Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-29
TOPICS OF THE TINES.
If the firemen could only turn the hose
on the light-fingered gentry people
would feel safer.

L on the ltght-fingered gentry people
would feel safer.
The city of Pittsburg Is happy in its
belief that Mr. H. C. Frick is about to
build there magnificent fire proof ho-
tel covering a plot of ground 24O feet
square and having not less than 1000
rooms and an auditorium large enough
for national convention purposes
| The Virginia constitutional conven-
ton has planned to dlsfranchlse nearly.
all the negroes for all time and to leave
white voters untouched.
/
1 Washington officials who superintend-
ed the recent opening of the Indian res
ervations in Oklahoma estimate that
the receipts from the sale of townsite
property at the three principal towns
will reach nearly 100000, all of which
will be expended for public improve
ments and the payment of the first
years salaries of county officers.
*ss
The workers before the blast furnaces
of steel mill have chosen an ideal time
of year to go on strike. When the va
cation season is over there will be more
ola disposition to compromise.
The Chicago board of reversers has
raised Alexander Dowie's assessment
from s15, 900 to 100000 lions are scarce
enough to be valuable in Chicago, and
1t will take something more than faith
cure to reverse the boards action.
There was no surprise in the treasury
department when telegram was re-
ceived saying that w. F. Hoey, collector
of customs of Nogales. Ariz., and his en-
tire force of clerks had been arrested for
smuggling Chinese from Mexico into the
United States. The surprise came some
time ago, when the suspicion that the
collector was guilty of the smuggling
was first reported. Since then the ar
rests have been constantly expected.
Mr.. Hoey came from Muncie.,. Ind, and
when he was appointed, about a year.
and half ago, Secretary Gage eau
toned him to avoid all temptations to
wrong doing. because irregularities had
caused his predecessors removal The
charge of a special agent of the treasury
until new collector is appointed, which
will probably not be until after Presi-
dent Mckinley returns to Washington.
$50
When a man goes after veteran like
Colonel Eiboeck on any proposition he
should first be sure he knows what he
is talking about
What does the fireman (and the far
mer) most need in his business? Water.
Hence this rain.
Isn't it dreadful to think that anyone
so good as an anti-saloon Lacquer should
be accused of packing a convention In
the interests of the third part prohibi-
| ton ticket and isn't 1t shame that an
anti-saloon Lacquer Should loudly make
the charge when Candidate Coates was
present?
Des Moines is to have new paint
factory and it may be that the Capt.
tails red line will take on another
color occasionally.
| The dispute over the comparative
merits of the Panama and the Nicara-
qua routes for canal is apparently
never ending An eminent French en-
gineer tells the correspondent of a Chi
cago newspaper that 1t would cost every
penny of s50oO00.000 to construct a Nj
caragua canal, and that after it was fin
ished it would be in danger Of destruc-
ton by floods. The Panama route is de-
clared by this authority to be the one in
tended by nature for the purpose. and
the only one ON the isthmus 1t is quite
probable that our statesmen will know
which is the better route before finally
deciding on great canal enterprise.
go
Divine Healer" schlatter has been
sent to "the island" for three months by
a New York police magistrate, charged
with being drunk and disorderly.
$50
No one has more accurately charac-
4 terized the action of the anti-saloon
i iedSue III Adopting us RESOLUTIONS than
one of its own members. Rev. NJ. r.
Sawyers: Such resolution il OPP
posed to the fundamental policy Of the
anti-saloon league. 1t binds us to po-
litical part 1.-THE prohibitionl and 1t di-
yides the temperance strength Of the
state 1t not only divides it but Bit
terly a!ienates an effective part of it.
Manitoba, besides raising a wheat
crop of 100000 bushels will have a
large potato crop this year.
4 E. L. Ackley. regent of the Kansas
state university and a prominent at
torney died Tuesday of acute Appendix
citis. He married Miss Ada Fry, of Fair
field, Ia, in 1894.
4 Some Iowa editor in commenting on
4 the charge that the Third district has
the habit Of proving treacherous to its
own interests observes that the Third
district now has . United States sena-
tor in the person OF Senator Allison,
the speaker Of the national house Of
Representatives. auditor Of state III
il MERRIAM. attorney general In Mnllan