Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-27

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) TOPICS OF THE TINES
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official statistics show an average of
l5o. 900 deaths a yaar from consumption
for the last six years in France.
The deadly cyoens which got in It's
work in Ala bama S an Indication Of
what may be expected in the north
later on. More than 4 score OF people
We're Killed in the Alabama disaster.
AT last. at last! Gen. James p.
Weaver mas secured an ofiicethes
niayoralty Of colfax The populiss cam
didate for president IN 1879 desired 10
water the currency. but was refused the
1o.a's chief health resort and can over
see the watering Of rheumatic patients.
How are the fallen elevated, His talent
after all VIII be utllized Gen. Weaver
is a man Of ability and within his linz
tied opportunities can now show what
a model town ought 70 be-
The Register says there are sixty peo-.
pie III With smallpox in Des Moines and
probably 200 auaranlined- As focal
inter- the capital ity is reapins the
fruit Of unusual exresure
Queen Victoria funeral cost sls5,ooo,
pearly one third Of which Was for the
housing and entertainment of foreign
guests.
Mining men Of Arizona are excited
over wha. is called the greatest lode
discovery eyer made in that territory,
and probably in southwest. The Orc.
6irande. a rev mine opened by q. +.
Lamb and Gcor Dupton, Of Clinton.
la, and b. o. Hatfield. Of Montana,
threatens TO rva in fame the Nu.ture,
located in the same region, and other
great lode bonanzas Of Arizona
a mysterious insect threatens to wipe
cut the wheat crop in the vicinity of
Fort Worth, Tex. Whole fields have
already been devastated.
A boy In Washington bears the name
OF Thomas Bracket Reed Mudd.
According TO Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, in
TIE Saturday Evening Post, the minister
l4is; the busiest man of a large town. He
says A Clergyman working in large
town is almost certain TO discover that
ishe is in a way looked upon as common
property What he knows distinctively
as his parish bears but small proper
ton TO the field which, reasonably O,
unrea sonably, he will be expected To soc-
| cupy He is presumed to have heart
for everybody woes. to be a solvent for
every body's problems, to be treasury
| for everybody's necessities. and a gen
era bureau of information, covering all
higher criticism and from daily occupa-
lion to matrimony and divorce. He Is
I also supposed to be able to speak with
| equal fecundity and effect on any occa-
sion that may offer and upon any theme
that the occasion may suggest and Il
be so charged with versatile stores Of
fancy. epigram and nonsense as to re.
auire for the emergency only the easy
turning OF the spigot."
For several days recently the Their.
momcter In the southwest districts OF
West Australia registered as high al
las in the sun and 12l in the shade.
4 In Kentucky one tobacco man ha.
4 purchased in Boyle and adjoinlns
ioounties the past winter over 1000, 90,
pounds OF tobacco at prices rangins
4 from cents to ~ cents pound Thi.
state is famous for its big tobacc,
& crops.
4 In Kansas Stockton boy has gon,
completely blind from smoking cigar
cts.
4 In the Gettysburg National Park 90
mounted cannons have been placed ant
total OF $40 monumental tablets an,
about 500 monuments have bee,
erected.
Passenger travel over the grea
lakes increases every year" said C. i
sprague. OF Detroit, while In ST. Loui
recently. Navigation will open In
very few days now, tho the paseenge
traffic will not amount to much befor
the middle or latter part Of May. Thi
year the steamship companies are ex
pecting to do an excellent bueinesss car
rying western and southern people I
the Buffalo exposition. One can leav
Detroit in the evening, reach Clevelan
In the morning, spend day sight -see
ing in that beautiful city and make an
other night ride to Buffalo. Extra boat
are hainx chartered by the trananprta
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