Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-26

includes statistics for the years 1888
and 1899. The total foreign residents
are stated as follows: 1898. 13,42l; 1899.
1875; and The foreign firms are as fol-
lows: 1898. 773; 1899, 1913. The British
stand first in point of number. with 81
5C2 residents and Ala firms; Japanese
second with 2,440 residents and 1876
firms: and Americans thitd with 2,335
residents and seventy firms. Russia,
France and Germany follow in the orr.
der named.
All the peach states report large.
crops this year. Peaches and cream"
will be cheaper than usual.
49,
A railroad disaster in the south with
forty-one fatalities. and another in the
north with seven killed and sixty
wounded, again enforce the call upon
railway managers for the exercise of
external vigilance.
60.
There are more Germans in Milwau-
skee in proportion TO its size than in
any other city in the country OF It's
total population $1,000, or IS per cent.
We're born in Germany, while counting
in addition the persons of German de-
scent the figures are raised to $4,000, or
&c per cent. AT the other end of the list
stands Boston, with a German popula-
ton of only 10 900, OF, 3 per cent OF the
total In addition there are but 15.-
900 people of German descent in the
Hub, making grand total Of less than
Z per cent of the whole Chicago is
tenth on the list with 10000 citizeRa
born in the Fatherland and 100000 who
claim German birth or ancestry, being
81 per cent of the entire population.
Queen Victoria's eyes are getting
worse instead of better. The blue
glasses she has lately worn have lost
their efficacy, and, contrary to her GUS
tom, she can no longer write even her
most private letters. Another famous
specialist has been consulted. but has
given small encouragement. Nature
has no healing balm for excessive age.
For the first time in 1893 years Yale
University had no baccalaureate ser-
mon at its recent commencement. In
stead President Hadley, layman, de-
iivered an address, enlogizing patience.
The national prohibition convention
will meet in Chicago Wednesday TO de-
molish the oanteen.
Kansas looms up with a great wheat
crop, estimated Mt 1O0000,00o bushels.
Twenty thousand men have been inn
ported TO help harvest it. Kansas is
really on the ground now to cure the
calamity cry elsewhere.
The number of boxes of oranges
shipped from Pasadena. Cal, for the
season is Indicated by the following
from the Star of that place: The or
ange season is over and Manager NJ.
II. Wright and his assistants can quit
worrying. Eighty-two cars have been
sent east. or "a total Of about 29,0 900
boxes. The idea Of sending an attend
ant with every half dozen cars 10
watch the temperature of the cars and
x =
10 open or shut ventilasers, has WORKED
we'll.
Belgium has been recently visited by
hinge swarms of large winged insects.
variously described as dragon flies and
slocusts. In Brussels people in the
streets, had to cover their faces. and
many fad indoors at the sight of the in
rading swarrns. In several squares. the
ory goes, there was a veritable fight
for pos ss ssi ion between the insects and
the human inhabitants.
The number of pelitentiary conNicts
in confinement in Texas is 4.29l. In this
connection 1t is we'll to remember that
Texasiss the biggest state in the union.
TIE heaviest electrical storm in Years
visited Quincy. H., Thursday evening
-rl.e lightning was continuous and many
buildings were struck
Indiana has been getting more than
her snare OF moisture. Five inches OF
rain fell in thirty-six hours last week al
Evansville. the heaviest rainfall ever
recorded there.
A new evening paper will be started
lin Des Moines July q under the man
.agement of H. NJ. Belvel and G. s. Will
! son, both well-known locally. Wilson
was city editor of the Register many
years ago. Sixteen to one democratic
politics will be served up on four pages
of seven columns each. for penny. G
A. Spooner will be tbs city editor.
4 The New York Tribune makes this i'm.
%pressive hit at the "antis': .If II is thu
duty of civilization to suppress rampan,
4 and ferocious barbarism in China il wa!
none the less its duty to do so In Luzon
4 If Boxers who run amuckn must b,
Isubdued by the nearest available force
/ land their leaders put where they can d.
Inc more harm. the same must be don'
4 with Tagals who also run amuck.
lit is the duty of outside powers to inter
4 vene in China and impose a stable AM
orderly government without the consen
of the coolies and Boxers Who are thu
to be governed, it was the duty OF tn
4 sovereign power to do the same in TIL
i Philippines. There is no especial sane
4 tity in Luzon that gives Its rioters ex
4 emption from the fate that IL dealt gu