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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30
Ohio River and Other Streams on WlSd Ram
page, Which is Sweeping All
Before Them.
SEVERAL LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST.
Manv Steamboats, in Winter Harbor Wrecked
and Bridges Washed
Away.

| GUnitsd Press Leased Wire Service.
! CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 3o.-Prop
I erty loss which it is estimated may
! run more than ten million dollars anc
three deaths, was the toll today OF the
| floods which are sweeping parts OF
/ Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West VIZ
sInia, Indiana and Pennsylvania.
| Swollen mountain streams and
rivers are sweeping everything before
them. Bridges were washed away
railroad tracks torn up. and boats torr
from their r1oorinss. Loss in boats
j Is already estimated at more than two
million dollars.
| Logan, w. Va, the heaviest loser Of
all West Virginia towns, Is still isolat
ed and in darkness because OF the
washing out OF the power plant anc
telephone and telegraph lines. The
loss there Is estimated at $5oo,oco.
The total loss In West Virginia is
! estimated at IS, 100000.
Blair, w. Va, Is cut of from the rest
Of the world, moving ice having torn
out large section Of the railroad
tracks and all wires are down.
Slides have stopped trains on short
lires in several parts Of the state.
Many mines are reported flooded and
Il may be weeks before they are drain
ed.
Charleston lost two wharf boats and
several house boats in the kanawha
river f!cod.
It will be weeks before conditions
are normal again.
Lloyd Sutherland, Of Huntington,
was drowned when he attempted to
lump from a barge on to cake Of ice
fIoatinc in the Ohio river. His death
brings the fatalities in West Virginia
to three. TWO were drowned at Logan
yesterday.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l ]
CINCINNATI Ohio, Jan. 30.-Mil-
lions of dollars loss in property dam
age has been caused by floods in Ohio,
kentucky. Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia, in the past forty-eight hours as
a result of huge ice gorges which
damned the streams and then broke.
Several lives have been lost.
Logan, W. Va, dispatches say that
Mrs. A. P. Bats and William CLARK
were drowned late yesterday.
Under the force of the flood, pour
ing down from the swollen West Nir-
ginia tributaries, the ice locked OHIO
river is breaking in all the towns
above here and heavy damage is
threatened.
At 4:30 a. m. today the ice gorge
broke at New Richmond, Ohio, twenty
miles from here. A ferry boat was
torn loose. but was not carred away
because Of the ice around 1t. The
water rose ten feet It is feared the
water will reach many homes.
At Ripley, Ohio, thirty-eight miles
from New Richmond, the water rose
twelve feet, carrying away the wharf
boat loaded with freight.
The first wave has passed Man
chester and Higginsport, Ohio. and
Marysville. Ky. sweeping away the
wharf boat at each place.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30
TELL FRANCIS
HE IS HELD RESPONSIBLE

the United States of Berkman and
Emma Goldman, the two American
red" leaders for conspiracy to defeat
the conscription law.
Coincidentally with news Of this &C
tion from Helsingfors came word of
Bolsheviki successes in putting down
the revolution in Finland. Trotsky as
serted that counter revolutionists in
Finland had attacked the BolsheviI
red guards, forcing the latter to defend
themselves.
david R. Francis, American ambas.
sador to Russia, is a former governor
Of Missouri, former secretary of the
interior under President Cleveland and
president OF the St. Louis centennial
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30
Flror1sts 7 hink American
ambassador a Should Look
Alter Alex Berkman.

Il eph Shaplen, United Press
E|pp,rn Stan Correspondent
n,.i. n,.ino5RAD, Jan. 29.-(delayedl-
h,.lmatum declaring the American
rassr sauor would be held PERSONAL
A,poiisipie for the life and liberty
tnanaer ~ naer Berkman," was forward
sra, avid R. Francis by the anarch-
|rs 1singtors today.
bn,, ,sn russian terrorists have been
- interested in the prosecution In
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30
Banker Arrested and Search
of His Effects Reveals In
teresting Documents.

lunited Press Leased Wire Service.J
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 3O--
Search by federal agents of the nome
OF George Boden. former manager OF
the foreign department OF a san
Francisco bank. not only revealed
evidence which resulted in the ar
rest of Boden as dangerous alien
enemy, but furnished the authorities
with lists of Germans and pTo-Ger-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
ROME, Jan. 30.-The Russian ter
rorists committee at zurich mas
passed the sentence Of death on
Nicholai Lenine, Foreign Minister
Trotsky, Minister Balaeonon and
twenty other BolsheviA, according 10
dispatches received here today. Tne
committee is composd Of workmen-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30
|anorts From Germany Tell of Workers Join
ing Movement Until War Work is
Paralyzed.
lay Be START OF REVOLUTION
10 Rioting Rumored, But Situation is Serious
and Especially so in Austro-
Hungary.

no professions, no demonstrations,
and the city was orderly and quiet
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Red Guards Victory.
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 30.-Capture
of Viborg and Helsingfors by the
Bolsheviki red guard from the Fin
nish counter revouluonists, was an
nounced in a Haparanda despatch
received here today.
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Teutons Reach erest-Litov

Teutons Reach Brest-lttovsk
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 30.-German
Foreign Minister Kuehlmann and
Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister
Czernin, arrived at Brest-Litovsk on
Monday, according to Berlin adyices
today. Dispatches quoted Czernin az
declaring prior 20 his departure
from Berlin that he might soon re-
turn to Vienna on very important
state business"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30
THE WEATHER

Probably snow. Continued cold
Local temp p. M. 13; a. m.
L.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30

Orderly and Quiet.
,'Nt., Jan. 30.-One hundred thou
ao workmen were striking in Berlin
Phaay, according to copies OF the
alurter zeitung which arrived
ine Newspaper declared there were
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Flags
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Only a Few Lell

Only a Few Len
We have jusl a doxer Ser
vice Flags leii. which We
will rlese ouf AZ IS cents
each. These are wlth either
one or tKo stars ilays
with 1aore than two stars
can be had on special order.
These Service FLAGS are
the best made "a tii. price
or anywhere near II They
are Of good sire and az high
grade bunting. hand scWed
and storm proof.
Every family lh.t has a
son. father, husband az
brother IN the service should
display one Of these flags.
They mark the homes from
whieh men have gone 10 do
their share in the great var.
Whcn these feR Services
Flags which We have on
hand arr gone We shall or.
der no more II yoa want
one Of these Gags get II now
instead ~ being sorry when
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
GOLF TOURNEY FOR
MIXED FOURSOMES
Mashie- Weilders to Scrap 1t
Out for Honors at the
Country Club

While there will be no gambling ON
the green, it is certain that some of
the hottest golf matches ever pulled
off here will take place between con-
testants for honors in the mixed two
ball tourney at the Country club dur
ing this month. The sharks" are now
choosing their partners and hope to
have things framed up by the time
of the qualifying round on April 20.
The number of flights will be deter
mined by the size of the entry list,
which at present looks like it will be
a long one. Suitable booty" will tie
laid aside for the successful pair ia
each flight, according to the commit
tee in charge.
The first matches after the opening
round will have to be played on or
before Tuesday, April 23 The second
matches can be fought any time ke-
tween April 2S and Saturday morning,
April 81. The finals in all flights will
be decided by May 1. Would be cham
pions are urged to make Immediate ar
Engagements for place on the ticket
by getting in touch with the club.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06

Here is the lowest average strength
of left FEEDERS in the last decade OF
the major leagues. Even with the ter
rifle hitting power and brilliant fielding
ce veach of Detroit, the heavy hitting
of Joe Jackson and the smuggling PROV
ess of Zack Wheat and of Neale and
Sherry Magee, the left fielders of the
major leagues lack the punch that has
been present in former years.
Without hitting ability, what are left
flelders? In these days of predominance
of left-handed batters, of scientific di-
rection of the attack toward right field,
a left fielder becomes less and less inn
portant in the scheme of things unless
he can hit. When first base was a sine
cure, the sluggers We're assigned to that
job; when right field was the soft spot,
the heavy hitters were right fielders;
when third base became the easiest job,
the hitters We're put there-and now that
left field is the easiest of all positions
one would expect to find the heavy bat
tiers congregating there-placed there
where they could utilize their hitting
powers and do least damage to the field
Yet we fail to find them there. New
York we discover leading the National
league left fielders because of Burns
cleverness. at bat and at extracting
bases on balls, worrying pitchers, etc.
rather than his slugging power Veach,
who now figures ahead of all the left
fielders, earns his lead by heavy hit
ting, and Joe Jackson, although not a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
'BARONS READY TO
I BEGIN SEASON NOW
Addition of Red Smith and
Comstock Means Strong
Team This Year

There was more joy spread in the
Baron camp yesterday when the chubby
chieftain received wire from Red
Smith, stating that he would join the
team at once. 1t seems that Red was
ordered to report for examination before
the draft board at his home up in In
diana, and left the Pirates in Jackson
vile several days ago. Upon arriving
at the old home burg, the sorrel-topped
slugger was met by one of Uncle Sans
physicians, who gave him the once-over
and shook his head, meaning that Red
could continue to engage in the national
pastime.
The Pirates had already agreed to let
Monley have his old flame back, pro
vided he wasn't accepted for trench
work "a
the passing of Patterson, unless the pep
perry youngster shows vast quantities of
stuff, which he seems to possess At
any rate, the team IS well fortified be-
hind the platter this year and fans can
rest easy in this department.
The Barons took their two doses of ex-
ercise manfully yesterday, putting in
their usual busy day at batting and
fielding practice. Practically every man
in the squad is now thoroughly limbered
UP and ready to go nine innings when
ever called upon. Moley has been using
-Coopbs at short lately, which is taken
by some to mean that Cecil may be re-
tanned as utility. man this season.
Coombs came hero as an infielder, and
has thoroughly demonstrated his ability
to hold down most any job in the pinch
BY the time Comstock arrives, which
will probably be Tuesday. Moley will
have enough pitchers to pun off practice
games regularly BY the way, Tuesday
is the day Pittsburg is due to send us
something in the way of a hurler and
it would not be at all surprising to learn
that said man is a bespeckled gent
whose mug is more or less familiar to
local fans. Cation looks like he is eoing
to make good at short, for the dwarfish
lad is slamming the ball all over the lot
down in Jacksonville.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
BOXERS TO FIGHT
EIGHT ROUND BOUT
Spike Webb and Meyer
Will Don Mitts in Big
Wrestling Tourney


hlll strelt mas knack Oh srapplhs oil
good athletic bills for Birmingham rms
time "Wlllum" has signed up a star at
Traction, Consisting If an eirhtrollnd
hlooa ,,,a 4t,,aar ~, haty,oan
- 80
spike KWeoo' tne Mccleilan INSTRUCTOR
and Young Meyer, the southern light
weight champion.
This act will be staged in connection
with the amateur wrestling tourney on
the night Of April 13 It's been many
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
LOCAL BOWLERS ARE
ON THE WARPATH

Those tenpin mowers who consti
tute the Birmingham Bowling asso-
citation, are looking for new fields in
winch to conquer. In letter to the
editor they issue a challenge to any
live-man team in this district or at
Camp Mcclellan.
Those interested are planning a Sc
TICS of bo~ling tournaments which W i'll
be held on the alleys OF the associa-
ton in the near future If there is a
Quintet around these parts that is uI-
willing to take their dare just COM
mumcatJ with headquarters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
ATLANTA MAN BUYS
FIRST TICKET TO THE
OPENING BALL GAME

Tn communication to President
"Quack' Smith, shorty Browne, a
resident Of that little windy burg
called Atlanta, asks for the first tick
cts to the opening ball game at Rick
wood on April.1S. In spite of the fact
tnat chubby Charles Franks Crackers
Will open at home on that date
"Brownie' decided he had rather come
over TO Birmingham,s where he has
seen the first game for the past eight
years.
The association is. expecting mum
Ger Of out-of-town people to be here
when the Barons and Vols lock horns
in the initial contest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
Yes; S.S.S. Is Purely Vegetable
Nature S Safe Blood Treatment

the lining membrane, producing chronic
dyspepsia and often entirely running
the health.
S. S. s. is made entirely of gentle
acting healing, purifying roots. herbs
and barks, possessing properties that
build up all parts of the system, in adj
dition to removing all impurities and
poisons from the blood. S. S. S. is safe
treatment for Rheumatism, CatarrIl,
Scrofula, Sores and Ulcers, Skin Dis
eases, Blood Poison, and all disorders
Of the blood. 1t cleanses the entire
system and it's permanent. Get S. S.
S. at any drug store today. 1t is a
standard remedy recognized every
where as the greatest blood antidots
ever discovered. If yours is a peculiar
case write to Medical Director, 442
Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
Pittsburg Turns "Red'' Smith Back to Barons
Corbett's Daily Letter
On Great Sport Topics
nv LANES ). CoRBETr

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target. But now the fighters rush at
each other, swing a wild one for the
jaw and then jump into clinch Rarely
| do they hit the jaw, but these unaimed
wallopS often bang against and ear
and cauliflower results"
| In one of the chapters in this story
| gave an affirmative answer to the
| question "Was John l.. Sullivan ever
the heavyweight champion of the
world?" In looking through the clip
pings before me / find that Some years
ago the same question was put to
| John l.. and he answered it in this
way:
II certainly was the heavyweight
champion of the world. The title had
passed from one man to another Until
it reached Paddy Ryan. He was the
american champion without a doubt
and in tracing down the worlds cham
pionships one finds that it belonged 10
ice Goss. Ryan whipped Goss, and
that made Ryan the worlds champion,
didn't it? And l licked Ryan, didn't /?
IF that doesn't satisfy people that
I was the champion of the world, look
at my record / whipped every man /
fought in championship bout between
1882 and 1891, with the exception Of
Charlie Mitchell, and I fought him to
a draw. Peter Jackson was touted' by
some as the champion of Australia.
Some people felt that l should have
fought him to prove my claim to the
heavyweight championship of the
worlds But Jackson was negro, and
drew tie color line as regards 6.
public bout. But 1 offered tonight him
in private for side bet or without
one but Jackson refused"
John L. was square and fair; he
never claimed anything to which ne
really was not entitled. He was the
heavywe eight champion of the world.
(To be concluded tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06

Colonel Miller Looking
for Place for Fight

Minneapolis, April 5.-Col. J. c. NIL
Ter today looked over several avail
able sites here and in ST. Paul. which
will be taken into consideration when
selecting. the place to stage the Will
lard-Fulton fight July 4. A definite an
nopncement regarding the location Of
the fight will be made within two
weeks. he said.
Although only 10-round contests are
permitted in Minnesota. Colonel Miller
said the fight would be held here il
sufficient inducements are offered
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
Known for so Years as the
Best Remedy for Rheuma-
tism, Catarrh, Scrofula,
Skin Diseases

Scientists have discovered that the
forest and the field are abundantly sup
piled with vegetation of various kinds
that furnish the ingredients for max
ing remedy for practically every Ill
and ailment of mankind Medicines
made from roots, herbs and barks which
Nature has placed at the disposal of
man, are better than strong mineral
mixtures and connections. Mineral
medicines work dangerously on the
delicate parts of the system, especially
the stomach and bowels, by eating out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
ball CLUB TO GIVE
| MONEY TO CHARITY
President Smith Offers 10
Per Cent of Receipts il Bir-
mingham Wins Trophy

If Birmingham wins the attendance
trophy President w. D. Smith Of the
local baseball association will give 10
per cent of the gross gate receipts to
amy charity or war cause which the
public may designate. This announce
ment was made at meeting of rep
resentatives of all civic organizations
which was held at the Tutwiler hotel
yesterday afternoon.
The meeting developed into a pa
triotic discussion of baseball as a war
time recreation 1t was pointed out by
the speakers that diversion and relax
alton such as the national game offers
was essential to the physical welfare
| of those of US who stay at home. The
action of the local association in max
| ing it's generous offer was highly COM
meIded.
| In addition to the offer OF the local
| club the Southern league. through
President Baugh, will give 500 tc
| some charity in the city that has tho
! largest opening day crowd a commit
| tee composed of e. III. Andrews, L.
Sewer and A. c. Crowder was mans .
| to designate the cause to which this
money will be devoted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
Baseball Results

At Atlanta First game: Davidson Z,
Georgia Tech /.
Second game: Davidson /, Georgia
Tech l.
Columbia, s. c. R.HE.
New York Americans ........... 10 II =
Boston Nationals .................. 0 2 j
| Batteries: Love, Thormahlen and Wal
/ ters, Ruel; Nehf, Crum and Wilson.
Houston, Tex. R.HE.
! Brooklyn Nationals .............. IL 4
Boston Americans ...-............
| Batteries; Coombs Pfeffer and
Wheat; McCabe. Jones and Agnew,
Mayer
atlanta, April 5.-The Washington
Americans Won three successive games
from the Atlanta club of the Southern
association when they defeated the locals
in the final contest OF the series here
today. TO 2. Score: R.H.E.
Washington ........... 410 900 00s5 5 2
Atlanta .......M....... 600 900 Coz z 5
Batteries: Shaw, Dumont and Ain
smith, Charity; Lynch and Picnich.
Ardmore Okla. April 5-The exhibition
game between the Cincinnati Nationals
and Detroit Americans today was called
on on account of rain.
Parsons. Kan, April 5.-The last pre-
season game between the st, Louis Ma
tionals and the Kansas City American
association club was postponed today
on account of cold weather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
Frank BUYS Pitcher

Atlanta, April 5.-Manager Frank Of
the Atlanta club of the Southern as
ISOLATION announced today the pur-
chase of Pitcher JOG Enge1 from the
Washington Americans. Engel, WHO
played with the Buffalo team of the
International league last season, was
formerly with the Nationals for sew
era1 seasons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06

away from the club on which he had been
such vital element not only in the field,
but as helper and lieutenant of Moran
This fact is not liable to hurt Whitfield S
playing in the slightest as he is man
who works harder for the team than
for himself. Pittsburg is we'll fortified
in having Stengel, Jackson and Bigbee,
but no matter how we strike an average
of the three. it does not make the team
look strong. The Cubs are weakest,
and left field is label to remain a weak
spot, although Mann can do fairly we'll
out thcre and Black can field and throw
The lineup is not formidable. but its
defensive strength is above average. We
will find IN the next study that the CEN
ter fielders contribute much more to the
offensive strength than Do their brothers
in left.
Copyright, 1918, by the Bell Syndicate,
Inc.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
Drs. Dozier & Dozier
Oldest Established Firm
Of Medical Specialists in
Alabama. Twenty five
Years in Birmingham.

We treat scientifically and
with wonderful success, all man
ner Of chronic diseases of the
Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat, Lungs,
Heart, Liver, Stomach, Bowels.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
NOTICE, MEMBERS OF ZASIORA
TEMPLE

A. a. o. n. VI. shrine and Waiting
Mobiles are urgently requested to meet
ON Fourth avenue. west Of Eighteenth
street. Mt 1 p. M. Saturday, April .,
20 take part In the Liberty Lcan par
nde. Do not forget your fer.
,. H. HEINEkE.
Acting P0tcntute.