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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28
DONNE LLSON.
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A simple but pretty ceremony was
solemnized at the G.. e. church at
! Donnellson, Iowa, April %, at high
noon, when Miss Dorothea Wahrer,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. e..
! Wahrer, of near Charleston Iowa, be-
came the bride of Mr.. Guy Frank
Riefe, Of New London, Iowa. Re-
VIM Kreis officiating. The ceremony
atives Of the bride and groom, after
which the bridal party returned to the
home of the bride, where reception
was held, followed by a three course
dinner.
The bride was daintily attired in
simple gown of silk narquesitte with
pearl trimmings, and carried
bouquet of white carnations, smilaX
and ferns. The bride is the daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Wahrer,
who by her sunny disposition has
won a large circle of friends. She
has been a teacher in the public
schools of both Lee and Henry coun-
ties for three years, while teaching
/ in the latter the bride met the young
man whom she has chosen as her
husband
The groom is the son Of Mr.. and
| MIS-. II. "A. ubleIG Ol IedI view I>Ohuolt,
Iowa, is young man of sterling quail
tiles and excellent character.
Many beautiful and useful gifts
were received by the young couple.
The bride and groom will be at home
to their many friends after May 5, on
| a farm five miles north of New Lon
don, Iowa.
The many friends extend heartiest
| congratulations.
| Miss Ruth Allen has returned
home from pleasant visit in Keokuh.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. III. Wiegner Of
Pennington, visited home folks Wed.
/ nesday evening.
Mrs. J. G. Honadel visited in War
rem several days the past week.
Harry Marsden of Red Oak, Iowa,
spent Sunday at the Gibson home.
Mrs. G. Gary returned to her home
in Chicago Wednesday evening, hav-
ing been called here by the death Of
her father II. Bollinger, of Primrose.
VIM. Grant and Mrs. Viola Batten
were married at the NJ. E. parsonage
by the pastor, Rev. Frye, Sunday
evening at $50. We wish them hap
piness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orvil Kiger of Galland
spent Sunday at the f. G. Tabor homG.
They left Monday evening for Fulton,
Illinois.
Clyde Watson of Mt. Sterling was a
business visitor here Wednesday.
Victor McCarty was brought home
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28
MANY PRESCRIPTIONS

This Season, for Impure Blood,
Weakness, Nervousness, Brain-Fag.
In order to comprise the best course
OF treatm ent, and to secure the best
results, should read as follows:
r Hoods Sarsaparilla-12 OF.
Peptiron Pills-1S0
Sig: One teaspoonful Hoods Sar-
saparilla before meals
Two Peptiron Pills after
meals.
No better course Of medicine can
be recommended by the most skilful.
for Hoods Sarsaparilla is made from
an unsurpassed formula OF blood
purifying and stomach-toning RENE.
dies, including sarsaparilla, man
drake, dandelion, yellow dock, wild
cherry, gentian and other valuable
alternatives and diuretics, while Pep
tiron Pills, named from pepsin and
iron, include also nux and otner
blood and stomach tonics which
physicians prescribe.
It is therefore wise and economical
to get these two medicines from your
druggist today. The two working to-
gether often give a fourfold benefit.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28
SOCIETY TO
GIVE PROGRAM
interesting Numbers Arranged for
Monday Night Meeting OF
Holy Name Society
in ST. Peters Hall.

A very interesting program will be
presented at a meeting of the Holy
Name society to be held in st.
Peters hall Monday evening. Rev.
A. J. Zaiser will be present and will
make an address. The public has
been invited to attend. The program
follows:
Vocal solo-Thomas Rogerson.
Address-JosephH H. Mcnamara.
Piano election-Joseph Code.
Defamation, ''Your Flag and My
Flag"-Ralph BRASIL.
Introduction Of speaker-Very Rev.
j. w. Gillespie v. F.
Lecture, History OF My Conver-
sion'-Rev. A. J. Zaiser.
Vocal selection-Holy name quar-
tette.
"star Spangled Banner'-Audi-
onco
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28

from st. Joseph's hospital in keo-
kuk Tuesday and seems to be doing
nicely.
Mrs. B. McKeehan Of NrksVille,
Mo, Is visiting her father and oroth-
er here, Tom Butler and SON.
Rev. Ed. Roberts has severed mis-
connections with the Presbyterian
church at this place and will have
charge of the community work at
Sharon and Mt. Hamill, commencing
June l. Plans are being made ~
secure a pastor for Milton, Donneil'
son and Primrose
There will be concert given at
Dickey's hall Friday evening, May II,
by talent from Burlington,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28

izations have been invited to at
tend:
Household of Ruth.
Alexander Clark lodge, u. B. F.
Wisdom Temple, s. M. T.
Sons and Daughters of Africa.
A. F. and A. M.
Gate city lodge, U. B. F.
Eureka Temple, s. M. T.
Electa chapter, o. E. S.
Alpha chapter, o. E. S.
Morning Star society.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28
SERVICE FOR
COLORED FOLKS
Loyalty Observance Will be Held
Tomorrow Afternoon at Church
Of St. Mary the Virgin
by Rev. Sage.

A patriotic service to which all the
colored people Of the city have been
invited, is to be held in the church
of st. Mary the Virgin, Fourteenth
and High. tomorrow afternoon at 4
o'clock. The Rev. John c. Sage is to
deliver the address and an especially
beautiful service has been prepared.
The Peoples Institute band will &C
company the hymns and render sew.
eral selections. The following organ
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28

here but short time. having come
to Keokuk from the east. The
Humphrey family is Frustrated with
the news and the whole city has
been shocked at this new river
tragedy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28
RIVER CLAIMS TWO AS
FIRST TOLL Of SEASON

was seated In the rear of the boat.
The craft was then between 200 and
800 feet from shore and about oppo-
site the smelter plant.
According to Brassil's story,
rowing, claiming that he was not
pulling strong enough.
Skates replied: This is my boat
and I'll pull as l please"
Humphrey then arose to take the
oars. The water was choppy and
the boat unsteady and before he
could reach the oars, he toppled
over backwards into the water.
Attempt at Rescue.
BRASIL and Skates leaned over the
side Of the boat to pull Humphrey in
and the craft upset, throwing them
into the water. BRASIL, who is a
cripple, managed to cling to the
overturned skiff and he told the
police that he saw his two COM
panions go down.
Brassil's left leg has been ampu-
tated and his right leg is stiff so
that he could offer no assistance to
his companions. 1t was only by des-
perately clinging to the boat that he
was able to save himself from the
fate Of the other two
1t is said that Skates was unable
to swim, but Humphrey was reputed
to be an expert swimmer The cold
Of the water, it is believed, chilled
them so that they were unable to
make much of an effort to save
fo0
rough. and the night dark, the ele-
ments being all against them.
Chilled With Cold.
BRASIL believes that the boat
turned over about ten minutes after
IL o'clock 1t was not until two
hours later that he was able to get
to land Clinging to the skiff he
finally drifted in to the Iowa shore
and dropped exhausted. He was
chilled through with the cold and on
the point of collapse.
He finally managed to reach the
smelter plant and from there tele-
pnoned for taxi and was taken to
his home in this. The police were
notified about 300 this morning Of
the tragedy. Officer LaFeber, Will
liam Glewe and Charles Skates, a
brother of the drowned man. formed
the first searching party. They COW
cred the vicinity of the accident in
boat, but were unable to find the
bodies.
Boat is Found.
The boat was discovered in a
clump of willows about fifty feet
from shore. 1t had evidently foated
out after BRASIL had landed One
oar and cap worn by Skates were
found with 1t.
Jesse Humphrey is fisherman by
occupation and resides at 1916 Park
street. He has wife and several
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28
Jesse Humphrey and Harvey
Skates Were Drowned in
Mississippi Last Night
Boat Overturned.
FRANK BRASIL SAVED
Crippled Man Chung to Boat
for Two Hours Until it
Drifted In to
Shore.

The Mississippi river claimed it's
first victims of the year late
last night when Jesse Humph-
rey and Harvey Skates, fisher
men, were drowned when a
boat in which they were returning
to Keokuk from Warsaw, overturned
in the river about 800 feet from the
Iowa shore opposite the Keokuk
Electro Metals plant
Frank ]. BRASIL, 316 South Elev-
enth street. the third occupant of
the boat, managed to cling to the
hours battle in the icy cold water
managed to get to shore in half
frozen condition.
From the Keokuk Electro Metals
plant he telephoned to Jackson's
garage for car and was taken
home He notified the police and a
searching party was Immediately
sent out. The overturned boat was
found lodged in some willows near
the shore. In it were Skates cap
and one oar. No trace was found of
the bodies.
Efforts were made today to locate
the bodies of the two drowned men
and several parties are out securing
The river.
Happened After II O'clock.
The accident happened shortly
after II o'clock last night, according
to BRASIL, who gave his account of
the tragedy to the police this morn
Ing.
BRASIL went to Warsaw last even
Ing on the 7:45 p. m. interurban car
and met Humphrey and Skates there.
The two men had been out fixing
some nets belonging to them, and
had then stopped off at Warsaw.
Brassif missed the las., ear home and
decided to make the trip back to
Keokuk, in the boat Humphrey and
Skates had come over in
They left Warsaw about 1890
o'clock and headed for the Iowa
shore. When the accident happened,
BRASIL was pulling the first oar and
Skates the second and Humphrey
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28

was first printed at Worcester. Mass.
in ITS.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-28

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Is Bodies Taken
From Death Trap
In Colorado Mine
Rescue Crew Believes lO4
Miners Now Entombed at
Hastings Are Dead

Hastings. Col, April 2S.-Nine more
bodies, making total Of 10, were found
to-day by rescue crews in the Hastings
mine Of the Nictor-American Fuel Com
pany, in which 1l9 men were entombcd
yesterday by an explosion. Mine Of
fcials said it was feared all had per-
ished.
As soon as the first rescuers emerged
early to-day another crew entered the
mine bearing stretchers. Outside the
mine scores Of volunteers pressed for
ward eager to be in the next shift to
60 inside
the rescue crew reported the fire in
the mine was out and that work of re-
pairing INC damage and clearing away
debris was proceeding rapidly.
G. T. Bartlett. prcsider: OF the Vic
tor-American Company, said ne be-
lieved some Of the men had chance
for their lives, because among those en-
trapped were several trained in rescue
work. lie said the mine had been in
spected frequently and that he could
not explain the explosion.
David Reese. safety INSPECTOR for the
Nictor-American Company, who was in
specting the mine when the explosion
occurred, is believed to have been lost
Leslie /. Hubbard, Attorney General
Of Colorado. arrived to-day 20 inves-
tigate rumors that the explosion was
due to the act Of an alien enemy.
An explosion in the same property
five years ago killed twelve men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Devil Prompts Critics,
Says Billy, Discussing Job

The story of Job supplied the start
ing point for the evening sermon. The
text was from Job !, !: There was a
man in the land Of Uz whose name was
Job. and that man was perfect and one
that feared God and hated evil"
"a perfect man." said Mr.. Sunday,
means an Al, 24-karat proposition,
and then some. That's the kind of a
man God tells us Job was. He was per-
feet in chsracter-nothing more could
be said of an angel.
"The Bible does not say that Job was
perfect in the sight of mamie was
perfect in the sight of God.
Tf | thought | had TO please every
body or miss heaven I'd simply have
TO throw up the sponge and take the
count
"If you had to please everybody you
never would see heaven. You have to
lower every standard Of decency and
morality to please some NUTS.
There is not one Of US who could
please all the people for even one week
if our lives depended upon it. There's
hardly a man who would be perfect in
the sight Of his wife for three days,
and ! know there isn't a woman who
can please her husband for fifteen
minutes.
"As soon as God declared that Job
was perfect il was up to the devil TO
prove that he wasn't. It's the DEVILS
business TO lombard everybody that
God speaks we'll Of. He has done that
from Adam dcwn until the present
time. lie will continue TO do so until
the Lord comes and drives him away
out of the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Killed in Fall
From Municipal
Building Roof
Mystery in Electricians
Plunge of Twenty
five Stories

Samuel Klein, an electrician, fell or
leaped from the roof Of the Municipal
Building yesterday afternoon and
dropped twenty-five stories while the
daily crowd was pouring along Centre
Street. A score OF persons saw the
body strike. A few seconds later it
was rinced about by ten times that
number.
Two employees Of the Municipal
Tuilding were the last persons to see
Klein alive. Late yesterday afternoon
they found the young man wandering
on the roof When ordered to leave he
started toward the staircase.
A moment later Patrolman Gaynor,
standing on Centre Street, saw some
thing come plunging down and land
with a thud on the pavement at the
southwest corner of the building. lie
was the first TO reach klein's body. I'm
Ill other police arrived he was kept
busy holding back the men and women
who swarmed for a glimpse of the bat
tered thing on the sidewalk.
Every bone in k!eln's body was
broken. st the Elizabeth Street police
station the pockets of his clothes were
found to contain only scraps Of paper
and bits of orange peel. The police
managed to piece together a card which
gave the mans name and address
Later his brother Ernest identified the
body. The two brothers were in bust
ness and ran an electricians shop at
"a Fulton Street. Ernest could find no
reason for Samuel's death.
"He left the shop about 4:30.' he
said. "He told me that he would be
back at and that we would 60 homo
together Why he should want to Kill
himself is a mystery to me-"
The police could find no one in the
Municipal Building who had seen kleir
go to the roof. On Saturday afternoons
the structure is practically deserted
and it is believed that the man walked
up the twenty-four fights of stairs.
After Coroner Healy had made ar
examination he entered the cause o,
Klein's death on the certificate a.
"leaped or fell"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Girls Innocently Help Woman
To HuI Baby and Self to Death
Mother Who Had Been ILL., Enists Aid of Youthful Will
iamsburg Bridge Promcnaders to Leap
Ninety Feet to Ground

into the eyes Of the woman, ana hc'
cool stare had a CLINT Of suspicion in H.
What 10 YOU take Us for she dc,
msndcd. Easy marks, that we should
DO left with a baby on Guy hands
She was wise IN movie lore.
"Aw. take the Md pleaded sylvia
shes all right Sure. we'll take MN
mann" and Sylvia snatchcd up ih'
baby. who GurCicd with delight al mas
new situation.
The woman promptly climbed over
tho low granite railing. She picked "l
Il handbag and then extended her arms
for the child.
SAID Sylvia. ,,u.
woman, and Sylvia did so. &c.,.
The woman kissed the smiling ht''
face. hucged the white bundle and
With swift movement Of her a'm'
fun. % upward and outward.
sadie and Sylvia stood transh \''
Before they could move or utter =
sound the woman had lcapcd after ~
child.
through the thronS that pressed uron
them with questions. Sadie and 81 I'd
found themselves StammcrlnS maze
ouate words to policeman at 'hS
Manhattan end Of the bridge.
Ninety feet below the bridge tho
woman and baby lay dead IN SoutH
sixth Street. She was Mrs. Sophie
Levitt. whose husband. Charles, has q
tobacco shop at 407 Cornelia Stree;
RidgcwoOd
For several weeks she had beer I'M
der medical treatment for a nervous
trouble. When she left the house ye'-
terday. after dressing her only child
Charles. in his best. she told her hus-
band they were going to the doctors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Burglars Floor
Man and Wife
And Burn Home
Revolver Chase Follows
but the Pair Escapes
from Reserves

( Two burglars got into the basement
Of an apartment house at 40 West
16eth Street last night They ran
sacked the bedroom Of Peter Snffn. the
negro jsnitor, and one Of them threw a
lighted cigarette on the bed. Then
they crossed the hall TO the kitchen,
leaving a fire blazing in the middle of
the bed
Peter Snifin was sitting BY the stove.
One Of the burglars leyel!ed revolver
at him and told him to put up his
hands Peter left his rocking chair
like a projectilc from a mortar and
struck the gun head first. lie doubled
IN and Gasped. dropping his revolver
His companion picked il up and raped
the human bombshell on the head.
Peter dropped unconscious just as his
wife, Matte. entered.
She entered the fray with the same
enthusiasm as did Peter, and presently
was stretched beside him on the floor.
The burglars paused only 10 take a gold
watch and $500 from Peters pockets.
They found the street already ahve
with people who had heard the uproar
in the basement.
With a crowd in hot pursui: they ran
south on Amsterdam Avenue until a
blue uniform hove in sight at l64th
Street. In il was Patrolman jeremiah
0'Connor, of the West l52d Street sta
ton, who chased the pair through 165th
Street 10 Edgecomb Avenue, where one
OF them vanished. The other fired sew
oral shots at the patrolman, who
emptied his revolver in reply
The fugitive vanished in an apart.
ment house in l66th Street, and O'Con-
nor and the reserves from the West
l77th Street station could find no
further trace OF him.
Peter and Matte we're attended TO
by an ambulance surgeon. but the FIRE
MEN rouidnt awe thar bod
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

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sadie " lnK.er and sylvia Mem "'''
l,,ond their years in the sophlstIca-
...r.t. -, cido o,d o. Injured 10
40" % '"' .-"'. ,,a.
thrills as only the MOVIES can o'uHV '"'
sers.bilities Of girls Of fifteen and four
too, r,spcctively. sauntcrcd arm iu
- U.u;o.,.h,,rc Rridcc
arm across 'n' ''''"'.''V''@
yesterday. Il was O'Clock OF ."'-
.rdav afternoon m spring. time when
49,. L..s... r,--,. q, rrc,,enado for the
o,l ~ tho
'ashloh&o'eS Oh INC '"1' '''' .,.,,,
East Side and the west end OF VIII
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
10th Street Cellars Flooded
Ten Feet of Water Flows
from Bursted Main

Several clubs and dwellings on West
For,ieth Street, between Fifth and
Sixth Avenues. were flooded soon after
midnight yesterday when ono of the
largest water mains in the city burst
IN front Of SO West Fortieth Street.
The food poured from the geyser west
through Fortieth Street TO Broadway
while employees Of the Public Service
Commission. the telephone and electric
light companies sought 70 protect their
excavations and conduits with i'm
promptu barriers
Il was four hours before officials
found the water gate and shut off the
flow. The water was ten feet deep in
the cellar Of the Engineers Club and n
Ere engine was called TO pump it out,
Several residents awoke TO find them
selves in the predicament Of the ancient
mariner and either borrowed water for
their coffee or sent servants 90 the
cellar with buckets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Summer in Country
For Prussian Children

The Hague, April 27.-The town-ored
children of Prussia are % emigraJe TO
the country tils summer. not IN parties
but in veritable armies. il the latest
movement. under the patronage Of Ger
man Empress Augusta Victoria. is sue
cessful. From the back streets Of
grim, war-beclouded Berlin and other
big cities they are to be transferred for
two months to the smiling meadows,
farms and villages of the open country
side-from the cnawing want Of the
towns to the sources of Germany's food
production
The Prussian Ministers Of tho In
terror. OF Education and Of Agriculture
have jointly addressed a proclamation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

when they take you home in the Red
Cross ambulance
Resources a Sword
There was great applause when Mr..
Sunday said: .,
I've are in this war. and all the gold
resources Of the United States Will be
welded into one huge sword, and with
il we will pierce the vitals Of Prussian
militarism."
The Rev. David Ross, who resigned
recently a. assistant pastor Of Calvary
Baptist Church. was one of the 43l who
went forward to take Bily's hand at
the afternoon service. Many children
we're i'm the audience. and they were
we'll represented among the trail hit
ters. too. Two small colored boys had
great difficulty in reaching the evan
gelists outstretched fingers.
In the audience Of 1000 were dele
cations from the Sunshine Girls of the
Fourth Avenue Methodist Church, the
cbildren's choir of the Atlantic Avenue
Union, Brooklyn. and girls from Union
Congregational Church. Federal Coun-
ell War Relief Club, Union Evangelical
Church, Of Corona, i. l., United Pres
bvterian Sunday School, Lawrence
Methodist Church, West New York, y.
j., and White Plains.
Billy will preach his famous "men
only" sermon this afternoon and even
ing, and in anticipation Of the effect his
philippe will have upon some of his
auditors it was said yesterday that fif-
teen extra nurses had been ordered to
report at the hospital.
The collection at Fridays meetings
amounted to Sl,150.73, as against
S1114.15 for the preceding Friday.
John D. Rockefeller, jr., was at the
meeting and had a seat on the plat
form.
The closing prayer was by the Rev.
DR.. Robert +. Pierce, of the North Bap-
list Church, called the "Wall Street
preacher"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Austria Limits Time
for Americans to Leave

Amsterdam, April ga Vienna dispatch
says that all Americans. without distinction
Of sex or age, who desire TO leave the mon
archy. may travel to Switzerland up TO four
weeks from the date Of the rupture Of rela-
tons. April .. After that date no Ameri-
cans will be allowed TO leave. but those ~
naming will not be interned unless they COM
nit offences.