Important Announcement

The Register will next week begin the publication of a series of short stories which will be of great interest to our readers. One of them is from the pen of that great novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, and another was written by R.Rider Haggard, the author of "She." The flrst story to appear will probably be "Mr. Bird's Umbrella," and was written by F. W. Robinson. Robert Louis Stevenson's story is "Will o' the Mili." This is the most important announcement of the kind ever made by a Washenaw eounty paper, and we feel snre that our readers will welcome the stories with pleasure. Mayor Hewitt, of New York city, now recei ves alinost as much newspaper attention as President Cleveland, and even the Republican papers praise him. His latest performance is declining to review the procession in New York city on St. Patrick's day. As the old general said of the charge at Balaklava, 'It's splendid, but it isn't war.' The Irish vote in New York city is large, and it requires courage to do what the mayor did. We can see no very good reason for his declining, but the courage displayed cannot be doubted. The mayor, too, has recently been recommending some startling innovations in the way of taxation and of managing rapid transit. He wants the taxation of personal property stopped. He also wants the city to manage ita own means of rapid transit. He presenta his views with wonderful clearness and in an unanswerable way. He is called socialistic by those who want things to remain just as they are, but he goes along serene! not minding them very much. Thk New York senate has had a committee investigating trusts, and the committee has made a report. The difficulty the committee had in getting witnesses and books was something remarkable, The leading man desired as witness would be in Florida for his health, and books and papers would be found to have disappeared in a most unaccountable way. However, in spite of these difficulties, the trusts controlling sugar, milk, rubber, cotton-seed oil, envelopes, elevators, oil cloth, standard oil, glass and furniture, were overhauled somewhat. The "Milk ExchaDge, Limited," can hardly be called a trust, but it is a monopoly of the worst kind. The business it represente is simply enormous. But the exchange compele the farmers to Bell the milk at two to three cents per quart, and then it sella it to the people of New York city for seven, eight, and sometirnes ten cents per quart. The report reeommends that the Exchange's charter be taken away. Jay Gocld and Russell Sage were recently charged befóte a New York grand jury with larceny. The bondholders of the Kansas Pacific ioad charged them with the dishonest conversión to their own use of the bonds of the road. There was a strong case against them. The usual procedure for a grand jury is to find an indictment if the evidence is such as, if uncontri;dicted or unexplained, would warrant a conviction. The defense is made at the trial. But this grand jury went out of its way to shield the millionaires. and, whilenot denyingthat the evidence was sufficient, refused to bring in an ment because the offense was committed so long ago that the prosecution was barred out by statute. That was something the jury had nothing to do with properly. Some of the best lawyere express astonishment at thia action. If instead of two millionaires, there had been two poor men charged with larceny, they would have gone to trial.