Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-31
Topics Of the Times

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Edison promises his new nickel-iron-
and-potash storage battery for next
October. This is the battery he has
been developing during the past five
or six years, and will be, he tells us,
very much lighter and more durable
than the most approved storage bait
teries In present use. A storage battery
to weigh 100 pounds and retain power
for a 100-mile run would revolutionze
the automobile business.
There is great and little known
natural bridge twenty miles southwest
of Douglass, Wyo, where La Piee
Creek breaks thru the foothills of the
Laramie Mountains. In the span of
It's arch it Is said to be the greatest in
the world 1t is $50 feet wide and Is
feet above the water. The stream
flows thru canyon nearly one thou-
sand feet deep. The bridge is a ledge
of rock near the bottom of the canyon
Doubtless once the water flowed over
the ledge, but in process of time found
softer material below and wore its
way thru. making the bridge.
Sir John Madden, the new chief JUS
ttce of Victoria, has hit upon q new
way of making things interesting for
"old offenders" He adds UP all their
previous terms in jail and gives them
the total as their sentence. The other
day he sentenced a criminal nine years
and one month, his aggregate record.
Now that China Is asking $100.0O0,000
indemnity for losses suffered in the
Russo Japanese war, Russia will be
more than ever convinced of the 'yel-
low peril" However, ii China gets
back Manchuria, she can congratulate
herself on an excellent bargain, and
forego the indemnity.
Brigadier General Thomas, n. Barry
has been selected for president Of the
war college, at Washington. General
Barry is now in Manchuria with the
Russian army, but no order will be is
until he returns to the United States
He was born in New York City in
1856. After studying in the public
schools and the College of the City Of
New York he went to West Point,
where he was graduated in 1877. He
served three years as second lieu
tenant Of cavalry and two years in the
infantry. He was first lieutenant OF
infantry from 1882 to 1891. then be-
corning q captain and d major and as
sistant adjutant general in 1887. In the
Spanish American war he became a
brigadier general Of volunteers. He
served with the China relief expedition
and in the Philippines until July, 1901.
Will Monroe added a feature in hts
Clarion Clipper that should commend
itself to his subscribers, when he de-
voted column to street interviews
and the cream of general town COM
ment. Mr.. Monroe Is making better
paper in Clarion than he did in BOWS
and this is no disparagement of his
work in the smaller rtown. Clarion
may congratulate itself on the excellent
news service and clean tone Of Its two
county papers.
Whenever the present governor OF
Iowa feels his popularity slipping a
few inches he gives the railroads an
other twist Of the tail. 1t is to be
hoped that the railroads enjoy 1t as
much as the governor seems to do
Cedar Rapids Republican.
1t is not likely that the railroads are
enjoying 1t hugely. judging from the
fact that every time the governor gives
a twist some railroad organ squeals.
The reciprocity convention in Chica-
20 next month will afford a lot Of emil
nent gentlemen opportunity for speech
making, but 1t will make no impress
sion on ongress.-Dubuaut Times.
Time may verify the Times predic-
ton. Reference to the ancient spell
ing book will reveal, however, that
where words failed q few stones
brought the bad boy down.