Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-05
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
The Tillman family seems to have
been "hoist with it's own pitchfork."

/ the people Will soon tire OF that way
of having debts paid.
Reports from Puget Sound show
that the supply of red cedar suitable
for shingles is becoming smaller every
year and that manufacturers will soon
have to go to Alaska for cedar logs.
New appliances have SO greatly in
creased the output of mills that last
| year five billion shingles We're cut in
Washington and Oregon. Good cedar
logs command 50 thousand feet and
the supply is short at this price.
| Thirty-two Swedes, all relatives, re-
Gently arrived from the old country
and settled on 300 acres of Boyd
county land in Nebraska.
| Homeseekers are visiting Oklahoma
territory by thousands. Many of them
will be disappointed over the oppor-
| tunities offered.
The city of Moline, ILL., will ask Mr..
Carnegie to increase his library do
nation from $4,000 to $4,000.
Because he positively would not lie
straight in bed Martin Sanford is dead
lat Dallas, Tex. With a companion
who occupied the same couch a quarrel
arose and in the battle that ensued
Sanford lost his life. The press dis
patches give no details of the pri-
mary offense and the reader is left in
doubt as to whether cold feet or crook
ing up his knees was the casus belli.
Those who have suffered all this In
silence and for years will find excuse
for Sanford's slayer.
Mr.. Bryan declares that "the Kansas
City platform will be reaffirmed Gin
1900 and the party will also present
such other questions as the time and
the public welfare dictate" His effort
to link 16 to / to modern issues will be
in harmaony with his unflagging per-
versity.
At any rate the west did not provide
Prince Henry with such a rainy, drizzly
reception as that showered upon him in
the east.
Emperor VILLAIN, of Germany, car
talk huently in six languages. He has
written a play and conducted it's re-
hearsal. No man lives a buster life
than he. but on the discovery of the
Roentgen rays he telegraphed for Prof.
Roentgen and talked with him for
hours. He has written public prayer
and conducted choir. He can cook
his own dinner, can play chess, paint
pictures and draw caricatures. He
has learned engineering and studied
Tho he can use only one
arm he can shoot game for hours at
the rate of two minute. He has over
a hundred titles and is an admiral in |
three of the biggest navies. In twenty !
five years he has shot twenty three
thousand head of game. He changes
his dress a dozen times day, has q I
dozen Wallets, and his wardrobe is
worth half million dollars. So says
a recent biographer.
ledo, O., will be converted into public
park. Several hundred soldiers main
ly Kentuckians, are buried there.
An ingenious method of obtaining a
reputation for patriotism cheaply has
been invented by certain Berlin pub
leans. On their shop fronts they
IN III eff |
as the war in South Africa lasts for
bid any Englishman to enter my prem
ises." The use of this placard is, it is
said, entirely confined to houses of a
class that never entertained an Eng
ishman in the course of their exist
ance.
China is having small rebellion in
one section of it's territory. Minister
conger has notified the authorities
hat he expects China to speedily sup
Dress it and protect foreigners in that
ocality.
Speaker Henderson will at the end
IF his career as speaker be able to es-
ablish museum with the gifts that
nave come to him from all parts of the
world, according tothe Washington cor ,
respondent to the New York Tribune.
rhe latest addition to his collection, a
present from his loyal and admiring
is a cane of curious ,
workmanship. It's handle is formed ,
rom a deer's foot killed near Buena [
Vista, in the speakers district, long
before he was elected to congress. {
The stick was cut from a dogwood
rec at Mount Vernon. and is elabor-
ltely carved by hand with three
scrolls. The first bears the inscrip-
ion II defend the flag with the
sword, and justice with the gavel"
Under this appear four Masonic en- /
,lems and miniature of the capitol. s
The second scroll is ornamented with
. likeness of Daniel Cox, provisional
,rand master of New York, New Jer-
ley and Pennsylvania in the middle of
he eighteenth century. The last :
croll is inscribed: Colonel d. b.
henderson was wounded in the battles i
# Fort Donelson and Corinth; was 3
lected to the XLVIIIth congress:
made speaker of the LVIth and LVIIth t
congresses" e
1t is limited that President Roosevelt I
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