Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-29
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The Japs have sensibly copied ths
American plan of paying neutrals for
goods seized as contrahand of war
There is likely 10 be small ado about
a seizure which carries the full price
OF the goods with il.
Governor Pennypacker has been
made a doctor of laws by the urnivefs-
i;y of Pennsylvania. He will now feel
competent TO tinker UP his newspaper
gag law. the system of which needs
change.
The Waterloo Gothenburg liquor blu
provides that two cubic inches of
whisky shall continue to drink. An
expert should be employed to reduce
the cubic inches 70 fingers so that
ordinary sots viii understand the linz
!tations Of a liha.ion. What relation
does two cubic inches bear 10 four
fingers
Ten per cent of the population Of
Newton are employed the yea, round.
lin factories, according TO the News,
a greater proportion than of most other
prairie cities.
The Lewis murder trial just ended.
cost keokuk county $4,000. Expert
testimony showed that Lewis head
simply rotted off, and his wife. who
had been charged with his taking OFT.
was acquitted. The case should never
nave been started. 1t would seem as
easy to employ experts before as at
ter spending $4,000.
There is one unique feature abou.
the Hearst movement. there are no
subscription papers out calling for
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Democrat.
The papers likely to be circulated
are more in the line OF schedule of
prices.
Waterloo will make an effort to Sc
cure the home for aged members tina:
is going 10 be built by the grand
chapter of the Eastern Star of Iowa.
The idea is to make 1t portable and
push ii from one side Of the town ~
the other. on demand.
James Campbell and his wife. Of
Keokuk county have been married
sixty-flve years Campbell was born in
1917. his wife In 1872 The old gem
tleman walks 10 town daily after his
mail. They have lived within fou.
miles of Slgourney since 1852.
A Sure sign--.'well. 1 guess oil
Slyman is beginning to make his
pile.
why do you think so?"
Hes going aroung blowing abou.
how much happier man is when
he's oor"-Philadelphia Press.
a bill before the Virginia legislature
gives the conductors of Pullman cars
the right to exclude any and all pas
sengers who in their Judgment. should
not be allowed to ride" OF course,
the conductors Judgment Will uner-
ringly point to the negro. 1t is be-
lieved that the bill is so drawn as 10
be constitutional
1t is necessary. in reading war news.
TO bear In mind that nearly every place
in Korea has three names. the Corenn.
the Chinese and the japanese and
that each of these three has several
English forms of spelling. So that the
same place is differently called, ac-
cording to the source from which the
news comes. Thus. Ping Yang. as
we commonly call IT. and az the Chin
ese call it, is Phyong-An. or Pyong-
Yang. to the Coreans. and Plng-An
TO the japanese. Yongampho is
otherwise known as Yong.Chon ana
So Chon-Ju, men
toned in the dispatches as the
point reached in Korea by the Rus
sian advance guard, figures on some
maps and may appear in some dis
patches MS chong-Ju. and as Shyong-
Chyu. Chyun- Chyon. or Chyung-
Chyong. to which place Russian in
triguers are said to be trying 10
the Korean emperor TO re-
move his court from Seoul, is between
forty and fifty miles east of Seoul,
en- the Sim Yong river, branch OF
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