Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-19
TOPICS OF THE TINES

TOPICS OF THE TIMES}
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Mr.. Carnegie grows greater as he
wisely decreases his wealth.
The Cedar Rapids veterans of the civil
war are to hold meeting this evening
TO consider the question of having a
grand reunion of all Iowa soldiers dur
ing the coming summer or fall to COM
nemorate the fortieth anniversary of
1.-The first enlistment of Hawkeye SOL
diers.
The box elder big is one of the sur
l5vivors of the mild winter now coming to
the surface.
The Omaha Bee notices that one after
another of the Iowa congressme am
lronnces that he is taking no part in the
contest for the nomination fol, governor
All of which goes 70 show that your
Iowa con gresham knows when the gun
lis loaded, says the Bee.
| "One thing the Pan American move,
lment has done-it has persuaded Buffa-
llcnians that they have not been forgot
LIEN by outside relatives and friends.
says the Buffalo Commercial. Letters
are being received from those who have
not written for years 10 their Buffalo
connections, This sudden sstrengthen-
ing Of family ties Is one. Of the results
of the effort Buffalo is making to bring
before the continent an opportunity for
seeing the resources Of This splendid
lsoity..
Kansas banks are full of money
many institutions With $1,000 .pital
having $4,000 of deposits,
Down In Missouri where they vote
the democratic ticket on the one hand
and accept good rel,ubiican times IN the
/ It's big poor farm and will buy and
/ operate a smaller one. from which it
4 may be inferred that this Mckinley
! period makes srge one unnecessary.
Ernest Eldridge, of Florida, walked
/ all the way froTe sha state to Ohio He
lis an Englishnaia and mol q tramp nui.
a sleeping car aveler. but simply an
old fashioned i,eofer.''
Some persons Condemned Gen. Har-
rison when he married the second time, =
said Louisvilla judge recently, who
Iwas associated With Gen. Harrison in
i legal cases, but this would not have
been SO had they understood all the CIR
cumstances of that marriage His sec
ond marriage WAS opposed by his two
Echildren. Col. Russell b Harrison and
Mrs. Mary Harrison Mckee Feeling
l5that their opposition was in a manner
4 justified Gen. Harrison turned over Ia
! them his whole fortune with tie.excep-
s ton of his house in indianapolis, and
4 said With characteristicfirmne shall
4 row start out again in life and what.
ever may make shall belong to my
Wife and any children God may bless ms
S. with. He turned over to his son aud
!. daughter about 100000, accumulated In
!, the practice of law and saved from lis
salary as president. Since his second
marriage he has accumulated about
twice that much, and am told his will
= Will cut off his children by his first wife
s With mere mention and has left his
second fortune to his second wife and
his child by her. Since the second mar.
+, riage his son Russell and his daughtel
have nut visited tilrii fathers nome ii
indianapolis"
The London mint produced 107. $3.50, 81,
coins last year. Mr.. Bryan should Sc,
81 cure il and attach 1t TO the Commoner
Il
Gen. Weyler is still practically censor
of the press in Spain. However. he ha.
assembled all the publishers and tole
them that the censorship had been re
moved and then proceeded to point gu
to them the topics on which they mus
be silent. An unwritten law with Wey
/ Ter to enforce it has terrors Of Its own
! A big fruit grower OF Van Burel
county, Arkansas, says the prospect 70
strawberries and peaches in that sec
zion is good.
$ A queer instance OF improper innu
/ ence said to have been exerted upon
Juryman comes from New Haven. TIL
jury in q certain civil case went t
= Fairhaven to visit the house OF the de
PENDANTS. There, according to the coun
sci for the plaintiff, one Of the partit.
to the suit gave one OF the Jurors
: piece OF pie. This piece OF pie 10 tn
eround upon which motion to sc
: aside the verdict is founded.
AS result of wholesale quarantine
Mason City people had an uneasy tim
Sunday. Apparently they believe 1t bet
ter to be isolated than inoculated, bette
e to be pitied than to be pitted. Tn
n Times Herald indicates the sorry stat
p OF collapse: There was kind Of lone
: someness among the church goers OF tn
city yesterday. They couldn't go hunt
ing. it was too early to fish. they dare
not play cards and they would b
churched II they danced, and there wa