Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-23
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| way. The HaWKeSe t"iiS VI pilshs
standing on end in the newest paved
streets and citizens hesitating to drive
across the street car tracks for fear OF
breaking their buggy springs. Burning
ton must be wearing out.
The Iowa Weather and Crop Re-
view calls attention to the fact that
thunders forms have been very frequent
and unusually destructive to farm ami
mails this season. and as in former
years wire fences have served as eff
cient conductors for the deadly bolts.
A case in point was reported from JEFF
lferson county. Lightning struck large
| maple tree, and from its base was con-
Quoted by a wire fence to a bunch of
steers thirty rods distant Five of the
steers were Frustrated by the shock
three being killed and two badly in
|iured. The insurance company PAID
1905 to adjust a loss which might have
been prevented by use Of ground wires
costing less than dime. This is a
story oft-repeated, with some varia-
tons.
|
An Ohio man who killed five of his
wives is to be put to death legally in
the electric chair, altho it is generally
Thought that he must be insane. The
Judge and jury concluded that sud
den shock might bring 4 change in the
current of his career. arc have good
result in preventing similar manifes-
tations of insanity on his part.
For the sole purpose Of embarrassing
Mr. Cummins and causing trouble be-
tween him and his Johnson county
friends Dave Brant writes the follow
ling governor Cuminins and his politi-
cal followers are backing Craig Wright,
of Sioux City, for the federal judgeship.
IL > Had Johnson county gone
|against Mr.. Cummins al that critical
time, he probably would have lost the
nomination, and the county would have
gone against him had not Mr.. Remley
taken the part he did. Now, when Mr..
Remley is candidate for the judge
ship, Governor Cummins turns his back
upon him. The friends Of Mr. Remley
DO not ask the governors support, but
they do think that as a n-resident he
should keep his hands eff We can
hardly believe that Brant did not know
that the Hon. Tom Healy, of Fort
Dodge, was also a candidate for the
|iudgesflip mentioned and that OF all
men in Iowa politics close to Governor
lCummns Tom Healy stands upon the
linnermost circle. The fact of the mat
ter is the governor can not afford to
mix in this fight so long as Remley and
Wright and Healy have all been his
friends, and Furthermore, since the
matter is to be decided by the two SEN
ators and five congressman from the
northern district. the governor would
probably come away With flea in his
ear If he tried to interfere. Brant SIM
ply wants to stir up strife and ILL.,
feeling.
The Columbus baseball team has a
crack pitcher who is an evangelist.
There are no curves in his sermons
Sioux City Journal.
Keeps his eye on the pate very likely.
The Muscatine Journals who is he"
Feature is creating much interest III
Muscatine. and there are many guesses
made as to the identity of the person
mentioned In these articles The pc
Iculiar feature of the CUES sing contest is
! that the guessers locate him" outside
of Muscatine and in heaven. The who
, Is He" descriptive articles in the Jour-
nal scarcely fit anybody lower than the
angels.
The Mason City Tines-Herald is
after a pair of bicycle street perform
ers who attempt to ridicule the Saliva
ton Army. The Times Herald wants
them ordered off the street and says:
"There is not man in the country OF
, Influence that does not endorse the
, work of the Salvation Army, and for q
cheap John fakir like this one, who
lcheapens Christianity and offers insult
10 the noble vet humble band Of Chris
tan workers, it is high time that the
lefty officials ask them to pass on" TIC
all of which the Mason City authorities
should listen and heed.
, Indicative of the good roads senti-
: ment in it's vicinity comes the Holster
! Advance saving. "Des Moines has 9
, crowd of poor varmints who are asking
each county to donate them $50 TOWARD
1.-THE establishment of a good road pub
lication. Nearly every paper in the
state has given very valuable CO ad
! vice on this subject and the roads are
about as rough as ever. The legisla-
lture took a hand and enacted a new
: road boss law and the roads are getting
worse every day. Now comes the Des
t Moines crowd who want $50 TO start {
: publication to tell how to get goot
S roads. It's a nice graft and any super.
visors who allow the $50 would be com
PEELED to work out double the amour
a on the county roads with shovel"
Garwin has bunch of hoys who car
ry revolvers, shoot thru. windows ant
commit other depredations in the nigh
= hours. The town is in line to furnish
: sensational headlines for the daily tele
graph reports unless the parents ge
!, busy with their birches.
t The editors in the vicinity of Wrigh
d county are seriously considering With
drawing their support OF the ADMINS
|tration. When J. C. HARDWOOD, the vet
e ,ara, ad;tor nf the Wright County Mon