Local Brevities

I Wednesday evening was a hot one for the Company drill. Gil. Snow has sold his livery business to G. T. Alber and Chas. Blaess. A. M. Eek, cigar manufacturer, has closed his shop and gone to Springfield for the summer. He will resume business in September. Mokins, the youthful and enterprising colored horse stealer, has been taken to the reform school for white and colored boys at Lansing. Minnie Hazel, of Ypsilanti, charged with being of a flock of "soiled doves," was a recent boarder at the Brenner all-the-year-round hotel. At the University Hospital, Tuesday, Dr. Nancrede tapped the body of Hughey Paquette, drawing off eight quarts of fluid. The patiënt is a dropsy sufferer. The University summer school opened with an attendance of about fifty, and accessions since, and yet to be made, will make the number reach probably ioo or more. At the manager's office in the Duffy block, may be seen a group photo of the Chippewa ball team that is to be here about the i7th. They are a presentable lot of hairraisers. It is rumored from Ypsilanti that a league for Sunday ball games is likely to be formed there, and that three clubs are already in the combine. The arrangement will not include Fr. Kennedy. A tough looking stranger, for kicking up a row at Damm's saloon, was ironed and led to jail by Deputy Schall, Wednesday. He is now in hoek, bleaching his complexion, on a ten days' sentence, by Justice Bennett. Next Monday the books of the city treasurer will be open for the acknowledgement of taxes. The season for bestowing homage on City Treasurer Pond will. last for thirty days. Go early and avoid the rush. Capt. John C. Fischer has received orders to have four men sleep in the armory until the date for going into camp. Corporal Cooper and a squad have been detailed to take their lives in their hands and sleep in the armory. The Courier having suggested that "Col. Bliss is a square-toed republican," the Adrián Press gets in the following "crack" at him: "That settles it for Bliss. A man with square toes can never wear gubernatorial brogans. Col. Bliss should promptly seek a surgical institute." On reflection, John F. Lawrence has decided to erect a two-story building, instead of a one-story, at the corner of Fourth avenue and Ann street. It will be 22x65 feet, and will be arranged for offices on both floors. The equipments of the building will of the most modern order. Labracht G. Bucholz died Monday morning at the nome of nis father on W. Huron st., of consumption. His age was 31 years and 10 months. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at the residence, Rev. Max Hein conducting the services. The burial took place in Forest Hill cemetery. Said Hon. E. P. Allen this morning: "I think ex-President Harrison was wrong in criticising Cleveland for sending federal trpops to Chicago. They wëre nee'ded there to protect the U. S. mails. I think more of the President today than I ever did bef ore." The Argus is requested not to copy. - Daily Times. Wha'fo'? H. C. Clark, N. Glazier and C. H. Jones were fishing at Delhi recently, when Clark suddenly disappeared under the water. Clark claimed that he feil in, but this is doubted by his companions, who looked down and saw him sitting on the botton) of the river, removing the bait from their hooks and putting it upon his own. Henry Cooper, of Azalia, is at the University Hospital, and last Tuesday underwent an operation by Dr. Nancrede to relieve a pulmonary abscess in the lower part of the lung. So great was the pressure that the heart was forced two or three inches from its proper place. A pocket containing about four quarts of pus was drained. The teachers' county institute is in session at the high school building. It will continue this week anc will be followed by a normal, continuing two weeks longer. The institute was opened by School Commissioner M. J. Cavanangh, Prof. Barber, of the State Normal, and Supt. J. H. Lee, of Mt. Clemens, being the instructors. It opened with an attendance of 115. The Lyra Maennerchor gave a concert at Gemianía hall last evening. Mrs. Mary Kirchhofer, of Manchester, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Sophia Schmid. The new officers of Germania lodge, D. O. H., were installed Wednesday evening. The Bethlehem Lutheran Sunday School will hold its annual picnic at Whitmore Lake next Wednesday. Pay your taxes next Monday. The city treasurer wishes to raise tnoney for his vacation. Zion church will hold no services Sunday because of the dedication of a new church near VVhittaker. The society of Christian Endeavor of Bethlehem church passed Wednesday at Whitmore Lake, and greatly enjoyed the outing. An alarm of fire yesterday sent the department to the house of Pat Kennedy, 49 N. Fourth avenue. No damage. An unruly gasoline stove. The attention of Rev. Dr. Ryan is called to the organization in Ypsilanti of a girls' base ball club. The poor Atlantis! Got to get another wolloping! The Normal orchestra, of sixteen pieces, will practice and take sweat baths during the summer months and be in excellent drill for the opening of the fall season. Dr. Owen is a firm believer in he ultímate supremacy of women. Out of seven July births which have ome under his care, six have been girls.- Times Ypsilanti Locáis. About time to change doctors. Dispatches show that the Japs are moving down on Corea with a resh force of 10,000 men. Prof. Sill may yet have to "cut a gad" and lay about him as erstwhile he did when "deestrik school teacher, and boardin' round." Add. Collum and Emil Golz, two )f the most intrepid hunters of Ann rbor, returned. from the forests ■oundabout, Tuesday evening, after i bloody foray upon the ferocious ienizens. They brought back the ;ory corpse of a consumptive chipnunk. John Cogger, an expert sewer inspector from Detroit, criticises the nanner in which the Ann Arbor sewer pipe was laid, but has not yet -nade a thorough inspection. There s therefore not much to say of the Tiatter till the investigation is completed. A fat and lean men's ball game is to be played in Ypsilanti today. With the mercury where it is, it will be a sublime and beautiful sight to behold such firkin-shaped gentlemen as - but this is to be a ball game not a congressional race. Ñames shall be omitted. Elsie, three year oíd daughter o Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Clement, was severely scalded Saturday night by getting into a bath tub of hot wate while the mother was momentarily absent. She was pulled out by he little sister, or she would have doubtless been fatally burned. G. Waldo Emmerson, of Ypsilan ti, was drowned at Bay City, re cently, the body being recovered on the 8th with the appearance of having been in the water a week. He left Ypsilanti on the 4th, and his wife and family heard nothing of him till they received the news of his death. There are six children, three boys and three girls. William Bartley, wanted for stealing a harness at Dexter, was sighted in Ypsilanti, driving a rig, last Monday. He was halted by DeputySheriff Buck, but he "cracked the gad" to his nag and the officer who was also in a buggy, whipped up his lightning express and a fine race ensued. The result of this "tug" of war was the capture of the harness thief. A careful perusal of the Ann Arbor papers does not impress the reader that the work of evangelizing the community has been a marvelous success, or indicate that any of the journalistic fraternity is "under conviction," though it is conceded that some of them, at least, should be.- Adrián Press. Here where we are known, this brutal slander will : do no harrn. Lizzie Bryant, just released from the Ypsilanti Hog Back quarantine, knew thatWm. Hutchinson,colored, would be glad to see her, "sho' ", and calledon him. But fo' de Lawd, William was not glad. He feared there remained some unstiñed germs of small-pox about her, and told her to slide, whereupon Lizzie grew encouraged and spake of William as the son of such a mother as he did not have. Thereupon he slapped her, and then taking himself into custody called on Squire Childs to plead guilty. "Lizzie carne in later onri VioinpH Hiqnose of the case. The population of Ypsilanti town is 1,310. Of the $34,000 taxes to be collected in Ypsilanti, $6,800 have thus far been paid. Wallace G. Palmer and E. E. Calkins were at Whitmore Lake, Wednesday, and since returning home have worn their arms in lint and árnica, the lameness being caused by the constant pulling of large fish frora the waves. A rairaculous recovery of sight is reported from Ypsilanti, where a man blind as Bartemius, was led about the town by a boy,' Wednesday morning, and received the alms of the tender-hearted. 'Many compassionate hearts moved by the sad spectacle, chipped in a nickel each, and a prayer that providence rnit;ht yet in its wisdom confer upon the poor wanderer that blessed heritage of v sion which was his natural birthright. The prayer of the righteous availeth m'.ich and by the time he'arrived at the M. C. depot the duffer could see as wel! as other people. The Humane Society is rapidly cquiring strength inmembers which are claimed to be not much less han 500, or enough to inaugúrate a brmidable strike. One of the subects that should engage its attenion is the over-check that prevents any except a cross-eyed horse from seeing the ground. Then, too, the society should wait, 500 strong, on he young lady with the mud-wasp waist and inform her that beside making a silly little goose of herself she is njuring her liver and! jreparing to inflict upon her parents he expense of a fashionable funeral.