Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-26
I TOPICS OF THE TINES

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Times are pretty easy when a man
car afford 10 pay $500 for a COW. as
was the case in Kansas City, where a
blooded Hereford was sold. The bid
ding for it was spirited, and Marshall
Field dropped out after offering $1,000
John Sparks, of Reno, New, secured it,
Tut, tut. tut, Now the National ".
G. Il. U. has joined the consent of the
governed" crowd, the other ''auntes'
This is possibly the result of dwelling
long on Whereas. taxation without
representation is tyranny etc. Just
imagine the harmonious relations that
may exist between the temperance
union and the Iowa democracy! o, sis
ters, we are sorry for you.
The Winnipeg troops started for
South Africa amid tremendous popular
enthusiasm
Hard coal dealers of Chicago say
there is little doubt there will be am
chestnut beginning the first of next
month bringing the retail price up in
that city to 81 This would mean an adj
vance all along the llne west of that
| point Receipts OF anthracite by lake
in Chicago since the opening of naviga-
/ ton up to Oct. IL have been about 500
100 tons said a leading coal merchant
| Tuesday This is somewhat in excess
| of the lake business last year. The rail-
roads have delivered US 100000 tons dur
/ ing that time, which is also an Increase.
But in the spring of 1897 there We're on
! the docks here 100000 tons Of anthracite
whereas the docks last spring We're
bare We have paid from 80 to 20 cents
q ton more freight this year than last
too
Gen. Joe Wheeler writes from Manila
THAT the withdrawal of the American
troops from the Philippines now would
be criminal. As the Bryanites claim
4 that it is criminal to proceed in tbs
contest, an intelligent public viii judge
with a witness on the ground, that hi.
testimony is more trustworthy.
The Minneapolis Tribune judges tina
i Iowa is safe for anywhere from $500
to 10000 republican majority this year
Party workers here are placing it a
at least 10000
Englishmen and Americans VIII,
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what comfort they can from statistic
showing that there is only one chane
in a thousand that a soldier Will b.
killed in battle, and that. on the aver
age, a ton of ammunition is expendet
for every man shot In the Crimeal
war, for example. total of nearly So.
600 900 shots were fired. with a result
ing loss of life amounting to less thai
100000. or one soldier killed to ever
1857 shots fired. During the late civi
/ war in this country it took twenty-five
hundred weight of ammunition, ON tn
:. average, to Kill "a man. Further Stats
: ties show that of the wounds receive
in battle As per cent occur in the legs
80 per cent in the chest, and only pc
Ncent IN tHe nead. II is dlSedSe anu nc
bullets that creates the greatest har
, vest of death.
A big s1o.oooooo lead and zinc trus
/ or combination has been formed j
5 Missouri. The concern will operate an
develop the Joplin-Galena distric
which now produces about sever
eighths of the zinc ore of the Unite
States and about one-fourth of tn
: worlds supply. When it is remembers
y that this limited field, covering
r space of only twenty by sixty mile
I will this year produce $16,00O.000 wort
of ore. it will readily be seen that gres
possibilities exist.
Il When one hears so much rantin
4 about the consent of the governed" 8
applied to the Philippine situation h
a wonders whether these same objectol