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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
756 DEMOCRATS UNPLEDGED
No Candidate Has More Than Favorite
Son Strenuth.

San Francisco-A memorandum dis
tributed among the members of the
national committee shows 756 of the
1902 delegates to the convention are
uninstructed. According to the card
the instructed delegates are:
Iowa, 26 for Meredith; Kentucky, 26
for Cox; Nebraska, Is for Hitchcock;
New Jersey, % for Edwards; North
Carolina, "a for Simmons; Ohio, As for
Cox; Oklahoma, 20 for Owen; Oregon,
10 for McAdoo; Pennsylvania, rs for
Palmer; South Dakota, 10 for Gerard;
Virginia, "a for Glass.
The % votes from Georgia are con-
tested.
An examination of the temporary
roll shows. there will be 30S women
delegates and alternates in the con-
vention. They will be divided as fol-
lows: At large. Al; alternates at
large, 80; district delegates, So; dis
trict alternates, les.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Expulsion Demanded.

Sedalia, Mo.-Missouri Republicans
representing Is of the l6 congressional
districts in the state, met here and
adopted resolutions demanding the re.
signation of Jacob l.. Babler, Repub.
lican national committeeman from
Missouri; W. l.. Cole. Republican state
chairman of Missouri, and "all other
committeeman" who may have. receiv-
ed money under similar circum.
stances from pre-convention funds of
candidates for the Republican presi.
Dental nomination.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
N. D. BANK INQUIRY DEMANDED
$4,000 Sign Petitions For Probe OF
Financial Institutions.

Bismarck. N. D.--Petitions signed
by $4,000 persons are on file with Gov
ernor Frazier asking that an impartial
examination be made of the Bank of
North Dakota, the Workmen's Com
pensation bureau, the Home Builders
association and the Drake Flour mill.
The petitions are filed in the inter-
est OF good government. With the
election only q few days away the ac-
ton, 1t is said. can serve no political
purposes. The examination could not
be made in a few days and might take
a week or a month.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Kansas Wheat Exceeds Estimates.

Topeka, Kan.-Incomplete returns
from county assessors indicate that
the acreage planted I o wheat in Kan
sas last fall exceeded TO- 900. 900 as
compared with the State Board of
A%griculture's estimate of S,951,S34.
says a report issued by .. G. Mohler,
secretary of the board. The estimate
of the current crop remains at 10, 000.-
900 bushels. The harvest. which be-
gan on juno Is will become general in
the wheat belt this week and next, the
report states. The spring wheat crop
Il estimated at ESQ. 0o0. 600 bushels.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Men, Machine Guns and Heavy
Artillery Are MaSsed At
Londonderry.
II DEAD IN FIGHTING
Situation In City Becomes More Quiet
Although Fighting Between Sim
Feiners and Unionists Occurs
Doctors Sent from Dublin.

London-Several hundred additional
troops have arrived at Londonderry
with armored cars, machine guns and
some heavy artillery, according to dis
patches.
A trainload of physicians, nurses and
medical supplies has left Dublin to aid
In relieving the hundreds of wounded
filing Londonderry hospitals.
At the Irish office it was stated that
the situation in the city had become
quiet, although fighting between the
Sim Feiners and ~unionists had oc-
Cured.
Military authorities have taken
measures to replenish the food supply.
Strong patrols of soldiers in the
streets permitted citizens to purchase
their immediate needs.
Shippers Still Active.
Shipping from roofs continued but
most of the fighting was personal en-
counters. Neither side has shown
especial animosity toward the military
or police. Several cases were report
ed of Sim Feiners taking shots at the
British troops, but these we're not con-
sidered as significant.
1t was suggested that the govern
ment feared to remove troops from
other parts of the country to London
derry as rioting may break out in the
sections evacuated by the troops.
In a speech in the House or Com
mons Denis Henry, the Irish attorney
general, announced that 1900 troops
and $50 policemen were now in Lon
donderry and that 500 more troops
were on their way. He said more
would be sen if required.
Newspapers criticized Henry's atti-
tude.
II Dead, Official Report.
Londonderry-The past few hours
there has been virtually no firing by
the Unionist and Nationalist forces,
who for a week have been waging civil
warfare. No attempt has yet been
made to resume business, however.
The streets still are deserted, the peo-
pie keeping within doors.
General Campbell issued a proclama-
ton putting the curfew order into
force from Saturday between IL
o'clock in the evening and 5 o'clock in
the morning.
Seventeen persons have been killed
and 20 wounded in the fighting in the
city, according to an official statement
issued by the police.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
NORTH CAROLINA WILL ACT
Legislature To Consider Suffrage In
Special Session.

Raleigh, N. C.-The North Carolina
Legislature will be called to meet in
special session between July 20 and
August 10 to receive the r%evaluation
report of the tax commission and at
which session the question of ratiica-
tion OF the Susan b. Anthony federal
amendment will come up, it was stated
at the office of Governor Beckett.
The Democratic state convention re-
Gently embodied a plank in its plat
form urging the proposed special SEES
sion to ratify the Anthony amendment,
and Governor Beckett has announced
he would recommend that this be
done.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
PHILADELPHIA THIRD CITY
Growth Rate Near Record Shown BY
Census Report.

Observation-Disclosures popula-
ton was announced by the census bu-
reau as 1,S23,15S. showing that the
country's third most populous city had
maintained, during the last 10 years,
the steady rate of growth it has had
since the first federal census in 1890.
The numerical increase for the 10
years was 274,150, the second largest
increase of any decade in the city's
history, surprising that of the 10
years ending with 1910 by almost TO-
600.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
ENTIRE GARRISON KILLED

Japanese Reserve Troops Too Late To
Save Comrades From Reds.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. forces sent
to the rescue of survivors of the "reign
of terror" inaugurated after the boil
sheviki captured the remote Siberian
town of N~ikolaievsk in April, arrived
only to find the town in flames and the
survivors of the first massacre muir
dered. according to Official reports re.
ceived here from Toxic.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Aberdeen Jail Delivery Fooled.

Aberdeen, S. D.-Plans of six prison.
ers IN the Brown county jail here. to
their escape by saving the bars
weer frustrated when Sheriff Elliott
discovered the plot. Cell and corri-
doris bars had been sawed and the bars
held in place by soap while the prison.
ers awaited a favorable moment to
escape, but a hammer test revealed
the camoufage. II is believed the
saws were smuggled into the jail BY
a womanS friend Of . Of the prison.
ers.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
British Charities Cost Increases.

London-The cost of British chari-
ties has increased 1000 per cent in the
last 20 years despite the enormous ex-
penditure on insurance, unemploy-
ment, old age pensions and various
other forms of public assistance. J.
r. Marriott, member Of Parliament.
has toli the Charity Organization SO.
ciety that he estimated the present
charity total at f250.0 00. 900 for the
year as compared to $4,000. 900 20
years ago. We are manufacturing
p~auperism at an appalling rate" said
Mr.. Marriott
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
MINNESOTA 0 M CHOSEN

Mrs. Winter OF Minneapolis Made Pres
ident of U. S. Clubwomen.
Des Moines. Iowa-With the election
of Mrs. 7. G. Winter of Minneapolis
as president of the General Federation
OF Women's clubs. Minneapolis be-
came the headquarters of the fedora
ton composed of clubs representing
more than 1000, 900 clubwomen of the
United States for the ext two years.
Mrs. Winter received 760 votes
against All cast for Miss Georgia Ba-
con OF Worcester. Mass, her opponent.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
TAMMANY LEADER INDICTED

"Boss" Murphy, With Five Others, Ac.
euscd Of FaisIfyins Tax Returns.
New York-Indictment of Charles F.
Murphy. leader of Tammany Hall, and
five others on charges of conspiracy
to defraud the United States by falsi-
Tying income tax returns and attempt
ed intimidation OF Louis N. Hartog, a
wealthy manufacturer. through crimi.
nal prosecution was announced here.
The indictments which were returned
secretly by the extraordinary grand
jury, came as a surprise. Murphy is
now attending the Democratic ma
tional convention at San Francisco.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
THREE INDICTED AT DULUTH
Arrests For Nom Murder Follow Ac-
ton BY Grand Jury.

Duluth-Indictment and arrest of
three men on charges of murder. for
alleged participation in the lynching
of three negroes June Is. were the
development in the inquiry into the re-
cent mob activities by the special dis
trict grand jury.
The men are Leonard Hedman, 90:
John Burr, "a. and Nate Natelson.
They are held at the county Jail with
out bail.
Adjutant General w. F. Rhinow Of
st. Paul with members Of his staff are
here conducting al investigation Of
the police departments efforts on that
night.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
U. S. Testing New Machine Gun.

Washington-A new model of ma
chine gun, operated bys centrifugal
force instead of by explosives and cap
able of firing 1900 shots a minute is
being tested at the bureau of stand
ards here. The gun consists of a rotat-
ing barrel extending from a shaft
driven by motor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
1.sso.ooo Germans Die In War.

Geneva-Recent statistics published
in Germany on that country's war
losses state that 1896 900 men were
killed. There are today $40. 900 wal
widows, according to the statistics,
100000 war orphans and 500, 900
MANNED or consumptives supported
mostly by charity.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
WILSON HURRIES RAIL BOARD
Asked To Expedite Settlement Of
Wage Dispute.

Washington-The railroad labor
board at Chicago has been urgently
requested by President Wilson to ex
pedite its wage decision.
The Presidents message resulted
from the general unrest among rail
road workers vel the wage question
and the walkout Of yardmen and other
employees at Philadelphia, Baltimore
and other cities. Its text was not
made public but unoffieially il was
described as being of a "forceful char
acter."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
105 MILLION PEOPLE IN U. S.
Increase Past Decade Falls Below
Those Of Previous Periods.

Washington-The population of Con-
tinental United States is estimated at
los, 600, 600 by j. A. Hill, chief stats.
tician of the census bureau. His cal
culation is based on the combined
population of 1,4O6 cities and towns
for which statistics have been an
nounced.
The increase over 1910 is placed at
about $4,000, 900 showing the growth
of the country has not kept pace with
previous decades. Almost complete
cessation of immigration during the
wal is the chief reason assigned for
the comparatively small increase.
Other reasons were the two influenza
epidemics. return of aliens to their
native lands and deaths of soldiers
abroad and at home during the war.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01

Watch Cuticura improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the a with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment in FIVE minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. 1t
Is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura
viii do for poor compilations, dandruff,
itching and red rough hands.-Adv.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
FRECkLES
Now Is the Time to Get Kd Of
These URly Spots.

There's no longer the slightest need OF
feeling ashamed of your freckles. as Othins
double strengths guaranteed to remove
these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce OF Othine-double
strength-from your druggist, and apply a
little OF II night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst freckles
have begun to disappear. while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. II Is seldom
that more than one ounce is needed 70 com
pieteiy clear the skin and gain a beautiful
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
Othine. as this Is sold under guarantee of
money back II u fails 70 remove frackIes.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
TEAM BOLTS; FARMER KILLED
Pulls Hayrack Over Man WheE. they
Become Frightened.

Aberdeen, S. DIV. o. Jones, en-
ployed on a farm ear here, was killed
when a team of horses which he was
hitching to a hayrack became frighten-
ed and bolted. In their flight they
pnlled the hayrack over Jones' body.
breaking several ribs, a collar bone
and cruising his skull. Jones was SIS
years old and had been employed on
the farm for Is years.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
German Famine Riots Fatal.

Berne-Seventeen persons have
been killed in U.m, Germany. and five
at Ravensbourg. and numerous per-
osns wounded in both towns during
famine riots. according to dispatches
received here from the German from
tier.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Force of Habit,

"Why is il he can never remember
anything hat is wanted in this hOuse?'
Hard to say, l am sure, unless it is
because he used to be a popular res
taurant waiter"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Don't Need So Manv.

Prof. Binder of New York university
estimates That the United States has
resources sufficient to provide for 25O,-
OOO,OOO inhabitants.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Former German Empress uI.

The Hague-The former German
empress is reported to be in a very
serious condition, and the former
Crown Prince Frederick William has
been called to her bedside.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
ST. PAUL CASHIER is SHOT
Bank Is Robbed Of $4,000 and Bandits
Make Escane-

Make Escape.
st. Paul-Five unmasked bandits
who shot the cashier, v. A. Hedman,
obtained 10000 in cash and Liberty
bonds by a daylight holdup of the
Great Northern State bank here. They
escaped in an automobile.
A police car. in charge of T. E.
Campbell, new chief of police, gave
chase after getting a description of
the fugitive car at the bank but lost
the trail.
The robbery mar ed the first big
crime in st. Paul since j. j. O'Connor
retired as chief of police.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Another Class.

Knicker-Does Jones belong to the
new poor or the new rich?
Bocker-He belongs to the new
neither.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
An Alternative.

DO you know where | can get q
ma of finiShf'
NO, but can tell you where you
can get one maid"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
President Asks Action.

a telegram to Governor Roberts, Ten
nessee, urging that he call a special
session of the Tennessee Legislature
TO consider and act upon the woman's
suffrage amendment.
The President, in his telegram. said
1T would be a real service to the
party and TO the nation if il is possible
for you, under the peculiar provisions
of your state constitution, having in
mind the recent decision of the SUI
preme court in the Ohio case, L call
a special session of the Legislature of
tennessee to consider the suffrage
amendment. Allow me to urge this
very earnestly
The state constitution of Tennessee
has a provision prohibiting action by
the state Legislature on a federal con-
stitutional amendment except when
the Legislature taking the action has
been chosen at an election in which
the proposed amendment was an issue.
Some legal authorities have been
quoted as holding that such a pro-
vision was i%nvalidated by the SUI
preme courts recent decision in the
Ohio referendum case.
The members of the Legislature to
be called in special session were elect
ed previous to the submission by Con-
gress OF the suffrage amendment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Important to

Half OF happiness depends upon
What we do. the other half ON what
we don't.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
TENNESSEE TO
ACT ON SUFFRAGE
Governor Roberts To Call Spe-
ciaI Session of Legislature
at Wilson's Request.
DECISION is PROMISED
Action Is Assured In Time For Women
To Vote In November-President
Call For Service to Party
and Nation"

Knoxville, Tenn.-Governor Roberts,
Tennessee, has announced that he
would comply with the desire of Pres
ident Wilson that a special session OF
the Tennessee Legislature be called
10 act on the federal suffrage amend
ment.
The Legislature will be called to
meet, the governor said, in plenty Of
time to permit the women of the
United States to vote in the November
election, provided ratification of the
suffrage amendment is completed
through favorable action by Tennes-
see.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
Watching the Score Board
WATCHING THE SCORE BOARD

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
Aaron Wards homer in the eighth
with two on turned apparent defeat
! into to 4 victory for the Yank's,
after they had succumbed to the pitch
ing of Dixie Davis in the curtain rails
er, 4 to 8.
Rixey's stinginess in the pinches
and his timely hits accounted for Phil
adelphia's victory over the Pirates,
z to 3.
Holke's home run in the eleventh
was the winning tally for the Senators
in the first game of double header
Detroit took the second, Is to 8.
Burns pinch hitting for the Indians
delivered triple, which tied the Red
Sox in the sixth inning. When PEN
mock weakened in the eighth, they
scored seven more, winning, to 8.
Larry Doyle's single started rally
in the sixth which, coupled with the
Cards ragged playing, gave the Giants
the third game of the series, to 3.
Unintentional interference by Kill
duff, put Duncan OH third from which
sack he scored the winning run for the
Reds on Kopf's fly. Score, Cincinnati,
5, Brooklyn, 2.
Williams let the Athletics down with
four hits and the White Sox won the
first game of a double bill, to 2. The
Sox lost the second, II to 6.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
ITCHING ECZEMA
DRIED RIGHT UP
WITH SULPHUR

ANY breaking out Of the skin, even
fiery, itching eczema can be quickly
overcome by applying a little Men
tho-Sulphur, says a noted skin spec
ialist. Because of it's germ destroy
ing properties, this sulphur prepare
ton instantly brings ease from skin
irritation, soothes and heals the
eczema right UP and leaves the skin
clear and smooth.
II seldom fails to relieve the tor
ment and Disagreement. Sufferers
from skin trouble should get a little
jar Of Mentho-Sulphur from any good
druggist and use it like a cold cream
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
Is RELEASED
FROM PRISON
Former Diplomatic Clerk spent Two
and Half Years in Leavcnwortt
For Letter Directing to
CONSUMPTION.


limited Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, July 30.-Brent Dow AL.
lison, former diplomatic clerk at the
American legation in Berne, Switzer-
land, was expected here today after
two and half years in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Allison gained notoriety in 1918
when, in letter to Secretary Of War
Baker, he declared against conscrip-
ton. He was then with the Amerf-
can legation IN Berne. He was re-
called. He was sentenced to fifteen
years in prison.
The release of Allison, according
to advices here, was in accordance
with the war departments policy to
release conscientious directors ''as
soon as their own conduct makes
their release possible
Allison was freed yesterday and
will arrive here today, it was under
stood
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
lag
FOR MURDER
Eiehteen-Tear-Oid Boy Dies in Elee
trio Chair For Staying
Policeman in
Rochester.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, July 30,-ShortIy aft
er Elmer Hyatt, eighteen years old
died in the electric chair at Sing
Sing prison early today for killing a
Rochester policeman, a man called
police headquarters here on the tele-
phone and excitedly demanded that
the execution be stopped.
The speaker said that he had killed
the policeman and had only heard a
few hours before that Hyatt was to
be eleCrocuted for the crime.
The call was located and Robert
Barron, well-dressed man, was ar
rested.
Prison authorities said there never
was any doubt but what Hyatt was
guilty. Barron was sent to Bellevue
hospital for examination.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
"KULTUR" SEEDS
MAY BE HARVEST
Can of Cocoa Used to Flavor Ice
Cream in Illinois Town May Have
Been Doctored For
Soldiers.

Are the seeds of German "Kultur'
sown during the war to reap a peace
time harvest?
This is the question that is bother
ing the town Of Burnside, Ill, where
fifty-five cases of typhoid fever have
suddenly broke out. The epidemic
has struck those who ate chocolate
ice cream, and state authorities are
inclined to believe that germs in a
can of cocoa may be the cause of this
outbreak of disease. Two former ser
vice men, who ate the ice cream. es-
capped the disease, due to the fact that
they had been inocuiated with typhoid
germs while in the army and are i'm
mune from attack
According to the story from Burn
side the epidemic of typhoid has brok-
en- out within very short time and
has been confined to those who ate
chocolate ice cream. The ice cream
was made by manufacturer who has
been in the business for years and
who has been getting his milk and
cream from the same source for years.
Infection is not possible from this
source, the state chemists believe. and
they are looking askance now at the
can OF cocoa. 1t seems the man
opened can of cocoa for favoring
the cream. The chemists are won
dering if the cocoa had been tempered
with during the war by German
agents who planted virulent typhoid
carriers in it, in the hopes that it
would be used in American army
and poison the soldiers.
The entire can was used in favor.
ing, so that no opportunity was given
to test out this particular lot. but the
chemists are looking for cocoa from
he same shipment to make the tests
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
have their new modern bungalow o

have their new modern bungalow on
the home farm about completed.
Orr Campbell has purchased new
Oakland sedan.
hcn Riosa underwent a serious
operation at Keohuk hospital Wed
nesday morning.
DR.. and Mrs. Claude Runyon and
children OF Matamora. are here visit
Ing the doctors parents and other
relatives. Mrs. G. A. Runyon gave a
picnic supper in honor of DR.. Claude
munyon's family and Roy Campbell
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-30
Top Price For Hoo.

COLUMBUS JUNCTION. Ia. July
3O.-The James Brockway & Co. Du-
roe Jersey hog sale was held at the
fair grounds Tuesday and the forty
nine hogs in the lot were auctioned
off at an average price of 1921 per
head. The total amount of the sale
was 1885. The top price was for
Miss Premier Pathfinder. purchased
by Michael Trier, of Keota, for the
sum Of $1,225.