The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-20
WHOLE NUMBER 2O52.

Have we favored class among us?
If not, how is il that, after the board of
supervisors had refused to rent GER
tain room in the court house to Justice
Warner, another justice is allowed to
hold his court there at pleasure and
rent free? What particular pull has he
on those in charge of the county build
ings? Or is this but another of those
cOnundrums which mo feller can find
OUT?
The county conventions thus far held
in the hack districts" (the abode of
Republican majorties) don't afford any
great amount of comfort to the great
one-term(?) apostle, Pingree. The mud
sills are evidently well satisfied with
the administration of Governor Rich,
and are in no mood for trying expert
ments or ignoring long g-esta blshed par
| ty precedent. Brass bands and fire.
works are quite necessary adjuncts to
Fourth of July celebration, but they
don't count with the people in critical
times like these Put none but tried
men on guard
! The annual report of the department
j of public instruction has been issued
by Superintendent Pattengill. A con-
siderable portion is devoted to the archi-
lecture and care of school houses. The
! free text book system is commended.
There are 1880 school houses in the
state, and the school property is valued
at S15, 757 ,921 The enrolment in graded
schools is PAS, ,099 enrolment in un-
graded schools, 367, 400; whole number
of teachers employed in graded schools,
5,264; whole number of teachers EN-
ployed in ungraded schools, IL, ,041; ag-
gregate wages of teachers in graded
schools, 81, 1876, 547.75; aggregate wages
of all teachers in ungraded schools, 81
432, 35S.S2
The Niles District campmecting, to
commence Friday, August 3, and close
Monday, August 13, is expected to be
one of the most interesting and helpful
of any ever held at the Crystal Springs
grounds. In addition to the pulpit tai
ent of Southern Michigan and Northern
Indiana, Rev j. IL. Potts, ID. d., will
preach Sunday, August 9Th, and Rev.
Levi Masters, ID. d., Sunday, August
18th. Rev. Washington Gardner and
Rev. VIM. Jones, ID. ID. l.. l.. d., will
preach once each day and also conduct
Bible reading each day. Rev. William
Herald, evangelist, will have charge of
the altar services. The new tabernacle
VIII SedJ t,UUU peODit, dlu Illc IOSil
will accommodate 100 singers.
A grand Emancipation celebration
will be held at Lakeside Park, Eagle
Lake, on Tuesday, July 3lst. Mr.. A.
II. Roberts of Chicago will deliver the
grafton. The manager of the Park is
Sparing neither pains nor expense to
make this celebration a pronounced
success in every detail. The grounds
are fitted with every convenience nee
essary for the accomm OdatiOn of visit
ors; a steamer is on the lake and will
be at the disposal of those who wish to
enjoy pleasant ride; small boats can
be had at reasonable rates and for the
benefit of those who wish to engage in
dancing, a large bowery has been built
and good music will be in attendance.
A fee of ten cents will be charged at
the gate to defray expenses. Speaking
at two O'Clock.
A most diabolical and successful plot
to wreck passenger train on the Grand
Trunk road was enacted west OF Battle
Creek Monday morning. The Atlantic
express, due at Battle Greek at $50 a.
m, and twenty-five minutes late, was
running at good rate of speed, and
just as it passed the top grade on the
hill the engine, tender, baggage and
express car left the track and piled up
i'm a~ heap in the ditch. The fireman,
Thomas Crow, was instantly killed and
the engineer, conductor, baggageman,
express messenger, brakeman and two
or three passengers were badly bruised.
Crow was thrown nearly fifty feet from
the engine and struck his head on
large rock by the side of the fence. He
died without regaining consciousness.
There is no doubt this was the result of
premeditated plan to wreck the train,
as the fish plate had been reno. ed and
bolt slipped in between the plate and
rail so they could not spring back into
place. This is the third time within
the past two weeks that the fish plates
have been removed from the rails of
the Grand Trunk line, and illustrates
the extent of lawlessness to which the
passions of men with fancied griev-
ance will carry them. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that any striker-any man who
ever did an honest days wOrk-can
have had any part or share in this hor-
rible deed. 1t is impossible to conceive
of man bred to honest toll engaging
in such murderOus work, no matter
what he might conceive to be his prov
ocation or grievance. Yet, because of
the suspicion that the act is in some
way the outgrowth of the strike, it be-
hOOves every man among those who
quit work to lend their hearty aid in
briging the perpetrators to justice and
prove to the world that the blood of
the murdered Thomas Crow is not on
their hands. The officials of the Grand
Trunk offer $500 for the apprehension
of the guilty parties.