Personals

Mi-s. .1. M. Gocdon, wtio hoe teen spesndiog some timo wit relativee in Iiuiidcc, Iims returned home. I. J. Bom and are tafclng in the fair tiiis week.. Sheriff Brenaer went bo Grand I!;ip-ils ycsicrilay ïndrnin.K. Mis. I,oi t ie Mcdaris rctiirnnl iroin Ohdoago and the l'air Monday. Miss Matnle Slgter, of Plnckney, visilril fricniN bec over Snnday. I. 'I!. Unit lias -i me tr ObicagO see i!ü' in i!s cloelng lunirs. Adam I). Scylcr i- vlsitlag lii- (laimlilci-, Mrs. l'uwlcr, in Detroit. Mr.-. C. M. Ootoertn te vleltlng her parante in CSevelandj ;"!■ a lev days. Mayor Tbompeon went to Lanfling yi'strvilay to attend Bupreme court. Geo. II. Smow, oí tiie Detroit EvenIng News BtaJf, waa in the city mvr Suiul.-iy. Mis. j. II. dement entertalned her brotJier, Chaa. H. Green, erf Detroit, over -Minil.-iy. ir. Georjre E. Frfftliingham vm in tJii' ei! y Motftday, lnokinur ftpr Iüh int-rcsts Jicrc. City Editor Fraeauff, of the Daily Times, is back frnm Chicago and at bis poel ayain. Mrs. Kmily Bcmtwell, has veturwd from B visit Avitli pelatlves and íriniíls in HUlsdale. Mr. and Uvb. Geo. W. Milieu, of Ietiroit, npe,nt .Sunday witllv Dr. and Jlrs. J, W. Morton. Mrs. B. C. Iteaki's is entertfi.tpiDg Mire. Harrirt .I. Walte and son I'ii-sldnt', of Kahwa.y, N. J. i'rcd Avi-i-y. : West Superior, and Bister Mrs. Dr. Taylor, oí Mt. ClemciLs, wca-e in tlu? city l'riday. Miss ilattic. Carr gave a vory cnjoyable BJaUowe'en party last evening, it lier home on X. Main st. Wlll C Hollamds, of Jackson, a former Aun Arborlte, was in the city yesterday. oalllag upOO friends. "V. W. Watts, president m the couucil, line been in Chicago the past weck attending Wm ötoelng o the Fair. Mrs. Serab Ohaae Fletcher, nee Jxckvood, of San Francisco, Cal., ík vteittng her sister, Mrs. Bowdish, on Lincoln avenue. Oscar Schmid, of Jaekson, wlio lias fully i-ecoverexl hom lii recent injuries by iire, was the guest of Iiis parate over Suiulay. Mrs. P. A. Ilowh-lt wlio had lxeii in .Inrk.son tor soinn lays, called thre by ttoe Bertoua illness ctf her father, rctnnird limnc last ■ iiiinii. A. ij. Noble i-eturned f ram Iiis business trip to New Vork Monday. He ]-ei)orts great ertegjEatkn in certaia liaes of trade down t'JieaT.. D. F. Si-liairer retornad trom ('hicago Miinday. Ili' says thr excitemeat over Mayor Ilarrison's assassinatiou oompfetely ovcrsliadowrd ■rnythin'i Mr. and Mis. WW A. Btwwn retiivncd In thcir home in Minin'apolis Satnrday, aftel a vrry pleasant visit -witlh. relatives and fricnds in fchtos connly (ar a oouple of wee&B. The Hon. C. R. Whttman kindly gave the Times the substanee of the recent decisión of the supreme court in the case of Welnsberg vs. the Reg.-nt. The facts were brieflv this. Wm. Biggs took the contract for buildng the hospitals. He sublet the contract for a part of the work to Lucas. Weinsberg supplied Lucas with material, and not receiving his pay, brought suit against the regents for it. His con tent ion was that a statute referring to the construction of state, county or town buildings, specifies that bonds for the security of laborers and others furnishing materia!, shnll be exacted from the contractors, and that the regents had failed to require such a bond in this instance, therefore beccming liable. It was one feature of the case that whether the liabüity rested on the University as a corporation, or on the regents individually, or on the executive board - consisting of the president and secretary, was in question, in case there should really be any liability at all. The decisión of the court frees the University and its agenta from all liability whatever under the statute quoted. The theory of Judge Grant, ivho is supported by two other lustiees, is i that the University is a constitutlonal Corporation, not a statutory one, and that the board of regents is an independent legistlature vested with its control and responsible directly to the people. Although as much a state instltution as the Normal school and Agricultural college, yet it is dlfferently originated and controlled. The property of the state is held in trust by the board of regents. The legislature may appropriate money for the University and make conditions in the grant as to how it shall be used. The regents accept this money as trustees to use according to the terms of the grant, The title is vested in the regents of that portion of the state's property under their control. Such being the facts of the relations of the versity to the other departments of the state government, the statute above quoted cannot be held to have any Application to that institutlon or its offlc rs, Justice Montgomery rendí re3 a dlssentlng 01 Inl n, 1. : lia. lllty existed under tlie i ;ains1 ihe executive board. The above is saicl to lx' ui eicellen portmalt of tJiie. Hou. .Teivmiah T. Simpson, tlie (amotua populist sockles congressman fi-oin tl? bi-ivzy Htatiof Kans.-is. SU: Slntpeon la to hold forth :t Tnivci-sity Hall, befoii-e tQic S. I. A., Friday trr&atag Nor. 10, on ''Somè of tbs Causes of the DecJine in Ariculturc." o worde to that effect. Wliile n groeit dt'al lia-s Ix-cmi writtcii and s.iid in a feetíng ivay alvout Mr. Simpeon, tJie tact rentafna tliat he is nolKxly's fooi, and will doubttem ïiavc a great deal to say th.it will interest liis aiulirnce.