The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
CITY NEWS.

fifty cents on the ton.
To-day was pay day for employees
OF the water power company.
"A car OF ice was derailed on the
uptown switch at the corner of Sew
enth and johnson street early today.
There will be trouble all over the
city with the water pipes in day or
So A great many pipes were frozen
up solid this morning and when the
fire pressure was put on and '-ept on
all day, it is bound to have some eff
feet and numerous burst pipes will be
the result.
Hobbs represents more insurance
capital than any other fire agency in
the city.
None of the afternoon trains had
reached KeoknA at o'clock this
afternoon. Delays are being expert
enced on all roads.
The G. B. and Q. train due here
at S:55 this morning, was divided in
to two sections, the first section ar
irving at 10: 80 a. m. The T. P. & W.,
the Wabash were all late in arriving
| today.
| Captain j. X. Cooney Of Montrose,
one of the county's oldest settlers and
best known citizens is dead. The
| funeral is to be held on Sunday at
Montrose
While almost the entire fire de
partment was fighting the fire at the
Masonic Temple this morning, an
alarm was turned in from 1909 Carroll
/ street, the home Of B. j. H. Deiling
where heating stove had toppled
over. The loss was slight.
! Shortly before four o'clock this
morning the fire department received
an alarm of fire from No. 19 South
Third street, it having been turned In
by someone who saw smoke from the
Masonic Temple rolling around the
buildings in that neighborhood
I According to word received here
this afternoon, the work of cutting
ice at Fort Madison has suspended be
cause Of the cold weather. This is
true OF nearly all the points between
Quincy and Burlington.
4 Many students went to theil
classes at the high school yesterda!
and today in heavy wraps. The Goa
supply yesterday was very short ant
Z was not replenished until O'Clock Il
4 the afternoon. Inc temperature wa
below normal at the schools today blu
the rooms grew to be fairly comfort
q hJo This q
Il Frozen hydrants and big furnace
fires should make you think of NOR
insurance. Phone Hobbs, the insur
q ance man.
There is no ground for the repor
that there is scarcity of coal in tn
city, and the cause for the slowe
delivery than usual is the scarcity 0
teams for delivery, many of them be
ing engaged in hauling ice.
A lake has formed at Twelft
and Fulton streets as the result of
broken water main.
Total loss Of the Masonic buildin
shows need of full insurance. Loo
over your policies and phone Hobbs
agency. largest in the city.
Last night was one of the wors
in years for railroad men in this SCI
:, ton of the country. Southern low
was swept by terrific cold wave
! the Thermometer dropping to twent
below zero and colder. Driving slee
to the north of keokuk caused gres
suffering to the trainmen and servic
I. was greatly crippled. An order wa
! sent out from the Burlington roa
headquarters in Burlington for eng
| neers not to exceed twenty-five mile
an hour. Today the trains comm
into Keokuk were late almost withol
exception. The st. Louis train WE
] one hour and half late, while tt
= first section of the train from tt
! north was an hour and forty minute
:. behind time. Chicago mail was nj
Z received this morning. The Wabas
It due in at 11:05 o'clock, was reports
y two hours and half late.