The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-04-23
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.


dings and Deaths - Grimes, Casualties.
and General News Notes.
The Detroit Steel and Spring Com
,any. the largest concern OF it's kind in
he United States, has suspended pay
nent, with liabilities amounting to $780,
100. Their plant at Detroit occupies over
i've acres of ground and employs over
eco men with monthly payroll of nearly
BIZ, 900. About q month ago the CON-
oany fell into financial straits. To pro-
.ect themselves mortgage for $50, 900
was given, and proposition was made
20 the creditors to settle for 80 cents on
he dollar. This was accepted. Under
he compromise the works will not be
closed. The outlook is now favorable,
and the company can go on. The output
If the works amount to from $500, 900 to
81, 0OO. 600 a year. Morris /. Williams,
Detroit, has been made trustee.
The State Board of Health formally
announces that there's danger in measles,
and advises health officers to placard
houses where the disease prevails.
"A peculiar case was tried before
Judge BrevooIt at Detroit last week.
One day last winter DR.. William II.
Haynes, colored, accompanied DR.. S.
W. Barkwell, white, to restaurant kept
oy Fred Scoop. Dinner was ordered for
Two, but was served for one person only.
Mr.. Scoop refused TO serve tho negro.
Haynes then brought suit for $4,000 dam
ages against Scoop. At the first trial the
Jury disagreed. Judge Brevoort took the
Ease from the second jury, holding that
Haynes j. not q citizen Of the Uni ed
States and that Scoops place was not
public inn.
The Ann Arbor Argus has appeared
rs a semi weekly.
-Michigln averages, in the river and
larbor bill, about 60 per cent of the
amounts asked for by the engineers.
w. w. Cargill, President of the Sault
Ste. Marie Water-P Power Company, states
hat the money required for completing
The canal and developing 5000 horse
oower has been secured. The merely
formal work of examining titles is now
going on, aud the company will issue
bonds for S200, 900, making the total cost
Of the canal, including land and light of
way, about 5000. 600 The additional ex-
penditura OF 800, 900 will develop 5000
horsepower more, and the same proper
Ion of cost will increase the power to its
full estimated capacity of $4,000 horse
power.
-Bonsfeld E Co.'S woodenware works
At Bay City have been destroyed by fire,
entailing loss of $500 insured for
$4,000. 1t WAS the largest establish
ment of the kind in the world, and en-
p!oyed $50 hands. The fire is supposed
20 have been of incendiary origin.
At Coldwater, few days ago, An
drew Crosse killed himself with a charge
rom double-barrele shotgun, The
hot entered his right temple. He was
Quartermaster of Loomis' Battery for
.hree years dur ng the rebellion. He
was as years old, and had been a resi-
lent of Coldwate thirty-fve years.
Detroit Dispatch The validity of the
liquor act pa sed by the late Legislature
will be tested by the Brewers and Malt
ste:s' Association of Michigan. The new
Jaw became operative last October, and
oil 90 4
the price of licenses to retail malt or
spirtuous liquors shall be $500, and to
wholesale 81 600. 1t is claimed it is un-
constitutional because the act sigued by
the Governor is not the one passed by
the Legislature. The attorney of the
association has made an exh ,ustive ex-
animation of the law, and, tracing its
history through both houses, reports
having discovered numerous discrepan-
cies, any one OF which would invalidate
the act.
-Adjutaut General Anger has discov-
cred another youngest soldier of the civil
war, says a Lansing correspondent of the
Detroit Free Press. His name is L. III
Hodge, of Caledonia, Ohio, formerly OF
Adrian. Mr.. Hodge writes Gen. Anger
that he en- cred the Amy when only L.
years old, enlisting with the First Mich.
gan Volunteer Infantry for the ninety
days ser ice and serving in Capt. Graves
company. After his discharge he re-en.
listed in the Forty Ohio Volun-
teers and served v it'll that regiment three
years At the end of that time he re-
enlisted once moe, this time with the
Fourth Michigan Infantry. When he
was finally mustered out on June Is, 1866
he was only Is years of age and had 6
record of over five years service in the
volunteer army.
Gov. Luce has sppointe d. b.
Green, of Ypsilanti, as a delegate to the
seventeenth National Conference OF
Charities at Baltimore next May.
The proposition 10 raise $50, 900 by
bonding Bay County for the purpose Of
constructing bridge at Belinda street il
Bay City was carried by a majority Of
4,4l7.
RI $500.