Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-01
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/ TOPICS OF THE TIMES

the sidewalks and watch the progress
of the games.
published list of fortyfive sellers of
impure milk and announce that prose-
cutions will follow.
In Dubuque an organization known
as the Young Peoples Christian Tenn
perance Union has started out to down
the saloons, breweries and LIQUOR
houses of the city. The first campaign
will be to enforce the law to close sa-
looms on sunday. The state of Du-
buque'' offers a fertile field for such an
effort.
The two candidates for governor of
Illinois, Yates and Alshuler. will travel
about the state in great simplicity and
conduct campaign for the plain peo-
pie on Very modest scale.
SO
Recently 200 manufacturers in the
4 Y nited Stats We're asked to give COM
Farmers employed by them and the
wages paid in recant years The re-
Spouse of these 200 employers was that
they Mere employing O.4S3 men in 1894
and that they had no use for more until
the Year ofsthe Inauguration of Presi-
dent Mckinley. When they found em-
ploynsnt FOR 100000 men, Since that
time he. number Of inen. employed has;
steadily increased, until, in 1899. the
number vas l74,G45-an increase of
nearly 100 per cent In three years
after the defeat OF Bryan the men en-
pleyed by 200 manufacturers earned
St5.o0Q,900 more than when the country
was under the Industrial paralysis that
came With tariff agitation and fear of
an inundation OF silver in 1893.
The press Of Europe almost univer-l
sally condemns the assassination OF
King Humbsrt Of Italy as being with.
gout reason.
The democrats of the Sixth Iowa dis.
trict met in OttunWa Tuesday and
nominated Judge A G. steek, Of that.
eity. for congress. 1t IS the wrong year
Tor Mr.. Steck.
he prunei crop of California will not
be nearly 50 large as at first reported,
because Of the almost unprecedented.
dropping of the half ripe prunes. Many
5arehardists also report an unusual per-
seentage Of blighted fruit. The heat has
forced maturity Of all fruit. From
southern California reports are disconr-
aging IN regard 10 deeii'uous fruit, the
crop being small and Of poor quality,
owing to lrouth.
has sustained a decision rendered in
Burke county imposing fine of 81 900
lon arailWay company for having given
Tan annual pass - doork eeper of the
Elssisfatllr in 1897.
The supreme court of Rhode. Island
has decided that flowers are a necessary
fsatnl,e VI funeral. TIE ease under
Consideration Mas an acton brought by
a florist against the administrators of
ST hs estate Of a deceased citizen, who
had refused q pay the plaintiff for
J! flowers furnished On the credit Of the
sss tate The court justified the expendi-
ures rernarking that the custom Of
! having ti5wers III minerals is well nigh
universal in this country, and that
I when not abused by extravaganza or
sunssensly ostentatian 1T is certainly 70
be commended as giving appropriate
\ expression to our feelings OF respect
4 and lave for the departed.
a party Of Minneapolis and Duluth
4 elevator and flour men who have per-
sonally investigated the subject agree
III placing the wheat yield of Mime
sofa and tile Dakotas at 110,ooOoot
bushels, or very nearly two-thirds Of
i The yield Of 1895.
italian government statistics show
l5,hat onesItalian was killed by anothel
lItalfan every two hours during 1893
1 Grand total Of homieides. 5000.
4 Mulhall, the English statistician
guesses the present population of tn
4 United States a 76,2oo,o0o Some tim
.l3ago Professor Pritchett. now presiden
\ of the institute Of Technology, estimat
Il ed that the 1900 figures would reacl
Fl T17.472.000. The actuary3 Of he treasur,
lepartmant makes an estimate Of Il,
0Do.000
"A Queen Victoria signed the bill consti
lstuting the commonwealth of AustraIi;
4 Ion July O.. and at once appointed tn
u earl Of iIopetoun. her lord chamberlain
.5ta as the first governor general. She ha
q made him a Knight of the Thistle, i
81 place of the late duke of Argyll, a fe,
SI5days before. The earl was governor o
n Victoria from 1889 TO 1895. The quee
presented to the Australian commits
|ssioners the table. the silver inkstan
and the pen used in signing the bill.
The census Office at Washington la
made public the population of Cincin
81 matt. 1t is 325s9O2, an increase over tn
last census of 2s,994. Fifty years ag
Cincinnati was city of the first elias
. in the west; now 1t merely holds ii
= place in the second class.