Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-24
TOPICS OF THE.
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Bernard Murphy. of the Vinton Ea
gle. has found common ground for him
, self and Governor Cummins to stanc
upon in their common partially to
girls
The last general assembly of Illinois
5 appropriated S5.250,000 To cover the OPP
Grating expenses of the state charitable
/ institutions during the next two years
and to provide for new buildings and
general Improvements. OF that amount
E$3.150, 00G was for the benefit of the in
sane. The appropriations for two years
for the two penitentaries and the Pom
tiac reform school aggregated $1,4l6.-
600. The men who have to pay state
taxes find that insanity is more than
twice as expensive as crime.
j. M. VIM, of Dickinson county is
Under obligations to a hog. He came to
Iowa in 1902. bringing with him three
brood sows, from which he has realized
S5l4.5i, besides furnishing his own
Harder. and he still has the mother of
this neat income and twentysix pigs.
/
A Sigourney farmer claims to have
planted corn on July 4 and raised a
crop of eighty bushels to the acre. The
story is a little on the fireworks order
Sometime ago Professor Calvin. OF
the University of Iowa, Tie geologist Of
the state, discovered in Usage county
what he thought was a good stone for
llithographing purposes. Samples were
Submitted to experts in Baltimore and
| they say that the Iowa stone stands the
/ tests. The next point is to determine
the extent of the Iowa beds, and then
to see if the stone can be put on the
market in competition with the Ba-
varian article, for which there is a
great demand.
| A young man just graduated at Co
| iumbia and worth $25.C00,000 has an
nounced that his business in life will be
| to improve the condition of the poor.
| This will bring us about II cents apiece.
| Porto Rico is shipping to the United
States nearly $1.O00,0O0 worth of prod
ucts monthly and buying about the
| same amount in this country. A COM
.nerce of s24,000,0O0 a year with the
lisland Is fine exhibit and it is only
a beginning.
The law against anarchists passed by
congress after President McKinley's
assassination necessitates a revision of
naturalization blanks. Foreigners
seeking citizenship mus, hereafter un-
der oath disavow opposition to organ
lied government or correction teaching
disability to such government and must
swear that he has not violated any of
the provisions of the act of the second
session of the Fifty seventh congress OF
the United States of America: An act
to regulate the immigration Of aliens
into the United States" approved on
March 8. 1903" This provision will pre-
vent few anarchists from taking out
papers. Anarchists are not usually the
possessors of tender consciences and an
oath one way or another will scarcely
keep them from turning an honest pen
ny thru the medium of salable suf-
frage.
Davenport clerks have employed an
attorney to prosecute retail merchants
who keep open on Sunday. It's getting
SO the boys can't so out for little
p!ous horse racing or a Christian base
ball game on Sunday without a half
dozen goddess merchants taking advan-
tage of their absence to open up and
sell goods.
Not passenger was killed on the
railways of Great Britain last year. In
the United States for the year just
ended 345 passengers wire killed and
e.6SS were injured.
Missouri produced over 100000 tons
OF coal in 1902. and it sold at the mines
for $5,325.S32. Coal veins are worked in
thirty-seven counties, CIR more than a
third of the number in the state.
Judge Daniel H. Mcmillan. who has
been removed from the supreme court
OF New Mexico by President Roosevelt:
for general immortality, is SO years old
and has an excellent record as a jurist.
He had been a member of the New
York senate and was the author of inn
portant legislation. His report on hui
name methods of executing criminals
led to the adoption of e,ectrocution by
the state of New York. His is the old
story of high usefulness destroyed by
sensuality and vice.
The county seat discussion appears
Ito have had no effect on Linn county
Sunday schools, which carried away the
state banner for numbers and contribu-
tons to the cause.
Thomas Graham, of Johnson county, |
is of the old breed of republicans. He
drove twenty-five miles to attend the
county convention rec2atly held at
Iowa City despite his Sc years, He was
a member of the Iowa "Graybeard"
regiment during the civil war;
If Uncle George Perkins is preparing
that convention speech, he must be do
ing it in day time, as his night work on
the Journal has not been missed.-Des
Moines Capital.
Possibly Mr.. Perkins has taken adj
VANTAGE of Mr. YnnOo's Spepch h.