Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-18
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y $3.50. Neither has any assets. :
Mayor Burton's Sunday closing order
went into effect last Sunday. The sa-
loon men had Instructions not only to
keep their places closed, but to remove
curtains and screens from their win
!dOws that the patrolmen might have no
difficulty in peering inside. So far as
the police know the order was every
where observed.
Dubuque.
MIR. Chris Voelker Is around selling
stock for the Dubuque Altar Company.
The capital stock was recently raised
from $4,000 to $50, 600, and Mr. Voelker
says that he doesn't have to work hard
to get buyers. The company has decid-
ed TO erect a modern factory on the cor
ner OF Nineteenth and Elm streets. T he
proposed factory's dimensions are 50x
100, and will contain three floors. In adj
dition to this the building now occupied
Will be moved alongside the new build
ing. When the new factory is complet-
ed the force will be doubled, giving enl-
iployment to about seventy five hands.
Centervillc.
j. A. Blue. who was brought here
from Sedalia, Mo-. by Sheriff Clinic to
answer to a charge Of seduction, was
arraigned before Justice z. Henderson
Monday morning. Blue pleaded not
guilty and waived examination and
was bound over to the district court
under bonds of $500. He was taken to
Jail. - : Leslie Eastburn, the young
man who has been in Jail here on a
charge Of numbering Jasper Sutton a
few weeks ago at Bloomfield, has been
released on $4,000 bail. The magistrate
before whom Eastburn had his prelimi-
nary trial held him to the grand jury
without bail. but Judge Eichelberger
overruled this decision.
Mason City.
Globe Gazette: o. F. Ulland, who is
Just back from California, says that II
the city council could see the way the
expectoration ordinance in those cities
us carried out the city fathers would
pass one here. In California the ordi-
nance was passed for the purpose of
health and there is no triflirg With the
ordinance. He said 1t seemed strange
to him to see persons who desired to
|expectorate go to the edge of the walk
and use the gutter for cuspidore and
that the walks are absolutely free from
saliva in its original form or discplored
by Climax plug. Mr.. Inland says the
women are on the right track and
should keep up their battle on expector-
alton.
Davenport.
In this city, where the trade unionists
are moving for an eight hour day, q
! a policeman said TO a Times man Mon
Isday: II have never seen as many
strangers in the city as there is at this
ltine looking for work. Every mar
within radius of twenty miles ot
Davenport thinks that all he has to d.
Ito get work is to get on a train ant
come to this city. The facts are tina
1.-the number OF men that bother the pc.
Tlices for lodging and who are looking
flor work has been increasing for some
ltime. Speaking about the impendin;
strike, it would be foolish for men from
loutside to come to the city to get work
There are too many men here nov.
Ottumwa.
Hon. Calvin Manning. commissions
Ito the Paris exposition from Iowa, de
y
jparted on Burlington No l6 Monda,
Iafternoon for his trip abroad. He wal
accompanied by Mrs. Manning. hi
daughter. Miss Mary Manning, and sol
Edwin. They will embark on thu
steamer New England from Boston
Mass. April %, prior to which tim,
Ithey will visit relatives and friends il
Chicago, Grafton, Mass, and points il
EConnscticut. They Will go via Liver
lpool and London and during their so
1journ abroad Will visit many of the oil
countries, including Germany. Italy
Switzerland and France. A large part.
Iof friends assembled at the depot to biz
them farewell, all wishing 0ttumwa
land Iowa's representative and family
ilsafe voyage and pleasant sojourn.
Muscular rheumatism Cured.