Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-22
! TOPICS OF THE TIMES

II. Will march thru the avenue of fame
at the reunion at Chicago, ILL.,, on Aug.
IS. They Will renew their youth and
enthusiasm at this time.
1t appears that Minister Conger and
his associates In Pekin We're rescued in
the nick of time, as fierce night as
sault had just previously been made on
them by the Chinese.
( EDITOR Murphy, of the Dubuque Tele-
graph. says that the negroes are going
80 bolt Mckinley because Roosevelt
said he had TO drive some of them at
the point of a pistol when storlning San
Juan illin Cuba. We wonder if he re-
fers TO the negroes Of North Carolina.
Everybody knows that they won't vote
for Mckinley, for the democrats down
there have fixed things SO the negroes
won't vote at all.
The government Of Queensland, Au-
srralia. has engaged DIR. Maxwell, the
famous sugar expert OF Honolulu. for
five years at salary of $4,000 a year.
Ills sweetsto be thus remembered.
II is only necessary TO compare tn.
results of the four counts of Chicago's
population to see how difficult it is to
arrive at any accurate enumeration,
says the Journal. The federal census
gives Chicago 1,69s'75, the postoffice
census 2,015,OOO. the directory census %
100000 and the school census 100000.
Thus far Chicago shows the largest
per cent of increase of population of
amy city exceeding 100000 people thus
far announced, or 5i.44 per cent over
1880.
Admiral George c. Penney. in COM
mand of the Asiatic squadron, is ma
tive of Burlington. Iowa, and a few
days ago he contributed $500 to the In
lstitute College in that city,3of which he
lis a graduate and which was recently
laftiliated with the University OF Chi
lcago. Burlington was the home of 9th
|. er snotedmen. whomit has honored. Gen.
John NJ. Corse, who was shot to pieces
lin defending Allatoona Pass and Was
1.-THE hereof the Mood and Sankey song,
Hold the Fort was a Burlington boy,
land his fellow townsmen have erected
4 an equestrian statue in his honor in
Grape Park. The late Gen. Fitz-Henry
Walren was a noted figure in Burling-
Hons early history and was the first as
sistant postmaster general under the
Fillmore administration. The same po-E
sition was held by Frank Hatton, who
Iee.itor of the Burlington Hawkeye for
several years. a paper, by the way.
which Robert j. Buraette made famous
while its leading writer. Burlington
Was the first capital OF Iowa territory.
| Here. toe, lived the originals Of some of
/ I'eniMore Coepsr's Characters and the
stone house that was way station on
the underground railway in slavery
s|days is still standing.
Miss Helen Hay, daughter Of the sec
4 rotary of state. has written some
4 verses. TO be published under the title
A of THE Little Boy Book.
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