Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-15
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1VFICS VI The llMES
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Secretary Wilson Is going to Chatta-
nooga this week to attend meeting of
the southern Industrial convention and
will make a speech there on the indus
trial work of the agricultural depart
ment.
There's no place like home, according
to those who are scrambling toward the
north for a little gold dust. After ex-
plotting that region. they will spell it
With an HI
No one is able to guess who Will be
the vice presidential candidate on the
Mckinley ticket. Governor Roosevelt
has positively declined to be considered
candidate. Among those now men
toned in Washington are John ID. Long,
Charles Emory Smith and Robert 4.
Lincoln.
/ Hsnis cieMs thinks lie immediate
future of the stock market is somewhat
lpro5lematic. There is no reason for
ANY important declines The indus
trials have already dropped consider
! ably below top figures, while the rail-
roads are making such excellent re-
turns that no anxiety need be lnani-
tested should they cease overlapping
the big gains of 1899. on the other hand
1T would be difficult TO force any pro-
I.nounced bull movement under present
conditions good many operators att
lstach more Importance 10 campaign
oratcry and geld shipments than they
deserve, hence these factors may affect
prices adversely. Again the summer
season is approaching and a period of
lquie, and uncertainty is likely To pre-
vail until the time when the crop out
look and presidential uncertainties are
1 more settled than now. For the pres
ent purchases should only be made on
good declines. and profits taken on all
sharp rallies
/ A young Eskimo woman who is Wis
lifting Chicago was greatly disturbed at
| first by the electric cars. She thought
that they We're run BY devils
The Congress Of Mothers Will be the
1 next great assemblage to meet IN Des
/ Mpines. 1t willscanvene on the 2lst and
fsbe In session week and will discuss
every Interest Of The home. even the
cooking that mother used todo. Iowa
Twill be well represented and it is eX-
lpected that $40 representatives. dele
gates and visitors will be present.
Farmers In the vicinity of Wichita,
kas., are arranging to attend the demo-
lcratic convention at Kansas City in.
caravans There Will probably be a
train of 100 wagons. They will leave the
\ farms n week before the convention.
During theNlast nine months more
than s4,OoO.Ooo worth Of railway loeomo-
.4.ives have been shipped from the
limited States to foreign countries.
II During the corresponding period Of.
j 1899 the exports We're s22,,s0o,00O. and the
3strade has developed chiefly since 1894.
when the exports We're less than 81 ,00O,-
1000. The bureau bureau of statistics
4 makes a report from the manager Of
8Iswho recently purchased a number of
Il american engines and cars. and gives
4 as his reasons for doing so that
American firms, While they are rot In
q a position TO tender on more favorable
sEterms than others of our designs, all
mos Invariably offer us engines and
wagons built to standard designs of
slaiteir own at lower prices and in less
5Istilne, while English and other Euro
4 spean makers content themselves with
dstendering on our designs, being ms a
rule not in the habit Of manufacturing
Ito standard designs Of their own. We
1 much prefer adhering TO our Own
/ standard. but in cases where time and
cost are of great Importance such an
offer from America cannot be passed
by.
4 Since 1865 the corn production of this
country has increased more than l22 per
4 ccnt, while the production of wheat has
increased nearly 81 per cent.
4 A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica.
says that the United Fruit Company is
4 going to Immediately expend over $500,
900 on its sugar plantations in Cuba. The
"a output. which is expected 10 be ] coo
z barrels day, viii, it is said, revolu-
tiorize the sugar INDUSTRY Of the Wes,
q indies.
y confederate veteran Is thus quoted
Lin the New Orleans Times-Dempcrat:
2I8.sI don't take much stock in the theory
lthat the superior tactics of the Beers
have been due Other foreign officers.
The strategy by which they have out
witted the British time and again dur
Ting the present campaign is not book
strategy at all. II Is the kind of cum
q ming that is developed by frontiers
Emen and pioneers, who learn it from
the savages whom they are compelled
, Ito fight for existence. In the revolu.
I5tion a good many Of our leaders. in
Icluding Washington himself. We're
!. adopts in that variety of warfare, and
they routed the enemy more than once
& by tactics that upset everything laid
g down by the authorities i seems tc
me that the entire history OF the Eoel
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