Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-10
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


nese porcelains owned by the estate
of the late j. A, Garland, of New York
have been sold abroad much to the dis
appointment of eastern art galleries.
The steamship companies are en-
deavoring to rival Puck's promise tc
put a grdle about the earth in forty
minutes" The Cunard company will
/ build pair of twin ships to excel al
/ previous records for transatlantic
speed. They will be over 700 feet long
Their engines will be of $4,000 horse
25 knots. Greater in every way than
1 the Great Eastern which was the pio-
neer of large steamships.
The garnishment bill is due to create
much discussion when it comes before
the house. Unless the bill is radically
amended. it will probably meet with
| defeat. Among the amendments that
have been suggested is one that will
leave every employee $50 per month free
| from execution. If 90 per cent Of his
wages did not amount to $50 a month,
then only the amount over $50 could be
levied upon. This amendment will
doubtless meet with more favor than
the original bill, but it is hardly prob
able that even it will prevail.
General agents of railroads are pre-
dieting that a full-tiedged rate war will
be under way within this month. Rad
ical cute in freight rates have been made
by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and
the Wabash railroads, and in certain
sections of the southwest the Missouri
Pacific and the Southern Pacific have
alreay come to the fight. Rates be-
tween ST. Louis and Kansas City have
been more than cut in two, and it is
reported from Kansas City that the
railroad freight tariff on dry goods is
now the lowest on record.
Grinnell was always queer town.
It's solons and public press are wrest-
ling with the momentous problem of
repeating an ordinance which prohibits
the establishment of public bowling al
leys.
Prof. Goodwin Smith, one of the most
staunch and valuable English friends of
this country during the civil war con-
tributes an article to the current num-
Der of the Atlantic magazine calling at
tention to the services rendered to the
union cause by English sympathizers
with the north. From intimate per-
sonal acquaintance he portrays some of
the leaders in this movement, such as
Golden, John Bright, Stuart Mill, and
Thomas Hughes. Taking all the per-
picking circumstances into cinsidera-
ton, Goodwin Smith is inclined to jus
tify the attitude of the British govern
lnent toward the United States during
the progress of the war.
A case where Intangible values"
were listed for taxation has bobbed up
at Council Bluffs, where the assessor
entered the property of a Denver min
ing company at s2,50O,00O. The prop
erty is valued at $9,000,000, but none of
1t is to be found in Iowa. The assess
ment grew out of recent lawsuit at
The company will resist payment of
the taxes levied and suit will very
likely ensue.
A northern Iowa newspaper has the |
following which certainly seems to dis
prove, at any rate in part the asser-
ton that labor is receiving no portion
Of the present prosperity: "rhe farm
hands are doing better this year than
ever before Last year they had what
was thought to be very good wages the
Jest ones getting their board, washing
md horse kept free and $3.50 per
month, and this year some have al
.eady hired for $50 per month, with all
he trimmings. and have Sundays to
themselves. The railroads will probably
nave to offer big wages this spring in
order to get hands for the season track
work. Last year section hands drew
rom $42.50 to $4S.5O per month, ten
hours a days work.
IL Miss Stone, the missionary, accents
he offers already made her from mag
zines, lecture bureaus, etc, she will
md her enforced stay with the Bulgar-
an brgandS highly remuneratiye from
money point of view. 1t is said that T.
magazine has offered $4,000 for the
tory of her capture and Imprisonment,
written by herself, and she has received
many fiattering offers for lectures on
Ter experiences as a captive.
Indiana's state auditor is stirring up
he different insurance companies do +
lg business in that state by insisting ,
r strict construction of the law gov {
rning the investment of securities. t
'hese must consist of bonds, mort I
ages of a certain ratio of value to the l
ropert~, or state securities In conse- !
uence of the auditors firm stand, GER
hin &C mpanies have retired from busi- :.
ess in the state and others are expect I
/ to follow. 4
The New York Sun is authority for O
lie fact that hundreds of Jews take adj c
lntage yearly of the law allowing any g
arson who chooses to change his name =
Y giving q reason acceptable to the
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