Local Brevities

Capt. J. C. Fischer has issued an order calling an election of Company A on June 13, to succeed Lieut. W. W. Watts, resigned. Thirty students of the electrical department paid a visit of inspection to the Fort Wayne and Belle Isle pow;r house at Detroit, Tuesday. The annual course of lectures before the Hobart Guild on the Baldwin foundation will be delivered by Bishop Rullison of the Central Pennsylvania diocese. The annual state encampment of the Michigan National Guard commences at Island Lake on Aug. 14. and company A is getting in shape to make the usual fine showing. ■ The wooden bridge over the river of the Michigan Central sidetrack to the Ann Arbor Agricultural works and the Argo milis, is being replaced by a new iron structure. There is a rumor that Toledo capitalists are thinking about building a large hotel at Zukey Lake. Everybody hopes it's so - except the members of the sporting clubs that have club houses there. Mr. Ross G. Cole and Miss Fannie L. Gwinner, two well-known Ann Arbor musicians who have been members of the faculty of the Ripon, (Wis.), Conservatory of Music, have accepted positions in the School of Music of Iowa College, at Grittell, Ia. Miss Emma Juch, the famous soprano who sang at the May Festival and was taken ill and remained at the Cook House for a week, has arrived at her home in New York and has almost fully recovered her health. The dispatches announce that she is to be married on June 26 to a New York attorney. J. F. Lawrence has plans prepared for an ornamental one story brick building on the corner of Four,th avenue and Ann street. Part of the building will be occupied by the offices of the Washtenaw Abstract Co. and the remainder by Lawrence & Butterfield's law office. The following delegates have been ■ chosen to represent St. Andrews' parish at the diocesan convention of Eastern Michigan to be held at St. John's church, Detroit, next Wednesday: E. Treadwell, H. J. Brown, and Geo. H. Pond; alternates, Prof. B. M. Thompson, Prof. C. S. Denison and Prof. G. W. Patterson. Word was received yesterday from Dr. A. K. Hale, Adams, N. Y., stating that his mother died at her home Wednesday morning, May 3oth. Mrs. Hale was an old lady and has been sick for some months. She had a number of friends in this city who will hear the news of her death with much sorrow. Congressman Gorman has succeeded in securing a favorable report from the committee on the bill removing the charge of desertion from the military record of R. H. Marsh, of Ypsilanti. Mr. Gorman has also introduced a bill restoring the pension of widows who have forfeited them by remarrying and have become widows again. Prof. Silas R. Mills, of the faculty of the University School of Music, having decided to spend some time in Europe, the directors of the school have been most fortúnate in securing as his successor in vocal teaching, Mr. Gardner S. Lamson, of Boston, one of the leading vocalists of the East. Mr. Lamson is a gentleman of wide experience, as well as a concert singer of national reputation. The Knapp house on N. Main I ;treet is being remodled. Geo. S. Vandawarker is building i new house on N. Ingalls street, ïear Catherine. The mother of Dr. A. Kent Hale lied at his residence in Adams, N, V., Wednesday. The Gamma Phi sorority has leased Prof. L. D. Wines' house on 3. State for next year. A small child of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brough, of S. Fourth avenue, died suddenly Wednesday. The S. Main street Chess chib had a very interesting meeting on the evening of memorial day. The city is building a new cement sidewalk on S. Fourth avenue at the intersection of Liberty street. The concert given by the Sunday school orchestra of the M. E. church last evening picased a good sized audience. A service in memory of the late Mr. A. L. Noble will be held at the Ni. E. church next Wednesday evening, June 6th. A July wedding is announced of two prominent young Ann Arbor people - one a young physician and the other a leading society lady. A pupils concert was given by the students of the School of Music last evening which was well attended and a number of fine selections were ren dered. Yesterday morning, a student named McLouth paid Justice Bennett $3 costs for the privilege of riding his wheel on the sidewalk on Decoration Day. Simon Dieterle, after a run and a scuffie, captured a thief Wednesday who had stolen a steel fishing rod f rom Eberbach's hardware store. No complaint was made. P. D. Farrell & Co., Grand Rapl'ids, Mich., want a representative in I this locality. Man or woman connected with G. A. R. preferred. VVrite them for particulars. The Main street Skat club had one of the longest sessions Wednesday afternoon in its history. It lasted so long that some of the Í members missed their supper. A social and supper will be given by the Woman's Home Missionary society at the residence of Mrs. Theodore McDonald, 51 South University avenue, this evening at 6:30 o'clock. Frank J. Lewis, who has resided in Ann Arbor several years past, died at his residence on S. Fifth avenue last night, of consumption, after a lingering illness. The deceased was fifty years of age and leaves a widow and one son, James C. Lewis. The Republicans organized acampaign club last night with the following officers: G. Frank Allmendinger, president; W. J. Booth, vicepresident; N. D. Corbin, secretary; Col. H. S. Dean, treasurer. The club will open up club rooms and reading rooms. Crystal Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, was instituted with the proper ceremonies last evening, by Mrs. Turck, of Alma, Grand Matron of Michigan. There were about fifty charter members and the goat was kept pretty busy until midnight. I South State street is fast becomI ing the popular section for frater nity houses. There are already eight frats located in the two blocks between Monroe and Hill streets, I two or three more south of Hill St., and at least one more that contemplates purchasing in this vicinity. Rev. J. M. Gelston, of the Presjyteriaa church, will speak next Sunday evening on "The Infalli iility of the Bible. Over 600 students aml citizens ivcnt to Detroit on Wedncbday and had the pleasure of seeing the U. ot Pi il team recover their lost reputa lu.i by winning a hotly contested, ten innings game from the University of Chicago team by a score of 3 to 2. The students were jubilant over the victory and gave the Detroiters an idea of what a student celebration is like. The Detroit Free Press published an extra large number on Sunday to commemorate its Ó3rd anniversary. The Free Press has met with the success which its business energy deserved and The Argus, the second oldest paper in the state, being the junior of the Press by only about two years, extends hearty congratu lations and vvell wishes for many years to come. Gov. Rich yesterday afternoon appointed Col. Henry S. Dean, of this rity, member of the board of ts of the university, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Henry Howard. Col. Dean's appointment is for the unexpired term and runs until Dec. 31, 1899. The appointment is a fitting one, Mr. Dean's large business experiences making him specially qualified as a member of the board. M. C. LeBeau, state agent of the slational Life Insurance Co., of klontpeiler, Vt., was in the city yeserday and paid Mrs. A. L. Noble Í5,ooo, the amount of a policy caried by Mr. Noble in the company. rhe company was very prompt in iettling, only nine days elapsing rom Mr. Noble's death until the Iraft was signed. The Kappa Sigma law fraternity held a banquet it the Hotel Cadillac, Detroit, Wedïesday evening.