Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-21


support Of the republicans of the state"
TOPICS OF THE TINES
The United States treasury surplus is
growing so rapidly that Secretary Gage
|inay buy bonds on the market and thus
put the money into circulation again.
Woman suffrage appears to be losing
ground in the enlights ned state of Mas
Isachusetts. where advanced thinkers are
numerous In the legislature this year
1.-The usual resolutionfor a constitutional
amendment authorizing woman suf-
|frage was beaten by a majority of 1OS.
II: 1897 the hostile majority was only SS;
IN 1895 it was SO; in 1899 it was 81. And
the house has accepted without dissent
a committee report against giving
woman taxpayers the right to vote at
municipal elections.
When President Mckinley was in In
Gianapolis attending the funeral Of Gen.
Harrison he said III conversations: If
there be amy honor in our visit to this
city, we have rather honored ourselves
by coming. The way was never made
open for me to state I before, but say
row that for many years Cen. Harrison
has been my ideal of statesman and a
citizen"
The indebtedness of Italy, considering
the population and resources of the
country. is simply alarming. The new
Kingdom Inherited the debts of the old
italian states and had to sprovide all the
improvements of the present age. while
II fleet and army are indispensable il
Italy Was 10 hold lis own. Italy's press
Ont national debt amounts to $2.572, 69S. Z
4el, with a yearly interest of sll5.aILo15.
The yearly revenue of the kingdom is
entirely absorbed by the current ex
Eenditure and in furnishing the interest
~ the debt. without leaving ANY margin.
iora sinking fund. There seems no way
cut AT present.
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Owing TO the existence of several
cases of smallpox in Springfield. ILL.,, the:
board of health decided that all school
children in the city, both public and pa-
sochial schools, mus be a once vaccl
rated.
Cub geale sprig. Rebovc thedse
4 r ~
Secretary James Wilson Will soon
make rules In regard 70 the inspection
~ butter intended for export which are
calculated To build I'D a foreign market
for American butte. especially in the
e;ast. Some years ago lima and other
countries afforded q good market for
American butter, but as congress pro-
yided no rules for the Inspection of this
commodity merchants began substitute
ing a poor class OF goods and destroyed
the market. AT the last session of con-
gress Legislation vas enacted which en-
powered the secretary of agriculture 10
cause the insI, Ton of dairy products
intended for export, and 10 furnish a
certificate as u the character of the
goods. Rules md regulations viii be
framed and enforced whereby tirst-clase
products will q properly identified
abroad.
One thousand Georgia negroes have
asked the governor of that state for
transportation To Siberia, that cold and
bleak region in north Asia Perhaps
they prefer to fly to ills they know not
cf than suffer political and social evils
in cline more suited to the race.
There is only one sword factory in the
United Statcs-a Massachusetts concern
and that one has ample capacity for
supplying the domestic demand for
swords, even under the stimulating con-
EDITIONS of the Cuban and Philippine
wars. The saber lost its efficiency as a
! cavalry weapon as far back as the civil
war; and the increased range OF rifles
las made the sword equally obsolete as
an implement of actual combat.
Quite Relief-Husband-- dc
s2AA W "ieA you Illt your thumb with q
hammer? You can't swear.
| Wife-No; but can think, with ali
my might and main. what a perfectly
horrid, mean. ilconsiderate. selfish
brute you are not to drive the nails
yourself. New York Weekly.
strikes u Rich Find.
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| II. No remedy helped me until i be-
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