Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-26
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Federal building appropriations have
been dished out with a liberal hand.
February has been acting in real
pleasant way as it shor,ens itself de-
spite weather bureau predictions.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is
credited with saying that he can get all
he wants out of Chicago Sunday pa
per in fifteen minutes. and his expert
ence confirms that of hosts of others.
The supreme cour: OF Pennsylvania,
in an estate settlement matter. has de-
cided that there is abundance of au-
thority for the proposition that mere
belief In spiritualism, ghosts. dreams,
etc, is not proof of insanity. This
tends to give spiritualism a sort of le-
gal status.
If the precedent is established which
is contained in six paragraphs of the
general deficiency appropriation bill.
reported TO the house by Chairman
Cannon, of the appropriations commit
tee, an election to congress will here
after mean life insurance to the amount
of $4,000 during thu term of office.
Heretofore it has been the custom to
pay to the widow of a dead congress
man a sum equal to the salary he
would have drawn had he served out
his term. This item has always been
carried in the general deficiency bill.
and the average death rate of any one
congress has been fifteen. The bill just
reported makes appropriations Of $4,000
each to the widows of the six congr5sss
men who have died since the adjourn
ment of the last session. These are r.
G. De Graffenried, of TsXas: j. l.. Shep-
pard, of Texas; c. A. Russell. of Con-
necticut; T. H. Tongue, of Oregon; j.
n. w. Rumple, of Iowa, and j. NJ.
Moody, of North Carolina. Making the
amount uniform at $1,000 each is the
new feature of the bill. Under the old
practice, it is stated that so much of
the annual salary as had been drawn
before the death of the member would
have been deducted from the amount
appropriated. Nine members died in
the first session of the present congress.
What is bloodless SURGERY" asked
know.
Well" responded the man who Is |
always ready to impart knowledge, IAN |
operation on Uncle Russell Sage proba-
bly, would come under that head
Chicago Tribune.
AS a prudential step, perhaps. Gov
bill allowing a man to marry his step
daughter, or a woman to marry her
son-in-law.
Some Of the inebrates In the state
hospitals are inclined to make as much
trouble during their confinement as
they did at home. 81
Walter Wellmans report of what
Gov. Cummins said in Washington Is
being accepted with caution, as indi-
Gated by the following from the Des
Moines Register and Leader: The
aggressive tone which is here credited
to the governor. is undoubtedly Well
mans. 1t is in keeping with the style
Of reporting which he has made ia
miliar already when referring to Gov.
Cummins' part in Iowa politics. In
general this statement undoubtedly
the governors position but
in particular it clearly does not, be-
cause the governor has at no time sug-
gested that there would be no change
from last years platform, and it is not
likely that he has confided to Mr.. Well
man views different from those which
he is known to entertain by his close
political friends and associates"
Southern Texas will not be adver-
tised as land of summary weather
while the people remember that six
Mexicans were frozen to death In that
region.
Turkey agrees to adopt the scheme of
the powers for reforms in Macedonia
and another threatened war will be
averted.
Senator Hanna stood talking with
some friends in the marble room of the
senate. Suddenly he said: I've been
out of the chamber a long time. Wait
until see what is going on" Then he
walked to the door, peered in and saw
that Senator Beveridge, of Indiana.
vas speaking. It's all tight" he said
as he rejoined his friends, the Wabash
S still Overlooking it's banks
She Thought of Him.-Coamley-Il
lidn't know you were acquainted with
Miss Lovert. She asked me last night
II knew you.
Hoamley-That was nice of her.
What led her to ask you that, wonder?
oamley-Why--er- had just asked
her If she could imagine any one uglier
han Bill" Thompson. II
Philadelphia Press.
An official Of the state administration
# Maryland is the commander of the
state fishery board. He receives an
lnnual salary of 800 and has the
appointment of seventy-five oyster
measures chosen from the various
Maryland counties on the Chesapeake. !,
rhe duty Of the oyster measurer is to !
prevent the marketing of very small
'ysters. s
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