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New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
M'DENTT HOME, BROKE
"MiIIionaire for a Day" Back 10
Baked Beans for Breakfast.
NEW WORKERS SKINNED HIM
"Thev Gave Me a Grand Run for
NV Coin While 1t Lasted"
Saws Wilkes Barre Man.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.l

Wilkes-Barre, Penn, Jan. 14.-Broke
but happy, John ]. McDevitt is back at
his old haunts With the last dollar
spent and his appetite the best the
one-day millionaire is back at the OLD
grind.
When a Pullman porter dragged John
Jay from his berth here at : O'Clock
this morning Butch" set up an awfui
howl because he was forced to get up
in the daytime. He obeyed orders
nevertheless, and, after dressing. count
cd the remnants Of his little fortune
which Secretary Lenahan figured al
S153 Butch" pocketed the entire
amount. started from the car and upon
reaching the ground slipped a dollar
bill and a lone half to the colored por-
Ter The remaining three cents John
law threw at waiting newsboy. he
,yas then dead broke, cleaned from top
10 bottom of every cent he had in the
world.
Rut his nerve was still with him. He
carried il in the direction OF a cheap
"beanery." Seating himself on a STOOL
the man who had Waldorf-Astorla
walters falling over themselves to serve
him Yesterday had nothing but ooaru
for his table. No menu card was Oh
fered him. but, while a few of the curl
Gus looked on, John Jay shouted ohe
and" which in the hash house here
means a plain plate of beans. A cup OF
black coffee was served up with the
main course and slice or two OF oreao
was his side dish. McDevitt needed no
help in cleaning the dishes. with po'h
hands working overtime, he quickly nm
,shed and was ready to depart.
With an empty grip in each hand ne
started for the door, and while the man
behind the counter began to talk ABOUT
the amount of the bill Butch Kept OH
going and did not stop until he reacneo
the Hotel Redington, where few OF MS
friends gathered to meet him. Failing
into an once chair. he said he was rich
in happiness but mighty poor from d
financial standpoint.
THAT New York crowd" said McDev-
1T, CLEANED me ike lilcy Shli "a iOS|''
They didn't leave a thing. While II
lasted they gave me one grand run for
the coin, but they showed me what a
simple little thing it is to part man
and his money.
Every copper l spent brought me one
dollars worth of happiness. The Great
White Way bunch slipped over nothing
on me. l was a millionaire for day
but, my, oh. my! what chase\ they
did give me. put up better prices than
most millionaires do. and l was dead
game to the finish. It's all over. and
am the happiest man in Wyoming Valley
They couldn't pay me enough to be
real millionaire. It's the old bean house
for yours truly. 1 got all bargained
for, and am tickled almost to death with
the feeling 1t gave me-"
John ]. hasn't a thing to do until to.
morrow. When tomorrow arrives he
will have nothing to do until the follow
ing day, except sleep. When he has
slept out he will probably hit the ties to
Waymart, Wayne County.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
FIRE ROUTS 80 FAMILIES
Ten Horses Die in $4,000 Cooperage
Blaze at Newark.

Thirty families were driven into the cold
scantIly clad early yesterday morning
when fire started in the cooperage OF
w. T. Taylor. at No. 3l3 to 3i7 Chestnut
street, Newark. The families occupied
houses surrounding the place. Ten horses
belonging 10 Taylor were burned to death
and about $1,000 damage was done
The blaze was near TO the plant OF Han
son & Van Wrinkle. manufacturing chem
lists, and because OF this an extra alarm
was turned in.
There was no chance TO get near the
snorting and kicking horses before the
flames reached them. When the iremen
arrived flames were leaping high into the
air across Chestnut street and to houses
at the rear I'm Malvern street. In short
time men and women with children hud-
died about them were running through the
streets seeking shelter from the bitter
cold.
Yeggmen got n meagre reward for the
trouble they took In breaking open a safe
in the butcher shop OF Jacob Abrams. at
No. l73 Avon avenue, yesterday morning
They pried off the front door OF the
strong box" and found only a collection
Of old coins, which Abrams valued at $780,
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
IcEBoUND scHooNERs RESCUED
Cutter Gresham Saves Two Crews Who
Were Near Starvation.

Vineyard Haven. Mass, Jan. 1.-Two
schooners. with colors union down. caught
In the ice which has formed over Nan
tucket Shoals from Cross Rip to Chatham'
were rescued to-day by the United states
revenue cutter Gresham and successfully
towed to this port, although parting OF
the hawsers made two trips necessary The
schooners were the Forest CITY, forty-hhe
days out from Savannah for Boston, and
the Edward r. Smith, from Brunswick Ca
for Boston Attempting to pass thronsh
the shoals last night, they became securely
lodged In heavy ice TO the northwest OF
Handkerchief Shoal.
The Gresham was compelled TO force Its
way through the ice pack for miles before
reaching the vessels and after several
hours Of exertion in extremely cold weather
the cutters crew, who had scarcely had any
rest since towing ia the schooner william
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
vAMps HURT AT CHURCH FIRE
Bayside Methodists Lose SlO,OOV--
Pastor Aids in Putting Out Blaze

Two volunteer .tfremep were hurt yes'e''
day afternoon while putting out blaze y
the Methodist Episcopal Church Baysios'
Long Island. Frederick Robertson was an
the roof directing stream OF water ~
the blaze when the chimney fell e
,umped TO avoid the brick and fell ~
frederick Miller Both men were severep
bruised. but were soon back on The ,loo,
TIRE church is frame structure seauns
Ave hundred. Tho pastor. the Rev. Arthur
Elansanl helped to fight the fire. aided no.
onIv nv two companies OF volunteers on,
also by many residents for y was fesrs" %
tbat the flames would spread. and a cai
was sent to FLUSHING for aid. There VS. g
little for the, ,''regplars' TO 90 on my
arrival. however, for the volunteers 200 %
the blaze under control. The loss wac ~
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
FORT GETTY FAMINE RELIEVED
Troops Had Only Dozen Cans of Vege-
tables on Which to Subsist.

Newport, r. T., Jan, A-A threatened
famine at Fort Getty was relieved late to-
day. when men who were sent to Fort
Greble yesterday, seeking provisions for the
garrisons dinner succeeded in making
their way back through the ice In Nara
gansett Bay. Half a dozen cans OF toma-
toes and peas were all that the ten men
stationed at Fort Getty had TO subsist on
until tho return of the messengers The
latter reached Fort Greble early yesterday
In a small boat, and were obliged to re
main there overnight. on account of bad
weather and ice conditions
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
MITCHELL AND WISE SPEAK
First Defends Unions and Sec
ond Attacks Steel Corporation.

congregation that filled every pew in
the Church of the Divine Paternity, list
ened last night TO addresses by John
Mitchell and Rabbi Wise at the second
union meeting OF the series of 1912. The
subject was The Workingman and Social
Justice" Mr.. Mitchell said:
1T is wrong that the American citizen
should find II necessary one hundred years
removed from the signing of the Constitu-
tion to demand the right of free speech
free press and trial by jury. Three million
citizens are now asking Congress to enact
laws giving the right Of a fair trial by
jury Many people don't know that IL each
man was permitted to work as long as he
would or could the strongest would
Ak the hours Of labor In which the weak
est should work II has been said that 8
reduction IN the hours of labor would mean
that the man would spend more time in
the saloon. The unanimous opinion Of all
competent observers shows that Teduc-
ton in the hours almost invariably means
an improvement in the sclf-respect of the
man.
The trade union fixes the minimum, not
the maximum wage, and it does object IL
the reward is taken from the envelope OF
one man and put into that of another for
equal work The trade union has earned
the right % be coDsulte2 1t elevates the
standard of living, diminishes accidents,
keeps the children in school and improves
the relation between employe and en-
ployer.'
Rabbi Wise said I'VE ought TO shift
from the overworked Church some OF the
burdens that ought to be borne by under
worked justice. Now is the time to right
the conditions. I pay my tribute to the
United States steel Corporation. There has
been no agency OF more menace to human
life, with their long hours. Sunday work,
minimum wage and the insufferable spy
system"
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
100. .YEAR-oLp HOTEL BURNS.
tBy Telegram TO The Tr,bun. ,

sT
Plainheld, n. j.. Jan. 4.--Nelsons Hotel
moro than one hundred years old. one Of
the landmarks at New Market. was prac-
tically destroyed by fire early to-day. The
fire was caused by a defective fue. Lloyd
Nelson ran this hotel for nearly a half
century, and II was a widely known stop.
ping place in early days, being on the old
post road between New York and Phila-
delphia
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15

II. Litchfeld last night, succeeded III p'ae
ing lines aboard the vessels.
Both schooners had run short oil ioo'
and water, and the crews were near ga
haustion from the cold and their enor,s "
extricate themselves, working on snort ia
tions.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
100000 FIRE AT BIRMINGHAM.

Birmingham. Ala. Jan. n-Damage es-
tirnated at 100000 was caused by fre that
originated In the Gable Piano Company
building at an early hour this morning A
building occupied by the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company was
also badly damaged.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
ROYAL FRoNTENAc BURNED.

Frankfort, Mich, Jan. 1.-THE Royal
FrOntenac. Frankfort's big summer hotel,
was DESTROYED by fire early yesterday
morning. The hotel was closed for the
winter and the loss Is about 100000. The
building was a frame structure and was
consumed In less ihan three hours.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
COURTHOUSE BURNED DOWN.

Huntington. W. Va, Jan. 1i.-Fire at
Logan, near here, wiped out business
block and destroyed the courthouse. The
loss is estimated at 100000
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
HAS FINE YIELT
OF CORN THIS YEAR
Much Money in Sight for Farmers
This Yean-Hest Crop of
Several Seasons.

A. Bechtol, of Alexandria. displayed
at The Gate City office samples of
some very fine corn while in the city to-
day. Mr., Bechtol farmed fifty acres
of corn on the land of William Siggs
and the corn is expected to yield at
least seventy bushels per acre. One
of the ears of corn was twelve inches
in length, five and one-half In circum-
ference and weighed almost one
pound. The corn was planted on the
second day of June.
Corn in this vicinity is the best in
years in the opinion Of many farmers.
While the wet weather in the spring
prevented early planting all of the
corn matured before severe frost
came, and the steady rains during the
summer allowed the corn a rapid
growth
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
The Warsaw Gate City
Warsaw, ILL, Oct. a, 1912

r. o. Marsh, promoter of Warsaw's
new industrial section was Wednesday
in his automobile showing our beau
tiful city and its manufacturing adj
vantages to two high officials of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad whose
visit here concerned the proposed ex-
tension of the road from Beardstown,
road to point on the T. P. & w. rail
way between Warsaw and Hamilton
In the proposed industrial section in
which Warsaw has a share. The east
ern gentlemen were delighted with
our city, this being their first visit
and are keenly alive to Warsaw's en-
viable position in the industrial sec
ton and the great advantages she
will possess when things around here
begin to- move From here the par
ty went north through the proposed
new Industrial city to Keokuk. The
B. G o. will connect with the Santa
Fe in Keokuk's. new industrial city at
the mouth of the Des Moines river
via the new bridge which the two
reads will build. Warsaw extenus
the glad hand to railroads and man
ufaeturers and assures them they will
not regret an investigation of our To-
cation just below the Cooper dam and
also our natural resources.
Mr.. and Mrs Chris Gramm of Hal
stead, Kansas, are visiting with John
Stephens and family. Mrs Gramm is
a sister of Mr.. Stephens. Mr.. Gramm
lived here and in Alexandria years
ago.
John q. Schmidt, carpenter and
builder, has sold his residence and
eleven acres adjoining, located just
south of the fair grounds for s6,60000
to a man from Missouri who did not
have ito be shown to appreciate the
advantages of Warsaw these dam
boosting days Mr. Schmidt will at
once erect new home on other prop
erty he owns east of that just sold.
Arthur stephens, wife and two chill
dren will leave this week to visit rel
atives in Hannibal; Arthur is taking
a short vacation from his rural route
duties.
Fred S. Rattermann has had a tel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
RESORT OWNERS
ARE ARRESTED
First Batch of 1876 Taken Up and
Their Trial VIII Determine
the Future.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. /
+ CHICAGO, Oct. 4.--Following the
arrest today of 135 persons charged
with operating resorts in Chicago,
Mayor Harrison issued a statement
in which he expressed the fear that
little good would come from the pres
ent widespread reform move that has
been started with view to putting
out of business Chicago's vice dis
tricts.
u regard the social evil as neees-
sary evil which will not be dispensed
with until the people have reached a
higher moral plane said the mayor.
1T has existed for all time, and do
not believe in suppression in Chi
cago now, and I do not regard at
tempted suppression as possible
remedy
IF the trials of those persons ar
rested today indicate that there is a
strong enough public demand for the
closing of the segregated vice dis.
tricts, l will close them. If this &C.
ton is taken, however, / anticipate
shortly reversal of public opinion,
as has taken place in other cities
where the vice districts were closed.
/ believe that the keepers and In
mates of these places will scatter to
the better residence sections of the
city and there will be such revul-
sion of public sentiment that the seq
regated vice districts under proper
regulation will be welcomed"
States Attorney Wayman today be.
gan looking into the records of pIbp.
erty owners in the vice sections OF
the city. He said he would soon issue
warrants on information for the ar
rets of large number of wealthy
person. many of whom are leaders
in churches and reform work.
1--WE are going to give them all the
reform they want he said signifi-
cantly.
Wayman today issued warrants for
81 keepers of resorts on "the strand
in South Chicago He announced the
appointment of Attorney Otto Strahm
as special vi prosecutor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
EVIDENCE GOES
TO GRAND JURY
Citizens Committee investigating Po-
lice Conditions Pass the Question
up to the Courts for
Consideration.
DID NOT HAVE POWER
To Act Effectively and Entire Com
mittee Did Not Agree to Finally
Abide by the Committee
Decision.

| It is understood that the evidence
accumulated by certain inter
ested citizens showing viola.
tons of law in Keokuk will
be submitted to the grand jury. 1t
was originally intended to arrive at a
solution without recourse to court at
tention but that arrangement appears
to have failed From the best infor-
nation The Gate City can secure it
was the intention to have a com
lmittee hear a report OF alleged viola
lions and If in their Judgment they
We're serious enough the committee
would request that Commissioner OF
Public Safety Gray resign, and if the
evidence did not warrant such action
a negative report would be reached.
| 1t appears that the agreement was
Withdrawn by certain members of the
committee and while statement was
submitted 1t was received only as a
matter of information.
G. f. Mcfarland, member of the
citizens committee, gave to The Gate
City the, following statement regard
ing the attitude of the committee:
An investigation into civic condi-
tons as regards enforcement of the
law was begun some weeks ago by a
few men in this city After these in
vestigations had reached the point
where action was possible. a few citi-
zens were called in to consult as to
the proper course to be taken in the
matter, and to all inlents and pur-
poses were formed into an intermed-
larry advisory committee. This com
mittee found itself unable to salts
factory carry out some, plans which
they formulated and did not feel that
they had the power to accomplish any
results. They have, therefore, without
any prejudice either one way or the
other, dropped out of the matter and
turned it back to the parties having it
in charge originally with the idea
that it will have to take its course
This does not mean that the move
ment has stopped but simply that the
intermediary committee as a body is
taking no further action.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
REGISTRATION MUST
BE MADE THIS YEAR
Every Man Must Re-enter His Name
Upon the Registration Lists In
Order to Vote This Year.

If Keokuk citizens desire to vote
this year they must not forget that
their names must be placed on the
new registry lists that are to be made
up this year. Every voter must be on
the new lists to be able to cast a vote
at the election November fifth.
The dates upon which the registra-
ton will be accepted are as follows:
October "a, %, &c and November 2
and 5. On the last date, however.
only those who We're out of the city
on the previous days when registra-
ton was allowed, or those who have
acquired the right to vote in the re-
spective precinct after November 2,
will be allowed to register.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
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Advertisement,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
END OF THE WORLD
NOT FAR AWAY
Denver Ministers Say Christ May Re.
turn to This Earth at
Any Time.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service. !
DENVER, Colo, Oct. 4.-That the
end of the world is at hand that
Christ will return to earn in this
generation, and may be expected at
any moment or hour as prophesied in
the scriptures, is the prediction OF
twelve prominent Denver clergymen
who will make that subject the text
of their sermons in the pulpit next
Sunday.
The cIergymen represent the Epis-
copal, Presbyterian, Baptist and Con-
gregational denominations.
That sin is rampant in the world,
vice is increasing, the world is be-
coming more wicked instead OF better,
that the prophesies of Christ's second
advent mentioned in the Bible, have
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04

ephone Installed in his opera house
office.
Mr.. R w. Pavey and lwife of st
Louis, Mo, drove through to Warsaw
in their touring ear this week and
propose to make Warsaw their home
They are looking around for home
to their liking with view to purchas.
ing the same, or may build in the
spring if they find lots to suit. Mr..
Pawey is retired manufacturer, hale
and hearty in spite OF his years and
wants to settle down in his old home
city of over so years ago.. His old
friends are delighted to see him and
are giving him hearty welcome with
his g1ood wife.
The Schmidt acre property just
sold by him will be laid off in town
lots by the new purchaser and he will
soon have some imitators as parties
owning acre property on South Sixth
street are planning to follow his
example It's coming, the plating OF
new additions to Warsaw and now is
the time Ito buy.
A public garage-much needed here
lis one of the possibilities of the
spring.
Several parties of farmers are plan.
ming truck gardens in the bottoms in
view OF the fact that soon there will
be more hungry stomachs to feed
One party of farmers went on a pros.
pecting trip down there this morning
all strangers.
R. o. Marsh will open fine office
in the old Hill Dodge bank on Main
street next week.
The Quincy Journal of a recent
date gives @our Dick" Marsh Or. o.
a deserved complimentary write-ur
for his efforts in promoting the new
industrial section in which Warsaw
has a part and says she wishes
Quincy had such booster and promo
ter.s Warsaw could not spare him or
any account.
A late numbasr OF the Springfield
H., News has full page description
of the Decentralization industrial
section.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04

come to pass, are ascribed as the
cause of the approaching return OF
Christ.
Dean Hart, of st. Johns Cathedral,
and Rev. S. T. Mckinney, pastor of the
lOhio avenue Congregational church,
agree that the manifestation will ap-
pear twice once when He comes to
lelaim the real followers of Christ, and
when He returns to set up His king
| dom on earth,
Il believe that the world will wake
lup some morning soon to find the
good people gone, caught up in the
clouds. body and soul, to meet Him, .
said Dean Hart today.
Then after period He will retura
to earth, possibly to Jerusalem and
summon the people, set up His king.
dom, whence will be waged the final
lstruggle between the good and the
evil under the name Of the battle OF
Armageddon."
Rev. Mckinney believes that a
greater revelation is in store for the
world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
PERSONALS.

Mrs. E. S. Cushman and daughter
Grace, spent Thursday with friends
in Quincy
Mrs. Selwyn Wyles of Nauvoo, a
former resident of Keokuk, is spend
Ing few days visiting with friends
in the city. Today Mrs. Wyles and
Mrs. Harriet Rogers, of 722 Blondeau
street, went to Alexandra for a
couple Of days visit with Mrs. Hus'
ton.
Mrs. D. W. McElroy. s19 High
street, has returned from East
Orange, New Jersey, where she has
spent the past two months visiting
her son and family.