The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-04-02
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary Of tho More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wcd-
dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The duties of judges, sheriffs. and
police officers, in the suppression of
crime, was the theme of vigorous adj
dress by Judge Grant, of the State Su-
preme Court, delivered in the presence of
packed hall in Lansing.
IL was formerly n I'D, said the Judge. that n
Circuit Court Judge did his full duty il he sat
like a wise owl upon a bough, passed upon the
cases sent before him. aud then wont home
section OF the general statutes OF Michigan ro-
vides that Grand Juries shall DO drawn when a
Circuit Judge 30 directs. This provision Is not
kept upon the statute books for m re form;
When shall " Judge use the power thus vested
in him2 When crime is done and no one al
tempts TO bring tho offender 20 Justice. judges
Grant had threatened 10 use this power twice,
and onee. when he foInd "A total Disregard OF
tho liquor law he did use IL. The result was
tWcnt y-two indictments. In abiding 10 the
duty Il the officers, the Judge said that the
citizen cannot 20 out and find out who 1. IL
thai has committed crime. He hasn't time.
and IL entails risk he ia not called upon 10
run. When the private citizen Is dead the law
never fills his place The officer may be killed,
hut the law does not die, and strniehtway ~
puts another officer in his place. The sherin
and his deputies. the city chief of police aud his
officers are paid to enforce the law. 1t is their
duty to see who Is offending, to got out Warrants
ana cause the arrest. Let murder or outrage be
committed and every officer Will run his boots
of trying to find the offender. Only three classes
of crimes are neglected by the officers. When IL
comes 20 offenses in houses OF ill-ane. saloons
aud gaming places, the officers say: Very well.
you 20 and mako the complaint, cause a warrant
70 be- issuel and L viii arrest the offender"
Who're does the officer get his right or authority
20 draw distinctions between one crime and
anotherp He has none.
L.. Ii
boratory the State Agricultural College
suffers a serious loss. II was one of the
largest and best-arranged botanical labor
atories on this continent. The Wheeler
Herbarium, comprising 1000 species of
Michigan plants and representing twenty
five we rs of work was burned. The col
lection in the museum, worth $4,000, was
half destroyed, including the collection
of woods which took frst premium ut the
Centennial DR.. Beal's library and man
uscn.pts were saved The loss to scienr
can not be estimated in dollars and cents.
The museum represented years of search
and collection by DR.. Beal and his as
sis.ants, and can never be fully replaced.
Mr.. Wheeler says if he is granted ten
years more of life he will replace his
herbarium.
Will m r. Goodwin, probably the
oldest pioneer of ST Clair County, is
dead. He was born in Ithaca, N. Y, in
1902, and came to Michigan in 1920.
-Newberry. Luce County, is to have
$40, coo court house.
"A Sand Beach, Huron County, high
school pupil walks nine miles daily in
order that she may get an education.
Saginaw mills have about two-thirds
of the quantity of logs counted on last
fall and will make up the deficit by rail.
The business men OF Mount Pleasant,
Isabella County, are determined to adj
vertlse their town and county. There
are Il, coo acres of unoccupied land in the
county and this land can be bought at low
prices. 1t is proposed to rent a hall and
divide il into seventeen booths one for
each township and one for the city. In
these booths will be collected the best of
the various products of these towns.
When prosr ectors come 10 look up manu-
featuring facilities or TO purchase lands
they will first be 81 own the advantages of
the county in a nutshell.
Attorney General Trowbridge has re-
signed on account of 1.-The lth, and Gov
ernor Luce has appointed Benjamin Nj.
Huston, of Vassar. as his successor. Mr..
Huston was Represe NATIVE from Tuscola
County in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, and
State Senator in 1879. He was born in
Rochester, N. y, in 1881. In 1853 he
commenced the practice of law at Vassar,
where he still resides. He was appointed
Prosecuting Attorney and afterward
was elect d to that Office. In 1862 he
went into the service as Captain in the
Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, became
Major, and served until January, 1863
In 1867 lie was delegate to the Consti-
tutional Convention. He was Speaker
pro tenn. in 1869. ls7l-72, and served as
Chairman of the judiciary Committee.
He was also delegate to the Republi-
can Nation Convention.
Justice James V. Campbell, of the
Michigan Supreme Court. cd sud ienly
at his home in Detroit. few days ago.
Justice Camph,l II was born in New York
in 1923, came to Michigan 10 early life,
and WIS one Of the pioneers of the State.
He had been Chief Justice of the bench
in rotation nine times, and had been on
the Supreme bench continuously since
1859; had been a law professor Of the
University of Michigan since the or
gnniza,ion of the law department OF that
institution; was one OF the standing CON-
oe of the Protest mt Episcopal do
cese of Michigan; and was a man of wise
culture. His deAth was caused by heart
disease.
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, Chairman
OF the Interstate Commerce Comm ssion,
has been compelled TO return to Florida
on account of the severe cold he con ract-
ed in attending the Frieze memorial ex-
ercises at Ann Arbor. 1t will probably
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