The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-09-30
WHOLE NUMBER 1906

Reynolds is no stranger to our people
all of whom will be glad to have him
engage in business here.
Erwin Adams, another dispenser OF
"soft drinks" at Decatur, was arrested
Monday afternoon for violation of the
local option law, waived examination,
was arraigned in the circuit court yes
terday, pleaded guilty, and was SEN
fenced To pay 800 fine and $25 costs or
to take thirty days in Jail. AT present
he keeps company with Ray.
Many of our citizens, Grand Army
men and others, will probably attend
the unveiling of the Grant monument
at Lincoln Park, Chicago, on Wednes-
day afternoon, Oct z. Arrangements
are completed for one of the most inn
posing military and civic parades ever
witnessed in that city. President Har-
rison and his cabinet, the governors of
the states, the generals of the army and
other dignitaries have been invited and
many of them will be present One fare
for the round trip on all railroads.
At Cassopolis last Wednesday Will f.
Heddon, the Dowagiac aeronaut, was
to make balloon ascension and para
chute drop at the fair grounds. Be-
cause of an insufliciency of hot air the
balloon failed to carry him high enough
to render his parachute of any use. In
consequence, he struck the roof and
chimney of house a short distance
from the starting point, and fell from
there to the ground, breaking one of
his ankle bones and sustaining other
minor injuries His date for Dowa-
giac will probably be Cancelled.
On Saturday, the 10Th inst, Loren
| Corner and William Biggs, half broth
ers, living with their widowed mother
south of Little Prairie Ronde, got into
fight. Corner beat Biggs, who is one
legged, so severely that he died last
Friday of his injuries His body was
put into a rough wood box and buried
in the orchard. The officers are inves-
tigating. Corner is terror in his
neighborhood and feared by ALL
LATER. postmOrtem examination
of the body has been held, at which it
was decided that the injuries inflicted
by Corner were not primarily the cause
of death, but that deceased had been
idiured some two weeks ago while en-
gagged in plowing.
The dOg-poisoner was abroad in force
last Friday night and scattered death
broadcast in the shape of beef steak
and strichnyne sandwiches. Many hap
less CANNES partook of the alluring bait
and the dog population of our village is
reduced by eight or nine in conse-
quence, while several others were v1iiy-
saved by the prompt administering of
antidotes. While it is true that there
are hundreds of worthless ours i'm town.
the killing of which would benefit the
community, yet there are several val
liable bird dogs owned here that do no
harm and are in nobody's way. The
wholesale pOisOner makes no discrim-
ination between the two classes, hence
his vocation is reprehensible.
The Jolly Ramblers Musical Comedy
Co. played here last Friday and Satur-
day evenings to good business. Friday
night was the largest house of the sea-
son. Every member of this company is
an artist. Miss May Whiting is a charm
ing little soubrette and won the favor
of the audience at once. Tenney and
Whitney, in their comedy musical act,
received hearty applause. Miss Mae
Tenney, lady cOrnetist, is an accom-
plished musician and rendered her solos
with grace and skill. The three Tenney
brothers are graceful dancers and good
singers Ernest Tenney is very clever
comedian and knows how to- catch an
audience and hold it. The Jolly Ram
bers will be long remembered and al
ways welcome here.
Alonzo Ray, who runs temperance
(socalled) saloon at Decatur, seems de-
termined to kick himself into Ionia at
any hazard. With one case pending
against him in the circuit court land he
is certain to be convicted on it some
day. he continues the traffic with the
boldest cffrontery, and last Thursday
was again hauled up and held to the
circuit court for trial. This gentry may
assure themselves, and the quicker
the better, that the law-abiding people
are as determined as ever that the eX-
isting laws shall be respected. More
than this, they feel now that the law
has in Mr.. Annable an able and fearless
champion and defender, who will see
to it that liquor prosecutions are some
thing more than farce. LATER.-Ray
was arraigned in the circuit court Mon
day, pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to thirty days in Jail.
1t now looks as though the lovers of
law and order had the wisky men on
the run. At the conclusion of the first
case against j. M. Longwell, which re-
suited in a conviction, he withdrew his
former plea in the other case and en-
tered plea of guilty. This was the
signal for Zimri Warner and William
Palmer to hurry into camp with like
plea, for it had been demonstrated to
their satisfaction that Prosecutor Anna
BILE had woven the meshes of the law SO
closely around their cases that no loop
hole for escape was left them. In the
case of Alonzo Ray, it was found that
the principal witness for the people had
mysteriously disappeared, and the case
will probably go over the term. The
case against Ben Whitmore was tried
and resulted in disagreement of the
jury. These results make the temper
ance people feel jubilant, and the praise
given Mr.. Annable for the mastery
manner in which he prepared and con
Quoted the cases is unstinted and we'll
deserved. On Friday afternoon Palmer
and Warner presented themselves at
the bar of the court for sentence. The
former was fined 5000 and costs and the