Local Brevities

T. & A. A. switchmen went out at Toledo just to be in the fashion. Still the trains run. Mrs. Eugene Wilson, who resided two miles south of Ypsilanti, died Saturday, of blood poisoning. The rumor of an A. R. U. uprising on the Ann Arbor street railway is a base lie. Everything is perfectly quiet along the entire line. It is said that one Ed. Smith, a Denver bruiser, is in Ypsilanti this week, to make a pounding match with an unknown, for $1,000 a side. The L. O. T. M. will give a lawn social at the residence of Miss Emma E. Bower, 16 N. Ingalls st., this evening. Universal invitation. J. M. Golden, late in the T. & A. A. employ at the freight house, this city, has gone to Howell and will have charge of the freight house there. Ground has been broken for the New English Lutheran church, on the corner of William street and Fifth avenue. A very pretty $10,ooo church will be erected. Why, certainly! Course! Knew they would. The Ann Arbor Browns returned from Milan with the scalplocks of their adversarles dripping gore, at their belts. The score was 12 to ii. Ann Arbor lodge No. 44 K. of P. accomplished some work in the second and third degrees, last evening, and made it so lively that the oyster cans inside the goat could be heard to jingle. In the great contest between capital and labor, now waged from one end of the union to the other, it would be interesting to know where the "gospel car," that lately visited Ann Arbor, is side-tracked. Aid. Prettyman was master of table ceremonies at the city government picnic at Zuekey lake last week. But there is no corkscrew in the back of his jackknife, and there was a general feeling that the caterer had not preformed his whole duty. Not to be underbid by its "venal contemporaries," the Register has dropped the price of publishing poetry down to 10 cents for the first "crack" and five cents for a repeat. Now let the Willis manufacturer throw his throttle valve wide open. Here is his chance for the next 60 davs. A fathom is sU feet or the space to which a man may extend his arras, according to Webster; but it is nowhere beside the space reached by Mr. George A. Peters, last Saturday in the Argus office, when discussing the future government ownership of railroads. He said the thing was coming just as sure as fate and inquired as he measured three quarters of a fathom with his right arm, "Who dares deny it?" Nobody in reach of his fist denied Friday morning Central passenger No. 8, while rounding a curve near Foster's station, overtook and butted the caboose of a freight. When the tilt was over the engine of No. 8 looked like a republican striker at a Cincinnati ward caucus. A wrecking crew went to the scène and cleared the tracks, the engine being sidetracked here and its coaches forwarded in tow of a switch engine. The stupendousness of the great strike loses its stupendousity in the glorious achievement of the Ann Arbor Browns in winning a base ball victory over the fierce tribes of the Monroe border at Milan. It was a victory that will go thundering down the ages. They will at 'em again next week, just to teach them that there is punishment after death; and on July 17 they will scalp the Chippewa Indian Club in a noquarter game in this city. The Ann Arbor Rifles give an excursión to Detroit and Put-in-Bay, July 18. The train leaves the Michigan Central depot at 6:30 a. m., standard time. The fare to Detroitand Put-in-Bay will be $1.50; to Detroit alone, $1. Children onehalf fare. At Ypsilanti, Monday, Aid. Beal was bound over by Justice Beach on a charge of violating the druggist law regulating the sale of liquor. Some whiskey was bought, it was alleged, by Cordon Knapp, at the store without the proper record being made of it. The purchaser then made complaint. No defense was offered. On Saturday evening at the iresdence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hawes, of the Arlington hotel, occurred the marriage of their daughter, Miss Georgia B., to Frank Hess, Rev. Henry Tatlock performing the ceremony. The bride is esteemed as one of the most attractive young ladies of Ann Arbor. The grootn is a young man of high respectibility and correct business habits and is a book-keeper in the employ of the Ann Arbor Gas Company. Mr. and Mrs. Hess are spending their honeymoon at Wolf Lake.