Aditional Local

Michael O'Hara, of Saline, had a narrow escape from being run over by a street car near the corner of Main and Liberty streets on Monday evening. Something went amiss with the reins, and his horse and buggy got immediately in front of the car, which was fortunately stopped in time to avert a catastrophe. Tlie young idea will be taught to shoot in the Dexter schools this year . by the following teachers: Prof. Slïortau, superintendent; Jas. E. Eagan, principal; Miss Josephine Costello, assistant; 7th and 8th grades, Miss Myrtie Baird; öth und oth. Miss Mamie Murdoek; Srdand 4th, Miss Hattie Bostwick; Ist and 2nd, Miss Jessie Doane. The first death which has occurred in the Baptist church of this city for a period of nineteen months was that of Mrs. Nettie Walker, of 3 W. Hurn street, who died in Hamilton, Ont., July 22, the last previous death occurring Dec. 21, 1890. Jt is a remarkable record for a church of over four hundred members and a period of so much sickness. The T. & A. A. is getting a large amount of freight to Ann Arbor this summer. Last week Daniel Hiscock paid freight on coal amounting to $2,792. That millionaire coal combination is playing sad hovoc with our dealers, giving them but a very small margin of profit, while their patrons have to pay more for coal than they did last year. George A. Peters, of Scio, is the People's party candidate for congress in Lenawee. He is the first one this year to get a congressional nomination in this district. He is said to have a largo calcareous deposit in his spinal vertebra- we say "spinal" for he may have other vertebraes. The prohibitionists regard Peters as a dangerous rivaL- Adrián Press. The incisively cynical editor of the Adrián Press may expect in the near future to hear, in stentorian tones, from the unfortunate reporter for the Argus who wrote the article entitled ■A Phenomenal Night," recently published in these columns, and a scathing and abíe criticism of which, copied from the Press, appears in the Argus today. The end is not yet. Tlie T. & A. A. road luis announced a cheap excursión for next Sunday to the encampment grounds of the state troops at Island lake. The train will leave Ann Arbor at 9:35a.m. standard, and the fare for the round trip is only 70 cents. This will afford a good opportunity for friends of the soldier boys to pay them a pleasant visit and at the same time experience an enjoy able trip. Arbor tent, K. O. T. M., of this city has completed arrangements for an excursión to Detroit, on Tuesday, Aug 30th. It is not necessary to state that the rate of fare will be very low, for the Maccabees have a reputation o: giving their friends great opportunities in this line. They will have a specia train and it is expected that a large crowd will go, as on this day the grea Maccabee parade takes place and be sides other doings, this is during the Kxposition. At the Sylvan Democratie caucus Saturday night, the following delegates were elected to the county convention: L. Hagen, G. Grau, F. Staffan, Geo. Bains, P. J. Lehman. Frank Riggs, Chis Klein, M, Merkle, T. McKone, Wm. Caspary. Therewere about 140 voters out and a warm contest ensued to settle the question whether Hiram Lighthall or Chauncey Hummel was to be Sylvan's candidate foi sheriff. The Hummel men won and he will get the ten votes of Sylvan in the convention. Mrs. Steven Bowen, of the fifth ward, died at ten o'clock last Saturday evening, of heart disease, aged about seventy-three years. Her husband died about ten years ago. Six children survive her, three sons and three daughters. The sons are Ezra and Mortimer, of this city, and Frederick, of Grand Rapids; the daughters, Mrs. George Baell, of Detroit, Mrs. JVilliatn Porter, of Mt. Ciernen s, and Mrs. John McTíally, of this city. She has been a resident of this city for over forty years. George W. Orcutt, a contractor and builder who resided on the river road, died on Friday last, of quick consumption. He was an elder brother of Chauncey Orcutt, of Ann Arbor town. He was buried on Sunday afternoon at four o'clock, the services being conducted by Rev. J. T. Sunderland. The deceased was the son of Harah and Elizabeth Orcutt and was boni in Troy, X. Y. He was 62 years, 7 months and 6 days old. He married Miss Lucy Ann Steary and removed with lus wife and one child to Michigan about the year 1853. His wife and three children, Mrs. George Glazier, of Ann Arbor town, Mrs. Fred Brown, of California, and Miss Georgina, who resides at home, survive him.