Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-10-24
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

|
y portant Doings of Our Nelghbors-wed
|, dings and Deaths = Grimes, Casualties
: and General News Notes.
There are 625 students pursuing tn,
study OF German in the State University
Q German seems to be growing in popular
h lty as an elective study.
Samuel w. Dorr died at his residenc,
in Manchester, Washtenaw County,
few days ago. He came to Michigan In
1882 from New Hampshire, was q success
full fruit grower, and Vice Pres ident of the
Washtenaw County Pathological Society.
His age was 66 yenrs.
Senator Stockbridge has cane that
once belonged to Baron Baranoff, the old
Russian Governor of AL ska, who lived
at Sitka. He bought it of grandson of
the old Governor, and paid him $25 for it.
--Addie Peterson, a l0-year- old midget,
has been adroitly and systematically rob-
bling the merchants of Lansing for some
time She was detected and arrested the
other day, and in her mothers house we're
found many yards of dress goods, lace and
braids and quantity of smaller articles
that the baby crook had capttred. Her
clever work had mystifed the business
firms and police alike.
1t is freely admitted that 100 of the
richest women in Bay City have to go to
a corn doctor occasionally to have their
feet shaved down 10 standard sizes.
There is pretty howdydo in the new
city of Gladstone, and Gov. Luce has
been invited to take hand in the affair.
Richard Mason writes the Govern or spe-
cifically charging Aid. G. w. Lightfoot
with keeping q gaming house and Aid.
Zierath with gambling and appropriating
city funds illegally. Gov Luce has di-
rected the Prosecuting Attorney of Delta
County to investigate.
Another law enacted by the last Cen
eral Assembly is to be tested in the courts.
according to recent dispatch from Reed
City:
The last session of the Legislature passed n
special act making the President of the Village
Of Reed City member Of the Board OF Super |
yisors OF osceola County. At the annual meet
W
calling the roll at the opening of the session the
County Clerk refused to call the name of Village
President Holden, and the board afterward took |
a vote on the question which resulted in refus- |
Ing to allow Mr.. Holden to sit as a member of |
the board Application viii be made to the Su- |
preme Court for writ compelling the board to |
comply with the provisions of the law
"A peculiar suit has been brought
against the Supervisors of Saginaw
County, which. if successful, will COM
pei the county to remove the Court
House. A letter from East Saginaw
thus refers to the matter:
At Thursdays session of the County Board of
Supervisors letter was read from the executor
OF the estate of Samuel w. Dexter of Chicago.
IN which he sets forth the claim that in 1880
Samuel w. Dexter made plat of what is now
part OF the city of Saginaw, by which, among
other things, he granted to the county the
use OF certain lands for specific purposes, part
OF which was designated for public buildings
and part rs common, the latter being
gwen TO the county with the express under
saEg standing that It should not be built upon. Mr.
Dexter says this latter provision has been vio-
lated, as the present rt-house building erect
ed IN 1886 at cost of $4,000, extends more
than forty feet beyond the original limit for
building purposes and of course encroaches to
That extent on the common. The county is nov
requested to move the courthouse building
from on the common, distance of more than
forty feet, and in default thereof proceedings
viii be instituted to enforce the specific exectI-
Ilon OF the terms OF the grant unless the matter
IS otherwise adjusted This matter has been
nnder consideration by the county before Pre-
vious to the building of the court house the
question OF title to the site at present occupied
was fully considered, and the Board secured
the opinion of one of the ablest LAWYERS in the
city. That opinion was to the effect that the
county All itp cisIs TO the
property and the probability is the county has a
lawsuit on its hands that may last during the
memory OF the present generation
The Pnar1 80 |
University, at a meeting in Ann Arbor
the other day, decided to establish a post
graduate course in the law department,
and adopted the following resolution:
Resolved That the board will confer the degree
of master OF laws on any graduate of the de-
partment OF law who pursues the study of law
and who completes to the satisfac. ion of the law
faculty such a course of study as may be re-
lulred And that the privilege thus extended to
graduates OF the law department of this uni
versy is also extended to graduates OF other law
schools, who can satisfy the faculty of the de-
which they obtained their degrees were eoi1iya
ent to tho courses of study required ftr the
corresponding degrees at the law department OF
his university. .
The following Michigan pensions
have been granted:
Original Invalid-Ira Wade, William c. Ienox.
v,
George w. Bauman, Charles Broth. John nj ,
5tetler, Charles q. Meyer, Edward H. Lewis
Let's
Increase e. Franklin Truax Sylvester Dine
Jlarkson j. Decker, Nelson =. Woodruff John :
: Adams, John X. Fisher, Abram Miller Will !
am Kent, Charles Haws, Timothy Pender John I
lack, Harvey @. Button, Seth King, James
Saldwin, Darius Emmons, Alexander M. Clark Q
David Miller, William Lousby Darius q Dia | 4;
nond, Henry Irons, Samuel A. Brooks, Stephen
sherman. - F O
Original widow-susan, widow Of George r. :
irove. " y
Reissue-Tbaddeus M. southworth, Andrew a
|. Lee.
Mrs. Judson w. Hopkins, IN old resi- I
lent of Lansing, was borned to death at .
Ter home in that city few nights since.
'he was alone in the house when her
lress caught fire from the stove. =
Grand Rapids capitalists are busy q
prospecting the Verde Antique marble J
Iuarry, which they have discovered near .
shpeming. nd thorough tests show that I
n inexhaustible ledge of the finest ser o
entine" yet known on the continent bet !,
er even than the old Greek quarry now
'orked out, has been found. The work :,
developing the quarry will be pushed :,
early as possible next spring.
The managers of the washtenaw
'ounty Fair are talking of selling their !,
rounds and buildings and going out of =
he business. AS they have been obliged ),