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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Woman Routed. BURGLAR.

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DENVER, Colo Jan. 2S.-Although
armed with nothing More deadly than
nail file, Mrs. Rose "A. Mann fought
so desperately early today, when a
robhar entered her home. that she
routed the intruder and saved $4,000
in iewelry and silver.
Mrs. Mann was found unconscious
uDon the floor. but her hands were
clutching table cloth in which the
burglar had wrapped the expected
loot Her night dress was splashe6
With blood, making it evident that
she had succeeded in wounding the
burglar. Mrs. Mann's fingers were
badly Iacerated as result OF at
tempts Of the robber TO tear two dia-
mond rings from her hands.
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Can Move Grain.
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SPRINGFIELD, III Jan. 2S.-Eleva-
tor business will not be affected by
the order Of Governor Dunno forbid.
ding movement of grain from farms
in counties under close quarantine
against foot and mouth disease, State
Veterinarian Dyson explained today
Even grain on farms in such counties,
may be moved with the approval of
state Veterinarian authorities when II
can he shown positively that there is
no infection on the farm and no dan
ger from the grain movement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
sofia,s Lost OpportunitY.

Sofa, the capital of Bulgaria, might
have been Constantinople, if the Ro-
man emperor, Constantine, had ad.
hered to the preference he felt at
one time for it. Several places We're
thought of as the site for the new
Rome before the unrivaled natural ad-
vantages of Byzantium secured the
honor-amons them Troy and Ser
dica in Moesia, now known as Sofia
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28

from a rifle passed through the fugi-
tive's neck and caused death.
II have no regrets to offer said
Allen "a man who tries to enter an
others home, can expect to be taken
for burglar and to take the conse-
quences."
The grand jury is investigating
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Thermometer Went Down to IS Be-
low Zero During Night and Was
Is Below at O'Clock
This Morning.
rs COOLEST OF SEASON
Only Other Low Mark That APP
preached This Was IL Below on
December e6-Warmer
Tomorrow.

COOLEST DAY OF WINTER.
Minimum temperature last night-16
below zero. official v. s. weather bu-
reau figures.
Temperature at seven O'Clock this
morning-15 below zero, official. :.
Coolest day of present winter hero
tofore, December 26, IL below zero.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Rettinn on Uncle Joe.

Fremont Tribune 1t would be q
pretty serious joke on Uncle Joe Can
non IL after he has come back they
prove fraud against his election. It's
a good bet that they don't do it,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Like Soldiers on Duty.

Statione6' along this great stretch
of telephone line the day It was open
ed were repairmen every few miles.
in the big centers. in the little towns.
on the prairies, in the mountains. and
out on the desert. ready to splice the
wires in case they were torn down by
sleet Or wind. to solder break Or re-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Wilson Did Talking.

The opening of the new transconti-
mental line will not only be distin-
guished because Of the talk OF DR..
Bell and Mr.. Watson, but because
that day, for the first time in history,
the voice of the chief magistrate Of
the nation was carried direct from the
seat Of government in Washington to
the shores Of the Pacific ocean. That
day President Wilson talked to San
Francisco, sending his congratula-
lions to the 10000 men and woman
in the telephone industry who made
this achievement possible.
President Vail was not in New York
when the celebration took place. SO he
was called up at his hotel on the
southern coast of Florida one thou
san6, miles below Manhattan, from
where he talked over line '4.400
miles in length to Thomas A. Watson
in San Francisco.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28

place an insulator broken by storm or
a mischievous boy. Like soldiers on
picket duty. these repairmen will be
kept on constant vigil, night and day
in good weather and in bad, for 1t Is
advertised that this line is soon to be
opened to the public for constant use.
1t is understood that when the line
is opened to the public the rate will
be about $21.0O for a three-minute
talk from New York to San Fran
cisco.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28

The lowest temperature OF the year
was recorded last night and today at
the local weather station, when the
mercury crept Gown into the sixteen
below zero mark. This low mark was
attained during the night. This morn
ing at Z o'clock the Official tempsra-
ture was Is below zero. TIL, weather
warmed up somewhat during the day,
and warmer weather is promised to-
morrow.
This was the coolest weather regis
tered during the present winter. TIL,
other low mark was made on Decem-
Der &c, 1914, when the temperature
went to u below zero. Consequently
last nights temperature sets a record
for the year. and for the winter, both.
Keokuk was warm. however, COM
pared to ST. Paul which registered 80
degrees Fellow zero. Temperature OF
other river cities showed the follow
ing low marks. Davenport, IS below;
Dubuuue 20 below: Lacrosse. % be-
low The legislature is getting dose
of cold weather at Des Moines where
the ten psrature was 10 below
The crop in temperature here was
"a degrees in "a hours. The highest
yesterday was only above. Y.ester-
Gay was probably the bitterest day of
the two in the matter of severe cold,
duo to the wind.
Severe cold weather is frequently
recorded in Keokuk the last week in
January, and this winter is proving
no exception.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Record is Broken.

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CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-The winter
low temperature record in Chicago
tcrackled and broke completely today
when the government thermometer
registered eight below zero at six a.
m. A high northwest wind added to
the intense cold and carried the tenn
perature drop to all points in its wake.
a bright sun sent the mercury up a
few degrees during the morning.
Although the lowest official Their
mometer reading in Chicago proper
was eight below, points in the sub
urbs reported readings 16 below, In
Chicago there were two deaths Greet
ly attributable to the cold, while the
suffering among the hosts of unem-
ployed and their families was intense.
Official readings from the weather
bureau indicated that the cold wave
extended all through the central west
and northwest This is indicated by
the Official reading: Bismarck, N. d..
20 below; Charles City, Iowa. 80 be-
low: Davenport. Iowa. Is below; Des
Moines, Is below; Devils Lake. N. D.,
"a below: Dubuque, Iowa, 20 below;
Duluth. Mimi, % below: Escanaba.
Mich, Y below: Green bay, WIS, ~
below: Houghton, Mich, SO below;
Keokuk. Iowa, 16 below: Miles City.
Mont. IS below: Milwaukee. Wis, 10
below: Minnedosa, Manitoba, 30 be-
low: Muscatine. Iowa. % below Lin
coin. Neb.. &c below; Moorhead, Mimi,
2S below: Omaha. Neb.. IA below:
Peoria, 1S below: FRINGE Albert.
Sask.. sc below: St. Paul Mimi. 80
below Sioux City. Iowa, 16 below;
Winnipeg, 2s below.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-28
Conversation Between New York and
Frisco Recalls Sells First In
vention When He Spoke
Over Sixty Feet of Wire.
SENTIMENT IN BIG TEST
Thirty Feet Of Wire spIiced Into
Cable at New York and
Same Amount at
Frisco.

So universal is the telephone that
four persons out Of five, perhaps,
would assert that one can telephone
anywhere in the country if he has the
money to pay the bill, but until last
Monday that was not true.
For the first time transcontinental,
and consequently universal, telephone
conversation became reality Monday
afternoon when Alexander Graham
Bell, sitting in the Office of President
vail of the American Telephone and
Telegraph company in New York,
talked to Thomas A. Watson in San
Francisco,
In little workshop in Boston,
June 2, 1875, it was Alexander Ora
ham Bell who spoke and Thomas a..
Watson who heard the first message
ever sent by telephone. Come here,
Watson, I want you," were the first
words ever conveyed over a wire.
That wire was only sixty feet in
length. The line used Monday is g.
400 miles long.
A bit of sentiment that entered in
to the celebration of the opening of
the transcontinental line was that the
sixty feet of wire used in the first talk
in Boston was spliced into the line
Monday, thirty feet of it at New York
and thirty feet at San Francisco.
Ever since the telephone was dis
covered, America, the land Of its birth,
has kept the lead using more tele-
phones than all the rest Of the world.
More than twenty-one million miles
of wire in this country now unite
nine-million telephones in 10000
cities. towns and villages. ALI the
rest of the world has less than five
million telephones.
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How Line is Extended.

T1Ow LtJIS ID G&lSh6Sos
In 1876 the longest telephone line
in the world was from Boston to
Cambridge, two miles; in 1884 it was
extended to New York, 235 miles.
Chicago and New York were connect
ed in 1895, and in 1911 New York
could say Hello" to Denver.
In the forty years since the tele-
phone was invented, nearly hun
dred types Of transmitters, and num-
erous repeating instruments and 9th
er devices have been used, and dis
carded for something better, but it is
asserted that no single new discovery
has been responsible for this latest
and greatest achievement in the tele
phone art. 1t was accomplished by
gradual improvements in all equip
ment, by which mile by mile the dis
lance of possible telephone communi-
cation was EXTENDED, each year a
little further, until the dream Of trans
continental communication has been
realized.
In the two circuits Of the transcon-
tinental line there are approximately
six million pounds OF copper wire, or
about two hundred carloads. This wire
is stretched on 10000 poles, which
if they We're loaded on railroad cars
would make twenty trains Of thirty
cars each
The route of the transcontinental
telephone line is from New York to
Pittsburgh thence to Chicago, Daven-
port, Des Noincs and Omaha, Lincoln
to Denver. From Denver the line
ber dis north to avoid high attitudes.
and Than rims diractiy westward tn
Salt Lake City and TO San Francisco.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-17

IL NE w = VI IlE LA ~
TheIma Gerome and EuIa Ober-
nyEe, Grand Rapids, paroled on
charge Of shopltfting by Judge Prin-
divide.
George White, coIored, held to
grand jury on charge of robbery. Held
ups with tin pop-gun.
BertEan Winston, auditor for Lin
coin Park commissioners, to be re-
commended to school board as ap-
pFaiser for downtown school prop
ertE
Attorney Harold Ickes filed suit for
$25,000 against Aid. Jacob Hey.
Charges libel
$2,400,0O0 municipal tuberculosis
sanitarium opened. Health Commits
sioner Young received keys from DR..
Sachs, pres. board of directors.
Mrs. G. Pimmiga, 642 S. May,
wrapped 5-months' baby in kero-
sene pack to cure it Of ills. Baby
died of burns.
Patrick O'DonneII, attorney, urges
students of Kent Law school to enter
criminal law field.
Harold Groeppner, 9, 6745 S. Win
chester av., rescued brother and sis
ter from burning home.
0ne-year-oId daughter of Royal
Bell Winnetka, dead. Fell with
spoon in mouth.
Capt o'Brien asked to search for
parents of Austin McCleary, 4. Boy
found on steps of New York church.
Claude Grygowski, 3, $500 Buriey
ava burned to death. Matches.
Thousands of postal clerks and as
sistants start tomorrow at quadren-
MAP task of weighing mail Figures
computed for contract prices paidrail-
roads and steamship lines for trans
portation.
Jane Peyton Post, actress, had
marriage to Guy Bates Post annulled.
Said former divorce was not placed
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-17

Rodney Bryan, 10 S. La Sale, held
to grand jury for burglary. Broke
into candy shop. Said he did it for
revenge.
Will disposing of $3,5OO,OOO estate
of A. A. Sprague admitted to probate.
S1O5,O00 to charity. Rest relatives.
Ferdinand Jelke filed petition ask
ng that wife be cited for contempt.
Says she doesn't obey judges order
let hi mhaVe son for month.
John DeIisIe, 1922 Norwood, held
or forgery. T. L. Osburn, treas. Fed
eral Insurance Co., 175 W. Jackson,
or whom Delisle was clerk, made
charge.
Die for making Carter Harrison
hero medals broken. Used 80 years.
New one ordered.
Still trying to impansI jury in trial
If millionaire fire insurance adjuster,
Joseph Fish, charged with arson.
Charles Blum arrested, charged
With stealing 9 pennies from news.
stand at Randolph and 9Th aV.
GustaYe Schmidt sentenced to
county jail tin Monday, when he will
be deported. Violated Mann act.
Lester Payne released under bond.
Charged with impersonating govern
ment officer and obtaining go-cart
by fraud
Frances Kaminski, 10, sent to the
House of Good Shepherd. Had been
sleeping in barns. DR.. Seippel said
girl was 8 years old mentally.
Harold HoIIaoher, 7, 23f2 w. 59th,
struck by street car on way to school,
Dead.
Mrs. Mary Lyons dropped dead in
home, 5748 Princeton aY. Heart dis
ease.
Fred LUdka, teamster, 1852 w.
31st, killed when team became
and threw him from seat.
Albert Kettering, druggist, Harper
av. and SD, robbed Of $500 worth of
ciparS Offafs $40 raSvard for rarov-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08

THIS compact machine is net equipped with
! theattachme8ta necessary TO the $1,000 Rem
jnnior Is simpiy 4 fnily-sonipped home.Ietter.
writing and manqscxfpttnG machine. For these
purposes you. will End it everyday uses uu-
limited.
It occupies little spAne % yOaY desk. It il
light. You lean easily move tt froQ place place.
Tor yoursslf and other members Of TeRR family
Who have writing % do. You Fih nd u an
oxcellent educ1toE Tor Your ehtIaEe1
yoa Ave been waiting for, Our terms lne 500
Sa1h, o. if yon prefer the EAay Pagnent plan.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08

trade to push their schemes of ex-
ploitation to the limit. Children of
IL to IA years are forced to work a
whole week for one dollar and less.
In fact, those at work are mainly
children and old men and women
the cheapest labor the bosses can buy.
The middle-aged men with families,
the ones who need work the most, are
not hired by the bosses.
Union Workers Displaced.
After the last strike here in the
tobacco industry, which the workers
won after long and bitterly fought
contest, wages were well advanced,
but the bosses have gradually got rid
of the union workers and displaced
them with children and aged workers,
This win give the bosses the oppor-
tunity to tear down the increase for
which the strikers fought and suffered
so bitterly year and 8 half ago. With
the busy season at hand. the bosses
win undoubtedly take advantage Of
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08
Allegheny College Centennial

William Mckinley; such authors as
Ida M. Tafbell, Frederick Palmer and
Frederick o. Howe.
Among the other buildings of note
at Allegheny College are Cochran
Hall, the commons and club house
for men the Library the donor OF
which splendid edifice with a capac-
ity for 100000 volumes is carefully
guarded secret to be revealed only
after the benefactor's death; the
Newton Observatory, gift of Mrs.
Mary NJ Newton of Illinois in mem
DRY of her husband, Capt. D. c. New
ton, Of the class of 50, containing a
97inch telescope, lens made by DR..
John A. Brashear of Pittsburgh; Ford
Memorial Chapel, given by Capt. John
J. Ford in his ninetieth year as a
memorial to his wife the organ being
a gift by the daughters. of the late
Emory Low Ford; Wilcox Hall of
Science, housing the physics Depart
ment, Ruter Hall, built in 1884 in
memory of the first Methodist Presi-
dent of the College, which build;ns
has been the scene of more college
pranks than any other building IN
the campus; the gymnasium with
Montgomery field Njust back of it.;
Rulings Hall. which houses the 80
goods, who have a feminine world of
their own in it, and Alden Hall, the
biological laboratory.
All over the country today are
scattered men and women of promin-
ence who received their education in
Allegheny College. Among those in
this vicinity are the following:
Charleston, W. Va-Felix c. Pifer
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08
To MoboIize
Harvest Army

Omaha, Neb., April 1.-The annual
cry for harvest workers will be no
longer heard if arrangements made in
this city by the new national farm
labor exchange are carried out. The
exchange is an organization of the
wheat states of the central west to
supervise the harvest workers prob.
lem, and its work will be free, both
to the farmers and the harvesters
Its board Of directors is composed
of the state employment departments
and state agricultural boards of the
twelve big wester wheat states-Mis,
souri,, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, Oklahoma Texas, North Dako-
ia, South Dakota, Wyoming Colorado.
and Montana.
The sole object of the organization
is to so mobolize the great industrial
army of 100000 men in the grain rails
ing states that the movements toward
the wheat fields of the country will
not in any way interfere with each
other, but that the entire force will be
concentrated in the districts where
men are needed for the work
The workers will be thrown into the
Texas fields when the grain begins
ripening in that state, early in June.
AS the harvest extends northward the
harvest workers will keep pace with
it, and when, lahte in August, the
wheat of northern North Dakota and
Minnesota is ready for the reapers
the big army of harvesters will be on
hand to gather it before the early
frosts damage the grain.
Three great centers of harvesters
will be formed Kansas City on the
south, Sioux City for the central divi-
sion, and at Minneapolis for the ex-
IRENE northern states. These cities
will be used as clearing houses both
for labor and for farmers.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08

Job Worth?

Washington, D. c., April LIN illus
trating the difficulty of determining
the full value of mans labor now
adays, Secretary of Labor Wilson, in
a speech in this city, said:
these shoes l have on are just or
binary shoes, exactly like those you
Ill have on. And yet from the time
they were still growing on the back
IF a COW or, calf until they were turn
ed perfect from the bench, who can
say how many persons have had to
10, directly or indirectly, with their
making"
In tabulating the number of per.
sons who directly or indirectly had to
do with the making of his pair OF
shoes, the former union miners off
cial brought in numerous professions
and trades. Strikes, riots and lock
outs, he declared, we're all the at
tempt of labor and capital to bring
about what they regarded as more
Il
equitable distribution Of wealth or tc
settle the question Of what mans
work was WORTH.
The advent of machinery had ended
the close personal relation Of master
and man, and, by ending persona,
to the labor troubles which now per
pick us. The department of labor, he
declared, was created to bring abou'
the end of these troubles as far as
possible.
primarily the department acts as {
mediator" he said. 81 tattempts to
find common meeting ground for EN-
ployer and employe, to have them 81:
about the council table and settle
their disputes. Failing in this, we &C
as go-between when the two factions
will not come together. The third re
sort, and last, is arbitration, not com
pulsory arbitration. That is certain
ly not to be favored"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08

See that YOUR MERCHANT Is A
MAJORITY ADVERTISER.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08

Meadville, Pa, April 10th, 1915
Andrew Carnegie will lay the corner
stone of the new Carnegie Hall OF
Chemistry of Allegheny College IN
this city during the celebration OF the
Centennial of the college, June 18TH
to oath. Mr.. Carnegie, who has do
mated $4,000 toward the $4,000
structure which is to replace the
chemical laboratory recently destroy
ed by fire, was invited by the trus-
tees of Allegheny College to come
and lay the cornerstone and has &C
cepted. He may be accompanied by
Mrs. Carnegie and both will particl-
pate in the many social and educa-
tional events which will mark the
centennial of the second college to be
established west of the Allegheny
mountains. Mr. Carnegie as a rector
of st. Andrews University, Scotland,
may participate in the Conference on
the American College, IN which the
heads of the leading American and
European Colleges and Universities
will discuss the future of the College
in America.
The Oldest building at Allegheny
College lis Bentley Hail. whose cor
ner. stone was laid 95. years ago, five
years after the College was founded.
1t is one of the finest specimens Of
colonial architecture in Pennsylvania.
The College has twelve buildings but
'Old Bentley is still the pride of the
campus. In its halls have walked as
students noted bishops, such as Mat
thew Simpson, Calvin Kingsley, James
M. Thoburn and M. c.. Harris; such
statesmen as Senator Allison and
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08

LII. D., Attorney, Charleston N. B.
Bldg; Jas. E. Bird, S. T. B., D. D..
Methodist Episcopal Clergyman.
Clarksburg, w. Va.-Samuel Brad
ley, Hope Gas Co.; Mrs. Chas. s
Elliott fMrs Ruth Kinder Elliott !;
Archie c. Perry, Hope Gas Co; John
A. Hursey, Business, 636 Clifton Ave
nue..
Morgantown, W. Va-Mrs Zalmon
K. Brown (Mrs. Leona Donley Brown
48 Alexander avenue.
Moundsville, w. Vail er b e T f
Moore Scott, 1912 Purdy avenue; Nil
lard F. Compton, Methodist Episcopa
District Superintendent; William F
Dalzell, Chemist; Louis L. Hawk, Eos
oria Glass Co.; Miss Mary Elizabeth
Bardall, John C. Bardall of Mounds
vile, w. Va, is a member of the
Board of Trustees of Allegheny Col
| lege.
Parkersburg, w. Va Herman f
Hogg, Business, Jackson Heights
Wade H. Tonkin, H pc Natural Gas
Co.; j.. Robert Anderson, 1123 Ann
street; Mrs. J. R. Anderson, 1123 Ann
street, Mrs. Herman Hogg, 811 Jul.
lava street.
Wellsburg, w. va.-Robert H. Cree,
Farmer, R. D. 2; Will McKennan Cree,
Farmer, R. D. 2; James F. Cree, At
torney.
Wheeling, W. Va-Francis Irvine
Civil Engineer, B. & o. R. R., 100
Fifteenth street; Herman E. Fowler
Civil Engineer, Division Engineers
Office, B. & o. R. R.; Mrs. w. F. Col
mar MRS. Esther Bark Colmar), 252C
Eoff Street; Helen K. Smith; Joel w
Evaul, Lumber, Woodlawn, Wheeling
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08
Pittsburgh Tobacco
Workers Organizing

PITTSBURGH. PA, March 29-
(Special)-The tobacco workers of
this district are up in arms as a result
of the terrible conditions prevailing
in the trade here.
The bosses have formed an asso-
citation and have agreed to employ
only non-union workers. When a
worker applies for a job. 4 the first
question he is asked Is whether he
belongs to union or not. II he does.
he must agree to give. up his member
ship in the union or lose the oppor-
tunity to make living.
Children Work for 81 a Week.
The bosses have taken advantage
lof this disOrganized condition Of the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-04-08
Don't pen it-type it

EVERY phase of modern life has It's bust
Z ness side. In writing. especially. itpays
to be husiness-Iike. Maybe you are secre-
tary Of club. lodge OF society. Take the
cover of your Remington Junior. Draw
MP chair. In jay You can type the no.
tees of meetings or records Of minutes. or
has the ''hundred-dollar" look.
II you are q committee chairman. type
your reports on the Remington Junior.
They win race through the machine to the
merry music of the type.
Students IN high school and college can
change paper" writing from the pen-and-