Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-30

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TOPICS OF THE TINES,
The prohibitionists in many Iowa
counties were unable to arouse enough
interest to hold conventions or make
nominations.
Lee Choup. one of the wealthiest Chi
nese merchants in New York, has
wound up his business and is about to
return to Canton with fortune of $780,
00o Three children born in New York
ard one wife will accompany him. He
is said to have two other wives in
China.
The young queen of Holland is total
all occasions to take wine. Her most
intimate friend, Princess Pauline OF
Wurtemberg, was by her Won over to
the ranks of the teetotaers. She is said
to be the only teetotaler among reign
ing monarchs.
The beautiful and classical chrysan-
themum is with US again. The florists
windows are filed with fine flowers. and
the greenhouses contain thousands of
them.
When such publicist as Justice
Brewer of the federal supreme court
states, as he did at the Yale bicenten-
larry recently. that the modern tendency
towards Capitalization of power while
apparently antagonistic to the republic.
is absolutely beyond the reach of laws
OF the problem of wisely regulating
them. He says the gigantic mercantile
transactions. enormous consolidation of
capital, great combinations in the la
Dor world. were the inevitable condi-
tions OF evolution. You can no. stay
this movement he said. "Injunctions
against strikers will not stop 1t: legisla-
ton against trusts will not" But he
thought that thru the education of pub
lie sentiment this tendency towards
concentration might be controlled and
turned to the good of the people. The
problem is to preserve the good features
while restraining the evil and oppres-
sive power great organizations may ex-
ercise.
Frank H. Bull, expresldent of the
Sharon Steel company, has promised to
give 100000 for a public building at
Sharon, Pa. The town must provide for
it's maintenance and it must be kept
open seven days week.
Advices from Texas show that the
crop of pecan nuts this year is not more
than two-thirds of an average yield.
The region around Eagle Lake, which
in former years was the greatest pecan
producing section in the south, will not
furnish pecan for shipment this sea-
son. The failure of the crop there 10
due to the injury done the trees by the
graf storm of September s, 1900, which
devastated Galveston and many coast
points. Many points from which were
shipped ten to twenty five care OF Pc
cans last season will not furnish more
than one-fourth that number of cars
this season.
The new publisher of the Iowa Falls
Sentinel has enlarged his paper to meet
demands for space, making 1t an eight
page. slx-column quarto, all home print,
with supplement of four pages. Ed
itor Stonerook has already received
cordial welcome to the ranks of news
paper workers, and has fine field for
usefulness in Iowa Falls
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The Stokes who killed "Jim" Fisk
back in the early EOS Is dying of
Bright,s disease in New York.
A vote for Phillips next Tuesday will
be ballot thrown away. Why not with
a vote for Cummins assist in making 1t
II record breaking rebuke to modern
democrats methods?
The worlds fair commission repre-
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sentlng the state of Kansas has se-
1ected four acres as site for the Kan
Gas building. 1t is said that Kansas is
determined to have the largest state
representation at the fair. The state
building will be used as a reception
house for visitors whether from Kan
sag or elsewhere, and will cost approx
imately $4,000 to $4,000. The state
appropriation will be increased to $780,
900, and every county will be asked to
contribute funds and local exhibits, so
that Kansas may have representation in
every exhibit building.
Halloween comes tomorrow night and
fairy sprites will do such un- fairy
things as turning over sidewalks. The
COLLINS Cor policemen) IL get you If you
don't look OUT
The board of trustees of the Burling-
ton Institute, college founded in 1851,
have voted to close the school perma-
rently on account of the lack of funds to-
continue 1t was hoped that thru affili-
alton with the Chicago University 1T
might be kept going, but this plan not
maturing the institute will close. In the
evolutionary processes in Iowa the CEN
trail part of the state offers the best edu-
cational advantages. The Des Moines
Baptist college is the most hopeful of the
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