Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-06
TOPICS OF THE TINES

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To make up her deficiencies Germany
finds she must import 100000 tons of
! wheat and 100000 tons of rye. She will
find Uncle Sam in business at the old
stand and as bland a sever despite the
scowls about tariff retaliation.
| Governor Stanley of Kansas objects to
the settling in that state of little COM
4 ling hospital on the ground that it
would be introducing an ignorant and
| vicious element and other Kansans
/ agree with him.
Iowa is able to contribute more winter
tourists to California and elsewhere
than any of the surrounding states.
Hosts of farmers have more money to
spend in this direction than ever be-
fore.
1t is alleged that in no other country
4 I'm the world is the cigar so popular as
in Germany, so much so that 1t is i'm
possible to raise enough tobacco in the
empire to supply the domestic demand.
Last year Germany imported nearly
So, 1000 worth of tobacco, a little more
than a third of it coming from the Unit
ed States. The use of the cigaret is
rapidly spreading in Germany. Last
year ass tons of cigarets We're consumed
at least five times as many as were
needed ten years ago.
The November report Of the Des
Moines health department shows that
ninety cases Of smallpox, forty-three of
scarlet fever, thirty -four cases of diphs
liberia and one case Of membraneous
| Congressman Cannon, Of Illinois, de-
clares that Philippine tariff legislation
Twin be the most important subject be-
| fore congress.
It Is plain that Governor Van SAINT
has buckled on his armor to fight the
railroad combination and will not re-
lent. While in Chicago Wednesday he
said: The sentiment OF the people OF
Minnesota is absolutely and positively
opposed to this merger of the big rail-
road systems. AS their representative 1t
| is my duty to fight 1t at every step and
with every means in my power. You
may depend shall do that"
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In Minneapolis five men have been
sent to the workhouse within month
for giving liquor to children. They de-
serve the severest penalty.
$50
John G. Woolley, candidate for presl-
dent on the prohibition ticket at the last
| election in the United States, has con-
sented to make series of speeches in
aid of the pending national movement
against intemperance in England. The
lecturer sails for America Dec. 10, and
his time till, then will be fully taken up,
chiefly in the provinces.
| Twenty-Five OF the leading shoe manu-
featuring firms OF Cincinnati have de-
cided to post notices in their factories
| declaring their independence of labor
organizations. A contest will follow.
| Senator Hoar also suggests the policy
urged in the T.-R. yesterday, that the
nations of the earth agree upon the Sc
lection OF desolate place upon the
earth,s surface to which all anarchists
could be transplanteds and where they
| could work out their ideas Of existence
without government. A plan Of this
kind would be good deterrent.
Grandma-I'm worried about Sally's
baby.
Grandpa-So am I. With two grand
mothers an the doctor all workin' agin
4 each other. as you say, you can't tell
whatll happen.
New York Sun.
Ex-Governor Jenkins, of Oklahoma,
who has just been removed by Presi-
| dent Roosevelt for misconduct, has
| blood in his eye. believing that he has
1 been greaIly WFoHBeu.
Bessinger, Fla, seems to be an ideal
place for the raising Of large families.
| 1t is only frontier settlement as yet,
/ living in the heart of the great inland
prairie, but there is no danger Of the
population diminishing. Among the
families living there are six whose chill
dren aggregate seyenty-one in number
thirty-two boys and thirty-nine girls.
Bessinger challenges any place of equal
size in the state to match these domestic
| figures.
/ A Nebraska supreme court decision
Geprives the Omaha mayor and city
council of the power to appoint police
and fire commissioners and vests it in
the governor. and harmony in that west
ern burg has been disturbed.
| California was credited with 100000
barrels of petroleum last year, and
several good authorities estimate the
| product of 1901 at 100000 or 100000
| barrels. But W.. Young tells the En-
| gineerlng and Mining Journal that in
his opinion even the latter figures are
much too low. II this development con-
tinues long, rot merely Texas but Penn
| sylvania and West Virginia also will
| be in danger of an eclipse.
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