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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
Old Spanish Bark is Flaming
Like a Torch in Middle of
Atlantic.

uUnited Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Flaming over
a darkened sea the Spanish ship
Balmes tonight Is somewhere between
Cape Race and Bermuda, making tor
succor at the British colony, white
aboard her, Captain Ruiz and her
crew are battling desperately to save
their craft from destruction by tire
Trailing along "a the Balmes' wake
ready to rescue the fire lighters, II
need be, is the Cunarder Panonia,
which responded to the IS. o. s." sig
nails from the burning ship and took
off her 103 passengers enroute from
Havana to Cardez AMI Barcelona. Just
! where or how the flames started
which are consuming the old Spanist
boat and her inflammable cargo Of
rum and cotton is not known.
The Panonia answering the frantl'
IS. o. S" of her wireless when th'
Balmes was about eco miles off Am
i brose Light, foun1 her burning fiercek
i and Drawing the gale and fog, took Of
her passengers. CAPTAIN Ruiz refuses
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
STOLEN MONEY
WAS STOLEN AGAIN
Mail Wagon Driver Who Took $500
Has Been Arrested and
Confessed.

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CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-Albert A. Tar
.dy, mail wagon driver. who disap-
.peared after the discovery that his
wagon load of registered mail pouches
had been rlfled, was arrested tonight
by postoffice inspectors and according
to Inspector Stuart, made complete
confession.
Less than $100 of the 5000 Tardy Sc.
cured from the mail bags was In his
pockets when two inspectors took him
from a street car tonight. acting upon
a tip from woman. Nearly all the
rest Of the money was stolen from hin
by n woman he met in cafe, he tolt
the postal inspectors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
HELPLESS IN
DENTAL CHAIR
Two Patients Were Under In.
fluence of Ether When
Fire Broke Out in
College.
!

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CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-Lives Of 600
persons We're endangered, two under
the influence OF anasthetics were car
ried down the fire escape; and por-
tion of the down town shopping dis
trict was blocked, when fire attacked
the old fremont hotel building, now
partly occupied by the Northwestern
University Dental school. $50 stu
dents were working on the free clinic
on patients on the fifth and sixth
floors when smoke rolled up from a
fire in the basement. Bessie Krum.
theas, fourteen, and an unidentified
girl were helpless under the fumes o1
ether. while their teeth were being
extracted. Four seniors carried then
to safety while Dean Black Of the
dental school, and other students ant
patients fed down fire escapes. Ths
fire damage was small.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
esueral Villa Takes Prisoners
10 a Quiet Spot and
Blows Out Their
Brains.
Has, CAPTURED JUARE.Z
orders All Saloons Closed and
Issues Orders That
Looting is Pro
hibited.

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Eli PASO, Texas, Nov. 15-Bloody
Eengeance was wrecked this afternoon
: General "Pancho' Villa on the Of
acers of the federal garrison Of Ciu-
lad Juarez who fell into his hands
ehen his force of $500 constitution
a,ists captured that city early today.
He ordered and carried out the exc
tution Of scores of prisoners of war
and thereby carried out his threat
r,ade several months ago to avenge
the murder by Huerta and his lieuten-
ants Of President Francisco Madero
and Governor Abram Gonzales of the
state of Chihuahua. Enrique Ziega, a
|fustom house guard, was the first vic
tim 10 face a firing squad. Even be-
fore the engagement which ended in
the capture Of Juarez had ceased, the
bandit cfieftain Of the constitution
Ialists had pronounced sentence Of
death on him.
AS soon as the battle was over.
Ziega was shot. Commander Cortinas
{of the fiscal guards. was the second
yictim.s He was taken prisoner during
The days engagement. Shortly after
noon, with Angel 7Benividas fellow
prisoner, he wass led into the foot
bills by detachment of rebels and
never came back.
In like manner was the vengeance
lei villa meted out to Colonel Enrique
portillo, commander of the volunteer
forces Of Jnarez. He was dancing at
an American hall during the early
hours Of the morning when suddenly
tile rebel soldiers appeared and open.
ed fire on the resort Portillo fell at
tie first volley, wounded through the
body but that did not save his life. A
constitutional,sta physician dressed
his wound, but a short time later he
was backed up against stone wal
| to face rebel firing squad. In his
case, sentence was pronounced be
cause he was connected with the re
| volt against President Madero in 1912
Just how many prisoners were exc
cuted has not been ascertained but !
Is believed that they numbered sey
eral score. General Villa did no
take such bloody vengeance agains
regular federal soldiers as agains
volunteers and the Huerta sympathi7
ers who reyolted against Presiden
Madero. Many of the federal regu
lar officers were severly punished
however, because of their support 9
Huerta.
Pancho" Villa apparently does no
beiieye in forcing the strict militar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
WAGE COMMISSION
WILL INVESTIGATE
Governor Of Colorado Has Method
Which May Settle Strike Of
the Miners.

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DENVER, Colo, Nov. 15.-As pos
sible means of settling the strike in
the southern Colorado coal feeds, Gov
ernor Ammons announced tonight that
he is preparing to name a wage com
mission to investigate the claims OF
the strikers and operators concerning
the earnings of the mine workers. One
member will be miner, one an oper
ator and the third an outsider. He
hopes to gather data on which tc
frame q compromise offer to botf
sides.
Dispatches tonight from the Goa
fields said everything was quiet ant
there were no Indications Of furthe'
trouble.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
She Killed Him.

HOBART, Okla, Nov. 15.-Mrs.
Anna Russell. bride of a yea-, shot
and instantly killed BARNEY P. Kin
ney in a fit of jealousy. She uaei
an automatic revolver and shot Phin.
ney four times. Mrs. Russell then
telephoned the officers to come and
get her and she is now in Jail charged
with murder. She has be.n separate
from her husband few weeks.
Mrs. Russell telephoned Phinney
Friday that she was coming to kill
him, following his allegel refusal to
marry her,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
SIX TO SIX
ON CURRENCY
Bill Will Go to the Senate This
Week in Two Propositions,
One Democratic and One
Republican.

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WASHINGTON Nov. 15.-Despite
the optimistic attitude Of President
Wilson, the currency question is far
from being settled. The bill itself
cannot get before the senate before
the middle of next week Then 1t will
come in two distinct propositions. One
will have the support Of six demo-
Gratis. The other will be sponsored by
Senator Hitchcock, democrat and
the five republican members OF the
committee.
The epublican-Hitchcock coalition
today adopted plan guaranteeing de-
Irosits although one member Weeks
OF Massachusetts. reserved the right
to oppose this on the floor, 1t also
eliminated the provision allowing the
appointment of receivers for insolv-
ent regional banks. The bill was also
amended to allow the regional banks
to rediscount six months paper up to
one-kalf of the capital stock of mem
ber bank, provided such rediscounts
did not exceed 100000.
/ Both democrats and republicans
agreed to give the federal reserve
board the. right to reserve directors OF
regional reserve banks. The demo
cratic bill as completed also provides
/ for eight regional reserve banks un
der the control of federal reserve
hoard.
The full committee will meet OF
next Tuesday to formulate report OF
the features of the bill on which al
can agree. Then two reports will b.
presented on the disputed portions an,
1.-THE fight in the senate will be on.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
Two Negro Prisoners Flogged
in Jail Yard, With Twen-
ty Lashes of the
Whip.
LIKE RUSSIAN KNoUT
Delaware Still Clings to Heir
loom of Puritan Punish
ment and Thinks it
Proper.
[By Bond P. Geddes, staff correspon.

[By Bond P. Geddes, staff correspon-
dent of the United Press.]
NEW CASTLE COUNTY WORK
HOUSE, WILMINGTON, Del, Nov.
15.- Moaning and fretfully tossing
with pain on hard boards--their pr s
on beds two prisoners here tonight
nursed burning welted backs, as the
latest victims of Delaware's whipping
post. Each received twenty lashes
today with a cat O. nine tails, bare
backed In freezing weather, shackled
like dumb brutes. Each had suffered
similar travail week ago. With
backs grilled from neck to waist to-
night they were locked up alone, left
to suffer and recover without balm
for their wounds or medical attention.
Prison authorities said they did not
need doctor, that flogged convicts
never had their wounds dressed art
erwards.
Today's victims OF the New Castle
county whipping post, the only relic
of medieval punishment used in
Delaware, were negroes. Next Saturday
q white youth will be scourged. Last
/ Saturday two white men and foul
negroes including the two lashed to
day writhed in the cell. Post and ca
are not for women Delaware anthori
4 ties declared tonight. They also paint
4 ed with PRIDE to the fact that thf
/ pillory and stocks had gone out 0.
use ten years ago.
Todays whipping post episode ere
| ated scarcely ripple OF local inter
4 est. Although two human beings
4 though with black skins we're whipped
like beasts, Delaware and the people
1 generally voiced no protest. Authori
/ ties and public alike seemed used tt
the spectacle.
! Newspapers barely mentioned thu
j occurrence as of local interest, in th'
J, face of demands from congress ant
!. elsewhere for abolshment of the pos
as legal heirloom Of puritan bar
barity. Not word less deed, 0
sympathy was given tonight by Dsla
ware officials for the two pain tcsse,
victims in this work house. Insteat
the United States senator and con
gressman from Delaware, the mayo
and chief of police Of Wilmington an
Warden Crawford who used th
J scourge, praised the post as model7
penal institution. Such scant interes
was taken in the floggings today tina
only twenty-seven men, (women an
children and photographers being hal
red), gathered today within the tin
stone stockade, fifty yards from tn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
Telephone Rates Reduced.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.--The
state railroad commission rendered
today a decision reducing by 81 per
cent all long distance telephone rates
III California. The new rate will go
into effect February 16, 1914, and will
mean a saving to the telephone users
of more than 100000 annually.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
IFNCAN REVENGE IS
SWEET TO THE VICTOR

blindfolding the victim and
forcing him to face the firing squad Of
six to a dozen soldiers. IN several
cases, says reports from Juarez, rebel
officers took the prisoners OF to quiet
places in groups of two or three, all
feing shot by one man, usually an Of
ficer, armed with a pistol.
Although the residents OF Juarez
have already embraced the rebel cap
tors as saviors and have pledged feal-
ty to the constitutionalists. serious
trouble is feared before many hours
Villas early orders to destroy all
liquor and prevent looting OF stores
were carried out but later rebel sol
ldiers secured liquor In quantities and
many Of them were intoxicated and
threatening civilians. The city Of
Juarez was quiet early tonight but
there were indications in some quar-
ters of trouble before morning.
The new rebel government Of the
city organized ostensibly by q mass
meeting of citizens during the day,
but really by Villa himself, is in COM
,plete control of the city tonight sub
ject to the orders of the rebel COM
mander.
Villa has ordered the removal OF
all scars of the battle Of early this
morning but this work is slow and
tonight many of the dead had not
been buried.
The body of G. G. Seggerson, the
American chauffeur, who was slain in
! the mornings battle, was brought here
this afternoon, but the bodies Of the
ether two slain Americans have not
yet been identified. One of the first
things Villa did this afternoon was to
appoint collector OF customs at
Juarez and to open the international
lport for goods from the American
Isjde. The rebel commander was
Iauoted earlier in the day as saying
Ibis chief object in capturing Juarez
was to get more arms and arnmuni
Ition for the constitutionalists forces
j He secured about 100000 rounds q
Ialnniuhiticn from tho barracks "a
Juarez and Is still LOOKING for othei
4 stores of rifles.
4 There is a strong possibility tina
lGovernor Venustianzo Carranza, lead
icr. Of all the constitutionalista troopi
lin the field, may come to Juarez AM
!. II :oI, III ID, arfo
villa declared tonight that he woul'
Immediately invite Carranza to com
and that he expected him to accept
4; He believes, he said, that the .rebe
header can operate more effectivel
with Juarez as his headquarters tha
from any other city in northern Mes
leo. The northern metropolis OF tn
republic controls the most importan
railroads entering Mexico and thereb
-lpractically controls the fate OF tn
city of Chihuahua, which Villa ha
been attacking for five days before h
: decided on his surprise attack o
! Juarez.
: Although only seven officers ar
t positively known to have been execu
t ed by Villas soldiers, it is believe
t that seventy-fve in all have met dealt
: One of the officers slain was Ca
t tain Jose Terres..
L A large number OF private feder;
!, soldiers who were captured durin
i the morning were seen going into til
hills near Juarez, led by rebel troop
y tcontirued on page 2)
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
BACKS Of BLACKS CUT
BY CAT O. NINE TAILS

work house to view the spectacle.
The weather was biting cold.
Only seven minutes we're required
for the ceremonies In the stockade.
A tiny iron door let In the morbid
crowd. With walls fifteen feet high
it resembled a bear pit. A door on
the opposite side disgorged the pris-
oners and prison guards. Flagella-
tion OF each man lasted almost exact
ly twenty seconds, stroke every sec
ond on their writhing backs.
William Reason, an inky black
negro of about % was the first to feel
the lash. One, two three the turn
key tolled off the blows which fell
lightly but firmly upon the quivering
muscles. At twenty" the negro sigh
ed deeply but stoically refrained from
making an outcry. AS he was led
shuffling away, his back, from neck
to waist bore white lace-like tracery
Tin disordered grill work.
! James Bayard, the second to pay
| the penance, cringed visibly. He hug
ged the post, vainly shrinking from
/ the blows He shuddered before the
count "one." The shuddners turned to
! spasmodic sfivers and then to yio-
4 lent contortions, with every muscle OF
his back and arms twitching in uni
son as the whip descended.
When twenty" came, the negro
gave low moan, a sigh came through
clenched teeth and he dropped into
the turkeys arms.
Spectators who had viewed other
fioggings declared that the punish
i ment was mild and tame" compared
to many others, although Warden
, Crawford denied that his arm was
, staid to any degree by the public out.
cry against the Delaware scourging.
The "cat" itself showed evidence OF
, long and frequent use. It's nine thongs
, we're of thin leather, about two feet
long, polished and worn smooth from
' contact with human backs. The leath.
;. handle Of hickory.
Z Neither negro was beaten hard
/ enough to bring blood. Warden Craw
L ford In o statement to the United
i Press tonight denied that blood was
: ever drawn from prisoners beaten
I Il think the whipping post is a good
thing" he said. ut keeps crooks
!. out of the state. Professional crooks
! steer clear of Delaware I'll admit
!. don't like 1t. it isn't a pleasant thing
to do, but have felt it my duty to
q do the fogging myself and not ma
/ subordinate do it. Flogging is the
o law and part Of my duty
'Tve whipped men for six or sew
e en- years, twelve to fifteen a year and
g I'VE seen whippings for twelve years
d but never saw a drop of blood
It drawn"
r This statement Is contradicted. Sew
If eral persons stated today that blooe
i had been let in the past. That tht
d law was not administered brutallJ
was declared by the warden.
4. 1T is intended that the prisoner
,r feel it some," he said The humilia
d tion is felt by some of them more thar
e the pain. Men know the law and the.
n gamble If they take chance of dis
st obedience and suffer the lash. Ths
1t resolution in congress of Representa-
d tive Evans may prove good advertis
r ing in keeping crooks away from Del
" Continued on page 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
57fs7s z 80 l-s.tl
70 Investigate Immigration.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.-Thor-
ough Investigation of conditions sur
rounding the arrival OF immigrants
in San Francisco was started here to-
day by Secretary Of Labor Wilson.
Following a visit to the immigration
station at Angel Island, Secretary viii.
son stated that he believed the pres
ent station was too far from the city
and intimated that he would recon-
mend that the immigrants be receiv-
ed at Alcatraz Island.
Wilson will confer here Monday
with Commissioner of immigration
Caminetti regarding the matter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
dopt.d comr,l.slon Form.

Il United Press Leased Wire Service.
SAGINAW, Mich. Nov. l5.--By a
vote of 4,30G to 3,S1S this city today
adopted new city charter embodying
the commission form Of municipal gov
ernment. The system prescribes four
commissioners in addition to mayor.
They will take office on January 1
1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
.GOMPERS FEELS
HIMSELF SLIPPING.
Insurgents Becoming Stronger
Each Year and Finally
May Wrest Control
Fvom Him.
BY IT YEAR SURE
Il, chine is Well Oiled and Can
Probably Pull Through
/ the Present Con-
4 ventlon.

oEA1slIJC, WdSil.y WV. lO' -AociAuci
Gompers is again fighting for his off,
cial life as president OF the American
Federation Of Labor.
This is no new thing for Gompers.
But at each succeeding convention
his task grows more difficult Each
year the hosts Of insurgency are ad-
ded to by desertions from the stand
pat ranks.
Gompers has been president Of the
federation, with an intermissioni Of
one year, since 1882. s
1t is curious warfare that Is waged
in the convention.
Gompers In the chair. little, scarrei
and old, and not in good health, Is
watchful ana wears a cloak Of jocu-
larity. He Is the best "kidder" in
/ the hall.
Time and again, when the tempers
i of the delegates have been on edge,
The had bridged crises with. ready
I wit.
1 In the food Of resolutions intro
! duced in the first days of the conven-
4 tion. there were at least two aimed
4 at the Gompers machine" and two
others In which Gompers strikes
. back.
J. Mahlon Barnes, Of the Interna
y tional Cigar Makers Gompers' owl
1 craft asks that appointment of Isl
more important comnits ees. on Teso
b lutions, laws, representatives ssesu
tive council and adjustment. -be tax
en- away from the president and made
elsewhere. If the Barnes resolution
is carried-and the insurgents viii
centre their strength upon it, Comp
= ers will be crushed. On each of fou
committees are fifteen members
a whom Gompers names. The resolu
ton Of Geo. L. Berry OF the press
men, calling for the formation of
: national labor party and a politica
program is met by an apparently sim
liar one offered by j. S. Hall of Wa
lace, Ida, supposedly acting for tn
q machine" Halls resolution cslls 70
committee of nine delegates to b
appointed by the president whic
shall draw up political paatforr
which shall be accepted by the COT
vention.
Gompers being an enemy of polit
cal activity by trades union, is e.
pected, if the Hall resolution goe
through, to name men who will dra7
up a platform so faulty that the col
> vention will reject it. But the insu
gents profess to see weakening !
the ranks of the Gompers machine
James Duncan, first vice prestden
land the rock on which insurgenc
has split for years, dropped hint {
the coming change in speech du
ing the week.
j Duncan, who has viewed with alarl
t. every effort to interest labor in pol
l. tics, said: The American Federatio
e of Labor is more of factor In pol
c. tics than in former years and it wi
e continue to take a greater and grea
y er part in politics as the years go by
Many of the insurgents are again
$ an attempt to elect new pres'dei
C of the federation at this time on tt
a. ground that any gain which might
e, made along progressive lines wou
a. be lost in the turmoil resulting fro
s, entirely new control of the feder
ID tion. They urge that every effort
Of put forth toward electing progressi'
in delegates to the executive counsel al
toward trimming the appointive po
" er of the president.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
An Apneal 10 Wilson.

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GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. t5.-
The Galveston Commercial Associa-
ton IN long kilograms today petition
ed President Wilson to take per-
sonal hand in the Southern Pacific
strike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
s. @. s. SIGNAL SAVED 103
PASSENGERS ON BURNING SHIP

to desert the ship and with the crew
turned the burning hulk toward Bermu
aa, the nearest port.
News of her rescue came through
Il freak wireless. An operator at
Cape Race picked up a message from
the Panonia announcing the rescue ot
the Balmes passengers and the fact
that she was afire. The Panonia WIN
a feeble outfit was away out of send
ing range. The Cunard officers puzzted
over this, until late soday a confirm
ing message was received. The Tan
onia is a sister ship o. :he Carpathia
which brought In the Titanic survivors
All Passengers Saved.
HAMILTON, BermGsia, Nov. 15.-
The following account of the rescue Of
the passengers Of the turning ship
Baimes, by tho Cu1a.der Panonia was
received here by Lloyl's aeents trola
the captain of the Panonia this after
noon: 81 received distress signals
from the Balmes and Immediately
steamed toward her. When / reached
the boat her forward mast had fallen
Flames We're issuing from her for
4 ward hold. Passengers We're grouped
on the stern Life boats took off 1oa
passengers. All are we'll
Captain Ruiz and crew refused tt
desert the Balmes. They remained and
are fighting the fire as we proceed
. (Signed) Captain Perry
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-16
Dennis Is Stricken.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Nov. 15.-
Stricken with paralysis last night, III.
R. Dennis, one of the wealthiest resi-
dents Of this part of the northwest is
in a critical condition tonight. He
formerly resided at Des Moines, Iowa.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-07
ADDS nv PHONE

Phone $50. Ell Paso Distilled water Co.