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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11
DRosATE oRDER.-state of Michigan,

II
At a session of the Probate Court for the county
of Van Buren,, holden at the Probate Office, In the
village of Paw Paw, on Monday the 18th day of
December, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-two.
Present. Hon. Benjamin f. Heckert. Judge of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Henry Labady,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verihedof
Philip Sherrod administrator of said estate praying
for therein set FORTH that he may be author
lied, empowered, and licensed to sell the real estate
In said petition described.
Thereupon il is ordered that Monday, the 10th
day of January, $685. at ten O'Clock In the fore
noon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition
and all persons interested in said estate required
to appear at session of said court then to be hold
en- at the Probate office, in the village Of Paw Paw,
and show cause, IL any there be- why the prayer Of
the petitioner should not be granted.
And II is further ordered that said petitioner give
notice the persons interested in said estate of the
pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof,
by causing copy of this order to be published In
the True Northerner, newspaper printed and cir
culating In said county of Van Buren,, for three
successive weeks at least previous to said day Of
hearing. BENZ. Il. HECKERT,
7G4o73l Judge of Probate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11
Rural Peace Officers.

The inefficiency of our rural consta-
bles and peace officers isn't to be won
dered at. They have no instruction as to
the proper discharge of their functions
or conception of the duties of their Office,
All such officers should be placed under
the superintendent of the sheriff and
required to report from time to time at
the county seat to the sheriff and prose
cutting attorney for such drill, discipline
and instruction as would prepare them
to be in fact, and not merely in name,
peace officers. The taxpayers could
well afford to pay the expense which
would attend such change, and the
county would soon boast force of of.
ficials who not only could but would
make the law terror to its violators.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11
Chamberlain az Co DesMOines low,

Chamberlain Il Co., DesMoines, Iowa,
desire to inform the public that they
are manufacturers of the most success
full preparation that has yet been pro-
duced for coughs, colds and Group. 1t
will loosen and relieve severe cold in
less time than any other treatment.
The article referred to is Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. 1t is a medicine that
has won fame and popularity on its
merits, and one can always be de-
pended upon. 1t is the only known
remedy that will prevent Group. 1t
must be tried to be appreciated. 1t is
put up in % cent, 80 cent and 81 bottles.
For sale by Longwell Bros. Paw Paw
and j. F. Barrows Lawrence. jan
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11
General + r Weaver saws. "Our

General j. b. Weaver says: "Our
brethren in the south acquitted them
selves well in the late struggle,
and / am satisfied with the results.
The Republican party is already thing
of the past i'm every Southern State,
and our friends there await with anx-
iety the strengthening of our lines in
the great Northwest" Well, yes, the
brethren used shotguns instead of eggs
on the Republicans, and party doesn't
recover as quickly from dose of slugs
as from dose of old eggs. The Gen.
eral is to be congratulated.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11

once be en- sacrificed by felOniOus means
in Covert, but the tragedies which have
lately happened there are more shock
ing than any which have disgraced
that township and Van Buren, county
in many years.
King Alcohol has again accomplished
his devilish work, shame be it recorded,
in place where by the voice of the
people the law prohibits all traffic in in
toxicating drinks.
1t has been openly charged that in
Covert, as in most of the towns and
villages of Van Buren, county, local
option has been a law in name only,
and that under all sorts of devices fire
water is as easily obtainable and more
ruinous i'm its work than ever.
Covert's tragedies are likely to be re-
peated i'm Van Buren, county if un-
bridled and unpublished rum selling is
winked at.
1t cannot be pretended that the four
constables elected to preserve and main
tain the peace in the township of Covert
could not, through legal methods and
the intelligent discharge of their duties,
as well as by fidelity to and regard for
their oaths of office, have made them
selves acquainted with what has been
an open secret in their bailiwick, name
ly, that spirituous and Intoxicating
liquor has day by day been illegally and
in shameful violation of law imported
and sold.
Who will say that such state of
affairs is unknown to them, and why
did they not see to it that such offenders
were promptly brought to justice9 Was
not that their duty?
1t goes without saying that our prose
cutor would have lent his hearty and
vigorous aid to such praiseworthy
yet practically unheard of attempt at
official effort in the line of duty, and
our sheriff would have supplemented
by all rightful means SO good work.
Thus the disgraceful crimes which
were committed might have been
prevented and human lives, sent to
their long account without time for one
brief plea for pardon, spared.
The people of Covert, nay the people
of Van Buren, county, cannot afford to
let the matter rest until respect for and
obedience to the law. which they have
adopted is rigidly compelled.
Such lawlessness and wicked murders
and the drain upon the tax payers which
follows, to say nothing of the unenviable
reputation which is given to the county,
must surely arouse all good citizens to
the pressing necessity of demanding of
their guardians of the peace the active
performance of their official functions.
Peace officials are not elected or
appointed for ornamental purposes, but
are required by law to actively suppress
crime, maintain the peace, see to it
that the laws of the land are obeyed,
that good order is maintained and that
offenders do not go upwhipped of
Justice.
Won't our officers surprise the people
by getting about the task they have
each sworn To the best of their ability
to perform and in the past SO thoroughly
neglected?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11

President Harrison has extended the
civil service TO cover all the free de-
livery postoffices, thereby adding about
8 1000 more Republicans to the protected
list. The postofiices in Michigan which
are affected by this order are: Adrian,
Alpena, Albion, Ann Arbor, Bay City,
Battle Greek, Detroit, East Saginaw,
Flint, Grand Rapids, Hillsdale, lonia,
Iron Mountain, Ishpeming, Jackson,
Kalamazoo, Lansing, Manistee, Mar
quette, Menominee, Muskegon, Owosso,
Pontiac, Port Huron, Saginaw, West
Bay City, and Ypsilanti. The Republi.
can letter carriers i'm those cities will
continue to hold their positions as long
as they faithfully preform their duties.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11

A convention, composed of delegates
from the Middle and New England
States is now IN session at Washington
to urge Congress to take early steps to-
ward bnilding ship canal across New
York State from Oswego to the Hudson
River
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11
EVERYBODY GUESS.
ShaeieT'S Ground Floor Gallery
DRoBATE oRDER.-state of Michigan

l.
At session of the probate court for the county of
Van Buren,, holden at the probate Office i'm the viii
lage of Paw Paw, on Monday. the 10Th day of
December, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-two:
Present: Hon. Benjamin f. Heckert, Judge of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Arthur
w. Tufts, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified.
OIL Anne II. Tufts, executrix of the last will and
testament of said deceased, alleging that duly au-
thenticated copies of the last will and testament of
said deceased and the probate thereof have been
filed in said court, showing that said will has been
duly admitted to probate in the county of Suffolk,
In the state of Massachusetts,, and praying that a
time and place for hearing said petition be fixed
and due notice thereof given to all persons inter-
ested, and that such copy of said will be allowed,
filed and recorded in said court and for the last
will and testament of said deceased.
Thereupon 1t is ordered that Monday, the 10Th
day of January 1898, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
be assigned for the hearing Of said petition, and all
persons interested in said estate required to APP
pear at session of said Court then to be holden at
the Probate Office in the village of Paw Paw, I'm
said county, and show cause, IL any there be, why
the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted.
And ii is further ordered that said petitioner give
notice to the persons interested in said estate of the
tendency of said petition and the hearing thereof
by causing copy of this order TO be published in
the TRUE NoRTdEBNER, newspaper printed and
circulating in said county of Van Buren, for three
successive weeks at least previous to said day OF
hearing.
7Ot4o73l BENZ. F. HECKERT. Judge of Probate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11

AZ so STATIONS U. s. LAWYERS On
RY AND RULE BOOK, 1898.

This LAW DIARY AND RULE BOOK has !
come a necessity In the law Office as evidenced
the 500 to 700 lawyers In this state who have orde
and avery LAWYER needs something OF this KIND \
cont aims revision OF all the rules, time for notic
for trial and mailing notices, the new County an
state officers, and the list of lawyers who are sub
scribers Ready for delivery Dec. 10. Order al ono
n Won want your name In the list. Delivered 10
$3.50. febl5
ELMER T.. STANTON, Attorney at Law.
Law Books and Supplies. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
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The Covert Tragedies.

Covert, thanks to the influence and
efforts of some of her more prominent
citizens, used to be counted upon as a
law-abiding, peaceable and respectable
community.
Human life has in the past more than
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-11
DRosATE oRpER.-state of Michigan,

FRANCIS W. SELLICk, MOrtBaBoe-
VIM. II. MASON, Attorney for Mortgage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30

Chicago, Dec. 29.-Attoney Trude in
the Prendergast case, resumed his clos
ing argument for the prosecution this
morning. In the course of his remarks
he had occasion to refer to Henry
George, the great single tax advocate.
whom he characterized as a ''migra-
tory and presidential parasite"
Judge Bretano began his charge to
the jury at o'clock p. m.
The verdict of the jury. in the Prem
dergast case was guilty, with sentence
of death.
The jury returned into court at 2:S0
p. m. and the prisoner was sent for.
When he arrived the foreman of the
jury announced the finding of the jury.
Prendergast, who was fear-stricloeI and
trembling when brought back to court,
utterly collapsed when the announce
ment was read. He sank back in his
chair: his chin dropped and he seem
ed completely dazed. He looked pitt
fully, appealingly at the court and jury
and tears glistened in his eyes from
which heretofore only fierce glances OF
hatred had been shot AS soon as the
verdict Was announced. the baliffs
grabbed the miserable, trembling priS-
oner and started to rush him back to
MS cell IN mufdererS row. Iney mad
nearly reached the door when Judge
Brentano ordered them to stop while
the jury was polled. Prendergast
stood nervously clutching the back of
a chair while each juryman in turn
answered that his verdict was death.
When the last juror had made his an
swer, Prendergast's knees shook, his
chin dropped and he would have fallen
had not one of the attending bailiffs
lent a supporting arm. He was led
half carried to his cell. The jury was
out somewhat over an hour.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
OPPOSE ISSUE OF BONDS.
Master Workman Sovereign Asks
knights 10 Protest.


Philadelphia. Dec. 29.-GeneraI Work.
man Sovereign of the knights OF Labor,
before leaving home, issued an adj
dress to the knights of the country ap-
pealing to them to protest against the
proposed bond issue. He quotes from
the platform of the knights as follows.
'"That interest bearing bonds. bills Of
credit or notes shall never be issued
by the government; but when need
arises the emergency shall be met by
an issue of legal tender nOn-interest
bearing money" he asks every local
assembly in the country to discuss this
plank at the first regular meeting in
January. He says he calls for the
new agitation, because he has letters
from the south and west saying that
the issue Of bonds, as asked by Car
isle should be considered a sufficient
prOvOcatiOn to Justify q call to arms.
He deDrecates such course, and sug-
gestS that on the first attempt of Con
gress to grant the authority asked, the
members of the order from Maine to
California hold Indignation meetings
and send protests to their members Of
Congress. He says the issue of bonds
is an outrage and should brand with
eternal infany every name connected
with the disreputable transaction.
The paper continues by saying that
q sum equal to the entire circulating
medium of the country was paid in
interest every six months. which means
that on an average Of every six months
the people must reborrOw the money
from the interest takers, with new Sc
curities. Thus the compound system
grows. and if not checked it viii alb
serb all the wealth and leave the la
borer in abject seryitude,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
THE DEATH WATCH.
The Murderer Declines TO be Inter
viewed.

The Murderer Declines 30 be Inter
viewed.
please ask the gentleman to excuse
me. would prefer not to see or talk
with anybody tonight" This was the
verbal response of Prendergast as hi
sat in his cell tonight. to written
message to the effect that the Asso-
ciated Press would be pleased to re-
ceive any statement ne might be dis
posed to make. The reporter who
sent in the message followed Night
Jailer FoltZ into the cage and heard
the reply as above, spoken in a clear,
calm tone, very much as any man
might decline to be interviewed
Prendergast, when removed from the
facing the visitors cage. Just inside
the cell he sat- while outside was
posted the death watch. If the
prisoner had any conception of the
real Significance of this extra watch,
he gave no sign. He appeared perfectly
at ease with not a trace of excitement,
distress or anxiety upon his forbid
ding features having had five hours to
regain his composu1ts, since the YER
ter he was placed in the cell, his
brother John was admitted. The
brothers grasped hands and neither
spoke for some time, then John said.
Don't lose hope, Gene; we will do
all we can for you" Later his lawyers
called and did what they could to
cheer him up.
o cell in the murderer'S row and will
have for his nearest neighbors. Painter
and Higgins, two men under death
sentence for murder
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
SCANDAL IN ROYAL CIRCLES.
A German Princess Involved With a
Lieutenant

Berlin, Dec. 29.-The Meme Nachrich-
ten, of Munich. on December j. an
nounced that on the Sunday previous,
December 8, at Genoa Princess lsiiba-
beth, of Bavaria, had baAn married 10
Lieutenant Seigfried Auf Puttenhem,
of the Bavarian army This was news
and caused decided sensation. as the
princess is the granddaughter of the
emperor of Austria, as well as the
granddaughter of the prince regent of
Bavaria, but the sensation which the
report of the marriage created is as
nothing to the CONSERVATION caused
in im.arial and royal circles today by
the announcement made by tie Ger
mania, chief organ of the clerical party
which declares that Pri1,ass Elizabeth
was not married to Lieutenant Seig-
fried and that she is not now married
to him, although they ure liyi.g to-
gether The Germania adds ether
news which is undoubtedly most rain-
full to the relatives IF the princess, bot
as. it is not to be published, it is not
contained in these dispa che5.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
GIndstone's birthday.

London, Dec. 29.-This is Gladstone's
eighty-fourth birthday. He passed the
forenoon working hard in his study
and during the afternoon went to the
house of commons, receiving many
kilograms of congratulation from dis
tinguished people in all parts of the
country.
Gladstone throughout the day was in
the best of health and spirits He took
a short carriage drive before proceed
ing to the house of commons and at his
residence was a constant procession of
visitors Among the diplomatic repre-
sentatives who called were the Rus
sian and Turkish ambassadors, but no
member of the United States embassy
called. Gladstone during the day re
ceived an immense number of presents
in addition to letters and kilograms of
congratulation and anumber of ladies
brought flowers for Mrs, Gladstone.
The queen and prince of Wales and
nearly all the prominent members of
both parties were among those who
telegraphed congratulations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
REASONS FOR DELAY.
The brazilian Government Asked to
Explain.

Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 29.-Inquiries
were made today in government circles
as to the cause of the governments
inaction in regard to the Nictheroy
and America It is reported both yes
sells have been delayed at ports where
they arrived on account Of the in
trigues of agents of MelIo. In reply it
is officially stated the government
does not intend to attack the rebel
warships until after the arrival of the
torpedo boats purchased in Germany
as the government force is not con-
sidered strong enough to engage the
rebel feet until these reinforcements
arrive. The representatives of the
government asked how it was these
vessels, which sailed several weeks
ago and were due here some time ago,
had not yet reached Brazil? The re-
ply was the torpedo boats had un-
doubtedly been delayed by storms,
and two weeks more might elapse be-
fore they reached the coast of Brazil
Cana has not made any progress
worth mentioning since the last dis
patches sent and nothing new of an
important nature has occurred up TO
the hour this dispatch is sent. The
usual exchange of compliments be-
TWEEN the rebel warships and the gov
eminent forts continue with about the
So me result
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30

ST. Vincent. Dec "a delayed dis
patch from Pernambuco, dated Dec.
%, says there was serious fighting in
Aguas Bellas on the 21st. The soldiers
attempted to capture Constantin
Rogeberto, who fortified a house on
the hill In the conflict fifty soldiers
were killed. The result of the battle
had not been given. The dispatch also
sent report of a revolt on the con-
Wet island Fernando de Morohna.
Agents of Admiral Mello corrupted
some of the guards, who allowed part
of the convicts to get arms. They re-
VOTED, entrenched themselves and were
threatening to capture the fort and
turn the island over to the rebels. A
number of guards and soldiers were
killed in the conflict
The insurgent war vessel was ex-
pected there to help liberate all the
convicts to the number of one or two
thousand and take them to Rio to fight
the government. 1t is understood that
a government cruiser was sent there to
suppress the revolt and defend the is
land against the insurgents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
Clay and Webster,

The Hon. Horace j. Pointer, who
served three terms as mayor of New
ark, N. J., away back in the fifties. is
still living and likes to talk about old
times He remembers the visit of La
fayette and Kossuth, and was much
more fayorably impressed as a boy
with the former than in after yea re
with the latter. II heard both CLAY
and Webster" he said the other day,
and shall never forget either one. It
seemed to me as if Clay won the audi
ence, not so much by what he said
as the way in which he said il. Big
and raw boned though he was. his
power of personal magnetism was won
derful. Webster was a poor orator.
His delivery was hesitating, but his
eIoquence swept everything else aside
One forgets what Clay said and how
Webster said it, and in memory the
marvellous manner of the one, the mar
Vicious thought of the other ALWAYS
live. Chicago Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
MRS. LEASE TO THE GOVERNOR.
She Was Tried and Sentenced and
Denied Defense.

Topeka, Dec. 29.-Mrs. Lease sent
Governor Lewelling the following let
ter this afternoon, anent her removal
from the board of trustees of the state
charitable institutions: ''Disclaiming
any intention of questioning your
authority, or wisdom of your acts, or
the integrity of your purposes, [ beg
leave to remind you that you have, as
the chief executive of this state, tried
and sentenced me without according
me that which the law of the land ac-
cords the vilest criminal-the right OF
defense. Were an employee of yours.
your right to perpetrata this act of
injustice might depend upon your in
clination. AS it is, 1 Recognize the fact
that / am an employee of the state,
accountable as such to the people of
this state for my official record, and
for them, as well as for myself, 1 de-
mand statement and investigation of
the charges preferred against me.
that may have an opportunity to
concede the manifest justice of your
decree, or defend myself from the i'm
putatiOn of hireling politicians"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
Carter Harrison. Lr.

The members of the late mayors
family We're apparently expecting such
a verdict as given and seem to derive
little satisfaction from the fact that
the murderer was to die for the crime
feeling that only justice has been
done. Carter Harrison, jr, one of the
proprietors of the Times, in discussing
the verdict. said: I am not sur
prised at the verdict, because to my
mind there has never been the least
doubt as TO the mans legal RESPONSE
bility when he committed the act. L
think a hanging verdict will have a
most beneficial effect on the vast army
who seek notoriety by violence or by
threatening men occupying high posi-
tiong'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30

Jacksonville. Fla, Dec 29.-At a
meeting of the Duval Athletic club
held this afternoon, it was decided to
have the Corbett-Mitchell fight take
place at IL O'Clock on the morning of
January 18th The decision of the
club was, that in the event of a favor
able report from the criminal court on
Monday next the fight will take place
at all hazards.
It is said the governor insists the
proposed fight is in violation of law
and declares it shall not come off un-
less the supreme court decides such
contests legal. It is believed the COVER
nor knows the decision will be against
it's legality. A dispatch from Tampa
says teh governor stated most posi-
lively tonight: .'The fight will not
come off in Florida" He says he has
plans for preventing it, and at the pro-
per moment will act. He is further
quoted as saying: Il regard the pro-
posed fight as against the peace and
dignity Of the state and my determin-
alton to prevent it is fixed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
Attorney Trude.

Chicago, Dec. 29-In an interview
tonight, Attorney Trude said: 1.-THE
conviction of this man will. in my
opinion, operate as a determent against
the commission of like crimes by no.
toriety-loving cranks. Since the trial
of -Prendergast has been in progress
cranks have arisen all over the
country, threatening mayors, chiefs OF
departments and men of means This
verdict will operate as a life insurance
policy on their safety. A verdict OF
acquittal on the ground Of insanity
would have been the sowing of dra-
CONS teeth and the threatened mayors
and others would be in danger of losing
their liVeS''