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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
A WILD ROAR
Uf INDIGNATION
German Reichstag Votes 293 to
3D. Lack of Confidence
), in the Imperial
Chancellor.
CENsURED GOVERNMENT.
Entire Press Of Country Excepting the
kaiser's Newspapers Protest
Against Rule by
Military.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
BERLIN, Dec. 4.-By 293 to 54, the
reichstag tonight voted a lack of con
fidence In the imperial chancellor and
the government, after four hour de-
bate. The censure of the government
followed the military outbursts in AL
SAGE and the utterances of Won Beth
mann-Hollweg and War Minister Falk-
enhayn in the reichstag, in which they
declared that the military would con-
tinue to be the extreme authority in
Germany.
AS one result of the fierce utter
ances in the reichstag of Imperial
Chancellor DIR. Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg and War Minister Falkenhayn.
calls were sent broadcast through
Germany for mass meetings on Sun
day to protest against the govern.
ment's open attitude of military die.
tatorship.
Roars Of indignation went up from
the entire press of Germany except
those controlled by the kaiser
MoaS JOuludIS CdllSu UPON IuS
| chancellor to resign. Matters cannot
go on in this way The whole world
now knows how Germany is ruled.
says the Tageblatt Maxemilliar
Harden excoriated the governmen,
for its tactlessness in permitting
small incidents like riots in Alsace t.
4 grow to huge proportions.
\ Alarmed by the storm of popula
i disapproyal the imperial chancellc
addressed the TaTdfsssag againg this sal
ternoon as deputies were about to be
] gin debate on the vote of censurinl
the government.
The kaiser this afternoon sum
moned the chancellor, General Deim
ling, commander at Strasberg an
General Won Wodel, the viceroy 0
Alsace to confer with him at Karls
7 ruhe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
OVER 100000 OUT OF WORK
IN CITY OF CHICAGO TODAY

others in touch with the problem OF
Unemployment.
AS a result of this condition, Prof.
Chas. r. Henderson, chairman OF the
city commission on unemploys~ent,
will today ask Mayor Harrison to pre-
sent to the council some plan to re-
lieye the distress which he believes
certain to follow the condition. II is
probable an appeal will be made TO
tho state TO assist in finding work for
tba idle. OF the total number of id.e,
profassor Henderson estimates that
5o.ouO are the summer WORKERS whose
occupation usually fails on the ap-
preach of winter. The balance ac'
cordlng to labor leaders, results rom
curtailment of labor In steel ana al
lied industries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
PLAN is GOOD
IF FOLLOWED
Governor Glynn of New York
State Says He Has Solved
the Question Of
Efficiency.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON Decs 4.-Democrat-
ic governors and legislators, In at
tendance on the annual rivers and
harbors congress were today asked
by Governor Martin S. Glynn Of New
York to aid nationwide movement
to utilize business men in running
state governments. Glynn who was
one of today's speakers at the con-
gress, explained to his fellow dele
gates that he believed he had solved
the question of getting efficiency in
state government.
He Is selecting an unoficial com.
mitee of the best known business
men in New York state to help him
carry on the states affairs. While
extremely retcent regarding the men
whom he will call on, it leaked out
in his several conferences that among
those who have accepted are William
Church Osborn, noted attorney Clev-
eland H. Dodge, probably the one
man in this country closest to Presi-
dent Wilson and the man who START
ed the Wilson boom for the presi-
dency; John d. Rockefeller, Jr.;
Charles fireman, big business man OF
| Ithaca, and Thomas Muley. president
| Of the Emigrant Savings bank in New
! York City.
/ In explaining his plan the New
| York governor said the reason there
was so much waste in running the
business of the state was that the
properly equipped business men have
refused to take Office. The result has
ceen that politicians have attempted
4 to conduct the various departments
Under the Glynn plan business mer
will give their time without comDen
sation. They will be asked to stand
4 ardize each department and to for
mulate efficiency rules that will ge
for the state a dollars worth of sap
lies or labor for every dollar spen
4 by it,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Drowned Her Baby.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
FORT SCOTT, Kans., Dec. 4.-Elsie
Baker, aged 20 years, was arrested at
her fathers home near Ottawa ana
confessed that she drowned her three
We aks' old son in the Marmaton riv-
er here Friday. She charged her ruin
to man who has a family in Okla
home. Following the girls confession
homa. Following the girls confession
the body. weighted down with a 10
round rock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Continued on page 81
MEN DISGUISED TN SKIRTS
MAY HAVE USED THE RAIL

lantes" alleged to have ridden Mrs.
John Richardson through the main
street of Volo on rail.
The defense today argued that the
rail-riding party was but decent
though rather noisy cEarayari. Haf
dozen male witnesses who We're
charged with cheering the procession.
today intimatcd tlat some persons
who furnished unsolicited transporta-
ton, may have been men disguised
as women. 1t was pointed out thar
great number OF yolo men Wore neayy
boards which would have projected
beyond the masks. II is expected the
case will 90 10 the Jury late teday or
early tomorro@,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
ANOTHER LODGING
HOUSE is BURNED
All But One of the One Hundred Men
Asleep, Got Out in
Safety.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 4.--Death by
fire in a cheap lodging house came TO
ono more derelict here today in addi-
tion to the twenty-eight victims of the
Arcadia disaster yesterday. The Bay
state lodging house burned and Den
mis- Carol, fisherman, so, perished.
One hundred men were in the hunks
of the place, but all except Carroll
escaped.
Scores of homeless men walked the
streets last night because the authori-
ties restricted the number allowed IN
cheap hotels.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
TEXAS is
FLOODED
Z
Ten Thousand People Made
Homeless by Record Break
ing Rise in the
Rivers.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Sery
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 4.-Wit : o.
600 homeless, Texas today faf $ the
problem of caring for those iven
from their homes in the v sys by
the flood waters Of the Colo =, Trim
ity and Brazos rivers. Isle rains
continue and the streams continue to
rise it is probable the governor will
be called on to supply militia tents
to shelter the refugees.
Waco is the chief sufferer, flood
damage In that city alone being esti-
mated at $4,000. State troops there
today are guarding the damaged prop
erty, with orders to shoot looters on
sight. Thousands of acres are flooded.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Weather Conditions.

The depression in western Texas,
which has been noted for several days,
remains nearly stationary, and its in
fuence is causing unsettled weather
from the Rockies to the central val
lcys, with occasional light rain in
portions of this territory Snow is
reported at Denver this morning and
rain at Little Rock, Ark.
Conditions indicate unsettled wealth
er and probably occasional rain, for
this section tonight and Friday, with
slight change in temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Closing Testimony in the Case
of Woman Who Charges
Hazing.

United Press Leased Wire service.l
WAUKEGAN, H., Dec. 4.--Long
lines of mud splattered buggies drew
up before the court house here today
bringing crowds of farmers and resi-
dents Of Volo, who expected to hear
the closing testimony and arguments
in the case of the six women 'vigi,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Paderewski is Nervous.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec. 4.-Threats
of violence made by his enemies are
having bad effect on Pad'erewiski's
nerves. The pianist declares that he
is being continually questioned by
special delivery letters and telegrlms
about his alleged financing Of news
paper in Poland, unfriendly to the
Jews, report which he has often
denied
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
w. s. p. U. Indignant.

LONDON, Dec A. The Wcmen's
Social and Political Union, indignant
at the arrest of Mrs Emmeline Pank-
hurst at Devonport today began prep
arations for gigantic meeting Of
protest Sunday night at Earls court.
Mrs. Pankhurst's arrest is mon
strous," said Mrs. Dacre Fox, but 1t
will be sure to help the cause"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Mrs. Pankhurst, Returning to
England, Was Arrested and
Put Behind the
Bars.
WAS NO DISTURBANCE
Body Guard Of Militants cIeverly Out
witted and Arrived on
the Scene Too
Late.

PLYMOUTH, Eng, Des. 4-Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst, untamed lead
er of militant suffragettes, was re-
arrested this afternoon at Davenport,
two miles from here as the steamship
Majestic, on which she returned from
America was approaching Plymouth,
By clever ruse the police took
Mrs Pankhurst into custody without
disturbance, completely outwitting
General Mrs. Flora Drummond's
militant body guard who were mass
ed here today to protect their leader
from arrest.
When the Majestic was sighted
|outside, a police boat loaded with
Scotland Yard detectives put Off to
her. At the same time the suffraget-
tes started out in White Star tug
on which were six police who acted
like they really expected fight. In
the meantime a government tug filled
/ with policemen met the Majestic off
! Davenport, half an hour before, and
/ Mrs. Pankhurst was on her way to
/ London in an automobile guarded by
officers before the Plymouth suffra-
gettes knew anything about it.
/ The Plymouth policemen solemnly
j boarded. the Majestic here, followed
by the militant body guard. They
went to Mrs. Pankhurst's stateroom
and not until then did the womer
i know thss had been foSestalied.
Mrs. Pankhurst, mildly protesting
was taken off in the government tug
at Davenport and taken In an automo
bile as far as Bull Point where the
policemen held her for further orders
from the home office.
4 Mrs. Pankhurst is subject to com
initial to Holloway Jail without pre-
iliminaries of any kind. She is under
a three year Jail sentence for incitini
4 violence and while in France ant
America was virtually under "a ca
and mouse license
Mrs. Pankhurst late this Afternoon
was being taken to London on reg
uIar train which policemen who ar
rested her, caught at Bull Point. Sh'
. was accompanied by Mrs. Rhett;
Child Dorr, an American suffragist
who was with her throughout he
American trip. Miss Joan Wickham
Mrs. Pankhurst's secretary, was no
allowed to accompany her
The policemen who boarded the Ma
jestic at Davenport found Mrs. Pank
hurst on the promenade deck and al
rested her without any commotior
Mrs. Pankhurst protested slightly an
demanded a warrant but when toll
that none was necessary, she being
fugitive, she submitted without resist
ance. A few suffragettes In smal
boats hurrying to the liner, shoute
to Mrs. Pankhurst not to let the O
ficers take her but she paid no after
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Acquitted Of Murder Charge.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.l
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 4-Robert
Hber, Chicago jewaler was acquitted
of first degree murder charge on
the ground of insanity by jury be-
fore Common Pleas judge Cush ng.
He shot John KuEzelman, hotel
keeper, last summer. His defense
was that he was temporarily insane
after his wife told him Kunzelman
had attacked her five years before.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
|H5Ii IN STRIKE
Of TRANSFERS.
.d.y Was Expected to be
J rnoch Making Time in the
Walkout at In
dianapo1is.
bsE THE PARCEL POST
b,stoffIce is swampcd by Increase OF
business Resulting From
the Tcamstetx
Strike.
hsr THE PARCEL POST

,,r,tpd Press Leased Wire Service.]
1yDI ANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. A
Jsis In the teamsters strike is i'm
inent today. With Christmas shop
us turned into the poorest busin ess
stion of the year by the walkout;
IN tanned freight houses and COM
Iaatively no out going shipments, a
hove is on by citizens committee
Il end the strike on the part Of many
pmpoyers to resume business.
With one death in a hospital yes
trday, the toll of killed in strike
rots is two today. Seven men have
bullet wounds and scores of heads
tave been chacked. No arrests have
te,n made for the shootings by
ktlike breakers. Uncle Sam is un-
|Fittingly the union teamsters worst
.nemy. By parcel post and by ex-
rrsss which has the protection of the
Interstate commerce. comm.ss on the
merchants are making nearly all
necessary deliveries, Parcel post l..
syamped. Eggs, butter, meats. bread
snd dressed fowl as we'll as milady's
bew shoes, waists, silk and Christmas
ilts are going by way of parcel post
and express from local stores to
points within the city limits. Chr ST
mas shopping is not one-half normal,
however, business men declare.
The humorous side of the strike is
Everywhere in evidence. A full grown
man With another walking alongside
as guard, carted purchase home in a
childs express wagon. Wives who
are afraid to come down town on ac,
count Of rioting, telephone their hus.
bands not to forget on the way home
from work to get bread from the
baker, milk from the dairy and meat
from the butcher. Deliveries in tn
residential sections have become
comparatively nil since the strike was
talled Monday Strikers families are
rsported to be in distress. A re!ie
fund has been started by other unions
solicitor of the department OF labor
arrived here today on the instruction
of Secretary of Labor Wilson. His
efforts are expected to postpone tn
Danger of general strike. A com
mlttee of the central labor union i
scheduled to take up the gen era
strike question again tonight.
Mayor Wallace urged the resump
ton Of business, promising full Pre-
lection by the police. The striker
are In an ugly mood at the arming 0
strike breakers and thsir release fol
lowing fatal shootings.
Garbage was collected down tow
Today by the private company havin
'ae city garbage contract, but no ger
efai collection was attempted in tn
RESIDENTIAL district. The danger of a
Epidemic Of disease is not great. az
cofding to City Sanitarian Morgan.
Claim Strike is Broken.
NDIANAPoLIs, Ind, Dec. 4. Th
leamsters strike is broken. elaine
me organized employers this afte
aoon, Although the strike leader
would not admit that any OF the SOC
ahioh drivers and helpers had returl
se 70 work business was resumed o
large scale today by the employer
saa the forenoon passed off wit
tN or not trouble.
Read The Daily Gate city. IL
per week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
These Are All Wage Farmers
and Does Not include
Tramps.

sunited Press Leased Wire Seryice.] ]
/ otllCAGO. Dec. 4.-Over 100000
neu aa and women wage earners in Chi
s. ssso are Idle today, according TO
rsa'ement ~ today from President John
:, lpatrick of the Chicago Federation
LABOR Fitzpatrick said that this
s.inate was the result Of reports
-aue TO him by the labor agents and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Daily Thounht.

The human heart concerns US more
than poring into microscopes, and Is
larger than can be measured by the
pompous Dsures of the astronomer
Emerson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Daily River Bulletin.
River Forecast.

The change in river stage will be
slight from Davenport to Keokuk dur
ing the next forty-eight hours,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
CHRISTMAS DAY
IN MEXICO CITY
Mexican Rebel Rallying Cry as
Force of 10000 Men March
Toward the
Capital.
CANNOT STOP VILLA
Little Resistance Expected From Fsa-
craI Garrlsons Who VIII
be SO Over
wheImed.

lUnlted PresS Leased Wire Sery1ce.l
Ell PASO, Texas, Dec. 4-The
Mexican rebel force under General
"Pancho" Villa, early today broke
camp at Montezuma, 115 miles south
of Juarez, and proceeded southwark
From that point almost as far as
Chihuahua City the line has been
wrscked and numerous bridges have
been burned This will make the ad-
vance of the rebels extremely slow
and it is problematical when they
will reach the capital OF chihuahua
state.
Villa announced today that he
would not stop there, however With
his 1000 soldiers and from 5000 to
10000 other rebels whom he expects
to join him further south, he will
continue his advance to Mexico City
itself.
He does not expct any serious op-
position from federal garrisons on
the way as his army will be so over
whelming that these cannot hope to
do more than check him temporarily.
| ftS ooOH dS llc icdSnto
! City, Villa will re-establish the city
/ and state governments on constitu-
4 tional basis leave garrison of 1000
and hurry southwark Christmas
day In the national capital Is now
the rallying cry of Villas men and
their leader is confident that they
. will succeed.
j THE federal forces canuot with
stand the assaults of 10000 men,.
said villa today
That is the force will have by
the time we reach Mexico City. AS
soon as we capture the capital and
Il drive Huerta out organized resistance
to our cause will stop. Francisco
Madero will be avenged. The hour
is very near now"
No word has been received from
the seven federal generals who offer
ed to surrender. 1t is thought they
have fled to the mountains or are en-
route to the American border.
Wilson's Message.
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Dec. 4.-Flat
orders against publication OF Presi-
dent Wilson's message to congress-
were given the newspapers here when
the message was received from the
: American consulate in this city Gem
eral Maas prohibited the publication.
Mekicans here view the document
variously according to their political
! sympathies, while Americans general
ly express opinions that 1t offered no
solution of the Mexican troubles.
Three hundred more troops to rein
force the federal garrison at Tuxpam
sailed from here last night on the
steamer ZaraGoza.
/. Escaped Firing Squad.
! MEXICO CITY, Dec. 4.-Colonel
: Barbosa Ghoste, federal officer,
faced rebel firing squad after the
f battle at Aviles, and with two bullets
a in his breast, lived to tell the story
He reached the capital today and told
q of his almost miraculous escape.
y The colonel said that after the bat
n tie he and nineteen other captured
i officers were blindfolded and backed
G against a stone wall and awaited
e execution BY firing sqtod. told by
g the rebel commander to execute them
CONTINUED on page 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Claim Strike is Broken.

Read The Daily Gate city. 100
per week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Local Observations.

Mean temperature. Dec. 3, %.
Highest temperature, 81.
Lowest temperature, 40.
Lowest temperature last night, a.
FRED q. GOSEWISCH.
Observer,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-04
Worst in Thirteen Years.

=
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 4.-Eleven
persons are dead, hundreds have been
driven from their homes in the valleys
of the Colorado, Brazos and Trinity
rivers by the worst floods in Texas in
thirteen years.
Torrential rains have been falling
almost continually for thirty-six hours.
Levees have been washed out, hun
dreds of small bridges destroyed. live
stock drowned and thousands of acres
of land are inundated.
The only loss of life known SO far
is eleven, at Belton
Sudden rises in streams, marooned
many and higher water which seems
certain with the continued rains, may
cause other drownings
The Colorado river has reached
twenty-six feet at Austin and forty
three feet at the dam being built
above the city, and is still rising.
More heavy rains during the night
and early today over the state threat
en- further enormous damage.
| All streams in southwest Texas are
on record floods. At Lampases, many
/ have been driven from their homes,
several bridges washed away and
4 900 feet of track torn up between
-fSan Antonio and Frederick sburg.
People PercF1ed In Trees.
DAIIJAS, Dec. 4.The known vic
tins OF the floods now number four
teen, but a number of persons ara
missing and are believed to be dead
/ In several sections, trains are ma
rooned in the rising floods and the
passengers are still on board.
The floods about Waco have diver
4 at least 1000 people from theil
A homes. Marlin, the training point o
several major league teams, is sur
rounded by water.
All along the deltas of Texas riv
ers. men, women and children are
u marooned by the foods and in some
Z. cases persons have been In trees TO
j thirty.siX hours with boatmen makins
! vain efforts to rescue them. The In
4 ternational and Great Northern ant
I. Texas Midland railroads are thu
worst sufferers from the floods. II
many parts of the state the tracks
are under water and the operation O
trains has wholly ceased.
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-04-19
EXTRA JUDGE BILL HITS sNAe.
Senator Rristow Suggests Use of Com
merce Court Judges.

WASHINGTON, D. c. april 1.-THE
Chiffon bill TO give an extra judge
to the Fourth circuit court OF the
United States hit a snag in the Sen
ate yesterday when il was called up
by the West Virginia senator and its
immediate consideration asked. Sen.
ator Bristow objected and the meas
ure went over.
Senator Bristow remarked that he
does not see the necessity Of creating
the new iudgship. lie declared that
after July / there viii be four Com
meree Court judges idle on Uncle
Sans hands, and that If the docket
in the Fourth circuit Is choked with
business one Of these judges can be
designated to go 10 that circuit and
help relieve the regular j%urists.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-04-19
POEM
VIII Probably be Selected at Meeting
to be Held at Fairmont Next
Monday.

A meeting of the state semi-centen-
NAL commission has been called for
next Monday, April 21st. at Fairmont.
A meeting of the subcommittee on the
state poem and song contest will be
held in connection. 1t will be remem-
bered that this committee failed to get
a quorum at arecent meeting called
for Charleston, but it is hoped to get
enough of the members present at
Fairmont to decide the contest.
Following the committee meeting
the full commission viii hold a SEES
sion when it is probate that the song
committees recommendation ON that
subject will be received and approved.
The commission also has some other
business matters in preparation for
the mi-Centcnnial to transact,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-04-19
HORSE KILLED
Little Boy Drives TOO ciose to Edge
and Horse arc Cart Went
over.

About 1890 "Wednesday morning q
horse, belonging to Frank Zepp, OF
Berk ley Place, was killed on the
dump on South Queen street. Ben.
jamin +. zepp. son, was driving the
horse and IN backing on the durap TO
unload the cart he drove o close
to the edge and the cart sank 20 deep
IN the loose earth that the horse was
unable to hold II and all went over
The horse broke It's back and died
instantly Tie little boy escaped
without injury.
Mr.. Zepp valued the animal at $3.50
and feels the loss very keenly, as he
says he had not finished paying for 1t
and that he is unable to purchase an
other at this time.