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Telegram-herald., 1891-01-20
ROWSON BROS. FAIL


The buans0 community vas startsed
yesterday sftsrnoon By the announce
ment that the weii-known contractors
and builders. Rowson Bros, had been
forced to suspend payment and had
transferred their entire business under
. deed Of trust, for the benefit Of cred
itors, 10 Frank Chickering 4 Co.
Simultaneous with this announcement,
the following deeds. mortgages and as
sIxnments we're fled in the registers
ONCE. In rapid succession: Mortgage.
John Rowson and wife and James
kowson and wife 70 Hugh Park. trus-
tee, Muskegon. covering lots and 2,
block 8, Davis. Turner 4 CarrolPs
Eighth ward addition to Grand Rapids,
$500. Mortgage, John Rowson and
wife to Hugh Park, trustee, covering
lot 7. block 4, Moody's addition 10
Grand Rapids. and lot i07, village Of
south Grand Rapids, $3.50.
Warranty deed. John Rowson and
wife ~ William C.. Hopson, lot corner
OF ThomAs-st- aud ColIege-aye., $3.50.
Warranty deed. John Rowson and wife
To Warren C. Weatherby and Frank T..
Pulte, lot 90, Remlngton's addition,
$500. Assignment land contract. John
and James Rowson To Frank j. Sokup
and John Hormuhte, contract for sale
of lots 10, II, block 5, Colt 4 Com
pany's addition made by Theodore s.
Tompkins and wife, December 3, 1890.
yxko mi IN rx A Ia
claims and Indebtedness of Sokup d
Co, and she consideration is 81.
While the run was making on the
gress over at the city clerks Office.
Late in the afternoon, the following
chattel mortgages were filed in the
order named. All the mortgages are
gwen on the contents of the yards and
mill Of the Rowson's, in Wyoming,
located near the 5. Division-st crossing
OF the ID. l.. Il n. Ry., consisting Of
lumber, lath, shingles, all IN pro-
cess of manufacture. machinery,
office fixtures, tools and ali chattels
and personal property used about the
mill:
First-To Sarah NJ. Chickering for
$2SiS.6S.
Second-Io the Converse Manutac-
turing Company. for 1856.
Third--To the Fourth National Band
OF Grand Rapids. for promissory notes
and of commercial paper of other par
ties endorsed by the Rawson brothers.
subject 10 = mortgage of S2S4S.6S gwen
TO sarah NJ. Chickering, $S245. TO John
y. White, $500.
sFourth-Mortgage of $40 to Eugene
D. Winsor, subject'to mortgages of Mrs.
Chlckering, Fourth National Bank and
the Converse Manufacturing Company.
The deed of trust covers all
the property, accounts and uncom-
pleted contracts of the firm and is
given to secure local creditors only.
The assets are amply sufficient to meet
every claim of foreign creditors and
pay them dollar for dollar.
The assets of the firm included in the
deed Of trustare as follows:
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
How 1t Hits the Wrong Man.

One of the meanest things about a protective tariff is that when it stirs up retaliation In other nations this retala- tion hits the wrong fellow. The men who are protected by the tariff go free, while others who have no interest what ever in protection have their foreign markets restricted by retaliatory tariffs
 France, it seems, Is about to have some such retaliation administered to her as the fitting medicine for her high tariff law soon to go into operation. For some months France has been engaged in making a high tariff of the Mckinley kind, laying very heavy duties on the products of Belgium and other neighbor- ing nations. As the result of this Bel gium now proposes to withhold copy right privileges from French authors Thus the literary men of France will bear the burden of protecting French manufacturers.
 In the same way, if the great Con- tlnental Customs Union of Europe car ries out It's reported purpose to retaliate upon us for the Mckinley law by putting heavy duties on our grain, our farmers will suffer the loss of part of their mar ket in order to insure large profits to our manufacturers
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
 PERVERTED VISION.
4 Ten-Year-Oid Girl Who Reads Printed Matter Upside Down nrlN

A Ten-Year-Old Girl Who Reads
 Printed Matter Upside Down
 Only.
 A very peculiar case of perverted vision has been presented to Dr. F.. w. Brickley, an oculist of this city, writes n York correspondent of the Philadel- phia Press. A little girl of ten years, the daughter of one of this city 8 most respected citizens, was discov- cred by her school teacher to be un- able to read her reading exercise un- less the book was held upside down. The teacher, Miss Busser, immediate ly communicated the fact to her par ents, and they became very much worried
 The oculist was called in and an ex- animation made of the child's s eyes. They were found to be entirely nor maj. The only conclusion arrived at was that the strange freak of vision was the result of habit of trying to read with the book pages in an un- natural position, a habit contracted some years ago when the child was first sent to school At this time the child in writing numbers upon slate always made them upside down. and as 1t was never observed or corrected she gradually drifted into the habit of reading the same way.
 The only means of cure possible is to teach the child everything over agai, as though she never knew anything be fore. This will be carefully done, and a cure of this really phenomenal case Is anxiously looked for in the near iu- ture
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
London Wool PrfcOs.

The fail in the price of wool has brought out some curious explanations from the Republican press. The Amer- icar, Economist, the mouthpiece of the American Protective Tariff League, has put forth the most plausible explana- tion, and it is being used in the columns of the protectionist country papers for all it is worth.
 The explanation of the Economist is that the large production of wool in Australia has caused the price of Aus tralian wools to decline in the London market.
 This is partly true in the statement but very false in the use made of it. Some Australian wools are lower in London this year than last, but not the kind that our manufacturers buy.
 In speaking of purchases by American buyers at the recent sales in London, Wade's Fiber and Fabric, journal pub lished At Boston in the interests of our woolen manufacturing industry, says: "All accounts that VIC have seen, in cuding number of private letters, agree that for such light shrinkage for eign wools as American buyers can af- ford to bid for at last sales, figures, if not slight advance, are fully sustained; but that for other heavy conditioned parcels, although equally good staple, prices are materially lower
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
 RUNAWAY ENGINES.

The Old Ben Franklin Stopped In
 Tracks.
 The old Long Island railroad had . single track, with numerous switches and turnings. One dark night when the conductor was taking three pas senger-cars through to Greenport. after traveling six or eight miles nc noticed the headlight of a locomotive in his rear What could it meanf The locomotive was gaining rapidly upon him. He ordered tho engineer to put on more steam. Then followed wild chase through the night. Pur- suer and pursued tore along at the highest speed Showers of sparks fell from the wheels Everybody on the cars believed that the engineer of the pursuing locomotive was either drunk or asleep. At last a bright idea struck the fireman. He remembered that a locomotive can make no progress on greasy rails The contents of two huge cans of kerosene were poured up on the track. The device proved sue cessful. Soon the headlight of the pursuer grew dim in the distance. The train was stopped and backed up to solve the mystery
 A laughable sight was revealed.
 There stood the old Ben Franklin" pufiing and snorting and paving like wild bull, the driving wheels buzxing around on the creased track like all possessed, but not moving an inch.
 Sanding the track they bore down on the old machine. Not a sign of engineer or fireman was visible. There was full head of steam on, but the fires were getting low.
 Pushing back to the next station with the runaway engine, the conduc- tor wac there handed & dispatch in- forming him that the Ben Franklin" had broken loose, and ordering him to switch it offa Lakeland and wreck it.
 The oiled track, however, had saved the Ben Franklin" from destruction.
 Locomotive runaways are not un- common. Two engines once collided on track of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Tewksbury. The shock opened the throttle-valve of one of them. The engineer had already lump- down, and of went the locomotive like q shot, headed for Lowell. Reach ing the end of the track at the Lowell station, 1t overturned the bunker as though it were wisp of straw, went blowing through the floor of the sta ton for a distance of seventy.fve feet. and entered the express office. Crashing through the partition that separated this office from the station quarters, 1t wrecked one end of the baggage-room in passing. At last 1t grated it's head against the brick wall which adioined the public sidewalk, and had torn out quite a section be- fore the floor gave way. Down plung- ed the engine into the basement, emit ting clouds of steam and smoke. but now comparatively harmless.--New- ark Journal.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07

The entire population of the West and Northwest would be glad to take window glass. but duty averaging lO9 per cent. or moro makes it very expensive busi- ness to buy foreign glass, and the home- made glass is equally dear.
 Tin plate would certainly make good return cargoes for the "whalebacks, and is certainly needed for fruit and vegetable cans, as well as for roofing and household purposes, but Mckinley slapped duty equal to 76 per cent. in order to prevent future imports of tin plate.
 And so it runs through nearly the en' tire catalogue of commoditieS-the un- reasonable and foolish attempt to brSak up foreign trade by high Mckinley duties.
 If McKinleyism were true system, then Chicago and Duluth would never have been built on the lakes, where they are so exposed to the dangers of foreigr trade: they would have been built of behind some mountain on a winter brook to escape foreign trade.
 Why not use dynamite on that Vel land Canal?
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
Higher Wool Prices in England.

It is a curious fact that while our growers of wool are selling their wool this year at lower prices than last year, English farmers, without any Mckinley tariff to help them, are actually getting better prices A recent number of the Kidderminster Shuttle, leading organ of the British carpet trade, has this to say as to the market for domestic wool: @There is practically no alteration in the position of the raw material. The country fairs show that, as rule, grow CTS are expecting and in many instances obtaining better prices for their wool than spinners and manufacturers are able to give, the dealers having appar- ently more confidence in the future than manufacturers. Hence there is some speculation shown in the purchase of the new clip, which tends to keep prices decidedly firm, and in some cases hard CT tone Is shown"
 Our protectionists are all the time as- curing the farmers that British free trades has ru ned the farmers in En- gland; yet, 1t is in England. with her free trade, that farmers are getting higher prices for their wool; while in protected America, with its recently i'm posed Mckinley wool duties, farmers have seen their wool sink in Q most dis cOurAging way.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
The Use of Water in London.

One does not find any period in the history of London when the citizens desired plain cold water as beverage.
 Beer was always the national drink they drank small ale for breakfast
 dinner. and supper; when they could get it they drank strong ale. Of wa ter for washing there was not at this period so great demand as at present.
 At the same time it is not true to say, as we said few years ago in the house of commons, that for eight hundred years our people did not wash them selves. All through the middle ages the use of the hot bath was not only common but frequent and in the case of the better classes was almost . necessity of life. -Harper's Magazine.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
QUEER WAYS IN OLD BOSTON.
Precautions Which the Town Used to Take Against Entertaining Paupers.


 Visiting in Boston seems in old times to have been attended with some difficulties, and if the inferences which one would naturally draw from cer- tain entries su tho old records arc cor rect the authorities of the town were not accustomed to be over given to the encouragement of hospitality. what ever may have been the case with in- dlviduals, says the Courier For a meeting of the selectmen of the town held Nov. 19. TAO. for instance, the record begins as 'ollows;
 Mrs. Rebekah Young. Appearing Informs that She with One Child is lately come into this Town. from Har- wich, to Visit her Sister, that she in- tends to return in the Spring. & that she hath brought with hor to the Value of Two Hundred Pounds in Money and Household Goods.
 Liberty has granted her to tarry until the Spring and then to return to Harwich with her Child or give Se- curity to Indemnify tho Town"
 The good folks of Boston were in a perpetual panic in those days less they should get upon their hands to take care of paupers that really belonged to some other community. and it is very likely that they had good reason for their fear and their precautions. One would suppose, however, that . wom- an who could bring with her . couple of hundred pounds in gold and gear might be of sufficient importance to be spared the formality of appearing be- fore the selectmen of the town. It would be interesting to know how small an amount of belongings would have admitted her to tho privilege of passing the winter with her sister.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
aaec.., of th. .Wh.,eh.ck. :.

There Is general rejoicing over the successful trip of the American "whale- bAcks steamer Charles w. Wetmore from Detroit to Liverpool with cargo of 05. 900 bushels of wheat As result it fs predicted that Chicago and other lake ports will It once develop large foreign trade by direct shipment
 But there is one serious obstacle in the way. Owing to the Mckinley wall a much smaller bulk of goods comes into eAis country than goes out. What will our swhalebacksp find to bring back to Chicago and Detroit? They cannot af- ford Q cr0es the ocean with an outgoing 1reight if they can get no return cargo Inn would make the freight charges on our wheAt fAr too great There must be . cargo both ways to enable the lake pofls 70 trade prOfitably with Liverpool
 WhAt shall the return cArgoes be? Qor farmers need woolen cloth. but Mo- Elnley hns trtsd 10 prevent any coming on from N0ropo v impeding duties rum &i1UI = mAny oosch above 100 DOT cent.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
Cheap Sugar in Canada. Too

Canada removed the duty on raw sugar several weeks ago, and already the Canucks are revelling in cheap sugar. The Montreal Trade Bulleti,, says; lowing to cheaper sugar, people are putting down more than double the amount of preserves they have been ac- customed to in former years, and the fact that we are now in the height of the preserving season helps to create an abnormally excessive inquiry. Never before in the history of the sugar trade of Canada has there been such heavy demand as that now being experienced, and buyers would therefore do we'll to exercise little patience until the large aggregation of orders at the refineries is worked off "
 They are learning in Canada, too, that the removal of tariff tax saves money to the consumers
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
A BROOKLYN MOTHERS DEVICE.
She Has Scheme for preventina Her Child From Getting Lost.

nor SnIu from Getting Lost.
 A handsomely dressed woman and curly-headed boy of five summers were among the passengers on bridge train this morning. They attracted the attention of all the other passen- gers on account of new and novel arrangement, evidently the invention of the mother, to prevent Jimmie from getting lost in the crowd. Around the boys chest and shoulders was a neat-ftting harness of red morocco leather, ornamented with tiny brass bells. Two reins, also of red leather, were attached to the harness at the shoulders. The mother held the reins firmly in her left hand, while with her right she held book m which she seemed deeply interested. When the boy wanted to go out on the platform or cross over to tho window, there was no sharp compand of Come back. Jimmie, don't go there,"
 Jimmie would walk / the length of the reins and then he stopped. The mother would not even look up from her book, but her grip on the reins never relaxed. As long as she held them firmly there was no chance for Jimmie to get lost in the crowd or fall of the platform. Tho harness wa similar to that worn by pug dosg in fashionable society, but two rsiue wsre used for the boy instsad of ono for the dog. Jimmie is probably moro difiicult to guids alona . crowded thorouRhfars thao c Wsll-trained ahd ebsdisnt pug.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07

10 come It is sort oi nsrhid iusa pulse, l suppuse."
 Twas silent.
 In my own mind was wondering whether no one else was chafine aS this abrupt and altogether impotent conclusion; whether no one else was haunted by the suspicion that this man had been prime mover in that unforgotten tragedy, though, perhaps, not with deliberately murderous in. tent. Had we by chance stumbled on means by which crime might be in- fallibly detectedY If so, the secret of the fascination this place had posses sed for him was explained; and Meme sis, in the shape of Mrs. Jerome had this night walked in among us to avenCe a hapless victim.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
Bogus .MoKinley Prices. s

protectionist organ points out that the price of calicoes has declined since the Mckinley law took effect. It claims, far example, that the kind of calicoes known in the trade as "Eddystone fancy" fell from 61s cents last year to cents this year; and this the organ has the effrontery to claim as "McKinley price.
 It is nothing of the kind. The McKin- ley law left the duties on calicoes as they were under the old law, and it could therefore have had no effect on prices But the price first quoted shows fall of only 7.7 per cent. while cotton at the same time has fallen from 25 to 30 per cent
 The manufacturers could stand even a greater fall in the price of goods. This fact is amply proven by the following figures:
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
o,vs rms xlss !, oAvs TO THEE.

'Tis my mothers step hear; Quick, oh, quickly give to me Haste, it is her etcp l hear Give the kiss gave to thee. She doth fret me night and day; Kisses, prithee," she doth say, '.Never maid should give away, Never maid her love betray!" Give, oh, quickly give to me Give the kiss gave to thee. Have you kissed mani" she'll say, And I'll answer nay and nay; Give. oh, quickly give to me Give the kiss gave to thee.
 Century.
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07
Senator sherman and the sugar Bou,

Senator Sherman and the Sugar Bounty.
 Senator Sherman is quoted as saying that in twelve years we shall be making ct least three-fourths of all the sugar we consume. If this prediction should be verified, how much will the people of this country have to pay in bounties9 Our consumption of sugar last year was 1,522, ,0O0 tons, three-fourths of which would be 1,l41, 800 tons. The bounty of 3 cents pound on sugar Is equal to $44. 80 ton. If we were now producing three fourths of our sugar, the yearly bounty would reach over S51, 100000.
 But our consumption has been grow ing at the rate of over per cent year, and If this rate of increase is maintain ed, we shall pay bounty of over S9O,- 900, 900 in the year 1902 On the crop of the year 1894, the last crop on which the the Mckinley bounty is to be paid, the bounty would amount to over $l00,- GOO, 900.
 If Senator sherman is right it is going to be costly business to hire people at public expense to grow sugar. If the sugar industry grows as he predicts, the total bounty to be paid on fourteen crops will amount to at least S65o,- GOO 0O0
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07

THE protectionist organs are jubilat- ing over the prospect of France remov- ing her restrictions upon American pork, and imposing duty of Sl. 80 per 100 pounds instead. But why all this re- joicing, if it be true that the foreigner pays the tariff tax? Will not our farm CTS have to pay S1. 80 on every 100 pounds of pork sent to France? That is the protectionist theory; let them stick tn if now
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07

SINCE the Mckinley law went into effect, dealer in hardware has informed his customers that wire of which clock springs are made was taxed cents per pound under the old tariff, but under the Mckinley law the same is taxed $1.63 per pound, an advance over the old rate of $500 per cent This is the biggest piece of McKinleyism yet reported
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07

When an organ talks about the fell in the price of cotton goods-which is by no means general--and does not once men, tion the great fall in tho price of cotton; when 1t labels the price of calicoes, "McKinley Prices" and suppressss the information that the Mckinley law makes no change in the duty on the grades of cloth of which calico is made, the organ may be strengthening the faith of the weak and ignorant in the protec- tionist household. But men who know the facts will not be misled by the pal pablo falsehood.
 In these hot dog-days the Mckinley ties are cooking their figures with . desperation which beats their previous high record In the art of arithmetical jug 0lery
The Forrest City times., 1891-08-07

THE love of other peoples money is the root oi the tarin evil.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-07
Exchange at Galveston.
Bonds and Stocks.

Bonds and Stocks.
Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK. Aug. 5.-Bonds and stocks closed
at the following prices bid:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-07

New YORK, Aug. 6.-The stock market
and while displaying firm tone throughout
the greater part of the day was weak at,
times with spells of feverishneSS The
great feature of the day was the selling of
Union Pacific, large portion of which was
apparently fer LOndon's account. Opera
tors are beginning to acknowledge that
there IS ana has been n steady dribbling of
stocks TO this market for account OF Euro
pedn spectators aud this has helped in u
great measure to keep prices for stocks
down and rates for exchange up, while
having 4 very depressing effect upon this
market
onion Pacific at the opening was ham,
mered down from 39', TO 3S2-. Selling of
Union Pacific had lis legitimate effect, and
the general list yielded, small losses being
recorded in fey stocks. ST. Paul and
SpaSmodic hammering by the bears. In
dustrials We're also specially weak during
the early portion of the day. Pressure
upon the list was finally removed in the
last hour. when shorts went into cover with
a will, and rumorS that the floating debt of
the Union Pacific, which has troubled the
bears for so long a time, had been arranged
for. with some others of like nature, We're
circulated. The market finally closed active
and strong al top figures.
Final changes show small fractional
gains in most stocks, but the loss in Union
Pacific was per cent.
Government bonds dull and steady
State bonds We're dull but firm.