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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-25
UNITED Press Leased Wire service.l

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
The following story was written for
the United Press by Marlen E. Pew,
noted newspaper Investigator of the
Newspaper Enterprise Association
who has spent several weeks in Law
renee investigating strike conditions
there and who was an eye witness OF
various clashes between the police
militia and strikers.
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Motorman Was Easy

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l ]
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-Paul Martin
son, a local motorman, proved easy
for Yusiff Mahmout before the Chica-
go Athletic Association tonight The
Turk threw his opponent well inside
the forty minute handicap limit.
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CAR Of RUSSIA JEALOUS Of WAY
LAWRENCE MAKES ITS own LAWS
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Lawrence Strikers Appeal to
Congress:

. twenty-five thousand striking y
. textile workers and citizens of =
. Lawrence protest against the hid =
. eous brutality with which the =
. police handled the women and .
. children OF Lawrence this morn =
. ing.
. Carrying out the illegal and =
= criminal orders of The city mar =
. shall to prevent citizens from =
. sending their children out of the =
= city, strong men knocked down, =
. choked aud dubbed women and =
= mothers trying to protect their .
q children from the onsiaughts OF =
o the police. We demand a con- .
q gressional investigation before =
. the interests of the mill owners =
. succeed in packing the law courts =
. and all the forces of government =
= and make these crying outrages =
. of government the admitted law :
= of the land"
- (Signed)
- WILLIAM YATES. =
- Financial secretary and treas =
- urer, the National Industrial =
o Union of Textile Workers, 4
= chairman strike committee. =
~ Advisory board: Edward Eli 4
. ly, Archibold H. Adamson, 4
IL Joseph Saphean, w. E. Traut- 4
. han"
10 The above telegraphic appeal 4
= was received at Washington to- 4
= night by Representatives Wilson, 4
. chairman of the house labor com
. mittee and Berger, the Wisconsin
= socialist, author of the Lawrence
= strike investigation resolution. 4
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A Notable Exception

the paper The published in
Associations The Daily
Omaha Springfield D Mones and Peoria
iing will retain this exceptional telegraph Kokk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-25
Police and Soldiers Prevent Mothers From Send
ing Their Children Out of Strike Ridden
Town to Good Homes
APPEAL TO CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE
Mill Owners are Rulers and Police and Militia
Do Their Bidding no Matter
What it is.

quickly a squad of policemen, clubs
drawn, menacingly swooped down on
the party.
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Insult to TAFT.

Insult to Taft.
Ell PASO, Feb. 24.-Bold charges
against President Taft in connection
with the troubles in Mexico are con
tanned in the insurrecto manifesto
seized here tonight by United States
and state authorities. Five thousand
copies OF the circular were ready for
distribution among the Mexicans
when the raid was made on the Mexi-
can printing office.
The manifesto in part follows:
ITO the President of the United
States of America: There have been
so many bad acts in Mexico caused
by your great efforts of expansion
and domination, that it would be a
Icrime of lese patria to suffer them
in silence longer
"You have created, fomented and
consummated the revolution that
placed in power the traitor who is
governing our country and even this
does not seem to satisfy. Your troops
armed, have invaded our territory
| (This refers to nineteen infantrymen
who mistakenly rode into Juarez on a
street car while under arms.)
In the name of civilization and lib
erty, you go through the continent
and outside of it in the pursuit oil
power and the dollar, like cossacks or
unbridled horses tramping down lib
erty and leaving everywhere odiun
and acts of shame.
You have gone through the Latin
1 American countries making them in
4 imical to one another and destroying
! their nationaIities, abusing your pow
1er and showing that, as GOVERNOR
you are far inferior to these people
In the name of the Monroe doc
trine. that, like the head of Janos
has two faces, you appropriated Ha
waii because of future fear of Jap
! an. You took the Panama canal zone
4 The Cubans did not blow up thu
Maine. Spain did not. Wall street dit
with It's Imperialism.
4 THE revolution of Madero wa
made by you for revenge You pu
him In power so that the countr,
would be in state of anarchy an,
so that the interests of some of you
adventurers would suffer, SO yov
i might have pretext to holler yer,
loud SO that the interests of Euro
] peans would also suffer, and wit
the acquiescence of Europe, you woul
impose upon US your hellish Monroe
ism, and later, when the countr
would be weak and poor, fall upon u
like vultures, to i.ck our entrails."
: In communication to local pc
per tonight, Gonzalo Enrile, who de
manded the surrender of Juarez, say
the first move toward American il
tervention will start conflagratio
and massacre on the American sidt
Mexican Consul e. c.. Llorente say
,Juarez will not be surrendered. He i
the only accredited government of
cial now either in Juarez or El Past
Foreigners in Panic.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24.-The a,
nouncement that General Pascu;
Orozco, formerly President Madero
right hand man, had joined Gener;
Geronimo Trevino in revolt again.
Madero, created the widest excit
ment here tonight and great fear O
the part of all the foreigners in tn
: capital that their lives and propert
: are in danger.
All the legations here are bein
deluged with kilograms from varior
parts of the republic appealing for al
and protection. All of these me
sages are being turned over to Pres
I dent Madero who persists in decla
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|N[XCAhS INSULT PRESIDENT TAFT
! WHO WILL Be FORCED TO INTERVENE

clared tonight that the government
was pursuing waiting policy. 1t was
reported on high authority and not
specifically denied, that President Taft
had served further warning on all
factions in Mexico that they must not
conduct their war along the border
and that American property must be
left strictly alone.
The troops ordered to Ell Paso to-
day, it was stated, are but the ad-
vance guard of a general movement
to the border. Word was sent to all
posts from which these troops may be
drawn late this afternoon, to hold
everything in readiness for quick dis
patch to the border.
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LIVING on Free Soup.
This is what happened:

This is what happened,
Three weeks ago the strike COM
mittee resolved that. while men and
women could live on free soup or
even starve, rather than submit To
the salary cut, averaging % cents a
week, the children must not and
should not suffer the pangs of hun,
ger.
For seven weeks now, thousands OF
the strikers have been dependent
for life necessities upon the union OF
the charities of sympathetic union
lists the country over. 1t was Sc
we're strain upon the resources of the
relief committee. When the children
began to feel the pinch of want il
was decided to send them away, hun
dreds of sympathizers in New York
Philadelphia and many other cities
volunteering to care for them unit
normal conditions could be estab
| lished
! Each Saturday the strike committee
has been sending little ones out o
I the town The mill agents, assisted
/ by the civil and military authorities
their request simply amounting to al
| order, frowned on this plan. Thu
hope OF the mill owners is that th'
! strikers will return under the oil,
conditions when the strikers hav
/ had enough of free soup. This 1
common talk among them. They OF
dered Mayor Scanlon and Marsha
Sullivan to Illustrate the child relic
plan A week ago an attempt, partial
4 ly successful, was made to keep tn
little ones in Lawrence. the polio
then contending that the children
parents had not consented to ALLOW
the strike committee to send ther
away Today this happened: :-Fift
ragged boys and girls, each wearin
4 a tag, were escorted to the depot
Tickets were purchased for Philade
phia or Providence. Fifty mothers
/ sisters and brothers of the childre
were on the station platform or in III
waiting room to see them off TIL
train backed into. the depot-the
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Violate All Laws.

II a thorough-going congressional
Investigation is made of the events
of the past seven weeks in Lawrence
it will show violation of almost every
constitutional right of the people
who compose the striking element.
From the start of this Industrial war
the whole effort by the army of pri-
vate officers and militia, as well as
unscrupulous city and state officers.
has been TO precipitate violence, TO
discredit the strike leaders 1t Is no
torious that dynamite was planted in
three places by detectives working
for the mill agents When the Slplo-
sives were found the police announced
that the strikers We're planning dyna-
mite outrages. This plant has been
fully exposed and the man whom the
police finally arrested as the planter
is out on bail Despite all statements
to the contrary, the fact is that the
strikers have been peaceably dispos.
ed from the start and any violence by
individuals has been traced to the
daring of boy rowdies or the strikers
who were pitched upon by the police
or militia. 1t must be understood
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Protest to Powers.

LONDON. Feb. PA vigorous
protest by the powers against today's
Ibombardment of Beyrout, Asiatic
Turkey, by the italian warships, was
predicted tonight following the re.
ceipt of messages stating that the
firing was begun without the usual
twenty-four hours notice.
Half an hour after the Italian war
ships arrived. rain of shells was di
rected towards the city. Several
| Turkish gunboats, lying in the har
Dor, were sunk. Sixty citizens were
killed, but no loss of life was report
ed among the foreign inhabitants
Most of the Italian shells fell in the
native quarter
| The warships arrived unexpectedly
off the port and sent peremptory
/ demand for the surrender of the
Turkish gunboats. While the negotia
Itions were pending, the canonadins
began. Instantly there was a wilt
panic in the city. Thousands fled tt
the hills remaining there until the fir
ing had ceased. 1t was reported to
night that the American protestant
college had not been damaged. Two
thirds of the city's population is for
eign and the lives of hundreds o
Americans were endangered.
The Italian commander declared
tonight that his gunners aimed onl.
at the Turkish gunboats. Unfortunate
lly, he said, many of the shells wen
high and fell in the city.
1 Dispatches from Constantinopl
stated that the porte was preparing
Iprotest to the powers against Italy
action. In bombarding the city, withou
giving the twenty-four hours motto
required by International law.
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brought out the fact that not one OF
the parents arrested had ever been in
court before today The one mother
who was fined $5 for assaulting an
officer was Jennie Lewis, who was
stopped by Policeman McCann when
she tried to board the train at North
station with her four year old dangh-
ter in her arms. Policeman McCann
testified that when he pushed the
woman from the train and tried to
take her child from her, the woman
fit and scratched him and tried to
bite him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-25
Regular Russian Tactics.

you cannot leave town. Get out
Of here and go home,' the officers
gruffly commanded. A member of the
strike committee assured the police
that every child wore tag upon
which was written the authorization
of the parents.
That makes no difference" said
the police, the whole batch of you
have to go back
Some OF the mothers started with
their children for the train The po-
lice showed them back. And then came
the soldiers. Stalwart American men.
in uniform, carrying rifles with glis-
tening bayonets drawn, clubs with
lead butts in their belts, descended in
majestic military splendor upon the
pathetic panic-stricken huddle of wo-
men and children, reinforcing the
fifty policemen already present.
| The soldiers drew up between the
! children and the train. The police
baited the women. II they were taunt
/ ing them into. violence they could no
ihave done better. They were insulting
in their language.
Get out of here you -. you -,
they shouted, brandishing their clubs
/ Some of the children began to cry
One little girl, frightened half out OF
her wits, screamed:
| Mamma! Mamma. Don't let them
hurt met"
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Congress Appealed To.

congress ApPcdiCO y U.
Being informed that congressional
investigation will be made, Chas.
Troutmann, William Haywood and
William Yates, of the strike commit.
tee, late today wired a strenuous pro-
test against the city and state au-
thorities to Chairman Wilson of the
house labor committee and to Repre-
sentative Berger of Wisconsin With
the protest was sent an urgent re-
guest that the congressional investiga-
ton be made at once.
The strike leaders also took prelin-
mary steps for legal action to demand
damages against the city of Lawrence
for interference with the personal
rights and liberty of those arrested in
violation Of constitutional guaran-
tees A consultation will be held to-
morrow with their legal advisors to
advise what action will be taken
against the city for personal injuries
inflicted by the police.
This is Lawrence. These are the
methods of the civic and common
wealth of this state, guardians of con.
stitutional rights, but acting for the
mill owners. a charge which even
they do not dispute privately. This
unwarranted and outrageous assault
upon women and children is an indica-
ton of the length to which these
men will go to break a strike and
prevent the unionizing of employees
who say they have reached the end
of their tether life being impossible
at the old wages.
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Officers are Cars.

Simon kniebel, social worker of
Philadelphia, who was one of those
delegated to escort the children to
that city was fined $40 and costs for
obstructing the sidewalk at the sta
ton. He was arrested by Police Ser
geant Monahan and whose SWORN tes-
timony and reason for arresting him
was The man looked like he was
stubborn and wasn't moving fast
enough to suit me-. Kniebel had q
ticket TO Philadelphia which he snow
ed to Monahan but the policeman re-
fused to let him go to the station to
take his train.
Justice Rowell who acted in all the
cases, justified his action in sending
ten children to the city poor farm by
citing section one, chapter 1S1 of the
acts of 1909, which reads that the au-
thorites shall step in and take charge
of any child under 16, "and the par.
ents shall be charged with neglect by
reason of orphanage, neglect, crime,
cruelty, insanity or drunkenness, or
| other vice of the parents"
! Questions put by Justice Rowell
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SYRIAN CITY
WAS B0MBARDED
italian FiotiIla Violates Rules Of
Modern Warfare and Kills
Fifteen innocent
Citizens.
PEOPLE zs.z CRAZY
Rumor T g Marines Would Land
slsed An Attack
Upon the
Arsenal.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BEYROUT, Syria. Feb. 24.-After
bombarding this city killing fifteen
civilians and wounding 100 others, the
Italian flotilla departed late tonight
Other cities along the Mediterranean
coast will probably be bombarded by
the fleet during the next forty-eight
hours
Following today's bombardment, a
rumor was circulated that Italian ma,
rines would be landed. The residents
were thrown into a frenzy of excite
ment and attempted to storm the ar
sena1 to arm themselves against an
! invasion. Turkish soldiers fired on the
crowd and pitched battle followed
lin which thirty persons were killed,
including two Russians.
Foreigners rushed to the assistance
of the panic stricken natives and
another assault on the arsenal was
being planned when 1t was learned
that the warships had left the harbor
and quiet was restored. Foreign resi-
dents are incensed over the action OF
the Italians in failing to give twenty
four hours notice before beginning the
bombardment, in accordance with the
rules of international warfare
Protests will be made to all Of the
powers.
i During today's engagement the
Turkish gunboats Coirynett and Avnal
lah and a torpedo boat steamed ou
of the harbor and engaged the enc
my. Their obsolete guns were unable
Ito make any impression on the mod
: ern warships The torpedo boat wa
!, partially disabled by the Italian gun
ners and the Avnillah was set on fire
later sinking. The crew is said t.
have escaped in row boats.
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Victory? For tho Police

Victory? For tho Police
Some of the woman ran into the
streets. dragging their little ones.
| Others, undaunted, stood their
ground These the police finally
seized, When the women resisted
| they We're beaten and their clothing
torn A truck in the street was COM
mandeered and backed up to the sta
tion platform. Into this improvised
patrol eight struggling injured wo-
men, ten trembling boys and girls and
4 five men were bundled and thus cart
/ ed off to the police station like dan
/ gerous criminals.
In police court this afternoon four
fathers and one mother We're found
guilty of assaulting officers, obstruct.
/ ing the sidewalks and disorderly con
duct, because they had resisted the
efforts of the police to literally tear
their children from their arms. The
We're postponed until Monday The
ten children who We're arrested were
tonight sent to the city home for or
phans. Their ages ranged from three
to fifteen years. Two women, Mrs
Martha Gabswitz and Mrs. Agnes
Rheckiner, arrested for "intimidatine
operatives" who were going to work
are at the city hospital being treated
for bruises and the mauling they got
) at the hands of city police when q
score of bluecoats broke up crowt
of women and men pickets, arrestine
mothers within a month
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TIE WEATHER

Snow and Colder. Local
temp a. m. 3S; Z p. m. 40.
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-02
ONCE PARTS OF A METEOR
Component Parts Of Diamonds Have
Thus Been Traced by In
vestIgatIno Scientists.

It is perhaps not generally known
that the 'blue STUFF in which dia-
monds are found in South America
is the disintcgrates and disorganized
mass Of vast meteor that once fell
from the sky. A decomposed metc-
or of immense size is reported to
have been found in Arizona. 1t
contains iron, nickel, platinum and
diamonds. It is supposed to have
been, before it decomposed, 500 feet
in diameter and to have weighed
several hundred million tons. They
may be fragments of comets and
finding themselves under the infu-
ence of the attraction of gravita-
ton Of our earth they fell upon it.
The theory is that their speed may
be as high as forty or fifty miles a
second. If it be a strong meteor it
may be crushed into a dust by he
air pressure in front Of it. Even
if of iron it may be torn into frag-
ments as if an explosion had occur
red in front. If, however, it is a
rounded piece of iron like this
lump, then it would take tremen-
dous pressure of air to crush it, and
there is no doubt whatever that most
iron meteors Of rounded form would
escape fracture unless they were
moving at the very highest speeds.
AT such speeds the air pressure
developed in front Of them may blow
them to pieces, but if they are NOV
ing, say one-third as fast, they may,
and probably will, survive unless
they succumb to another action,
which takes place with iron-name-
ly, combustion.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-02
SoYA BEAN A PERFECT FOOD
Milk, Cheese, oil and Flour All Made
From This Valuable
Vegetable.

1t is interesting to note in con-
junction with the awakening of China
that a Chinese article Of food, or at
any rate Vegetable product which
grows most profusely in Manchuria,
is attracting the serious attention of
Europe and America. Authorities
say that the soya bean contains more
Of the ingredients Of perfect food
than any other one known product,
and an important experiment is be-
ing tried in France, where a wide as
sortment of foods is being made
from soya beans. They include milk,
cheese, casein, oil, jellies, -four,
bread, biscuits, cakes and sauces.
The use Of the soya bean oil for
paint purpose is established as a
practical fact. While it is said that
soya oil is not yet proved a perfect
substitute for linseed oil in exterior
painting, in interior painting it s
entirely satisfactory and for some
sorts Of finishings, like baking ja-
pans," it is even better than linsee9
oil.-Christian Science Monitor.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-02
NOVELTY IN BOATS.

A glass bottomed boat now build
ing at Camden, New Jersey, for use
in scientific expeditions, is distinct
novelty. 1t is sixty feet long and
has bottom, from stem to stern, of
plate glass fully an inch thick. A
submarine radio light will illumi-
nate the ocean depths beneath, and
IN addition there are to be mean
descent lamps which can be lowered
for more particular observations. 1t
is expected that the craft will be USE
full in examining wrecks; mean
while it is to be used this winter for
marine exploration in the Gulf Of
Mexico and about the Bahama ISL
ands. 1t may point the way for fur
Their development of submarine YES
sells, making them useful in peace as
well as war.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-02
KEEPING UP WITH TIME.

The city chap who had hired out
as extra farm hand during the har-
vest was not quite able to respond to
the 4 o'clock pounding on his bed
room door the first morning as
promptly as he had anticipated. He
fingered with the pillows for a quar-
ter of an hour past the appointed
time and then dragged himself out,
and by half-past he was stumbling
across the field where the old farmer
was hard at work.
"Fine morning." said the new
conner briskly.
The old fellow looked up sourly.
EYES," he grunted; 'it was" p
Lippincott's.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-02
JUST surrA THE FAR NORTH
Peculiar Boots Awlsrn by Men and
Women In New Brunswick Are
a Necessity h That Region.

A New York man has on view a
pair Of boots which he brought home
with him from fishing trip in New
Brunswick. this season and which
are a curiosity, although familiar
footwear With the hunters and trap
pers of that PARKWAY region.
They are known there as 'moose
shanks," and are the skin of a
moose's hind kgs, cured without
tanning, and made up into the foot
and leg covering as seen in this pair.
The ankle part Of the moose's leg
skin constitutes the foot, the elbow
or bend in the leg the heel and the
lower part Of the thigh the leg.
The hunter keeps these queer
looking boots plant by ample greas-
ing with deer tallow, and wears
them over three or four pairs of
wooden stockings. They are water
and cold proof in the most severe
weather.
The New Yorker also brought
back as a companion to these boots
pair Of boots of the kind back
woods women wear in the cold and
long winters of New Brunswick.
These are made from the skins Of
caribou's hind legs after the same
manner as the moose shank boots
are made, but are more delicate and |
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-02
There's A Reason.

In selecting Vacuum Cleaner for
our subscribers. both old and new,
We bought the best 70 b. found IN
our opinion and we think we have
cho en- wisely. They are to he had
as cheap rs 81 IS ard IL you want
one at that price give Us Vour or
der md We will have = m ehlne for