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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-05-15
Made HIs eIessIno Retroactive.

The father OF family who had
been striving to bring up bis children
In the way they should so Was very
much enjoyed at his sons uncovth
habit Of helping himself to q few bites
bsfore graos had been said. The
sterectyped form called for: "A bless
FMS on what we are about to eat"
but one occasion being particularly
sxAsperatins. he astounded the young
man By adding 10 his petition. "and
On THAI which has already been
eoA.n."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-05-15
Children CRY
FOR FLETcHER'S
G a . 7 Q RIA
YIsId Of a Grain Of Wheat.

Very few people have an idea Of
the bounty of nature. A scientist OF
Cambridge. Eng. recently made an In
structive experiment which showed
that a single grain of wheat sown In
June. produced AZ pounds 7 ounces
One acre OF fairly good land win pro-
duce 80 bushels OF wheat or 1.20o
pounds Of -four.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-05-15
Hon. William Jennings Bryan.
Secretary of State. says:

"The chautauqua affords one OF the
best opportunities now presented the
public speaker Tor the discussion OF ques-
tons Of interest to the people. The au-
diencc IS a select one and always COM
posed OF the thoughtful element OF the
community, and as they pay admission
they stay to hear. believe that a con-
siderable part of the progress that is
now being made along the line of moral
and political reforms is traceable to the
influence OF the chautauqua."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-05-15
Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker
of the National House of Represen-
tutiUes, says:

"a great many newspaper wits shoot
their shafts at chautauqua lecturers, and
certain purse-proud editors undertake to
make it a sin for public man to lee
ture for pay They think it the height
of sarcasm to refer to public man as
a chautauquan. There is one great viz
tue in chautauqua money. 1t is clean
money You do not have to explain
where you got it. If man does not
desire to go to hear a lecture, there is
no law to compel him to do so.
The chautauqua has been a powerful
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-05-15

force directing the political thought of the country which is
largely sociological in these latter days defend the
chauauqua and the chautauqua lecturer with whom have
been associated because they constitute hne OF men
and be found among the splendid citizenship OF
America have deep and abiding interest in them and bid
them hearty godspeed in their work'-From The Arena.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
STOIF BARGE LOAD OF CARS
AND THEN SCUTTLED SHIP

At least the four men under arrest
charged with the robbery owed their
anprehension to the fact that they
we're heard in water front saloon,
ta,h,ng over the details of the expe-
dition.
night watchman at Staten Island
mode out the drifting barge after she
had smashed and sunk three anchor
cd launches. He notified the harbor
police and they captured the barge
and boarded her, discovering the rob-
berry Of the cars.
About the same time the crew OF
another tug, seeing cra'. with Hehts
sninn,ng around and around in the
hay. boarded her and discovered the
,ng James Bradley, crewless and with
her sea cock open. Aboard the rob-
he'd barge was found an axe marked
James Bradley" and the enc Tgency
case of the tug was minus an axe,
This furnished the clue. Police OF
New York and New Jersey and a
score of New York Central detectives
set to work and the arrest OF the
four men resulted The loot has not
been recovered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
MOUNTAINEERS
HOLD FORT
Three Of Them in Coal Mine
Resist Thirty National
Guardsmen and
Deputies.

United Press Leased Wire Serv1ce.]
PINEVILI4E, KY, Dec 27.-Three
wounded and defiant mountaineers
guarded by half score of men of the
n 1endrickson clan, were tonight holding
out against thirty national guardsmen
and deputy sheriffs in Old Mountain coal
mine near Ely Hollow on the border
Of Harlan and Bell county. according
to reports here. The siege Is the Sc
uuel to a battle on Christmas eve
which followed the wounding of Depu-
ty Sheriff Haynes and the death OF
Tom Miller. Both crimes are laid to
the Hendrickson clan led by "llappy'
Jack Hendrickson. In the scme battle
am uncle of Happy Jack was shot to
death. The mountaineers retreated to
the old coal mine The militia was
called out by Adjutant General Ellis
The wounded men are Fress Hendrick
son, shot through the breast; George
Hendrickson, slightly wounded in the
hip, and Happy" Jack, wounded IL
the cheek
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
LIVE
WITHOUT LOVE
Only Clue to Reason Why Man
Killed Wife and Two Chill
dren and Ended His
Own Life.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Ssrvice.l
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-"He couldn't
live without love-"
This remark dropped by brother
of Henry Knell, was the only clue
police had tonight toward determining
the cause of the crime Of Knell, who
shot and killed his wife, tried to hang
himself and then took with him to
death his two children who were
found asphyxiated by gas which was
Knell was twenty-seven years old,
secretary of the Philadelphia Steel
and Forge Co., treasurer of the Forest
Park Congregational church and of
the Forest Park Athletic club So far
as is known all of his accounts were
absolutely straight. He paid 5000 in
to the Athletic club only yesterday in
dues he had collected and also turned
over another s100. Asked why he was
doing this he said you never can
! tell what may happen.
1 This has led the police to believe
that Knell planned wholesale kill
ing of his family. Investigation has
led the police to feel certain Knel
4 killed his wife while she slept. He
then tried to hang himself by the gas
] fixture. A towel was tied about hi'
neck but the fixture evidently broke
from the weight. Henry Knell, 81
years old, was found dead beside hi
father The little girl, aged two, wa
found beside her mother. The chill
dren generally slept in room ad
joining that of their father and moth
er and it is supposed that they raj
into the room when awakened by th
1 shot which took their mothers life.
A big Christmas tree stood in tn
living room About the house tn
police found children's toys and ever
9 indication that the family had cell
brated the holiday happily. Th
: bodies were discovered this afternoo
! by Mrs. Ellis, neighbor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
CANCER NOW HEADS LIST AS
GREATEST CURSE OF MANKIND

is the answer? Cancer has become a
public menace. Any hing which Of ers
the slightest hope OF being of cnra-
tive value in the treatment OF cancer
should be thoroughly investigated The
public health service is watching
with great interest the effect OF the
radium treatment as well as the nlan
for a government owned radium nina
and bank.
"There are some curious statistics
about cancer. In the so called regis
tration areas the census bureau In
1911 found $4,000 cases of caaeer-
and recollect that the registration
area ONLY includes So percent of tho
total population That means at least
10000 cancer victims in the United
States.
Medical practice proves that car-
Ger occurs more generally in the lat
ter part OF life. In wlite males, It
comes from between DO to 45 years
of age. 1t is more prevalent am ng
whites than arncng the blacks, in
whites Deinf IS per one hundred thou
sand ana in nssroes only 81.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
FUNERAL DAY
AT CALUMET
Fifty Little Caskets Will be
Carried Through Streets
on Shoulders Of
Miners.

limited Press Leased Wire service.l
CALUMET, Mich, Dec. FIFTY
odd, tiny, flower strewn casxets. bear
ing the twisted and mangled corp e5
OF the strikers children, crushed to
death In the Christmas eve panic
will be borne through the streets OIL
Calumet in a silent procession tomor-
row, each little coffin resting on the
shoulders Of four stalwart min srs.
Behind these will come sixteen
hearses. bearing the bodies of men
and women. who went oown in the
rush for the doors that followed the
CRY of fire" at the Christmas enter
tainment.
And falling in behind their dead
will march thousands Of nlinets, Whc
will arrive here early Sunday from
all over the copper country to he'll
bury the miner dead
over 100 striking miners this AFT
ernoon silently welded pick an(
shovel in the Lakeview cemetery am
dug resting places for the disaster
victims in the frozen earth.
The union purcha sed the lots II
the burial ground.
Funeral services will be at six loca
churches, each nationality and eac
religion conducting separate rites, bu
the mourners will unite in Join
procession over the rough roads
. the cemetery. A few of the dsai WI
not be buried until later IN the weei
when relatives arrive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
sentenced to Death.

/ United Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
BAKERSFIELD, Calf, Dec. III
Ralph Ferris, who as John Bostick,
was sentenced to death today in Los
Angeles for the murder of Horace
Montague, on train i.hich he held
up, is the son of big jim" Faris, a
Southern Pacific pumper. Until three
months ago he was employed by a
produce company here. He left this
firm to go into business for himself
and failed.
In Bakersfield his reputation always
was good His mother knew nothing
of his trouble until his face confront
ed her today from the front page Of
a newspaper. She accompanied hel
husband to Los Angeles tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
President Meyer of Miners
Union Assaulted in Ho-
tel, Taken to Depot
and Sent Away.
IS IN THE HOSPITAL NOW
Will Go Back Just as Soon as
Able and Continue Fight
For Striking
Miners.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service !
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-I.abor officials |
in Chicago tonight planned to make
the alleged assault upon President
Chas, HI Meyer of the Western Fed
eraticn of Miners, the lever by which
they expect to pry open an investiga-
tion into the Calumet copper strike.
While Meyer himself lay in st.
Lukes hospital with physicians prob
ing for the bullet that plowed its way
down his back President John Fitz-
patrick of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, issued call for a mass meet
ing to be held tomorrow. A telegram
was sent to the national executive
committee of the American Federation
of Labor at Washington, asking i'm
| mediate action Victor Berger Of Mil
waukee, ex-congressman, promised the
aid Of the socialist party, and Mover
himself declared he would not only
make a further appeal for federal in
yestigation Of the strike but would
/ demand probe by a federal grand
/ jury to determine who was respon.
sible for his injuries. Other mass
4 meetings will be held throughout the
state of Illinois tomorrow and durint
I. next week. President John FL Walk
or Of the Illinois Federation Of Min
ers, tonight issued the call 5rht
Springfield, H.. trades assembly re
sponded with announcement OF
meeting Friday night.
II am going back to Calumet in twt
or three days if / am able" said Moy
er. Il am going to make speeches al
: through the copper country. Thi
cowardly attack of course, is going t
} create public sentiment in favor of tn
miners. But we are going to win
not because of what was done to m
Friday night, but because our cause
Just"
Meyer has two distinct wounds. az
cording to Dr. G. B. Hutton, VIII
made a fifteen minute examination {
the labor leader at the New Gait ht
tel TO-DAY. IueSe airs cuI thhu iuSS
alton on the left side Of the hea
: and an ugly bullet wound extendin
from the shoulders down the back an
parallel to the spinal column.
Besides these" said the physi
ian. 81 found numerous contusions G
the back and legs. There were
many | did not count them, but
I would estimate that there are at lea
" twenty-five or thirty Of these blat
r and blue spots could not find Il
IS bullet by superficial examination al
+o#iI ordered Meyer sent to the hospit
c, for an X-ray examination, Moy
If suffered an apparent relapse after h
r removal to the hospital tonight, b
lie physicians said his condition was n
serious The bullet, they believe
IN imbedded in the muscles OF the le
an shoulder and the labor leader will
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Piracy on the High Seas, Medi-
eval Charge Against Four
Daring Robbers.


United Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Piracy on
the high seas was the medieval
charge on which four alleged New
Jersey free hooters were held tonight
In the Hobpken jill. They are charged
with cutting out tug and with her
aid stealing barge loaded with ten
New York Central freight cars filed
With costly merchandise. After rifiing
the cars, the pirates set the barge
adrift to smash small shipping OH
Staten Island and scuttled the tug.
The piratical deed occurred in lanG
locked New York bay on Christmas
night. True to form, the pirates NIL
ed up on good red rum before they
started on their nefarious expedition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
White Plague Has Been Beaten
Back But Cancer is Show
ing Great Gain.

TINTED press Leased Wire Servtcel
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-caneer
now is more of a menace to the pub
lie health than tuberculosis where
the white plague has increased dur
ing til : last decade, cancer has jump
ed twenty-five percent,
This was the statement tonight OF
DR.. w. C. Rucker, assistant surgeon
general of the public health services.
He was moved to comment on the
natter in view Of the radium treat
ment now under observation.
.We have all waged an aetiv cam
paign against tuberculosis DR. Ruck
er said, but there has SO far feer
no such fight against cancer. Wha
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Arrested as Fire Bug.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
PONTIAC, ILL.,, Dec. 2T. Charles
Blevins, owner of the Illinois Hotel at
Fairbury, Ill.,, which was destroyed by
fire on November 80, was arrested to-
day and jailed under $4,000 bond,
charged with arson Thomas Horns
by, arrested earlier in the day, con-
fessed, according to a deputy state
fire marshal, that he was paid s1o0
to fire the hotel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
r,ormo,,s Postal Business.

BOSTON, Mass, Dec 21.-Wheh
the postal staff of Boston resumed
normal speed today, it wa estlmated
that local mail incoming and outgoing
during the first four days of this week
weighed 2,2S1 tons and that S,SoO,ooV
packages were handled This is an
increase of over 100 percent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
500, 900 FOR
CANCER CURE
Eleven Tubes Of Radium In
serted in Arm Of Congress
man Who Hopes to be
Relieved.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 27.-For
the second time, eleven tubes contain
ing 100000 worth of radium were
inserted In cancerous growth on
the left shoulder Of Congressman Rob-
ert Gum Bremner, of New Jersey,
confined in DIR. Howard A. Kelly's san
itarium here. The tubes will remain
in the growth which thre S'as the
congressman's life, for tw hours.
At the hospital it was - ed that
Bremner was resting eS S DR.. Kelly
will arrive here tomo, q from Syra-
cuse and personally 3 nine his pa
tient q
Bremner is sonal friend of
President Wilson. was four years
ago when he first noticed small hard
spot on his arm. Despite numerous
operations by noted surgeons, the
cancer has steadily grown. Bremner
looked after his duties in congress
though at times it was necessary for
him to carry his arm in sling.
1 Miss Helen Bremner who acts as
her brothers. secretary, was busy to-
day looking after his affairs as he lay
| on cot in the hospitn4.
1 my brother is feeling better to
night. He is a man of very rugged
constitution and we are hopeful that
the treatment he is receiving will re
suit in his cure. 1t is too early yet t.
give any definite indications as i
takes forty-eight hours before the ef
fects of the radium application be
come noticeable. He received hi
. first treatment at II o'clock Christ
mas morning"
The operation on Congressman
Bremner is regarded as one of tn
most notable in the history of med
icine in this country and the case |
being watched with intense Interest
The amount of radium is the larges
ever used in single operation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
SIN Of PROSPERITY 70
SHINE BRIGHTLY IN 1874


entered congress. The longer you
study it the less you know. But be-
lieve it is for the best interests of the
whole country and believe it is the
best tariff bill the country has ever
had-the future will show.
There is big business boom COM
ing sure as shooting. Take the cur
rency bill. The currency bill will give
the small merchant and manufacturer
OF the country money to do the busi-
ness of the country. Furthermore
the bill will absolutely prevent panics
With the tariff settled and money at
their disposal, business men can look
for good times ahead. There is big
boom coming"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Won,ja;n Killed.

ae9IICAGO, Dec. 27.-Mrs. olga An
derson, thirty-six, was shot and in
stantly killed tonight when she at
tempted to prevent Fred Rickerman.
twenty-six, from shooting her husband.
After Staying the woman and wound
ing Anderson, Rickerman pressed a
revolver to his own temple and fell
fatally wounded. Anderson, manager
for teaming company, discharged
Rickerman today. The latter came to
the Anderson home tonight and when
Anderson refused to give him his old
position, opened fire.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
Railroad Rate phase.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Eastern
railroads must show conclusively to
the interstate commerce commission
that shrinking profits are due to the
decreasing value of the dollar, rather
than to the evils of stock manipula-
ton, interlocking directorates and
frenzied financing. Otherwise there
will be no grant of increases. This
prediction, given exclusively in the
United Press several weeks ago on
highest authority was emphasized to-
night by the commissions announce
ment that it has sent to all lines a
set of seventy-eight questions which
go straight to the heart of the rail-
road finance problem.
These questions, bearing in every
line the impress of the views OF
Louis D. Brandeis, the peoples law
yer" engaged by the interstate com.
merce commission. may be summarize
ed in the question: "Are you paying
proper attention to economies and are
your earnings shrunken because of in
terlocking directorates, because OF
Wall streets milkings;' because OF
too much attention to finance and too
little to railroading?"
One group of questions was aimed at
the possibility of increasing revenues
otherwise than through general in
crease OF freight ratessin such say
lings as might be affected through
standardizations of supplies and in
| the consumption of coal.
Under the head of financial the
commission queries the roads as te
their holdings in industrial or mining
corporations or other railroads. The
question as to conflicting interests
1 the commission says is designed tt
secure data to determine the exten
Ito which the directors and officials o
railroads have other financial inter
ests in the transactions of the car
Iriers."
/ among other things it is desired
tc determine to what extent conflict
and INTERVIEWING interests CON
monty described as interlocking diree
torates prevail" the announcement
said "and what influence if any, thi
practice has had in increasing rail-
road costs"
Other angles of the commissions in
ouiry involve the possibility OF IN
creasing revenues through more ff
yorable contracts on Pullman sleepin
car service and on the possibility Q
inadequacy of passenger rates. Tn
commission will renew its hearin
January I, giving shippers an oppo'
tunity to present their testimony I
, the opposition railroads challenge
: financial statements already subml
ted Already shippers have made a
, rangement to present mass OF te
timony to shatter the railroads clail
. for recognition and Louis D. Brande
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
JUDGE LYNCH
IN MARYLAND.
Mob Of One Thousand Farmers
Break Into the Jail to
Get Three Negro
Prisoners.
SHERIFF HOLDS FORT
Every Door Broken Down and the
Mob Came Very Near secur-
/ Ing Their
Victims.
SHERIFF HOLDS FORT

CEESTDRTOWN, Md, Dec. 2.-
This town is in fever of excitement
tonight. An angry mob of 500 men
surrounded the Jail and an outbreaa
of violence is feared against the lives
Of three negroes, Herman Mable, John
H. Hynson, alias fom Blake, and
James PARKWAY, charged with being
implicated In the murder of James
Coleman, which occurred on last
Tuesday.
Coleman was held up and robbed
while riding horseback and then kill
ed by blows from sharp instrument
believed to have been hatchet. The
funeral of the aged farmer took place
this afternoon and was largely at
1 tended.
/ Armed with clubs, knives and pis-
tolls the crowd assumed threatening
attitude and fear of triple lyncning
| was rampant until States Attorney
I Vickers assured the mob that the
thrse negroes would be given a speedy
trial, telling the crowd that some OF
! the most prominent citizens OF this
i neighborhood had, been summoned as
special grand jurymen to hear the
evidence already gathered against the
men.
At midnight an armed mob estimat'
ed to number one thousand men be-
gan stormipg the jail in an effort te
4 take frain the jailefs the three ne
groes. A fresh arrival Of $50 men is
reported on the way from Rock Hall
It is feared that the handful defend
ing the negroes from mob violence
will be swept off their feet by over
j whelming numbers Of irate friends
of the murdered farmer and unless b.
some yet uncovered ingenuity thu Bal
I timore authorities who are on tn
, scene can spirit the negroes away,
scene unparalleled in the history
Maryland will undoubtedly follow.
Shortly after midnight part of tn
mob went to the rear Of the jail an
battered down the door They wer
met by armed deputies and retreate
to the front of the building where a
attack by the mob is momentarily e1
: pected. At 1890 the mob had smasf
ed in all the doors Of the jail an
started pouring into the building
search of their quarry.
Failing to find the negroes on tn
tiers of the first section OF the jai
leaders of the mob started UP stair
Here they met with stout resistance
the sheriff declaring that he woul
shoot the first man who attempted
ascend the stairway This seemed fc
while to awe the leaders who fe
j back and held consultation.
e The mob, it is declared, are dete
8 mined upon revenge.
e Shortly before 2 a. m, five leader
q of the organized crowd, brandt hin
n fire arms made second attempt
al gain the stairway but had not gor
sr far before Sheriff Brown and e
e Sheriff William H. Ackee rushed {
e. them with revolvers in each han
e The attacking party was forced
u surrender their weapons and retire
of One Of the members of the mob wi
to bullet, shattered the electric lig
in front of the jail Sheriff Brow
le calm, remarked: Gentlemen, we "
TO shoot and shoot to kill"
as Lives were Saved.