Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-18

tary Root left the presidents part
and returned to Washington, viii
Secretary Moody joined the presiden
and on May Il the president sent
telegram to the secretary of war, say
ing: Moody reports that the monte
Arkansas has run aground in the Mis-
sisspp and is likely to be laid UP ther
Indefinitely in consequence of your re
commentator. He asks that the arm
of the United States be called out t
get her aiioat and to tow, pole or carr
her to deep water
Southern Iowa newspaper men ar
sufficiently prosperous to attract bur
glars. as a Shenandoah press report in
in list of victims.
Down on the Mississippi at Alton
ILL.,. the other day Il steamboat and ;
locomotive narrowly escaped colldins
The steamer Spread Eagle was tryin.
10 make a landing where It's passenger,
could disembark without getting into
the river. In doing so it thrust III
| nose over the tracks OF the Chicago
| Peoria X st. Louis railroad. a switch
! engine was passing down an incline or
| the levee at the time and could not be
stopped on short notice, as sand was
mot available. Luckily the boat man
aged TO back away before they came
| together The levee tracks were UNI
der nearly three feet OF water at the
| time.
! Mrs. knoX-Nulgar habit Mr.. Neer-
bye has. He's forever saying Cad"
habit. She's forever doing 1t.
| Philadelphia Press.
| a COW and a young lawyer supplied
one of the humorous incidents of the
| flood at Topeka. The COW succeeded
| wandered back and forth disconsolate-
ly, and occasionally gave voice to a
| mournful below. On Saturday the
heart of young lawyer was touched
by the spectacle of such distress. He
got boat and a bale Of hay and start
striking the current in one of the
streets he was promptly upset and
nearly drowned. Not discouraged, he
got another bale of hay and another
boat and for the second time heroically
essayed the passage. This time he sue
ceeded He carried the bale of hay.
and drove the COW up TO 1t. She gave
one sniff and contemptuously walked
away. She had been just twelve hours
off grass and her paunch was still full.
Uuder the circumstances she might
have become induced to eat hay in
about a week. The young lawyer now
knows more about the wants and hab-
its of cattle.
The Congregational Ladies' Aid So
ciety of Webster City nave engaged q
cooking expert and will hold ten
days cooking school free to all women
supposedly on the principle that dys-
pepsia is an enemy to r:ety.
II is an i'll wind, etc. A democratic
victory would prove a quarantine
against the strike epidemic. Nobody
expects high wages under democratic
rule.
The death of j. C. HARDWOOD. the vet
eran editor of the Wright County Mon
itor and postmaster al Clarion, re-
moves one of the Oldest Of Iowa news
completely identified with the growth of
Wright county and that section of Iowa
as any other single individual this pa
per can call TO mind He succeeded
Deacon Hathaway as owner and edi-
tor of the Monitor very close to a quar-
ter of century ago and has been
prominent in the newspaper and po-
itical field of the Third district since
then. He was man of force, strong
in his likes and disikes and plain in
statement Those who knew Boss"
Harwood best liked him most He was
a virile figure in Wright county's de-
veiopment and Will be missed and re-
GREETED in his home city as one OF the
old guard and an excellent citizen.
A New Jersey baseball fan has been
adjudged insane on account of his ex-
cited actions al a game he recently at
tended. The judges seem to have acted
hastily in this case.
The Chicago courts decision against
the strikers who violated an injunction
by intimidation will Holdom for
While.
The Ottumwa Democrat is crying
calamity and asking, where is there
any prosperity for the people?' The
Democrat finds times hard and busi-
ness dull something not uncommon in
The counting rooms of Iowa democratic
pal ers. The people are Going very well,
however.
The Umpre's Rubaiyat.
Milwaukee Sentinel
a book of rules, frown upon my
An Indicator, a good eye and thou
Beside me, shrieking Lobster, thou
art rank"