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The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
CHANGE OF VENUE
MAY Be REQUESTED
o'Donnell's Attorney Net Yet Decidea
Just What Move He Will
Make in This
Matter.
E SEES PREJUDICE HERE
Believes Newspapers Have Stirred up
Sentiment Against Man
Indicted for Wife
Murder.

The fling Of motion for change
of vsnue from keok,lk to either Fort
Madison or Burlington would not be
surprise as the next move in the
case Of the state against Matthias
ODonnell, charged with the murder
of his wife. Attorney A. 4. Marshall,
defending O'Donnell, would not COM
nit himself in this matter this morn
ing. but he did admit that he consio
cred the sentiment against his client
In this city exceedingly strong.
The trial OF O'Donnell, who plead'es
not guilty Saturday. has been set for
March 10. here. There is ample time
In which to file motion for a change
of venue. 1t Is more than probabls
that such move will be made. judg-
ing from all appearances in the mat
ter
Attorney Marshall when asked this
morning If he contemplated such a
move, said that he was not sure what.
hs would do or what he would ask
for If he did file such motion. He
AAAlii'ioeSu, uOWSNSI, llldt IlS NOllSIuGT-
ed either Fort Madison or Burlington
better places in which to secure JUS
tice for his client, than keokuk
The newspapers no doubt have
created quite sentiment agains,
QsDonnell' HE remarked.
O'Donnells chances have been unite
freely discussed in other places than
the newspapers. Whersyer the con
versation has turned on this sensation
| Of keokuk, the predictions have free
ly been made as to tbs result If the
case were to come to trial.
No doubt 3 jury would be hard to
secure in Keokuk which had not
heard something of the affair. and
! which. no doubt, would not have some
pr ajudice in the matter The jury
! would probably have to he composed
! OF men from the rural townships.
i Mr.. Marshall believes that For
j Madison would give bis client fair
er trial, than he would receive here
4 Judging from his conversation. if he
decides to ask for change of venue
O'Donnell's weeks in prison do no,
seem to have made any impression on
the man. He still maintains his sil
ent front and as far as physical con
dition shows, looks b.tter than he die
when he was put into the cage
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16

START WORK AT ONCE
Busily Engaged This Morning Attend
ng to Duties incident to
Accepting His
Office.

David A. Glascoff who was recently
named general secretary Of the United
Charities of this city. arrived here
last night with his family and will
take up his duties at once. Mr.. Glas
coff was very busy this morning at
tending to the many duties incident
to taking up his Office,
With his family he arrived last night
from Havana, Illinois, where he held
the position Of assistant postmaster
Immediately before coming here. This
morning he was busily engaged in look
Ing for a house and meeting many
people connected with the charity or
ganization. One Of his first duties in
entering upon his Office WAS that Of
being appointed special policeman.
papers for that Office being FLED in the
city clerks office this morning.
Il am delighted with the city of
Keokuk, and with the fine people
have met here already this morning" ]"
said he when talking to a Gate City
reporter this morning. I expect to
be established in the Office of the Or
ganization at the library building by
tomorrow, and from what have seen
already believe that great amount
of good work can be done here by
the United Charities.
Il want to tell you newspaper men,
now as start in. that you must not
expect me to give out the names of
people who come to us for aid. Many
people who are gravely in need of our
assistance would not come to us II
they thought their names would be
given out to the newspapers. There
are, OF course, some instances when il
would be to the benefit Of all con
cerned. for us to give out the names
and In those cases only will we do so
| was a newspaper man myself fol
three years and appreciate your side
of it, but YOU, am sure, will also ap
preciate my side of it and understand
| why It will be necessary for us to TAX,
this attitude"
The office of the general secretar,
of the United Charities, Mr.. Glascoff
will be established in the librar,
building at number 9 South Ti1irt
street. Mr.. Glascoff will have prac
tically complete charge of the organ
ization and all applications and bust
ness with the organization should bt
taken up with him. He has not ye
had time to lay out definite plans fo
his future work. However his broat
experience in charity work at othel
/ cities make him well htted for tn,
position he fs taking up VA he vii
be able TO start out in the work with
out any delay.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
A HEALTHY. HAPPY wlEE

Is the greatest inspiration man can
have and the life of the family, yet
how many homes in this fair land
are blighted by the i'll health OF wife
and mother
1t may be backaches, headaches, the
tcrtures of displacement, or some
.ailment peculiar to her sex which
makes life burden. Eve-y woman
in this condition should rely upon
Lydia g. Pinkhams Vegetable Com.
pound, made from roots and herbs,
to restore her to health and happi-
ness.-Advertisemen
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
Sunday School Experts Meet.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Fen. 16.-A
Bible institute for Sunday schools of
the Methodist church opened here to-
day and will continue until Friday.
Noted Sunday school experts from all
parts of the country will speak during
the week. DR.. l.. c. Hartman, of Chi
cago. has charge OF the institute. The
aim of the meeting is to give Metho-
dist Sunday schools the benefits of
the most recent discoveries in psy-
chology and pedagogy.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
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The farmers institute recently held
here was very interesting series of
meetings. w. II. Lining makes a Dig.
nifed and efficient president.
A number Of high school boys furn-
shed numbers on the program. AS
they are students Of agriculture, they
we're able to furnish much interesting
information.
Prof Don. e. Fish OF the Ames EX-
tension department gave an address at
one OF the sessions.
Hog cholera came in for its share
OF discussion and was ably handled by
\ aDr. Carl Neis, practicing veterinarian
at Schleswig, Iowa, and DR.. G.. C. Lo-
gan, q veterinarian of Keosauqua.
Miss Mabel Bentley Of the Ames Ag-
ricultural college talked on domestic
science; this was considered the best
lecture OF the entire program.
A tie close of the institus some res
o.utlons were submitted relative to the
capitol grounds extension act. the ap-
propriations in general of our last
state legislature, the constitutional
right of the people, etc, which closed
S with a pledge to support only candi-
dates for state Offices who subscribe
ITO these principles. The resolutions
were adopted without dissenting
vote
Van Buren, county is having In
stalled in the & unity vault the new
metal filing furniture. The clerks
with a helping force are busy syste-
matically arranging the thousands OF
documents for the new fling cases.
This will make the files convenient
: and strictly fire proof
s The headquarters of the Union Tele.
phone company have been transferred
from Birmingham to Keosauqua. MIR.
J. s. McGrann of Iowa City has
bought into the company and is to be
the new manager, taking the place
of i. G. Boies.
MI Ben e. Vance is seriously i'll
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. An
+ sderson Patton. His daughter. who re.
side away from here have been sum-
moned to his bedside.
Elder P. D. Holloway sold xeight
cows at his public sale which aver
& aged s91 apiece. The highest priced
COW brought $40.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles kigler of near
Bentonsport sold their Van Buren,
. county farm and have invested in land
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16

in southern Texas for which Mr.. Rig
lers paid s225 per acre Mr.. Rigler is
an Industrious, up-to-date farmer Van
Buren county dislikes to lose such peo-
pie.
Miss Maude Calhoun, daughter of
Attorney j. G. Calhoun, a student in
Wesleyan university, was elected by
Hypatia Literary society as member
of the staff OF the Wesleyan News,
the college paper an honor OF which
she Is worthy
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
ADJUSTMENTS.
"Within the Law

The company that comes to the
Grand tomorrow night is on-y playing
the larger houses. The Peoria Herald
Transcript commends the company as
AN able one and in recent issue
printed the following.
While Within the Law the In
ltensely interesting play OF modern
conditions in New York life by Bay
ard WELLER now beginning at the Ma
jestic was in the height Of its sue
cessful rim, which lasted two years at
the Eltinge theatre, the management
decided to give special performance
before the blind of New York City and
this charitable intention was carried
out with the aid of the Matilda Zleg-
Ter Magazine for the Blind. More
than 1000 sightless persons saw"
the play. They came from the Home
for the Blind, the Industrial Heme for
Blind Men and Women, and scores OF
private homes. Many had never been
in a theatre before. The curtain
went up noiselessly, hut the ears Of
the blind told them and they applaud
ed. Before each act, Herman Bern
stein. blind lawyer OF 149 Broadway.
New YORK, arose in box and ex.
planned just what would lappen. The
scenes were set as usual in defer
ence to the keenness of nearing of
the sightless audience The actors
appeared IN street clothes. Never be-
fore has such genuine pleasure. sucn
keen attention and grateful apprecia.
tion been seen in a theatre Special
programs in raised type were dis
tributed to the audience When asked
about the play at the end of the ner.
formance, Lawyer Bernstein said that
he had seen it six times. THAT is
why could explain it to the others ,
he continued. Some of these blind
people will be talking about With
in the Law until the day they DIE.
The audience WAS very happy and
went away chattering and carrying
their theatre programs to read again
when they got home Advertisement
Vaudeville at the Hippodrome.
A new bill of high class vaudeville
specialties viii be presented at the
Hippodrome theatre the first half of
the week, beginning today. The bill
contains an unusual amount of com
edy The -Four Va dares, grotesque
cycling comedians, open the bill. Har-
~ Webh tho man xuJJo since o,,i 4i,lI..,
appears i'll high class monologue
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
HOP FIELDS ARE
TOUGH PLACES
No Water for Pickers and Their Pay
is Held Back by the
Comrany.

Company.
L United Press Leased Wire Service. I
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Feb. 16.--
Leaders of the unemployed in San
Francisco who have been planning an
organization to secure the pardon of
Richard Ford and Herman Suhr, under
sentence to life Imprisonment in con-
nection with the Wheatland hop field
riots last August were encouraged to-
day to think that Governor Johnson
might be favorable moved by the re-
port concerning conditions on the
burst hop ranch made by DIR. Carleton
III. Parker, federal and state labor in
tyestigator. Parker wasS very critical
OF conditions on the burst ranch. He
found especial fault with what he re-
ferred to as the system OF "hoid
backs" in force there.
Ninety cents a hundred pounds was
paid by burst during the first week
for hop picking" said the report. "To
which so-called acnus Of ten cents
was added if the Iickers stayed the
three or four weeks season through. II
the picker quit before the last day oi
the season, the so.called bonus revert
ed to burst. This bonus was in reality
a hold back out of aop pickers wages
for 1919
Regarding sanitary conditions the
report said: "An important part ot
the hop field was more than a mile
away from the wells but despite the
great heat of this week, no water was
brought to the piekers. BY noon, un
der the hot~s sun beating down on the
still air held between rows of vines
tie children were in a pitiable codi
tion because of lack of water
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
Characters In aBo.Peep.r


The following is a list of the par.
Elephants in the Little BolP'sep' EN-
tertainment to be given at the Grant
opera house February 20 and 81;
Mother Goose-Mrs. Ethel M. lSanG
berg.
Jack Goose Frank E. Fuller.
BoPeep Flora Morse.
Boy Blue-Thomas Rogerson.
Red Riding Hood-Beulah Well
Old Woman In the Slloe--Anna +.
Pike.
Lord Pensive-Cyrus 4. Phillips.
Lord Buncomb---John r. Welsh.
Queen--Louise Klein
King Cole John Nodler, Jr.
Ladies In Waiting Lucille Knight
and Florence Miller
Herald--Edith Blasdell.
Mr.. and Mrs Jack sprat-Mabe1
tMillspaugll and James Fleming.
Daffy Down Dilly-Beatrlce Vogler.
Bahss in WooHs-Psralee Sinotte
and Doris Arnold.
Miss Nluffett-Patricia Pease.
Jack and Jill Madeline Connable
and Edwin Andrews.
Tommy Tucker Chester Dumenil.
DR.. 'Foster-Willie Redmon.
Polly Flinders-1Brarniee Yaeger.
Tommy Snooks-kenneth Hull.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Pumpkin Eater
-Burleigh Stafford and Louise Sig
mund.
Crooked Man-Connable Wills.
MarigolGs Elizabeth Board, Mil
dred Rayburn, Celestine Agnaw, Marie
Weber, Fred Trawick, VEGA Alton,
Madeline McGrath, Irene Rolloson.
Grape-Celestine Dickey. Kathryn
Sage, Florence Talbot, Isabelle Fan
ming, Garnet Benbow, Elizabeth Fan
ming, Leila McGaw, Madeline Marley.
Maids in Gard rdan-CharIotte Buck,
Dorothy Knight. May Bonney, Marga
ret Kinnaman, Margaret Pike, Helen
Pond.
House Maids Gertrude Weber,
lnez Rovane. Helen Peterson, Vir-
ginia Dunlap, Dorothea Duncan, Louise
Helen Harrison, Florence Little. Eliz-
abeth Howell, lydia Rich, Mary
Louise Hueston Ida Ruth We'll Jessie
Hartley.
Dairy Maids June Stafford. Maria
Hodge, Frances Russey, Helen Palm
er Gray. Elizabeth Wilson. Mary Wal
lace Harrison, Mary Rich, Mary
Louise Kiedaisch, Beatrice william
son, Ruth Mcclure, Mildred Schmidt,
Helen Hubert. Florence Green, Helen
kiedaisch.
Chefs Madison Sterne, Marshall
Fulton, Thomas Gray, Daniel Seeman
Harold Hanson, Wayne Hancock
Cooks s-Louise Sterne, Mary Eagan,
Corrine Weber, Viola Atterberg,
Louise Garrison, Kathryn strimback.
Marjorie Fleming, Mildred Wyatt,
Edith Kiedaisch, Gertrude Breh my,
Marion Haubert, Vera Rowe. Eula
Ackley, Adeline LaPorte, Louise Ben
ner. Margaret Royane, Mary Hollings-
worth, Margarst Swartz, May Starr,
Edith Dysart, Ester Weyer. Katharine
Wiley. Clarice Lichtenberser. Eugenia
Maxwell.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
little policeman and the burglar, have

little policeman and the burglar. have
won big reputation in every town
in which they have played. and are
said to be great Belle and Jones in
song and wit. close the bill. Begin
ming Thursday and running the last
half of the week, will be presented
the Deep Purple generally acknowl-
edged as one of the greatest American
specially. Happy and Joe, the funny
dramas ever written. Advertisement.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
New Eiaht Club Makes pahut

NEWCASTLE. Pa, Feb. 16. Bat
ting Terry Of Newcastle and Mickey
Rodgers of Pittsburgh. were schedul-
ed foi. tonight's main boai at the
opening of Newcastle's newest sport
ing club. Young Danny Dunn. OF
Pittsburgh. and Tony White, OF
Youngston. Pa. meet in the semi
wind up.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16

cannot be cured. Don't YOU believe
it Chamberlain Tabl ITS have curer
othsrs-why not you? Give them a
trial. They cost only quarter For
sale by all dealers. advertisement.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16

Form Two Of Kind.
Facts are stubborn things; almost
as stubborn as the people who don't
believe them.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

hereby announce myself as a can.
didate for nomination as supervisor
of Lee county, subject to the decision
of the republican voters at the June
primary.
JOHN DE RosEAR.
Mt. Hamil, Iowa, February 2, 1914.
Advertisement
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16

] hereby announce myself as a can
didate for nomination as supery .sor
OF Lee county for the 1916 term, sub
ject to the decision Of the republican
voters at the June primary,
ALBERT BONNEI.L.
West Point, Iowa. r. F. D. 4.
Advertisement.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16

| hereby announce myself as can
didate for nomination as county clerk
of Lee county, subject to the decision
of the democratic voters at the
June primary.
CURTIS NJ. HART.
keokuk, Iowa, Feb. Ii, 1914.
Advertisement.
The daily Gate City., 1914-02-16

Don't You Believe 1t.
Some say that chronic constipation
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-26
CLEVELAND HAS
$l,5OO,OOO
LUMBER FIRE
One. Eighth Square Mile Burned
Over-Ringling's Circus
Train Destroyed
NICKEL PLATE TRACKS
BLOCKED BY DEBRIS
Two Spans of S2,OOO,OOO Via
duct Fall Across Right-Ot-
Way, Tying Up Traffic

CLEVELAND, Ohio. May IA
ter nine hour fight practically the
entire city's fire lighting force and
equipment brought under complete
control. al a. m, TO-DAY, IRE tha'
swept bare an area OF one-eishth
mile in Cleyeland's lumber yard ais
trict. with an estimated loss OF nearly
81 900 600
Believed started by careless hahs
ers.on about the Ringing brothers
circus, the flames swept with 10
markable rapidly through the whole
sale lumber yards OF the Fisher ana
Wilson company destroying millions
OF feet OF hard timber and the com
pany's plant The Saginaw Bay com
pany's yards next were damaged
while the flames passed on 10 the
Nickel Plate railroad yards. destroy
ing a score OF loaded lumber cars
and 40 cars, the property OF the RING
ling circus The big S2000,OOO cen
trail viaduct. the property OF the city
In the path OF the flames, was par
TALLY destroyed
Three spans of this structure TEL
40 feet 20 the Nickel Plate railroad
bridge, damaging the latter and ell
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-26
KAISER'S SON,
IN LOVE, DEFIES
HIS ROYAL DAD
Announces Engagement to
Young Woman Not of Royal
BlO0d-Faces Punishment
MAY HAVE TO WORK TO
SUPPORT SWEETHEART
War Lord Believed Likely To
Send Youth Penniless Out of
Germany

BERLIN. May 27--German nobil'
ity. society and officialdom were
aghast today when Prince oscar, OF
Prussia. fifth son OF Kaiser Wilhelm.
publicly announced his engagement
TO marry Countess Ina Marie, daugn-
ter OF Count Basseiwitz, 0! Meckiin.
burg.
II is the first instance on record
that a member of the reigning branch
OF the HohenzQllerns has been NOR.
ganatically engaged 20 wed. While
the young countess is woman or
rank, she Is not OF royal blood,
II was confidently expected that the
kaiser would either break the engage
ment or. Danish his son
Prince Oscar is in his twenty-siXth
year. The kaiser has but two chill
dren younger than he, Prince Joachim
and Princess Victoria Luise, now the
Duchess OF Brunswick Countess Ina
Marie Besseiwitz is a half-year older
than the prince.
The countess met the prince while
she was a lady.in-Waiting TO Empress
Augusta Victoria. IL was believed at
first that the kaiser would consent 20
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-26
HIGH TEMPERATURE
WILL CONTINUE
No Marked Change in Sight,
Says Weather Man-Thunder
Showers Likely

Summer is inclined 10 abide with
US for a time.
At least, the weather man says
there will be no marked change IN
the present high temperatures and
thunder showers are to be expected
at any time Tuesday and Wednes-
day
Monday the highest temperature for
the season was reached-S7 degrees
In the kiosk, the highest point re-
corded was "a degrees at o'clock
in the afternoon Many street and
residence thermometers registered 80
degrees The highest temperature on
this date in the ~ years records in
the local weather office was in 1911,
when II reached SO degrees, just one
degree higher than yesterday
There were two prostrations from
the heat, Monday. Frank Yankovitz,
80 years old, No 134S ST. Aubin-ave.,
was stricken while at work in the
American Radiator CO., and was TAX
en- to Grace hospital. where he be-
came temporarily deranged, but was
reported better Tuesday morning.
Yankovitz has lived in Detroit about
four years. His wife and family are
in Poland.
Richard Thebault. Sc years old, No.
.S15 Fairview-ave., while at work at
the foot Of Lillibridge-st., was pros
trated and removed TO his home,
where he is said to be improving.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-26

tectiyely tying up trafiic for days.
Dozens OF firemen playing hose lines
on the yiaduct from below narrowly
escaped death
Eighteen thousand people in the
big Ringing brothers tent on Huron
road nearby hurriedly lett a curtail-
ed performance 10 Join other thous'
ands who lined every point OF van
tage watching the conhagration Tn
I'll long after midnight a crowd esti'
mated between $4,000 and 100000 per
sons were on the scene. City nre
boats on the Cuyahoea river saved
from destruction the big Cleveland
grain elevator. The towering struc-
ture, on the river bank, just on the
edge OF the fire zone was badly
sCorched 4 strong wind from the
southwest carried burning embers
over a great area. At ! a. m, the
wind shifted and danger 10 por-
ton of the manufacturing and whole
sale lumber district In the river
flats" was minimized Though sew
eral firemen were overcome By smoke
none was seriously injured
More than 800 fremen, who answer
cd. four special alarms with 20 en-
CINE companies and six truck com
panies. fought the blaze
The big lumber companies are heay
lily insured
The complete loss, estimated by or
ficials OF the various companies al
fected, totaled 81 $50 ,000 today. This
amount was cut down considerably by
Fire Chief Wallace
Estimated losses follow: Fisher a
Wilson Co. $750000 Saginaw Bay
Co.. 100000; City OF Cleveland Gen
trail yiaduct). 5000 600; Nickel Plate
railroad, 100000: Ringing Brothers
Gao cars) $4,000; Big Four railroad,
(loaded cars and railroad Yards
$3.50 000 Cleveland Grain Co, S5,OOO;
total. $l,450,000.
OF the Ringing Brothers circus cars
destroyed, all were fiat and stock
cars Cars TO replace these Will be
furnished Immediately by various
railroads. and the show will appear
as scheduled in Marion, Ohio, tomor'
row; Toledo. Thursday, and Detroit
Mich, Saturday, according TO Al Ring
ling, travelling manager, today.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-26

the marriage. but apparently he Viii
not and the countess has not been
received an the royal household since
the princes attachment for her De
came known.
BY hatly announcing mis- intention
10 marry the girl OF his choice, re
gardless OF Hohenzollern precedent
and family tradition, Prince oscar
won the instant admiration OF the
German public The revelation oil
the romance that cost the Countess
Ina Marie her position as lady'in-Wait
ing TO the empress and which may
cost the youthful prince his royaI
standing, was a sweet morsel under
the tongues OF all Berliners.
Until the prince came forward with
his announcement. he was not a very
important figure in German life. with
four princes between him and the
imperial throne the young man was
not considered OF much consequence
except when be raced his automobile
through Inter Den Linden Strasse.
II was not known until now that
Prince Oscar had backbone and STAN
ina Germans are now convinced
that he is a chip OF the old block,
and a battle royal between the KAT
ser and his son is expected.
Prince Oscar Is without income
save the bounty OF the war lord The
German empire allows the emperor
something like S5.00000O annually
out OF this he provides allowances
for the members OF his family Should
the kaiser forbid the match and the
prince remain firm he may be sent
penniless out or Germany and have
TO work TO support himself and wife