Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
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Professor w. z. Howe IS contributing
some excellent "reminiscences on John
Browns raid TO the Mount Pleasant
Free Press.
Reports from the melon fields at
Fruitland, Muscatine, and other points
on the Mississippi river are to the ef-
feet that watermelons are nearly a
month late in ripening this year, and
will not be ready for market before the
latter part of August. This Eliminates
the exodus of negroes from the north
ern to the southern states and fur
nishes a reason why they prefer to be
llynched in the south rather than in
Illinois and Indiana.
The state auditors Office has been
showed under with communications in
quiring as to the correctness of Will
lam L. Curtis charges against Iowa in
surance companies. The replies are to
the effect that the state supervision of
insurance companies in this state is
somewhat more rigorous than In other
commemorative. and that the financial
standing of all companies authorized
to do business here is vouched for by
! deposits with the state auditor. The
incident shows what serious trouble
may be made by a correspondent with
an inflated reputation and ignorance of
! % ir, iS,tjy Of h
funeral.
The Scranton hoodlums who stoned
Rev. Sizer, a Methodist minister and
national prohibitionist organizer. on the
streets of that village should be very
Thoroughly punished. The village should
clear itself of such characters. If all
lowed to flourish Scranton viii wake
UP some day to dire disgrace brought
upon respectable and law-abiding
community.
Much interest has lately been aroused
lin London by two surgical operations,
which have resulted in a marked
change OF character in the patients.
One was that of boy of good family,
who had developed strangely brutal
instincts. A clever surgeon examined
him with care. located what he consid-
cred the seat of the trouble, removed
piece Of the skull and thus relieved the
dcforrning pressure. The lad was re-
stored to his parents normal and
Movable child. The other case was that
of soldier, who. after an injury in
skirrnish. developed a propensity for
theft An operation on The brain cured
! him.
Holada. the confessed accomplice in
the Gallagher murder at Iowa City, is
bidding for sympathy by weeping in
his cell. He has enough to weep over
and should not be disturbed in his sor-
SOW so long as he weeps nights and
Sundays. Unless there is real danger
of drowning he should be kept in his
cell and allowed to weep, plenty.
! August Bugge, of Odebolt, has broken
his leg and is confined to his bed in
consequence. But this doesn't call for
exterminator.
Banquo's ghost had just appeared on
the scene when Macbeth fell into a
paroxysm Of terror.
whats the matter?" exclaimed the
frightened guests.
Nothing, nothing at all" replied
Lady Macbeth, forcing him behind the
scenes, Somebody told him the cook
was going to leave"
New York SUM-
Benjamin Franklin, lawyer of Ma
con, Mo-, has been recalling some
stories of Henry Clay Dean. chaplain
OF the United States senate before the
war, curious character, with the pic
turesque forcibleness OF language of a
pioneer and a voice of extraordinary
range. Perhaps this is one of the most
interesting of the stories: "When
started for Charlton county, Missouri,
| in 1884. to teach a country school near
Brunswick says Mr.. Franklin, Dean
voluntarily gave me letter Of recon-