Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-23
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Cecil Rhodes bequest of scholarships
is unpopular at Oxford and Cambridge.
They fear the American students will
bring their college yells with them.
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Perhaps the increase of 25 per cent
in two years of the number of men en-
4 ployed in this country may have some
thing to do with the scarcity of good
beef
Great Northern railway engineers
! have received orders to take UP the
question of the utilization of water for
the generation Of electric power with
which to operate Great Northern trains
across the Cascade mountains for Il
! distance of 100 miles. The engineers
have been locating water power rights
and power house rights on the rivers
and creeks in the mountains adjacent
to the two-mile Cascade tunnel which
! the company finished last year. Elec-
| trical engineers say that by the sub
stitution of electricity for steam power
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saving In cost and also gain in speed
and power for handling heavy trains
/ The Pretoria correspondent of the
London Standard takes very favora-
bic view Of the situation in South Afrt-
| ca. 1t is OF the opinion that a general
understanding has been arrived at be-
| or;t ,St, Nj flo
Boer leaders. altho, so far as any indi-
cations can be gathered. 1t would seem
that the temper of the Transvaalers is
more accommodating than that of their
kinsmen of the Vaal.
/ Creston has organized ping pong
club and is trying to form golf club.
With these and the agitation for
street fair on hand Creston is a busy
| place just now.
| Congressman j. N. w Rumple Of the
| Second district has cancer of the lip,
and has had several operations per-
formed without permanent relief. 1t is
feared that it may assume very seri-
to his friends personal and political.
An associs ton of Chicago janitors
has established set of rules. One of
the sections reads: members shall
keep themselves as clean as circum-
stances will permit"
A Des Moines man is suing the city
for $1,000 damages. He claims that
during time when he was under
quarantine his horses We're allowed by
the quarantine officials to starve to
death in the barn. The case probably
occurred during the city campaign.
when the officers We're on duty as ward
workers and unable to look after ordi-
nary matters.
Frank Stockton, the author and
writer whose death occurred from a
brain disease Sunday, will be missed
by the reading public. And no one will.
ever know whether the Lady or the
Tiger" came out of that door which
the death of the author has sealed be-
yond all question of reopening.
There are enthusiastic people who !
believe the way to break the beef trust |
is to eat no meat But to eat no meat |
would offend thy brother the cattle. hog
and sheep raiser. the butcher and the /
packer. Between Paul and the beef |
trust the true Christian is perplexed
Waterloo, where the Dowie open air
meeting melted the crowds to riot and
the city council to anti-Dowie ordi- |
nance has now scarcely an adherent of |
the modern Elijah within the city
Some have reformed or gone broke and |
are in consequence of no use to Lige |
and few have gone to Zion.
A deputy marshal shot c. E. Growls,
a gambler dead at Lawton, Okla. the
other evening. Then Growls quit grum-
bling against law and order.
Peter Sells, the circus man, is COM
ing in for extensive praise because he
changed the route of his parade a half
dozen blocks to give poor little bed
ridden girl chance to see it. This re-
minds the Louisville Times that Bar
mum is dead, but that the art of circus
advertising goes marching on.
The most northern United States
postoffice is at Point Barrow. 400 miles
north of Nome, Alaska. 1t is nearer
the north pole than the northerlnost
part of Iceland.
President Palma, just before
sailing for Cuba, made an announce
ment of his intentions that sounds well.
He says that it will be his policy to
have reciprocal trade relations with the
United States only. President Palma's