Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-23
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constitutional elections in Cuba.
Siberian merchants complain that
Americans have taken possession OF
Siberian markets. This is one OF the
evolutons OF our world growing trade.
Will there be an uprising there?
The Philadelphia Ledger says 1t is
generally understood in Washington
that Mr.. Dawes, now comptroller of the
currency, will be secretary of the treas
ury If Mr.. Mckinley is reelected, as
MIR. Gage wishes to go into private
business.
One of the largest publishers of books
in New York City said lately that many
of his special editions We're now bound
for him by young women who were per-
mitted to develop their own ideas. 1t
is profitable work for them and the re-
suits are novel. For instance. half a
dozen young women will each take If
worthy of special treatment and bind
them according to their own tastes.
When finished the volume sells for $15
or $50 This farming out of books to
different binders and permitting them
to use their ingenuity in designing Cow
ers is comparatively new. One OF its
advantages is the fact that pur-
chaser of a handsome special edition
may be assured that only limited
number of duplicates Of it have been
issued.
a Pioneer Press cartoon represents
a Chinese clock on the face of which is
printed "Pekin Reports" The ball Of
the pendulum with Fate of the Lega-
tons on 1t swings from the Living"
point to the other extreme of the
Dead
1t is said in Washington that the
message transmitted to the state de-
partment thru Minister WI will not
affect the actions of the United States
in regard to China in the least. Rather
it will confirm them as tending to prove
that the administration was correct In
assuming that the situation there is one
of revolt against the imperial authors
ties, who have done and are doing their
best to protect foreigners and to sup
press Prince Tuan and the Boxers. The
United States, therefore, will go on as
1t has begun. sending fair proportion
of the troops thought to be necessary
to put down the revolt. but declining to
consider itself at war with China and
insisting on the preservation of the
territorial and administrative" entity
of that empire. The problem of the war
department requires that about 10000
United States troops, consisting Of suit
able proportions of cavalry, artillery
and infantry. shall be landed in north
China within the next sixty or seventy
days, fully equipped and supplied for a
six months campaign in a rigorous ellis
mate and in a densely populated re-
gion, from which only meager supplies
of subsistence and forage can be drawn
for the support Of the army AS the
Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li and its harbors are
obstructed by ice for several months,
beginning with November, all supplies
for the allied forces must be landed by
that date. which consist of at least S0,-
900 men.
William Mason Grosvenor, editor of
Dun's Review. died suddenly at his
home at Englewood, n. j.. on Friday
AS a Journalist. a soldier in the civil
war and statistician. Col. Grosvenor
won high laureis. His ideals We're very
every undertaking he showed wonder
ful energy. The publishers of the Re-
view. who knew him best. regard his
death as a distinct loss to the nation
The Richmond Mckinley and Pros
zperi,y Club has $500 members and is
still young. $50 there are at least $500
men in Richmond who prefer business
TO BryaEism, remarks the New York
sun.
Out in Nebraska the True Populist
newspaper calls attention to the fact
that while7the famous Omaha platform
Of 1899 expressly declares officeholders
TO be ineligible to sit or vote at any
5populist convention. the recent fusion
state convention included something
like ITO delegates whose names are at
tachsd to the public pay roll And to
make the charge still stronger, the pa
per actually has the audacityto print
the names of the of.iceholding delegates
at the expense of column of valuable
space. This declaration. however, is
only another of the chimerical and i'm
practical ideas Of this ante millennial
age. To cut out oficeholders from con
yentions would be to rob them of much
of their vital force.
Baron Mumm Won Schwarzenstein.
new German ambassador to China, like
his predecessor, Won Ketteler, has an
American wife. She is the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. LIE ylnsen, who were once
residents Of New York Mrs. LIE Vim
sen is descendant Of the Roosevelts.
In the fiscal year just ended our
country exported nearly 3oOOOO.0 0O
bushels Of corn, whereas but few.
years ago We exported none at all. A
great and growing use for the staple
has hnen Stfun,1Ie O n :, ,,,ope, fnca;r, -.