The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-24
Illinois Iowa Missouri

is the first raise they have had in
| eight years. The increase in prices
amounts to from Is to so per cent for
different classes of service.
MUSCATINE. April 24.-Colonel
Charles c. Horton. commandant OF
the Iowa State Soldiers home at Mar
shailtown for eighteen years, passed
away at his home following an i'll
ness extending over period of
! months. He was one of the most
prominent Iowa figures in the civil
war. and was, perhaps, the most
widely known member of the depart
ment in Iowa during the past twenty
years. He resigned his position at
Marshalltown because of i'll health
some time ago.
DES MONIES. April PA sample
ballot has been sent out by the sec
rotary of state to all county audi
tors. The ballot is similar to, the one
to be used at the primary June 5,
and clearly notes the different quail
fications necessary to vote at the
election.
MONMOUTH, ILL.,, April 24.--Suit
has been filed by r. r. Smiley
through his attorney J. w. Clendenin
against the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad company for dam
ages for $4,000. The bill states that
the plaintiff while crossing the Bur
lington railroad tracks one mile north
of Monmouth April 90, 1914, was run
down by train and in addition to
being badly injured had his car,
worth $1,000 at that time, demolished.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill, April "a
Henry E. Burris (colored), for TWEEN
ty-six years carrier for the Rock
Island postoff1ce, died Saturday, aged
81. He was formerly grand master
of the Illinois lodge of colored Masons.
! KANKAKEE. ILL.,. April 24.-Six
prisoners charged with felonious
crimes participated in daring Jail
delivery here Saturday night at GAS
o'clock and five of them succeeded in
GLIDING q large posse which started
shortly afterward in pursuit, headed
by Sheriff Bothful.
Alfred Hunter a negro, awaiting
trial on a charge of attempted MUIR
der was captured shortly before 10
o'clock.
The prisoners. who included Gus
Penman, Jesse Brown, Joseph Burns
Frank Miller. Charles Johnson and
Hunter, effected their escape by dig
cling through three layers of a brick
wall with a steel Stat from one OF the
hunks in the cells.
Penman was convicted in Chain
paign county of numbering his chum,
Harold Shaw. He was sentenced to
life imprisonment, but was granted a
new trial. Taking change of venue
he was brought to this city for a
second trial, which was to have be-
gun on May %.
DUQUOIN, April 24.-Rev. G.. w.
Danbury, retired financial secretary
J Of Ewing college, Baptist institu-
} ton, announces he will be succeeded
by Rev. Clarence Hodge, pastor of
the First Baptist church of Johnston
City, effective June 1.
MISSOURI.
HANNIBAL, Mo-, April 24.-Jerry
H. Arens, an express messenger in
the employee of the American Express
company, running between Hannibal
and New Franklin on the M. X. &
T. railroad, committed suicide Sun
day morning in the express Office of
the New Franklin depot by shooting
himself through the heart with a A
calibre pistol. He was about 26 years
old and had been in the employ of
the express company for several
years. III health is supposed to have
been the cause which prompted the
young man to commit the rash deed.
WEST QUINCY, Mo-, April "a
With the river stationary, for the
first time since it began it's second
damaging rise this spring, farmers
and landowners in the inundated dis
tricts in Missouri, especially in the
district between West Quincy and La
Grange. have hopes that their crop
pleted Fabius 1evee broke just west
of the 90 track. south of La Grange,
from the pressure of the high water
roughened by the wind.
The entire area of productive land
in that district and its growing fields
Of grain is veritable inland sea.
HANNIBAL, Mo-, April "a
Charged with obtaining money under
false pretenSes. H. d. Caldwell and
C. W. Williams, negroes, were ar
raigned before, Judge Dent. These are
the men who were brought back from
st. Louis by Chief Harris and
Deputy Sheriff Mefford. They are
alleged to have feeced Eleanor Brax-
ton. a negress, out Of 500 and fled
to st. Louis They pleaded not guilty.
CHARLESTON, Mo-, April "a
Judge w. N. Evans of West Plains
oyerruled the motion for a new trial
of Ode and Steve Reeves, brothers,
fou,d GUILTY. If SECOND degree muir