The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-19
CITY NEWS.
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Call and buy one OF those buggies
selling at reduced prices. Sherwood's.
MIR. and Mrs. John 1mmegart are
the parents of a baby girl.
st Joseph's auxiliary will hold its
regular monthly meeting Wednesday,
$3.50 p. m. at the hospital.
Chief Anderson of the fire depart
ment is indisposed having been Ill for
the past several days and unable to
attend to his regular duties.
Allen Hall and Ed. Flavin. two
DRINKS, were fined a dollar and costs
in court this morning for their spree.
Another $40 in the city till.
-Nordica Records The first rec
ords ever made by Lillian Nordica,
the great Wagnerian soprano, are for
sale at Sutliye Bros, No. 312 Main st.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge No. 5, knights Of Pythias to-
night at 500 O'clock at Castle hall,
Fifth and Blondeau Visiting knights
invited. c. c. Koepf, c. c.
g. w. Gardner has bought the
Gate City laundry and is now In &C
tive charge. He guarantees all work,
and If you have any fault to find with
your laundry, return it and it will be
made right at once. 19 North Fifth
Street.
Attend race meet, stock display
and baseball tournment at Donnell-
son, Iowa. Sept. goth. The Burling-
ton will run special train leaving
Keokuk at 1880 p. M, arriving at
Donnellson at 1:45 p. M, returning,
leave Donnellson at $50 p. m
While sauntering along Main
street in front OF the Diver building,
between Sixth and Seventh, on Main.
on which repairs are being made,
| Theodore English was struck on the
head by falling brick He wore
stiff hat and the high crown broke
| the force OF the impact with the re-
suit that only slight scalp wound
was inflicted.
-Keokuk Camp No. 622 Modern
| Woodman of America will have their
smoker tomorrow night after their
regular lodge meeting instead of
Thursday evening as first planned.
Theodore A. Craig who was district
J delegate to the head camp at Buffalo
which was the largest held by this or
der since organization, over thous-
and delegates being present, will
speak. Light refreshments will be
served.
Railroad Commissioners Palmer
and Ketchum were in Keokuk today.
enroute to Burlington. They had
been to Kilbourn where they met the
farmers who want depot facilities at
| that point. The commissioners came
! to Keokuk with Superintendent Brown,
/ leaving this afternoon for Burlington,
Mr.. Palmer to go to Fairfield to at
tend q meeting of the old veterans
to be held tomorrow, and Mr.. Ketch-
UNI to go to Muscatine.
City Attorney Ralph B. Smith,
became actively busy at tthe city Of
fees today, delving into cases and
making up legal matters with which
the city is contending at the present
time One of them is the case OF
! Mrs. Brown against the Hawk-Eye
Pearl Button works, which suit In
wolves some properties at the foot of
| South Second on which the button
plant is built Attorney Smith has
! been busted for number of months
with abstract work for the Water
Power Co., at Fort Madison.
The Gate City last night mention
ed the death of John Richardson, the
%" fireman at Hannibal, The Journal
this morning says of the accident and
subsequent death of the railroad man:
John Richardson, K line fireman,
met with a fearful accident at 2 a. m.
yesterday morning and died thirty
minutes later from the effects OF the
accident. The unfortunate man was
firing engine No. 2208 which was pull
ing train No. II and when entering
the Hannibal yards it is thought that
he stuck his head out of the cab win
dow to watch for signals and was
struck by the projecting corner OF
freight car on track "a. No one wit
messed the accident. Engineer Glas-
cock says that he heard slight noise
and upon looking over to the opposite
side of the cab saw Mr.. Richardson
leaning out of the cab window. Mr..
Glascock crossed and took hold of the
unfortunate man and then asked
Conductor r. NJ. Shamshey, who was
riding in the cab, to hold him until he
, (Glascock) could stop the train. The
train was stopped and it was found
: that Richardson had been badly hurt
r His head was almost torn from his
! shoulders, his chest was mashed and
! his lips and one cheek we're badly cut
and his right shoulder was cut and
! bruised.