Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-04-24
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

LATELY OCCURRED.
An Interesting Summary of the More Inn
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-
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
lCO men with a monthly payroll of nearly
sl7 900. About month ago the COM
pany fell into financial straits. To pro-
tect themselves q mortgage for SSO.OO0
was given, and proposition was made
TO the creditors to settle for so cents on
he dollar. This was accepted. Under
The compromise the works will not be
,losed. The outlook is now favorable,
and the company can 60 on. The output
If the works amount to from $S00,0O to
81, 900. 900 year. Morris l.. 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 H..
Haynes. colored, accompanied DR.. S.
W. Barkwell, white, to restaurant kept
oy Fred Soop. Dinner was ordered for
;wo, but was served for one person only.
Mr.. Soop refused to serve the negro
Haynes then brought suit for $4,000 dam
ages against Soop. At the first trial the
jury disagreed. Judge Brevoort took the
case from the second jury, holding that
Haynes is not q citizen Of the Uni.ed
States and that Scoops place was not q
public inn.
The Ann Arbor Argus has appeared
rs q semi-weekly.
Michigan averages, in the river and
aarbor bill, about 60 per cent. of the
amounts asked for by the engineers.
w. w. Cargill. President of the Sault
Ste. Marie Water Power Company, states
hat the money required for completing
the canal and developing 5000 horse
power has been secured. The merely
formal work of examining titles is now
going on, and the company will issue
bonds for 5000, 200, making the total cost
Of the canal, including land and right of
way, about $500, 900. The additional ex-
penditure Of 100000 will develop 5000
horse power more, and the same proper
lion of cost will increase the power to its
full estimated capacity of 10000 horse
power.
-Bons6eid Il Co.'s woodenwars works
at Bay City have been destroyed by fire,
sntailinR a loss of $3.50, 900; insured fol
SS0,090. 1t was the largest establish
ment of the kind in the world, and en-
poyed 25O hands. The fire is supposed
TO have been of incendiary origin.
AT Coldwater, few days ago, An
drew Gros so killed himself with a charge
from a double -barrele shotgun. The
'hot entered his right temple. He was
Quartermaster of LOOMS Battery fol
.hree years dur ng the rebellion. He
was rs years old, and had been resi-.
lent of Coldwater thirty-hve years.
Detroit dispatch: The validity of the
liquor act pas sed by the late Legislature
will be tested by the Brewers and Malt
ste s. Association of Michigan. The new
law became opei ative last October, and
provided that on and after May next
the price Of licenses to retail malt oil
spir,tuous liquors shall be $500, and to
wholesale 81 900. 1t is claimed it IL un-
constitutional because the act signed by
the Governor is not the one passed bN
the Legislature. The attorney of the
association has made an exh lustive ex
animation of the law, and, tracing iti
history through both houses, reports
having discovered numerous discrepan.
cies, any one of which would invalidat,
the act.
-Adjutant General Anger has discov.
ered another youngest soldier of the civi
war, says Lansing correspondent of tn,
Detroit Free Press. His name is E. H
Hodge, of Caledonia, Ohio, formerly o.
Adrian. Mr.. Hodge writes Gen. Ainge
that. he en'eied the amy when only |.
years old, enlisting with the First Michi
gan Volunteer Infantry for the ninet,
days ser ice and serving in Capt. Graves
company. After his discharge he re -en
listed in the Forty seventh Ohio Volun
teers and served With that regiment thre,
years. At the end Of that time he re-
enlisted once moe, this time with tn,
Fourth Michigan Infantry. When h,
was finally mustered out on June l6, 1866
he was only ls years of age and had
record of over five years service in tn,
volunteer army.
Gov. Luce has appointe ID. B
Green, of Ypsilanti, rs a delegate to tn,
seventeenth National Conference O.
Charities at Baltimore next May.
The proposition 10 raise s3O, 900 b,
bonding Bay County for the purpose o
constructing bridge at Belinda street il
Bay City was carried by majority o
4,4l7.
The first sermon ever preached il
Lansing was delivered in ls45 by Rev
Louis Coburn at the log house of Joal
Page, in North Lansing.