He Wants The Deed Set Aside

The Beautiful snow

Cuts up a number of didos with a thirty-eight mile wind.

Electricity for Ypsi-Ann Motor line.

The summer school at Ann Arbor. -- Good prospects for a new factory. -- Arrested for forgery. -- Gov. Ashley seriously ill.

Charged with forgery.

C.W. Ricketts, of the senior class of the University of Chicago, was arrested on Tuesday last in Chicago on the charge of forging the name of F. B. Harris to two notes amounting in all to $35. Ricketts gave bail to the amount of $500. He claims that Harris gave him the notes for work as business manager of the calumet Magazine. Harris is put down for trial tomorrow. Ricketts will be remembered as corresponding secretary of the Students' Lecture Association here last year. He also held numerous other offices while in college here but it is whispered that he received a quiet tip not to come back this year.

A new Factory Promised.

It looks as if Ann Arbor would secure another manufactory. The wagon factory, which was looking for a location, as mentioned in last Friday's Argus, has made a contract with the Ann Arbor Agricultural company, under which the company takes $5,000 stock in the wagon company and furnishes the power and leases them ground to put up a factory for five years. The men who in the company are practical men who have an order for 1,500 wagons from one St. Louis firm. They desire to have $20,000 more stock taken here. They have been manufacturing their patented wagon gears in Toledo, but intend to build entire wagons here.

A narrow escape from a burning house.

What came very near being a triple fatality occurred Friday night about 11 o'clock at the old Charles Stanley place six miles southeast of this city. Fire broke out in the dwelling and had got so far under way that Mrs. Dolby and another lady living there barely escaped before the rafters fell with a crash. Had they remained five seconds longer they would have been bured in the ruins. In the meantime John Ddolby, the young man of the place, who had given the alarm had thrown a trunk and other things from the window and had come forth from the building when recognizing his nearly nude condition he rushed back inside for his clothes and was overcome by the heat and smoke. He was eventually rescued with difficulty and is now under the doctor's care. The loss on the building is about $1,000 with no insurance. -- Ypsilanti Correspondence of the Times.

Must not trespass.

James and Emma Webb, of Pittsfield, had John Steward arrested recently for hunting on their premises in violation of the statute making it unlawful to hunt for game with firearms, dogs or otherwise on any enclosed lands or premises of another in any country of the state without the consent of the owner or lessee.

Mr. Steward was brought before Justice Pond last Friday morning and plead guily, whereupon he was fined $5 and $2.70 cost, which he paid.

Mr. and Mrs. Webb claims to have been greatly annoyed by hunters, and in order to protect themselves they have placed signs at various places on their premises, warning people not to trespass. Notwithstanding this, persons have continued to hunt over the lands until they have became convinced that the only way to prevent the nuisance is to prosecute all offenders. This they intend to do in the future.

He wants the deed set aside.

Mr. John McMahon, of Manchester, filed a bull in chancery yesterday asking that a deed of his real estate to his son, Joseph, may be declared void.

The bill sets forth that in settling with his sisters a dispute relative to the estate of Joseph McMahon, his father, he considered that his property was in danger and "in an evil hour" he determined to cloud the title of his property so that he made out a deed for it to his son, Joseph. His song never saw this deed and knew nothing of it, and he did not intend to deliver it. He placed it in the keeping of A. J. Waters, who, without his knowledge had it recorded. He claims that the deed is a cloud on his title, making it impossible to pay a mortgage on it and he fears the property will be sold before his son comes of age, on the mortgage, and also that his wife whom he married after the deed was executed but before it was recorded may be deprived of her rights. He therefore asks that the deed may be set aside and declared void.

The Blizzard.

The wind plays "high jinks" yesterday. It brought business to a dead stand still. It put a stop to news gathering. it kept people in doors. It sent hacks to the school houses for the school children. It blew the snow this way and that, up and down. The man who got a dose of snow in the face and ducked his head to avoid it found that this only gave entrance to the snow down the back of his neck. The wind blew through the whiskers of the man who was out yesterday afternoon with the velocity of thirty eight miles an hour. At least they so reported it at the University Observatory. Trains were delayed. The play at the opera house was delayed until near nine o'clock. The Ypsilanti motor started for Ann Arbor this morning, but got stalled on the way and stayed stalled. Some men were favored by having their walks swept clean, while their neighbors had great snow banks piled on their walks. 

The wind at Detroit blew with such force that it sent the ice up stream. The storm reached from Kansas to the Atlantic coast.

What came out of the Sewer.

The students of anthropology will find something of interest to them in their work in the stone knife which was taken from the sewer on Depot st on Saturday. It is about eight inches long and tapers to a point. There seems to be some difference of opinion as to its use, Ald. Wood believing it was used by the Indiands in making arrow heads. Others think it was used in skinning game.

Other interesting relics were also found. At a depth of seven feet a swamp oak stump was discovered on the top of which laid a horse shoe.Street Commissioner Sutherland discovered an ox shoe which at the present day is a curiosity in Ann Arbor. A surveyor's grade stake was also thrown out of the ditch.

The ground along Depot street was originally a swamp covered with underbrush. Daniel Hiscock was the first settler to break it up. Opposite Tolbert's lumber yard the water int he spring of the year would back up and cover the low ground. John Nowland recollects the time when a boy he with others caught many large pickerel at this place. The street has been filled up over seven feet for a long distance.

-- Washtenaw times.

The Motor Line May Use Electricity.

Steps were taken on Friday afternoon last looking towards the consolidation of the electric street care line with the motor line between this city and Ypsilanti. At a meeting of the stock holders of both lines, Friday, committees were appointed to prepared plans for the consolidation, the committee on the part of the motor line being J. E. Beal, H. P . Glover, Wm. H. Deubel, and Dr. W. B. Smith; and on the part of the Ann Arbor street railway Charles E. Hiscock, Hudson T. Morton and Moses Seabolt. The committees are to investigate the cost of equipping the motor line with electricity which is a prerequisite of a consolidation of the two lines and in pursuance of this investigation a large number of letters have been sent out to the different electrical manufacturers. 

There can be no doubt but that the receipts of the motor line will be increased if the change to electricity is made, while its running expenses will be decreased. The first cost of making the change is the stumbling block If the consolidation is made there will be no changing of cars between this city and Ypsilanti and the trip will be much more pleasant. Open electric car rides through the country during the summer will prove a very delightful recreation which would result in a