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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
DR.. friedman Treated Sew
eral People Who Are Suf-
ering From Cases of
tuberculosis.
GOVERNMENT. WILL TEST
Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Will Give the Cure
the Most Thorough
Investigation.

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NEW YORK, March S.-Seventeer
persons, men, women and children,
all suffering from tuberculosis, were
inoculated here late today with the
culture brought to this country by DR..
r. +. Friedman, the young German
savant, who believes he has found a
cure for the dread white plague.
SO simple was the actual admins
tration of the treatment that 1t re-
quired but one hour for DR.. Fried
mann to dispose OF his seventeen
patients.
The sufferers were afflicted with
the disease in varying forms. There
were eleven with pulmonary tubercn-
losis, three we're suffering from tub
erculosis of the bone. in one case the
knee being the point at which the dis
ease had made its attack, and In two
others the hip joint was wasting
away Two patients were suffering
from tuberculosis of the kidney and
bladder, and the last had tubercu,
/ losis OF the glands.
The demonstration by DIR. Friec-
mann took place at the private Offices
j of DIR. George Manheimer, A West
| 51st street. In response to invita-.
| tions issued by DR.. Manheimer. more
than score of eminent physicians
We're present. All Of the patients
| treated were accompanied by their
attending physicians and in each
case a written history or their afflic-
tion was presented to DR.. Friedman.
so that he might be acquainted with
their exact condition, and note the
result of his treatment
Although the demonstration had
been surrounded with the greatest
! secrecy. persons in the neighborhood
i OF Dr. Manheimer's Office were lar-
tracted by the strange procession q.
patients. the like of which was mover
before seen there.
4 Some of the seventeen were poorly
4 clad. Some came supported by their
physicians, friends or relatives. A
blonde haired boy Of nine or ten
years clung closely to his mothers
hand as he limped ti1nidly along the
street and climbed the steps TO the
/! physicians offices. He was afflicted
with tuberculosis of the knee and his
right limb appeared all but wasted
away Close behind him came stall
wart looking young man. But he too
linped as he ascended the steps and
sough.. the railing for support. The
disease had fastened its hold ON him,
and his knee was rapidly disintegrar-
/ ing.
1t was this young mans case that
was considered one of the most re-
rnarkable by DIR. Benjamin assistant
/ to DR.. friedman. After the demon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
Dynamite Explosion Took at
Least Thirty-twe Lives in
the Harbor

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BALTIMORE, Md, March s.--Thir-
! 1.-TWO dead, as the tolls of yesterdays
uyhamite disaster In the lower har.
uor was the most conservative esti-
mate made tonight This is based on
sne bodies found and the missing men,
rom whom nothing had been heard
n'ore than twenty-four hours after the
94p tons of explosive let go in the
.ola OF the steamer Alum Chine,
nioofed off Fort Carroll.
sriefiy, the damage due to the ex-
pioslon OF the dynamite was:
lhirty-two lives lost.
fwenty-four men so seriously in.
1ursa that they are still In hospitals.
rfobably a hundred more were
ueated at hospitals and sent home.
Mnie others werc given attention by
musicians. This list includes mem
oeis OF the vessels crew and work
l7il and residents of Sparrows Point
snu Wagners Point, who were cut by
isihg glass. Fifty persons were
ueated at Sparrows Point alone.
nrltisli steamer Alum Chine, de-
s''oyed involving property loss Of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
TRjA-LA-LA FOR
POOR PRISONERS
Madame schuman-Heink VIII Sing to
Inmates Of the County


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OMAHA, Neb., March s, The ap-
peal OF the domn.ts srodden, the oppress-
ed and the victims of unkind fate.
has again touched the heart of Ma.
dame Schuman-H eink, the world-fam-
GUS contralto, who arrived In Omaha
this evening. She announced shortly
after her arrival tonight tina. she
would devote tomorrow afternoon to
the prisoners in the county Jail The
Douglas county 'fil is tonight filled
with more prisoners than ever before
in the history Of the state. Men who
have never known the beauty Of music
will tomorrow hear one OF the worlds
greatest singers.
Madame Schuman-H Heinl1 agreed to
sing at the urgent bequest of the
county authorities. She made one
provision that nobody but those con-
fined to the jail should listen to her
singing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
PUNISHMENT Of,
RUNAWAY BOY.
Returned Homo After Eight Years to
Find Parents Roth Dead and
the Old Home
2 Vacant.
! LED BY A MANIAC
Tragedy Occurred But a Few Weeks
Ago and Prodlsal Did
Not Tarry
Long.

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SPARTA, Wis. March S.Frank
Harmon, who ran away eigh. years
ago ito see the world stepped from
train tonight, nnrecognized by for
mer playmates and friends, and hur-
ried home to tell his father and
mother that in his absence he had
made good"
Harmon knocked at the front door.
There was no answer, and he pushed
in. The house was deserted and bare
of furniture.
A neighbor, who recognized tho
runaway broke the news as gently
as possible that Harmon's parents
were shot and killed by a maniac a
few weeks ago. His brothers and SIS.
ters had moved away.
Without stopping, Harmon boarded
train for San Francisco an hour af-
ter his arrival.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
Estate in Mexico is Worth Ten
Millions and They Hate
to Lose 1t.

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NEW YORK, March s.. The gather
ing in New York and Washington of
the scattered clan OF Madero, headed
by Francisco l. Madero. Sr., father of
the late president of Mexico, gave
rise today to the belief that plans are
afoot to make stormy the path of the
Huerta regime. Whether the remain
ing members Of this powerful and
tremendously wealthy family are en-
gagged in fomenting new revolution
to avenge the assassinations of the
former president and his brother,
Gustayc Madero, or merely to enlist
the aid of the United States to pre-.
vent the confiscation of the s100,0o0,-
coo Madero estate in Mexico, was a
question that aroused wide discussion
iii financial and political circles.
The elder Madero and his brother,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
INVOICE OF WRECKAGE
TO LIFE AND PROPERTY

about s150,0o0.
Cargo of the Alum Chine, consist
ing of $40 tons of dynamite and $500
tons of coal value about 100000.
Collier Jason, damaged about $780,
600
Car float Atlantic transport com
.pany, about $4,000
Tug Atlantic, Atlantic Transport
company. about $4,000
Cars and dynamite on float, about
$4,000.
Glassware broken on both sides OF
river, probably $4,000.
OF seventeen bodies found all but
one found-that of white man
have been identified
Bodies blown to fragments or down
in the hold of the Alum Chine may
never be found, or may be brought to
light only after divers have done
their work.
The government investigation of the
explosion began today with the ar
rival in the city of Charles r. Munroe
and Clarence Hall of the bureau of
mines at Washington.
The bureau OF mines exercises gen
eral supervision over the handling of
high explosives throughout the coun-
try and this handling must conform
TO government regulations. The pure
pose of the visit and investigation of
the bureau officials is to determine
whether the regulations were lived up
10 preceding the destruction of the
Alum Chine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
THE WEATHER.

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CHICAGO, March S.-Weather fore
cast:
Illinois: Generally fair Sunday anc
Monday; colder Sunday.
Missouri: Generally fair Sunday
and Monday; colder Sunday.
Iowa: Generally fair Sunday anu
Monday; cooler Sunday.
March Bar. Their. Wind W'th'r
s z a. m.--30.10 3S S Clear
s Z p. m.-so,o2 s5 S Clea,
River above low water of 1864, /
foot tenth.
Change in "a hours, fall tenths.
Mean temperature. So
Lowest temperature, rs.
Highest temperature, So.
Lowest temperature last night. 80.
FRED 2, GOSEWIsCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
Illinois White Slave Commits
sion Boldly Charges Big
Concerns With Terrible
Responsibility.
HORROR IS PROMISED
Millionaires Who Are Guilty
Receive Plaudits From the
World for Their Deeds
Of Charity.

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CHICAGO, March Sour commits
sion has proved that low wages is the
principal factor in causing prostitu-
tion," declared Acting Governor
O'Hara, head Of the Illinois senate
white slave commission, tonight. Big
business cannot deny this in the face
Of the overwhelming testimony Of the
victims themselves. Every immoral
woman that has testified has sworn
that poverty and inability to earn
enough money, honestly, to live half
dscently, drove her into life Of
shame. They were selected haphaz-
ard. Big business men are respons-
ible for this awful condition.
"One witness here, julius Rosen-
vald, many times q millionaire and
chief owner OF business that pays
s70O0.O00 profit a year, admitted that
he could have paid $2,000,000 a year
more to his underpaid employees,
without seriously interfering with the
profits OF his great concern.
The commission has crystalized q
sentiment against such practices. We
! hare begun at the top, among those
Who pay the highest OF the starvation
wages. When We get down to the
bottom where girls are worked ten
hours a day for 50 week and even
less, we shall expose worse condi-
lions. The millionaires we have
questioned are known as philanthrop-
ISIS, liberal donors to charity balls,
patrons of churches, public charities,
and leaders of society.
IL we find that these men who
value their regulations enough to
guard them by liberal gifts to charits
able works, are underpaying their
women employees, what may we ex-
pect when we Investigate the UNI
scrupulous small business men, sweat
shop owner and pitiless exploiter OF
women and children.y
Before we get through with this
investigation the whole country will
pc shocked, Mortified beyond express
sion, at the methods of big business.
lhat these millionaires defy the man
oates of the state in refusing to re-
veal their profits, is presumptive evi-
aence Of wealth swollen each year in
Dig figures by paying employees wages
below the starvation line
This investigation has already TAX
en- step to cure one great evil--that
u the subtle requirement that all
klrls claim to live at home under PEN
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
Old Employees Rewarded.

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NEW YORK, March s--The ESQ
employees Of the Mccall Magazine
Company were given happy sur.
prise today when James H. Ottley,
their former employer, distributed
100000 among them. Ottley had
sold the property last December and
it was his desire to reward all who
had been in his employ three years or
more The rewards were all arrang-
ed on the basis of salaries and length
of service. One girl who had been
working for the firm ten years at $40
a week, received $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09

HE CAN KEEP GOING
Willing to Stay Out West and Fls'n
Fredericks Just as Long
AS 1t Is Neces-
sary.

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LOS ANGELES, March S.-Unless
District Attorney Fredericks changes
his mind, Attorney Clarence S. Dar-
row will go to trial third time on
charges of bribery in connection with
the trial a year ago of James B. Nc
Namara.
This was the Interpretation out to-
night on a statement he issued when
asked if he would dismiss the indict-
ment against the Chicago lawyer,
now that he has been once acquitted
and once secured hung Jury.
THE case is still on the books and !
will go ahead with It, That is what
am here for. have no further plans
to announce at this time"
Until Fredericks made this state
ment If had been the general impress
sion that the prosecutor would not put
the accused lawyer on trial a third
time, in spite Of the fact that the Jury
which reported disagreement and
was discharged today stood eight for
conviction as against four for acquit-
ta,.
The discharge Of the twelve men
came only after Foreman Pettingill
had reported to Judge Conley that
they hopelessly disagreed. After each
juror had individually assured the
/ court that his opinion. had heen- regis
tered unalteraibly, Judge Conlcy dis
/, missed them.
IN reporting the disagreement, Pet
tingill stated that the vote stood eight
to four, but did not indicate in whose
favor Afterward he confirmed ru-
mors that the larger number of jur.
ors We're in favor of conviction.
Defense Attorney O. w. Powers, af-
ter the discharge Of the jury, demand
ed that date be set for a second
trial on the Indictment and acting up
on his request, Judge Conley fixed
March 81, at 10 o'clock for prelimin-
airy arguments. He also stated that
ii the prosecution moves that the case
be dismissed, any superior court Judge
is empowered to take such action.
The report by Foreman Pettingill
was received in silence by the crowd
that packed the courtroom. There
was not sound but the shuffling OF
! feet when the result had been an.
nounced.
Mrs. Darrow, pale and tense, receiv-
ed the shock bravely She turned AMI
smiled at her husband. whose face
was lined and weary But almost i'm.
mediately Darrow gripped himself
and prompted his attorneys in the
move to have another trial date set.
When the court formalities We're
completed the crowd was driven from
the room by deputies, but not basoie
a score OF the defendants friends had
gathered about him, assuring him OF
1 their friendship and loyalty.
In discussing the disagreement Oar
row said:
Upon the evidence should have
been acquitted at once. My inno-
cence has been firmly established
twice but there were some men on
the jury who would have voted to con
| yict me even If they had not heard a
word of evidence. will stay here
| and fight as long as necessary. ] can
keep going as long as District Attor.
/ ney Fredericks can"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
He Got twenty-five Years.

SEWARD, Nebr. March S.--Boyce
Pickerell. who blew his wife's head
off with a shotgun January in fit
of jealousy, was today sentenced to
twenty-five years in the state peni-
tentiary. He had been married only
one month and his bride was vet in
her teens. The sentence was impos-
ed after the county attorney agreed to
allow pickerell to plead guilty to NC.
ond degree murder.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
starvation WAGES
LEAD GIRLS TO RUIN

atty Of being barred from employment.
80 that starvation wages may be JUS
tilted. Already Mandel Brothers and
Hillmans have agreed to investigate
the home conditions of the poorest
.paid employees. They will know then
that these girls cannot live on the
wages they get.
This commission has shown the
world that low wages and prostitution
are twin evils, or rather that low
wages is the mother of prostitution.
It has shown that commerce protects
vice when it is profitable to do 80. Big
employers cannot longer pretend
ignorance Of the fact that the poverty
created by starvation wages fills the
brothels. Millionaires can no longer
calm to be philanthropists because of
gifts to charities, when they are driv-
ing wohen and girls, some Of them
mere children, into houses Of ill-fame.
Later we shall show the relatively
small proportion OF vice recruited
from dance halls, summer parks and
women procurers. Our principal aim
is to enact minimum wage law, fix
ing the lowest pay any woman shall
get at enough to make her independ-
ent from want Capital is making such
profits out of labor that 1t can readily
afford all that is demanded"
Senator Beall, member OF the COM
mission, tonight disclosed the con-
tents of letters received from John D.
Rockefeller, Jr, Offering to aid the
commission with his personal infiu-
ence and fortune. Rockefeller volun-
teered to furnish any amount OF mon
|ey necessary, Senator Beall said, and
asked to be allowed to cooperate in
some way beneficial to the investiga-
tion
The commission has accepted Mr.
Rockefeller's liberal Offer said SEN
ator Beall, "and will get from him a
report on the economic conditions OF
working girls in New York. He will
have commission sit there, we as.
sumo, to examine witnesses as the
Illinois commission has done we do
not know the exact means he VIII
employ but the testimony Of New York
working girls, white slaves, and II
possible. big employers. will be pro-
cured in New York City
In executive session this afternoon,
the probers decided to postpone action
with regard to James Simpson, vice
president of the Marshall Field com
pany, and Edward Hillman. secretary
of the Hillman Company. who refus-
ed to tell what their annual profits
|are. The lieutenant governor holds
| the view that the committee has all
the powers of court and may cite
both merchants for contempt If they
persist in their refusal.
| Hillman will be on the stand again
when the investigating committee re-
sumes work Monday morning. w. c.
Thorne, second vice president OF
Montgomery Ward and Company, is
slated to follow Hillman
Other big merchants who have been
served with subpoenaes and are wait
ing to testify are:
| Joseph Basch. vice president and
manager Siegel Cooper and Company.
Henry Schwab, manager Rothschild
and Company
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-09
RAY Of HOPE SHINES
ON SEVENTEEN PATIENTS

stration Dr. Benjamin declared that
the young man was accompanied to
the clinic by a we'll known surgeon
who had been treating him. The
surgeon had given up hope and as the
young man stood by, he heard DR..
Friedman informed that, in the SUR
geon's opinion, the only chance on
saving the patients life was to cut
out the diseased portion or bone.
He was treated with the culture
prepared by DR.. friedman however.
The operation was postponed until
the effect could be noted. and Or.
Benjamin declared he was conf1denc
1t would never be necessary to resort
to the knife.
Men, women and children we're
numbered among the other patients
about equally. Some we're evidently
in distress from their suffering. 9th
ers were we'll dressed and bore but
slight mark OF their disease.
Only the invited physicians we're
admitted to the clinic today. but
when the work was completed, all
spoke most highly of DR.. Fsriedmanns
demonstration. They declared that In
contrast to the reports OF his work
at the peoples hospital two days ago.
he showed no signs OF nervousness.
His entire handling Of the cases was
beyond reproach. they said.
The needle with which the culture.
which is in a liquid form.
is injected, was first thorough
ly sterilized DR. Friedman
also sterilized his hands before pro-
ceeding with his work. In the case
OF pulmonary tuberculosis, the cul-
ture was injected in the buttock. For
the patients suffering from tubercu-
losis of the bone, two injections were
made, one In the buttoclt and the
second la vein In the wrist
Among the physicians who Wit
@. Thasher OF Atlanta, Ga. who has
\ made study of tuberculosis. He de.
clared that he regarded the. desnp,,s
stration today as a most excellent
! test of the friedman treatment, "
was the general opinion OF the phy-
1 stcians that the patients treated were
/ excellent subjects. The cases we're
of a general nature; none was at the
point where all hope had been aban-
doned, and one of the physicians de-
clared:
IF DR.. Friedmann's culture Will
really cure, the cases treated today
will be cured"
There was the most marked differ
ence in the actions of the patients
when they emerged from the demon
stration than when they trudged
doubtfully up the steps to meet for
the first time the man Of whom they
had heard 80 much and In whom they
place SO much hope.
There was a smile of l4Sbe on the
faces of the women. The men walk
ed with a firmer tread and seemed TO
feel new hand sustaining them.
The children even laughed and the
little boy with the twisted knee en-
deavored 70 frisk about his mother
In his own lame little way.
Tonight Dr. Friedman was In his
apartments at the Hotel Ansonia, and
except for some slight recreation,
will remain there, preparing his cul-
ture for the visit OF Surgeon John F..
Anderson and Passed Assistant Sur
geon Arthur NJ. stimson of the pub
lie health and marine service. who
win arrive here from Washington to-
morrow DR.. friedman was greatly
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Killed hx Train.

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NORMAL. H., Manch s.-Captain
Henry Augustine, fol mer president Of
the National Nurserymens' Associa-
ton, was struck and killed today by
Chicago and Alton train. He was
.73 years old
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