Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-26
TOPICS OF The TINES

tropics OF The TINES ;
A colony of Dunkards from Illinois
is trying to lease several thosand acres
of land In Oklahoma for settlement.
The city of Monmouth, Ill, which.
according to the latest census, has a
population Of 1850, is supposed to have
DO saloons, yet forty three persons
have paid the governments required
tax for refill liquor dealers.
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/ The German government is willing to
/ admit that protection has assisted in
that country's industrial progress.
| The official count Of the votes cast in
| Baltimore and the state at the recent
| Maryland election has been completed.
| 1t shows that the democrats will have
seventeen senators and fifty-one dele
| gates In the next legislature, while the
republicans will have nine senators and
|
man views the results with complacency
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| The latest weapon used by the red
-smallpox-makes him as odious
as with bow and arrow. and a great
deal more "odorous."
| The sale of American shoes in London
| continues to increase merrily, the En-
g,ish manufacturers apparently confin-
| ing their attempts to stem this CONNER
| cial invasion by writing pathetic letters
| to the papers, in which they declare
| there will be empty chairs by the Are
side If the English persist in buying
American shoes.
The suggestion made by Secretary
Hitchcock, of the interior department,
III his annual report, that the Indians be
| made to earn their own living, will be
| widely endorsed.
According to a Washington CORE
| spondent there is a strong sentiment
| manifested ambng arriving congressman
| favorable to the admission Of Oklahoma
| irot the union, but decidedly adverse to
| similar treatment. for Arizona and New
| Mexico. If the Oklahoma people can
keep themselves out of close association
with the old Spanish-American terrific
ries they may win the goal of state hood.
| Two glass plates, each weighing 300
pounds, were made at Kokomo, Ind,
last week. 1t is claimed these are the
largest ever cast.
| At meeting the other day of the
| National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union at Fort Worth, Mrs. Nor
row, of West Virginia, made the inter-
esting statement that more than one
| thousand cities and towns in the
United States have adopted curfew
laws, Indianapolis being the largest.
She added that juvenile crime is on
the INCREASE in this country, two hun
dred thousand children being arrested
every year.
The world gets large portion of its
gypsum from Kansas, and the plaster
companies and mills OF the state have
organized trust, incorporating under
the laws of New Jersey.
Judge Fred Wellhouse, the apple
king" of Kansas, having 1,240 acres of
orchards In the state, has sold his
60, 900 bushel crop for $4,000.
Over 100000 head OF cattle, hogs and
sheep were received at the six markets
last week, with $4,000 to Chicagos
credit. In the latter city packers
/ slaughtered a total of 253,30O hogs last
week, as against 210,400 the previous
week, 211,1O0 year ago and 172,s00
+ two years ago. All these figures go to
show that Chicago is more hoggish
| than ever.
Down in the wilds of Missouri
gray wolf, Weighing So pounds, at
tackled Bingham Montgomery as he
was going thru the woods near Block
ow, recently. After fierce battle the
beast was killed.
"Des Moines can never be what 1T
should be-" said DR.. A. B. Marshall. of
Central Presbyterian church of that
city, in his morning sermon Sunday
on Religion and Politics" as long as
there is garbage garden or a White
chapel within its borders" He de-
clared that here in our own city an
archy is rife and has played havoc with
the officials who tacitly agree with
criminals that they shall pursue their
crimes without fear of molestation."
His remedy is the penitentiary Yes.
send them to the penitentiary. Better