The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-03-02
WHOLE NUMBER 2O32.

| Within the past week we have added
to our list of subscribers the name of q
wealthy Van Buren county farmer who
is 20 years old, and who within the past
four or five years has picked up suffi
cient knowledge to enable him To read
and write, he having been reared in a
country where poor people had no
school advantages.
Holmes q Bilsborrow present to our
readers and their friends and customers
some bottom facts with regard to the
conceded excellence of the "Quick
Meal" gasoline stove. They intend TO
make leading feature of this household
favorite and will deliver it free any
where in the county You can't miss
their big adv. if you try.
Robert j. Burdetto, who letures at
the opera house next Friday evening, is
by nature a humorist in the truest mean
ing, but those who imagine him to be
humorist and nothing else will find
he touches the most tender chords of
sentiment and pathos. He should be
heard, and those who do not hear him
will miss something they can not well
afford to lose
The Democratic caucus, held at the
council room Tuesday evening, put in
nomination the following corporation
ticket: For president, G.. r. Avery; for
recorder, w. III Mason; for treasurer,
A. L. Stevenson; for trustees, III. ID.
LOngwell, Geo. w. Koons, f. s. Briggs;
for assessors, Joseph Davey, W. M.
Snow. Village cOmmittee-W H.
Mason, Fred b. Ocobock, b. p. Bryar.
Every Republican voter in the village
hnnnH fn OF no ni
next Monday. A ticket is put in the
field that is pledged, if elected, to
account for every cent that passes
through their hands, TO make an intel
ligible account of where it is spent and
for what purpose, and to carry on the
affairs of TIE village on business
basis and in business-like manner.
Great care was taken in the caucus to
choose the best men in the Republican
ranks.
Mr.. Joseph Kay, respected citizen
of the Lee district, met with a serious,
if not fatal, accident Monday. He was
in the woods telling trees, one of which
partially lodged on sapling. Striking
the sapling blow with his AK and sew
ering it, the but end flew up, striking
Mr.. Kay terrible blow squarely across
the forehead, knocking him down in
such manner that the back of his head
struck small stump. He was carried
to his house in an unconscious condi-
ton and medical aid hastily summoned.
His physician informs us that the two
blows have produced concussion of the
brain and that his condition is extreme
ly critical.
Everybody expected that the work of
the Ingham county grand jury, in the
investigation of the election frauds of
1891 and 1898, would be thorough and
exhaustive and perhaps furnish some
thing in the way of surprises when its
report should be made, but no one was
fully prepared for some of the features
of the report. The terrific arraignment
of Attorney General Ellis, the state Off
GERS who constitute the board of state
canvassers, and County Clerk May of
Wayne, would lead one to the belief
that facts not yet given to the public
were presented to the jury. The gen
eral feeling has been that the members
of the board of state canyassers were
guilty of nothing worse than gross care
lessness in signing and certifying to of
fetal statements of the correctnes of
which they had neglected to inform
themselves. But the finding of the jury
charges JneSe O1ncerS with absolute,
positive crime In the case of the at
torney- general and the clerks of the
canvassing board, indictments were ex-
pected on serious charges, and since
the queer manner in which County
Clerk May allowed the Wayne county
tally sheets to get away from him at
Lansing, there has been no doubt of his
completely i'm the frauds. The report of
the grand jury is a thorough, far-reach-
ing document 1t presents ten citizens
of Michigan-all OF whom have been
honored by political preferences as
guilty of the worst imaginable crime
against the rights of the people who
had given them their confidence The
grand jury of Ingham county has done
its duty, we'll. 1t remains for the courts
to do theirs. "Hew to the line, let the
chips fall where they may"