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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
ONE OF ALLEN CLAN
GETS FIFTEEN YEARS
Claude Swanson Allen Draws Fifteen
Year Sentence for HiHsville
Tragedy.

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WYTHEvILLE, Va, June Claude
Swanson Allen must serve fifteen
years in the state prison for Staying
Judge Thornton L. Massie in the
FIillsville tragedy last March.
After being out two hours and thir-
ty-two minutes, the jury had been sit
ting in Judgment of Claude for two
weeks, returned it's verdict late this
afternoon.
Hardly will Claude have recovered
from the strain of this trial he will
again be placed before a jury of his
peers who will determine his guilt or
innocence for the death of Sheriff l..
F. Webb in the same affair that shook
the Carroll court house trembling to
Its base. The commonwealth this
afternoon, after the verdict in this
case had been rendered and the jury
discharged, asked that Claude be
/ tried at the July term for the murder
/ of Sheriff Webb. This will be argued
on July L. A venire of 100 men will
be summoned from Washington county
for the July term and Claude's next
trial, If it is ordered, will begin abou,
July 2.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
CHICAGO AVIATORS
TOOK NO CHANCES
No cIrcus stunts Attempted, Although
Several Beginners Were on the
Field

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CHICAGO. June There were
no circus stunts in the air over
Cicero flying field Today where the
Aero club Of Illinois is holding a four
day aviation meet. The air was full OF
holes, and none Of the aviators felt
like risking his machine and himself
too high.
Miss Katherine Stinson, the II year
old jackson, Miss, girl who aspires
to become a great aviatrix, assembled
this afternoon with Max Lille as a
passenger. Lille made several
flights during the afternoon, one OF
them to Elmhurst with bag OF
United States mail.
One feature Of the meet this after.
noon was the arrival on the flying
field of carrier pigeon which was
released from an aeroplane at Bur
lington, Iowa, at noon, and reached
! the field at 5:1s p. m. The bird
brought the congratulations for the
Mills aviators at Burlington, the Of
/ ficials OF the Aero club on the sue
cess Of the meet. Harry Wells, |
high school boy, made flight in I
/ model aeroplane which he made him
\ self.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Des Molnes Audience at Noting Last
Night cheered Enthuslastlcal-
ly for "our Next
President"
TALKS TO LARGE CROWD
Little Giant Makes Characteristic
Speech and Calls LATE Young
a Tool for 4the
interests.

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DIES MONIES, Iowa, June 1.-Sen-
ator A. 3. Cummins was cheered as
"our next president" at the Auditorium
by an audience that packed the thea
tire tonight when he was introduced
by President A. L. Urick. Of the Iowa
State Federation Of Labor, to close
Senator w. S. Kenyon's campaign for
the Dolliver seat in the senate against
former Senator LATE Young, who held
smaller meeting at the same time in
a neighboring opera house.
Cummins made characteristic pro
gressive speech, saying he endorsed
Kenyon as a progressive and friend
OF the people and attacked Young as
the tool of the interests"
Iowa's first senatorial primary will
be held Monday at the samestime the
general party primaries are held ane
both Kenyon and Young hackers claim
victory. In the unsettled political
conditions in Iowa in this unsettled
year there is nothing on which to bas'
prediction Of the outcome. unless II
be the apparent nationwide progress
sive tendency, or the fact that Yount
has been campaigning in every ont
of the ninety-nine counties in the stat
| for a year and has a perfect organ
ization and apparently all the none,
he needs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
TAFT's SECRETARY
HAS DISAPPEARED
Mysteriously Departed From Washing
ton Yesterday and There Are
Rumors.

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WASHINGTON. June secretary
Hilles mysteriously disappeared
from Washington today. The presi-
dents secretary was in town as late
ae 4 p. m. Word came from the white
house that Hilles was out Of town.
Where he had gone no one at the
white house would say. In the list
Of guests on the Mayflower. which
takes TAFT to Hampton Roads tomor.
row night. Hilles' name appears. But
at the white house tonight 1t was posi-
lively stated that Hilles will not go on
the trip. The tip was circulated here
that Hilles is on a mission to Ohio
to line up things for the Taft forces
at the Columbus convention Tuesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
MUSICIANS MUST
SOFT PEDAL IT
Amendment to Constitution Would
Seat the Presidents the Last
Week In April.

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WASHINGTON, June AFTER a
three-hour filibuster, the house ad-
journed tonight to evade considera-
ton of the proposed amendment to
the constitution, legislation changing
the presidential inauguration day. Be-
ginning 1917 the amendment pro-
vides that the date Of inauguration
shall be changed from March to the
last Thursday in April.
Objections to the bill were raised
by both republicans and democrats
and every conceivable parliamentary
ruse was brought into play. The
measure also provides that congress
shall meet on the second Tuesday in
January each year instead Of the be.
ginning of the term.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Why They Can speIt II.

Before l went to Europe" said the
school teacher, 1T was one of the
mysteries of my profession how every
BRUSH child enrolled In our schools
came to be authority on the spelling
u chilblains. Teachers might hest.
tate over one q" or two, the children
never They might make photographic
mess OF the simplest one syllable
word, but the tiniest tot from this
British isles went to the head of the
CLASS on chilblains every time. One
wlntry month in those same islands
'oid me why. 1t is the word they saw
oitenest In drug stores, in clothing
s'ores, in shops OF all kinds cures
ana preventiyes Of chilblains are uni
'efsally advertised. Owing to the
e1lsencfes of the climate there is a
regular chilblains literature present.
"a Tor those children's absorption, SC
no wonder they know how to spell
saeir universal afliiction.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
AlbIno ruzzie.

The albino is still one OF the puz
zles OF science. Beyond the knowl'
edge that albinism Is due to lack OF
the normal pigment in skin and hair
the psychological and pathologist are
about as much at sea regarding the
real explanation of this freak of ma
ture as they were hundred or
thousand years ago. AS to the ulti
mate why Of the problem--why the
pigment is missing in the albino-
there is nothing but collection Of
unconvincing guesses. Regarding the
statistics of albinism nothing salts
factory is obtainable except in two
countries. In Italy tho albinos mum
Der about one in every twenty thou
sand OF the population. whereas ir
Norway the rate is twice as high
with one in every ten thousand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Women In Suicide Epidemic.

No fewer than FIVE suicides, all Of
women, were committed in Paris one
recent day. A mother and her daugh-
ter took cyanide of potassium because
they had had no food for three days.
The daughter was a lyric artist. A
young Austrian girl OF is threw her
self onto the rails as train was en-
teriug the Marbeuf station of the Me-
tro. A woman of 40 took arsenic, and
the fifth, who was q, shot herself
through the heart.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
PasteurIzr Himself.

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MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June i.
Fearing that he had become inocu-
lated with the viris of rabies. while
dissecting the brain of an afflicted
cat, DR.. George G. Rutland, city
bacteriologist, calmly prepared this
afternoon to administer himself the
nasteur treatment. Confirming his
fears, the doctor announced tonight
that a rabbit which was inoculated
with the viris from the feline was In
the throes Of death and suffering in
tense agony. NO assistant medical
counsel had been called by DR.. Rub
land on his case.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
WOULD CHANGE
THE INAUGURATION
New York Representative introduces
a Bill to Make Washington
Quiet Place.

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WASHINGTON, June 1 - Congress
sional soft pedal on rag time rhap-
sodies in Washington was devised to-
day By Representative Bradley (rer
resentative from New York;, in intro
ducing a bill in the house to fine
piano pests" and photograph fiends
500 for excessive musical indulgence
to the detrfment of sick neighbors.
His bill provides that no person in the
district shall play pianos, Photographs
or other musical instruments under
penalty of the law. after service OF
notice by the district health officers
that the noise aggrayates sick persons
in the vicinity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Mrs. Lena cusumano Of Boston 70
Die for Husbands Murder,
Broke Down In Boston
Death Coll.
20 BE ELEcTRoCUTED
Woman, After q Conversation With
Her Lover, Went Into Mysteries
but Refused to
Confess.

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BOSTON, Mass, June Mrs.
Lena Cusumano, sentenced to death
with Harry Marshall for numbering
her husband, Frank Cisumano, at
Hull year ago, collapsed in the
death cell at Charlestown prison this
afternoon. Up to this afternoon the
woman, who is the first in the history
of Massachusetts to spend her last
DAYS before execution in the death
cell, has borne UP with remarkable
calmness and fortitude. This after
noon she was talking with Marshall,
who occupies the second cell from
hers. Warden Bridges has permitted
/ the two to converse In their native
/ tongue. Suddenly the woman became
| hysterical as she was answering
/ Marshall and the prison physician
i had to be summoned to administer a
sedative
Ever since sentence was passed on
! the two, the woman has refused to
| throw the slightest guilt on her lover
Marshall. 1mportuned by her coun
sci. it was thought that she would
i this afternoon make a statement
which would clear up certain details
OF the crime. deduced at the trial on
4 ly by circumstantial evidence. This
statement, according to the lawyers
would give them the new evidence in
sisted on by the majority members Q
the governors council who refus
to vote for Communication on any othe
grounds. Attorney Grady Mrs Gus
umano's ATTORNEY. pleaded with tn
woman In vain for two hours this al
ternoon to tell the full story of tn
crime. Attorney Grady insists thi
story would clear the woman.
:. Shortly after Grady left the deaf
house. Marshall and Mrs. Cusuman
: started talking, They bad converse
, only Few moments when Mrs. Gu!
umano went into Mysteries. The WI
man was soon asleep. however, afte
the administration OF the sedative
Attorney Grady will make anothe
effort tomorrow to induce her to te
her story.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Three Mysterious Deaths.

The arrest Of Mrs. Quinn after the
death of her third husband was made
by the police, who thought they had
a strong circumstantial case against
her. Her first husband. John McDon-
aid, died at London, Ont, in 1901,
under mysterious circumstances; her
second spouse, Warren Thorpe, was
found dead in bed on the morning OF
June 10, 1908, bullet wound indicat-
ing murder At that time, Mrs. Quinn
was charged with the murder, but was
acquitted John Quinn, the third hus-
band, was shot to death as he lay in
bed on the night of November 4, 1911.
There were powder burns on his night
shirt. The revolver from which the
shot was fired, was found later in the
Quinn bath room wrapped in towel,
which was identified as one Mrs.
Quinn had been seen to carry into the
bath room. The revolver was identifi-
ed as one belonging to a roomer in
! the house who had missed the weapon
from his bureau drawer about a week
before the tragedy. Mrs. Quinn said
that burglar had committed the
crime.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
ROOSEVELT AND
TAFT MANAGERS
Claim More Delegates Than Are Nee.
essary to Control Ohio
Convention.

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COLUMBUS. Ohio, June Control
o. the republican state convention re
NAMED unsettled tonight, with the
Indications that both the Taft and
Roosevelt managers would be in doubt
MONDAY, when the convention con-
yenes, as to the exact number Of dele
s ! they could rely upon. Both l..
\ Laylin, and Walter F. Brown, lead
els OF the contending forces, tonight
canned over 400 delegates in the
STATE convention, with 3TS necessary
to eintrol
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Boycott Hearst paper.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, June IL
Adopting a recommendation of its
executive committee the San Francis
co Labor council by an almost unani-
nous vote today delared boycott on
the San Francisco Examiner, in sup
port of the striking pressmen, who
were allied out some weeks ago follow
ing the pressmen's strike In Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02

the international Hotel Workers I'm
ion announced that 1900 walters and
cooks today joined the strike making
a total, he said, OF over 5000. Repre-
sentatives OF the taxicab chauffeurs,
who attended the walters meeting,
volunteered to strike in sympathy in
the event that the walters demands
were not met.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Paris Aviator Hurt.

rARls, June aviator Colardeau
was seriously hurt, and Mecoby, his
passenger, was killed this afternoon
snen the aeroplane in which they
we're making a fight at Juvisy avia-
non Held fell from a height of 500 feet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
ElDY FORCES
To STEAL MARCH.
!, the illinois Delegation Ex-
y, roosevelt Delegates .
Roach Chicago In
Advance.
IA ON TAFT FORCES
81 mccormick Says Some Of the
o.,.o,t.s Think Fight on Root
Is Hardly Worth
While.

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MEMO YokA, June THAT the
,.,s.ve,t delegates will assemble in
m,.syo several days ahead Of the ma
M, convention and form a con-
,ss organization to war on the TAFT
-. was the declaration here to-
Nm s, 81 Medill Mccormick and the
rsmhers CT the Illinois delegation
rso made the pilgrimage, he an
oounssa tonight that this was their
Man d bsttle and that it has been
heartily approved by the Oyster Bay
/ candidate.
A. the questions of the -organiza-
I'm q the convention, the draft OF
M nlatform and the other matters
M NAV arise the Illinois delegation
IN vote as unit, Medill Mccormick
s,ated He also stated that the dele
sstIon had selected Robert r. Nc
|crmick as its chairman and Fred
|streeling as secretary.
Some Of our delegates feel that to
make a fight on Root is now not worth
WHILE declared Mccormick.
Would Protest Ticket Deal.
aThey prefer to centralize their
strength for the fight on the nomina
ton and the platform. The delegates
however, will put in decided pro
test against the failure Of the nationa
committee to give them the tickets
they asked for. Each DELEGATE should
lget his delegates tickets and also
PERSONAL one.
4Our delegation has written to al
81 the other Roosevelt delegates ant
asked them to get to Chicago as ia
| in advance of the convention as pos
slble so that we can work out on
plans for the fight. 1t Is possibl
that they may decide, as soon as the
get together not to make fight o.
Root We feel that there would be n
weakness indicated II we permitte
the committees choice for this NOR
or less honorary figurehead offic
to 90 through
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Modern Ananias.

II man says he can do as good
work as usual after being up most OF
the night before. It is. a sign he may
lie about other things Atchison
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Figure RIotters.

Dainty blotters for girls desk are
made by cutting out and coloring q
figure from cardboard. The colonial.
hoop-skirted little ladies are the best
Face the back with plotting paper as
we'll as the 'easel-back" piece Of card
board fastened to her to stand her up
that she may preside over the ink bot
tlee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
Bows Reward,

Having pretty manners helps little
srl, but all a little boy gets out OF
pretty manners IL to have the other
ooys call him "sissy."-Atchison
Globe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
May Have Boon Cooks Cannon.

May Fave Been Cooks Cannon.
Much interest has been reused In
Australia by the finding of a cannon,
which is supposed to have been Jet
tisoned from Captain Cooks ship, the
Endeavor. The relic was found on the
Queensland coast.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02

SHE THANKS THE JURY
Mrs. Quinn Had Been Tried for the
Murder Of Her First Hus
band, But Was Ac-
quilted.

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CHICAGO, June 1.-As soon as sha
recovered from fainting spell which
overcame her when the verdict of not
guilty was read, Mrs. Jane Taylor
Quinn, acquitted of the murder OF her
husband, John Quinn, this evening
personally thanked each of the jurors
who had given her life and liberty.
Il want to thank you as much on
behalf of my daughter who Is dying
as on my own behalf she said sew
eral times, and tears coursed down
her cheeks. Your Judgment has en-
abled me to so and sec her, and 1t
will help her to die happily
| The daughter, Mrs. Catherine HUB
er, who Is dying in Omaha, Neb., was
facing the charge of murder. At
times during the trial, when Mrs.
Quinn bent her head and sobbed. per-
sons In the court room thought it was
because the state was piling up ir-
REPUTABLE circumstantial evidence
that would mean her death or impris-
onment for life.
widows confidence was not unbound
ed when she said repeatedly they
will not find me guilty.
It
To Visit Sister.
Mrs. Quinn tonight left for Ann
Arbor, Mich, to visit Mrs. James
: Bowling, her sister, who has been
with her during the trial She will
1 leave there in few days to visit the
daughter in Omaha, who is rapidly
losing the struggle against tubercu-
losis. Elmer Kirby, one of Mrs.
! Quinn's attorneys, and the lawyer who
/ defended her when she was accused
/ of the murder of her second husband,
/. Warren Thorpe, accompanied the sis
0 tiers. Through Attorney Kirby, Mrs.
g Quinn tonight gave out the following
!. statement:
> 1.-The verdict proved that Mr. Quinn
4 was killed as said-by robber who
e entered iur house and shot him. |
would never have been charged with
d the crime had It not been that was
8 once before unjustly suspected The
first charge grew out Of the enmity
e of the relatives of Warren Thorpe.
g He committed suicide, as was proved
n at the trial The second Indictment
p was against me only because of this
former unjust suspicion.
During his argument the prosecut.
ing attorney spoke of the beauty OF
s circumstantial evidence | think 1t Ia
the most diabolical thing in human in
~ vention. Many innocent victims have
been sent to the gallows with the
brand of human hatred upon theil
memories, because of lying circum
stances. If were a states attorney
10 would never convict any one on sucf
IN evidence"
,g The Jury was out three hours to
he day before reaching a verdict DurinI
that time there was not a moment
ir- doubt in Mrs. Quinn's mind, so far Al
it. could be read in her oountenance, bu
vo that she would be acquitted She re
lis marked when the Jury was instructe
they will not be out long. They vii
ed acauit me-"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
THE WEATHER.
Weather Forecast /.


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WASHINGTON, June Weather
forecast for the next thirty-six hours:
Illinois Fair and cooler Sunday;
Monday fair with rising temperature.
Missouri-Fair Sunday, warmer;
Monday fair.
Iowa-Fair and warmer Sunday;
Monday fair.
Local Observations.
For June J.. 7 a. M, Sc degrees;
cloudy. Z p. m. 63 degrees; cloudy
Rainfall for the past "a hours =
Trace.
River above low water of 1855
feet and three tenths.
Mean temperature for June 1, Il
degrees; highest 80; lowest So.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-02
At Whistle Sound.

1t is estimated by the leaders that
fully 1000 walters and cooks are now
on strike. All phases OF the Metrop-
oils hotel life we're affected tonight.
About 125 walters walked out OF the
magnificent dining room at Delmon-
icos. on Fifth avenue, about the same
time that the whole force OF walters
deserted the Hof Brau Haus, typical
Broadway restaurant. At the sound OIL
the whistle, the walters who had re-
NAMED at the Belmont after partial
adjustment OF the strike, trooped out.
leaving the hungry diners with hall
finished dinners on the tables. In ike
manner they walked out at the Kaiser
hof, the Resenberger, the LaFayette,
the Ansonia, Manhattan Square hotel,
Breton Hall, the Cloesi restaurant,
and the fashionable New York Ath-
letic club. At the Athletic club 1t was
said that ten bartenders went out with
1.-THE walters and that thirty millionaire
members mixed their own rickies and
cocktails.
| Secretary Blochlinger said that the
managers of the Hoffman house and
4 Maxims sent for the walters COM
mittee and arranged terms before
their men were called out. The Broad
j way walters, after they struck. march
ed up the great white way to Forty.
second street and stopped at each
place where walters were still work
! ing. shouting to them to come out"
Then they went on to headquarters in
Rryant's hall and held mass meet
ling. The hotel men say they are will
linz to meet all the demands made by
1.-The strikers except recognition of the
unions. They say they will close their
I houses before they will do that.
], May Lose Jobs.
, The fifty walters who walked Out
Il IF the Tavern Louis In the Flatiror
} building this afternoon are not likely
II IN get their jobs back, for the man
. aeement at once pressed into service
: all of the girl telephone operators II
I the building and also the corps OF cir
9 uanicurists in the Flatiron barber
shop. So well were the restaurant
. patrons pleased with the services Q
/ the Young women that the proprieto
l. declared he would in future emplo.
. none but pretty girl mattresses.
J, Habitues of the great white wa
were forced to take cognizance OF tn
strike tonight, when Murray
Churchilrs and Fleishmann' amon
, the most popular Of the Broadwa,
I restaurants, recognized the union an
! signed up contracts granting all tn
! demands made by the strikers.
At the close of the mass meetin
I'm Bryant.s hall, Organizer Dlster, Q