Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-17
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


The real pinch of the hard coal strike
will come next winter.
Nobody has yet ascertained how
much was made or lost in the corn
corner.
| Since public announcement was made
that John Masterson Burke of New
York had given s4,00O,OO0 to charity he
has been pestered by cranks and beg
cling letter people to such an extent
that he has taken flight and gone to
the country. Before he left it became
necessary to post police guard near
his residence.
Late mine catastrophes have been
| horrible in extent and the loss of life
entailed.
The second district congressional
convention will be held at Clinton on
Wednesday. August 90. This will give
candidates ample time to develop.
Lord Kitchener gets the rank of
general at the age of fifty-two. Lord
Wolseley was forty-nine when he was
| promoted, in recognition of his services
| in Egypt in 1882 Lord Roberts did not
get his step until 1890, when he was
tifty-nine. 1t is Lord kitchener's own
| wish to so to India as communicating
chief, as he is anxious to obtain a prac-
teal knowledge of the native army, of
which he has formed Il high opinion.
The actual date of his assumption of
his new duties has not been fixed.
| A little London street waif was taken
on an excursion to the seashore. and
got his first glimpse of the ocean. He
heayed a sigh. and said: That's the
| first time l ever saw enough of any
thing"
| The corn corner has gone under, but
the waving blades in Iowa's fields show
that genuine corn is going up rapidly.
The Grinnell Herald observes:
think of it! Poweshek lists for taxa
ton more moneys and credits than both
Polk and Scott counties combined, III
which Des Moines and Davenport are
located. What poverty coun-
ties they must be-judged from a moral
standpoint" There is work for a tax
ferret in Scott and Polk.
Iowa floods are now getting in their
work at the southeast or tail-end corn
err of the state, where the Iowa rivers
terminate.
The adoption of fuel oil in the To-
comotives employed on the railroads
trayersing the interior valleys of the
California has removed one of the chief
sources from fire to the ripening grain
fields. Locomotives using it do not
emit any sparks or reject red-hot Gin
ders to ignite the withered grass along
the right of way or the parched grain
in the neighboring fields. The San
Francisco Chronicle is of the opinion
that henceforth grain-field fires will
probably pass out of future the history
of the wheat growing valleys; the
railroad claim agents occupation will
practically disappear, big leak i'll the
corporations treasury will be stopped
and the farmers fire insurance rates
will drop to correspond with the dimin-
.Iished risk the use of fuel Oil on locomo-
tives has caused
Il
Did you ever take on oath?" asked
the judge.
"Wance only, y'ud honor" replied the
witness. big Moike shwore at me from
the top av sivin-shtory buildin, and
| couldn't lave me team t git at him
so had t. tahke it,"
Cincinnati Tribune.
John w. Greeley, a cousin of the
founder of the New York Tribune, died
lin Londonderry, N. H., July s, in the
|S4th year of his age. He and Horace
Greeley were born in the same house
in Amhurst, N. H. He was member
of family of thirteen children. lie is
survived by his widow. to whom he had
lbeen married tifty-eight years.
Wichita, Kas., has fourteen automo-
biles, and the swagger set feels justified
in trying to pronounce Chauffeur"
James Hamilton Lewis, of Seattle,
who formerly represented Washington
lin congress, was hurt in Chicago
Hast week, in attempting to rescue Il
Iteamster from position of peril UNI
lder a wrecked wagon. Mr.. Lewis quite