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Day
16
Month
January
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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Tbe Supremo Court has set the soal of its condemnation upon anotbcr iiiiportant case, with the result that roany business corporations in the State will find immediato reorpanizatiop an Imperative necessit}". Act 187, ff the session laws of 1875, provided for the incorporation of manufacturin coinpanies. Act :74, of the laws of '881, amended this law by addmg a clause providing for the inoorporaiion of meccantile companies. A recent decisión of the Suprema Court declares the amendatory act illegal and void, on the ground that "the constitutional provisies tliat no law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title, is violated ii an act is io amended as to embrace a purpose outside of its title and inconsistent with the provisions remaining unrepealed." The court also holds that the fact that the corporations have supposed in good faith that they were legally organized does not constitute them corporations de facto, and that all members of mercantilo corporations organized underthe law of 1881 are therefore as liable for the entire indebtodness of the company as though they wero simply engaged in a partnership business. Hi-allh In Michigan. Eeports to the State Board of Health by fifty-three observers in different parts of tho State for the week ended on the 4th indicated that scarlet fever, influenza, puerperal fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, inflammation of the brain, remittent fever, membranous croup, cholera infantum and cholera morbus increascd, and that moasles, typhoid fever, wbooping-cough and dysentery decreased in area of prevalence. Influenza increased onehundred and three per cent. over the preceding week. Diphtheria was reported at twentyseven places, scarlet fever at thirtythree, typhoid fever at eighteen and measles at four places. The Michigan Masonlc Home. At the annual meeting in Grand Rapids recently of the Michigan Masonic Home Association the following officers and directora were elected: President, William Dunham; Vice-President, E. D. Swarthout; Treasurer, Jacob Barth; Secretary, William P. Inness; Directora, for thrae years, George W. Thompson, E. J. Horton, E. E. Wilson, all of Grand Rapids; William Steele, Ionia; E. D. Wheeler, Manistee; Bruce Goodfellow, Detroit. The aswciation has expended about 825,030 on the home, which is now inclosed. About 515,000 more is needed to complete the institution. The membership is about thirty-fivo hundred. Walked the Wre. The other day at Jackson a dog chased a mouse, and the frightencd little animal ran up a telograph pole and then started out on a wire for the next pole, one hundred and sixty ieet distant. The wire swung gayly in the breeze, tut the trembling traveler hung on and reached the ncxt station in about an hour. lie descended the pole, and when he reached the base he was so tired that he allowed bimsolf to be picked up by a spectator. Important Gold Discovcries. The diamond drill at the Grayllng gold and silver mine cut a vein of goldbearing quartz at a depth of 400 feet the other night. The discovery is of great importance, inasmuch as it provea the permanency and depth of the argentiferous deposits of the Grayling and adJoining gold mines on the Ishpeming gold range. _ Frozen to Death. Oscar Schlott, of Madison, Wis., was irozen to death near Lako Gogebic a few day3 ago while walking from the railway station five miles across the country to the lake, where he had been connected with a hotel for several montbs. He was twenty-one years of age. VIctiins of the Detroit School Flre. Edna Fonda, the sixth victim of the Tilden school fire in Detroit on December 19, died the other night after sufforing excruciating pain. Bessie Bamford was at the point of death, and all hopos of George Homor's recovery had been abandoned. Sliort but JSewsy Itemi. Detroit barbers will do no more Sunday work. Ono of Ludington's aldermen has drawn 0,000 in thj Louisiana lottery. The safo at the Michigan Air Line depot at Ronieo was blown open the other night and betwoon J60 and STO taken. The Patrons of Industry of Davidson have raised ö,000 to put in a store. A heavy buffalo overcoat saved Charles Grant f rom being killed by a dranken stableman who tried to shoot him at Gaylord recently. Mt. Cl&mens has a caso of Enoch Arden, only Enoch came home made rich by operations in the minos of British Columbia. An eleetric railroad is soon to be built between Detroit and Wyandotto. A largo and enthusiastic meeting of citizens w-as held the other evening and organized the Schoolcraft Villago Improvement Association. Fifty of the deaf mutes at the institution for the deaf and dumb in Flint were sent to the hospital tho other day suffering from la grippe. ! A graphite mino has been opened ai Ii'Anse. ' D. J. Campau, collector of customs for 'the port of Detroit, appointed underthe .Cleveland administration, sent in bi3 'resignation to the Secretary of the Treasury recently. The Swede who lately visited Muskegon was a costly visitor, the town pay ing over 81,000 for vaccinatinf!' to protect the people from the robust oase of smallpox carried by the Swede. Edward Cog?ins has been enjoying himself at Flint lately by stealing horses. lie has gotten away with threa horses, hut is now where he will not get many more. He is only ninetee year ola.

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