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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-07

plans Of the parliament buildings,
city of Ottawa itself and of several
Canadian harbors, in the trunk of q
German named Schweiber, who came
here from the United States about a
year ago. Schweiber wrote from
San Francisco two weeks ago, asking
that the trunk be forwarded to him.
The police became suspicious and
made an examination. Despite these
rumors however, the prime minister
will express his conviction that the
parliament building fire was purely
accidental, 1t is understood.
1t was learned today that French
member, Boulay, from Rimouski, sub
mitted to the government question
regarding the employment of Germans
and Austr1ans in governmental de-
partments during the war, only few
hours before the parliament buildings
were destroyed. The question was to
have appeared In the regular order
of parliamentary proceedings on
Thursday morning.
A Man In a Boat.
BRIDGEBURG, Ont, Feb. 7.-Anoth-
er development in the alleged plotting
against important bridges, munition
plants and public buildings in Canada
was seen here today when a man In a
row boat was reported to have been
seen approaching one of the piers Of
the international bridge spanning the
Niagara between Bridgeburg and Buff
falo.
Residents of Bridgeburg. living
near the bridge, declared they heard
two rifle shots about 1880 this morn
ing and it was said one of the soldiers
on guard had fired at the row boat. 1t
was about 200 yards from the bridge
when the guard fired.
The officer in command hurried to
the pier at the first shot and ordered
his men not to fire again until the
boat was close to the structure. The
boat pulled to the American side,
however, without approaching closer
to the pier.
The guard on the bridge and trans
mission towers Of the Canadian, Nj
agara Power company, at Fort Erie, Is
larger today than at any time since
the beginning of the war.
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CHARGED With Murder.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. John Ed
ward Teiper, young business man OF
Orchard Park. was charged with mur-
der in the first degree before Justice
Marcus In supreme court today Teip-
er's mother and brother were killed
while sitting in stranded automobile
a week ago.
The court room was crowded when
Teiper walked to the bar.
District Attorney Dudley charged
Teiper with killing his mother, Mrs.
Agnes M. Teiper. widow of wealthy
steel manufacturer.
No reference was made of the killing
of Teiper's brother, Fred or probable
fatal injuring Of his sister, Grace, on
the Orchard Park highway last Sun
day night.
The county prospector asked for the
postponement of preliminary examina-
tion until Wednesday and this was
granted by the court despite the en-
phatic protest of II. r. O'Malley, coun-
sci for Teiper, who was remanded to
Jail without bail.
-Raad Tho naf1v rofa Civ
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Two Big Steel Plants Combine
But Other Merger is Called Off

wanna's January earnings were the
largest in the company's history,
averaging more than 20 percent on
the corporations stock. "
"The Lackawanna is booked up to
full capacity for the balance of this
year." he said. "at much higher prices
than obtained in January
A Change In Plans.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Wall street
received the news of the purchase of
the Cambria Steel company by the
Midvale Steel and Ordnance company
with the greatest interest today, as it
is regarded as changing for the time
being at least, the entire aspect of
plans for big steel merger, along
the line of the United States Steel
corporation which Standard Oil inter.
ests have been perfecting
Financial experts have seen indica.
tions for several months of the Stand.
ard Oil group planning a merger of
Independent steel plants throughout
|, the country on a scale that would
rival United States Steel The gen.
eral plan, it was understood, was the
merging into one group of two OF
three companies and form alton OF
similar small groups into a unit, and
eventually bringing the various
groups together.
The first big step in this plan was
the formation Of the Midvale Steel
and Ordnance company. The second
was the opening of negotiations to
merge Lackawanna Steel, Cambria
and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
company.
A stumbling block in this latter
merger was encountered according to
reports today, in the Speyer banking
interests who are largely interested
in Lackawanna Steel and Youngstown
Sheet and Tube and group OF middle
western bankers, also interested in
these companies. The middle west.
ern houses are said to be interested
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Floods In Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Feb. with
seventeen persons dead. nearly a
score OF towns In southeastern Arkan-
sas covered with water. and property
damage that will run well into the
thousands, the Arkansas river con.
tinued it's slow rise. Several hundred
men continued their all night work
on the levees at Arkansas City today
Breaks in other levees nearby have
caused inundation OF a strip forty
miles long and twenty miles wide. To-
day the river rose 3 foot to a stage
Of 55.S feet at Arkansas City.
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limited Press Leased Wire Service
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb. 7.-Ofi-
cial announcement was made this
afternoon that the Midvale Steel ana
Ordnance company has bought con-
troll of the Cambria Steel Co. The
price was $S1 a share in cash. The
number of shares involved In the
sale was not given out.
A statement was issued by William
H. Donner, president of The Cambria
Steel Co., following publication of the
announcem ent that the deal whereby
the Cambria Steel company was to
be merged with the Lackawanna Steel
company and the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Co., has been abandoned.
The statement, signed by Donner,
Edward r. Stotesbury and J. Leonard
Replogle, was as follows:
.'Wniie It is true as reported that
negotiations for the combination of
Cambria Steel with other steel COM
panies has been abandoned, it is de-
sirable that the stockholders should
be advised Immediately that other
negotiations looking to sale Of stock
have been virtually consummated
at SS1 per share in cash.
other Merger Is Off.
NEW YORK, Feb. THE big mer-
ger of the Lackawanna and Cambria
Steel companies and the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube company is or. This
was the announcement today of
Moses Taylor, president of the Lacka-
wanna Steel company, following nego-
tiations lasting several months.
Taylor's statement contained an
emphatic denial of reports from other
sources that the deal might be re-
vived. stating fatty the merger is
definitely abandoned The Lacka-
wanna shareholders, he said, never
considered a lower price than $50 a
share for their stock.
The president said the Lacka-
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in Picklands, Mather and Company,
which owns vast ore deposits in the
Lake Superior ore region and are
also identified with the Interlake
Steamship company.
These interests, Wall street under
STOOD were certain of being able to
sell their Lackawanna and Youngs-
town stock at higher prices than
those endeavoring to put through the
erger had named as being willing to
pay. They negotiated for the Inter
lake company the purchase of the en-
tire fleet Of the Cleveland Steamship
Co., consisting of thirteen lake yes
sells, which were to have been used
to transport ore from the Superior
fields The Standard Oil group re-
fused to come up to the price asked
for stock involved, however, accord
ing to story in financial circles and
the merger as originally planned fell
through.
It is now said that the Midvale Co.
, has purchased the Buena Vista ore
deposits in Cuba.
.. Big Oi! Combine.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA thirty mil
lion dollar petroleum combine today
is being prepared by the Pan-Ameri-
can Petroleum and Transport Co, ac-
cording to an announcement of B. L.
Doheny, president of the Mexican
Petroleum company, one of the lar
gest of the firms to be absorbed
The companies to be absorbed, n
Fart, and the stock to be rendered to
the Pan-American company are as fol.
| lows:
Mexican Petroleum company, S26,-
535 900 common; Petroleum Trans
port company, S2.900,00O; the Galoric
company, S767,300; Bueneve Petro-
leum company, 100000
Plans for capitalizing the new con-
Germ and placing the stock on the
market are practically completed, it
was said.
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these may have been dissatisfied.
1t is believed that the bombs wera
placed late Saturday afternoon. The
elevator man in the apartment said
that he remembered an Italian coming
into the building on Saturday
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Rains and Warm Weather Following the Heavy
Shows, Bring Danger to Washington,
Oregon and Idaho.
ARKANSAS IS COVERED WITH WATER.
Seventeen Lives Have Been Lost and Score of
Towns Have Been Drenched by the
Rising River.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
WASHINGTON, Feb. THE wealth
er bureau this afternoon issued a
warning of probably dangerous ava
lanches in the mountain districts of
Washington, Oregon and Idaho and
for floods on the eastern slope of the
Cascades in Washington as the result
of rains and warmer weather. follow
ing heavy SHOWS.
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HEAVY EIGHTING.

BERLIN, Feb. 7.-Heavy artillery
fighting along the western front be-
tween the LaBassee canal and Arras
and also southwark toward the bend
Of the Somnne, was reported In to-
days official dispatches. The British
are again bombarding Lens.
Repulse Of 4 Russian attack on tho
Sehara river was also announced.
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ALkANS

limited Press LeASed Wire Service ]
Turkish troops A moving toward the
Roumantan bo to meet the con-
centratIon O, RoumanIan troops
against the rs arlan frontier, accord.
ing to MiIa,4s spatenes received hero
From .er source c.mo the re,
manded partial rehabilitation Of
the RouEss.nIan army and a pledge Of
benevolent neutrality toward tho
Austro-Germans and RuIsars. These
demands, It was stated, have been
ignored by the Roumanlan govern
ment.
The London papers printed Iona dis
patches today dealing with the Rou-
manian situation and corroboratIng OK
elusive Rome dispatches to the United
Press on Saturday that Roumanian
activities lead to the belief that the
Roumanians may soon enter the war
with the allies.
Tho Milwan correspondent Of the
Chronicle reported that the central
powers had protested to Roumania
against the sale Of 10000 carloads Of
grain to the allies.
The RoumanIan government replied
that It was necessary to safeguard
Roumania's economic Interests by all
possible steps.
Austria 10 reported further to have
protested against the nomination to
the Roumanian parliament of two can
dIdates pledged to wage campaign
for the acquisition by Roumania Of
the Hungarian prIncipaIity Of Transyi-
vanIa, Inhabited largely by Rouman-
ians,
The Marmornltz correspondent Of
tho Chronicle reported sudden con-
centration OF Roumanlan troops along
the Hungarian frontier within fifty
yards of the Austro-Hungarian lines.
DuRAzzos IN DANGER.
ROME, Feb. 7.-Durazzo, capital Of
Albania, probably will be occupied by
the Austrians before many hours.
Austrian cavalry has reached the
Arzeni river, four miles from Dur
ago, according to dispatches re-
ceiVed here today. It Is awaiting the
arrival Of the main body Of Austrian
troops which crossed the river IshmI
early Sunday after defeating q Ser
falling back to the south to escape
development by Bulgarian forces at
EIbassan.
BULGARS AND ALLIES.
SALONlkA, Feb. lin the first
sklrmish between allied and Bull
earian troops since tho allies retire.
ment from Serbia two months ago,
French outposts were outnumbered
and forced to retire yesterday morn
ing In the region south Of Lake
Doiran.
Bulgarian mounted patrols fired
across the Greek border. When the
French answered their fire, other Bull
garians gaIloped to the border. Two
Frenchmen were wounded.
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The Home news., 1916-08-18

Arithmetic, Smiths Practical, pages 115 to PAS.
 Language, Mother Tongue No. Z, pages 112 to 210.
 Agriculture, Burkett, Stephens < Hill, complete.
 Arkansas History: Reynolds Makers, complete.
 Physiology, Blaisdell's Our Bodies and How We Live, com- plete.
 Spelling, Hunts Progressive, Part 2, Lesson 90 to end of book. Penmanship, Palmer Method of Business Writing.
 Dictionary, Webster's Common School.
 Eighth Grade.
 Arithmetic, Smiths Practical, pages 248 to AS.
 Algebra, Wentworth's First Steps, page 1, as much as pos sible.
 Physical Geography, Maury's. book complete.
 English History, Tappan's, complete.
 Language, Mother Tongue No. 2, page 210 to end of book. Spelling, Chew's Practical High School, complete. Penmanship, Palmer Method of Business Writing.
 Dictionary, Webster's High School.
 Ninth Grade.
 Arithmetic, Smiths Practical,
The Home news., 1916-08-18
McCRoRY, ARKANSAS FRIDAY, AUGUST, IS. 1916

Language: Mother Tongue No. l, page 154 to end of book. History: Lees Primary, com plete.
 Geography: Roddy's Elemen- tary, complete.
 Spelling: Hunts Progressive, Part 2, Lesson 50, on.
 Drawing: Augsburg's Draw ing Book No. 4.
 Penmanship: Palmer Method of Business Writing.
 Dictionary: Webster's Common School.
 Sixth Grade.
 History: Our Country" pages, I to 225.
 Geography, Roddy's Complete, pages 1 to 125.
 Arithmetic, Smiths Practical, pages 1 to 129.
 Language, Mother Tongue No. 2, pages 1 to 125.
 Physiology, Blaisdell's Our Bodies and How We Live; Over tons Primary complete. Spelling, Hunts Progressive, Part 2, Lesson 90 tt end of book. Penmanship, Palmer Method of Business Writing.
 Dictionary, Webster's Common School.
 Seventh Grade.
 History, "Our Country" <" page 225 to end of book.
 Geography, Roddy's Complete, page 81 to end of book.
The Home news., 1916-08-18
NUMBER 4

 page 400 to end of book.
 Algebra, Mines High School, to page 200.
 Latin, D'Ooge's Latin for Be- ginners, complete.
 Civil Government, Clark's, complete; Lile's Gov. of Ark, :" complete.
 English, Lockwood 6 Elmer sons Composition and Rhetoric, complete. History, Myers Ancient, com- plete.
 Spelling, Chew's Practical High School, book complete. Penmanship, Palmer Method of Business Writing.
 Dictionary, Webster's High School.
 entn 0rdOe.
 General Science, Caldwell & Eikenberry, complete.
 Orthography, Chew's Practical High School, complete.
 Algebra, Mines High School, page 166 to end of book.
 Plane Geometry, Wentworth Smiths, complete.
 English, Clippinger's Compo- sition & Rhetoric, complete. American Literature, Hal leck's, complete.
 Latin. Caesars Gallic Wars, by Bennett, Books 2, 3, 4 and 6. History, Meyers Ancient, page 451 to end; Meyers Medic val and Modern, to page $50.
 Eleventh Grade.
 Algebra, Mines High School, Quadratics to end of book. Plane GeOmetry, wentworth Smiths, complete; Solid Geome- try, complete.
 English, Clippinger's, page 100 to end of book.
 American Literature, Hal leck's, page $40 to end; Halleck's English Literature, complete. Latin, Bennett's Caeser, books 4 and 6; Bennett's Cicero's Orotions.
 History, Meyers Medieval and Modern. sage 605 to end; Ad- vanced American History. Physics, Reed & Henderson's High School, complete.
The Home news., 1916-08-18

o. K. Porter has accepted a position with Messrs Cole & Stin- son of Hillemann.
 Miss Ora Lee Hunnicutt, book keeper for Mayo & Robinson of Jelks, spent Sunday in Little Rock.
 Mesdames Chas. Harris and M. H. Patterson gave the hands who worked the road between Fakes and Jelks pleasant sur- prise Wednesday evening by preparing and serving a fine bar becue supper. Messrs Harris and Patterson furnished two hogs and the ladies did the rest.
The Home news., 1916-08-18
NH. s. Curriculum.
c,hool Opens Sept. 4, With 'F Eleven Grades For First Time.
 WEI Run Nine Months.

open on Ihe li'oA '- stS:3O, with nine months to run. The 11tb. grade will be added and tie Auditorium used as a ctudv-hall for high school stu dents, About eight students are ovnected to take up Senior work. The curriculum, embracing all snbiects, with the exact ground to he covered during the year, follows. Retain a copy for re- ference.
 1st. Grade.
 Reader: Progressive First, complete.
 Primer: Cyr's New, complete. Penmanship, Palmer's Primary Lessons, thoro work to be done,
 Second Grade
 Reader: Progressive Second, complete.
 Language: Long's No. 1, com plete.
 Arithmetic: Princes No. 1, complete.
 Spelling: Hunts Progressive, Section l, to page B.
 Penmanship: Palmer's Pri- mary Lessons.
 Drawing: Practical Drawing Book No. 1.
 Third Grade.
 Reader: Progress sive Third, complete.
 Arithmetic: Hamilton's Ele- mentary, pages 29 to 107.
 Language: Long's No. 2, con- plete.
 Geography: Long's Home Geo. graphy, complete; Frye's Ele- mentary, to page 100.
 Spelling: Hunts Progressive, Part l, Section 2, pages 30 to 60. Drawing: Augsburg's No. 2 Drawing Book.
 Penmanship: Palmer Method of Business Writing.
 Fourth Grade.
 Reader: Progressive Fourth. complete.
 arithmetic: Hamilton's Ele- mentary, pages 67 to 1855. Language: Mother Tongue No l, complete.
 Geography: Frye's Elemen- 'ary, page 50 to end of book. spelling. Hunts Progressive, page 57 to end of Part 1: n Drawing: Augsburg's Drawing Book No. 3.
 e lnenmanship: | Palmer Method 0f Business Writing.
 plctlonary, Webster's Primary. Fifth Grade. header; Progressive Fifth, complete.
 r AIlthmetic: Hamilton's Ele- "'ary' page l05 to end of book.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

other principal cause of death. The total number of deaths due to typhoid fever in 1914 was 1O,1S5. The marked decrease in the mortality from this disease gives emphatic testimony to the effectiveness of preSent-day meth ods, not only of cure but of preven- ton. The efficacy of improved water supply and sewerage systems, of the campaign against the fly, and of other sanitary precautions is Strikingly shown by the reduction of the typhoid mortality rate to the extent of more than five-ninths in fourteen years.
 Maladies of Childhood.
 The principal epidemic maladies of hildhood-whooping cough, measles, and scarlet fever-were together re- sponsible for no fewer than 15,617 deaths of both adults and children, or 23.7 per 100000. in the registra- tion area in 1914, the rates for the three diseases separately being 10.G, 6.S and 6.6, respectively. In 1913 measles caused a greater mortality than either of the other diseases, but in 1914 whooping cough had first place. In every year since and in cluding 1910, as we'll as in several pre- ceding years, measles has caused greater number of deaths than the much more dreaded scarlet fever. The mortality rates for all three of these diseases fuctuate greatly from year to year. The rates for measles and scar let fever in 1914 were the lowest :n fifteen years, while that for WhOoping cough was considerably above the low est recorded rate for this disease, 65 in 1904, although far below the high est 15.S in 1903.
 Railway Accidents.
 Deaths due to railway accidents and injuries totaled 7,062, or 10.7 per 100000 This number includes fatal ities resulting from collisions between railway trains and vehicles at grade crossings. The death rate from rail- way accidents and injuries is the low est on record and shows most , marked and gratifying decline as com
 pared with the rate for 1913, which was thirteen per 10O 1000, and a still more pronounced drop from the aver age for the five-year period 19O6-1910
 which was fifteen per 100000. Deathe resulting from street-car ac- cidents and injuries numbered 1,673, or 25 per 100000. This rate, like that for railway fatalltleS, IS the lowest on record and shows a material falling
 off as compared with 1913, when it was 3.2. and as compared with the average for the five-year period 1906- 1910, which was 3.7.
 Suicides
 The number of suicides reported in 1914 was 10,933, or 16.6 per 100000 population. Of this number, 3,2S6 ac- com plished self-destruction by the use of firearms, 5000 by poison, 1,552 by
 hanging or strangulation, 1,419 by 1 asphyNia, 65S by the use of knives or
 other cutting piercing instruments, 619 by drowning, 225 by jumping from high places, S9 by cruching, and S5 by other methods
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19
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New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

It is reported that a prominent part in the attempt made by the enemy to influence Mohammedan sentiment against the allies has been played by Karl Neufield, the well known Ger man eastern trader and traveller Neu- field is indebted for his life to Lord Kitchener and the British troops who, under his command, overthrow the khalifa at Omdurman in September, 1898, say the British. Neufeld is al- legged to have returned eventually to Berlin with a mass of useful inform ation and a flask of miraculous wa ter, which Arab admirers had sent to Field Marshal von Hindenburg as a curative for his gout.'' The "miracu- lous water" referred to is probably water from the famous we'll Zem- Zem at Mecca, which is held locally to be of mira origin.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-19

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Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1916-01-21

WYNN ~ WV WV w.
viii this year bring pence in Eau
rope!
Peace woul make the most wei
come gift that 1916 could give. The
armies oft he bclligercnt> have been
locked in battle ~ long that the
world has become callous. Every
day We read in the dispatches ac-
counts of horrible fighting. Today
forty thousand men were killed. Il
was only Yesterday that whole rsi-
menis were dccimaied. The day he
fore II thousand men were trapped
like animals and extcrmnaied. Re-
ports state that Gcrmanv's list az
killed totals more than 1000. O00.
Beautiful cities and priceless works
al art have been destroyed. Help
less women aud children have been
driven by the enemy from their
homes aud starved or thrown on tie
slender charity of the merciful. M
i'H-ti Hit w tlit'l'u ny NV h'i-
ror that the daily dispatches con-
vcy. Nnr finite minds cannot grasp
the trcmcndou~ne>> ot il. and We
read the war news with hardly more
thrill than we get from u SENSATION
al murder
Recent dispatches from Europe
have emphasized the peace note. Tie
German socialists. apparently. are
demanding that something be- done 10
end The, laughter. Austria, likewise.
j. ready for peace. II l. not unlikely
that France and England. despite
their assertions Ia the contrary.
would be- amenahlc. it proper terms
could he olaincd. The neutral world
l. CRYING for peace Will 1916 bring
it!
The new year holds much tor the
'niicd States IN the way al prosper
II, and proglc-~. We baVr reached
u period ni rnli~l fnrllon winch viii
bcgiu AT once. MANY serious r,r"b-
lens are before the people Tor >"lu-
tinn. aud the tendency l. ~ ignore
forts un safe ard ~anr pulir'r-. lui
al al the .iii- which the present
year can bring. the greatest would
be- peace in Europe
An"ri"uu> are bcc"min. more -;r.
;ue a..cur,.in. tn statistics. but il j.
not YET time {" take down the ".ai'
~ liz IGN.
II 1t unrn> out 10 b ctruc thar Cen.
Villa Ca, Sl30.On deposited IN AN
American bank. the matter OF in
dcmnity for killing Americans, c"nii
be- easily arranged.
From the way they quarrcled or
on the pcucr ship. il might he III fer
red that the Ford had it'll c5'u0-
out.
That paper laprobc for aniom"hics
may >" used 10 wrap the unwarl
pedestrian ia after an encounter.
Those Hrmorcd anlom"blle. IA the
war zone seem to be- almost ~ DEADLY
A. the unnrmorcd ones here.