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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
FIRE BUGS KILLED
THREE CHILDREN
Arson Trust Has Collected
Much Insurance But Has
Sacrificed Lives.

United Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, Jan. 11-That three
children have been burned to death
in fires which were part of the
operations of the arson trust" now
under investigation here, was the in
formation furnished the district at
torney's Office today. Further investi-
CATION it was stated, might reveal
that other lives have been sacrificed
in the organized firing OF tenement
houses for the purpose OF collecting
insurance.
examined several witnesses in the
arson cases today and i. was to him
that information concerning the loss
Of life was given. Two children per
ished in one tenement fire, he was
told In another tenement, a fire
was started by agents of the 'trus.."
In the rooms OF family of eight OF
the six children, one burned to death.
The other narrowly escaped
Following the. conviction of Samuel
Gold and his confession as to the
existence Of the larson trust start
ling revelations have been made. The
system of the trust was to insure
goods of little value for amounts
ranging into hundreds of dollars
through an alleged working agree
ment with insurance agents and brok-
ers
The trust leaders, IT Is said. oper-
ated chiefly among poor foreigners.
The family paid small amount week
ly for insurance. The trust" insured
the same goods for big sum. The
family would fall behind in payments
and a fire was then suggested as a
means Of raising money. 1t was sup
posed to be only small fire-iwst
enough to enable the arson trust" %
collect its funds-but from kerosene
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
HONkED AWAY
TO LIBERTY
Three Convicts Made Escape
in Prison Automobile From
Joliet Pen.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
JOLIET, I'll. Jan. 11.-Three con-
victs in the state penitentiary stole
an automobile and made their escape
in it tonight. They got a fifteen min
ute start of the prison guards and
headed straight south.
At Wilson Center, sixteen miles
south, they abandoned the car and 1t
is thought, jumped on a Chicago,
Milwaukee and Gary train. That is
the last trace Of them the prison pur-
suers can find.
The escaped prisoners are: Sig
mund Drofche, sentenced for life for
murder in Sangamon county, in 1899.
in 1899.
Steve Ayers, sentenced in 1911 to
fourteen years for burglary in Chi
cago.
Edward Sheldon, given indetermin-
ate sentence for larceny in Chicago IN
January, 1912.
The three men were TRUSTEES and
had charge of the prison automobile.
Tonight they cranked the car belong
ing to C. j. Loomis, chief accountant
of the prison, and drove off through
the city.
A quarter of an hour later the de-
livery was discovered and three cars
bearing armed guards started off in
pursuit. They went north several
miles before they discovered their err
ror. BY the time they got to Wilson
Center the men had got a long start.
Sheldon is 40 years old, Ave feet,
10 inches tall, weighs $50 pounds and
is dark complexioned.
Drofche is S5, Eve feet, inches tall,
weighs 135 and is sallow complexion
ed
Ayres is 80, five feet, 10 inches
tall, weighs 135 and is light com
plexioned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
Big Flood Today.
No One Released Yet.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
LEAvENWoRTH, Kan, Jan. III
AT late hour tonight Warden Nc
Claughrey of the federal prison here
said he had received no advices that
the bonds of William e. Reddin or any
other of the thirty-two dynamite con-
spirators had been approved and no
order had been received for their re-
lease He said that owing to the
lateness Of the hour no one would be
released tonight, even should the pa
pers come by special messenger.
A private message from Milwaukee
said that the bond of William e. Red
din had been approved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
Evidence Points to Terrible
Crime Having Been Com
mitted by Maniac.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. j
CHICAGO. Jan. 11.A thigh cut or
chopped from the body of a man and
packed in suitcase, is all the police
have to solve the mystery of what may
turn out to be the most terrible crime
of a maniac or the grim joke of a
medical student.
The thigh was found today In an
alley in the rear of stable In a dis
trict inhabited by foreigners. 1t was
wrapped in a newspaper dated Janu-
ary 9. On 1t were parts Of some un-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
Even the Turkish ENJOYS to Confer
enee Are Not of the same
opinion and One Wants
to Go Back Home.
ADR1ANopLE IS PLUM
Porte VIII Not Consent to Give It up
and Alles viii Not Consent
to the Sultan Hold
ing 1t.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LONDON, Jan. lit developed to-
night tha. all was not harmonious in
the Turkish diplomatic camp Rechid
Pasha, chief of the Ottoman peace
plenipotentiaries, yesterday at the
Carleton, was bit optimistic, admit
ting that negotiations would be re-
newed early next week on new basis
that might result in an agreement.
Osman Miami Pasha, on the other
hand, was decidedly pessimistic. He
said frankly that he had no hope of
a peace agreement.
Personally, / think we might as
we'll pack our trunks and go home to-
night" he said.
Tewflk Pasha, the third Turkish
delegate, was non-committal. Though
there was no open criticism from any
OF the trio, it was inferred that Os-
man Miami Pasha and Tewfik Pasha
did not entirely approve of the plan
which 1t was said Sir Edward Grey
and Rechid Pasha had agreed to try.
The Turkish ENJOYS persisted in
their declarations that the porte never
would consent to give up Adrianople,
but this was though to be largely for
effect, because 1t was known that
the ambassadors of the great powers
a. Constantinople unanimously had
informed the Turkish government
that Adrianople would have to go.
| The action Q. the British foreign
office today in advising with the
Turks, amounts practically to inter-
vention in the Balkan controversy,
though it was wholly informal. The
ambassadorial conversations will be
resumed Monday, at which time Sir
Edward Grey will lay before the 9th
er diplomats the plan he and Recbid
Pasha agreed upon. The ambassa-
dors have not yet received from their
government authority to intervene,
but it Is confidently expected that by
next week the representatives Of the
great powers will be clothed with
authority to resolve the conversations
into formal ambassadorial confer
ence, with power to take steps to end
the Balkan struggle. and possibly also
to mediate between houmania and
Bulgaria
Negotiations between those two
states were at standstill today, the
conference having been adjourned
from Friday over to Monday DR..
Daneff, the Bulgarian plenipoten!iary,
! was favored for the weekend, but
the Roumanian ENJOYS assured the
foreign Office that the parley was pro-
gressing amicably and that a settle
ment might be hoped for. They de-
MED tina. Roumania had issued an ul-
timatum to Bulgaria.
The only alarmist dispatches to-
night We're from Berlin. where it was
said the German press was most pes
simistic. There it was said that Aus
tria-Hungary was not demobilizing,
tut was arming more military reserv-
lists and would take sides with Rou-
mania. The Germans predicted that
Russia would back Bulgaria, and that
with the triple alliance and the triple
entente thus opposed. the peace OF all
Europe was menaced.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
pasted of Past Robberies and
|rassed Cigarettes Around
to Victims.

Ented Press Leased Wire Service
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 11.--Police
n detectives tonight diligently
|inoed the city for trace OF the
|ring bandit who this afternoon held
Two men in the Buffalo, Rochester
h pittsburgh railway ticket office,
|hhg the safe of s55.25 while he
|asted Of his robberies in New York
Il Cleveland.
|apout the middle OF the afternoon
i bandit walked into the B. r. and
ONCE in the Oliver building, sky
PAPER In the heart Of the business
uon. He bought q ticket to Buf.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
Little Tots Of Ten Years Of Age
Worked In csnneries For Ten
Hours Day For
Ten Cents.
THERE Amt NO GoDa
One Woman Worked Sixteen Hours
Evory Day and Was so Ex.
hausted She Saw
spooks.

UNITED Press Leased Wire servicel
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-Condt
tions in many canning factories which
rlvalled the horrors OF the packing
house Jungle were told to the house
rules committee today--a revoltsnS
story of how diseased men, women
and children slaved under conditions
OF filth for meagre wages.
A woman was the witness Miss
Mary Boyle O'Reilly-who posed az
factory operative and gained her facts
from actual work at the canneries.
She was on the stand tie greater part
OF the day and backed up her testt-
mony with photographs. After her
came Frank II. Garrett, secretary OF
the National Gamers Association.
who bitterly excorciated Sensational
newspapers for the publicity they havs
given Miss O'Reilly's original re-
search work and insisted that the
Gamers of the country would welcome
the federal probe proposed in the Al
len resolution. in support of which
Miss O'Reilly appeared.
Tonight it was asserted ON author
I lity that while the rules committee
favored the probe, there was SO much
work already mapped out for con-
gress during the remainder of tho
sessions, that the Allen resolution
would be pigeon-holed, simply because
congress was too busy.
Miss OReilly cited examples in sew
eral factories where children Of ten.
der years worked long hours under
conditions of indescribable filth. She
! told OF women and children with skin
diseases at work preparing products
later sold in sterilized cans.
/ One child, Miss O'Reilly question
| ed. worked lis hours week. He was
fifteen year old boy sent from 9uf-
falo to camp nearby.
"Another boy like this one came
/ home from his work, the witness con-
! tinued, "and his mother insisted he go
i to church The child replied: oh.
Gu, it out-there amt no Cod
| At one factory Miss O'Reilly said she
found children from six to ten years
of age working ten hours q day or
the pitiful wage Of from ten to twenty
cents a day.
! r. G. Praete, deputy New York labor
commissioner. fully corroborated Miss
/ O'Reilly, adding:
II have seen girls working in open
sheds where the filth on the floor.
ceilings and walls gave rise to a
stencil that was almost unbearable.
! have seen old men, women and chill.
ldren from FIVE to ten years OF age.
nearly all afflicted with scalp and
skin diseases, working ten to fifteen
hours a day for mere pittances.
"!n the living shack on one cannery,
! saw woman feed sick baby with
| a spoonful OF condensed milk that
had dead flies in 1t.
I'VE feed this to the baby all tha
1 time the woman told me-"
| In a plant at Marion, N Y, the VIII
ness said she saw thirty-two old
women working without seats on
floor SO damp from tomato refuse that
| they could not have sat Gown II they
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
, su.,ness Men Of Chicago Hear an
Addres. on New Freedom BY
tho Next Presl-
dent.
|As BANG Up AFFAIR CRISIS COMES TETS wrrK
v.ral Million Dollars Worth Of Men
sa, Il Commercial Club Ban
quet and Loudly
Applauded.

1nited Press Leased Wire Service.l
ICHICAGO, Jan. 11.--Before an audi
ce Of 200 Commercial club banquet
i who included the principal mon
ed men OF Chicago, President-elect
oodrow Wilson tonight expounded
doctrine OF new freedom and
ld bis auditors that they ought to
nduct their business honestly. In
|mpliance with the law and with the
|nse Of mercy and justice"
Governor Wilson's theme was THE
nations between business and gov
nment' He plainly indicated that
Isiness need not expect to be let
pne II 1t was engaged in using or
Irving to use the government to get
ecial help and particular fayors.
THE functions OF government, he
clared, were to serve mankind and
It any class or party He said all
nnection that retarded that end
hst be broken.
The presidant-elect arrived in Chi
go to find the city in turmoil OF
citement over the efforts of the two
mocratic factions to get his ear
ID gain his support in the contest
tween the Hearst-Harrison faction
d the Roger Sullivan faction for
10 United States senatorships and
nirol of the state democratic ma
anery TO avoid nnpleasantness,
yernor Wilson left his train at En-
bwood on the south side, met the
cepiion committee OF the Chicago
hnmercial club and was taken to
e north side, ten miles in an auto
|ohile to the home of David B. Jones.
b old Princeton school mate and for
ler Princeton trustee.
Governor Wilson made known at
pee that he did not intend to be
lawn into the political feud, and as
result, neither faction made an ef-
\ g
|rt to reach him.
AT the Jones home Governor Will
Pn had a long visit with Charles r.
fane, chairman of the finance COM
pEee In the recent campaign. He
q not seen Crane since before cleo
Pn. The governor explained after
Prd that he had talked with Crane
he has talked with other democrats
Trenton for the purpose Of getting
+ information and opinions,
|crane, who has frequently been
entioned as cabinet possibility or
Phister to China, Is not affiliated
En- either democratic faction in Illi-
among the big business men who
(ard Governor Wilson's speech and
(piauded 1t were: ]. Ogden Armour
L Louis F. Swift, packers; A. j.
ring, president of the Chicago, Mil
Fukee and st. Paul railroad, John
Farwell, multi-millionaire banker;
NJ FELTON,, president of the Great
estern; T. A. Delano, president of
wabash; Marvin Hughitt, presi-
|nt OF the Chicago and Northwest
4; Cyrus Mccormick, head OF the
erhational Harvester Co.; James
fatten, wheat king; George NJ. Rey-
(as, president Of the Continental
numerical National bank; julius
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
Benny Won.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 11.-Benny
Kaufman, of Philadelphia, shaded
Johnny Greeley of Brooklyn. in a six
round bout in Old City Hall here to-
night. Tie fight was fast.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-12
Ohio River Valley Experiencing Most
ssrleps Flood In Several Year.
WIKI Waters
Rising.
Additional Warning Sent Out That a
Big Flood Can be Expected
For This sun
day.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service a
CINCINNATI, Ohio. Jan. 11.-With
the Ohio river tonight several feet he
yond the so-called danger line OF fifty
feet, Cincinnati and other river cities
OF the Ohio valley are experiencing
the most serious food in several
years.
Local Government Forecaster De-
yereaux reported that the almostecon-
t'nuous rainfall of the past three days
IN Cincinnati is also undated at
Portsmouth, Maysville, Ashland and
other up-river points. He said that it
is now probable that flfty-fve foot
stage will be reached before Sunday.
morning and that the highest stage Of
the flood will be nearly fifty-eight feet.
to be reached next Wednesday. He
has sent out warnings to all persons
having property within a sixty foot
stage to be prepared to move out at
moments notice The river is ris-
ing over three-tenths of q foot per
hour tonight
The management of the Central rail-
road station announces that practical
ly all trains will have to abandon
that station at midnight. The passen-
ger trains will arrive and leave from
small stations within the city limits.
At least one hundred families in this
city, Newport and Covington have
been driven from their homes or
forced to occhpy upper stories.
A number of merchants close to the
river front have moved their places
Of business temporarily, while all cell
lars in that vicinity have been In
undated.
Big Flood Today.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 11,-Con-
tinued heavy rains on the headwaters
Of the rivers late tonight impelled
Weatherman Pennywitt to issue a
warning that "a big food may be
expected tomorrow. Police and river
men got busy notifying residents OF
the low-lying districts to prepare for
the inundation. Pennywitt was un-
able to furnish figures but said the
waters would be considerably above
the food stage of twenty-five feet.
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20
Public Sale

Having sold my lease l will sell al
public auction at my place nine miles
southwest of Butler, three and one
half miles northwest Of 'Nyhart, or
four and one-half miles southeast of
Virginia, on
Wednesday, February 26, 1918
the following described property:
6 head of horses and mules:-l bay
mare coming five years old, broke to
work both double and single; weight
about 1000 pounds; 1 bay horse,
smooth mouth, weight 100 pounds;
l dun mare, smooth mouth, weight
1900 pounds; black horse mule COM
ing three years old, sixteen hands
high, an extra good one; big pair
horse mules coming 6 years old.
| 3 head of cattle-2 extra good milch
cows, black Jersey giving milk, l
red Durham COW will be fresh soon;
l Jersey bull calf.
20 head of hogs No. brood
sows to farrow about the first of
April; 2 extra good gifts, weight $50
pounds; % head of shoats weighing
from so to 140 pounds.
Farming tools, hay and grain
Good Gale corn planter, John Deere
14-inch walking pillow, Goodenough
l6-inch walking pillow, single shovel
pillow, two-section harrow, wheatdrill,
hay rake, 2 Western cultivators, Busy
Bee riding cultivator, Balm farm wag-
on, hay frame, patent scoop board,
set work harness. About 10 or IL
tons good timothy hay, some cane
hay, about 800 bushels of corn in
crib, a lot of cane seed, some good
hedge posts, 1 extra good cook stove.
All household and kitchen furniture
and other articles too numerous to
mention.
TERMS:-On all sums of $40 and
under, cash. Over $40 a credit of 9
months will be given on bankable
note drawing 6 per cent interest, if
paid when due. If not paid when
due to draw 8 per cent from date. 2
per cent discount for cash on all sums
over so. No property to be re-
moved until terms of sale are COM
piled with.
Lunch on Ground.
P. w. MOSS.
Col. C. E. Robbins, Auctioneer.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20
Real Estate Transfers.

E B Ladman to A P Nichols tract
sec 3 New Home 81.
Anna X Kenworthy to Mayme
Rooms IS a sec 20 D Creek 81.
w M Engle to w H Lee 40 a sec 2
Walnut $3.50.
NIL Fry to o w Lamb lot II blk IL
LIST add Rich Hill $50.
Geo w Richie to o w Lamb pit lot
5 blk n Rich Hill $500.
MA Miller to j L Jones 1871 a secs
5 and SO Lone Oak and Mt Pleasant
$1,000.
ia Hedges to Lizzie j Griggs 40
a sec "A Hudson 81.
Ray Armentrout to H Hustled lots
8 and 4 blk 10 Amsterdam $19.
Ella Williams to AT Thacher lots
Z, s 9, blk II Merwin 5000.
Jabob Ely to John Cameron 65 q
sec - Prairie 81.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20

w S Wright to C w Lewis IS sec
Is West Point $45OO.
j M Bunnell to w l. Bunnell lot 2
and 3 blk 81 Rich Hill $3.50.
j A johnson to j w Thomas lot 3
blk 81 Rich Hill 5000.
VIM McBratney to F W Davis lot 6
pit lot 7 Mills add Adrian $3.50.
j F ST. ong to VIM Underwood 248
a sec 81 and 80 Mingo 81.
l. r Eakin to Jesse Axtell l2O a sec
Is New Home 81.
OS Smoot to E A James 40 a sec
q Mt Pleasant $500.
B G Davis to N j Ray lot II blk 81
lst add Rich Hill $500.
Geo Carr to A C Wright lots 2 and
3 blk 20 Sperrys add Rich Hill $500.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20
R L Mawson to Frank Melton 1853 a
secs 3 and 10 D Creek $8l58.5O.

R L Mawson to Frank Melton 1853 a
secs and 10 D Creek $8158. so.
Lulu M Tucker to o D Reavis pit
blk 5 COUGHS add Butler $500.
Thoedoshia Clark to Frank Priestly
pit lots 3 and 4 blk 8 Butler $1,000.
Lulu NJ Tucker to Peter Jundy 80
a sec "a Charlotte $4,000.
Eva Kiltz ct al to C R Walters lots
and 2 blk 1871 LIST add Rich Hill $40.
John S Hedges to j B Carpenter
66 sec Pleasant Gap $500.
S Chart to j T Chart und is int
40 a secs 2 New Home $1lOO.
Mayme Hartwell to A D Health 100
a secs % and "a Shawnee $4,000.
Mayme Hartwell to A D Health 100
a sec % and "a Shawnee $4,000.
Claude Berry to Sylvester Chart 40
a sec 2 New Home $3.50.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20
Hay Wanted.

200 tons or more Of good timothy
or light clover and timothy mixed.
The very best prices paid. Phone
l61, residence $50.
3o-tf J. s. WARNOCK
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20

The Progressive Committee of
Bates county are called to meet at
the court house in Butler at 2 o'clock
p. M, March l, 1918. II is urged
that every member of the committee
be present as we'll as all Progress
sives of the county as business of
great importance to the party will be
discussed and acted on at this meet
ing.
Clark Wix, Chairman,
j. O. McMullen, Secretary.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20
Fraternal Aid Social.

Hope Council No. 1862 F. A. Asso-
citation held an open session Tuesday
night at NJ. w. A. Hall. A large
crowd was present. Refreshments
were served and a nice program
rendered. One new member was
adopted. The Fraternal Aid is grow
ing and it will not be long until it be-
comes one of the leading orders of
the city FL. .--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
40 HOURS DEVOTION
WILL BEGIN TODAY
Programme at st. Paul's for
One Of Catholic Church's
Beautiful Features

Today the forty hours" one of the
most beautiful devotions OF the Cath
Ollie church. will commence at ST.
Paul's. The services essentially con
sist of a 40 hours alteration of the
sacred host exposed in a golden osten-
sorium or monstrance on throne
placed on the high altar, which is
beautifully decorated with waxen ta
pers. red and white altar lights. palms
and cut flowers.
The services commence at last mass.
During mass host is specially con-
seerated and placed in the ostensorium.
After mass this is borne in solemn
procession through the aisles of the
church. A crucfier heads the process
sion, then follow acolytes with lighted
torches, Children of Mary, senior and
junior Holy Name members with re-
gala and banners, altar boys with in
cense and censers, little girls who scat
ter flowers IN front of the host, a
priest vested in gold cope and humeral
veil carrying the monstrance, which is
borne under a rich canopy carried by
the officers of the Senior Holy Name
society. After the procession iiturgi-
cal prayers and the Litany of the
Saints follow and the blessed sacra-
ment is placed on the throne. and re
mains exposed all day till the close OF
the night services, 1t viii also be ex-
posed for alteration all day Monday
and Tuesday morning when there will
be another solemn procession after
the s o'clock high mass. The services
close Tuesday with solemn benediction
of the blessed sacrament.
During the 40 hours numbers of the
faithful approach the sacraments and
in order that every facility may be
given confessions will be heard this
afternoon and Monday afternoon.
At the services tonight and Monday
eucharistic prayers Will be said and
appropriate sermons delivered. The
Rev. Father Coyle. the pastor, viii
preach tonight and the Rev. Father
Turner. pastor of the Church of the
Blessed sacrament. Monday night.
Father coyle says that these devo-
tions are richly indulgenced by the