Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-28
T TOPICS OF THE TIMES
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English authorities predict contin-
uance of the prosperity now pervading
the United States. Long may it reign.
Secretary Root is determined to ia
miliarize himself with the details of his
department. Evidences of this intention
are apparent every day. 1t is well
known to the reading public that he has
gained considerable information in re-
gard to the Philippines, as we'll as the
| conditions in Cuba and Porto Rico.
That is the kind of official the country
wants.
A number of places in the state are
nursing cases of typhoid fever. Since
Marshalltown's water supply has been
Improved it has had less of it.
/ st. Louis Globe Democrat: Iowa
democrats in their state convention re-
laffirmed the Chicago platform and APP
Iplauded the Filipino insurgents. The
/ party is hopelessly beaten in that state
and its rule is to be as mean as pos
|sible.'
The negro trouble in the Black belt
lof Georgia is subsiding-just in time to
prevent another painful lesson in the
conflict with white authority.
4 Professor Koch. who is to visit Portu-
gal TO devise means for checking the
ravages of the bubonic plague, is the
Heading authority in diseases of this ma
iture. For thirty-three years, ever since
he gained his degree of NJ. D., the Ger
Imam physician has been studying germs
land about 1880 he succeeded in identify
ing the germ of cattle diseases and OF
consumption His remarkable discov-
cries led TO his being placed at the heat
of the German cholera commission.
which visited Egypt and India, and
while on this investigation he discov-
cred the coma bacillus of cholera, re-
ceiving a reward of 100000 marks from
the government. Further researches in
bacteriology established his reputation
as the leader in this branch of medicine
: and led to his appointment as professor
of hygiene at the University of Berlin
I DIR. Koch is only So years of age, but his
, discoveries have been such as to have
secured him recognition as one of tn,
greatest benefactors of humanity.
Twenty-Five per cent of the whea
= crop of the Willamette valley. Oregon
!, is reported to be unmarketable.
! Mr.. Bryan tries to be motherly in hi!
E attitude by saying that silver will b,
s placed alongside of the other grea
/ issues" also that Il stand by the Chi
a cago platform. When new baby il
e born in the household the parents d.
j not expel the other children" No
t neither do they require it to get out ant
r hustle when it is sick unto death.
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Failure of the herring fishery vii
carry restitution to 10000 Scottish fam
: lilies The number of people employee
by the fishing industry is surprising t
A many There are $4,000 men in tn
0 world who gain livelihood chiefly b
: fishing, making an annual catch of s22
e worth of fish for each man. The fisher
pounds annually and those of Europe /
i 100000 pounds. The American citize
eats about twenty-five pounds of fis
and 140 pounds of meat in a year, Will
the European eats sixty-four pounds {
d meat and eleven pounds of fish annual
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n 1t is stated that hard coal is $1.25 pc
II ton higher than last year at this tim
= Edward Aguinaldo Atkinson finds hi
IS hands full in defending his disloyal at
n titude. He is earning the contempt G
II his patriotic countrymen.
There isn't much question about TIL
corn crop through this section OF tn
country. that's the way it looks to me,
= said A. B. Ellis, Of the American Graf
ie Company, of Minneapolis, while
N Sioux City the other day. I'm the pal
!, few weeks corn has gone to the fror
like everything and it's beginning |
It dent now In some sections and gro,