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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07

The free reading loom to be opera
ted under the auspices of the W. {. I.
o.. corner OF Second street and Becker
avenue, was formally opened to the
public last Monday evening, Mr.. John
Sidney VII have charge of the room
for the time being and the place will
be kept open from 10 O'Clock Il. M,
until 10 O'Clock p. III. every week day,
and from TIL 8 p. m. on Sunday.
Much credit is due to Mrs. Henvis for
the results as she has been the leader
in the undertaking although her efforts
have been ably seconded by other ladies
of the W. {. L. L. May success attend
the enterprise, and The object sought
be attained. Contributions of books
magazines and papers will be thank
fully received. Address Reading Room
Superior, Wis.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07

-MeSSrs Yeoman & Marshall VIII
be ready TO open their new meat mar
ket at 3u3 West Fifth street next
Monday or Tuesday These gentle
men have had long experience iii the
business and promise TO give us good
market They are recently from Min
Heapolis
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07
The 51st Congress died by l;mita-

The 51st Congress died by I;mita-
ton Wednes lay at noon. Oar Copper
head sheet IS very eXultant oyer the
fact, and dismisses it with the headline
reading thus, 1T VIII be chiefly re-
membered for the bills introduced
which it did not pass We think it
viii be also remembered for some
things it did do, the Mckinley tariff
bill and Mr. Speaker Reeds ruling
when Democratic members attempted
to blockade legislation by sitting in
their chairs but refusing to vote on the
preteXt that the We're not present.
Oh. yes, old man, the last congress will
be remembered for some things it did
do as well as for some things it did not
do-for not passing the silver bill, for
instance
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07
Notice for Publication.

AND OFFICE AT ASHLAND, WISCONSIN
IL Feb. 10, 1891.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
named settler has iic, notice of his intention IL
make final proof IN support Of his claim ana that
said proof will be made befo"e the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Douglas county, Wisconsin, at
Superior, Wisconsin, ON
April II. 1891,
viz: William Needs his I'D Entry No 9iS for the
sEl Sec 81 Tp IS |; l. 18th T. NJ.
lie names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence uppU and cultivation of
said land, viz: Henry Mills, John Notion George
Walton. of Superior Douglas 60 Wis aud Frank
Desmond If South Range, Douglas Co.. Wis.
g. ". CARRINtiTON
fci2Sali4 Register
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07
The Climate al Right.

\ recent convert to the beauties and
advantages of Superior, writes as fol
lows to Il friend in New York regard
ing the quality of weather we have i'll
this neck o woods,
Now first You ask me about the
climate | came here an invalid, only
anxious for 4 change; anything from
the heat of Siam to the frozen regions
OF Disco land. Out OF health, hating
the cold, fearing the climate, ] got
here. The first pleasant, bright, sunny,
olorious winter day | had seen tor
months | enjoyed here on the day
after my arrival | was surprised at
my desire 10 get out into the open air
ana il is Il fact that from that day to
this have enjoyed the winter wealth
er as never did before. One morn
ing when the Thermometer registered
% degrees below zero | walked to my
place Of business seven or eight blocks
from the hotel and felt like cock Of
new moon hay at the end Of my long
walk 1t has been cold. clear and dry
every day, with good sleighing. and il
is 50 now and likely to remain so for
month 10 come. | have 50 much i'm
proved in health since my arrival that
| can scarcely recognize my own
clothes and am feeling like another
man. The climate is all right. We
have FIVE or six months of enjoyable
winter and six OF seved months OF de-
l;ghtful summer. | like the town, the
climate and the people.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07
Notice for Publication.

7 AND OFFICE AT ASHLAND WISCONSIN
II Feb. 70. 1891.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his intention 10
make final proc; III support of his claim and that
>aii proof Will be- made before the County Judge
Tor Douglas County. Wisconsin. at superior, Wis
can i'm
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07
Notice OF Hearing,

BI IIIt 'OTTT,
l.. l. ROBERTS. County Judge
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07
Notice for Publication.

u. f, ROBERTS. Coan'r Judge.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-07
Notice Of Publication.
r AND OFFICE AT ASHLAND, WISCONSIN.

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-15
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS.

| Ellsworth, MINI, was almost entirely
wiped out by fierce windstorm.
Hon. John R. Gamble, Congressman
| elect from South Dakota died at his home
in Yankton.
Jay Gould, it is said, must borrow sl5.-
OOO, 900 to straighten out the Union Pa
cifics affairs.
Over 1000 members of the New York
Cloakmakers' union are on a strike to
force recognition of their organization
by employers.
Edwin Arnold, the English poet, has
rendered most touching tribute to the
memory Of Lowell.
| The treasury department purchased
| 519, so ounces of silver at from 90 996 to
| ~ Ss62 per ounce.
| Sir Edwin Arnold is under contract to
lecture fifty times in this country, begin
| ming Nov. in New York
| 1t is said that Mr.. Blaine has made
| $450,0OO out Of the sale of his book,
Twenty Years of Congress"
Booge's packing house at Sioux City,
Ia, has been purchased by the Union
stock yards of Chicago for 1890, 600
The police of Moscow are said to have
received orders that will result in ex-
| pelling all Jews from that city within
| two months.
Secretary Foster has returned to the
national capital from Ohio. Attorney
| General Miller has left the capital to be
gone month.
| Major J. D. Hamilton, died at Ches-
| ter. His, aged IS years. He served through
the war as an officer of the Sixteenth Illi-
| nois Volunteers
| Private Casserman, of the Fourth regi-
| ment, Illinois National guard, disembow-
eled himself at Camp Lincoln. Supposed
| cause, mental alteration.
Miss Anna Dickinson seems to have re-
| covered from her mental arrangement
She lectured with her old fire and spirit
on Joan of Arc at Goshen, n Y, Thurs
day
Timothy Hopkins, the adopted son of
the late Mrs Hopkins-Searle, the multi
| millionairess, it is said, will contest his
foster mothers will, which specifically left
him out
The Pacific Athletic club, of San Fran
CISCO has offered a purse of S12, 500 for
finish fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and
Ted Pitchard, English middle-weight
champion
Chicago phenomenon is baby OF 3
years who has smoked tobacco since it
was few months old, and now takes two
pipes and cigar per day. When not
smoking the child lies in a half stupor.
Berlin dispatch asserts that Emperor
William is enjoying excellent health, and
that he is attending to the business of the
empire, notwithstanding the inconven-
ience of moving about with his bandaged
knee
bottle was picked up on the beach at
Benton Har Dor, Mich. with a note from
two passengers of the Inflated Hume
named Maynard and Grover. They said
they had no hope of escape The Hume
was lost in Lake Michigan, May 10 last.
with seven Passengers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-15
What Labor Says of Neidrinchaus.

PITTsBURG, Aug. 15-The discussion If
the importation of tin-plate laborers by :.
G. Neidringhaus continues to occupy the
attention of the labor organizations here.
The St. Louis tin-plate manufacturer in
his recent interview says that he wants
tin-plete rollers and washers Assistant
President Garland, of the Amalgamated
association, says: If that is all he requires
we can easily supply him, provided the
st. Louis Stamping company signs the
scale. Certainly our men will not work
for him just now, as he is operating a non
union mill"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-15
THE MARKETS.
Chicago.

CHICAGO. Aug II.
Following were the quotations on the board
of trade today: Wheat-No. August, opened
sll4c, closed 1850: September, opened 9514c,
closed gSc; December. opened S6l1c, closed
e95sc. .Corn-No. August. opened 6lt4c closed
Se4c; September. opened 5ec; closed 5934c; Oc-
tober. opened 56c, closed 56t4c. Oats-No. 2
August opened and closed zeISc; September,
opened and closed 2s1sc; May. opened 3lIxc.
closed 3lssc. Pork september; opened S9.s5
closed SOLO: October, opened slOOs, closed
Sl02--1z: January, opened Sl2.S5. closed S13O.
Lard-September, opened S5.52leo, closed $3.50.
Live stock-Following were the prices at
the Union stock yards today: Hogs-Market
active and prices steady aud unchanged; sales
ranged at S3.25d5.l0 pigs, Si75G5.sO light, 34.55
Gi.s) rough packing, SisDG5.60 mixed. and
S4.9jG5.5O heavy packing and shipping lots.
Cattle-Narket rather active on local and
shipping account, and prices higher for best
grades; quotations ranged at S5.10GJ6-20 choice
to fancy shipping steers. Si901650 good TO
choice do, S4.5o1Ii.S0 common to fair do, S375Q
40 butchers steers S2.60d350 stockers, 2.25l
AS Texans, s330d4.30 feeders. sl.50G4O
cows, Sl.5oq,350 bulls, and S2.50G45o veal
calves.
Sheep--Market fairly active and prices up-
changed. quotations ranged at S3.J0t1i. 80 west
erns S3.75J53J natives and S3.5fI5.50 lambs
Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, zoe per
10; darles, fancy, fresh, l+Gl6c; packing stocks,
fresh, lie. Eggs-Loss off. l4ISc per doz Live
roosters, 5lsc; turkeys, mixed, 10c; ducks. ga,
l0c: spring, i0Gllc. Potatoes-St. Louis Early
Ohio, 35d42c per bu; Kansas. 3)d4Oc; home
grown, 5sJ50 per sack; Minnesota, 401i2c per
bu. Apples-Iliinois, green, 50075c per bbl;
choice, Sl.o0dL50; eating, Sl.s512.25. Black
berries-Michigan, 5oG6J per l6-at case. Blue
berries sl75G2.U per l6-qt case.
New York.
NEW YORK. Aug. IA
Wheat-No. red winter cash. Sl.0s; do Au-
gust, sl.O614; o September, Sl.06; do October,
sl.06ss- Corn-No. mixed cash, 76Ix177c; do
August, 721xc; do September. 69c; do October,
66lS. Oats-Dull but steady; No. 2 mixed cash.
&5L4fd 45c; do September, 335sc. Rye has sud-
denly developed unusual activity and strength
on the reports of damage to the Russian crop.
Rye -four is quoted $475Ga25. Barley-Nom-
iI.sd. Pork-Dull with the feeling weak; new
mess, sli.OGIl.50. Lard-Dull; September,
o.s3; October, $694 November, STA.
Live Stock: Cattle-Duu trade with n
scarcity of really choice cattle poorest TO best
native steers. S39td6.00 per 100 lbs; Texans
and Colorados, ts.s5Ga75: bulls and dry cows.
t1.D0S-0. Sheep and Lambs-Sbeep steady;
lambs q shade frmer; sheep, Sa.2s65.6 per Loo
lbs; lambs, S.It9A-15. Hogs-sfarket frmer;
live hogs, $S.lo060O per 100 lbs.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-15

The soft glow OF The tea .rose 4, .c.
quired BY ladies Who use Pozzouis Com.
plexipn Powder.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-15
Forest Fires E1tinguished.

PARIS, Aug. Is The forest fires in the
nelghborhood of Toulon have been ex-
tinguished. The total damage is not
known, but is certainly immense
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-15

Pants at half price.
Children's Clothing at half price.
School Suits at half price.
Summer Underwear at half price.
Neglige Shirts at half price.
Straw Hats at half price.
Neckwear at half price.
Children's Waists at half price.
Knee Pants at half price,.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23

be the result which we shall reap from our McKinlcyism. But our foreign trade Is not to be restricted by natural forces alone. Direct retaliation will be tried by legislation in some countries. Mexico, indeed, has already imposed rctaiatory duties upon some of our products. France is even now busted with plan to increase it's tariff duties. The men having this measure in charge referred to the example set by the United States as an excuse for the high duties they are trying to enact into law. Many of those duties bear heavily upon our farm products. In Spain there is also an agitation for higher tariff, and again the Mckinley law of the United States is offered as an excuse. While the Mckinley bill was still under discus sion Spain laid duty upon our Hour which practically excludes it from Cuba, where we had a growing trade.
 But there is another important respect in which the tariff flinders exportation. Tho tax upon the raw materials of man. ufactures adds so greatly to the cost of the finished product as to exclude 1t from tho foreign market. Tho tax on wool increases the cost of making cloth, and we can export no woo,en cloth or cloth ing to other countries. A great export ing merchant of New York has pointed out that in those manufactured articles in which the labor cost Is greatest he can offer successful competition in foreign markets, while those in which the cost of the raw material is greatest he can not successfully sell abroad in the face of foreign competition. In proportion, then, as the tariff increases the cost of production, in like proportion do we shut ourselves out from successful compeu- tion in the worlds market Yours truly,
 RICHARD KNOX.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
Hard on Manufacturers.

In discussing the mower and reaper trust, the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, the leading high-tariff organ of Ohio, displays very poor opinion of our busi- ness men. It says: "If business men would be less savagely ambitious, less grasping, less malevolent toward their neighbors, and would be satisfied with the fair and decent earnings of their en- deavors,' etc.
 This is rather harsh opinion, but it Is no more harsh than that expressed by Senator Plumb in his attack upon the Mckinley bill. The Kansas Senator said: Merchants go down; farmers fail everywhere. They do not expect to be exempt from chances of this kind Tho manufacturer is tho one person who in- sists that he is never to fail so long As laws can be written and passed putting duties enough upon tho articles which he manufactures to enable him to make a profit"
 The Senator, in the same speech, quoted Approvingly a business friend of his from Chicago, who assured him that ~the American manufacturer does not manufacture anything he cannot mako certain and great profit on, and that he stands out of the way of the foreign manufacturer as to other articles on which he cannot make satisfactory prof. it's
 Yet whom Democratic opponents of our high-tariif system say things like these. they arc denounced as enemies of American industry" and as serving European interests"
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23

mated at home and abroad will bc cor rected by experience, and the evil augu- ries as to it's results confounded by the market reports tho savings banks, in ternational trade balances, and the gem eral prosperity of our people. Already we begin to hear from abroad and from our custom houses that the prohibitory effect upon importations imputed to the act is not justified"
 Then hc pointed with pride to the fact, in proof of this that "the imports at the port of New York for the first three weeks of November were nearly s per cent. greater than for the same time in 1889 and 20 per cent. greater than in the same period of 1888" In other words, the President praised the Mckinley law for failing to do the very thing it was intended to accomplish, that Is, to restrict importations.
 But while tho President expresses his qualification that the evil auguries' were being "confounded by the market reports" the Republican organs are searching diligently for evidence that those ~augnries" will be justified. A late number of the New York Press, Robert r. Porter's paper, remarks in it's Tariff black type at the head of it's editorial columns, the British iron and steel ex- ports to the United States in November, 1889. amounted to 47,2ll tons; but that in November, 1890, "the Mckinley bill went into effect in the meantime," and these figures fell to 40, 362 tons.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
A Chinese Hospital

The average Chinaman has terri. ble dread si our public hospitals. He imagines that he will be cut up before hs Is dead. and Is quite certain this will be his late If he dies there. So he prefers to crawl into the corner of the laundry where he washes. and stupefy himself slowly to death with opium. But some of the church people ir Brooklyn have started to overcome this idea and have rented n house, furnished it. and installed as house surgeon Dr. Thom. n brainy youne Chinaman who graduated from the Long Island Medical college. I've patients and five beds constitute the rest Of the institution, but 1t has hopes. A Chinese cook is to be also part oi the programme. and hs will prepare the articles of diet in Mongolian style.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
THE BELL SCHEME.
n May Turn Out . Formidable Rlvai q As
 Western Union.

n Nay Turn Out . Formidable Rival sf 0s
 Western Union.
 From the quiet movements now in progress there is sound reason for the belief that by the time tho first of tho Bell Telephone patents expires. In 1893, the company will have SO ex- tended its long distance system as to make 1t a formidable competitor for tho telegraph business now done by the Western Union Company. Already is the Bell Company making prepa- rations to abandon the present style ot business and to substitute instead long distance instruments.
 In 1896 the contract between the Western Union Company and the Bell Telephone people expires. By tho terms of their contract the telephone people have hitherto monopolized tele- phoning and the telegraph people tho sending of telegraphic dispatches. But when 1896 has come it will be found that the telephone people will have al- most as many miles of wire as the Western Union now possesses. and that these wires will cover the entire country. and will connect the principal cities with one another.
 With such plant, in many respects superior to the Western Union, it is easy to understand how 1t might secure large share of the business controlled by the latter.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
It Was All tho Same to Hsr.

X writer in the Boston Courier says: The things that are told children and the old wife stories with which they arc put of are among the most con- temptible of all the wrongs that arc heaped upon the children under the pretext of befriending them. The little folk know we'll enough that they are being imposed upon, but they do not know now to protest; and yet now and then one of them, with tho bold frankness of childhood. does say out boldly just what it thinks.
 It was one of these naively bold children who was being talked to about going to bed in tho dark. She had perhaps been taught to be afraid by being told that she must not fear. that being the approved method of iustructing the little folk in this branch of their education, but in any case. whatever the method. she had learned her lesson, and she was very satis- faclorily afraid.
 But, my dear her mother said to her one night. when tho child was moro than usually dismayed by the prospect of being alone In the dark bed, "why should you be afraid in the darka God Is there
 Her little daughter regarded her with troubled eyes.
 But mamma" she said. what fl he is, what differences does that mako?n
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
RAILROAD LABOR.

Wages Differ Greatly on Our Railroads-
 Tho Hearings or This Fact on Protec-
 ton to Labor.
 The protcctionists claim that it is our tariff which causes higher wages in the United States than in Europe, and that if the tariff were wiped out wages with us would at once sink to the European level. But If there is any warrant for such claim the protectionists ought to be able to explain why it is that wages differ so widely in different parts of our own country.
 The fifth annual report of the United States Labor Commissioner, Mir. Carroll D. Wright, is devoted entirely to railroad labor, and this document gives some facts as to wages which ought to prove very puzzling to protectionists The following table displays the difference in wages paid to railroad employees:
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
Ths Way ts 1rn a Raes Iraek.

The Shah oi Persia has started A race course at Teheran. His Majesty himself is senior steward. keeper oi tho match books. clerk of the course aud scales. judge and andicap pper. Whenever he has bet he places tive guards with drawn scimitars by the book-maker to see that His Majesty wins tho bets and gets the money This is suggested to the Sultan Of Turkey as the quickest and best way to fill his depleted coffers aud keep out of debt The Shah's plan seems to. lack but one thing to mako 1t howl. ing success. and that Is a fife of soldiers to drive tho moueyed men up to the book.mAker's stand and compel them to bet Columbus Dispatch.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
AVERAGE DAILY RATE OF wAoEs.

These figures are collected with abso- luto impartiality, and can be implicitly relied upon. They show that wages for precisely tho same labor have by no means sunk to the same level even in our own country. Bremen, for example, earn S1.29lS a day in Georgia, S1.9oIs in the Northwestern States, and S2.o4 in Texas. In the Northwestern States en- gineers earn Sa.79ls, but in New En- gland they get S3. 32lS. and in Texas s3. 55. Ohio pays it's hrakcmen 6R cents n day more than New England does, but New England pays it's switehmen 29ll cents more than Ohio. Engineers in New York get 351 cents q day more than in tho Northwestern States, but switchmen arc paid ss}a cents more in the Northwest than in New York Throughout the table similar differences and cross differences arc found, and nowhere is there uniformity.
 Railroad employees have better facill- ties than any other class of laborers to inform themselves of the condition, wages, etc, of their fellow workmen in fewer local ties to bind them to any one place, and can easily begin life In an other part of the land, vet the firemen earning only Sl.9ots in Georgia do not rush off to Texas to earn &. o4. Common railroad laborers do not desert Texas, where they get Sl.2l day, 10 compete with the same class of laborers in tho Pacific States, who earn Sl.s7l<
 There must be something wrong in tho protectionists' wages theory.