The true northerner., 1890-06-25
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.


dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
In consequence of the strike of one
lection of the Tittabawassee Boom Co M
,any's force at Saginaw, the entire force
II about 400 men were paid off last week
Ind all operations suspended for the
present. 1be company has only operated
'wenty-nine and half days this season,
-afting and delivering 7l,4O9, $50 feet.
There has not been death in Port
auron since June 4.
Hon. O. NJ. Barnes and wife have
cached their home in Lansing after
hres months tour of Europe.
Several cases OF measles have made
heir appearance AT the Agricultural Col
.ege, but owing to excellent facilities for
ISOLATION it is expected that the disease
will spread no further.
AT Lansing. last week, forty-one APP
plicants, thirty-three of whom came from
MICHIGAN University, were admitted to
practice in all the courts of Michigan.
Fire destroyed the hammer shop con-
lected with the crucible department of
he Detroit Steel and Spring Works in
Detroit. The loss, which includes sew
eral furnaces and much valuable ma
ehinery, is estimated at lS45, 900 to $780,
BOO.
AT Ann Arbor. the wedding of Miss
Louise T. Angel to Professor Andrew
c. LcLaughlin was celebrated with all
he marks of social distinction. The
bride is the daughter of President An
yell of the University, and the groom
member of the faculty.
Mr.. Szubleski was n Polish immi-
grant, but woman and a mother withal,
aud when. her baby died in the Port HUI
ron Depot and her sobs and means filed
.he little room, making heart-touchin5
picture, mems eyes blinked, and the
blinking overhowed when the little one
was laid in rough coffin and the mother
was the lone mourner who followed the
cemains to the potter's corner. She was
On her way TO the far West 10 join her
husband.
Attorney General Huston proposes
TO find out whether the big building and
losn associations have any legal warrant
FOR transacting business of q nature
which has heretofore been supposed to
belong exclusively to the banks. A law
enacted by the last Legislature exempts
l. g Il.
alton, and it is asserted that a number of
the largest and most important in the
State have practically been engaged in
general banking business. the convenient
new statute enabling them to pay high
Or rate of interest and conduct their
business on more generous scale than
the regularly incorporated State banks.
The Attorney General has determined TO
have the powers of the building and loan
organizations plainly outlined, and for
his test case, has singled out the Nations
al Loan and Investment Company, of
Detroit. The Supreme Court has granted
him an order requiring the National to
show cause why it should DO general
banking business, making the order re-
turnable on June %. AS the matter is
one of great importance, it is not likely
that the motion will be argued then, but
will be made regularly docketed case,
and will not be heard until the October
term. In his application the Attorney
General holds that the National has
stepped outside the lines of its authorized
business, and is receiving money on de-
posit, and using the same in discounting
blls of exchange and promissory notes,
loaning money TO aid in the purchase and
improvement of real estate, accepting
money, on deposit as is usual in doing a
banking business, and selling what the
company denominates fully paid-up
stock" for 500, and issuing certificates
therefor with interest at 6 per cent. pay
able semi-an uallv. The National Com
pany is one of the strongest and largest
organizations of its kind in the State,
and has a strong local board at Lansing
aud many other points.
Lansing Republican: The officers of
the State Fair Association are mad, mad
clear through, and if their combined
opinions of the Michigan Central Rail-
road management were compiled it would
make a book that would be hot enough to
burn asbestos. For the past twenty
years it has been the custom of the rail
roads to carry free all exhibit freight to
the State fair. 1t was done at Jackson
and Kalamazoo, and as may be easily
seen, cuts no little figure with the attend
ance at this big State show. And now
the Michigan Central Railroad manage
ment is sweating under the collar n its
frantic efforts to form combine" with
roads leading into Lansing, and ch rye
one-half rates on the exhibit freight.
This would deplete the attendance and
consequent number of shining shekes in
the State Fair treasury to no little ex-
tent. and the State Fair officials are nat
urally indignant over the affair.
Grand Traverse farmers are too hart
on the Colorado beetle. The beetles are
born June ], but the farmers. plant nC
potatoes until the bugs have starved I,