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The Mount Vernon Hawkeye-Record
Mount Vernon, Iowa
August 26, 1898     The Mount Vernon Hawkeye-Record
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MOUNT VERNON HAWK-EYE. might do their best Well as to prevent ill- - returned home met h~ , ber of +~" nd robin from ~kir "~ Fifty-seeond re ~heir~ ~eh~i,~e secure in so~e a'~l from the camp amanga. Th ' hts "-' l~ was the direct te~egrat~. . Ires the war eat asking tl~e ~emoval or tnl- dlsbandment of the regiment. before select- amp, if he had had char-~ erc While the IOwa men omparison with ofhers, general said that he nearly every face. and the men want to They were wiIlLnR to go and discounts increased from $31 5S9 920 to $31.8~1 ~7: stocks and securities l'ncreased from $2,005.322 to $2.132.640; gold coin In- creased from $1,594.284 to $1,676.80.5; total specie increased from $2,~g,769 to $2.428,847; lawful money reserve increased from $$,415.- 671 to $3,492,563; iltdividual deposits in- creased from $29,127,403 to $29,399,~94. Su~eessfnl M e"-----"----'---~ ~-nn tz. The meeting of the Hedrlck kite track closed after four days of suc- cessful trotting. The 2:15 pace con- tinued until dark, when by agreement the purse was divided according to the rank of the horses at that tlme. The meeting has been a profitable one, Probnb|e Sulel de. J. P. Grants, a prominent implement and grain dealer of Walnut, died from the effect of an overdose ~f laudanum. Despondency over financial troubles is supposed to have been the cause. Sheriff (~tterso~ was drowned near Taintor while fishing. August 16 the Good Templars of Iowa held their forty-fifth annual ses- r 'on at Marshalltown. The J anney Man ufacturiug eom.pan~', of Ottnmwa. with $125.000 capttal, has filed articles of Incorporation with the secretary of slate. It deals lu impl~ merits. The cob i~pe factory heretofore In- cared, at Washington will be removec~to Waterloo. Mr. and, Mrs. Charles F. Ranzow, of Davenport, celebrated their golden we4- ding by entertaining the members o~f their family. The couple have reside,| in Davtnport since 1849, ~t tI. L. Picketing shipped his wool cro'~ of about 600 psunds from Eagle Grow to Chic.ago. ments for debt, so that the Puerto Rice monetary sTstem will have to be preserved~, at least for a time. In (he end, the American gold stand- ard and Amerlcan money must be suh- ~tituted~ for the now prevailing cur- rency, which is on the silver besis. The best mode of reaching lhls result, probe ably, will be the rt~lemptton by the United States at thefr bullion value of all the Span,tsh si/ver coins in circula- lion i~ our new possesstons.--~Chical~ Times-Herald. rTWhen ths people place in power a republican admtnistratitm, something ~mportant for th~ advancement of the country ~,~ llkely to happen. The pres- ent d~minlstrat~ou is nn exception, thongh leas than a year and a half old. --St, Louis Bepuhllo, the army brigades to be moved north from the southern camps. All possible pressure ts being brought tn bear upon Congressman Hull, who Is urging the matter at Washington. Gee. Shaw will visit Washington with an Iowa delegation to press the claims of Des Moines upon the war departmenL ~ourth Annlversary, The fonrth anniversary has occurred of the big tlre at Adair, which swept the business portion of that thrifty little town out of existence in a few hours and burned'five acres of bui]d- lngs. As is usually the case. the fire proved a benefit to Adair in the long run, and the ")urnl d~strict has been entirely rebuilt with much finer build- lugs iu the four years that have inter. vened since the fire ver a black eye in its state convention the other daT. It refused to declare tbe issue of free ~ilver paramount, and it gave its indorsement to the Chi- cago platform only in a perfunctory manner. The result was that Bland gust, Two years afrO Missouri was the very strongest kind (~f a silver state. It was firmly eonvlnced of "Coin" Har,ey s absur,theory t .t prioe FOR hLi KINDS of a bushel of wheat and the price of an ounce of silver went tep and down together. Meantime the people were discovering from experience that there is no connec?ton between the price of wheat and silver, and the democratic leaders are wisely ,putting the eva. deneea of the past campatRm ss far to the background as possible.~Utiea Obwrver (Go/d Des.). / /