Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-20
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


in Iowa to make an anti-pass bill go.
Hence 1t now sleeps in the legislative
cemetery.
An applicant for naturalization at
Newport, r. l., the other day was asked
the usual question:: do you belong to
any societies to overthrow the United
States government" Yes replied the
would be citizen, promptly, Il belong to
the carpenters union"
Another fact showing the good re-
suits of prosperity is given by the stat
istics of the Illinois labor bureau midi
eating that the net gain in wages IN
thar state in four years has been 11.52
per cent.
General Henry Leavenworth's body.
which is at present buried at Delhi, N.
Y, will be removed to Leavenworth,
Kas.. in May of this year. on the seven
ty-fifth anniversary of the founding OF
the army post at Fort Leavenworth. 1t
Is also proposed to erect an imposing
monument to his memory at the fort he
established three quarters of a century
ago.
The question is, will February turn
tail on its record as January did, and
give us something different in clos
ing?
Professor Mark w. Harrington. once
occupying the chair of astronomy at
Ann Arbor, and subsequently chief of
the United States weather bureau at
the national capital is said to be
working as a day laborer in North
Pacific coast lumber camp. Shortly
after the political changes which led to
Professor Harrington's downfall in
Washington his health failed. Insomnia
undermined his strength and impaired
his activity. Within the last six or
eight years he has had variety of ex-
periences. He was president of the
University of the State of Washington
for a year or two, went to the Orient,
where ne was overtaken by scarlet fe-
yer, and after his return to this country
worked on a Louisiana sugar planta-
ton. Still more recently he filed a
Washington, but instead of clearing the
land himself he entered the employ of
a lumber company at Port Blakely. An
Ann Arbor dispatch says that his out
door life is improving his health. con-
ducing to sleep and restoring his ambi-
ton. He has hopes of returning to his
old place in the intellectual and scienti-
fic world.
The expected has happened. The off,
cials of insurance companies at meet
ing in New York Tuesday voted to adj
vance rates of fire insurance % per
cent and upward in the entire United
States east of the Rocky mountains to
meet the emergency caused by three
years of heavy losses.
The broom manufacturers Of the
at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago,
Tuesday, practically decided on hori-
zontal advance in prices.
There was a demand for six building
permits for sky-scrapers In Chicago
Monday Two of the proposed buildings
are to be 257 feet high. which is within
eight feet of the Masonic Temple an
other permit is for five stories on top
of twelve already up, and the fourth is
for a sixteen-story building 233 feet
high. 1t is thought Mayor Harrison's
suggestion will be adopted by the coun-
ell limiting such structures in full fire
proof construction to sixteen stories or
go feet in height.
DR.. Robert j. Irvine, physician in
charge of the Sing Sing hospital, advo-
criminals, so that those who show no
evidence of 1T 4 rm need not be released.
He says the present system sends pris-
oners out worse morally than when they
go in.
Alexander R. Shepherd former gov
ernor of Washington, who expended
all his own fortune years
ago in the development of the national
capital along far-sighted lines and who
then became interested in extensive
silver mines In Mexico, is to return to
Washington to live. He will again make
that city his home as soon as his pres
ent large business interests can be ar
ranged in satisfactory manner
Charles Clinton, an old soldier and
prominent resident of Avondale, o. has
presented that city with handsome
Lincoln statue. 1t was executed by W.
Granville Hastings and consists of twoi
figures, one statue of Lincoln, seven
feet ten inches in height, and the other
a female figure of Fame inscribing the
name of Lincoln on the tablet of inn
mortals.
The Perry Daily Chief, discussing the
plan of putting rural mail service under
the contract system, says: THE men