Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-28

tnat paper VIII pe tSti titltieu 'utihSt eitS
firm name Of Peck & krsen.
Persons carrying accident Insurance
Will BE- interested IN a case recently
decided by the supreme court of Iowa
James Delaney. who had a policy OF
accident insurance, scuffied in fii@nd-
liz way with another man and in the
scuffie Delaney scratched his hand on
an eraser in the pocket Of the other man.
Ervsipelas followed and death resulted
from blood poison. The court sustains
the general proposition that death re-
suting from disease winch follows as
a natural consequence, tho not the
necessary consequence. of a physical
injury, which is accidental, is an acci-
dental death within tie terms of an
accident insurance policy, the death
being deemed the proxlmate result OF
the injury and not of disease as an in
dependent cause.
People generally will be reasonably
ready 10 accept Dowie's assertion that
his son never kissed a woman out
side the family" but are anxious to get
Dowies biography or me same sub
ject
The editor of a German newspaper al
Schleswig has managed TO keep the
do q ,r u. rprl w
running a barber shop, preaching flu
neral sermons. baptlzins children and
clersing sales in connection with his
journalistic labors. He should have a
chair in Pulitzer's new school.
mis- state has 2es.6o2 farms valued
at sS65. 600 900 OF the total number
OF farms l4S.sS6 are operated by own
ers. Farm buildings are worth $780,
S02S1o The agricultural products are
annually worth s4Oo,ooo,0o0. The total
number of men engaged in agricultural
pursuits is 31o957. The total number
of cattle in 1900 was 5,S6I,6SO, and the
total value of the same was S142.5lS.-
9O2. There are 9.495 miles of railway
These roads employ 1856 men at an
annual compensation of s23.1 lo.Oao.
There are 1852 manufacturing estab-
lishments employing 5000 employees.
The annual output from the same is
valued at $164617,S7i The coal mines
OF the state employed 1892 men for
The year 19o2-ls03, ard produced 6,lS5,-
134 tons.
The Washington. Iowa, high school
football team is capAained by a negro
under whose leadership the team has
won every game PLAYED UP to date. II
seems il consideration Of its string OF
victories that 1t is about time for the
other teams TO draw the color Inns
against the Washintison aggregation.
| Waterloo is taking up the matter OF
a paid fire department for the better
| protection OF the interests of the city
The question of funds appears to stand
l
! The Blackhawk county town has an
enormous load to carry in Its obliga-
| lions already created and her entire
debt is said TO Approximate 100000.
| A prominsn MT Milwaukee clergyman
advocates the maintenance of bureau
| Of publicity in every church. his theory
/ being that business methods should b
| employed in the conduct of religious
as in secular affairs People, he thinks
| are not now less religiously inclined
/ than In former times, but their inter-
/ ests are multifarious, and they neeo
/ constant reminding of their church du-
/ ties and Obligations. Another clergy
/ man OF Haverhill, Mass, takes the
same view of the case and publishes
every Saturday in the local papers
prospectus of the Sunday services. a:
we'll as all church announcements ant
news. OF its advantages, he says tha
4 /. keeps the Episcopal church before
! the people, furnishes instruction foi
those in the church and out of 1t, helps
the rector In his work and is the same
! scheme applied TO parochial affair:
that is so we'll exeraplifiod by our mis-
sion board and by every business.
The Davenport Democrat wants tn,
! Scott county democrats to play bail
They won't, tho. But they will COM
within two letters of 1t.
The recently discharged grand jur,
of Pocahontas county eongratulates tn
taxpayers on the fact that there ina
4 not been a murder case in Pocahonta
county for more than fifteen years
4 that the expenses of the county in tn
/ prosecution of criminals has been yer.
light and that large portion OF TIL
time the county Jail has been unoceu
pied All of which seems ut matte
for congratulations.
Ran Ten Penny Nail Thru His Hanc
While opening a box J. c. Mount,
Three Mile Bay, N. Y. ran ten penn
nail thru the fleshy part of his hand
IT thought at once of all the pain an
soreness this would cause me-, he says