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Day
8
Month
May
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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The State has wiped out every vliar of its bonded indebtedness by depositing in New York the sum nocessarv I o cover thelast insUllmentol war bounty bonds issued durinsr the closinff years of tho war and falling due on that ïay. The tmount is oilly S'i'JO.OOn. There remains, however, a perpetual trust debt, on which interest will always be called for. amounting, according to the last official report, to 16,858,920, and which is likely to be ultimately swelled to the neighborhood of $6.000,000. This arises trom the appropriation of lands made at different periods for the last flfty years for the benefit of priuiary schools, the normal 6ohool, tho State Unlvereity and the Agricultural Colloii. The bulk of these bonds have not been sold, and when the last acre is disposed of, the entire proceeds having been received and used by the State, will remaina perpetual debt ior the benefit of these great oducational inte res ts. MICHIGAN'S LIQUOR LAW. It Is Daeided Ky the supremo Oonrt i the Slnto to I5e Dn ronstltntlonI. At Lansing the other day the State Supreme Court held the Damon high license liquor law of 1889 to be void for the reason that the act certified to by the presiding officers of both bouses and approved by the Governor, is not the act passed by the Legislature. This slato of affairs is due to a mistake In making up the bill for the enrollinsf clerks from the report of the conference committeo, the figures used being taken from a report which was non-concurred in and ptinted in the lefrUlatire journal in connection wit li the adopted report This leaves the law of !8ST in iorce. Tho void law provided a uniform license of $500 for retailing malt or pirituous liquors, whereaa the law of 1887 provides a licenso of $300 for retailing malt and 500 for spirituous. HE DIED ALONE. A Well-Knonn Detroit Drngglat Found D.-iici ni BU store. David M. Cooper, of Simons & Coopor, druggists, was found dead in his store in Detroit oarly the othrr morning. Mr. Cooper was acting as night clerk, and slept at the store. In the morning when his partner. Mr. Simons, arrived at the store he found ít unopened. Failing to provoke any response from within he forcea the door, and Mr. Cooper was found lylng on his face upon the floor near the staircase. Mr. Cooper was a widowrr with one child, a daughtor of years. IS'o cause was known. ,hh in Hlohlcmn. Report to the State Board of flealth by fifi.y-st'vpn observers in different parts of the State for the werk ended on April indicated that cholera infantum. typhoid fever, ccrebro-spinal meningitis, diphtheria, puerperal fever, dysentery and scarlet fever increased, and cholera morbus, inflammation of the brain, whooping cough, erysipelas ni inembranous croup decreased in área of prevalence. Dyphtheria was reprted at twenty-six places, scariet íever at twcnty-six, typhoid fever at four and measles at forty-one places. Seven Yeari for Forgcrj. Boward V. Sterling was the pet of Detroit society three years ago. His xpenses exceedcd his salary and he took to forgery. When he disappeared it was found that he had negotiated iforged paper to the extent of 840,000. 'A detective chasod him for two years end finally arrested him in Liverpool. On hiB return he pleaded guilty, exjeoting a light sentence. He wept like a child tbe other afternoon when he was gtven seven yoars at hard labor in the State prison. Happy and Contcnted. Jared Dunnen, a Vassar justice of the peaee, is out with the following letter: The report that Aaron Meddaugh, of Kanilac Center, drew 8400 back pension and then desertcd his family is an injustice to an honest man. Meddaugh and his fan. il y are living at Vassar, and are just as happy and contentc-d as familie can be in this life." An Indurttrioas Woman. Mrs. Ambrose Cronch, of South Jaokon, gives the following as a record of home industry. During the past year be had bked for her family 8,368 eookies, 1,988 doughnuts, 217 cakes, 267 pies, 81 puddings, 793 loaves of bread and sold 916 pounds of butter. Her family isn't very large, eithrr. Short lut ewíy Ítem.. Howard Pratt, an inmate of the Iïilldale poor-hois and aformer prominent resident of Jonesvüle, committed suicide the otber day by shooting himself. The State convention of the Younfj Men's Cbristian Associati n willbe held kt Flint next Oetober. Manufacturing institutions are eiempt from tuxation for ñve years at the Soo. Thomas Kennett. of Port Huron, lost tig ïU.00ü rosidence by fin: recently. Mrs. E. A. James, of Port Ilimm, was sphyxiated by coal gas theolher night, nd carnp if-ai1 dying. The Board of Aldermon at Marshal have fixed the liquor bonds at Í4.000. A Í150,000 stock company will make laleratus at Port Huron. An invoice of 1,000 Fins direct from Finland is cxpcctod at Ishpeming in a short time. A rich vein of copper has been found by surfaoo oxploration on the property of the Península oopper mino in Houghton County. The Calumet fe Hecla Mining Company's dividend this year have amounfccd to ïl. 000.000. This brings the total profits. sime the mines were started, to , $34,850,000.

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