Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-08
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.


/ dings and Deaths - Crirnoss SasuoAucsi
and General News Notes.
Detroit telegram: Mrs. Mary Ham
ilton, niece of ex-senator Thomas w.
Palmer, died the other day. She was the
only relative he had on cath nearer than
a distant cousin. Her death ends the line
direct Of the Palmer family. A few days
following the death of Mrs Hamilton,
Mr.. William Livingstone. Jr., of this
city, received dispatch from Minister
Palmer couched in such terms as led the
recipient to anticipate what followed. To-
day came this cable from Paris: with.
draw my name. I cannot now be can.
didate. t. w. Palmer" Mr.. Living
stone, who was ramiiiar with All MIR
Palmer's purposes. says that up to the
moment of hearing of the death OF his
niece he was jubilant in spirits and full
of ambition for the only political prize
he cared for-to be Governor of his
native State-and was coming home to
frankly and In his own person announce
his candidacy to his fellow-citizens.
The State Supreme Court has de-
cided that the liquor-tax law Of 1889 is
unconstitutional. Thus the whole work
of the last Legislature regarding liquor
/ legislation is killed. The case that
brought out the decision was that of Ed
ward Rode vs. The Treasurer of Wayne
County to compel the latter to accept the
$500 tax in payment of license, as pro-
vided in the law of 1887, instead of the
$500 tax provided in the liquor law OF
/ 1889. The court decided that the latter
was illegal, and, as it repealed the law of
1887. this law again becomes operative.
The law of 1889 was declared illegal
because OF a blunder in making up
the bill There had been conference
committee of tho House and Senate ap-
pointed, but its report was not agreed to
and another committee was appointed, to
which was referred the report of the first
committee. This second committee made
report embodying in it the report of the
first com mittee which had been referred
to it. This report was adopted, and the
printed side by side in the journal In
making up the bill for the enrolling
clerk the wrong report wGs clipped out
and used, aud thus the bill which VS.
signed by the presiding officers of the two
houses and approved by the Governor
was not the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture.
Detroit dispatch Building opera
men. Not less than 1000 carpenters are
out on strike and many more who do not
belong to the unions have stopped work
out of sympathy. Several small con-
tractors have granted the demands OF the
men, but the Builders Exchange, to
which all the principal contractors in the
city belong, maintain firm front.
Major G. j. Allen, of Galveston,
Texas; Major H. M. Adams. of Washing
ton, ID. c.; and General o. M. Poe, of
Detroit, tie board Of officers Of the En-
gineer Corps appointed under the recent
jo' MT resolution of Congress to investi-
gate the practicability and approximate
cost of tunneling the Detroit River, met
in General Poes Office in Detroit last
week. DR.. Sherman produced models Of
tubular tunnel, eighteen feet in diam
eter, to be built above water and sunk in
sections into trench in the bed of the
river, at cost of about 81, O4O, 900, with
out approaches. General l.. S. Trow-
bridge. in behalf of the Detroit Railroad
Company, offered to build tunnel of cast
iron, 5000 feet long, with approaches
5000 feet lony, 20 feet in diameter in the
clear, at least 80 feet below low-water
mark, and with an sO-foot grade, for
SO, 500, 900; two tunnels for Sc, 500, O00
Both suggestions we're taken under con-
siderltion by the boarl.
The State Of Michigan wiped out
every dollar of its bonded indebtedness
on the lst inst, by depositing in New
York the sum necessary to cover the last
installment or war-bounty bonds issued
during the clio sing years of the war, and
falling due on that day. The amount was
only 1929, 900. There remains, however,
perpetu II trust debt, on which interest
will always be called for, amounting, ac-
coriing to the last official report, to
$5,253, ,92O, and which is likely to be ut
timately swelled to the neighborhood of
$6,0O0,0 This arises from the appro-
priation Of lands made at different periods
for the last fifty years for the benefit Of
primary schools, the normal school, the
State university, and the agricultural col
lege. The bulk of these bonds have not
been sold. ana when the last acre is dis
posed Of, the entire proceeds having been
received and used by the State, win re-
main perpetual debt for the benefit of
these great educational interests.
The new Saginaw hotel, yet name
less, is said to have been leased TO A. E.
Kirby. The hotel cost 500. 900 and will
be ready for guests in October.
ANY corporation which will locate In
Harrison and employ fifty men for ten
years viii receive cash bonus of $4,000.
---Ishpeming expects LOCO new Firms
from Finland direct this year.
Ten years ago ]. NJ. Longyear was a
poor woodsman. To-day he is Mayor Of
Marquette, with a salary of $I2O per
year. On the side. Mr.. Longyear has an
income Of $500. 600 per annum from his
mining property.