Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-11
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Mediterranean points in Europe are
threatened by the plague and feel the
need of street watchfulness to guard
|against it.
War rumors are rife again in Eng |
land and the Transvaal crisis has taken |
a new turn by the prospect of a contest
lin South Africa with President kruger. |
William C. Whitney, ex-secretary of |
the navy under Cleveland, has just re-
turned from quiet rest in England.
He says,"I haven't anything to say as
to what the democratic party should do
in the next campaign" Party duty, 1T |
appears, is not pointed out very plainly, |
and members of democracy will be in
clined TO do as they please this year.
Within the last few years there has
been an astonishing increase in the egg
trade in Germany and Russia. Figures
furnished by Consul Winter at Anna
berg show that Germany imported In
1880 eggs to the value of s3,4ss.e00; in
IlSS9 the imports grew to $9.S05.600, and
in 1898 they were almost double the pre-
! vious year, being sl6993,200. Nine-tenths
of this import came from Russia and
Austria, small quantity coming from
Italy, the Netherlands and Roumania.
Russia's increased egg export trade is
enormous. In 1881 il amounted to only
/ s257 900, while in 1894 it was $9,252, 900,
and for the first eleven months of 1898
lpoultry for the production of eggs has
become an important factor in Russian
husbandry. Not only is this the case
in districts which border on the from
tier, but in the interior of the country
las we'll. In 1894 freight on the Russian
railroads was reduced. This gave the
infant industry new impulse. The
Icompletion of the Kaiser Wilhelm canal
lenables the dealers to ship eggs direct
From this port transshipments are inn
mediately made for England. Belgium
and the Netherlands.
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Speaking Of the excoriation of Linn
county politicians by Murphy of the
4 Ninton Eagle, the Waterloo Reporter
observes that Murphy is slow TO
anger generally, but from several ar
ticies in his last issue we guess he is
mad all over and has no disposition TO
conceal it,"
i The GAINESVILLE democratic convention
in Ohio Will be, from present appear
ances, a turbulent affair. 1t is to be
held on Aug. 20 and there will be sol
delegates. w. S. Thomas, of SPRING
field, chairman of the democratic state
committee, has been suggested as
compromise candidate, the Mclean and
anti Mclean factions being at swords
, points and greatly incensed at each
, other. Each faction declares that I'M
5 less it is permitted to control at Zanes-
vile Judge Nash, the republican candi-
date for governor of Ohio, will win in
: November by 100000 majority.
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weather in August If it does force the
sweat from human pores.
While designing politicians are trying
: to make of the trusts distressing polit-
. ical issues the business world is treat
f ing them as business propositions pure
4 and simple. Some rise and fall of their
: own weight. All have to, sooner or lat
er, stand upon their own bottoms and
e win or lose upon the merits OF their
: own superior qualities or advantages as
d business Institutions. The attempt tc
make a political issue of the trust may
succeed, but at present it IS about the
most unusual, irrational and ludicrous
e of all political gyrations imaginable.
Gentlemen, have you noticed that the
conditions of the potato crop are esti-
: mated at 100 per cent? We who have
u to buy these nourishing tubers can re-
q joice with the farmer.
The New York Sun notes a peculiar
absence of state interest in the election
this year in the following: This year
!, for the first time in the recollection OF
: even the oldest nhabitant,' there i.
y no state ticket to be voted for In New
York. There are likewise no congress:
It candidates to be balloted for. In al
w previous elections prior to 1875, the gov
d ernor and lieutenant governor were
n chosen-the governors term was ther
two years, as it has since again becom,
!, -on the alternate years between tn,
elections for the other state offices, o
which that of secretary of state wa
considered the chief. Beginning in 1877
10 the governors term was made tire
g years, and at every second election TO
l. governor and lieutenant governor. the.
were on the ticket with the other stat
officers. In the years, few in number
1878, 1884, 1886 and 1890. when neithe
governor nor state officers were to b
a elected, there were vacancies on tn
a. bench Of the court OF appeals. This yea
there is none, and for the drst time i
ut the states political history In half
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