Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-25
TOPICS OF THE TINES


Tho south has Just been visited by
e9ii ea;hsF a silowst9lin which ragged
- s'tlailestoI S. G., Saturday was he
sssild Known IN tha ry in forty OF
yea Is, Some damage WAS done to
ti.iy fruit by tho fleeze.
s. EN- Lieutenant Governor Henry G.
saIes, Of ST Johnsbury. VT. has been;
appointed district judge in the Philip
lsnss, With * salary os from, s.. 600 TO 81, :
.isee. according @ the district which will
o. a S isnssd upon his arrival al Manila.
lie viii leave Vermont about April. j.
The appointment MAS made tiiru Judge
Ide, Of the Philippns commission.
s 7 he process 81 sesf-eiimination has
i5een itiaugu rated Among ms cansliaates
iIer IN. govef ilorship by Minister CON
se who autilpritativeiy states rs is not
q eandiaate. Next gentlemen
As a result Of a rat hunt with re-
EttlS'sr by II en,y smith last week in
Peasant Nailey, WIS. barn valued at
<i,opa including the contents, is now a
mass OF cilders and charred tiinbers.
Smith shot the rats FOR some time and
at ast tnpnnted into he hay loft i,, his
lehase He blirrowed into the nay after
a ri and shot AZ Il. The hay at once
took me and in an hour and a half the
barn was destroyed;
The Manitoba supreme court has de-
claaes the prohibition law unconstitu-
tlailai.
Mrs Mckinley has cenhded TO her
sseies4 Friends that he, gown for the IN
ilasnral bal Is TO be the richest which
can BE- purchased ana designed in this
country She desires 10 honor the fete
given 10 mark her husbands second IN
4 atlEsuration by appearing is a costly toi-
4 lst This bah VII be the first given in
! Went y-nine years to mark the second
inauguration Of an executive Gen. q
rant WAS the recipient of the honor
ii 49,.
/ Nowitis stated from London that tils
I,oers VIII surrender that Gen. Botha
the Boer commander, has sent an ennis
sary TO see Gcn. Kitchener for this pur-
pose. and that a meeting has been ar
/ ranged for the 27th. Peace may thu.
4 dawn in South Africa soon.
Several years ago a probate judge o
Nodaway county. Missouri. used s
worth Of postage stamps in the cours
4 of official business. and the county au-
thorities refused 10 pay for them. Up
on his retirement from the bench TIL,
Judge brought suit against the count,
i in the circuit court to recover the 81
but lost the case. Thereupon he APP
\ pealed to the supreme court Of Missouri
4 which has just decided that Nodawa.
i county must pay for the stamps. Thu
county Will also have to pay a | arg,
proportion OF the costs of the litigation
4 s*s
A search of convicts, cells at the STATE
i Denitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., revealed
a plot for wholesale delivery of con
lricts. Saws, fashioned from tools in tn,
shops. chisels. keys to fit the locks ant
a revolver with cartridges, were foune
secreted in different cells.
4 800
Have you seen the new star? I. wa
first discovered by Rev. DIR. T. d. An
derson, of Edinburg. Scotland, who. OF
Feb. 81, saw the new planet and. cable,
1.-The discovery to Harvard University
AT fret it appeared small and dim, bu
row it appears to be OF the first mag
nitude. If you desire to see 1t, about
p. m. look directly overhead and not
4 the very bright star, which 10 Capela
lin the zenith; then look directly west o
/ capella toward the horizon. The sta
II thera. near 4 hri tf aa Ca nAlla In tn,