Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-29
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Next month the Chicago pension Of
flee will pay s2,75o,ooo to 5000 pension
Sers for the third quarter of 1900.
| All the country between Granger and
! Evanston, Wyo., is covered with about
five inches of snow on the level. Cattle
men fear that this early fall of snow
means hard and long winter, and are
preparing for a siege.
Robert Dunlap, the halter, of New
York. left a fortune of s4o5, 500. The
Dunlap hat has national fame.
T tied edition of Bryan and Smyths anti
trust speeches is in type for circulation
in Nebraska City. The people of that
city are not advocates of trusts, but ii 4
will require some adrot explanations toll
satisfy them regarding the motiveI
which prompted the assault on the \
principal industry of the place whentthel
embarrass the trust. whicheha numer-
.ens other factories and can Well afford
10 close this one down, altho its closing
would be great blow to the city
Taxes have been freely paid al! over
Iowa this month to scape the penalty
which will be imposed next Monday.
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Attest Vote taken among the employees
Iof the wholesale department of Mar
shall Field s Co. Chicago, shows that
out of approximately 1000 votes in the
establishment s51 are for Mckinley and
only 149 for Bryan, making the majority
for Mckinley 7o2. The Tribune says I'll
lis probable that the same overwhelming
ratio for Mckinley would be shown in
practically every other commercial
house in Chicago,Swere test votes taken.
Bryan is now travelling on his final
speech making tour and rest is in
sight.
4 The school board of Deadwood. S. d.,
has adopted a new system in regard to
books used by pupils. who will now be
required TO pay a small rental fee for
/ the use of such volumes as they re-
3quire.
Mr.. b. Fitzgerald. OF New Provi-
/ dence. while en- route TO Indiana IN the
4 Iowa Central, took a poll of the train
] near Monmouth. assisted by W. II.
Garter. of Marshall county. with the
4 result that out of forty eight men thir-s
4 ty-six We're for Mckinley. nine for;
4 Bryan, one for Woolley and two were
Enon-conmittal. Later, as the men
4 pulled in for indianapolis they took am
SEother poll: Ninety-eight for Mckinley
and fifty-1ve for Bryan. The ladies
voted: Sixty-two for Mckinley and
3twenty-one for Bryan.
4 The supreme court Of Nebraska has
4 denied the petition OF the attorney gen
i aral of that state 10 compel the produc-
q ton by The Standard Oil Company of its
4 books and papers. The court decides
THAT the action was prematurely
brought.
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4 At a big republican rally in Mime
4 .apolis the following in mammoth let
\ tering was placed above the stage:
i 1886 The Paramount Issue 1900
i lG Men for is Prosperity. 16 Jobs for
i Job. Man.
4 That farmers are faring remarkably
4 well this year and ought to be stanch
4 supporters Of William Mckinley is
. widely admitted, and yet Looker-on
brings out the fact In striking way by
4 citing proof elsewhere in his regular
i contribution to the TER. He produces
i, figures from dealers in Aurelia to show
A that farmers are paying from half to
4 tWo-thirds less. measured in bushels, for
4 farm machinery in 1900 than they were
in 1896, and are receiving from half
Il to two-thirds more in cash for crops
il than in 1896. The farmers of Iowa
have no use for Bryanism this year
. when they come to measure the superior
4 conditions of the present with the CAL
amity period Of the past.
I: The London Chronicle says: "sir
Chin Chen Lofengluh, the Chinese min
lister in London has been very much to
the front OF late. He is in the prime
a Of life, being fifty years old, and, az is
well known, is a distinguished scholar,
4 notwithstanding his criticism OF the
Bible as literature. He was educated
lsprivately by his father. 10 shao Tsuns,