Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-01


home" to his many friends and remarks
about his appearance do not cut any
figure.
The city of La Crosse, Wis, suffered
a severe loss Saturday night In the
burning of her carriage factory. The
main building was almost totally burn
ed with a loss Of about 100000, with $685.
900 insurance.
The Kansas City Journal claims for
Kansas City population of 217 900 on
the Missouri side of the state line and
nearly $4,000 more on the Kansas side.
The place has been increasing rapidly
in population. as the last previous CEN
sus showed but $4,000 people.
Ex-Governor Hogs, Of Texas, wears a
twenty-five inch collar. Still he comes
from a big state.
The motormen and conductors who
three weeks ago attempted to tie up
the surface lines of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company are now without a
sign of anything in the future for them.
Many of them have devoted the week in
attempts to find employment and their
reports have been most discouraging.
Out of all the Nassau men in South
Brooklyn, but three have as yet Sc
cured positions.
The splendid rain of last night assures
~, &c ~
Among the 5000 excursionists from
| Chicago to st. Joseph, Mich. the other
day, were twenty three couples who
took advantage of their trip to get mar
| ried.
| Gen. Benjamin F. Tracey has Won
derful memory which will probably
come into play in the Venezuela dis
pute in Paris. In a trial in 1874 he made
an address to the jury covering forty
unparalleled in the New York bar. In
preparing the present case he has con-
suited books maps, papers and pamph-
llets and it has taken his undivided time
for nearly a year.
The Burlington Hawkeye claims that
with those already named and those
reasonably certain of nomination and
Election, Senator Gear is assured of a
lnaiori over all. In other words, there
viii be upwards of seventy-six votes
for John H. Gear
4 The Freeman's Journal, a Catholic
: paper, discussing 1ngersolls RESPONSE
bility, says: "A practical answer to the
lquestion of responsibility may be put
in this way: Had a well-instructed
s Catholic. with sane mind and normal
il TWILL made the record of blasphemy Mr.
IIngersoll made and took with him, arc
had he died without repenting, he would
most certainly be damned to hell for al
eternity."
$ Eighty-four per cent of the entire
5 state of Idaho is still public land
. amounting TO more than IA, DOC, 900 acres
lOf this area it has been estimated by
the government geological survey tina
: 900. 600 acres can be irrigated success
fully. These figures, however. disclos.
a vast area of sterile land.
Des Moines is silently awaiting tn,
I verdict on the auditorium.
1t has been decided to discontinue tn
! use of coal as fuel on the New York
t New Haven & Hartford railroad an,
+ to substitute coke for ii on all locomo
e tives. Experiments with coke have bee
# tried for year. They have proved tina
!, At is the cheaper fuel, lasts almost a
: long as bituminous coal and has othe
advantages over 1t. For the Boston ,
Albany years supply of coke has bee
y ordered, and it is said there is a likeli
g hood of this fuel being adopted by a
IS of the new England lines.
, Organizations are forming in Cuba /
! secure American citizenship by thos
" store for the island.
IS "Pompeii Alive" is the suggestion
In an enthusiastic Italian archeologist fl
,e a novel attraction for the Paris exhib
u ton. He would have the forum, thes
ter, temples and characteristic built
ings represented as they We're befol
= the eruption of yesuvius. A Sire,
FL in Pompeii." with the refreshments ar
amusements of the Romans OF the dec;
ne dence. would appeal more to the Paris
lie ans and their visitors probably.
Judge w r. Day. ex-secretary
state, who is sojourning in Jackso
- county, North Carolina. is regainir
~ health and strength.
3h The .concensus Of opinion among o,
~ Iowa editors is in favor of brief pla
: form to be adopted at the. conventit
tomorrow, but without doubt e
Governor Larrabee favors the shorte
va of all. His reply to the inquiry of Il
r. Chicago Times Herald's corresponds
IL as published is as follows;
ss civilian LARRABEE, charm;
IL board of control and former govern
of Iowa-Protect the gold standard al
of unload the Philippines at the first o
"a portunity.
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