT BERLIN, GRADUATE or
LEXINGTON CONSERVATORY
will receive
Pupils in Voice, Piano and German
281t Elm Street Home phone 277-v
stairs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
KILLED LITTLE
GIRLS AND SELF
Heidelberg Graduate Follows Children
to Boston and Stays
Them.
fGate CITY Leased Wire Service. |

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.]
BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 4.-Ludwig
f. Jaeger and his two little daughters,
five and four years old, are dead to-
night because the father could not
bear to be separated from the chill
dren he loved so well.
Jaeger and his wife were divorced
recently in Chicago. He was a gradu-
ate of Heidelberg University, Ger
many, and was formerly employed i'll
the office of the German consul in
Chicago. The custody of the two lit
tie daughters was awarded to the
mother She brought them to Win
throp, Boston suburb. Here she
married Frank Strassburg, formerly
of Chicago.
Jaeger, as book agent, insisted his
firm send him to Boston He wanted
to see his daughters. He met them on
the street this afternoon. The father
drew revolver and shot them dead
Now they can never separate me
again from my children he cried,
and fred bullet through his own
brain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Sightseers Injured.
[Gate City Leased Wire serv,c

IGate City Leased Wire Service
WASHINGToN,Nov. A. Carrying
dozen passengers. sightseeing auto
smashed into steel bodied capital
traction street car late today seri
ously injuring three persons Fred e.
Davis, 81, and F, H. Keay, Al, both of
Hamilton, W. Va, were taken to Cas-
ualty hospital in serious cor N a
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Calkins of Lamont,
Colo, We're thrown from the machine
into the street. Mrs. Calkins sustained
fracture of the hip and it is said is
injured internally. Calkins, however,
only sustained minor injuries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
UP IN THE AIR
OVER HIS MOTOR.
When Rodgers Engine Acted up He
Vents His Spite on It by
Giving it
Kick.
FLIGHT AGAIN DELAYED
Almost Within Sight Of End of His
Long Journey When Com
PEELED to
Stop.
FLIGHT AGAIN DELAYED
Gate City Leased Wire service.l i

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.l
BANNING, Calf, Nov. Aviator
Rodgers did not end his coast-to-
coast fight today as he planned, on
account of the broken engine, which
retarded his start from Imperial
junction this morning for more than
two hours and finally compelled him
to descend here for the night after
he had tried to resume his flight to
Pasadena, marking his journeys end.
Rodgers arrived here at 1895 from
Imperial Junction. He ate luncheon
and worked over the defective parts
of his machine until 3:13, when he
re-ascended and started for Pasadena
seyenty-five miles away
He had flown only short distance
when the machine went wrong again
and the aviator, with success almost
within his grasp, was forced to de-
scend He was much disappointed, as
he had strongly hoped to land his
machine at Tournament Park at Pas
adena by o'clock this evening.
When he had alighted Rodgers
gave vent to his feelings by aiming
vicious kick at his motor, then
procured a kit of tools and with his
assistant, began the task of repair
ing the engine.
He expects to resume his journey
early tomorrow morning provided the
machine can be put in condition and
it will be only matter of minutes
for him to- reach Pasadena. From
there it will be an easy fight-pos
sibly half an hour over Los Angeles
to the Pacific surf, which would bring
his great fight from Sheepshead Bay
to the Pacific to an end.
Rodgers few Approximately seventy
miles today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Strike Is Not Settled.

lGate City Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-Warned by
dispatches from different cities in
the west and south that a false re-
port was being circulated that the
strike of machinists on the Hartman
lines has been settled. President Kline
of the blacksmith's union tonight is
sued statement urging strikers not
to be deceived into going back to
work. Mass meetings will be held
tomorrow. A strike of craftsmen on
the Rock Island is held in allegiance
until after the meeting here Monday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Celebrating the Victories.

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 4.-Reports
of victories by the. Chinese rebels
over the imperialists have set the
Chinese population of San Francisco
wild with joy. Fifteen thousand ce-
lestials tonight began upon the great
est celebration ever held in little
orient here.
Thousands of flags of the new re-
public, which is already looked upon
here as certainty. adorn Chinatown
whose streets are alive with shouting
celestials
Revolution" banquets started in
half dozen larger restaurants to-
night. They will last until Monday
morning.
Tomorrow afternoon the Chinese
will have a great pageant through
Chinatown with probably ten thous
and marchers in line.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
WeIch Feels Fine.

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.]
LOS ANGELES, Calf. Nov. A.
Freddie Welch who is to fight Cham
pion Wolgast at Vernon Thanksgiv-
ing for the lightweight championship
is here chock full of confidence.
Welch says he don't intend to try to
knock Wolgast out but he is planning
to go the limit and win on points.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Nov 4-Mfssouri
and Iowa: Cloudy Sunday and Mon
day. Not much change in tempera-
ture.
Illinois: Cloudy Sunday and Mon
day; not much change in tempera-
ture.
Local Observations.
Nov. Bar. Their. Wind With r
Z a. m. ...... .3O.2s 3S S Crdy
7 p. m. .,... 1922 Al S Crdy
River above low water of 1864, 8
feet. tenths.
Change in twenty-four hours: fell
2.
Mean temperature, 80.
Highest temperature, 43.
Lowest temperature, 35.
FRED z. GOSEwIsCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Body is Ex!oumed.

NORTH HENDERSON, H., Nov.
4.-The body Of Richard T. Smith,
whose death the police of Chicago are
investigating, with eight others who
died at the home of Mrs. Louise Yer
milya, in Chicago, was exhumed at
Mount Vernon cemetery, near here,
this afternoon, and the viscera re
moved and taken to Chicago. There
it will be subjected to chemical
analysis for the purpose of determin-
ing whether poison caused his death.
The body was exhumed under the
direction of Coroner Peter Hoffman
of Cook county, who arrived shortly
after 3 o'clock with DR.. Leconte A
curious crowd gathered but all We're
barred with the exception of those
who disinterred and examined the
body, including DR.. f. E. Morgan.
Oscar Smith, a brother. and Joseph
Deets, brother-in-law of the dead
man, all of North Henderson. The
party was sworn to secrecy. The
body was in good state of preser
vation. having been embalmed with
formaldehyde.
The viscera was sealed in jars a. :
the Chicago authorities motoreJ to
Galesburg, where they took train
Detective Murphy also returned to
Chicago after a day passed here in
terrogating friends and relatives Of
the dead man While Murphy refused
to talk of any evidence he obtained
and swore his informants to secrecy,
it is stated that he got valuable infor-
nation which may involve others In
the case.
1t became known today that Smiths
brothers and friends had not been sat
isfied at the time of his death and
that two friends or relatives went to
Chicago and called upon the author
tiles there. Nothing definite was OBJ
tanned, however, and to spare Smiths
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Smith,
the pain of public investigation, they
decided not to press further the in.
vestigation. Smiths mother has been
an invalid in bed for ten years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Empress Has Fled.

TEN TSIN. China, Nov. 5.-Ru-
mors, apparently based on excellent
authority, are rife here tonight that
the Chinese dowager empress, grand.
mother of the boy emperor, togethe,
with all her eunichs, fled from Pekin
two days ago. 1t is believed she is
gons into Manchuria. 1t is reported that
the prince regent with the baby EN-.
peror, is preparing to flee from Pekin
and take refuge in Cheng Lee, North.
ern Manchuria, among his own peo-
pie.
message from Pekin tonight de.
clares the new Chinese senate has de.
termined to make official inquiry into
the massacres in Hankow by the roy
alist troops under Yuan Shi Kai
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Country Aroused.

These atrocities have aroused the
whole country to a pitch of incredible
desperation. Women and boys have
gone forth into the desert to fight be-
side the men, as have likewise all
the relatives of the innocent town
Arabs massacred by the Italians. Mu-
tilated and mortally wounded men
in the battle front, with one leg or
arm shot away, creep up to the TIA
ian lines for the satisfaction of kill
ing at leastt one more Italian before
they die.
A holy war has been successfully
proclaimed by Bedouins from Egypt,
Arabs from the Soudan are joining the
Tripolitans. Only an advance guard
of 1900 Arabs is so far attacking the
Italians, despite the ridiculous state
ments in the Italian papers that the
enemies losses run into thousands.
The Italians may be able to hold
on here as they have at Mellita, but
there Is absolutely no chance of their
advancing into the deserts against
the main Turko-Arabic force under
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
The Woman,s past.

While Mrs. Vermilya has been lying
In bed gradually eating poison, Po-
lice Captain Harding and his half doz-
en- detectives have been learning a
great deal about the woman's past
life, from the time she was the belle
OF the "husking bees" at Darlington,
H., to the present time. Nine per-
sons--husbands, sons, daughters, and
friends-have died in her home at
various times in the last ten years,
while she was residing at various
Illinois towns.
AS buxom country girl, she was a
great favorite with the men. She
was married rather early in life, to
Frank Brinkamp, and. after organiz-
Ing a lodge in fraternal association,
insured her husband for $1,000. Short
ly afterward Brinkamp died. His
widow collected the insurance Then
she sought livelihood by organizing
insurance clubs at harrington and
Crystal Lake Then she married
Charles vermilya, an aged widower
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
THREE HUNDRED
; ARE IN PERIL
"A -
TS Number Of People in Foreign
o Missions at Hankow May Have
y Been Victims of
Slaughter.
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
American Marines In Shanghai Are
on Guard and win be Ready
to Fight II Neces-
sary.
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
IGate CITY leased Wire Service. l

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.]
SHANGHAI, Nov. 4.-Every effort is
being made tonight to learn the
whereabouts of the 800 persons at
last accounts in the, Wesleyan mission
at Hankow, which the latest messages
received here says was destroyed by
Ere due to the murderous shelling of
the city by the Chinese imperial
troops
Foreigners here are furious at the
conduct of the imperial commander in
disregarding the recommendation to
cease the shelling until the wounded
rebels in the mission and the inmates
of the adjoining David Hill memorial
school for the blind could be removed.
1T is considered most unlikely that
the staff have transferred their help
less charges to places of safety with.
out fatalities.
So far as known here the Europeans
at the mission were DR.. Booth and
wife; Miss N. Booth, the Rev. G. A.
Clayton and wife; the Rev. j. s. Helps
and wife; the Rev. w. A. Tatchell and
wife; the Rev. C. S. Minty, and Miss
H. Wilkinson All are English
Considerable apprehension is also
| fell for Yuan Shi Kai who was last
reported in Hankow for conference
with Gen. Ii the rebel leader. With
so desperate struggle raging be-
tween rebels and imperialists it is
felt that the position of the would be
mediator between them can not be
1altogether a safe one.
/ News that two of the imperial tor
lpedo boats in the Yang Use river have
surrendered to the rebels is cons-d-
cred as only preliminary to the sur
render of the entire fleet, the capture
by the revolutionists of all the river
| forts between here and Hankow and
the loss Of their ammunition supply
through the transfer of the Shanghai
arsenal having rendered further re.
sistance by Admiral Saih hopeless.
/ The American marines landed here
i by Admiral Murdoch remain on guard
in the foreign quarter, and another
| landing is known to have been made
4 from the cruiser Albany to protect the
cable station at WI Sung
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Mrs. Vermilya Accused Of Taking Nine Lives by
Using Insect Powder in Her Deadly
Pepper Shaker
She LOVED TO FOND[E COLD CORPSES
Tried to End Her Own Life by Means of the
Hidden Arsenic But Was Saved by
Physician.

with several grown children. The
new wife quarreled with her stepchil-
dren over the sale of some Of Yer
milya's property. Shortly afterward,
the husband, and Mrs. Vermilya' s
stopson and stepdaughter died in quick
succession.
Mrs. Vermilya once again widow,
came next to Chicago. Here she met
Richard T. Smith, an Illinois Central
railroad conductor. The police think
Smith left his wife because of his
affection for the Vermilya woman;
certain it is that he roomed with her
for number of months. Then Smith
died. At his funeral, Mrs. Vermilya
is alleged to have displayed a roll CT
bills, and the police are looking for
an automobile said to have been his
property, and which disappeared after
his death.
She Loved Corpses.
Next came Arthur Bisonette, po-
liceman. He roomed at Mrs. Vermilya' s
fiat. Some people thought the two
engaged-at least they were very
friendly. Then Bisonette's engage
ment to Lydia Rivard was made
known land shortly afterward he died
In their hunt for light on the wom
ans life the police have discovered a
strong characteristic. Undertakers in
the little towns where she lived say
that death apparently had a strange
fascination for this woman. She how
erred about the beds of the dying as il
drawn to them, and when allowed by
undertakers to prepare the bodies fol
burial fondled them and appeared te
have infinite pleasure in looking al
the cold remains.
Coroner Hoffman and an expert OF
postmortems today left for Nortl
Henderson, ILL.,, there to exhume the
body of Richard 7. Smith. The boa,
will be brought back to this city fol
chemical analysis.
Professor Haines, the city's poisor
expert. after examining the contents
of the salt shaker, used by Mrs. Ger
milya this evening, asserted that il
was arsenic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Make keokuk Grow

Make keokuk Grow
In the various ramifications
Of an enterprise SO stupendous
as the building of a dam across
the Mississippi river it was ex-
pected that some opposition
would develop. It is none tb !
less regrettable and unfor-
tunate. That honest differ
ences of opinion should result
between a seller and a buyer
is a common expectation but
the liberal, minded atti-
tude of the Water Power Com
pany toward all with whom it.
has had dealings has eliminat-
ed almost all of the differences
and there has been a friendly
feeling between all parties
with whom transactions have
been concluded. The Water
Power Company has been emf
nently fair in it's attitude and
in its purchases. Property
that is required in order to
build the dam has been bought
and paid for. Transactions
have been readily negotiated
and friendly relations main
tanned between the buyer and
the seller. The water power
company has pursued a policy
that has made friends with the
individual and the communi-
ties, with but few exceptions,
and The Gate City has strong
hope that the few exceptions
may soon be adjusted.
Least of all can Keokuk af-
ford to appear in the role of
antagonist. Keokuk's destiny
was the successful conclusion
OF the water power negotia-
lions. 1t is too painful a con-
temptation to even think what
this city would have been
without this project. That any
! opposition should arise within
the local citizenship is lament
able. Extremely lamentable in
view of the record the power
company has established fol
fair and honorable dealing.
It is at least pleasurable tc
contemplate that so few cases
have arisen whereby legal pro
cedure has been resorted to
And it is entirely proper te
hope that any opposition tc
this enterprise which mean,
go much for all the immediat,
communities, will be promptly
withdrawn.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
In Pepper Shaker.

Then the police began hunt to
find out how woman, sick in bed and
under surveillance, day and night,
could have taken Just the dose that
they We're half way anticipating. The
remnants of her meal were scrutiniz-
ed without result Then the nurse
remembered that the sick woman
used an enormous quantity Of salt and
pepper at all her meals. The big salt
and pepper boxes that she used were
Immediately sent to a corner drug
store for All opinion The pharmicist
sent word back that in his opinion the
white pepper was in reality an in
sect powder, the chief ingredient in
which was arsenic.
The craft displayed by Mrs. Yer
milya in all but poisoning herself be-
fore the eyes of the police indicates to
them that there may be great difficult
IN connecting the woman with several
deaths in her home. Evidently the
woman has been steadily taking
arsenic-or the insect powder-for a
number of days, until she had succeed
ed In making the physicians attend
ing her believe that a mysterious
malady had brought her vitality to a
very low ebb. Apparently tonight she
planned to take final dose-of a
sufficient amount to cause death
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Worse Than Russia.


The scenes are worse than any
Russian or Armenian massacre. The
pro-Italian Jews were massacred by
mistake among the Arabs. The Arabs
did mutilate corpses, but not until
after the Italians began the massa-
cres.. Arabs at first were most cour-
teous opponents and used to bring
in wounded italians under flag OF
truce.
The Italians frankly admit they
are conducting this war as war OF
determination. No quarter is ever
given to the Arabs, whom Caneva
persists in regarding as non-combat-
ants. He says he is fighting Turk
ey. The Arabs, therefore, are not
regular soldiers in uniform and must
be shot when caught with arms in
their hand whether under the white
flag or not. On October 26, small
hut brave band of Arabs broke the
Italian line near Bumilyana and were
surrounded in house, We're they
fought twelve hours. Their ammuni-
tion was then exhausted and all were
butchered despite the white flag.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
Truth is Out at Last When American Cores
pondent Manages to Get His Blood Curd-
ling Message Through.
ITALIAN SOLDIERS WENT CRAZY
Massacre Of Innocent Arabs, Cripples, Wounded,
Women, Children, All Because Of Frenzy
of Invaders
[Gate City Leased wire Service ]

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-In copy
right article, the New York World to-
day published from Francis McCul-
lagh, its war correspondent, the most
blood-curdling story Of the horrible
Italian massacres in Tripoli that has
yet been published.
In part, the signed statement from
McCullagh reads:
Copyright 1911 by Press Publishing
Co. The New York World.l
MALTA, Nov. 4.--As protest
against the murders of innocent Arab
women, men and children last week.
have sent papers as a corresponds
ent to General Caneva. l cannot
maintain longer with an army which
is no army, but an armed band OF
marauders and gang of assassins.
About 400 women and children and
1000 men have been shot. Cripples
and blind beggars have been deliber
ately shot. Sick people, whose hous
es were burned, were left on the
ground and refused even drop Of
water. ! personally witnessed these
scenes of horror and photographed
them for the World
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05

Continued on page 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
TGate city Leased Wire Service. ]

EGate City Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-What the police
say was attempted suicide-and by the
same poison with which the police
suspect she has made away with half
a score Of relatives and friends-near-
ly closed the case of the state of Illi-
nois versus Mrs. Louis Vermilya to-
night. The woman, watched day and
night by two detectives and a police
nurse, very nearly succeeded despite
their surveillance, in closing what the
authorities now believe is the most
remarkable series of poisoning since
the days Of Johan Hoch, by cul-
minative dose of arsenic.
Nearly week ago, when Policeman
Arthur Bissonette died at the local
hospital after being removed to his
room in the Vermilyas home, the
woman was taken i'll when the person
in attendance at Bisconette's death
barred his suspicion that arsenic was
xthe cause. When chemist certified
sfhat an examination of Bisonette's
ljscera had disclosed large quantity
" ! the drug the woman was said to be
armingly III.
Closely Guarded.
Her physician advised against any
udden shock to his patient; SO the
police omitted service on her of a
warrant sworn out by Bisonette's
brother, charging her with the police
Eman's murder. But strong guard
was placed at her home.
Today Mrs. Vermilya grew steadily
worse. For dinner this evening she
ha two soft boiled eggs. Immediate
" after this meal she suffered re-
lapse. A physician hurriedly summon
ed thought the symptoms of her i'll
ness very peculiar and promptly ad-
ministered an antidote.
She grew better at once.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-05
1 Soldiers Went Crazy.

= 0Vs0f0t . " GIN ~ - tfsF
There is not the faintest pretense OF
justice. The Arab quarter was over
run with crazy soldiers with revolvers'
shooting every Arab man, woman or
child they met. Officers were worse
than men. The army is demoralized.
On returning my papers. was
summoned to headquarters but re-
fused to consider any communication
except through the consul. am now
leaving voluntarily. Gumbert, well
known German military critic and
correspondent of the Berlin Eokalan-
zieger, took the same step. Every
British correspondent except one
leaves today.
The facts of the massacre are be-
yond dispute and the consuls have
already informed their governments.