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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
SENATOR'S In DANGER.
SUGAR SCANDAL MAY POSSIBLY
LEAD TO ARRESTS.
Three Prominent Statesmen Said to Have
Perjured Themselves In the Recent La
vestiEation-Talk of criminal Prosecu-
Non and Exposure.


It Is reported here, on what Is said
TO be good authority, says Washing
ton correspondent, that, despite the
denials of speculation and the sworn
statements of Senators who had been
called before the Investigating COM
mittee, it would be proven that in
three instances at least speculation
had been engaged in, and that the
three Senators referred to had been
guilty of perjury.
An interesting story is going the
rounds-a story so startling in its de-
tails that it is almost past belief. 1t is
said there is man in Washington who
has in his possession the original
brokers contract whereupon one of
the Senators-a prominent one at that
CONTRACTED to buy sugar when
it was down to 49, just before its phe-
nomenal rise. 1t is said that interest
ed persons short" on sugar, and who
had been squeezed" in the process of
manipulating the market, or because
they did not have the inside tip, had
lost an immense amount OF money, and
had determined so break the sugar
schedule at all hazards.
The most interesting part of the
STORY Is Jne way IN Wnlcn tney 1nJen0
to set this schedule aside. 1t is by no
other process than bv the arrest of
certain Senator on a charge of per-
jury. In criminal case of this kind,
1t is said, stock brokers would be COM
PEELED to show their books in court and
the persons back of this scheme say
they can prove, not only by the evil
dence they now claim to have, but by
what thew could TINS Law bare that
somebody has been doing some tall
lying before the Investigating commit
tee.
1t is thought this particular Senator.
rather than submit to such proceed
ings, would undo the work it is said he
has assisted in doing and through the
influence he is said to yield, sugar would
be placed on the free list. and the men
short" OF the stock would recoup their
capital dropped while they were on the
wrong side of the market.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Good Year In Furniture Trade.

The regular semi-annual furniture
sale opened at Grand rapids soon after
the Fourth, and reached its height
last week. Re resentatives of nearly
all the large furniture hou es in the
United States ha been inspecting
the new designs and placing their fail
orders. The attendance OF Eastern
buyers has been larger than ever be-
fore, but from the West the number is
smaller. The purchases have been
more liberal han six or twelve months
ago. and fair fall S work for the fac
tories is assured. Carload prices
range - per cent. less than ayear ago,
as the result of cheape labor and ma
terial. The lower grades are also more
in demand
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
GROVER SPEAKS OUT.
Letter from Him Indorsing the Wilson
1911 Read I'm the House.

Letter from Him Indorsing the Wilson
1911 Read In the House.
A Washington dispatch says: In
tense interest was created by Mr.. Will
sons announcement in the House
Thursday that he had a letter from
President Gle, Gland, which the
latter had permitted TO be-
make public. The letter was
then sent to the desk and read,
amid profound silence. TIE letter was
in the President vigorous styie, and
was a stirring tribute to the Wilson
bill and direct blow at any surrender
to the Senate bill. The letter was ac-
companied by speech from Mr.. Will
son. He denounced the Senate
and the manner in which the
House members had been treated
in the conference. With unmistakable
suggestion he declared that, should it
be proved that the sugar trust had
corruptly influenced legislation, 1t was
the duty of Democrats to make bitter
reprisal on this conspiracy by sweep
ing aside the duty or refined sugar.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
OUR FORTY.FlFTH STATE.
Utah Adds Another Star to Old Glory's
Blue.

BY few strokes of his pen Grover
Cleveland made operative the bill
which provides for the admission OF
Utah to the Union as State. BY the
conditions of admission this Our forty
fifth State, will have full powers of
statehood upon the commencement Of
the next session of Congressional is,
she is to send no Representatives or
Senators to the present Congress.
Utah, with an area of S4.476 square
miles, had in 1897 a population of 2O7,-
900, which was greater than that OF
either Delaware, Montana, Idaho,
North Dakota, Nevada or Wyoming.
Utah is divided into twenty counties.
Salt Lake City is the capital and largest
city. Utah is divided into two pal Is
by the Wahsatch mountains. The
west part belongs to the great basin,
its waters having no outlet to
the ocean, while the east part is
drained by the Colorado River of the
West This river is formed by the
junction of the Grand and Green, and
flows southwest into Arizona. West OF
the Wahsatca Mountains are several
lakes, of which those with no outlet
are salt or alkaline. The largest of
these and the most famous is the
tIreaJ SalJ Lake. oOuJn OF JnlS lake,
into which it flows through the River
Jor dan, forty-fve miles long, is Utah
Lake, a sheet of pure fresh water
Astounding in fish.
In the valleys the climate is gener-
ally mild and healthful with little
snow. On the mountains the winters
are severe and the snowfall is more
abundant. Much of the soil Of Utah is
fertile, and by thorough irrigation can
be made to produce good crops. But
the plains in their natural state are
for the most part hard, dry and
barren and frequently covered with a
saline incrustation. The principal
agricultural products are wheat, oats,
barley, potatoes and other root crops
Apples, pears, peaches, plums and
grapes grow we'll Grazing Is con-
Quoted on larger scale than is agri-
culture.
Utah forms part of the territory az
quired from Mexico in lS4s. 1t was
settled in l547 by the Mormons under
Brigham Young. Utah-named from
a tribe of Indians OF that name-was
organized as Territory in 1850, and
embraced 20, 1876 square miles. With
in its limits were portions of what
have since become Colorado, Wyoming
and Nevada
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
viii Receive Lie Sentence.

CHARTS Macard was convicted at
Grand Rapids of murlerin tae first de-
gree and will receive a life sentence.
With Henry Prame he anne from Chi
cago last winter to oh Mrs. McKen-
drick, an old woman who carried large
sums of money on her person. They
went to her hou,e gagged and bound
her, and she died OF strangulation.
Macard was captured in San Francisco
and Frame in Freeport, III. rame
confessed and made Macard's convic-
ton easy. Macard took The verdict
with tut grimace and his mother and
other relatives showed no emotion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27

In demanding protection for their
sheep the wool-rais ers OF California
have simply asked for justice. Any
tariff bill which places American wool
on the free list and dooms American
flocks to slaughter is UNANIMOUSLY I'M
just. The Northern and Western
sheep-grower has precisely the same
right to protection as the Southern
sugar and rice planter, and no meas
ure which denies that right should
ever be permitted to pass the Ameri-
can Senate.-Burlingt Hawkeye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Air Ships.

To make the air ship OF practical
utility, it will require the sustaining
power of gas. A study Of the fight of
birds Is likely to furnish all needful
hints on the controlling power, but,
thus far, science has not developed
force enough to keep the ship up and
propel it at the same time. Once the
weight question is settled, there is lit
tie difficulty in handling the aerial
ship. A practical ISOLATION of this
much discussed problem is confidently
looked for by those who have stud
led IL
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27

The cost of the census up to this
time is SIC, s65, co..
IT is proposed to erect monuments
to John Brown on the site of the his
toric enginehouse at Harpers ferry.
DYNAMITE was placed under a rail-
way bridge near South Enid, Ok, and
the structure was partly demolished.
DYNAMITE was placed on the North
ern Pacific tracks at Sank Rapids,
Mimi, and exploded under train
Tbs cars were wrecked, but no one was
injured.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Record OF the Week.

THERE have been sos births and Isl
deaths in Gratiot County for the year,
according to the latest census reports.
THE Upper Peninsula Firemen's AS
ISOLATION was organized at Marc cite,
fourteen cities being represented in It,
TIE wheat harvest of Van Buren,
County Is completed and the crop was
the largest for the acreage ever known.
ITHACA will be the place for the
Meeting Of the Gratiot Agricultural
Association this fall and no pains will
be spared to make it successful fair.
KALAMAZOO can ave enough to pay
for a municipal lighting plant by ac-
cepting bid made for building it for
$3Z, 500, with guarantee to run it for
five years for $1,000.
THE Chief of Police at Adrian
thought he had found a murder mys-
terry floating in the River Raisin Sun
day, but the bag, when ripped open,
revealed the corpse OF plain cat.
CHIEF OF POLICE BOYLE, of .'ack-
son, has arrested Charles Cleveland
and Robert Mehan, on suspicion o: be
ing i'm plicate / in the shooting OF Post
master WeathcrwaX at Somerset Cen
ter.
FRANK WHITE, of Oxford, threw
Jake Snyder, of Jack on, t rec times
in twenty-three minutes at the Jacks n
Athletic Club rooms. White wants to
wrestle Shellenberger, Carkeek, or
any 14C-pound man in the worll.
JOHN CRoNIN, the drunken Toledo
tramp printer, stabbed at Adrian on a
recent Sunday while tormenting an
Italian section hand, is recovering.
FIR. Reilly will prosecute two saloon
keepers, of whom Cronin alleges he
got his liquor.
ITHACA has population of 1864, q
gain of nearly 200 in four years. She
is going to have new city hall at an
expense of about $4,000. Also, State
teachers institute, beginning August
81. Her wool buyers bought and
shipped 10000 pounds OF wool this sea-
son
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27

The entire Republican party has
been striving for thirty years to pro-
mote the best interests OF the United
States and succeeded until 1t met with
disaster at the close OF the year 1892,
when its political antagonist, the Dem
ocratic parry, came to life again. But,
able - completely destroy free-trade
Democracy, that much desired result
has been achieved within one year by
one man. Grover Cleveland has utterly
annihilated the ent re Democ, ut @
party by his administration dur ing
1873 and ~. Samson slew mere
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Cheap Farm Products.

II any one wants to know why prices
of all farm oducts are low-fearfully
low-let him look over the list of silent
factories. dead furnaces and empty
shops. These are the reasons. more
eloquent and more con, incing than all
the oral and written testimony that
has ever been produced. And it is the
fulfillment OF Republican prophecy,
literally and absolutely. l. ates County
Mo- Reco d.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
TIE Trnsty Sklpped.

Fred Phardahn. who was serving a
three-years sentence in the Ionia
prison, escaped from the keeper the
other night. Phardahn was trusty.
and while the keepers back was turned
he skipped 10 the woods. This is the
second time he escaped. When brou ght
to the prison by the Sheriff little
over year ago he gave him the slip
and ran into the marsh, but wa, re-
capture in few hours Phardahn is
a burly man, of powerful frame.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
STATE OF MICHIGAN.
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
5, PAST WEEK.
Lively Time In an Upper Peninsula Town
Fred Phsrdshn Escapes from Prison
Suicide of IA Rich Detroiter who Abused
His Son.

Fifteen Hundred Nowadays Storm st. Joe.
The steamer City of Chicago arrived
at ST Joseph Thu sday with l,5 D
newsboys from Chicag. When leav-
ing the b at two Tell into the river and
were nearly drowned. After getting
on the street the crowl set load OF
hay on lire, ran street car that was
standing at corner nearly two blocks,
and raided a fruit stand and fruit trees.
They went 10 Sutherland's Grove, and
ate several dray- Dads of food. About
1000 went in bathing in the lake at
Onpa
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
ReNnIrnr W. Hose.

At Even the Onto9agon River Lum-
Der Comp any sawed some lumber on
contract for f. NJ. Witbeck, or which
it is alleged the later re used TO pay.
Witbeck engaged George Gordon to
load the lumber on cars. When Cor
don attempted to do so one o the en-
ployes turned a stream o. water from
2-in h no on h IN. Gordon fl ed
tn &c shots from revolyer ut the man,
but owing to the deluge of water his
aim was defe tive. Gordon will be
tried for assault with intent to Xxi |.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
NATIVITY OF Britain,s Recruits.

OF the recruits in the British army
last year 32,Ogi were born in England,
1861 in Scotland, and 1850 in Ireland.
One thousand three hundred and five
of these young soldiers were under IL
years of age.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Dneen,f Gnund BIC.

1t Is said that all the gold in the
world, not counting that in virgin
state, would not make block Of more
than 613 cubic yards. A cube OF the
above dimensions could be put in a
room "A feet each way.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Killed Himself from Rcmorse.

Oliver NJ. Dix committed suicide in
the county jail at Detroit in fit OF re-
morse Dix was enc Of the most prom
inent citizens in the suburb of Green
vile, wealthy and respected. Several
days ago however, he brutally
whipped young son in a fit of anger
Neigh bors made complaint and Dix
was arrested and placed on tri |. His
examination was to take pace Satur-
day afternoon, but when about to be
taken into court he was found dying in
his cell from the effects of poison No
one seems TO know h wv he secured it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
Fall from Their Bicycles and Drown.

Clifford Piesland, machinist for
Dunbar x Sullivan, contra tors on the
new sault Ste. Marie 10 ks, went to his
work on his bicycle, riding it along
the pie, by the canal His wheel
slipped and Piesland was thrown head
first into the canal He sank at once
and was drowned. A curious coinci-
dence is shown when it is remembered
that A. A. Carlisle, working + the
same company, was thrown into the
C anal and drowned only a ew feet
from the spot of this disaster, under
exactly the same clrcum stances.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27

and prosperity - our whole country. Rel
specifically submitted. J. II. BRIoHAN.
LEoNARD RHoNB
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27
FARMERS IN EARNEST
NATIONAL GRANGE OBJECTS TO
AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULE.

Features of tho Wilson Bill Denounced
Bctter Prices for Farm Products Under
Protection-GreatI Il Grover-Dernocratic
Love for Labor-Free Trade Freaks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-20
CHAPTER L

CHAPTER
IN the carly autumn Of 1S-a young
man who was registered at the Lexing-
ton (ky.) military academy as Surden
Bench, aged twenty-five. got up about
three o'clock in the morning and, talk
ing eight hundred dollars belonging
to the academy and his fellow-students,
decamped.
The significance of the circumstance
at the time arose from the discovery of
the deliberate and ingenious method
pursued by Bench to accomplish his
purpose. He had conceived some kind
of a town celebration and induced the
young men to write home for funds.
He also succeeded in getting them to
make him the depository OF the money,
which according to the books amount
ed to eight hundred and ffty-four dol
lars. file disappeared from Lexington
and all the efforts of the faculty and
the authorities to trace him failed.
It is now known that when he left the
academy he struck across country to
the Salt river, where he had sl1iff in
hiding and presumably a negro con-
federate. With characteristic Ken
lucky impulse, the young men of the
school held an indignation meeting
and offered the eight hundred dollars
to anyone who would capture him and
turn him over to the authorities. This
reward put upon his trail several
western deputy sheriffs who tracked
him to Cairo, Ill, where it was sus-
pected that he had changed his boat,
bought ammunition and supplies and
set off down the Mississippi, travelling
generally in the night and hiding in
the bayous during the day.
Deputy Sheriff Col. Abner Petingill,
of Frankfort, published in the Louis
vile Journal year later commune
cation setting forth that his party had
tracked Bench to a bayou, somewhere
between Tiptonville and Fulton, on
the Tennessee shore. where the fugi-
tive had sunk his boat and struck
through the wild tract of country ex-
tending to what is known as the High
land RIM in Henderson county. This
communication is curious in one state
ment. 1t says: I'VE discovered, after
much tedious searching, the sunken
boat and then struck his trail in the
woods. We had not followed it far be-
fore we came to the conclusion that he
was accompanied by a woman"
Col. Petingiu then states that it was
his belief and the belief of his party
that Bench met with an accident some
where on the Rim, for all traces of him
disappeared. and after camping out for
two weeks in the wilderness and dis
covering no new trail the party re-
turned
The fact is Bench had accidentally
discovered the Laran cave.
In his endeavor to escape from his
pursuers, he had struck straight up the
rim and in jumping from one of the
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all events, he went back to Caracas as
soon as the revolution was over and is
known to have bought up, on some
plea or other. the shells and ammuni-
ton originally shipped with the guns
that were lost and for which the gov
eminent had no use.
The guns, however, were not lost.
They lay in plain sight on the Bahiata
bank at low water, and. having been
carefully sealed, had suffered little
damage.
CHAPTER Ill
Three months later Bench comes to
the surface al the MoyaUensing prison,
now a federal penal establishment.
He arrived there as the representative
of an influential New York paper with
a letter to the governor-the officer
that under the old system we knew as
the warden.
And here the story of the great con-
spiracy properly begins.
A card was brought to the official
bearing the name of ANDREW Kent ~
with the title of the New York news
paper in the corner, and it was fol-
lowed by well-dressed man of about
thirty, whose easy dignity and in
formal heartiness impressed the warden
favorably.
You are Gov. Ixtel, presumed"
The governor smiled and said he wasL
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-20
A SINNER AND A SAINT.
The Respective Roles Played by the Living
and the Dead.

The Respective Roles Played by the Living
and the Dead.
The late Ma Ju-Lung was formerly
commandments in Yunnan. A
memorial was presented to the emperor
by certain local notabilities, stating
his good works and praying that
posthumous honors might be conferred
on him. He had distinguished himself
in the great Mohammedan rebellion of
Nav. 1870. First and last" said they.
The was instrumental in killing over
ten thousand of the enemy, and in his
own person practically decided the fate
of Yunnan." The emperor duly con-
sidered the statements set forth
in the memorial, and before
long issued the gratifying decree
in the Pekin Gazette that the
highest honors possible to be accorded
to one of Ma Ju-Lung's rank be con-
ferred on his spirit: that a temple be
erected in the capital of Yunnan. and
that his deeds be recorded by the state
historiographer.
Ma Ju-Lung was therefore duly beati-
fed and cannonized; he was to be wor-
shipped as saint. But the number of
the Gazette containing these announce
pan ihto tiC
breasts of many in Yunnan. In their
ewes the upstart saint was good-for
nothing scamp. and his admirers were
pettifogging traders. In the rebellion
he was a traitor and sold himself to the
enemy. If he was instrumental in
killing ten thousand of the Moham-
medans, he massacred. when in their
nav. at least forty thousand Chinese.
A.
memorial. with much more besides.
Did he not ride in a yellow chair and
in all things do as he pleased?" Did he
not. when ordered to use a green chair.
again enter into treacherous negotia-
tions with the Mohammedans? If the
honors bestowed upon him are not
Withdrawn the memorialists express a
fear that tens of thousands of innocent
souls whom he sent to hades will be
unable to close their eyes for indigna-
ton. After some delay, in reply to
this counterblast, comes a highly-im-
portant and noteworthy decree from
the emperor, published. as usual. in
the Pekin Gazette. He had con-
-sidered the second memorial, and now
declared that. since the erection of a
temple to a spirit could only be permit
ted where the people We're practically
unanimous in its favor, that portion of
his decree relating to the temple should
be Cancelled.
But as blame and praise seemed in
the present instance to be equally APP
,,ortioned. the rank conferred on Ma
-.In-Lune's spirit was to stand good, and
his deeds were still to be recorded by
the state official appointed for'such du-
ties. Observe that the important part
of this decree is the recognition of the
vox populi as identical to great ex-
tent with the vox Dei--Contemporary
Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-20
POINTS AND OPINIONS,

The croakers can't stop the re.
turn of good times. Even the croak-
ers will be singing jubilee songs soon.
Atlanta Journal.
1t is a significant fact that the
so-called protected" industries of our
country are the ones which pay the
poorest wages.-Albany Argus.
1t is to be hoped that the labor
vote will not lose sight of the fact that
the publican press is urging a gen.
eral cut in wages. Herald.
1t will be interesting to discover
which vicious combination the repub-
licans prefer personified in a presiden-
tial candidate-Reed czarism strongly
infused with Mckinley protectionism,
or Mckinley protectionism strongly
infused with Reed czarism.-Chicago
Herald.
The republican papers will exult
for a week or SO now over the victory
in Maine" Tom Reed would have ex.
ulted more if Mckinley had not been
imported by Joe Manley to make that
ante-election speech which will entitle
him to claim share in the results
Chicago Times
udtc'cE us oTiSlud purpose;
the irresistible tendency of the repub-
ican policy has been to corrupt the
government. The longer that policy
was applied the more marked the
tendency has been. and the sugar
trust lobby in and about the senate
was its logical and inevitable out
come. The moment legislation is sc
framed as to benefit certain private
interests. those interests will seek to
influence legislation. and the greater
the profit to he: obtained from the law.
makers the more direct and ,unre.
strained becomes the bribery. The
history of protection in the repub-
lcan party proves this.-N. Y. Time,