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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
SPIRIT CT PROFESSOR
TRYING TO COMMUNICATE

making every effort to communicate
with the world after their death. The
supposed efforts Of Stead's spirit to
communicate were reported some
weeks ago in the accounts of the ex-
periences of his daughter.
DR.. Hyslop's report includes some
remarkable manifestations. The sup
posed spirit of James appeared to
be struggling against fearful obstacles
in making his communications, but
among the messages were some deal
ing with incidents Of such intimate
and private nature between the two
old friends that DR.. Hyslop appears
certain the boy medium could not
possibly be acquainted with the facts.
Among other things were references
to pink pajamas," which James
bought at one time and joked about
with nr, Hyslop, and to their mutual
acquaintance with certain persons un-
known to the medium, or any of his
associates. The boy is not profess
sional, but the son of a minister and
the seances were all in the minister's
home. The spirit of James" also
| warned DR.. Hyslop against an evil
spirit, a 'poltergeist." that was try
! ing to do him injury.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Order Of RIsh Fellows is Being In.
vestIgated by Uncle Sam and
Consul General From
Brazil.
Members Were to Pay $1o Initiation
Fec and Balance in Monthly Pay
ments for Share In Great
Colony.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-The thous-
ands Of discontented souls throughout
the country who have become inter-
ested In the Order of Right Fellows
and Its beautiful scheme for the es-
tablishment Of an Utopia on a great
tract of land in Brazil. $40 down and
81 200 in monthly installments, will be
doubly interested today to learn that
Chief PostofIice Inspector Warren W.
Dickson and Jacintho Ferrera De
Cutha, the Brazilian consul general,
are also interested. So much so, in
fact that tho latter pair have asked
the officers OF this extraordinary en-
terprise to make full explanation Of
their project.
Inspector Dickson's chief interest
lies in the use of the mails for the
collection Of subscriptions to the fund
on which the wonderful dream city
of Neuva Esperntza (New Hope) is to
be erected on the banks OF the Rio
De La Plata, so odd miles from Rio
de Janeiro. The consul general wants
to know how it happened that his
government should have made the
grant of $4,000 acres claimed by the
promoters Of the scheme without his
knowing anything about 1t, 1t being
icustomary for governments the world
over to acquaint their foreign repre-
sentatiyes with little things like that.
There are six officers of the Right
Fellows in this city. including a min
! lister, Presiden. Dr. John Albertus, a
student of cooperative colonies; vice
| president, Mrs. Marie Robinson
\ Wright, writer of books of travel
including several about South Amer
! lica; chairman, the Rev. Dr. w. P.
Bliss, editor Of the Encyclopedia of
/ Form, with an office in the Bible
house; secretary, j. M. Whitty. a
/ secretary also in the Bible house;
] Corresponding Secretary James A.
Ford. an advertising agent for a
theatrical firm, and organizer, DR.
John Vetter the inventor OF paten,
washing machine
i No charges are made by the post
! office authorities or by the Brazilian
consul general They merely have
instituted an investigation. The off
GERS of the project claim to have tax
en- in no money as yet; merely letters
from thousands Of persons expressins
interested in the scheme for establish
ing modera city and cooperative
colony in Brazil
The circulars distributed by tht
promoters call for $40 initiation fet
into the Order Of Right Fellows AM
monthly payments toward the s1.0O'
that each member Of the projecte,
colony must raise before he or sh'
can enjoy its prospective blessings.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
SPANISH WAR
WIDOWS PENSIONS
Bill Provides s12 Per Month
for Those Who Were Left
Bereaved by War.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Pensions
or $12 per month for widows of sol
diers and sailors Of the Spanish and
Philippine wars, at a total cost esti-
mated by the house committee at
100000 year and by the pension
bureau at s2,5oo,OO0 annually were
urged by Representative Crago, of
Pennsylvania, Green, Of Massachus.
etts, and Curry of New Mexico, be-
fore the senate pensions committee
today.
The Crago bill, passed by the house,
provides that only widows married TO
such soldiers, or sailors prior to the
passage of the act. and VINO shall
have no other means of suppost than
their daily labor in addition to q net
income of not over $3.50 year, shall
receive this bounty.
The house reports show that 4ol ,65s
men enlisted for the two wars; that
In SIG battles and skirmishes 515 were
killed, or wounded, and that 12,voo
died in the service.
The chief obstacle to passage o.
the bill in the senate this year, is said
to be the s2000o,000 deficit in the
pension fund, due to tnexpectediy
prompt adjustment Of many thousands
of claims under the Sherwood dollar
a.day" law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Physical Research Members
Are Thrilled by Report Of
Their President.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Spiritualists
and those interested in physical re-
search the world over where thrilled
today to read in the Journal OF the
American Society for Physical Re
search the report of It's president. DR..
James H. Hyslop. on the year of ex-
periments he has been making with
a remarkable boy medium through
whom the spirit of the late William
James, professor Of philosophy at
Harvard, was alleged to have made
many efforts to communicate.
Professor James, 1t will be remem-
bered, was one of group Of dis
tinguished men, including DR.. Isaac
Funk, William T. Stead, and DR.. Hy-
slop, who formed a mutual agreement
to test the truth of spiritualism by
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
CHARITY TRUST
IS THE LATE ST
Russell Sage Foundation is De
clared to be Corner
Stsne Of it.

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CHICAGO, Jan. 20.-The existence
of charity trust, with the Russell
Sage foundation as It's cornerstone
and the crushing of the poor as its
object, is charged by Henry Neil, one
of the earliest advocates of the moth
ers pension, whose view aroused the
Indignation of social workers here to-
day.
'eThe Russell Sage foundation" !"
said Neil "is forming a large trust
among the charitable organizations OF
this country, and they will soon have
such power-if they are not checked
that they will be able to force the
poor women and children who have
been left destitute to work for lower
wages. l believe that is their ulti-
mate purpose"
Among the trustees OF the Sage
foundation are Helen Gould, Presi-
; dent Daniel c. Gilman, of Johns Hop
kins University, and Cleveland H.
Dodge, chairman of the executive
committee.
Neil has for long time been an
| opponent OF organized charities. He
says they have broken up thousands
of homes and made the lives of poor
| more wretched.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Ceremony to be Held in Country
Home Of Bride and viii be
Of Very Simple
Character.
HAVE BIG ORCHESTRA
Only Thing In the Way Of Display
VIII be the Music by a Band
Of Forty Musi-
clans.

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TARRYTOWN. N. T., Jan. 20
Preparations for the wedding OF Helen
Miller Gould and Finley J. Shepard
in the great drawing room OF Miss
Gould's country home, Lyndhurst,
Wednesday, were completed today.
The arrangements were OF the simp-
lest character, as Miss Gould has de-
termined there shall be no pomp or
display.
In keeping with her plans to make
the wedding ceremony take on a rural
simplicity in accord with It's rural
surroundings, Miss Gould has engaged
the Rev. Daniel Russell, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church at Irving
ton, to read the service, instead of
her own city pastor, the Rev. An
thony J. Evans who will he present
only in an unofficial capacity.
The bride will be attended only by
her two little nieces, Helen and Dor
othy Gould, daughters Of her young
est brother, Frank Gould. When
Gould and his first wife, Helen Kelly
Gould, were divorced and Mrs. Gould
remarked, the children were taken
over by Miss Gould and have lived
with her ever since.
| There will be no elaborate floral
decorations The only feature OF the
wedding upon which Miss Gould has
permitted more than ordinary outlay
1 e. tbo ,,,,,fo .rybiob viii ha ,opfiornd
by an orchestra OF forty pieces. The
entrance march will be the traditional
one from "Lohengrin,' and the recess
sional will be Mendelsohn's setting to
Midsummer Nights Dream There
will be other selections from Handel,
Wagner, Massanet, Schnmann. GODDARD
and Elgar, the orchestra continuing
to play through the wedding break
fast that will follow the ceremony.
| Miss Gould will be led to the altar
by her eldest brother, George j. Gould.
The groom will be attended by his
brother, Louis J. Shepard. In the
wedding party will be only members
of the family and a few intimate
friends. Miss Goulds brother-in-law
and her younger sister the Duke and
Duchess De Tallyrand-Perigord, ar
rived in New York yesterday ON the
Mauretania to attend the wedding.
Lyndhurst has been fairly flooded
/ with wedding presents Of all descrip
tions since the definite announcement
of the date for the ceremony. The
men of the navy. for whom Miss
Gould has performed SO many notable
acts of benevolence, have raised by
twenty-five cents subscriptions about
$4,000 with which to purchase a gift
| The men OF the army and Y. M. G. As
of the railroads are said to have rails
ed similar amount.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
PERILOUS CLIMB
OF CRAZY WOMAN
Mother Of Nine Days Went
Down Water Spout for
Five Stories.

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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 20.-Breathless
nurses and attendants at the City
hospital today watched Mrs. Rebecca
Schdentch, mother of nine days,
climb sixty feet down q six-inch cop
per water spout running along the
sheer wall of the women's building.
They were afraid to call to the tenn
porarily crazed woman for fear she
would become startled and loosen her
hold upon her precarious support.
With her hands grasping the small
pipe and her bare feet braced against
it, clad only in fluttering white
nightgown which was drenched by
the down pour of rain, the woman
came slowly from story to story until
she finally stepped upon the lawn.
Mrs. Schdentch is 2S years old. She
was sent to the hospital two weeks
ago and since the birth of her baby,
nine days ago, has been temporarily
insane. She at times was SO violent
that she was strapped to bed.
The window of the room she occu-
pied was IS inches from the water
spout. The pipe is fastened to the
wall of the building by iron clasps
which are about ten feet apart. Aside
from these and the window ledges
there was nothing but the pipe for
the woman to lay hold OF in her de
scent from the fifth floor to the
ground.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
WITHIN one FOOT
Of 1884 RECORD.
ohIo River Flood 10 Trying Hard to
EQUAL Old Mark and Has Fine
Prospects Of Do
Ing So.
TOWNS ARE SUBMERGED
Hard Rains Today Keep River High
and Thirty Mile Wind Makes
the Waves Dash Against
the Leyees.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 20.-New
territory, including several towns,
was reported submerged by the rising
waters of the Ohio and It's tributaries
today. Uniontown, KY, Cypress, Ind.
and Howell, local suburb. faced
serious flood, majority Of the inhab-
itants quitting their homes precipi-
lately and fleeing or coming into
Evansville, which is caring for hun
dreds Of refugees.
It is raining hard today and a thirty
mile wind is whipping the swollen
0kio river into a fury. Hundreds of
sight-seers iiewing the food are in
danger from weakened buildings and
the city authorities are roping off the
suspected structures.
The river stage was 46.7 feet this
morning, a bare foot below the high
est mark Of the memorable 1854 flood,
which drowned scores OF persons and
did enormous property damage The
river has been stationary since last
evening, when 1t rose unexpectedly
twotenths of foot.
There was practically no change in
conditions today from Cincinnati to
Cairo the homeless in high towns or
hill camps and the workless in the
cities simply waiting for the waters
TO recede The receding flood is ex-
pected to add to the damage already
done by sweeping Off their founda-
tons grain storehouses, homes and
buildings which have so far withstood
the elements.
Relief work went forward today on
stupendous scale, all along the lower
Ohio. Regular business is practically
at standstill, except in the few
cities protected by high levees.
Shawneetown, Illinois, Is fifteen feet
below the level of the water, which is
within two feet of the levees' top
Falling at Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 90 The
OHIO river continued falling today
and will be below the danger mark
50 feet, tomorrow. All danger of a
recurrence OF flood conditions has
passed. the weather bureau assured
Railroads will resume use of their
regular terminals tomorrow. Scores
OF families driven from their homes
py waser are returning and schools
tnat had been closed were re-opened
today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Nearly Ono Thousand Strikers and
strikebreakers Engaged In Fierce
Riot Unit Police Broke
II Up.
MANY TO THE HOSPITALS
Condition Of 10000 Workers is BE-
coming Desperate and Suffering
VIII Soon be
Terrible.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Nearly i
900 strikers and strikebreakers were
engaged in fierce riot today In
front of factory on Spring street.
The trouble started when pickets
posted by the striking garment work
ers stopped three guards and five
strikebreakers coming out OF the sub
way station, enroute to the factory,
and asked the strikebreakers not to
60 to work. The guards attempted to
club their way through the crowd
that gathered and when fifty strike
breakers working in the factory rush
ed out to rescue their fellows the
fighting became! general.
A squad OF police reserves charged
the struggling, screaming mass Of
men. women and children, laying
about them with their clubs, and
cracking heads right and left. Eight
strikers were badly hurt and were
sent to the hospitals Dozens Of 9th
ers received minor bruises and cuts.
A dozen arrests we're made.
The manufacturers in the garment
trade have begun to hire strikebreak-
ers in large numbers and this has In
famed the strikers and sympathiz.
sars.
The condition OF these 136.00C
struggling workers is becoming des
perate,,' said Miss Gertrude Barnum
strike organizer, today. 1--WE are
raising funds as fast as possible to
stave off starvation but unless large
contribu. ions are received from peo-
pie of wealth who have sympathy for
the workers engaged In this fight for
simple justice and a chance to work
under decent conditions, the suffering
will soon be terrible"
The $4,000 employees in the waist
and dress making end Of the trades
who differences were settled Satur
day, returned to work today. 1t was
said at the union headquarters that
| the independent manufacturers not
in the manufacturers association were
changing front and that before the
end Of the week the remaining 10000
or more waist and dress makers still
on strike would be granted the same
terms as the workers in the associa
tion shops and go back to their ma
chimes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Boy Corn Growers.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-yhe ad-
vance guard Of boys notable in their
respective state of the north and
south as prize winning corn growers
arrived in Washington today. They
will receive special recognition from
the department Of agriculture and
take part in a special program arrang-
ed for them tomorrow.
Each of the youthful agriculturists
have raised one hundred bushels or
more of corn per acre. Prominent
among them Is Ben Leath. Kensing-
ton. Ga, who won the state prize by
producing 2141s bushels of corn on
his acre and sold it for nearly So a
bushel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Agree to Vote With Democrats for
speakership and In Return viii
Be Given One
Senator.
Mccormick Engineered the Deal and
VIII be the One to Reap
the Big Profits
Thereby.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan 20.-Re-
ports reached Springfield today from
what is considered a most reliable
source, that the deal effected by the
democratic members Of the house and
Medill Mccormick for the delivery OF
the twenty-five progressive votes to q
democrat in the speakership contest
tomorrow, includes an agreement on
the senatorship also. 1t is reported
that the democrats have agreed to
give the short term senatorship to
Mccormick himself, If he can deliver
all of the twenty-five votes.
The democrats hope to be able to
line up forty-nine votes for Rapp to-
morrow. II all the progressives vote
with them, they will have seventy
four, three less than enough to elect.
The four socialists, however, have
agreed to vote for any candidate who
can secure seventy-three votes, and
this deal, If consummated, would
break the deadlock.
iHo appear dHSo VI Den r. CdiuWeli
in the race for the short term sena-
torship on the democratic side is
likely to complicate the situation,
somewhat.
Dunno Ready to Go.
I CHICAGO, Jan. 20. Gpvernor-efect
Dunno remained at his office all day
today, ready to leave for Springfield
at moments notice.
He was waiting messages from the
capital on which he would base his
decision.
q may go down today and may
decide to wait another day. he said
1T all depends on the information
get
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20

THE RAIL WAS BROKEN
Locomotive and Every Coach Of the
Train Went Off the Track just
Before Coming to the
Station.

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ALERTON. Iowa, Jan. 20.-one
man was killed and nine persons
we're injured when east bound Rock
Island train number IL, due here at
1880 was wrecked 300 yards east OF
the depot. Engine, tender and all the
coaches left the rails, probably be-
cause Of a broken rail.
Stanley Morgan, OF Altamont, Mis-
souri,, bridge foreman, was killed.
He leaves wife and seven children.
w. A. Trekpania of Haywood, Wis
consin. has a broken arm. Hugh West
OF Altamont, Missouri, and Harry
Dornan Of Wichita, Kansas, were bad
" bruised
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20

WOULD END MoNOPoLIEs
Jail Terms as Penalty for Those VIVA
Disregard the Laws on Com
bInations and
Mergers.

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TRENTON, N. T.. Jan. 20.-Trust
magnates will get little satisfaction
from the antitrust attieuae of Presi-
dent-elect Woodrow Wilson as defined
today In handling the question in his
home state.
Tonight seven bills, fathered by ths
next president in his capacity as gov
ernor OF New Jersey will be introduc-
ed in the legislature. They will be
enacted, It was declared this after
noon, II the governor has to person
ally whip the legislature into line to
secure favorable action.
Because Of this assertion 1t was gen.
orally accepted here this afternoon
that the bills indicate the attitude the
governor will take on the trusts when
he gets to Washington.
Explaining the bills Edwin r. Walk.
er, head Of the chancery court, the
highest in the state, who prepared
them under the direction OF the gov
ernor, said:
These acts are designed to put ar
end to trusts and monopolies under
the laws OF New Jersey and Governor
| Wilson confidently predicts that they
will accomplish that much desired re-
suit. They emanated from Governor
Wilson and have been drawn for the
purpose of preventing of monopolies
by corporations, firms and individuals.
| The bills make violation of the
proposed laws misdemeanor, which,
| in New Jersey, is punishable by inn
prisonment for not more than three
| years, or fine of not more than one
| thousand dollars.
| The measures provide that any COM
| bination between two, or more cor
| porations, firms or persons to create
| restrictions in trade, limit production,
| prevent competition, transportation,
fix prices for purposes of trade con-
troll or make any secret oral agree
ment, shall be a misdemeanor.
One bill provides that bonafide val
ues in money, or property must stand
behind all stock issued; that stock
shall not be issued against anticipat-
ed profits; that when stock is issued
| in exchange for other stock no more
| shall be issued than was actually paid
for the other stock; that no purchase
may be made of a concern of differ
ent character from that doing the
buying 1t aslo prohibits one cor
poration buying into another for the
purpose of restraining trade or 40
curing a monopoly.
Another bill makes the individual
officers and directors liable for viola
tions of the proposed laws. Another.
intended to prevent holding COM
panies, provides that hereafter no
corporation shall buy, hold, sell or as
sign the securities Of any other cor
poration Any corporation which now
comes under that classification Is pro-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
President Elect Wilson Did
Not Desire Function and it
Has Been Abandoned.

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TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 20. There
M wan be no inaugural ball in connec-
non with Woodrow Wilson's induc-
tlon to office March 4.
Governor Wilson today gave out the
loiioWiag telegram from Chairman
"iniam G. Eustis, of the inaugural
committee, which came for him after
ne had left his office here Friday
evening:
your letter in reference to the
omlssion Of the inaugural ball has not
reached me, but / hasten to assure
you OF our desire to comply with
your wishes in every way"
Goyernor Wilson's mail today con
salhed letters from all parts of the
country commencing him for asking
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Held BY Briqands.

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ROME, Jan. 2o.--The police authori-
ues today were convinced that bri-
gands in the mountain Businesses in
me north were holding for ransom
Mrs William Mansfield, said to be
me wife of wealthy New Yorker,
VINO mysteriously disappeared several
days ago.
Mrs. Mansfield, with other Ameri-
cans was guest of the Hotel Vic
'ofia here up to last Sunday, when
she went into the northern part OF
i'aiy She reached salo Lakagarda,
and then all trace of her was lost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
INAUGURAL BALL HAS
BEEN CUT OFF PROGRAM
to have the ball eliminated. None OF
the more than fifty letters criticised
him adversely, said his secretary.
mo BalI.p

mo Ball.
WASHINGTON Jan. 90. No in
augural BALI was the vote of the in
augural committee here today. Presi-
dent-ele Wilson's expressed desire
to abandon the society function that
has been a feature OF the induction
into office Of every executive since
Madison, was acquiesced in by the
local committee, at an executive ses-
sion.
It was decided, however, to hold g
reception on the night of March 4, al
which the new president could greet
all citizens. Senators Brown, Over
man and Crane and Representatives
Mckinley, Garret and Rucker, were
appointed a committee to consider
plans.
While no place was definitely Sc
lec.ed for the reception, it was gen
orally assumed that the function
would be held in the rotunda of the
capitol building.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: General
ly fair tonight and Tuesday. Cold
wave tonight.
For Illinois: Snow this afternoon
and probably tonight. Cold wave to-
night Tuesday fair with colder east
portion.
For Iowa: Generally fair tonight
and Tuesday. Colder east portion to-
night with cold wave. Rising tenn
perature Tuesday afternoon.
For Missouri: Generally fair to-
night and Tuesday. Cold wave to-
night. Rising temperature northwest
portion Tuesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-20
Surely Enouah.

Her Father Young man, are you
qualified to marry and support my
daughter7 Adelbert-sT hold the rec
ord for running my four cylinder
roadster 81 miles on pint Of gaso-
line"