The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-14

| week for supreme justice and regents
| not being learned for twenty-four hours
after the polls closed. This complaint
led an upper peninsula legislator who
heard II To remark that Buchanan was
inaugurated president OF the United
States before the result OF the election
mas known i'm the Lake Superior coun-
| try.
| The house viii hold an important ses-
sion Thursday evening of this week. the
| outcome of which will be of much in
terest 10 every member OF a fraternal
| benefit organization I'm Michigan. At
| that time there will come up on special
order bin 10 permit an appeal to be
| taken 10 the courts from the decision OF
these associations relative to the pay
! ment of death claims. Under the pres
ent law the decision Of the arbitrator
or committee chosen by the members
of the association is final.
United i'm Opposition.
The various benefit associations are
united i'm their opposition TO the bill, and
II is understood that during the consid-
Grafton OF the special order. a recess
Will be taken TO permit addresses 10 be
made on the subject by members of the
several orders. Ii is claimed that ii oc-
ours but once or twice i'm the history OF
these associations that they refuse to
make payment. II being necessary that
the circumstances which call for such
refusal must be most conclusive, mas
much as refusal to pay. except for the
most potent reason, would be the death
of the order IL is alleged that one of
the members who is pushing the bill
very hard has an interest in the certih-
cate issued by the Maccabees on the life
of Dr.. II. II. Pope Of Detroit who was
murdered by his wife, who was his BEN
eticiary under the certificate. The or
der held that as inasmuch as Mrs. Pope
was convicted of numbering her hus-
band for the purpose of obtaining the
insurance on his life, the amount of the |
certificate should not be paid. Mrs
Pope, who Is now serving life sem |
tence for this crime. has, it is under
stood, assigned this certificate to her at
torneys for their services in defending |
her at her trial. 1t is rather a signifi-
can't fact that most of the lawyers in
the house favor the bill, possibly be-
cause ii may turn out some time that
they may acquire an interest in a certi-
icate in similar manner.
There is a disposition among many
a |
heavier tax. Under the present law the
nan who manufactures beer is required
% pay tax of but s65. while the in
iividual who sells it by the glass is as
essed $500
Say IL Is Unfair
Those who favor change insist that
his arrangement is decidedly unfair,
nd il is not improbable that when the
legislature turns its attention to the
arious liquor bills on the files of both
louses, the brewers will be asked toputup
larger amount of the coin Of the realm
or the privilege of doing business in
iichigan 1t looks more and more every
ay as If the liquor laws will be made
lore eXacting both as to the amount of
he license fee and the restrictions
laced about the business.
The indications are that, now that
Governor Pingree has been relieved Of
is municipal responsibilities, he will
pend much more time in Lansing than
eretofore one Of the indications is
he removal from Detroit to this city of
is scrap book industry The governor ]
OF only has all the newspapers Of Mich
IAN carefully scanned for references to
i'm, but he is a subscriber to several Of |
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he result is that he secures daily
Rough clippings to keep one man busy
UGH Of the time arranging and pasting
lem Governor Pingree already has
etween zoe and 500 volumes of clip '
ngs, and he is piling them up at
eat rate daily. He has a most care
Il system Of arranging the clippings.
I'd whatever he wants can be found at
Il
lction between the complimentary and 7
complimentary notices of his sayings .
I'd doings, references Of every name 6
I'd nature being carefully preserved 6
ID indeXed. 6
From the manner in which appica- c
ms for sugar beet seed are pouring in z
non Land Commissioner French it is 7.
ident that a vast amount of Michigan =
rmers are intending to experiment in q
e way Of raising sugar beets during O
2 coming season. Unfortunately. O
French has no seed for 81
but the impression that he $
s or is TO have has gone out, and y
ich Of his correspondence these days :.
ates to this subject. !
Portrait of Ex-Governor Rich. 9,
number of intimate friends of ex- T
vernon Rich have quietly arranged d
pay him pleasing and fitting com q
ment by arranging to have painted i
portrait for presentation to the state. n
object being to have 1t placed in the 81
ecutive parlors where pictures of the &c
Ter eX-governors of Michigan are
ng. Arrangements have been made
IN Percy Ives, the Detroit artist, to m
int life-size portrait in oil to cost a,
300 Friends of Ex-Governor WI ca
ms did similar act. the presentation hi
ech being made by the Hon William 81
Maybury. mayor of Detroit, while e
vernon Rich accepted II in behalf of -
people of the state. 1t will be ~
mber OF months before the Rich por- h,
ii will be completed 80
he senate suddenly changed front b,
Friday on three bills comforting up ke
numerous township and village er
'rds in Tuscola, Huron, Sanilac m
Clair and Bay counties the right to ne
NIT the construction of electric rail- -,
DIS through their jurisdictions. The 10
jectors Of the scheme contemplate Ia
building of an electric line from Bay la
Y to Port Huron and northward. The dc
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