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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-04-25

jobblng methods than they We're with
the manufacture of munitions of war
Then he resorted to money lenders
in league with the other interests, and
70 these sharks" he found himself
obliged to pay co per cent interest. 1t
was due to this that he put aside his
pride and made a public agreement
providing for longtime payments of
the gross amount of his debts.
Lord Armstrong, by birth and chris
tening w. H. A. F. Watson. was born
in 1863, the son Of John William Wat
son Of Adderstone hall and the
grandnephew of the late Baron Ann.
strong of Cragside, through whom he
inherited his fortune He was edu
Gated at Elton and Trinity college,
Cambridge, later pursuing studies OF
a mechanical and engineering char,
Gcter.
The great engineering establish.
celebrated in the world From a
nucleus Of 5& acres the plant has
grown to 23O acres, ana when fully
employed has $4,000 workers. The
weekly pay roll involves the distribu
ton of about 100000.
In its shops were turned ou' some
Of the most formidable Of the modern
machine guns, the deadly precision
Of which the japanese demonstrated
In the late war with Russia. While
the Armstrong works are chiefly noted
for their high power guns they also
embrace a shipbuilding department
whence the Abdul Hamid a 4 OO0ton
cruiser, was recently launched for the
Turkish navy.
The founder Of tho house Of Arm
strong was William G Armstrong,
who constructed small shop TO the
west Of Newcastle for the manufac.
ture Of the various hydraulic machines
which he while still a solicitor, had
begun TO invent This was about GO
years ago. Gunmaking was begun at
Elswick in 1855, and it was largely
the application Of hydraulic mcchan-
ism, of which the late Lord Armstrong
had been a close student that made
the working of the high power artil-
lery possible.
Five years later captain, now Sir
Henry Noble joined the staff and as
managing director he did much toward
the development Of modern ordnance.
Some Of the largest guns used by the
Japanese during the late war fired a
projectile weighing $50 pounds with a
velocity Of $3.50 feet per second The
energy Of these huge shots is nearly
10000 foottons, measured at tho muz
zle, and they are effective at eight and
ten miles range The evolution Of
hydraulic machinery largely brought
about at the Elswick works, makes II
possible to handle these pondcrou.
engines w''h great rapidly
The present Lord Armstrong; most
famous country place, Bamburgh cas-
tie, once the home Of the kings Of
%orthumbra. Is a historic place. II
has been carefully restored ana is now
comfortable house ford Armstrong
and his wife are both devoted 10 ont
of.door sports and are Keen motorists
aud fond Of golf, shooting and bsLing
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-04-25

ders to his employer to refuse to sell
ii for at least six months.
People did not even know whether
It was a new kind of soap, or a break
fast food, or the latest thing in stove
polish
What was the result? Why, people
We're mad to get it. They would have
it. The very idea that in a free coun.
try they were net allowed to buy any
thing they wanted, Was this Maine
with prohibitiye law on something
the people really wanted?
And all this time the editor of the
Daily Howler kept on increasing his
edition, and all the time Mr.. Wise
went on buying saTdust and cheap
mOlasses until he had whole county
in northern New York beaped high
with it and five large mills hard at
work COMPRISING it into cakes.
And at last, seemingly on account Of
the pressure Of public opinion, but
really because the advertising man
said it was high time. Mr. Wise put
an advertisement on the first page of
the Daily HOwlor TO the effect that
Sord list was a breakfast food, and
that all you need do to it was 10 pour
a little hot milk on it; and IF your
grocer wouldn't get it for you change
your grocer at once
Was ii a success?
Well, | guess.
Why, they had one long freight train
stretched from the mills 10 New York,
moving all the time on special track
and as fast as a car was unloaded at
the Manhattan end a car was filled at
the other end.
Motive power Electricity, Of course.
And the man became a millionaire
ten times over before the year was
up and before the Sord list had kicked
up any racket In the insdes of the
populace
And now the advertising man be
gan TO advertise in all the papers. and
the Daily Howlcr came before its
millions Of subscribers with murders
and editorials once more, and they,
after their long fast, were only too
glad to learn that the world was not
as good as they had suspected and
lie Daily HowIer was bigger sue.
cess than ever
But The editor had got tins tip, and
ho didn't use Sord list on his home
meIu And he's alive yet.
,Ccpyright 81 James Pot. ! Cal
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wait mint and let me tell you
about it. Set down. and the old man
showed the editor back into his chair
And | do reckon l had some of the
| best sparrar grass that ever CROWD
outen the ground, and these little
brownish redishes that look like a
rusty-coat apple. Haungry! Why,
colonel, never was haungryer in my
life. And Susan, my wife, she kept of
sayin, DO have another help to the
pig and-well, | eat enough to last
me for a week. l reckon you are that
way, too. Folks must bring you thou
sands Of things-these here women
that write; don't care much for suthin'
to eat themselves and fetch it to you.
You may not make as much money as
county jedge, but | take 1t you live
off n the fat of the land. So you think
that if this here prime preacher re-
signs
Prime minister" muttered the
editor.
"Ah, hah. And you think If he re-
signs and the emperor ketches cold
and sneezes before breakfast there's
likely to be rain in northwest town
ship, range east Looks that way to
me, too; and | reckon I'll have to
make my PREPARATIONS accordin'. But,
speakin' of breakfast there amt
nothin' nicer, to my notion, than a
piece Of roasted pig, with the brown
| hi
| hear of folks that for breakfast eat
not milk and doll stuffin', but that
! don't touch the spot where | live Now
a right nice yaller-leg chicken, a
| leetle more than half grown, snatched
Off'n the face of the earth and fried
before he knows what's the matter
with hin-he's some, l want to tell
| you. Made up your mind yit as to
who is TO be the next president? But
reckon you've been SO busy you
hain't paid much attention to it. This
here social life, too, keeps you on the
trot a good deal, | reckon. And din
ners, too; you have to go to them (;
and they eat dinners now in the night,
I'm told. | like EN- best when the
Q
sun gifts Jest about as high as it kin,
but the time don't make so much diff
ference as what they have to eat,
Sorry my wife amt at home. She
could skeer up bite for you. She
got my dinner as quick as she could
and hurried over to one of the neigh
bors, where the old maid school teach
er amt expected to live till shutdown.
Nearly all the women folks in the
neighborhood are flockin over there,
and / reckon they'll have a good time.
| The old maid was engaged to be mar
ried and that makes her death all the
| more interestin'. Don't rcoIlect when
old Dorb Server died, do you? l set
| up with him the night afterward, and
along about II o'clock old Aunt Judy,
that worked there, skeered us up
about as good a snack as l ever eat.
Some seem to forgit that folks get
| hungry, but old Aunt Judy want one
O that kind. She had a way of fryin'
hominy in ham gravy that would
make saint pop his mouth like a bull
whip. | eat and eat-well, | jest eat
ill | forgot all about old Dorb in the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-04-25

Col. Shang w. Mowlctt, the editor
of the country paper, while out for a
day among his subscribers, halted al
the house of old Limuel Jucklin. He
had time to stop only few moments,
he said; a delinquent tax list demand
ed his attention at home,
And after sitting a long time II
took up his hat and had made mo-
ton to put it on his head when his at
tention was seized upon by tho rattle
of dishes in the dining-room, Just
across the broad passageway in the
north section of the old log house.
But as the hours wore hungrily
along he saw no signs of dinner In
no seeming fear of danger the chick
ems walked about the yard And from
the window, where perfumed breeze
murmured music amid the tendrils of
a trumpet vine, the editor looked
across a corner of the garden into a
lot where in the sunshine sucking
pigs, just big enough, if roasted, to
hold crab apples in their mouths,
were tumbling over one another.
Not with an extra effort of memory
was 1t that the newspaper man re.
called the fact that his daylight
breakfast had consisted mainly of sod
den cakes and extreme hurry. 1t was
fresh in his mind as he heard the pot
rack, pot rack of guinea hen. But
with the air Of vital concern he talked
on the condition of the country and OF
foreign probabilities. He didn't load
down his speculative mind with what
had taken place. That would have
been matter of mere industry.
The sun lost its balance and slipped
over into the afternoon, the waving
vine at the window sifted a softer
light, and still thare was no call from
pot or pan. So, at last, the editor
arose and was about to put his hat on
dining room the rattle of dishes
Then he hesitated, turned about as il
he had just thought OF wise thing
to say, and sat down
Il reckon cat must have run over
the table" said old Lin, and Shang
w. Mowletts heart beat low in de.
spair
Sorry, colonel, you didn't come a
little earlier. Reckon you seen some
Of them pigs out there. Had one of
their brothers roasted to a fall of the
year brown, and" The editor
grabbed out his handkerchief and
wiped his mouth. Old Lin continued
And / had some early rose potatoes
as pink-eyed as one of these-these
Albumins-is that what you call emf
"AlbinOs,' drawled the editor.
Yes, that's it; seen one in the side
show when the cirkis come to Purdy
And ! had some of the best corn bread
! reckon you ever saw-made out of
this pearl corn. Hard. Why. you
could have a grain of it set and wear
it for a breastpin. Along with it all
too, was a yaller pitcher full of but
termilk brought from the spring
house, and"
I've got TO go" the editor ex
claimed, jumping up ard clapping his
hat on his head.
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a We you We =
heard about that
business man who
in advertising his
particular brand
of breakfast fod-
der increased the
circulation of the
paper in which he
advertised a hun
dred fold?
Well, IT was
I n ! S way. his
name was Wise,
and he had IN
limited money 10
spend He had
formerly owned a
sawnill and he
naturally had a
large quantity Of
sswdust on hand.
II struck him that
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-04-25

During the last year the exports Of
this country have grown greatest In
the items OF cars, carriages and auto
mobiles
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-04-25
U. S. Dip, Wash and Dslnfectant

The best and cheapest, gallon makes loo
1925; gals So Write for 81 page booklet.
Ship us your Hides Furs, Pelts Wool etc.
n. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
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True valor is the basis OF ALL
Carlyle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
MOB STORMS A JAIL;
MANY SHOT IN BATTLE
Two Killed in Bloody Fight in
Defense of CoIored Prisoner
in Florida.
LYNCHERS ARE VICTORIOUS.
Batter Down Prison Doors, Over
power Sheriff's Forces and Hang
Victim in Public Park.

Three men killed and nine wounded
several of them perhaps fatally. was
the result of the clash at Pensacola
Fla. between a mob bent upon lvnch-
In Leander Shaw, a negro, and the
sheriff and his forces. The mob finally
orerpowered the authorities and lynch
ed the negro in the most prominent
park of the city about midnight.
The mob formed about 0 o'clock
Wednesday night and made an attack
on the Jail. The Jail gate was broken
down and the sheriff and his deputies
opened fire. Volley after volley was
fired by both sides, but the mob was
repulsed. Shortly before midnight an
other attack was made, the mob having
been increased to 1000 men. The second
attack was successful, for the reason
that it was made upon all sides of the
Jail. One party forced It's way through
the rear, Overpowered the officers and
got the trembling negro. A moose was
slipped about his neck, and after being
dragged two blocks he was strung I'D
to an electric light pole in the center
of the park, where 1000 bullets riddled
his body.
There were over 1000 people about
the Jail, and nearly every shot fired
from the building told. Many of those
wounded were carried away and con-
cealed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
e MyERCLAL.
II. So g !:::l:: fth
SS alEl AND SS,sEaA@1a
HA~vssssIlE sxS
zFMANCAL
CHICAGO
N0ONON0O~

The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade,
puoilshed by K. G. Dun & Co, says.
An extending use of money in invest
nents and bUoyant security markets re-
fleets the better tone which now charac-
terizes improving business conditions.
Crop reports continue to be uniformly
encouraging, and sustained profitable re-
Turns lmpart a more cheering outlook
for the industries.
Further recovery is mad. clear by
wider demands for finished products. adj
ditions to active capacity and hands en-
ployed. There is also a further sign of
strength in the volume of payments
through the banks. the daily average be-
ing now 8 per cent above that during
June.
1t is notable at this time that new de-
mands in the leading productive lines
come forward more freely, and there is a
disposition to increase furnace and steel
outputs, while there is also favorable con-
slderation given to plans for heavy con-
struction
A large number of factories run closer
70 thelr capacity, especially in rails, wire,
farm implements, furniture and footwear.
-huch building work is now hurried, and
these are more mercantile structures and
extensions contemplated, thus strengthen
ing the demand for future consumption of
iuinoer' quarry products, plumbing mate
rails and structural iron.
Inc markets for the principal raw ma
terlals maintain the recently noted re-
cuperation, and the improved absorption
OF supplies imparts a healthier tone to
commitments
Weather conditions proved exceptional
ly helpful in leading retail lines, and at
no time hitherto have stocks of summer
merchandise been so satisfactorily reduc
ed.
Bank clearings, $21S,31S,636, are 81
per cent under those of the corresponding
week in 1907
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 30, against 80 last week
and ~ year ago. Those with liabili-
ties over $1,000 number s, against 10
last week and 3 in 1907.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
NEW PARTY'S TICKET.
Hisgen of Massachusetts, and Graves
of Georgia National Candidates.

Hisgen of Massachusetts, and Graves
of Georgia National Candidates.
Thomas L. Hisgen, of Massachusetts,
was nominated for President and John
Temple Graves, of Georgia, for Vice
President by the Independence party
ing the course of the proceedings a riot
was M rOwly averted when James l.
Shepard, of Kansas, took the platform
and made plea for the nomination of
William Jennings Bryan. Shepard was
finally escorted from the hall by the
police after having been stripped of
his delegate badge, repudiated by the
Kansas delegation and stricken from
his membership on the National Com
mlttee. Hisgen, wealthy oil producer,
who was the choice of William R.
Hearst for the presidency from the out
set of the convention, led the field on
the three ballots taken for the nomi-
nation of candidate
The platform adopted contains the
following planks:
Initiative and referendum; recall sys-
tenn; government ownership of public
utilities money to be issued and con-
trolled by the government; postal savings
banks, the deposits to be loaned to the
people on proper security good roads;
an eight-hour law for government work
child labor plank opposing child labor of
all kinds; anti-bucket shop plank pro
hibiting the existence of the shops and
abolishing fictitious dealings in agricul.
tural products: physical valuation of
railroads; larger navy; prohibition of
Asiatic immigration; an anti-injunction
plank prohibiting the issuance of injunc-
tons without notice and hearing, and
permitting cases of constructive contempt
to be tried by jury; evils of overcapital-
ization, condemnation of the manufacture
and sale in the open market of prison
made goods, tariff revision with especial
reduction of the schedules on goods COM
peting with trust products, criminal pros
ecutions for violations of the antitrust
laws, court review for the findings Of the
Postoffice Department on fraud orders
and the establishment of a national bu-
reau of health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
UG45 lEIA|;2sl5Rg5
sal las2 e. 80 =.
SE5. 5000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
S4.O0 to $7.S5; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to 1913; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4.65; wheat, No. 2, soc to Ole;
corn, No. 2, Toe to 76c; oats, standard,
SIC to 53c; rye, No. 2, Tie OF Zoe; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to 21c; eggs, fresh, tic to zoe; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 72c to SIC.
Indianapolis shipping, $500
to 1925; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to S6.75; sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 81 to
soc; corn, No. 2 white, 79c to Soc; oats,
No. white, SOC to 6Oc
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, SOC to 9Oc; corn, No. 2,
76c to ne; oats, No. 2, SOC to sic;
rye, No 2. 75c to TIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to 1925;
hogs, $500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to
1885; wheat, No. 2, 90c to Ole; corn,
NO 2 mixed, roc to Soc; oats, No 2
mixed, soc to sc; rye, No. 2, 78c to SOC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $40; hogs,
S4.OO TO sou; Sneep, SZ.oO 10 SfUD;
wheat, No. 2, 9Oc to Ole; corn, No. 3
yellow, 79c to Soc; oats, No. 3 white,
63c to 64c; rye, No. 2 74c to Toe.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No northern,
S109 to Sill; corn, No. 3, TIC to 7Sc;
oats, standard, Soc to Coo; rye, No. 1,
7Sc to SOC; barley, No. 2, 69c to roc;
pork, mess, $15.25.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
800 to 800; hogs, fair to choice, 800
to 500; sheep, common to good mixed,
S4.OO to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $3.50 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$50; wheat, No. 2 red, CSC to 99c;
corn. No. 2, SIC to SIC; oats, natural
white, CSC to 66c; butter, creamery, 2Oc
to DC; eggs. western, 1Sc to dc
Toedo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, oOc to
Ole; corn, No. 2 mixed, TIC to 79c;
oats, No. mixed, SIC to 5Sc; rye, No
2, 73c to 74c; clover seed, S79O
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
NEW YORK

GOOD crop reports, the advance of the
season and growth in confidence as to the
trade outlook are reflected in reports of
moderate enlargement of future buying at
few large centers, notably in the West
and Southwest. Industrial lines, too,
have been benefited by evidences of re-
VivaI in demand and the number of idle
operatives has been reduced as whole.
Sui the progress making is o. very con-
servative kind curtaiment of industry is
still marked feature and small orders
for Immediate shipment largely make up
the volume of business doing by jobbers.
Retail trade is fair as whole, being
stimulated by price reduction sales,
though complaint of stocks not moving
rapidly come from some cities, and col
lections show little if any improvement.
Best reports come from the central West,
Northwest and Southwest and the excel
lent outlook for the cotton crop makes
for better tone of advices from the
South
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending July % number 263,
against 25S last week, 155 in the like
week of 1907, III in 1906, 1877 in 1905,
and ia in 1904. Canadian failures for
the same period number "a, against 81
last week and "a in this week last year.
Bradstreet's Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

said that they were the main strength
of the Republican party in the eyes of
the people. He praised the standards
set by President Roosevelt and fol-
lowed this praise with an outline of
what he thought Taft administra-
ton should be.
THE chief function of the next ad-
ministration, in my Judgment said
Mr.. Taft near the opening of his speech,
lis distinct from and a progressive de-
velopment Of that which has been per-
formed by President Roosevelt. The
chief function of the next administra-
ton is to complete and perfect the ma
chinery by which these new standards
may be maintained and by which the
lawbreakers may be promptly restrain
ed and punished, but which shall op-
crate with sufficient accuracy and dis
patch to interfere with legitimate bust
ness as little as possible"
Points from Taft's Speech,
The man who formulated the express
sion of the popular conscience was Theo-
dore Roosevelt. He laid down the doc
trlne that rich violators of the law should
be as amenable to restraint and punish
ment as the offender without wealth and
influence"
I'm this work Mr.. Roosevelt has had
the sympathy and support of the Repub-
lican party, and it's chief hope of success
must rest on the confidence the people
have in the sincerity of the party's dec
laration in its platform that it intends
to continue his policies"
at is necessary to devise some means
of classifying and insuring federal super
vision of such corporations as have the
power and temptation to effect restraints
of interstate trade and monopolies.''
"The combination of large capital in
plants to manufacture goods with the
greatest economy is just as necessary as
the assembling of the parts of a machine
to the manufacture of what formerly was
made by hand. The government should
not interfere with the one any more than
the other"
Unlawful trusts should be restrained
with all the efficiency of injunctive pro-
cess and the persons engaged in them
should be punished with all the severity
of criminal prosecution"
''The (Democratic) proposal to super
wise the business of corporations in such
a way as to fix the price of commodities
and compel their sale at such price is as
absurd and socialistic a plank as was
ever inserted in a Democratic political
platform"
"Our position is clear and unequivo-
cal We are anxious to prevent even an
APPEARANCE of injustice to labor in issu-
ing injunctions, not in the spirit of fav-
oritism to any set of our fellow citi-
zens, but in the interest of justice to all"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
FOIL AN UPRISING IN PORTUGAL
Officers of Army Involved in Plot of
RepubIfcaus Against Throne.

Republicans Against Throne.
The Portuguese government, according
to the newspapers of Lisbon, has discov-
cred and frustrated a widespread repub-
ican plot for an uprising scheduled for
the anniversary of the abortive revolt Of
July %, which was suppressed by ex-
Premier Franco. This announcement fol
lows a large number of mysterious ar
rests made within a few weeks. Alfonso
Costa and Bernardino Machado, the re-
publican leaders, are among those under
suspicion. They have not been taken into
custody, but are kept under sharp police
surveillance. Portuguese officials are ret
icent regarding the matter. Senior Mag
70, the chief of police, will say nothing
except that there was a conspiracy afoot
and that many men are implicated, in
Guiding officers of the army. FL Mundo
says the sergeants of the Sixteenth regl-
ment are involved and that there has been
a systematic propaganda among the other
regiments quartered in Lisbon. The colo
nels of all the regiments located in the
capital were summoned before the minis
ter of war and informed by him that
they would be held responsible for the
loyalty of their men. Ball cartridges
have been served out to the members of
the municipal guard. The Diario Popu-
lar, the official organ of the government,
says the authorities have taken the meas
ures necessary for the suppression OF any
revolutionary outbreak.